English words for 'Opposing or countering hijacking.'
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noun
- Opposition; thwarting.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
verb
noun
- An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.
- (politics) An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
- An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
- (poker slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
- seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
verb
- To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
- (politics) To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
- seize control of
- take arbitrarily or by force
noun
- hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it
- the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
- The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
- (ornithology) Kleptoparasitism.
- The operation of an unlicensed radio or television station.
- A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
- (crime, nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
noun
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
- a direction opposite to another
- a body of people united in opposing something
- the relation between opposed entities
- a contestant that you are matched against
- the act of hostile groups opposing each other
- an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
- The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
- (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
- (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
- (logic) The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
- An opposite or contrasting position.
- (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
- (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
noun
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
- the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
- the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
- (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- group action in opposition to those in power
- a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
- any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
- (physics) Electrical resistance.
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
verb
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
adj
adv
noun
- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
verb
- act in opposition to
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- destroy property or hinder normal operations
- oppose or check by a counteraction
- (transitive) To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
- (transitive) To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.
noun
verb
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
adj
noun
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
verb
- try to prevent; show opposition to
- advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
- deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
- (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).
- (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- make chemically neutral
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- make incapable of military action
- (transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
verb
- To hinder, impede, or prevent.
- To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
- (law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
- To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
- charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office
- bring an accusation against; level a charge against
- challenge the honesty or veracity of
adj
noun
noun
- the act of obstructing
- the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction
- any structure that makes progress difficult
- something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
- getting in someone's way
- Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
- The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
- The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
- be resistant to
- contrast with equal weight or force
- set into opposition or rivalry
- be against; express opposition to
- fight against or resist strongly
- To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
- To object to.
- To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
- show a response or a reaction to something
- (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- (intransitive) To act in response.
noun
noun
- Opposition; thwarting.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
verb
noun
- An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.
- (politics) An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
- An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
- (poker slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
- seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
verb
- To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
- (politics) To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
- seize control of
- take arbitrarily or by force
noun
- hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it
- the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
- The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
- (ornithology) Kleptoparasitism.
- The operation of an unlicensed radio or television station.
- A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
- (crime, nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
noun
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
- a direction opposite to another
- a body of people united in opposing something
- the relation between opposed entities
- a contestant that you are matched against
- the act of hostile groups opposing each other
- an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
- The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
- (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
- (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
- (logic) The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
- An opposite or contrasting position.
- (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
- (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
noun
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
- the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
- the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
- (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- group action in opposition to those in power
- a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
- any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
- (physics) Electrical resistance.
- (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
- The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
- An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
noun
- the act of obstructing
- the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction
- any structure that makes progress difficult
- something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
- getting in someone's way
- Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
- The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
- The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
verb
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
adj
adv
noun
- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
verb
- act in opposition to
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- destroy property or hinder normal operations
- oppose or check by a counteraction
- (transitive) To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
- (transitive) To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.
noun
verb
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
adj
noun
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
verb
- try to prevent; show opposition to
- advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
- deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
- (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).
- (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
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- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- make chemically neutral
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- make incapable of military action
- (transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
verb
- To hinder, impede, or prevent.
- To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
- (law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
- To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
- charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office
- bring an accusation against; level a charge against
- challenge the honesty or veracity of
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
- be resistant to
- contrast with equal weight or force
- set into opposition or rivalry
- be against; express opposition to
- fight against or resist strongly
- To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
- To object to.
- To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
verb
- act against or in opposition to
- undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
- show a response or a reaction to something
- (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- (intransitive) To act in response.
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