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verb
- (ambitransitive) To overflow.
- (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
- (transitive) To cross by running.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
verb
- (transitive) To cause an overflow.
- overflow with a certain feeling
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have something in superabundance; to abound in something.
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
- (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
- (intransitive) To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. [with with]
- (intransitive) To flow over the brim of a container.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
noun
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
adj
adv
verb
verb
- become filled to overflowing
- supply with an excess of
- cover with liquid, usually water
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
- (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
- (intransitive) To revel in.
- (intransitive) To be highly productive.
- To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]
- be in a state of movement or action
- be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
verb
- (transitive) To overburden.
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
adj
noun
verb
- To overload; to overburden.
- To apply a surcharge.
- (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- fill to an excessive degree
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- place too much a load on
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people
noun
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
verb
- (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
- (intransitive) To have a great quantity of something.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
- (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.
- (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
- (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
- (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
- (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
- (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
- (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
- travel through water
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- move as if gliding through water
- be dizzy or giddy
noun
- An act or instance of swimming.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.
- The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
- A dizziness; swoon.
- (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
- A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
- (figurative) The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
- the act of swimming
verb
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
- (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of.
- (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart.
- (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
verb
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
noun
verb
noun
- (especially) That of a hat.
- (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
- The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
- Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
- A projecting rim.
- a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- approach a certain age or speed
- to gather together in large numbers
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
noun
- an informal body of friends
- a large number of things or people considered together
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
adv
verb
- overflow with a certain feeling
- be disgorged
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
verb
- (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
- (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
- (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
- indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
- supply or feed to surfeit
noun
- Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
- (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
- (countable) An excessive amount of something.
- (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
- (countable) A group of skunks.
- the state of being more than full
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- eating until excessively full
verb
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- kill by submerging in water
- get rid of as if by submerging
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
verb
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
noun
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
adj
adv
verb
verb
- (transitive) To cause an overflow.
- overflow with a certain feeling
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have something in superabundance; to abound in something.
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
- (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
- (intransitive) To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. [with with]
- (intransitive) To flow over the brim of a container.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
noun
verb
- become filled to overflowing
- supply with an excess of
- cover with liquid, usually water
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To overflow.
- (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.
- (transitive) To cross by running.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
verb
- (transitive) To cause an overflow.
- overflow with a certain feeling
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have something in superabundance; to abound in something.
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
- (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
- (intransitive) To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. [with with]
- (intransitive) To flow over the brim of a container.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
noun
verb
- become filled to overflowing
- supply with an excess of
- cover with liquid, usually water
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
- (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
- (intransitive) To revel in.
- (intransitive) To be highly productive.
- To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]
- be in a state of movement or action
- be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
verb
- (transitive) To overburden.
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
adj
noun
verb
- To overload; to overburden.
- To apply a surcharge.
- (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- fill to an excessive degree
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- place too much a load on
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people
noun
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
verb
- (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
- (intransitive) To have a great quantity of something.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
- (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.
- (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
- (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
- (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
- (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
- (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
- (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
- travel through water
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- move as if gliding through water
- be dizzy or giddy
noun
- An act or instance of swimming.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.
- The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
- A dizziness; swoon.
- (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
- A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
- (figurative) The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
- the act of swimming
verb
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
- (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of.
- (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart.
- (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
verb
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
noun
verb
noun
- (especially) That of a hat.
- (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
- The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
- Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
- A projecting rim.
- a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- approach a certain age or speed
- to gather together in large numbers
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
noun
- an informal body of friends
- a large number of things or people considered together
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
adv
verb
- overflow with a certain feeling
- be disgorged
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
verb
- (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
- (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
- (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
- indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
- supply or feed to surfeit
noun
- Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
- (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
- (countable) An excessive amount of something.
- (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
- (countable) A group of skunks.
- the state of being more than full
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- eating until excessively full
verb
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
adj
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
adv
noun
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- kill by submerging in water
- get rid of as if by submerging
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
verb
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent