cash in one's chips
relinquish
cut bait
throw over
punk out
spare
resign oneself
take one's ball and go home
give over
regret
put out to pasture
decommit
throw up
outrule
pull one's head in
uncouple
waive
cast off
call it quits
back out
quat
unhamper
jettison
pass
unhelp
throw in one's hand
withdraw
bargain away
apostatize
bate
bowl out
swipe left
unreject
shell
forfeiture
scintillate
stand pat
unaccept
unsave
out of the money
back up
pitch
break the cycle
knock off
desolate
renounce
abhor
abatement
fortake
unvolunteer
withsay
knock it off
put one's foot down on
put one's foot down upon
drive a coach and horses through
forfeiting
not touch something with a barge pole
swerve
deny
bin
blip out
get past
reversibly
turn around
subduct
put paid to
surrender
forgo
bludge
desist
afford
detract
revoke
exit
bite the bullet
forsake
rebuff
abnegator
let lie
unplace
ungrant
chuck in
eat
fall away
kick into touch
succumb
bury
offer
pull out of the fire
kick the habit
can
throw to the dogs
capitulate
resign
devalue
bail out on
unself
reversibly
regret
forfeiture
abatement
forfeiting
abnegator
cash in one's chips
relinquish
cut bait
throw over
punk out
spare
resign oneself
take one's ball and go home
give over
put out to pasture
decommit
throw up
outrule
pull one's head in
uncouple
waive
cast off
call it quits
back out
quat
unhamper
jettison
pass
unhelp
throw in one's hand
withdraw
bargain away
apostatize
bate
bowl out
swipe left
unreject
shell
scintillate
stand pat
unaccept
unsave
back up
pitch
break the cycle
knock off
desolate
renounce
abhor
fortake
unvolunteer
withsay
knock it off
put one's foot down on
put one's foot down upon
drive a coach and horses through
not touch something with a barge pole
swerve
deny
bin
blip out
get past
turn around
subduct
put paid to
surrender
forgo
bludge
desist
afford
detract
revoke
exit
bite the bullet
forsake
rebuff
let lie
unplace
ungrant
chuck in
eat
fall away
kick into touch
succumb
bury
offer
pull out of the fire
kick the habit
can
throw to the dogs
capitulate
resign
devalue
bail out on
unself
verb
- (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- To desist; to stop; to refrain.
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- That which has not been used or expended.
adj
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
verb
verb
- To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
- To exit a mode or function.
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also bare back).
- To undo (a change).
- Coordinate terms: cancel, call off, get cold feet
- To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
- See also: sell short
- To dare (someone) to not withdraw from a challenge.
- To bet on someone losing.
- Coordinate term: scare off
verb
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
verb
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- 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 waste away.
- 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 disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
- To undo one's actions.
- For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- To fill up because of a backlog.
- To halt the flow or movement of something.
- To provide support or the promise of support to.
- To reconsider one's thoughts.
- To move a vehicle backwards.
- Coordinate terms: back away, back off, stand back
verb
- To discard for some gain.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To have sex with.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
verb
- To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- To cast off, repudiate.
- To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
- To make a renunciation of something.
- To give up, resign, surrender.
- To surrender formally some right or trust.
- To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
noun
noun
- An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
- The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
- The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
- The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
- Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
- A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
verb
- To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
noun
verb
- To disallow or reject.
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- To assert that something is not true.
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- To prevent from scoring.
verb
- To continue around a blockage; to get around (something); to surpass something that is in the way.
- To cause someone to overcome a source of grief or get through a difficult time.
- To cause something to get around a blockage; to cause to get around or surpass something that is in the way.
- To get through a difficult time; to overcome a source of grief.
verb
- To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
- To consider from a different viewpoint.
- (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate.
- To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
- To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc.
- To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
- To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.
verb
- To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
- To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
- For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
- To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
- To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
noun
- An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
verb
- To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
- To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
- To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
- To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
noun
verb
noun
- The act of revoking in a game of cards.
- A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
- A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
verb
- To give up the lead.
- 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 go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- 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 take the loss in a transaction.
- 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 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 destroy, consume, or use up.
- 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 put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To outlive.
- To score a goal.
- To place in the ground.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To kill or murder.
noun
verb
- To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
- To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
- To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
- To happen, to present itself.
- To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
- To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
- To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
- To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
noun
verb
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
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