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bite
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pressure
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bastard
achingly
distress signal
harshly
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dogsick
breakbone
gravely
killer
sick as a dog
seriously
sick as a cat
dog rough
sick as a horse
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adj
- Severe; very bad or intense.
- Highly stimulating to the senses.
- Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
- Having a specified number of people or units.
- Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
- Capable of producing great physical force.
- Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
- Determined; unyielding.
- Having a high alcoholic content.
- Not easily subdued or taken.
- Having wealth or resources.
- Impressive, good.
- That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
- Convincing.
- Having a lot of power.
- Capable of withstanding great physical force.
adv
adj
- Severe, urgent.
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Bold and daring.
- Malodorous; foul.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Evil; wicked.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
noun
- Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
- Error; mistake.
- An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
intj
adv
verb
adj
adj
- Harsh, severe.
- Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- Dead, deceased.
- Erect.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
verb
- To tip ungenerously.
- To kill.
- To cheat someone
- To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
noun
- Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- A customer who does not leave a tip.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- A cadaver; a dead person.
- Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- A flop; a commercial failure.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
adv
adj
- serious or severe
- significant
- loud and firm
- conspicuous in position or importance
- prodigious
- exhibiting self-importance
- feeling self-importance
- (of animals) fully developed
- marked by intense physical force
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- given or giving freely
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
adj
adv
adj
- Sickly, unwell.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- Inexperienced.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Having a sexual connotation.
- Overcome with envy.
- Having green as its color.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- Having a color charge of green.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- High or too high in acidity.
- Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
verb
- To become or grow green in colour.
- To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- To make (something) environmentally friendly.
- To become environmentally aware.
noun
- Money.
- Islamist.
- A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- Marijuana.
- A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A green light used as a signal.
- The surface upon which bowls is played.
- Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
adv
adj
adj
- Severe, or severely affected; sore.
- A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.
- Loving, affectionate, heartfelt
- Loved; lovable.
- Precious to or greatly valued by someone.
- An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.
- Lovely; kind.
- A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.
- High in price; expensive.
adv
noun
verb
adv
verb
verb
- treat badly
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- measure (distances) by pacing
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
noun
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- a short distance
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
verb
verb
adj
- Sick; unwell.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- Strange, weird, odd.
noun
- Synonym of methamphetamine.
- A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
- The penis.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a fit of temper or passion.
verb
noun
- the most severe part
- the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- a very remote part.
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- the total palette of available colors
- a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- lowness
- the property of appearing three-dimensional
- the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
noun
- Something unpleasant.
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
adj
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
verb
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- move deeply
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- form metals with a swage
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
noun
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- the act of upsetting something
- an improbable and unexpected victory
noun
adj
- Very unpleasant.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
intj
noun
- A person deserving of pity.
- A sweet wine.
- A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A bastard file.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- A child who does not know their father.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
adj
noun
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
adj
- Distressing, uncomfortable.
- Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
- Excellent, very good, cool.
noun
- A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”)
- One who or that which kills.
- A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- A club used for killing fish.
adj
adj
adj
adv
- to a severe or serious degree
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- evilly or wickedly
- in a disobedient or naughty way
- with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
- very much; strongly
- without skill or in a displeasing manner
- in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display
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