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noun
noun
- (figuratively) Extortion.
- (pathology) Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
- Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
- (mythology) The state of being a vampire.
- the actions or practices of a vampire
- belief in the existence of vampires
noun
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
- a very thorough search of a person or a place
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- An improvised bed.
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
adj
noun
- Extortion; protection money.
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
- (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
- A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
- (Internet slang, vulgar) Ellipsis of cum tribute.
- An homage made in a body of work to another work or creator.
- An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
- A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
- payment by one nation for protection by another
- something given or done as an expression of esteem
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verb
noun
adj
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verb
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- (by extension) Compromising material that can be used to extort someone.
- The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.
- extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- (BDSM) A type of roleplay where the submissive shares information that may be exploited by the dominant.
- (England law, historical) Black rent; rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
verb
verb
- To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- (also figuratively) Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
- (mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
- To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- (materials science) To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
- (also figuratively) To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
- To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
noun
verb
- get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
- draw blood
- be diffused
- lose blood from one's body
- drain of liquid or steam
- (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- (intransitive) To menstruate.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
noun
- (television) A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
- (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
- (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
verb
- (British) To swindle; to extort.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
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verb
- (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
- (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
- get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
- obtain through intimidation
noun
- A criminal that extorts people.
- (horticulture) An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
- (African-American Vernacular) One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committing crimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; a gangsta.
- A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.
- A person who is a member of a gang or criminal organization.
- (historical) One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
- A person who use intimidation to coerce others.
- A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
verb
noun
- One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
- (derogatory) A shrewish woman.
- (mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
- The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
- large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
- any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
- a malicious woman with a fierce temper
verb
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (transitive) To contort.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- turn like a screw
noun
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
noun
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (slang) An impostor.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- press firmly
- press or force
- squeeze or press together
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- (transitive, figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- (transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- (ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place.
noun
- an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power
- the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space
- a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high
- a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer
- a tight or amorous embrace
- (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend
- a twisting squeeze
- the act of gripping and pressing firmly
- An instance of squeezing.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
- (figuratively) A difficult position.
- A close or tight fit.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- (slang) A romantic partner.
- (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
- (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
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- (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
- (transitive) To forcefully or powerfully motivate (a course of action).
- (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
- (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.
- (transitive) To have a strong, irresistible force (on someone or something).
- force somebody to do something
- necessitate or exact
verb
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
- subjugate by imposing troops
- (Christianity, French politics, historical) To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons (noun noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).
- (military, historical) To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.
noun
- a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
- (by extension) A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).
- A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
- (weaponry, historical) Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
- (by extension) Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
verb
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- transport by railroad
- supply with railroad lines
- (roleplaying games) To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
- (intransitive) To work for a railroad.
- (transitive) To transport via railroad.
- (intransitive) To operate a railroad.
- (transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- (intransitive) To travel by railroad.
- (transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- (intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- (transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
- (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
noun
- line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
- a line of track providing a runway for wheels
- (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
- (chiefly US, Philippines) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- (chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- (chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
verb
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- treat harshly or unfairly
- protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up
- hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
- downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling
- To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
- (transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
- (figurative, intransitive, originally US) To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.
- (restaurant kitchen jargon, intransitive, transitive) To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive).
- (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
- (figurative, transitive) To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
noun
- a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast
- An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
- A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
- (poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
- A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
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noun
noun
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- (law, uncountable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- using force to cause something to occur
- the act of compelling by force of authority
verb
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- make more intense
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- twist into a strained configuration
- screw or turn higher
noun
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
verb
noun
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
- a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
- kindly endorsement and guidance
- the activity of protecting someone or something
- defense against financial failure; financial independence
- the condition of being protected
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition
- A means of keeping or remaining safe.
- (computing) An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).
- Immunity from harm, obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.
- The state of being safe.
- A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.
- (economics) Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers of goods or services.
- (insurance) Coverage.
- (euphemistic, rare) Synonym of adult protection (“adult incontinence wear”).
- The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
verb
noun
- payment for the release of someone
- money demanded for the return of a captured person
- the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
- (historical, law, UK) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
- Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
verb
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- restore the honor or worth of
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- save from sins
- (transitive) To repair, restore.
- (transitive) To set free by force.
- (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- (transitive) To save, rescue.
- (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- (transitive) To expiate, atone (for).
- (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- (transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
verb
- (transitive) To embezzle.
- (transitive, informal) To drink fast.
- (transitive) To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
- (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.
- (transitive, slang, Australia) To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
- (transitive) To sell.
- (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
- (transitive) To reject or override a decision.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
- (transitive) To demolish.
- (transitive) To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
- (transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- (transitive, firefighting) To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.
- (transitive) To accumulate money, usually through crime.
- cause to come or go down
- knock down with force
- shatter as if by explosion
verb
- obtain or seize by violence
- prey on or hunt for
- eat greedily
- feed greedily
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
noun
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
adj
noun
noun
- (figuratively) Extortion.
- (pathology) Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
- Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
- (mythology) The state of being a vampire.
- the actions or practices of a vampire
- belief in the existence of vampires
noun
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
- a very thorough search of a person or a place
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- An improvised bed.
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
adj
noun
- Extortion; protection money.
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
- (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
- A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
- (Internet slang, vulgar) Ellipsis of cum tribute.
- An homage made in a body of work to another work or creator.
- An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
- A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
- payment by one nation for protection by another
- something given or done as an expression of esteem
verb
noun
- (by extension) Compromising material that can be used to extort someone.
- The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.
- extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- (BDSM) A type of roleplay where the submissive shares information that may be exploited by the dominant.
- (England law, historical) Black rent; rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
verb
noun
- A criminal that extorts people.
- (horticulture) An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
- (African-American Vernacular) One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committing crimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; a gangsta.
- A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.
- A person who is a member of a gang or criminal organization.
- (historical) One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
- A person who use intimidation to coerce others.
- A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
verb
noun
- One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
- (derogatory) A shrewish woman.
- (mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
- The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
- large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
- any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
- a malicious woman with a fierce temper
noun
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- (law, uncountable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- using force to cause something to occur
- the act of compelling by force of authority
noun
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
verb
noun
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
- a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
- kindly endorsement and guidance
- the activity of protecting someone or something
- defense against financial failure; financial independence
- the condition of being protected
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition
- A means of keeping or remaining safe.
- (computing) An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).
- Immunity from harm, obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.
- The state of being safe.
- A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.
- (economics) Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers of goods or services.
- (insurance) Coverage.
- (euphemistic, rare) Synonym of adult protection (“adult incontinence wear”).
- The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
verb
noun
verb
- To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- (also figuratively) Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
- (mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
- To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- (materials science) To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
- (also figuratively) To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
- To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
noun
verb
- get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
- draw blood
- be diffused
- lose blood from one's body
- drain of liquid or steam
- (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- (intransitive) To menstruate.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
noun
- (television) A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
- (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
- (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
verb
- (British) To swindle; to extort.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
noun
verb
- (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
- (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
- get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
- obtain through intimidation
verb
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (transitive) To contort.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- turn like a screw
noun
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
noun
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (slang) An impostor.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- press firmly
- press or force
- squeeze or press together
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- (transitive, figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- (transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- (ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place.
noun
- an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power
- the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space
- a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high
- a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer
- a tight or amorous embrace
- (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend
- a twisting squeeze
- the act of gripping and pressing firmly
- An instance of squeezing.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
- (figuratively) A difficult position.
- A close or tight fit.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- (slang) A romantic partner.
- (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
- (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
- (transitive) To forcefully or powerfully motivate (a course of action).
- (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
- (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.
- (transitive) To have a strong, irresistible force (on someone or something).
- force somebody to do something
- necessitate or exact
verb
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
- subjugate by imposing troops
- (Christianity, French politics, historical) To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons (noun noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).
- (military, historical) To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.
noun
- a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
- (by extension) A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).
- A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
- (weaponry, historical) Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
- (by extension) Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
verb
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- transport by railroad
- supply with railroad lines
- (roleplaying games) To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
- (intransitive) To work for a railroad.
- (transitive) To transport via railroad.
- (intransitive) To operate a railroad.
- (transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- (intransitive) To travel by railroad.
- (transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- (intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- (transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
- (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
noun
- line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
- a line of track providing a runway for wheels
- (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
- (chiefly US, Philippines) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- (chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- (chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
verb
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- treat harshly or unfairly
- protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up
- hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
- downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling
- To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
- (transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
- (figurative, intransitive, originally US) To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.
- (restaurant kitchen jargon, intransitive, transitive) To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive).
- (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
- (figurative, transitive) To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
noun
- a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast
- An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
- A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
- (poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
- A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
verb
noun
noun
- (by extension) Compromising material that can be used to extort someone.
- The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.
- extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- (BDSM) A type of roleplay where the submissive shares information that may be exploited by the dominant.
- (England law, historical) Black rent; rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- make more intense
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- twist into a strained configuration
- screw or turn higher
verb
noun
- payment for the release of someone
- money demanded for the return of a captured person
- the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
- (historical, law, UK) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
- Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
verb
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- restore the honor or worth of
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- save from sins
- (transitive) To repair, restore.
- (transitive) To set free by force.
- (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- (transitive) To save, rescue.
- (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- (transitive) To expiate, atone (for).
- (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- (transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
verb
- (transitive) To embezzle.
- (transitive, informal) To drink fast.
- (transitive) To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
- (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.
- (transitive, slang, Australia) To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
- (transitive) To sell.
- (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
- (transitive) To reject or override a decision.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
- (transitive) To demolish.
- (transitive) To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
- (transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- (transitive, firefighting) To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.
- (transitive) To accumulate money, usually through crime.
- cause to come or go down
- knock down with force
- shatter as if by explosion
verb
- obtain or seize by violence
- prey on or hunt for
- eat greedily
- feed greedily
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
noun
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.