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adj
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
verb
- divide into slivers or splinters
- break up into splinters or slivers
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
noun
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
verb
noun
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
verb
noun
- (anatomy) A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.
- A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
- (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ.
- A state of incompatibility or disagreement.
- a long narrow cleft
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
adj
adj
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
noun
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- A sharp projection.
- (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- (botany) A cleft or division.
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- a bout of drinking or drug taking
- a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- a sharp projection on an edge or surface
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
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noun
adj
verb
adj
- Broken into coarse pieces.
- Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
- (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
- (slang, usually of a video game) Surprisingly very good in the quality of experience.
- (slang) Extremely skilled at something (usually a video game).
- (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
- used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
verb
verb
- tear into shreds
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
noun
- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
adj
verb
- tear into shreds
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate into parts or portions
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
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adj
verb
noun
- the act of cracking something
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
noun
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
adj
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
verb
noun
adj
- Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
- (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
- Pulled away from forcefully.
- Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
- (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
- In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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adj
noun
- (ornithology) scapular
- A form of brace or suspender for keeping a belt or body bandage in place; it is made of a broad roller bandage split half way, the undivided part being in front, the divided ends passing over the shoulders and down the back.
- garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit
verb
- break into small pieces
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To oppress or grievously burden.
noun
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
- A crowd control barrier.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A violent crowding.
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verb
- cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
- come off in a very thin piece
- remove the surface, in scales or laminae
- grow by producing or unfolding leaves
- spread by opening the leaves of
- (mineralogy) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.
- To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
- To remove the leaves from a plant.
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verb
noun
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
suffix
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adj
noun
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
verb
verb
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
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noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
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noun
noun
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- A sharp projection.
- (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- (botany) A cleft or division.
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- a bout of drinking or drug taking
- a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- a sharp projection on an edge or surface
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
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- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
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- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
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- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
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- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
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- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
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- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
verb
- divide into slivers or splinters
- break up into splinters or slivers
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
noun
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
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- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
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- (anatomy) A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.
- A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
- (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ.
- A state of incompatibility or disagreement.
- a long narrow cleft
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
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- tear into shreds
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
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- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
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- tear into shreds
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
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- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
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- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate into parts or portions
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
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- the act of cracking something
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
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- break into small pieces
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To oppress or grievously burden.
noun
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
- A crowd control barrier.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A violent crowding.
verb
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- cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
- come off in a very thin piece
- remove the surface, in scales or laminae
- grow by producing or unfolding leaves
- spread by opening the leaves of
- (mineralogy) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.
- To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
- To remove the leaves from a plant.
verb
noun
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
verb
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
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- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
adj
- Broken into coarse pieces.
- Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
- (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
- (slang, usually of a video game) Surprisingly very good in the quality of experience.
- (slang) Extremely skilled at something (usually a video game).
- (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
- used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
verb
adj
- Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
- (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
- Pulled away from forcefully.
- Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
- (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
- In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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- (ornithology) scapular
- A form of brace or suspender for keeping a belt or body bandage in place; it is made of a broad roller bandage split half way, the undivided part being in front, the divided ends passing over the shoulders and down the back.
- garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit