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noun
- An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession.
- excessive or irrational devotion to some activity
- A recurrent theme of a specific thing.
- (countable, uncountable) Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.
- Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
- a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body
adj
- Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.
- (law, said of a lawsuit) Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
- Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; trivial.
- not serious in content or attitude or behavior
noun
- An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- The quality of being obsessed.
- An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
- Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
noun
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
verb
- cause to appear foolish
- deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence
- (transitive) To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
adj
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
- having a legally established claim
- consistent with fact or reality; not false
- worthy of being depended on
- conforming to definitive criteria
- determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- rightly so called
- expressing or given to expressing the truth
- accurately placed or thrown
- in tune; accurate in pitch
- accurately fitted; level
- (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- Loyal, faithful.
- (of a mechanical part) Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- (biology) Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- (of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
noun
adv
verb
noun
- Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
- foolish or senseless behavior
- (largely obsolete outside place names) A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).
- (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
- Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
- a stupid mistake
- the quality of being rash and foolish
- the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
verb
adj
noun
- an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
- (sometimes derogatory) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
- An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
verb
- (UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot.
- (UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To cease to behave in a consistent or rational manner.
noun
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- the activity of fastening something firmly in position
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
- A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
- (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
- In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
- The act of fixing.
- The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
- (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
- (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
- A sexual fetish or turn-on.
- The state of being fixed or fixated.
- (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- an inclination to do something
- a general direction in which something tends to move
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
- (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
- A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- (childish, humorous) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.
- A chamber pot.
- A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.
verb
adj
- Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) Bizarre; incredible.
- Wildly confused or excited.
- (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
- (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
- (slang, chiefly New York, African-American Vernacular) Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
- (chiefly US, informal, in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.
- (chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
- (chiefly British) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
- (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
- affected with madness or insanity
- very foolish
- marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
- roused to anger
adv
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (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].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- utter impulsively
noun
noun
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
noun
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- any object of warm affection or devotion
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- something that is desired intensely
- a strong feeling or emotion
- a feeling of strong sexual desire
- A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
- Fervor, determination.
- Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
- Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
- (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
- A true desire sustained or prolonged.
- An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
verb
noun
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
- an eccentric idea
- a person with unusual sexual tastes
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
verb
adj
verb
noun
- Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
- A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
- A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
- Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
- The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
verb
- (transitive) To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
- (intransitive or reporting verb, figuratively) To express or feel great anger.
- (intransitive) To pass off in fumes or vapours.
- (intransitive) To emit fumes.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
- (transitive) To apply or offer incense to.
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- be mad, angry, or furious
- treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
- be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
noun
- foolish or senseless behavior
- a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
- the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
- the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution
- an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- The act of indulging.
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- Tolerance.
verb
noun
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
adj
verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action.
- The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
- A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.
- sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)
- a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
adj
- having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
- influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion
- Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
- Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
verb
noun
- An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession.
- excessive or irrational devotion to some activity
- A recurrent theme of a specific thing.
- (countable, uncountable) Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.
- Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
- a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body
noun
- An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- The quality of being obsessed.
- An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
- Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
noun
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
noun
- Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
- foolish or senseless behavior
- (largely obsolete outside place names) A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).
- (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
- Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
- a stupid mistake
- the quality of being rash and foolish
- the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
verb
noun
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- the activity of fastening something firmly in position
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
- A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
- (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
- In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
- The act of fixing.
- The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
- (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
- (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
- A sexual fetish or turn-on.
- The state of being fixed or fixated.
- (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- an inclination to do something
- a general direction in which something tends to move
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
- (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
- A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
noun
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
noun
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- any object of warm affection or devotion
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- something that is desired intensely
- a strong feeling or emotion
- a feeling of strong sexual desire
- A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
- Fervor, determination.
- Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
- Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
- (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
- A true desire sustained or prolonged.
- An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
verb
noun
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
- an eccentric idea
- a person with unusual sexual tastes
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
verb
noun
- Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
- A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
- A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
- Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
- The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
verb
- (transitive) To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
- (intransitive or reporting verb, figuratively) To express or feel great anger.
- (intransitive) To pass off in fumes or vapours.
- (intransitive) To emit fumes.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
- (transitive) To apply or offer incense to.
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- be mad, angry, or furious
- treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
- be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
noun
- foolish or senseless behavior
- a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
- the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
- the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution
- an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- The act of indulging.
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- Tolerance.
verb
noun
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
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- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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- An irrational, obsessive belief in the power of some object or action.
- The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
- A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.
- sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)
- a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
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- cause to appear foolish
- deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence
- (transitive) To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
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- (UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot.
- (UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To cease to behave in a consistent or rational manner.
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- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (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].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- utter impulsively
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- Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.
- (law, said of a lawsuit) Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
- Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; trivial.
- not serious in content or attitude or behavior
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- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
- having a legally established claim
- consistent with fact or reality; not false
- worthy of being depended on
- conforming to definitive criteria
- determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- rightly so called
- expressing or given to expressing the truth
- accurately placed or thrown
- in tune; accurate in pitch
- accurately fitted; level
- (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- Loyal, faithful.
- (of a mechanical part) Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- (biology) Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- (of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
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- an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
- (sometimes derogatory) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
- An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
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- a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- (childish, humorous) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.
- A chamber pot.
- A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.
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- Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) Bizarre; incredible.
- Wildly confused or excited.
- (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
- (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
- (slang, chiefly New York, African-American Vernacular) Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.
- (chiefly US, informal, in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.
- (chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
- (chiefly British) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
- (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
- affected with madness or insanity
- very foolish
- marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
- roused to anger
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- having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
- influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion
- Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
- Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.