attrition
graunch
masticate
grind
erosive
introflexed
scarf
swarf
ruggedization
kibble
ruggedisation
chew
antifriction
gnash
curl-up
runch
frazzle
frication
wring
slidey
tribo-
wedge
downflex
tension
stiffen
attrited
craunch
cranch
sprain
couch
crack
crunch
brittle
tribotest
hobble
seize up
lubricate
truss
crinch
crock
knee
slip
baff
tear
grit
slidy
chafing gear
crinkle
hunker
scrawm
tear up
misgrind
outwrench
extend
scramb
jostle
bang
downpress
extrude
clour
bond
break out
draw
flex
toehook
boke
frictionless
belly out
ground
twist
circumvolute
wrestle
embrittle
quat
seam
worm
wriggle
pregrind
poach
wrench
writhe
basil
ding up
dinge
squirm
bicycle crunch
pounding block
tug
wingle
unstiffen
quern
smash
wrestingly
sword
raking
erosive
introflexed
antifriction
slidey
attrited
brittle
slidy
frictionless
ground
raking
wrestingly
attrition
ruggedization
ruggedisation
curl-up
frication
tribotest
truss
chafing gear
bond
toehook
bicycle crunch
pounding block
attrition
graunch
masticate
grind
scarf
swarf
kibble
chew
gnash
runch
frazzle
wring
wedge
downflex
tension
stiffen
craunch
cranch
sprain
couch
crack
crunch
hobble
seize up
lubricate
crinch
crock
knee
slip
baff
tear
grit
crinkle
hunker
scrawm
tear up
misgrind
outwrench
extend
scramb
jostle
bang
downpress
extrude
clour
break out
draw
flex
boke
belly out
twist
circumvolute
wrestle
embrittle
quat
seam
worm
wriggle
pregrind
poach
wrench
writhe
basil
ding up
dinge
squirm
tug
wingle
unstiffen
quern
smash
sword
verb
- To grind or wear down through friction.
- To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
- To undergo a reduction in number.
noun
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death.
- Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.
- The loss of participants during an experiment.
- The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
verb
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
verb
- To shape by grinding.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To eat very quickly.
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
noun
verb
noun
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
verb
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
noun
noun
verb
- To bend or strain out of its position.
- To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
- To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
- To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
- To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
- To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
- To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
- To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
noun
prefix
verb
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
noun
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
- Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
- Psychological state of being tense.
verb
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
verb
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
adj
- Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
- Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
- Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
- Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
- Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
noun
- A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
- Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
verb
noun
- A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- A triangular bracket.
- Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
verb
verb
- To break something or injure someone.
- To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- To give off crock or smut.
- To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
noun
- Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- A low stool.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb
noun
- In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- The part of a garment that covers the knee.
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
- In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
- A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
- An act of kneeling on one knee, typically to acknowledge an injury or sacrifice or otherwise to show respect.
- A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
verb
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To move down; to slide.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A mistake or error.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
verb
- To injure as if by pulling apart.
- To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- To produce tears.
- To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- To become torn, especially accidentally.
- To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- To remove by tearing.
- To smash or enter something with great force.
- To demolish
noun
- A rampage.
- A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
verb
- To cover with grit.
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
noun
- A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
- Inedible particles in food.
- Husked but unground oats.
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
verb
verb
- To wrench out of the ground.
- To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- To damage.
- To have intense penetrative sex with.
- To brutally assault.
- To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- To tear into pieces.
- To start shedding tears.
verb
- To straighten (a limb).
- To reenlist for a further period.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- To increase in extent.
- To cause to increase in extent.
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
verb
- To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- To inject intravenously.
- To hit hard.
- To engage in sexual intercourse.
- To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
intj
adv
noun
- An explosion.
- A sudden percussive noise.
- An explosive product.
- A thrill.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
- strong smell (of)
- An abrupt left turn.
- The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
noun
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A peasant; churl.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A bail bond.
- A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- A mortgage.
adj
- Subject to the tenure called bondage.
- In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
- Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
verb
- To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- To form a chemical compound with.
verb
- To take or force out by breaking.
- To bring out from storage, use, or present.
- To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1
- Of a record: to achieve success.
- To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. Notionally, to escape by breaking.
- To separate from a bundle.
- To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
- To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
verb
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- select or take in from a given group or region
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- move or go steadily or gradually
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
adj
noun
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Terrain.
- The pit of a theatre.
- A soccer stadium.
- Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- Soil, earth.
- A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
verb
- To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To place something on the ground.
- To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn in the opposite direction
- form into a spiral shape
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- do the twist
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
noun
- an unforeseen development
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a circular segment of a curve
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- a jerky pulling movement
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- the act of winding or twisting
- turning or twisting around (in place)
verb
- To crack open along a seam.
- Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- To put together with a seam.
- Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
noun
- The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- A line of junction; a joint.
- A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- A suture.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
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noun
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
verb
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- To take game or fish illegally.
- To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- To cook something in simmering liquid.
- To be cooked in simmering liquid
- To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
noun
verb
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- To pull or twist violently.
- To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
noun
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
verb
- To break (something brittle) violently.
- To ruin completely and suddenly.
- To be destroyed by being smashed.
- To deform through continuous pressure.
- To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To hit extremely hard.
noun
- Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A traffic collision.
- Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
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noun
English words for 'To grind or wear down through friction.'
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