atrophy
wasting
corrupt
putrefiable
putrescible
decayable
spoilable
degradate
wasten
tabescent
deperish
down the toilet
dilapidate
rust
trifle
decay
fritter away
break
go bad
passible
waste away
spoil
quail
bloat
wither away
devitalize
beat one's meat
sweal
depurinate
demetallate
nether
consumptive
drain
go to seed
consumption
decatenate
abortiveness
deteriorate
slump
emunctory
wasteful
fossilize
overpet
stale
in the stars
stave
fritz
antiquate
swamp
suck the air out of
spaff
dephytylate
retund
disanimate
stultify
vitiate
wreck
desolate
put a crimp in
take up the slack
throw away
spend
dystrophy
perishability
muddle
go downhill
profligacy
cost
debilitative
tip
emaciate
cruel
perishableness
sursumduct
gangrenize
dissipate
pick up the slack
go by the wayside
blow away
deSUMOylate
ruin
distort
wastry
depotentiate
desolation
misdevelop
go off the boil
colliquation
burn
profligate
surfeit
moulder
coactivate
wasting
putrefiable
putrescible
decayable
spoilable
tabescent
passible
consumptive
emunctory
wasteful
debilitative
profligate
wasting
consumption
abortiveness
fritz
dystrophy
perishability
profligacy
perishableness
wastry
desolation
colliquation
atrophy
corrupt
degradate
wasten
deperish
dilapidate
rust
trifle
decay
fritter away
break
go bad
waste away
spoil
quail
bloat
wither away
devitalize
beat one's meat
sweal
depurinate
demetallate
nether
drain
go to seed
decatenate
deteriorate
slump
fossilize
overpet
stale
stave
antiquate
swamp
suck the air out of
spaff
dephytylate
retund
disanimate
stultify
vitiate
wreck
desolate
put a crimp in
fritz
take up the slack
throw away
spend
muddle
go downhill
cost
tip
emaciate
cruel
sursumduct
gangrenize
dissipate
pick up the slack
go by the wayside
blow away
deSUMOylate
ruin
distort
depotentiate
misdevelop
go off the boil
burn
surfeit
moulder
coactivate
verb
- To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- To cause to oxidize.
- To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
noun
- A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust").
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.
- Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.
- A reddish-brown color.
verb
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- To rot, to go bad.
- To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
noun
verb
- cause the failure or ruin of
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
- Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
- To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
- To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
- To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
- To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
noun
verb
- To cause to become distended.
- To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
- To become distended; to swell up.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
noun
verb
- To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adv
adj
noun
verb
- To deplete of energy or resources.
- To flow gradually.
- To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- To cause liquid to flow out of.
- To lose liquid.
noun
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- An outhole.
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An act of urination.
verb
- To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- To lump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- To slouch or droop.
noun
- A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A boggy place.
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
verb
- To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- To stalemate.
- To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
noun
- A stalemate; a stalemated game.
- One of the rungs on a ladder.
- The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
- Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
- A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
- One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.
adj
- Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
prep_phrase
verb
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
noun
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
verb
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
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
- To ruin or dilapidate.
- To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
noun
- A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
- Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
verb
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To dabble in mud.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To make turbid or muddy.
noun
verb
- (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To dump (refuse).
- To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
- To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- To give, pass.
noun
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- A small piece of meat.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A recycling centre.
- A piece of advice.
- Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- A very untidy place.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
verb
- To cause to go away, to get rid of
- To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- To overwhelm.
- To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
- To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- To delete (data, files, etc.).
- To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
verb
- To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
noun
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- The act of ruining something.
- Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
verb
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To insult or defeat.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- To blackmail.
- To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- To discard.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To betray.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To cauterize.
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
noun
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- Tobacco.
- The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A stream.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
- To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
- To fill (something) to excess.
- To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- To indulge (in something) to excess.
- To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
noun
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