kiss goodbye
begrudge
spit up
pony up
cough up
punk out
balk
à contrecœur
throw up
loathly
fold like a cheap suit
buckle under
hold one's nose
give up
hesitantly
spare
part with
dispense with
persistent
draggingly
unwilling
pack in
break
cut bait
go to water
pack up
against the grain
no, thanks
spit out
throw to the dogs
chuck in
bin
despond
drop out
chuck up the sponge
quit
scintillate
swear
fall by the wayside
drop by the wayside
throw in
throw in the towel
resign
castoff
tentatively
babble
disappoint
flummox
sweer
uproot
succumb
refuse
gift
relinquish
ixnay
say no
begrudging
reluctant
dislustre
wear
plunder
yield the ghost
nolo episcopari
tear away
unadopt
uprooted
willy-nilly
bleak
backwardness
reprobate
bludge
black
leave behind
give over
dim
disgorge
you're all right
give something a miss
unreject
resign oneself
foreswear
nonacceptation
renounce
take no for an answer
unconnect
unreluctance
grudging
withdraw
par off
rereject
bereave
scorn
pass
persistent
unwilling
swear
castoff
sweer
refuse
begrudging
reluctant
uprooted
willy-nilly
bleak
black
dim
grudging
à contrecœur
loathly
hesitantly
draggingly
tentatively
backwardness
nonacceptation
unreluctance
kiss goodbye
begrudge
spit up
pony up
cough up
punk out
balk
throw up
fold like a cheap suit
buckle under
hold one's nose
give up
spare
part with
dispense with
pack in
break
cut bait
go to water
pack up
spit out
throw to the dogs
chuck in
bin
despond
drop out
chuck up the sponge
quit
scintillate
fall by the wayside
drop by the wayside
throw in
throw in the towel
resign
babble
disappoint
flummox
uproot
succumb
gift
relinquish
ixnay
say no
dislustre
wear
plunder
yield the ghost
tear away
unadopt
reprobate
bludge
leave behind
give over
disgorge
give something a miss
unreject
resign oneself
foreswear
renounce
take no for an answer
unconnect
withdraw
par off
rereject
bereave
scorn
pass
verb
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- 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
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- put an end to a state or an activity
- part with a possession or right
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- relinquish possession or control over
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- stop consuming
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- use frugally or carefully
adj
- thin and fit
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
noun
adj
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- non-transient.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Indefinitely continuous.
verb
- give up
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
prep_phrase
- Unwillingly, reluctantly; contrary to one's nature.
- Contrary to what is expected; especially, of behavior different from what society expects.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see against, the, grain.
- Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface.
verb
adj
verb
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- To administer an oath to (a person).
- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
noun
verb
- To reveal; to give away (a secret).
- To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
noun
verb
- To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
noun
verb
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
- To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
- To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
- To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
noun
adj
- offering little or no hope
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- extremely dark
- harshly ironic or sinister
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- distributed or sold illicitly
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- soiled with dirt or soot
noun
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- total absence of light
- (board games) the darker pieces
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
adj
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
verb
verb
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
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