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- boil slowly at low temperature
- (intransitive) To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
- (transitive) To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
- (intransitive, figurative) To remain angry with someone or something past the point of exhaustion; to resign oneself to holding a grudge, especially after some failed attempts to resolve a situation.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated.
- (intransitive, figurative) To develop gradually, of an idea or plan.
noun
verb
- cook in a simmering liquid
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
verb
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- Alternative form of skald.
- (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
verb
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noun
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
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- (Of a heated liquid) simmering strongly and about to boil.
- (Of a heated liquid) boiling.
- (colloquial) About to happen; imminent.
- (sports, rugby, colloquial) (Of a player taking a pass) running at full speed towards the opposition.
- (colloquial) continuing; active; in a state of activity or development.
- (sports, colloquial) Playing exceptionally well.
- (colloquial) Going smoothly; working well.
noun
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- (uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- (countable, figurative) A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- (uncountable, countable) The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- (uncountable, figurative) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adv
adj
verb
verb
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- To digest in the stomach.
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (transitive) To devise.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water
noun
- An instance of boiling.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
verb
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- be agitated
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
verb
noun
noun
- The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
- The action of steam on something.
- The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
- (UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
- The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
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- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
noun
- A strainer or colander for liquids
- A sieve.
- (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
- That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
- A young herring.
verb
- cover with liquid before cooking
- strike violently and repeatedly
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
noun
noun
- A person who boils something.
- A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
- A steam boiler.
- A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
- A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
- An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
- A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
- (UK, Australia, slang, derogatory) An old woman.
- (rare, informal) Boilerplate.
- sealed vessel where water is converted to steam
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
noun
- an implement used for stirring
- a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
- (slang) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.
- A device used to stir. (Cardinal types include wood or plastic strips (for beverages) and magnetic objects that react to a spinning magnet nearby (for chemistry beakers).
- A person who stirs something.
- One who stirs or moves about, as after sleep.
noun
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (British, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (British, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- Clipping of steamer trunk.
- (British, slang) An act of fellatio.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (British, slang) A prostitute's client.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- (Maine) The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- (British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- (Memphis, hip-hop, slang) A stolen vehicle.
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
- a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
- a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
verb
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be the essential element
- (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
- (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
- (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- lessen and make more modest
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
noun
noun
- (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
- The act, process, or result of reducing.
- (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
- (computing theory) A transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial-time reduction.
- (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
- (historical, Roman Catholicism) A religious settlement created during a mission by Spanish or Portuguese colonists with the intent of evangelizing Christianity to the local population.
- (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment, usually with a closed approach but sometimes with an open approach (surgery).
- (paying) A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
- The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
- (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
- (metalworking) The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.
- the act of reducing complexity
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
noun
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verb
- boil slowly at low temperature
- (intransitive) To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
- (transitive) To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
- (intransitive, figurative) To remain angry with someone or something past the point of exhaustion; to resign oneself to holding a grudge, especially after some failed attempts to resolve a situation.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated.
- (intransitive, figurative) To develop gradually, of an idea or plan.
noun
verb
- cook in a simmering liquid
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
noun
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- (uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- (countable, figurative) A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- (uncountable, countable) The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- (uncountable, figurative) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- An instance of boiling.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
verb
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- be agitated
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
noun
- The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
- The action of steam on something.
- The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
- (UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
- The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
adj
verb
adv
noun
- A person who boils something.
- A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
- A steam boiler.
- A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
- A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
- An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
- A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
- (UK, Australia, slang, derogatory) An old woman.
- (rare, informal) Boilerplate.
- sealed vessel where water is converted to steam
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
noun
- an implement used for stirring
- a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
- (slang) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.
- A device used to stir. (Cardinal types include wood or plastic strips (for beverages) and magnetic objects that react to a spinning magnet nearby (for chemistry beakers).
- A person who stirs something.
- One who stirs or moves about, as after sleep.
noun
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (British, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (British, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- Clipping of steamer trunk.
- (British, slang) An act of fellatio.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (British, slang) A prostitute's client.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- (Maine) The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- (British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- (Memphis, hip-hop, slang) A stolen vehicle.
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
- a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
- a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
verb
noun
noun
- (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
- The act, process, or result of reducing.
- (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
- (computing theory) A transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial-time reduction.
- (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
- (historical, Roman Catholicism) A religious settlement created during a mission by Spanish or Portuguese colonists with the intent of evangelizing Christianity to the local population.
- (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment, usually with a closed approach but sometimes with an open approach (surgery).
- (paying) A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
- The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
- (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
- (metalworking) The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.
- the act of reducing complexity
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
noun
noun
verb
- cook in a simmering liquid
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
verb
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- Alternative form of skald.
- (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
verb
intj
noun
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
verb
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- To digest in the stomach.
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (transitive) To devise.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
noun
- A strainer or colander for liquids
- A sieve.
- (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
- That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
- A young herring.
noun
verb
- boil slowly at low temperature
- (intransitive) To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
- (transitive) To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
- (intransitive, figurative) To remain angry with someone or something past the point of exhaustion; to resign oneself to holding a grudge, especially after some failed attempts to resolve a situation.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated.
- (intransitive, figurative) To develop gradually, of an idea or plan.
noun
- An instance of boiling.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
verb
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- be agitated
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
verb
- cover with liquid before cooking
- strike violently and repeatedly
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
noun
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be the essential element
- (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
- (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
- (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
verb
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- lessen and make more modest
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
noun
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor