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verb
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
adj
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
noun
verb
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
adj
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not clear, muffled.
verb
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
noun
- The property of being mellow; mellowness.
- Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.
- A comfortable or relaxed mood.
adj
- Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- Fruitful and warm.
- Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, relaxed.
- Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
verb
noun
- A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
- A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
verb
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
- To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
- To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
- To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
noun
- A fair woman; a sweetheart.
- A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
- An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
- A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
- An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
- Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
adj
- Favorable to a ship's course.
- Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
- Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
- Just, equitable.
- Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
- Not a no ball.
- Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
- Between the baselines.
- Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
- Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
- Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
- Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
adv
verb
verb
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
noun
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To cover or wrap with foil.
noun
- Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A stylized flower or leaf.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- The track of an animal.
verb
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
noun
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
verb
verb
- To flatter.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
- To pin; fasten.
noun
noun
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
- The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
- An area that protrudes from a surface.
- A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
- The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
adv
verb
- To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
- To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
- To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
- Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
verb
- To diminish or lessen something
- To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
- To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
- To abate; to withdraw.
- Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
noun
- An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
- The return of part of an amount already paid.
- The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
- A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
verb
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- To hasten, urge onward.
- To lay stress upon.
- To throng, crowd.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- To urge, beseech, entreat.
- To compress, squeeze.
- To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
noun
- A printing machine.
- Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A publisher.
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- A device used to apply pressure to an item.
noun
- A gloss or superficial layer.
- The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
- A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
- A paten, flat type of dish.
adj
noun
verb
- To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- To yield grass for grazing.
- To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
- To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
noun
verb
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
verb
- make the surface of level or smooth
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- set afloat
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
- move lightly, as if suspended
- put into the water
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
noun
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
- something that floats on the surface of water
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
verb
- To soften; to mitigate.
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- to retract.
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
noun
- The drug dextromethorphan.
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Money acquired by gambling.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- A female chinchilla; a sow.
adj
verb
- To make something flat or flatter.
- To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- To knock down or lay low.
- To lower by a semitone.
- To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
- To be knocked down or laid low.
- To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
- To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
verb
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- To campaign.
noun
- One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- A leg.
- An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
verb
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
- To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
noun
verb
- To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
- To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
- To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
- To calm or placate someone or some situation.
- To keep in good humour; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
- To ease or relieve pain or suffering.
- To temporise by assent, concession, flattery, or cajolery.
- To bring comfort or relief.
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To become contaminated or impure.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
noun
adj
- Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Soiled with feces.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
verb
- To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
- To harrow the feelings.
- To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
- To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
- To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
- To make scratches or cuts on.
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