filter bed
puddle
concrete
well drain
bacteria bed
sediment
dry well
mud out
aggregate
scree
quicksand
wash
soil erosion
flow
pierre perdu
clabber
French drain
inundator
cover sand
jack
earthy
desalination plant
running sand
sweep
seep
desander
shingle
dredge
scum
irrigation ditch
stormwater drain
salt garden
storm drain
water project
drainage system
water program
drainboard
dabble
rock armour
green sand
storm sewer
mud-brick
mole
salt
drain system
brick
water development
drainage well
pan
sealant
draintrap
trap
suffossion
desalination
pan out
pan off
aquent
gunite
field tile
settle
aquifer
slopdosh
armor
awash
bund
geomembrane
puddling
saddle
strake
sand trap
drain cleaner
subnatant
enrockment
open water
limber
mortar
proppant
fesh-fesh
bale
dunk tank
scour
cesspit
saur
waste
intake
dewatering
bail
silt
slabber
biomat
sump
sand
self-watering
aggressiveness
earthy
mud-brick
salt
awash
subnatant
self-watering
filter bed
puddle
concrete
well drain
bacteria bed
sediment
dry well
aggregate
quicksand
wash
soil erosion
pierre perdu
clabber
French drain
inundator
cover sand
jack
desalination plant
running sand
seep
desander
shingle
dredge
scum
irrigation ditch
stormwater drain
salt garden
storm drain
water project
drainage system
water program
drainboard
rock armour
green sand
storm sewer
mole
drain system
brick
water development
drainage well
sealant
draintrap
trap
suffossion
desalination
aquent
gunite
field tile
aquifer
slopdosh
armor
bund
geomembrane
puddling
saddle
strake
sand trap
drain cleaner
enrockment
open water
limber
mortar
proppant
fesh-fesh
dunk tank
cesspit
saur
waste
intake
dewatering
bail
silt
biomat
sump
aggressiveness
mud out
scree
puddle
flow
sweep
dabble
wash
pan
pan out
pan off
settle
bale
scour
slabber
sand
noun
- Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
- Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
- A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
- A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
adj
- Made of concrete, a building material.
- Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.
verb
noun
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- A liquid used for washing.
- A shallow body of water.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The blade of an oar.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
verb
- To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
- To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
- To clean oneself with water.
- To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- To clean with water.
- To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
verb
- cover or swamp with water
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- move along, of liquids
- cause to flow
- be abundantly present
- fall or flow in a certain way
- undergo menstruation
noun
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
noun
- A shallow trench, sometimes lined with tile or containing a perforated pipe, backfilled with gravel and then covered over, used to collect and channel runoff water.
- A gravel-filled corridor with a perforated pipe running through it that runs against the foundation footings of a building, used to collect ground water and drain it away from the building's interior.
noun
- A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- Nothing, jack shit.
- A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- Money.
- A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A sailor.
- A lumberjack.
- A pike, especially when young.
- A sepoy.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- A home run.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- A jackrabbit.
verb
- To physically raise using a jack.
- To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- To raise or increase.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To steal something, typically an automobile.
- To jack off, to masturbate.
adj
verb
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
noun
- A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
- Semen.
- A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
- A reprehensible person or persons.
- The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
verb
verb
- To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
- To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.
- To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
- To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
noun
noun
- A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
- Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
- A moll, a bitch, a slut.
- A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
- A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
- Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles
- An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
- In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
- A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
- A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
- A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
- An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
- One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
adj
noun
- Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- A sailor (also old salt).
- Skepticism and common sense.
- Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
verb
- To add salt to.
- To sprinkle throughout.
- To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
noun
- A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- The colour brick red.
- An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- A projectile.
- Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- Something shaped like a brick.
- A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
adj
verb
noun
- A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- A person's mouth.
- An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- The trapezius muscle.
- Trapshooting.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- Belongings.
- The game of trapball itself.
- A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
verb
- To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- To provide with a trap.
- To leave suddenly, to flee.
- To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- to trap foxes
- To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
verb
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- take up residence and become established
- come to terms
- go under
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- establish or develop as a residence
- come to rest
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- sink down or precipitate
- fix firmly
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- form a community
- come as if by falling
noun
noun
noun
- The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
- A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
- Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
- A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
- A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
- A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
verb
noun
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
- A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
- An embankment.
verb
noun
- The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
- The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
- The action of forming a puddle.
- The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
- A group of mallards (ducks).
- A behaviour in which animals like butterflies seek out moist substances to obtain nutrients.
noun
- A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”)
- Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”)
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”)
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
verb
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
noun
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
- A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
- A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
noun
- In a river, pond, or other small body of water, an area of surface unobstructed by aquatic vegetation, boulders, and the like, adequate for navigation or swimming.
- An area of an ocean, sea, lake, or river which is not covered by ice.
- An expanse of an ocean, sea, or large lake which is distant from shore and devoid of nearby islands or other obstructions.
noun
- A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
- A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
verb
verb
noun
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
- A block of compressed cannabis.
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- Suffering, woe, torment.
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
verb
- To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- To search an area thoroughly.
- To run with speed; to scurry.
- To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
noun
noun
- Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- 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.
- The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- 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
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- The quantity taken in.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
verb
noun
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- The person providing such payment.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
verb
- To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- To release a person under such guarantee.
- To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
- To exit quickly.
- To confine.
noun
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
verb
verb
- To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
- To blot ink using sand.
- To cover with sand.
noun
- A beach or other expanse of sand.
- A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom)
- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- A sandpiper.
- A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
adj
English words for 'A layer of gravel, sand, or other material through which liquid is passed in order to remove impurities; also, a pond or tank containing such a layer.'
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