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sinking spell
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dehancement
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sluggish
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underconsumption
demand destruction
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lessening
ebb
slide
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deflate
tabid
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deflation
imminution
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less and less
touch
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sluggishness
nonreduction
refrain
inebriety
intoxication
desist
loss
drunkenness
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hungover
insobriety
drawdown
tail-off
tipsiness
anticlimax
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noun
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A fall or apostasy.
- An interval of time between events.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- memory lapse
verb
noun
- A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- A reversible reduction in size.
- A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- The process of contracting a disease.
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- A shortening of a muscle during its use.
noun
- a state of declining economic condition
- the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded
- poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)
- the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing
- a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency
- a visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glare
- acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered
- the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines
- the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
- a disposition to be lenient in judging others
noun
- A decrease.
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
verb
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
intj
noun
- A decline.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
verb
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
noun
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
verb
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
verb
- To decline in quality or condition.
- To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- To read quickly a list or other short text.
- To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
noun
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- A shift of a transmission into a lower gear.
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
verb
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
prep_phrase
noun
- A decline in the value of money.
- An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
- An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
noun
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- A disused mine or part of one.
- Excrement or urine.
- Gradual loss or decay.
- Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- A vast expanse of water.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
adj
- Barren; desert.
- Superfluous; needless.
- Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
- Useless and contemptible.
- Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
- Unfortunate; disappointing.
verb
- To devastate; to destroy.
- To kill; to murder.
- To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
- To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
noun
- A loss of profit.
- The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
- Something sacrificed.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.
- A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
verb
- To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
- To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
- To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- To destroy; to kill.
- To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
- To kill a test animal for autopsy.
noun
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- The receding movement of the tide.
- A low state; a state of depression.
verb
- to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- To cause to flow back.
- to flow back or recede
- to fall away or decline
adj
verb
- To decrease in amount or value.
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- To go; to move from one place or to another.
- To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
noun
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- A promiscuous woman, slut.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
adj
verb
- consume
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- perceive via the tactile sense
- affect emotionally
- be relevant to
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- have an effect upon
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- be equal to in quality or ability
- tamper with
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- comprehend
- color lightly
noun
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- a suggestion of some quality
- a distinguishing style
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a communicative interaction
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- deftness in handling matters
- the feel of mechanical action
noun
- gradual decline in amount or activity
- something that is lost
- the act of losing someone or something
- the disadvantage that results from losing something
- the experience of losing a loved one
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- military personnel lost by death or capture
- euphemistic expressions for death
noun
- a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
- habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
verb
- To decrease.
- To reach a decision.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.
- To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
- To rain.
- To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
- To be demolished.
- To be passed through time.
- To descend, fall down, collapse.
noun
- (A measure of) the decline from a historical peak in some economic or financial variable.
- The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.
- The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
- The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion.
- A lowering in water level, as in a well or a reservoir.
- The process of a bank releasing previously agreed loan amount to the borrower, hence making it available for them to use.
- The borrowing of funds from a financial institution, under the terms of a credit agreement.
verb
- To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
- To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
- To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
- To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
- To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
- To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
- To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
- To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
- To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
- To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
adj
- Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having high viscosity.
- Laden to a great extent.
- Serious, somber.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- especially, having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- High, great.
- Armed.
- Heavily-armed.
- Having great weight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- Having the heaves.
- Having much body or strength.
- High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Loud, distorted, or intense.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- Hot and humid.
- With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload,
verb
- To make heavier.
- To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
- To sadden.
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