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like one's life depended on it
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adv
prep_phrase
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- A point of desperation.
- A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
- A spring of water.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- A barrier to vision.
- A barrier.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
verb
noun
- A difficult situation; peril.
- A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- A mildly mischievous loved one.
- A penis.
- A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- A rundown.
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
verb
- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- To eat sparingly.
- To pilfer.
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- To serialize.
adv
adv
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A jumble of felled timber.
- A large cash prize or money.
- A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
verb
noun
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- Indispensable requirements (of life).
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
noun
- A difficult circumstance or problem.
- A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
- A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A forceful dunk.
- balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
- A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- A song; a track.
- The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- A play during which points can be scored.
- Luck.
- A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
verb
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- To attempt to score points.
- To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- To dunk.
- To render something unable to move.
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- A tangled clump.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.)
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- The bulbus glandis.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A node.
- A group of people or things.
- A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
- A nautical mile.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
verb
noun
- A difficult situation.
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- An official determination of placement.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Penalty spot.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- An autosoliton.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A parking space.
- One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A decimal point; point.
- A location or area.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
adj
verb
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
adj
- full of hardship or trials
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
- not quite exact or correct
- violently agitated and turbulent
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- ready and able to resort to force or violence
- not carefully or expertly made
- not perfected
- unpleasantly stern
- unkind or cruel or uncivil
adj
- having or caused by an irregular surface
- of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
adv
- with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
- with rough motion as over a rough surface
verb
noun
noun
- A desperate or urgent request.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- A shout or scream.
- A group of hounds.
- A clamour or outcry.
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
- A typical sound made by the species in question.
verb
- To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- To shed tears; to weep.
- To shout, scream, yell.
- To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
noun
prep_phrase
noun
adj
- In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
- Intense; extremely intense.
- Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
- Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
- Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
noun
prep_phrase
adv
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.
adj
- 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.
- Tough and muscular.
- 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
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- A malfunction.
- A violent occurrence or event.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
verb
adj
- In difficulty, especially financially.
- Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
- Beneath the water line of a vessel.
noun
- A type of lure which lies beneath the water surface.
- Underlying water or body of water, for example in an aquifer or the deep ocean.
adv
verb
adj
adj
noun
- A leather apron for a gig, etc.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- A louse.
- Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
- A haddock.
- A small bird; a dicky-bird.
- An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
- A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
- A pilot.
- A hedge sparrow.
- A donkey.
noun
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
prep
verb
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
noun
verb
- To take part in a wrestling match with someone
- To move or lift something with difficulty
- To struggle or strive
- To fight.
- To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
- To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
verb
- To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
- To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
- Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- To be very good, to rule, go hard.
- Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To break, to destroy.
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
- To scold.
noun
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- A highly contemptible person.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
adv
intj
- Expressing surprise.
- Expressing dismay or discontent.
- A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
particle
noun
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A cornerback.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- A corner kick.
- First base or third base.
- Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
verb
- To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- To supply with corners.
- To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
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