wavy
oscillating
move involuntarily
move reflexively
go
depart
go away
recedingly
on
potter around
outswinging
potter
repace
putter around
putter
quaveringly
dodge
receding
morrice
unstraddle
outscatter
flap
stumblingly
backward and forward
breenge
back and forth
rock
to and fro
forget
undo
unlash
divergence
back
leave
divergency
cair
progress
back off
walk turkey
reciprocative
overstep
hopscotch
fugle
forth-
excrescently
drift
reciprocatory
careen
flicker
walk
flutter
reciprocation
waver
toing and froing
tilt
unsteadily
retractively
uncertainly
shift
wave
falteringly
wobble
slope
wiggle
beetle
away
hippety-hoppety
shake
gambol
breccioid
distodorsally
sway
lateral
unbrace
undeviating
unflex
unswerving
joggle
grasshopping
jiggle
circumvention
move back and forth
intent
multitrajectory
tumble
antichemotaxis
brandish
proceed
shuffle
off the rails
about
unspin
verdurously
protractedly
retrocopulate
wavy
oscillating
outswinging
receding
back
back and forth
reciprocative
reciprocatory
breccioid
undeviating
unswerving
grasshopping
intent
multitrajectory
about
protractedly
recedingly
on
quaveringly
stumblingly
backward and forward
back and forth
to and fro
excrescently
unsteadily
retractively
uncertainly
falteringly
away
hippety-hoppety
distodorsally
verdurously
divergence
divergency
overstep
flicker
flutter
reciprocation
waver
toing and froing
wave
circumvention
antichemotaxis
move involuntarily
move reflexively
go
depart
go away
potter around
potter
repace
putter around
putter
dodge
morrice
unstraddle
outscatter
flap
breenge
rock
forget
undo
unlash
leave
cair
progress
back off
walk turkey
hopscotch
fugle
drift
careen
walk
tilt
shift
wobble
slope
wiggle
beetle
shake
gambol
sway
lateral
unbrace
unflex
joggle
jiggle
move back and forth
wave
tumble
brandish
proceed
shuffle
unspin
retrocopulate
verb
- move away from a place into another direction
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- follow a procedure or take a course
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be awarded; be allotted
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- follow a certain course
- be abolished or discarded
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- make a certain noise or sound
- perform as expected when applied
- to be spent or finished
- progress by being changed
- continue to live and avoid dying
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- be in the right place or situation
- be ranked or compare
- begin or set in motion
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- be contained in
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- blend or harmonize
- lead, extend, or afford access
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- be spent
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- stop operating or functioning
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- a usually brief attempt
- a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
adj
adv
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
noun
verb
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
verb
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
verb
- To move loosely back and forth.
- To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
- Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
noun
- A side fin of a ray.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- A hinged leaf.
- The labia, the vulva.
- A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
verb
- To move gently back and forth.
- To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- To sway one's body as a stim.
- To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- to make love to or have sex with.
- To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
- To cause to shake or sway violently.
- To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- to be cool.
noun
- An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
- Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- A mistake.
- Synonym of stone.
- The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- Distaff.
- The flax or wool on a distaff.
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- A basketball.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- An Afrikaner.
- An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- The striped bass.
- A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- The huss or rock salmon.
- A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
verb
adj
- Moving or operating backward.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
postp
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
verb
- leave behind unintentionally
- go away from a place
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- move out of or depart from
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- produce as a result or residue
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- put into the care or protection of someone
- leave or give by will after one's death
- have left or have as a remainder
- be survived by after one's death
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
noun
verb
- To expedite.
- To develop.
- To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
- To improve; to become better or more complete.
noun
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
prefix
verb
- move in an unhurried fashion
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- cause to be carried by a current
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- be subject to fluctuation
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
noun
- a force that moves something along
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
verb
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- To leave, resign.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
- To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
noun
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- A distance walked.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A trip made by walking.
- An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A person's conduct or course in life.
- An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
noun
verb
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
noun
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- The ocean.
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
verb
- To generate a wave.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
verb
- To try to move surreptitiously.
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
- To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
noun
- The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
verb
- To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
- To beat with a heavy mallet.
- To loom over; to extend or jut.
- To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
adj
noun
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
adv
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- From a place, hence.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- Without restraint.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
verb
intj
adj
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
verb
noun
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- A lateral pass.
adj
- Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
verb
- To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To smoothe and polish, e.g., gemstones or pebbles, by means of a rotating tumbler.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To drop rapidly.
noun
verb
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To take an academic degree.
- To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
adj
- Moving around; astir.
- In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
- Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.
prep
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
- In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- See about to.
- On one's person; nearby the person.
- Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
- Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
adv
- To the opposite tack: see go about.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- On all sides; around.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
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