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noun
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- (especially) Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- (collective, rare, countable) A group of bears.
- (paleontology) Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
adj
- Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
- disinclined to work or exertion
- Having no effect.
- Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
- Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
- Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
- producing no result or effect
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
adj
adj
- disinclined to work or exertion
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- moving slowly and gently
- Showing a lack of effort or care.
- Droopy.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- Sluggish; slow-moving.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
noun
verb
adj
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
noun
verb
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
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noun
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
noun
adj
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- dip into a liquid
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
noun
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- escape, either physically or mentally
- (transitive) To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
- (transitive) To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
- (transitive) To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind.
- (transitive) To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- escape, either physically or mentally
- practice evasion
- (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
noun
- soft creamy candy
- (US) Chocolate fudge.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
intj
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
noun
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
verb
noun
- (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
- (combat sports, martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
- A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
- (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- cause to feel intense dislike or distaste
- take away the enthusiasm of
- hold back to a later time
- cause to feel embarrassment
- (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
- (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
- (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
- (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- form the edge of
- pass around or about; move along the border
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- To be on or form the border of.
- (figurative) To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
- To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
- To cover with a skirt; to surround.
noun
- a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
- cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
- A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
- (of animals) A diaphragm, or midriff.
- (derogatory, slang) A woman.
- A petticoat.
- A border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
- (uncountable, UK, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- A loose edging to any part of a dress.
- A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
- (uncountable, UK, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
verb
noun
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- An electrical shunt.
- A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- be released or become known; of news
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- turn on or around an axis or a center
- go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- be sufficient
- become widely known and passed on
- (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
- (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
- (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.
- (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
noun
- the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
- a feeling of intense dislike
- (uncountable) Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
- (uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
- (botany) The quality of being antipathetic: not easily united by grafting.
verb
- To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
- To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.
- To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources.
- To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
- (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- intense aversion
- something that inspires horror; something horrible
- intense and profound fear
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
noun
- intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
- An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
- The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
- (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
verb
- choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing
- (idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
- To plead guilty and ask for mercy.
- To leave a gang.
- (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To win (someone) over; to get on (someone's) good side.
- (idiomatic, slang) To abandon, let down or betray (someone).
- (idiomatic, slang) To blame; to assign blame to; to get into trouble.
noun
adj
verb
- (ambitransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).
- (transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
- (transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
- (transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
- (intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
noun
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment
- (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Freedom from effort; leisure, rest.
- Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
verb
- lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- move gently or carefully
- make easier
- (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
- (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
- To reduce speed.
- (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
- (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
- an occurrence of control or strength weakening
- (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
- the act of making less strict
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
- Remission of attention or application.
- Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.
- The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.
- A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the natural and healthy tone of parts.
- (physics) The transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one; the opposite of excitation
- (music) The release following musical tension.
- Remission or abatement of rigor.
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- a disposition free from stress or emotion
- (uncountable, chiefly chemistry) The state of leaving something alone or untouched; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable, engineering, physics) Chiefly in the form point of repose, position of repose, etc.: absence of motion; equilibrium; (countable) a position where an object is not moving and at rest.
- (uncountable) The state of being peacefully inactive or relaxed, or being free from disturbances or worries; calmness, ease, peace, quietness.
- (uncountable) Of the face, a muscle, etc.: the state of being relaxed and not in tension.
- (uncountable, chiefly geology) Of a natural phenomenon, especially the eruption of a volcano: the state of temporary cessation of activity; dormancy, quiescence.
- (uncountable, architecture, art) The arrangement of elements of an artwork, a building, etc., that is restful and soothing to a viewer; harmony.
- (uncountable) Of the Virgin Mary: death; also assumption into heaven.
- (countable, Eastern Orthodoxy) The festival honouring the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on August 15.
- (uncountable) Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.
- (uncountable) Calmness of the mind or temperament; composure.
- (uncountable) The state of lying still and unmoving; calmness, tranquillity; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
- lie when dead
- be inherent or innate in
- lean in a comfortable resting position
- put in a horizontal position
- put or confide something in a person or thing
- to put something (e.g. trust) in something
- (also figurative) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.
- Followed by on or upon: to be based on; to depend or rely on.
- (chiefly passive voice) Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.
- Followed by on or upon: of a thing: to lie or be physically positioned on something, especially horizontally; to rest on or be supported by something.
- (transitive, reflexive) To pose (oneself or someone, or something) again.
- (intransitive) Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization.
- (figurative, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, of a saint) To die, to rest in peace.
- (surgery) To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.
- Followed by on or upon: of light, a look, etc.: to fall or rest (and often remain for a while) on something; to alight, to dwell.
- To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
verb
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
- (informal, intransitive) To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works.
- (transitive) To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person).
- (informal, intransitive, British, Australia) To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously.
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
noun
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- (especially) Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- (collective, rare, countable) A group of bears.
- (paleontology) Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
noun
- the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
- a feeling of intense dislike
- (uncountable) Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
- (uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
- (botany) The quality of being antipathetic: not easily united by grafting.
noun
- intense aversion
- something that inspires horror; something horrible
- intense and profound fear
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
noun
- intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
- An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
- The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
- (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
noun
adj
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment
- (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Freedom from effort; leisure, rest.
- Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
verb
- lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- move gently or carefully
- make easier
- (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
- (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
- To reduce speed.
- (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
- (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
- an occurrence of control or strength weakening
- (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
- the act of making less strict
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
- Remission of attention or application.
- Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.
- The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.
- A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the natural and healthy tone of parts.
- (physics) The transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one; the opposite of excitation
- (music) The release following musical tension.
- Remission or abatement of rigor.
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- a disposition free from stress or emotion
- (uncountable, chiefly chemistry) The state of leaving something alone or untouched; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable, engineering, physics) Chiefly in the form point of repose, position of repose, etc.: absence of motion; equilibrium; (countable) a position where an object is not moving and at rest.
- (uncountable) The state of being peacefully inactive or relaxed, or being free from disturbances or worries; calmness, ease, peace, quietness.
- (uncountable) Of the face, a muscle, etc.: the state of being relaxed and not in tension.
- (uncountable, chiefly geology) Of a natural phenomenon, especially the eruption of a volcano: the state of temporary cessation of activity; dormancy, quiescence.
- (uncountable, architecture, art) The arrangement of elements of an artwork, a building, etc., that is restful and soothing to a viewer; harmony.
- (uncountable) Of the Virgin Mary: death; also assumption into heaven.
- (countable, Eastern Orthodoxy) The festival honouring the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on August 15.
- (uncountable) Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.
- (uncountable) Calmness of the mind or temperament; composure.
- (uncountable) The state of lying still and unmoving; calmness, tranquillity; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
- lie when dead
- be inherent or innate in
- lean in a comfortable resting position
- put in a horizontal position
- put or confide something in a person or thing
- to put something (e.g. trust) in something
- (also figurative) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.
- Followed by on or upon: to be based on; to depend or rely on.
- (chiefly passive voice) Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.
- Followed by on or upon: of a thing: to lie or be physically positioned on something, especially horizontally; to rest on or be supported by something.
- (transitive, reflexive) To pose (oneself or someone, or something) again.
- (intransitive) Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization.
- (figurative, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, of a saint) To die, to rest in peace.
- (surgery) To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.
- Followed by on or upon: of light, a look, etc.: to fall or rest (and often remain for a while) on something; to alight, to dwell.
- To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
verb
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
verb
noun
adj
verb
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adv
verb
noun
adj
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
noun
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
noun
adj
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- dip into a liquid
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
noun
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- escape, either physically or mentally
- (transitive) To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
- (transitive) To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
- (transitive) To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind.
- (transitive) To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- escape, either physically or mentally
- practice evasion
- (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
noun
- soft creamy candy
- (US) Chocolate fudge.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
intj
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
noun
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
verb
noun
- (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
- (combat sports, martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
- A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
- (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- cause to feel intense dislike or distaste
- take away the enthusiasm of
- hold back to a later time
- cause to feel embarrassment
- (transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
- (transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
- (transitive) To delay (a task, event, etc.).
- (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- form the edge of
- pass around or about; move along the border
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- To be on or form the border of.
- (figurative) To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
- To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
- To cover with a skirt; to surround.
noun
- a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
- cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
- A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
- (of animals) A diaphragm, or midriff.
- (derogatory, slang) A woman.
- A petticoat.
- A border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
- (uncountable, UK, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- A loose edging to any part of a dress.
- A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
- (uncountable, UK, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
verb
noun
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- An electrical shunt.
- A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- be released or become known; of news
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- turn on or around an axis or a center
- go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- be sufficient
- become widely known and passed on
- (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
- (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
- (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.
- (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
verb
- To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
- To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.
- To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources.
- To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
- (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
verb
noun
adj
verb
- choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing
- (idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
- To plead guilty and ask for mercy.
- To leave a gang.
- (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To win (someone) over; to get on (someone's) good side.
- (idiomatic, slang) To abandon, let down or betray (someone).
- (idiomatic, slang) To blame; to assign blame to; to get into trouble.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).
- (transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
- (transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
- (transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
- (intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
noun
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
- (informal, intransitive) To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works.
- (transitive) To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person).
- (informal, intransitive, British, Australia) To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously.
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
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adj
- Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
- disinclined to work or exertion
- Having no effect.
- Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
- Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
- Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
- producing no result or effect
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
adj
adj
- disinclined to work or exertion
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- moving slowly and gently
- Showing a lack of effort or care.
- Droopy.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- Sluggish; slow-moving.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
noun
verb
adj
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle