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hydroabsorbent
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desiccate
canalise
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porphyrically
purge
gote
diafiltrate
whemmel
deconcoct
subdrain
drain
fry
swamp
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grip
vampirize
cleanse
leach
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drain basket
blot
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take up
vampire
formelt
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underdrain
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verb
- To absorb; to drain.
- To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
- to engage in sexual activity with penetration but without hip thrusting (usually said of Mormons).
- To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- To take money from.
- To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
noun
verb
- To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- To take in energy and convert it, as
- To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- To occupy or consume time.
- To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- Assimilate mentally.
- To accept or purchase in quantity.
- To defray the costs.
- in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
verb
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To pierce with saps.
noun
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- Any juice.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
verb
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- To supply with a gutter or gutters.
noun
- A drainage channel.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- A space between printed columns of text.
- An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- A low, vulgar state.
- The spaces between comic book panels.
- One who or that which guts.
adj
noun
- absorbance; absorbancy
- apprentice
- accusative case
- amphibian
- attack
- August
- author
- automobile
- application
- Amos, the book of
- adjutant
- accumulator
- acre; acres
- Angstrom
- ana; anna
- April
- anode
- answer
- artificer
- air branch
- atomic weight
- associate; association
- academy; academician
- age; aged
- airman
- assault, as on a badge
- air
- administration
- admiral
- alfa
- amateur
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- Artillery
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- address
- adult
- acid
- aircraft; airplane
- article
- Atlantic
- arctic
- army
- accommodation
- America; Americanization
- ambassador
- alto
adv
prep
verb
adj
verb
- To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- To consume alcoholic beverages.
- To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
noun
verb
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
noun
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
adj
verb
- To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
- To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put a new sole or heel on.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
- To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To furnish with taps.
- To exploit.
- To cadge, borrow or beg.
- To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
- To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
- To strike lightly.
- To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
- To cut an internal screw thread.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- To force (an opponent) to submit.
noun
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- An interception of communication by authority.
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
- An Indian malarial fever.
- The act of touching a touch screen.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
verb
verb
- To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
- To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- To forcibly remove people from.
- To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- To trim, dress, or prune.
- To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
- To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
- To become pure, as by clarification.
- To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
- Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
noun
adj
- Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
verb
- To trench; to drain.
- Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
- To firmly hold the attention of.
- To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
noun
- A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- A lot of something.
- A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
- Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A long time.
- As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
- Assistance; help or encouragement.
- A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
verb
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely (:liquid)
- To empty by drawing or letting out the contents
- To bring out or develop completely
- To discuss thoroughly or completely
- To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives
- to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy
- To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end
noun
- An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
- A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
- The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
- The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
- exhaust gas.
verb
- to soak up or absorb liquid.
- to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
- To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
noun
verb
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- To retract; to recant.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
noun
- Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
verb
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- pursue or resume
- adopt
- turn one's interest to
- take up time or space
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- take up and practice as one's own
- occupy or take on
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
- return to a previous location or condition
verb
noun
- A medical technician who works with patients' blood.
- A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
- A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
- Synonym of anti-ship missile (ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
- A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
- A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.
noun
verb
- To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- To make a firm decision to do something.
- To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- To find a solution to (a problem).
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
- To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
- To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
- To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
- To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
- To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
noun
noun
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- Descending motion; descent.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A sinkhole.
- An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A heat sink.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- The motion of a sinker pitch.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
verb
- To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- To push (something) into something.
- To make by digging or delving.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
verb
- To absorb or deaden the impact of.
- To furnish with cushions.
- To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
- To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
noun
- a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- An engraver's pad.
- Money kept in reserve.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- The rubber of an electrical machine.
- The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
verb
verb
- To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
- To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
- To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
- To use a funnel.
noun
- A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
- A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
noun
verb
noun
- The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
verb
noun
noun
- The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
- The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
- The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
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