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noun
- the action of attacking an enemy
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
noun
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
adj
- Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
- Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.
verb
- To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
- To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- To make a feint or mock attack.
noun
noun
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- intense adverse criticism
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of attacking
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- strong criticism
verb
noun
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.
- Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
- An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
- A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
- A cinema.
- Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
- A lecture theatre.
noun
- The principle that a state in immediate peril to its existence, from a situation not of its own doing, may in extremis be justified in violating a right of another state.
- The principle that, in a situation of emergency or exigent circumstance, a state may legitimately act in ways that would normally be illegal.
- A principle whereby a normally criminal act is justified by the necessity of preserving something of greater utilitarian value than that lost or sacrificed; not to be confused with self-defence.
- Necessarianism, especially as espoused by Joseph Priestley.
- The principle that the laws, of governance in action, should be deemed valid insofar as they do not contradict the constitution. Validated on the basis that maintenance of government is of greater utilitarian value than maintenance of the law.
verb
noun
- climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
noun
- Action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
- The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
- The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
- The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
- nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
noun
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a gentle blow
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a conspicuous success
verb
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- hook by a pull on the line
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
noun
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- the justification for some act or belief
- a structure used to defend against attack
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
- protection from harm
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
verb
- To attack physically.
- To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- To fix, as a problem.
- To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- To arrange.
- To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
verb
- To attack physically.
- To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- To geld.
- To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
noun
- An act of sorting.
- A type.
- An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- Manner; form of being or acting.
- A general type.
- A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
- A good-looking woman.
verb
- To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
- To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
- To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
- To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
- To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
adj
noun
noun
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- protection from harm
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- the justification for some act or belief
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- a structure used to defend against attack
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
noun
- A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
- Something harmful or threatening to another
- Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
- Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
- A non-player character that tries to harm the player.
verb
noun
- That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
- A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.
- The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
- An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.
noun
- In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
- The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
- Connection or attachment.
- The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
- An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
- The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
verb
- To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
- To continuously send or direct (at someone)
noun
adj
- Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack.
- Intended for defence; protective.
- In a state or posture of defense.
- Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- Performed so as to minimise risk.
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- Intended to deter attack.
noun
verb
- Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
- To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
- To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- To wear.
- To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
- To have or display (a mark or other feature).
- To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
- To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
- To have (a name, title, or designation).
- To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
- To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
- To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
- To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
- To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
- To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
- To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
- To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
- To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
- To behave or conduct (oneself).
- To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
- To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
- To support or sustain; to hold up.
- To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
- To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- To push, thrust, press.
- To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
- To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
- To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- To warrant, justify the need for.
- To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
- To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
adj
noun
- The meat of this animal.
- A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
- A portable punching machine.
- An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
verb
- To attack.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
verb
- To attack.
- To serve.
- To perform maintenance.
- To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- To perform a sexual act upon.
noun
- The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- The military.
- A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
- The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
- Service tree.
verb
noun
noun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- the event of something burning (often destructive)
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
- a severe trial
- intense adverse criticism
verb
- start firing a weapon
- cause to go off
- bake in a kiln so as to harden
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- go off or discharge
- drive out or away by or as if by fire
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- destroy by fire
- provide with fuel
- generate an electrical impulse
- become ignited
- start or maintain a fire in
verb
- To attack.
- To try for, to attempt to reach.
- To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
- To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
- To apply equally to.
- To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
- To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
verb
- To attack.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
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