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noun
- a complete failure
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
adj
verb
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- go to pieces
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
noun
verb
noun
- a complete failure
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- fall suddenly and abruptly
- fall loosely
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
- (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
adv
intj
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
noun
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
noun
- A total failure; a washout.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
adj
- Having failed.
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
adj
- Broken, failed.
- (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
- Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant.
- Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
- Used up.
- No longer existing, having passed.
- (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
- Away, having left.
- Dead.
- Doomed, done for.
- (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
- drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
- destroyed or killed
- well in the past; former
- used up or no longer available
- dead
contraction
prep
verb
adj
- certain to fail
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
- of a person unable to do something skillfully
- Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
- (of an adverse condition) Incurable.
- Without talent, not skilled.
- Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
noun
- A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
- (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
- (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.
- The butchering of meat.
- A meat market.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- a building where animals are butchered
- the business of a butcher
verb
- defeat disastrously
- cause to flee
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
noun
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
verb
adj
verb
- To fail utterly at something one has attempted.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- To wash the inside of something.
- To remove something by washing.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- To be removed by washing.
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- deplete of strength or vitality
- drain off the color in the course of laundering
- lose color in the process of being washed
- wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt
- prevent or interrupt due to rain
- wear or destroy by the force of water
verb
- fail to win
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- withdraw, as from reality
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- be set at a disadvantage
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
noun
- failure of a plan
- termination of pregnancy
- (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
- (now uncommon in general use) A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
- An induced abortion.
- (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
- The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
- (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
adj
- disappointingly unsuccessful
- (Philippines, law, of a felony or serious criminal offense) Imperfect form of execution of a crime in that, despite performing all the acts that should produce it, the crime fails to be consummated.
- Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, discontent and/or slightly angry because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire, or something happened or someone else did something in a way one did not hope for, expect, or desire.
- Foiled, stopped, disappointed.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
verb
- be unsuccessful
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- 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
- (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.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
adj
noun
verb
- (by extension) To fail spectacularly.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- (video games) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- (US, chiefly sports) Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- (fishing) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To smell; to sniff.
- (US, baseball) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
- utter with a puff of air
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
- smoke and exhale strongly
- drive or carry as if by a puff of air
adj
intj
noun
- (sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- A slight attack or touch.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- (baseball) From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- (nautical) An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
- Any of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- a short light gust of air
- a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
verb
- fail to experience
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
noun
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a means or way of escaping
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
- (computing) escape key
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
verb
- fail to experience
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to attend an event or activity
- fail to reach or get to
- feel or suffer from the lack of
- be absent
- leave undone or leave out
- fail to reach
- be without
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To avoid or escape.
- (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- (transitive) To fail to understand.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
- (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
- (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
- a young female
- a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to physically hit.
- (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
- A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
- (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
- (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
verb
noun
- an irretrievable loss
- a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
- (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
- (figurative) Destruction; disaster; failure; ruin; irretrievable loss.
noun
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
- an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
- (South India, colloquial) A fart.
- (slang) A highly potent joint (cannabis cigarette).
- (informal, in combination) A piece of food, often small, usually intensely flavored.
- (colloquial) An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
- (in combination) A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
- (colloquial, figurative) Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
- (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
- (basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
- (chiefly British, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
- An obscene word identified by its first letter.
- A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
- (US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
- (often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
- (American football, slang) A long forward pass.
- (slang) A woman’s breast.
- (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
- (chiefly British, slang) A success; the bomb.
- (rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
- (colloquial) Any explosive charge.
- (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
- (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
verb
- throw bombs at or attack with bombs
- fail to get a passing grade
- To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
- (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
- (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
- (reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
- (transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
- (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
- (intransitive, computing) To crash.
- (transitive, slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
- (ambitransitive) To fail dismally.
- To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
adj
noun
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an explosion that fails to occur
- A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
- (informal) A failure of any kind.
- (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
- (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
adj
noun
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang, derogatory) A prostitute.
- A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
- (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
- (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- (countable, US, slang) A failure.
noun
- a complete failure
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
adj
verb
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- go to pieces
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
noun
verb
noun
- a complete failure
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- fall suddenly and abruptly
- fall loosely
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
- (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
adv
intj
noun
- A total failure; a washout.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
- (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
- (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.
- The butchering of meat.
- A meat market.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- a building where animals are butchered
- the business of a butcher
noun
- failure of a plan
- termination of pregnancy
- (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
- (now uncommon in general use) A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
- An induced abortion.
- (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
- The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
- (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
- an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
- (South India, colloquial) A fart.
- (slang) A highly potent joint (cannabis cigarette).
- (informal, in combination) A piece of food, often small, usually intensely flavored.
- (colloquial) An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
- (in combination) A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
- (colloquial, figurative) Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
- (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
- (basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
- (chiefly British, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
- An obscene word identified by its first letter.
- A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
- (US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
- (often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
- (American football, slang) A long forward pass.
- (slang) A woman’s breast.
- (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
- (chiefly British, slang) A success; the bomb.
- (rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
- (colloquial) Any explosive charge.
- (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
- (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
verb
- throw bombs at or attack with bombs
- fail to get a passing grade
- To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
- (slang) Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
- (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
- (reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
- (transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
- (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
- (intransitive, computing) To crash.
- (transitive, slang) To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
- (ambitransitive) To fail dismally.
- To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
adj
noun
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an explosion that fails to occur
- A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
- (informal) A failure of any kind.
- (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
- (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
adj
noun
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang, derogatory) A prostitute.
- A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
- (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
- (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- (countable, US, slang) A failure.
verb
- fail to experience
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to attend an event or activity
- fail to reach or get to
- feel or suffer from the lack of
- be absent
- leave undone or leave out
- fail to reach
- be without
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To avoid or escape.
- (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- (transitive) To fail to understand.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
- (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
- (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
- a young female
- a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to physically hit.
- (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
- A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
- (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
- (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
noun
- a complete failure
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- fall suddenly and abruptly
- fall loosely
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
- (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
adv
intj
verb
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
noun
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- defeat disastrously
- cause to flee
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
noun
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
verb
adj
verb
- To fail utterly at something one has attempted.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- To wash the inside of something.
- To remove something by washing.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- To be removed by washing.
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- deplete of strength or vitality
- drain off the color in the course of laundering
- lose color in the process of being washed
- wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt
- prevent or interrupt due to rain
- wear or destroy by the force of water
verb
- fail to win
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- withdraw, as from reality
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- be set at a disadvantage
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
verb
- be unsuccessful
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- 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
- (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.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
adj
noun
verb
- (by extension) To fail spectacularly.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- (video games) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- (US, chiefly sports) Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- (fishing) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To smell; to sniff.
- (US, baseball) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
- utter with a puff of air
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
- smoke and exhale strongly
- drive or carry as if by a puff of air
adj
intj
noun
- (sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- A slight attack or touch.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- (baseball) From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- (nautical) An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
- Any of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- a short light gust of air
- a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
verb
- fail to experience
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
noun
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a means or way of escaping
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
- (computing) escape key
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
verb
- fail to experience
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to attend an event or activity
- fail to reach or get to
- feel or suffer from the lack of
- be absent
- leave undone or leave out
- fail to reach
- be without
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To avoid or escape.
- (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- (transitive) To fail to understand.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
- (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
- (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
- a young female
- a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to physically hit.
- (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
- A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
- (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
- (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
verb
noun
- an irretrievable loss
- a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
- (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
- (figurative) Destruction; disaster; failure; ruin; irretrievable loss.
adj
- Having failed.
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
adj
- Broken, failed.
- (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
- Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant.
- Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
- Used up.
- No longer existing, having passed.
- (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
- Away, having left.
- Dead.
- Doomed, done for.
- (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
- drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
- destroyed or killed
- well in the past; former
- used up or no longer available
- dead
contraction
prep
verb
adj
- certain to fail
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
- of a person unable to do something skillfully
- Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
- (of an adverse condition) Incurable.
- Without talent, not skilled.
- Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
adj
- disappointingly unsuccessful
- (Philippines, law, of a felony or serious criminal offense) Imperfect form of execution of a crime in that, despite performing all the acts that should produce it, the crime fails to be consummated.
- Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, discontent and/or slightly angry because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire, or something happened or someone else did something in a way one did not hope for, expect, or desire.
- Foiled, stopped, disappointed.