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verb
- To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- To deflect (radiation or particles).
- To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- To be dispersed upon.
noun
verb
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To stun or amaze.
- To make something worse.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- To perplex or puzzle.
noun
verb
- To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To become separated into small portions.
- To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
- To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
adj
noun
- A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
verb
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
noun
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
intj
verb
- To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- To confess.
- To take responsibility for.
- To be very good.
- To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
- To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
- To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- To claim as one's own.
- To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- To recognise; acknowledge.
adj
verb
adj
- Complete, total, downright.
- Lazy, sleeping.
- Very busy.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out.
adv
noun
- A uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
verb
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- 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 cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- 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 contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
noun
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
prep
verb
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- 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.
adv
- In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously
- With a dark appearance
- In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously
- In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely
- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension
- In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly
- In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly
- In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly
adj
verb
- To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- To try not to do something or to have something happen
- to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
- To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
- To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
noun
- Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
- The death of a person or animal.
- Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- The sum an entity loses on balance.
- The destruction or ruin of an object.
- Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
verb
noun
- A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
- Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
- A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
- An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
- Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
- A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
- A chimney cowl.
- Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
verb
- To beat; to scourge.
- To shoot a marble.
- To push; to tug; to tow.
- To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
- To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
noun
verb
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To damage or treat with smoke.
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
adj
noun
- A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- A child or young person.
- A torpedo.
- A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- A fool.
- A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
verb
- To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
- To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
- To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
- To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
- To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
- To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
noun
verb
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
verb
- To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
adj
noun
- The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- A situation.
verb
verb
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- To neglect.
- To be unsuccessful.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
noun
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
- Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- A failure (something incapable of success).
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
adj
verb
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
noun
- A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
- A hot spell.
- The output of a heating system.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- A fastball.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- One or more firearms.
- Thermal energy.
- The police.
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
- Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
verb
- To reject some act in a spiteful manner.
- To repay an act of kindness with disappointment or betrayal.
- To lord over someone by exerting dominance, following a successful confrontation; sometimes in a subtle or snide manner.
- To raise a past transgression in order to admonish someone.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, something, in, someone, face.
verb
noun
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