backpedal
climbdown
aside
away
flip-flop
unassert
look before one leaps
take away
return
start a fresh hare
suppress
undeception
remove
leeroy
undeceived
disabused
eat one's words
countersuggestion
out of the box
rewind
keep one's cards close to one's chest
reconsider
crawfish
back away
non-denial denial
pull back
put out of one's mind
block out
pull in one's horns
retreat
back out
crawfish out
withdraw
out of hand
let slide
disenchantment
forget
dodge
bury
take back
leave
confusionism
harbour
swallow one's words
dismissal
depart
in my honest opinion
finesse
to a first approximation
harbor
hint
unimagine
if anything
unmind
back off
lay aside
shield
go
in my humble opinion
uninvest
go away
bedraw
indrawn
balk
non sequitur
out of one's system
flunk
kick
leave at the door
don't give me that
logic
write out
lose track
talk one's way out of
offcome
bite the bullet
shift one's ground
unfocus
blow a backsight
take a step back
ease one's mind
anticonceptual
walk back
line
contrast
demarcation
stretch
anticonceptualistic
recall
diversionism
elude
overpass
file away
dividing line
thoughtlike
back up
poker face
undeceived
disabused
indrawn
anticonceptual
anticonceptualistic
thoughtlike
aside
away
out of hand
if anything
climbdown
undeception
countersuggestion
non-denial denial
disenchantment
confusionism
dismissal
hint
non sequitur
offcome
line
contrast
demarcation
stretch
diversionism
dividing line
poker face
backpedal
flip-flop
unassert
look before one leaps
take away
return
start a fresh hare
suppress
remove
leeroy
eat one's words
rewind
keep one's cards close to one's chest
reconsider
crawfish
back away
pull back
put out of one's mind
block out
pull in one's horns
retreat
back out
crawfish out
withdraw
let slide
forget
dodge
bury
take back
leave
harbour
swallow one's words
depart
finesse
harbor
unimagine
unmind
back off
lay aside
shield
go
uninvest
go away
bedraw
balk
flunk
kick
leave at the door
logic
write out
lose track
talk one's way out of
bite the bullet
shift one's ground
unfocus
blow a backsight
take a step back
ease one's mind
walk back
recall
elude
overpass
file away
back up
adv
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
- from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- from one's possession
- out of existence
- at a distance in space or time
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of
- freely or at will
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- in a different direction
- in reserve; not for immediate use
adj
adj
verb
noun
- A return trip.
- A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
- A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
- An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
- A change of places; an inversion or swap.
- The sound of a regular footfall.
- A somersault.
verb
- To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- To subtract or diminish something.
- To remove something and put it in a different place.
- To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.
- To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
- To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
prep
noun
verb
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
verb
- To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To prevent publication.
- To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To stop a flow or stream.
- To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
verb
- To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To murder.
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away.
- To dismiss a batsman.
- To delete.
noun
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- Emotional distance or indifference.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- The act of removing something.
- A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
verb
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
noun
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- withdraw from active participation
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- cause to be returned
- take back what one has said
- keep away from others
- break from a meeting or gathering
- retire gracefully
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- lose interest
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
verb
verb
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
verb
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To outlive.
- To score a goal.
- To place in the ground.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To kill or murder.
noun
verb
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- leave behind unintentionally
- go away from a place
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- move out of or depart from
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- produce as a result or residue
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- put into the care or protection of someone
- leave or give by will after one's death
- have left or have as a remainder
- be survived by after one's death
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
noun
noun
- Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
- A written or spoken statement of such an act.
- The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
- The act of sending someone away.
- Release from confinement; liberation.
- Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
- The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.
- The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
verb
- To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
- To play (a card) as a finesse.
- To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
- To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
- To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
noun
- An adroit manoeuvre.
- The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
- In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
- Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
noun
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- A clue.
- Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
verb
verb
- move away from a place into another direction
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- follow a procedure or take a course
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be awarded; be allotted
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- follow a certain course
- be abolished or discarded
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- make a certain noise or sound
- perform as expected when applied
- to be spent or finished
- progress by being changed
- continue to live and avoid dying
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- be in the right place or situation
- be ranked or compare
- begin or set in motion
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- be contained in
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- blend or harmonize
- lead, extend, or afford access
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- be spent
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- stop operating or functioning
adj
noun
verb
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- 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.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
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.
noun
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that came before it.
- Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
verb
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
- To overcome by logical argument.
- To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
- To apply logical reasoning to.
noun
- It's hard to work out his system of logic.
- The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
- A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
adj
verb
- To exclude someone from a narrative or history.
- To exclude (a character in a TV show, etc.) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
- To write a ticket or citation; to fill out a ticket or citation.
- To write at full length or in expanded form.
- To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.
noun
- An escape or evasion by subterfuge or pretext; a way of avoiding or getting out of a difficult or uncomfortable situation.
- The way any thing or business turns out; the way a person comes off from an encounter or enterprise; result; outcome; reception.
- That which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.
- An apology; excuse.
- An exhibition of temper.
noun
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a telephone connection
- acting in conformity
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a short personal letter
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
verb
noun
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
- the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
- the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
- the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
verb
noun
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
verb
- To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
- To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
- To call again, to call another time.
- To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
- To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
verb
- To reconsider one's thoughts.
- 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.
- To undo one's actions.
- 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 move a vehicle backwards.
- Coordinate terms: back away, back off, stand back
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