morass
barrier
roadblock
hardpressed
pull off
swamp
rough sledding
come at
hard time
get blood out of a stone
make hard work of
subservience
up the ante
Holy Grail
pull teeth
make a play
advance
Matterhorn
high-hanging fruit
bring off
nonaccomplishment
inroad
nonachievement
gather strength
conquest
obstacle
catalyst
stride
move forward
gotcha
eke out
give someone a hard time
breakthrough
queer someone's pitch
make heavy weather
dare
big deal
daring
hard yards
embuggerance
hard-set
sharp end
challengingly
challenge
knockback
pain point
navigate
cope
contend
grapple
mountain
let
make out
objective
boil the ocean
hack away
manage
bar
make do
get by
deal
good
boost
goof up
fish in troubled waters
tough nut to crack
three-pipe problem
bid
hard nut to crack
stepper
thorniness
enmesh
hinder
look for trouble
standstill
multichallenge
reach
dead end
bog
stalemate
impasse
deadlock
hit
go places
lay to
obstructor
impediment
winning
obstruction
questionable
dig a hole for oneself
at a pinch
impedimenta
tailor
in a pinch
obstructer
prise
Rube Goldberg machine
hardpressed
breakthrough
hard-set
multichallenge
questionable
challengingly
morass
barrier
roadblock
swamp
rough sledding
hard time
subservience
Holy Grail
high-hanging fruit
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inroad
nonachievement
conquest
obstacle
catalyst
stride
gotcha
breakthrough
dare
big deal
daring
hard yards
embuggerance
sharp end
challenge
knockback
pain point
mountain
let
objective
bar
tough nut to crack
three-pipe problem
hard nut to crack
stepper
thorniness
standstill
dead end
bog
stalemate
impasse
deadlock
obstructor
impediment
winning
obstruction
impedimenta
obstructer
Rube Goldberg machine
pull off
come at
get blood out of a stone
make hard work of
up the ante
pull teeth
make a play
advance
bring off
gather strength
move forward
eke out
give someone a hard time
queer someone's pitch
make heavy weather
navigate
cope
contend
grapple
make out
boil the ocean
hack away
manage
make do
get by
deal
good
boost
goof up
fish in troubled waters
bid
enmesh
hinder
look for trouble
reach
hit
go places
lay to
dig a hole for oneself
tailor
prise
noun
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
noun
name
verb
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- To move forwards; to approach.
- To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise or increase (a price, rate).
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To increase (a number or amount).
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
adj
noun
noun
- Something that encourages progress or change.
- A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
- A catalytic converter.
- An object that facilitates the casting of a spell (such as a magic wand).
- An inciting incident that sets the successive conflict into motion.
noun
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
- A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.
- An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
- An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
abbrev
- Understand you; comprehend you.
- Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- Got you by surprise; exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
noun
- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
- The penetration of the opposition's defence.
- An advance through and past enemy lines.
- The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
adj
- Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
- Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
- The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
noun
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
verb
- To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
- To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
- To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
- To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
- To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
verb
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- maintain or assert
- have an argument about something
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
- compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
noun
- A difficult task or challenge.
- An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
- Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
- Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
- A woman's large breast.
- The twenty-first Lenormand card.
noun
- An obstacle or hindrance.
- The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
- The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
verb
- To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
- To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- To allow the release of (a fluid).
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
- To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
verb
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- detect with the senses
- make out and issue
- distinguish by sight or hearing
- proceed or get along
- have sexual intercourse with
- kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
- write all the required information onto a form
- imply or suggest
- try to establish
noun
- A goal that is striven for.
- a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
- A material object that physically exists.
- The objective case.
adj
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
- Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
noun
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
prep
- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
verb
verb
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- behave in a certain way towards others
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- direct the course of; manage or control
- give out as one's portion or share
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
noun
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
verb
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
adv
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
intj
verb
- To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles.
- To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
- To steal.
- To give a booster shot to.
- To amplify; to signal boost.
- To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle to the battery in a vehicle that won't start.
noun
noun
- Anything that moves or advances in steps.
- A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
- A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
- A dancer.
- A type of exercise machine.
- A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
- A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
- A dancer in a step show.
verb
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To strike or touch.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
noun
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
verb
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
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