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noun
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- Solid remains of a fire.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- Alternative form of aush.
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- (countable, uncountable) Any tree of certain species of other genera.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
- A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
- (cellular automata) The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.
- the residue that remains when something is burned
- strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
- any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
adv
verb
noun
- A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.
- a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil
- (Christianity) The Book of Revelation.
- A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.
- (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
verb
noun
- Initialism of natural disaster.
- (copyright law) Initialism of non-derivative.
- Initialism of neurodivergence.
- (military) Initialism of negligent discharge (accidental firing of a weapon).
- (aviation) Initialism of navigation display.
- Initialism of naturopathic doctor (a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, an academic degree and title in naturopathic medicine).
adj
name
prep_phrase
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- A loss of reputation.
- The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
- The act of ruining or wrecking.
noun
- a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
- (figurative) A large and generally unstoppable surge.
- A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption; often a series of waves (a wave train).
noun
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
- a sudden and violent collapse
- flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
- a sound defeat
- (figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
- (geology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
noun
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
adj
verb
noun
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
- (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
- (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.
- (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
- Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
noun
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
- An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
- An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- The state of being desolated or laid waste
- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
adj
noun
- a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown
- A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
- severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping
- (informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
- (psychology) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
- Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
adj
verb
- remove the entrails of
- take away a vital or essential part of
- surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
- remove the contents of
- (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
- (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
- (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
- (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
- (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
noun
- any disaster or catastrophe
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- an official visit for inspection or supervision
- (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
- The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
- An official visit to inspect or examine something.
- An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
- A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
- An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
- (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
noun
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
- the act of killing
- the absence of life or state of being dead
- the event of dying or departure from life
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a final state
- the time when something ends
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
noun
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
adj
verb
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
adv
noun
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
- (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
- (nautical) A backward flow of water, as from oars, a propeller, breaking waves, etc.
- (education) washback
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
verb
noun
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
noun
- An event that causes great distress.
- Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
- An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
noun
- Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
- (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, sometimes capitalized) Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
- Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.
- The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
adj
adj
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
noun
- A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
- The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
verb
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- fall down, as if collapsing
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fall suddenly and sharply
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall apart
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
noun
noun
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- Solid remains of a fire.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- Alternative form of aush.
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- (countable, uncountable) Any tree of certain species of other genera.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
- A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
- (cellular automata) The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.
- the residue that remains when something is burned
- strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
- any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
adv
verb
noun
- A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.
- a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil
- (Christianity) The Book of Revelation.
- A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.
- (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
verb
noun
- Initialism of natural disaster.
- (copyright law) Initialism of non-derivative.
- Initialism of neurodivergence.
- (military) Initialism of negligent discharge (accidental firing of a weapon).
- (aviation) Initialism of navigation display.
- Initialism of naturopathic doctor (a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, an academic degree and title in naturopathic medicine).
adj
name
prep_phrase
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- an event that results in destruction
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- A loss of reputation.
- The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
- The act of ruining or wrecking.
noun
- a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
- (figurative) A large and generally unstoppable surge.
- A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption; often a series of waves (a wave train).
noun
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
- a sudden and violent collapse
- flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
- a sound defeat
- (figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
- (geology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
noun
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
adj
verb
noun
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
- (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
- (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.
- (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
- Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
noun
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
- An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
- An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- The state of being desolated or laid waste
- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
noun
- an event that results in total destruction
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
noun
- a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown
- A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
- severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping
- (informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
- (psychology) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
- Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
noun
- any disaster or catastrophe
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- an official visit for inspection or supervision
- (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
- The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
- An official visit to inspect or examine something.
- An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
- A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
- An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
- (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
noun
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
- the act of killing
- the absence of life or state of being dead
- the event of dying or departure from life
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a final state
- the time when something ends
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
noun
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
adj
verb
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
adv
noun
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
- (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
- (nautical) A backward flow of water, as from oars, a propeller, breaking waves, etc.
- (education) washback
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
verb
noun
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
verb
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
noun
- An event that causes great distress.
- Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
- An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
noun
- Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
- (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, sometimes capitalized) Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
- Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.
- The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
adj
noun
- A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
- The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
verb
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- fall down, as if collapsing
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fall suddenly and sharply
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall apart
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
noun
adj
adj
verb
- remove the entrails of
- take away a vital or essential part of
- surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
- remove the contents of
- (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
- (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
- (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
- (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
- (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
adj
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of