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verb
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To produce intense pain.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To use up or to waste.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
verb
- To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
- To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
- To bend or strain out of its position.
- To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
- To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
- To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
- To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
- To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
noun
adj
noun
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
- Suffering, torment.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
verb
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To attack with the teeth.
- 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 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.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- 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 cause harm or pain to.
- To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
- To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
- To puncture with the stinger.
noun
- A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
- A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
- A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
- The harmful or painful part of something.
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- A goad; incitement.
- A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
- The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
verb
- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- To feel pain; to hurt.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
noun
- An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- An annoying person or thing.
- Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
noun
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
intj
verb
verb
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
noun
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
adj
verb
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
noun
adj
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Sudden and intense.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
verb
noun
- A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- A stand; a stop.
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- Astonishment; amazement.
verb
suffix
verb
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To shoot without killing.
- To make acidic or pungent.
- To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- To pierce or puncture slightly.
- To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To form by piercing or puncturing.
- To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
noun
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- The footprint of a hare.
- The penis.
- Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A feeling of remorse.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
verb
- To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- To pull or twist violently.
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
noun
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
adj
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner deserving contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.
adv
- with pain or distress or bitterness
- with effort or force or vigor
- with firmness
- earnestly or intently
- causing great damage or hardship
- slowly and with difficulty
- indulging excessively
- into a solid condition
- very near or close in space or time
- to the full extent possible; all the way
adj
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- dispassionate
- resisting weight or pressure
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
adj
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