withhold
reticent
clerkism
open up
take on trust
take on faith
draw
keep
dare
presume
come through
brazen out
make bold
keep one's cards close to one's chest
keep up
advise
drop
self-disclosure
hang
apprise
hold the line
spare
detain
commit
self-consistent
pertinacious
win over
tough-minded
dwell
communicate
evasive
get off of someone's cloud
leave at the door
get off someone's case
put aside
squeal
hear the end of it
keep one's own counsel
live one's own life
hold
bandy around
rehabilitate
self-justify
keep quiet
see through
smack down
unprompted
get it out of my system
talk at
sound off
assert
intellectual freedom
keep one's counsel
get off someone's back
deign
say the quiet part loud
self-will
keep a weather eye open
deny
obstinacy
noncommittal
stand firm
stifle
cut out
show one's cards
hold firm
string on
keep up with
cut the crap
obstinance
selflessly
deattribute
pimp
bullheadedness
stand fast
stubbornness
mindfulness
pigheadedness
stand pat
find one's voice
breast one's cards
keep to oneself
persuade
stipulate
wake up and smell the coffee
overlook
coax
put one's cards on the table
personal
devote
misrecognize
mooring
give someone a break
know one's own mind
unbosom
relieve
follow up
wise up
swallow
reticent
self-consistent
pertinacious
tough-minded
evasive
unprompted
noncommittal
personal
selflessly
clerkism
self-disclosure
intellectual freedom
self-will
obstinacy
obstinance
bullheadedness
stubbornness
mindfulness
pigheadedness
mooring
withhold
open up
take on trust
take on faith
draw
keep
dare
presume
come through
brazen out
make bold
keep one's cards close to one's chest
keep up
advise
drop
hang
apprise
hold the line
spare
detain
commit
win over
dwell
communicate
get off of someone's cloud
leave at the door
get off someone's case
put aside
squeal
hear the end of it
keep one's own counsel
live one's own life
hold
bandy around
rehabilitate
self-justify
keep quiet
see through
smack down
get it out of my system
talk at
sound off
assert
keep one's counsel
get off someone's back
deign
say the quiet part loud
keep a weather eye open
deny
stand firm
stifle
cut out
show one's cards
hold firm
string on
keep up with
cut the crap
deattribute
pimp
stand fast
stand pat
find one's voice
breast one's cards
keep to oneself
persuade
stipulate
wake up and smell the coffee
overlook
coax
put one's cards on the table
devote
misrecognize
give someone a break
know one's own mind
unbosom
relieve
follow up
wise up
swallow
verb
verb
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To remain in a state.
- To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To raise; to care for.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- To act as wicket-keeper.
- To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- To restrain.
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- To continue.
noun
verb
- To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
- To consider, to deliberate.
- To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
- To recommend; to offer as advice.
- To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.
verb
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
verb
- To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- To float, as if suspended.
- To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- To be or remain suspended.
- To veer in one direction.
- To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- To be vulnerable to capture.
- To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (used in maledictions) To damn.
- To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
noun
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- A grip, understanding.
- He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- The way in which something hangs.
verb
- To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- To desist; to stop; to refrain.
adj
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- That which has not been used or expended.
verb
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
noun
verb
- To linger on a particular thought, idea, etc.; to remain fixated on something.
- To abide; to remain; to continue.
- To live; to reside.
- To be in a given state.
noun
- In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- A planned delay in a timed control program.
- A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
verb
- To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
- To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
verb
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.).
- To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again.
- To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
- To return (something) to its original condition.
- To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.
- To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction, etc.
- To go through such a process; to recover.
verb
- To not be deceived by something that is false or misleading; to understand the hidden truth about someone or something.
- To provide support or cooperation to (a person) throughout a period of time; to support someone through a difficult time.
- To constitute ample supply for one for.
- To do something until it is finished; to continue working on (something) until it is finished.
- To recognize someone's true motives or character.
- To perceive visually through something transparent.
verb
- To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive.
- He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
- To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
noun
verb
- To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
- To assert that something is not true.
- To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- To disallow or reject.
- To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
- To prevent from scoring.
verb
- To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- To feel smothered; to find it difficult to breathe.
- To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- To die of suffocation.
- To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
noun
verb
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
- To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- To intercept.
- To arrange or prepare.
- To remove, omit.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- To oust, to replace.
- To separate from a herd.
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- To leave suddenly.
adj
verb
- To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
- To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
- To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle (also pimp out).
- To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
- To promote, to tout.
- To prostitute someone.
noun
- A man who can easily attract women.
- Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
adj
num
adj
- Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.
- personal values personal desire personal reasons
- Intended for sexual use.
- Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
- Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.
- Done in person; without the intervention of another.
- Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
- Denoting a person.
- Denoting ownership.
- Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general
noun
verb
- relieve oneself of troubling information
- provide physical relief, as from pain
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- provide relief for
- free from a burden, evil, or distress
- take by stealing
- grant exemption or release to
- alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
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tenacious
to beg