punk out
cut bait
relinquish
spare
give up
go to water
dispense with
part with
throw over
kiss goodbye
jettison
kick
succumb
throw up
give over
wear
apostatize
chuck in
dislustre
come to terms with
abandon
desolate
cash in one's chips
throw in one's hand
quat
throw to the dogs
bury
get blood out of a stone
forsake
crap out
outscorn
resign oneself
relinquishing
relinquishment
throw in the towel
pack in
cast off
miss the boat
rebuff
hold one's nose
get ideas
drag one's feet
ditch
persistent
fart-arse
unadopt
bereave
take the count
unredeemedly
go hard or go home
fall seven times, stand up eight
afford
give out
bin
resign
punk
on
swipe left
drop out
cry uncle
par off
get over oneself
fall by the wayside
drop by the wayside
shrink back
throw in
chuck up the sponge
pass over
abandonment
quit
alternativity
get over
lean into
whistle in the wind
hassle
pass
chicken out
reticence
retract
break
quitter
sell out
take a dive
quail
waive
disappoint
flummox
push against an open door
lump it
falter
bail out on
submit
strap on a pair
grow some balls
persistent
on
unredeemedly
relinquishing
relinquishment
abandonment
alternativity
hassle
reticence
quitter
punk out
cut bait
relinquish
spare
give up
go to water
dispense with
part with
throw over
kiss goodbye
jettison
kick
succumb
throw up
give over
wear
apostatize
chuck in
dislustre
come to terms with
abandon
desolate
cash in one's chips
throw in one's hand
quat
throw to the dogs
bury
get blood out of a stone
forsake
crap out
outscorn
resign oneself
throw in the towel
pack in
cast off
miss the boat
rebuff
hold one's nose
get ideas
drag one's feet
ditch
fart-arse
unadopt
bereave
take the count
go hard or go home
afford
give out
bin
resign
punk
swipe left
drop out
cry uncle
par off
get over oneself
fall by the wayside
drop by the wayside
shrink back
throw in
chuck up the sponge
pass over
quit
get over
lean into
whistle in the wind
pass
chicken out
retract
break
sell out
take a dive
quail
waive
disappoint
flummox
push against an open door
lump it
falter
bail out on
submit
strap on a pair
grow some balls
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- use frugally or carefully
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
adj
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
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
- To overcome 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
verb
- To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
- To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
- To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
- To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
- To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
noun
verb
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To outlive.
- To score a goal.
- To place in the ground.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To kill or murder.
noun
verb
verb
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
- To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
- To issue; to distribute.
- To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
- To complain, sulk, chastise.
- To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
- To desist.
- To put forth, utter (prayers).
- To break down, get out of order, fail.
- To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
- To run short, come to an end.
verb
- To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
- To pimp.
- To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
- To prank.
- To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
noun
- Any of the punk genres: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A young, untrained animal or worker.
- The larger nonconformist social movement associated with punk rock and its fans.
- Synonym of fellow: any person, especially a male comrade.
- Synonym of amateur.
- Synonym of prostitute: a person paid for sex.
- A worthless person
- Synonym of faggot: any male homosexual.
- Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- Synonym of bottom: any passive or effeminate homosexual male.
- Synonym of sissy: a weak, timid person.
- A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
- A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
adj
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
verb
noun
verb
- To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over.
- To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).
- To bypass (something); to skip (something).
- To overlook; not to note or resent.
- To die and thus progress to the afterlife.
noun
- Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
- The self-surrender to an outside influence.
- The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
- A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
- An abandoned building or structure.
- The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
- The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
noun
- The tendency to pursue an alternative, especially when the previous solution is less available or less desirable.
- A characteristic of something having alternative connotations, akin to the representation of choice between two or more possibilities.
- A term of magma used to describe identifiable properties in an algebraic structure.
verb
- To take on or embrace something difficult or unpleasant, usually through determination or perseverance; to find a way to benefit from, or alleviate the harm of, risk, uncertainty and difficult situations.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lean, into.
- To embrace; to experience fully or respond to wholeheartedly.
- To make an effort with; to work hard at; to show determination and perseverance.
verb
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To reject; to pass up.
- 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 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".
noun
- Often followed by to: hesitancy or reluctance (to do something).
- Followed by of: discretion or restraint in the use of something.
- Avoidance of saying or reluctance to say too much; discretion, tight-lippedness; (countable) an instance of acting in this manner.
- A silent and reserved nature.
verb
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
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
verb
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
- To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- To stumble.
- To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
noun
verb
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- refer for judgment or consideration
- put before
- yield to the control of another
- hand over formally
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- make an application as for a job or funding
- make over as a return
- accept as inevitable
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