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Via Crucis
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head and shoulders
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vi et armis
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convulse
muscle spasm
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plyometrics
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myokinesis
tough
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shunt
strong-handed
pitty-patty
pitter-patter
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rough-and-tumble
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sweight
reach
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psychogenic pain
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thewy
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power
toughie
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use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
noun
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
verb
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
noun
- The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
- Weight.
- Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness.
- A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
- Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
- Influence; importance.
- A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
- An animal that has become hefted thus.
- A part of a serial publication.
verb
adj
- Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive.
- Sexual, carnal.
- Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily.
- Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political).
- In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics.
- Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; having to do with the material world.
noun
adj
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
- (color) bold and intense
- sexually excited or exciting
- recently stolen or smuggled
- very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
- wanted by the police
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
- performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
- very popular or successful
- very unpleasant or even dangerous
- newest or most recent
- having or bringing unusually good luck
- very good; often used in the negative
- made recently
- having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
- of a seeker; very near to the object sought
- having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
- charged or energized with electricity
- marked by excited activity
adj
noun
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
- An inclination or talent.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
adj
verb
- To apply violent force to someone or something.
- To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
noun
- Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- The beginning of active operations on anything.
- The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
adj
- Tough and muscular.
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- Containing alcohol.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- Strong.
- Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Unquestionable, unequivocal.
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- Far, extreme.
- Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- Resistant to pressure.
- hardcore
- Plosive.
- Unvoiced.
noun
- Crack cocaine.
- A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
- Hard labor.
- A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
adv
noun
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
verb
adj
adj
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- substantially made or constructed
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
noun
noun
- An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
- A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
- An abnormal passage between body channels.
- The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
- A minor collision between vehicles.
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
verb
- To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
- To move data in memory to a physical disk.
- To divert the flow of a body fluid.
- To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
- To provide with a shunt.
- To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
- To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
noun
- Physical strength or force.
- The ability to do something.
- Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
verb
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate permission in past tense.
- Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
- Even though.
- Used in polite requests for permission
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
- simple past tense of may Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
- Used to express certainty.
verb
- To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To hasten, urge onward.
- To lay stress upon.
- To throng, crowd.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- To urge, beseech, entreat.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- To compress, squeeze.
- To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
noun
- A printing machine.
- Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A publisher.
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- A device used to apply pressure to an item.
verb
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
adj
noun
noun
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
adj
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
noun
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- the limits within which something can be effective
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- the limit of capability
verb
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
- be in or establish communication with
- to gain with effort
- to extend as far as
- reach a goal
- place into the hands or custody of
- to exert much effort or energy
noun
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
verb
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
noun
- Physical force or strength.
- Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
- The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- An influential nation, company, or other such body.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- The ability to affect or influence.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- Cardinality.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- Electricity or a supply of electricity.
verb
- To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
- To hit or kick something forcefully.
- To enable or provide the impetus for.
adj
noun
- The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
- Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
- A riding or journey on horseback.
- A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
- A kick in the shins.
- Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
adj
adj
- Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
- Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
- In a state of continuous unremitting action.
- Restorative, curative or invigorating.
- Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
- Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
noun
- A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
- Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
- The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
- The triad built on the tonic note.
- Tonic water.
- Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
- A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
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