fret
slite
brit
loosen
piffle
gully
eat away
relax
deperish
retrogress
go out
disbranch
evade
doff
disappear
ravel
spring
fall away
do one
wash out
put to bed
outweary
step aside
unloose
have seen better days
exit
depauperate
corrade
get out
overstrew
rub off
corrode
throw out
peel
rub down
peg it
recede
abrade
abrase
overfall
go fly a kite
rag
frig off
unrobe
queal
mog
retire
disarray
push off
unbrace
subduce
excursive
eat away at
take water
blench
start
pervert
abrogate
smartle
bate
slaister
atgo
blow over
fall off
overbrow
tabefy
rescind
outwear
draw away
surmount
overdrop
roll back
avalanche
pull back
turn one's back
fall back
single
skim
wipe out
forwander
shemozzle
spend
uncouple
rack off
deplumate
beat it
deaden
hop it
scattery
dry up and blow away
go bye-bye
splosh
distort
go south
sublate
diverge
excursive
scattery
fret
slite
brit
loosen
piffle
gully
eat away
relax
deperish
retrogress
go out
disbranch
evade
doff
disappear
ravel
spring
fall away
do one
wash out
put to bed
outweary
step aside
unloose
have seen better days
exit
depauperate
corrade
get out
overstrew
rub off
corrode
throw out
peel
rub down
peg it
recede
abrade
abrase
overfall
rag
frig off
unrobe
queal
mog
retire
disarray
push off
unbrace
subduce
eat away at
take water
blench
start
pervert
abrogate
smartle
bate
slaister
atgo
blow over
fall off
overbrow
tabefy
rescind
outwear
draw away
surmount
overdrop
roll back
avalanche
pull back
turn one's back
fall back
single
skim
wipe out
forwander
shemozzle
spend
uncouple
rack off
deplumate
beat it
deaden
hop it
dry up and blow away
go bye-bye
splosh
distort
go south
sublate
diverge
verb
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
verb
noun
- A road drain.
- A small valley.
- A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
- A large knife.
- A drop kerb.
- an alleyway or side street.
verb
- To pass out of fashion.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To fail.
- To recede; to ebb.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- To be turned off or extinguished.
verb
- Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- To become entangled or snarled.
- Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
noun
verb
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
verb
verb
- To become loose or come off.
- To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks).
- To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things).
- To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands).
- To free from a constraint.
verb
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To give up the lead.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
noun
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
verb
verb
- To leave or escape.
- To become known.
- To leave a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.)
- To help (someone) leave.
- To spend free time out of the house.
- To say with difficulty.
- To remove or eliminate (dirt or stains).
- To come out of a situation; to escape a fate.
- To publish or make available; to disseminate.
- To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
- To be released, especially from hospital or prison.
- To remove one's money from an investment; to end an investment.
intj
verb
verb
- To outdistance; to leave behind.
- To offer an idea for consideration.
- To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
- To produce in a haphazard fashion.
- To emit.
- To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
- To put into a state of confusion.
- To cause to project.
- To utter carelessly.
- To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
verb
- To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
- To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- To remove one's clothing.
- To move, separate (off or away).
- To play a peel shot.
- To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- To remove the skin or outer covering of.
noun
- A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- The action of peeling away from a formation.
- A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- An equal or match; a draw.
- The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
verb
phrase
verb
- To become tattered.
- To dance to ragtime music.
- To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
noun
- A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- A curtain of various kinds.
- A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- Tattered clothes.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
verb
verb
- To withdraw; to take away.
- To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- To cease use or production of something.
- To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- To recede; to fall or bend back.
- To go to bed.
- To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout.
noun
verb
- To break away, to come loose.
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
verb
- To waste away.
- To deprive of.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- To masturbate.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To cut off, remove, take away.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
noun
verb
- To come down upon; to overwhelm.
- The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
- To descend like an avalanche.
- To propel downward like an avalanche.
noun
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
verb
- To thin out.
- To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- To reduce (a railway) to single track.
- To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
- To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
noun
- A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
- A bill valued at $1.
- A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- A single cigarette.
- A one-way ticket.
- A handful of gleaned grain.
- A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- A shot of only one character.
- A score of one run.
- A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
adj
verb
- To become coated over.
- To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To read quickly, skipping some detail.
- To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- To ricochet.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
noun
- Skim milk.
- That which is skimmed off.
- The act of skimming.
- A cursory reading, skipping the details.
- Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
adj
verb
- To do away with; to cause to disappear.
- To crash; to fall over (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
- To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
- To destroy (especially, a large number of people or things); to obliterate.
- To knock (a surfer) off their board.
- To fall off one's surfboard.
- To exhaust; to tire out.
verb
- To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
- To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
- Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
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