overwrite
scag
erase
destroy
erasure
hard deletion
kill off
unrecord
devour
eraser
corruption
mung
eat
nix
mutilate
explode
normalize
blow away
extinguish
shoah
break
delete
garbage collect
level
shredder
razure
append
destruct
wipeout
Gutmann method
dissolve
erasement
deduplication
unwork
canary
finish
unframe
ruin
hack off
muggle
deserializer
blank out
disennoble
bedash
wipe out
raze
unapply
quelch
expunging
reformat
unsave
unfilter
expunction
brain
spoil
corrosive
spoliation
deperish
rip up
unseat
annihilate
eradicative
CDC
rolling backup
expunct
whiteout
replace
rape
suicide
reshard
erode
file shredder
go
withering
sniff
unwipe
self-delete
devalue
deduplicate
clear away
permafuck
uproot
tombstone
destroyability
uncastrate
obliteration
annihilation
forage
uninstantiate
uncache
make away with
corrosive
withering
overwrite
erase
erasure
hard deletion
eraser
corruption
shredder
razure
append
wipeout
erasement
deduplication
canary
deserializer
expunging
expunction
spoliation
eradicative
CDC
rolling backup
whiteout
file shredder
tombstone
destroyability
obliteration
annihilation
overwrite
scag
destroy
erase
kill off
unrecord
devour
mung
eat
nix
mutilate
explode
normalize
blow away
extinguish
shoah
break
delete
garbage collect
level
destruct
dissolve
unwork
finish
unframe
ruin
hack off
muggle
blank out
disennoble
bedash
wipe out
raze
unapply
quelch
reformat
unsave
unfilter
brain
spoil
deperish
rip up
unseat
annihilate
expunct
replace
rape
suicide
reshard
erode
go
sniff
unwipe
self-delete
devalue
deduplicate
clear away
permafuck
uproot
uncastrate
forage
uninstantiate
uncache
make away with
noun
verb
- To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
- To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
- To kill; assassinate.
- To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
- To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
- to remove markings or information
- To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
verb
- To remove data.
- To sing a song poorly.
- To put down or euthanize.
- To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
- To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- To damage beyond use or repair.
- To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- To defeat soundly.
- To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
noun
- An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.
- A thing used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.
- A thing used to erase something written by chalk on a chalkboard, by marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.
- One who erases.
noun
- The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, assigned a value judgment as being debased, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing.
- The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
verb
- To destroy, consume, or use up.
- To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
- To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
- To take the loss in a transaction.
- To cause (someone) to worry.
- To consume a meal.
- To be eaten.
- To corrode or erode.
- To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
- To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
- To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
- To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
- To be very good; to rule; to rock.
- To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
noun
verb
- To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- To destroy with an explosion.
- To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- To destroy violently or abruptly.
- Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- To make a violent or emotional outburst.
- To ejaculate.
- To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- To create an exploded view of.
- To increase suddenly.
verb
- To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- To make normal, to make standard.
- To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
verb
- To delete (data, files, etc.).
- 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 cause to go away, to get rid of
- To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
- To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
verb
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
- To make the score of a game equal.
- To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- To speak honestly and openly with.
- To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- To progress to the next level.
- To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
noun
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- A school grade or year.
- Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- Degree or amount.
- A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
- An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
adj
- In the same position or rank.
- Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Calm.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
verb
- To destroy, make disappear.
- To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
- To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
noun
noun
- A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
- A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
verb
- to test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
- to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
- to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
adj
verb
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- 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 cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- 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 physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
- To crash; to fall over (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
- To do away with; to cause to disappear.
- 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 destroy; to put an end to.
- To strike (someone) on the head.
- To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
noun
- A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc.
- Mind.
- A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.
- An intellectual or mental capacity.
- A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
- By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
- Oral sex.
- An intelligent person.
- Intellect.
- The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
verb
- 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.
- Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
- 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 something to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, overturn.
- To upset the composure of (in various ways); to astound, shock, or unsettle.
- To remove from some (especially political) position or office; to dethrone.
- To come out or off of a seat.
- To remove or dislodge from a seat (especially referring to horse riding).
verb
noun
- The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
- A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.
- Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
verb
- To demolish (a building) and build an updated form of that building in its place.
- To place again.
- To put in a new or different place.
- To take over the position or role from.
- To take the place of; to be used instead of
- To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back
- To refund; to repay; to pay back
- To supply or substitute an equivalent for
verb
- To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
- To force sexual intercourse or other penetrative sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
- To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
noun
- Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
- One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
verb
- To self-destruct.
- To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
- To kill oneself intentionally.
noun
- A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
- Intentional killing of oneself.
- A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
- Pertaining to a suicide bombing.
- A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
- A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
- A person who has intentionally killed themself.
- An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
- A particular instance of a person intentionally killing themself, or of multiple people doing so.
verb
- To break down or decay.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- To perceive vaguely.
- To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
- To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
- To say (something) while sniffing, such as in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
- To pry; to investigate in an interfering manner.
- To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
noun
- A brief perception, or tiny amount.
- An instance of sniffing.
- Cocaine.
- A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose.
intj
verb
- To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
noun
noun
- A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
- The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.
- A crashdump.
- A headstone marking a person's grave.
- An unusual morphological feature on an electrocardiogram indicative of acute myocardial infarction, characterized by a massive ST elevation.
- A printed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, typically having unadorned centered text in black and white, enclosed in a simple box.
verb
- For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight. Often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.
- To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.
- To take part in tombstoning: to jump into the sea, etc. from a cliff or other high point so as to enter the water vertically straight.
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