close in on
shrivel
crumple
buckle
unpry
go
cave in
crumple up
loose
turn back
keel
entwist
untighten
fall in
cinch
straitened
shuck
divulsive
upfold
crib
ring
rive
introversion
ruck
invagination
quitch
break up
slump
solve
envelop
wintle
caving
cave
give in
untie
constringe
squoosh
upwrench
extended
lap
divaricate
give
biff
spill
ramollescence
disroot
plim
tumble down
embound
fold
touse
cut up
squishable
fold up
squish
tose
tighten
puncture
outwrench
dilaniate
pod
extenuative
balk
invaginate
pucker
inlock
unravel
light up
dilacerate
dismantle
shrump
pierce
winch
stave in
unsnib
devolve
forburst
overfall
pull
stock up
degrow
outfold
fortear
outgush
dumple
lirk
plunge
befold
fall apart
trammel
fall down on
crumble
unrein
perfusive
straitened
divulsive
extended
squishable
extenuative
perfusive
introversion
invagination
caving
ramollescence
plunge
close in on
shrivel
crumple
buckle
unpry
go
cave in
crumple up
loose
turn back
keel
entwist
untighten
fall in
cinch
shuck
upfold
crib
ring
rive
ruck
quitch
break up
slump
solve
envelop
wintle
cave
give in
untie
constringe
squoosh
upwrench
lap
divaricate
give
biff
spill
disroot
plim
tumble down
embound
fold
touse
cut up
fold up
squish
tose
tighten
puncture
outwrench
dilaniate
pod
balk
invaginate
pucker
inlock
unravel
light up
dilacerate
dismantle
shrump
pierce
winch
stave in
unsnib
devolve
forburst
overfall
pull
stock up
degrow
outfold
fortear
outgush
dumple
lirk
befold
fall apart
trammel
fall down on
crumble
unrein
verb
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To 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).
- 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.
adj
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.
verb
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To shoot (an arrow).
- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
adj
- Not compact.
- Not fitting closely
- Relaxed.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Having oversteer.
intj
noun
verb
- to collapse, to fall
- To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
- To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
- To mark with ruddle.
noun
- A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
- In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
- A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
- The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
- A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
- Red chalk; ruddle.
- The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
- A type of flat-bottomed boat.
- The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
verb
- To tighten down.
- To bring to certain conclusion.
- In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
noun
- Something that is very easy to do.
- A firm hold.
- A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
- A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
- Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
verb
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To complain, to grumble
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
verb
- To enclose or surround.
- To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- To telephone (someone).
- To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- to resound, reverberate, echo.
- Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- To produce music with bells.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- To rise in the air spirally.
noun
- A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A pleasant or correct sound.
- An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- A telephone call.
- A burner on a kitchen stove.
- An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
verb
- To crease or fold.
- To become folded.
- To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
noun
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- An argument or fight.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
verb
- To dissolve; to part.
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- To break or separate into pieces.
- Become disorganised
- Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- be or cause to be overcome with laughter
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness.
verb
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
- To lump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- To slouch or droop.
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
noun
- A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A boggy place.
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
verb
- To loosen or separate the parts of.
- to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
- To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
- To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
verb
- To collapse.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To surrender.
- In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
intj
noun
- A code cave.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A collapse or cave-in.
- The vagina.
verb
- To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- To become untied or loosed.
- To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
verb
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To lead (onto or into).
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To devote or apply (oneself).
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- To pledge.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To exceed expectations.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives?
- To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To make a present or gift of.
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
noun
verb
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To come undone.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
verb
verb
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To swell or fill.
- To remove peas from their case.
- To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
- To bear or produce pods
noun
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- A nicotine cartridge.
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- 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.
verb
- To loosen, slacken, or ease off.
- To shock (someone) with a stun gun.
- He saw Mary and his face lit up.
- To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
- To open fire on a target or group of targets, especially with rockets, a flamethrower etc.
- To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
- To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
- Smoking in this building is not allowed, so I always step outside to light up.
- To make happy.
- To activate the emergency sirens on a police vehicle in order to pull someone over.
verb
noun
- A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501).
- A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
- A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
- A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope or cable.
- Witch.
verb
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- To row.
- To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To do or perform.
- To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- To attract or net; to pull in.
- To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
- To retrieve or generate for use.
- To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
noun
- The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
- A single impression from a handpress.
- A journey made by rowing.
- A proof sheet.
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
intj
verb
noun
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
verb
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- To remove a blockage by suction.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
verb
noun
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- A beam compass.
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