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verb
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To barely manage to achieve.
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
noun
- A shave.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
verb
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To make something dirty.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
verb
- To injure the skin of.
- To become covered with skin.
- To use tricks to go past a defender.
- To high five.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program).
noun
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- person, chap
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
verb
- To be rubbed against something.
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
noun
verb
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To exasperate.
- To bother or trouble.
noun
- Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- A feeling of exasperation.
- The gall bladder.
- A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
noun
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
noun
- The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
- (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
- Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
verb
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
noun
- A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
- An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
- An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
- Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
- Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
- An eraser.
- One who practises massage.
- A condom.
- The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
- One who rubs down horses.
- Tires, particularly racing tires.
- Someone or something which rubs.
- A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
- The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
- The cushion of an electric machine.
- Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
- The game of rubber bridge.
adj
verb
verb
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To insult or defeat.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- To blackmail.
- To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- To discard.
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To betray.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To cauterize.
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
noun
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- Tobacco.
- The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A stream.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
noun
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- Lengths of fine wire, silver, gold, silk or whalebone wrapped tightly around the bow stick adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel of the bow.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
verb
- To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
- To strike.
- To make a character or an item stronger.
- To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
noun
- Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
- Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
- A military coat made of buff leather.
- A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
- The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
- Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
- A brownish yellow colour.
- A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
- A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
- An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
- The bare skin.
adj
verb
- To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
- To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
- To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
noun
- Liquid mud or mire.
- A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
- Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
- A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
- Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
- The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
verb
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
verb
- To peel; to make by removing the skin.
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
- To medicate with pills.
- Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- To form into the shape of a pill.
- To persuade or convince someone of something.
noun
- A bullet (projectile).
- An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
- A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
- A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- A comical or entertaining person.
- A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
- Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge
- Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
verb
- To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
noun
- A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
verb
noun
verb
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To have as one's job.
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
num
noun
noun
- Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
- A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
- Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
- The activity of getting dressed.
- Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
- An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
- The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
verb
- To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
- To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
- To become bruised.
- To fight with the fists; to box.
- To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
- To harm or injure.
- Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
noun
verb
- To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
- To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
- To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.
- To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
- To paste into place using wax.
- To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.
- To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
verb
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- To fit with glass; to glaze.
- To become glassy.
- To enclose in glass.
- To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To make glassy.
noun
- The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- Lenses, considered collectively.
- Glassware.
- The backboard.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- A mirror.
- Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
noun
- the act of applying a bandage
- the capacity to attract and hold something
- strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration
- one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
adj
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