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verb
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- To turn (the foot) inwards.
- To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To undergo inversion, as sugar.
adj
noun
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
- A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- An invertebrate.
- An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
verb
- To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
- To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
noun
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
verb
- To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
- To blow a short gust.
- To waste time.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
- To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
noun
verb
verb
- To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- To place out of line.
noun
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
verb
- To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
- To reverse the direction of (a current).
- To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
- To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
- To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
- To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
verb
- To change; transform.
- Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- To come into being; develop.
- Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.
- Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- To cause something to change or transform.
verb
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- 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 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 break down or decay.
- 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
verb
- To cause to stray; lead astray.
- To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
noun
- An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An instance of atmospheric interference.
- One who is lost, literally or figuratively.
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
adj
verb
- To make different; to change, modify.
- To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To recognize a distinction or difference between two things.
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- To calculate the derivative of a function.
- To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
verb
verb
- To use evasion.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To grow or become white.
- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
- To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
- To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
verb
- To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- To damage; injure.
- To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
verb
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
verb
- To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- To crash.
- To be soundly defeated.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- To be received or accepted.
- To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- To perform oral sex.
- To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- To take place, happen.
- To sink.
- To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- To stop functioning, to go offline.
- To be recorded or remembered (as).
- Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
verb
- To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
- To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
adj
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
noun
verb
- To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- To move or be moved by this method.
- To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
noun
- The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
verb
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To bend, or form into a hook.
noun
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
adj
verb
adj
- (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
- Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
noun
verb
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adv
noun
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
verb
- To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
- To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
- To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
- To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
- To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
noun
verb
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- 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 reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal
- To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better
- To form again or in a new configuration.
- To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits
noun
verb
- To defer (to something).
- To become bent or curved.
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To make something bend or curve.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
verb
verb
- To revert or (transitive) to restore.
- To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
- To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
noun
verb
- To undo (a change).
- 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).
- 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
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