English words for 'Excessive thriftiness.'
Closest matches for "Excessive thriftiness." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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adj
- characterized by thriftiness
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
noun
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
prep
verb
adj
adv
noun
- the trait of spending extravagantly
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- the activity of excessive spending
- the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
adj
- embarrassingly stingy
- relatively low in price or charging low prices
- tastelessly showy
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Low or reduced in price.
- Of poor quality.
verb
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
adj
intj
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
verb
noun
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
adj
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To grow; to advance.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
noun
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
intj
verb
- spend wastefully
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- Frugal use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
adj
adv
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
verb
- To overstock; to save more than is needed.
- To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
- To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
- To open more stores than the retail market needs.
- (computing) To overwrite memory or storage.
adj
noun
verb
- spend extravagantly
- destroy completely by means of consumption
- use up (resources or materials)
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- engage fully
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
verb
noun
- items for sale to the individual consumer
- articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: ‘silverware’, ‘software’
- (in the plural) See wares.
- (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
- (Northern England, Scotland) Spring, springtime.
- (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
- (Ireland) Crockery.
- (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
adj
verb
- spend extravagantly
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
noun
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) 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.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
noun
- (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
- (law) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
- (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.
- A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
- (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
- the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
adj
verb
noun
noun
- the trait of spending extravagantly
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- the activity of excessive spending
- the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
noun
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- Frugal use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
adj
adv
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
- (law) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined
- (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.
- A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
- (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
- the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
adj
verb
noun
verb
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
adj
intj
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
verb
noun
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
adj
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To grow; to advance.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
noun
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
intj
verb
- spend wastefully
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
adj
noun
verb
verb
- To overstock; to save more than is needed.
- To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
- To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
- To open more stores than the retail market needs.
- (computing) To overwrite memory or storage.
adj
noun
verb
- spend extravagantly
- destroy completely by means of consumption
- use up (resources or materials)
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- engage fully
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
verb
noun
- items for sale to the individual consumer
- articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: ‘silverware’, ‘software’
- (in the plural) See wares.
- (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
- (Northern England, Scotland) Spring, springtime.
- (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
- (Ireland) Crockery.
- (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
adj
verb
- spend extravagantly
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
noun
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) 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.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
adj
- characterized by thriftiness
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
noun
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
prep
verb
adj
adv
adj
- embarrassingly stingy
- relatively low in price or charging low prices
- tastelessly showy
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Low or reduced in price.
- Of poor quality.