deflect
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antipolitics
duck
elude
hedge
circumvent
skirt
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keep one's head below the parapet
fudge
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skate over
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neutral
don't get someone started
controvertible
chip in
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sealion
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antirhetorical
squirm
antiverbal
draw
end run
heckle
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plead the Fifth
mince words
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befog
civilogue
noli me tangere
let go
dirty word
chit-chat
cross-question
dumb down
and don't play one on TV
JAQ off
bite one's lip
threadjack
bar off
bite one's tongue
libel chill
pass
quibble
drop the topic
counterdiscourse
draw a veil over
defensiveness
not have a leg to stand on
ostracize
afield
cut someone cold
overfocus
get off someone's case
hold one's fire
rathole
ostracise
hold one's tongue
contest
withdraw
umlessness
unarticulate
inarticulate
punt
beat around the bush
so what
make noises
sloganeer
guard one's tongue
anticriticism
well
armchair quarterback
unmentionable
beg the question
lawyer
toe-dance
who cares
raise
full stop
interpose
pair
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
epiplexis
gaffle
talk at
keep one's head down
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defensiveness
umlessness
anticriticism
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epiplexis
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elude
hedge
circumvent
skirt
put off
keep one's head below the parapet
fudge
parry
dodge
sidestep
evade
go there
skate over
bat away
chip in
stick to one's text
sealion
squirm
draw
heckle
silence
plead the Fifth
mince words
air out
bepommel
befog
let go
chit-chat
cross-question
dumb down
JAQ off
bite one's lip
threadjack
bar off
bite one's tongue
pass
quibble
drop the topic
draw a veil over
not have a leg to stand on
ostracize
cut someone cold
overfocus
get off someone's case
hold one's fire
rathole
ostracise
hold one's tongue
contest
withdraw
punt
beat around the bush
make noises
sloganeer
guard one's tongue
beg the question
lawyer
toe-dance
raise
interpose
pair
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
gaffle
talk at
keep one's head down
adj
- Favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
- Having no sex; neuter.
- Having no obvious colour; gray
- Neither positive nor negative.
- Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
- Neither beneficial nor harmful.
- Having a pH of or near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
- Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.
noun
- A neutral hue.
- The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
- An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator.
- A person who takes no side in a dispute.
- An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.
- A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
noun
verb
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- Someone (such as a disagreeable person) or something (such as a painful experience or taboo topic) to be avoided or not interfered with.
- Some plants of the genus Impatiens; specifically, the touch-me-not balsam or yellow balsam (Impatiens noli-tangere).
- The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
- Any of various plants with fruits or seed capsules that, when ripe, burst open and discharge their seeds when touched, or with leaves that fold and droop when touched.
- A warning to avoid or not to interfere.
- A picture depicting Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene shortly after his resurrection from the dead (see the etymology).
verb
- To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- To dismiss from employment.
- To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.
- To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To gain weight
verb
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- to take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
- (of material) to empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.
- to hoard.
- to surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
noun
- A pigeonhole.
- An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
- A particularly squalid human residence.
- A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals.
- An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
verb
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
verb
- To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To eject; to kick out of a place.
noun
- A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
- A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- A wild guess.
- A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- A bet or wager.
- The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A point in the game of faro.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
intj
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
adj
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
verb
verb
- To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
- To practice law.
- To make legalistic arguments.
- To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
noun
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
- The burbot.
- A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
- A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
- A legal layman who argues points of law.
- The stem of a bramble.
- Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
- A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
- A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation
verb
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
verb
- To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- To group into one or more sets of two.
- To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- To come together for mating.
- to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth
noun
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- A boat for two sweep rowers.
- A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
- A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- A pair of breasts
- A pair of testicles
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
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