axe
cream
quash
put a stop to
shutter
chassé
put an end to
confound
knock into a cocked hat
put paid to
total
smack down
upend
squelch
nut
eradicate
whoop
beat the daylights out of
kibosh
omit
demo
muller
overcancel
eject
slay
expunge
get one's marching orders
decimate
raze
break
mop the floor with someone
level to the ground
beat hollow
paste
do away with
cane
go out
tear
give over
shoot
see off
tear down
crash
quelch
discharge
daff
eradicatory
fold one's tent
quat
cash
ditch
lacerate
annihilate
bowl out
knock the living daylights out of
go dark
stub out
send about one's business
put out to pasture
belay
break down
redismiss
toss
kipper
deorganize
whomp on
interclude
skittle out
gutter out
destructure
expire
repeal
reterminate
rule out
shellac
avoid
nix
discompose
unbreed
chuck
murder
perempt
bury
lick
shut down
shred
disannul
destroy
ouster
abjure
quell
close out
wipe someone's eye
retract
die
abridge
leave off
eradicatory
axe
cream
quash
put a stop to
shutter
chassé
put an end to
confound
knock into a cocked hat
put paid to
total
smack down
upend
squelch
nut
eradicate
whoop
beat the daylights out of
kibosh
omit
demo
muller
overcancel
eject
slay
expunge
get one's marching orders
decimate
raze
break
mop the floor with someone
level to the ground
beat hollow
paste
do away with
cane
go out
tear
give over
shoot
see off
tear down
crash
quelch
discharge
daff
fold one's tent
quat
cash
ditch
lacerate
annihilate
bowl out
knock the living daylights out of
go dark
stub out
send about one's business
put out to pasture
belay
break down
redismiss
toss
kipper
deorganize
whomp on
interclude
skittle out
gutter out
destructure
expire
repeal
reterminate
rule out
shellac
avoid
nix
discompose
unbreed
chuck
murder
perempt
bury
lick
shut down
shred
disannul
destroy
ouster
abjure
quell
close out
wipe someone's eye
retract
die
abridge
leave off
verb
- To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
- To furnish with an axle.
- To fell or chop with an axe.
noun
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- A drastic reduction or cutback.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
verb
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- To gather or form cream.
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
- To take off the best or choicest part of.
- To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
noun
- Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- The best part of something.
- The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
- Semen.
adj
verb
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To stun or amaze.
- To make something worse.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- To perplex or puzzle.
noun
verb
- To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
- To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
noun
verb
- To defeat thoroughly.
- To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- To gather nuts.
- To hit in the testicles.
- To orgasm; to ejaculate.
intj
noun
- Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- An extreme enthusiast.
- The head.
- A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.
- The tumbler of a gunlock.
- Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- A testicle.
- En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- A crazy person.
- Semen, ejaculate.
- The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
verb
- To demolish (especially a house or fixture).
- To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
- To demonstrate.
noun
- An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount.
- A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.
- A demographic group.
- A demonstration or visual explanation.
- A democrat.
- A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.
- Demolition.
- A march or gathering to make a political protest.
- An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
verb
- To throw out or remove forcefully.
- To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
- To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
- To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
- To come out of a machine.
- To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
noun
verb
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
- To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
- To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
- To strike or beat someone or something.
noun
- One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
- The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
- A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
- One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
verb
- to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
- to produce extreme pain
- to do something well, in a competent fashion
noun
- Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
- Sugar cane
- The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
- A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
- Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
- A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
- Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
- A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
- A lance or dart made of cane
- The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
verb
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To fail.
- To recede; to ebb.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To pass out of fashion.
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
verb
- To demolish
- To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- To injure as if by pulling apart.
- 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.
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 dismiss or do away with.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
intj
verb
- To terminate extraordinarily.
- To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- To hit or strike with force
- To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
- To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To give, as a favor.
- To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
adj
noun
- A type of rough linen.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A comedown from a drug.
verb
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
noun
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The process of flowing out.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The process of unloading something.
verb
- To disband. To do away with, kill
- To obtain a payout from a tournament.
- To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
noun
- Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
- Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
- Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
- An instance of winning a cash prize.
- Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
- Money.
adj
verb
- To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally)
- To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- To cease to function. (others)
- To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle)
- To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- To give in, relent, concede, or surrender.
- To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- To digest.
- To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly)
verb
verb
- To discard; to throw away.
- To masturbate
- To subject to trials; to harass.
- To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
- To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
- To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
- To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
- To vomit.
- To throw with an initial upward direction.
- To agitate; to make restless.
- To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
- To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
- To stir or mix (a salad).
noun
- A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
- A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
- concern or consideration.
- The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
- A state of agitation; commotion.
- A measure of sprats.
- A haughty throwing up of the head.
verb
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To damage or treat with smoke.
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
noun
- A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- A child or young person.
- A torpedo.
- A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- A fool.
- A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
adj
verb
verb
- To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- To try not to do something or to have something happen
- to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
- To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
- To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
verb
- To discard, to throw away.
- To vomit.
- To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
- To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- To jilt; to dump.
- To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- To touch or tap gently.
- To leave; to depart; to bounce.
- To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
- To make a clucking sound.
noun
- Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- A clucking sound.
- A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
- A gentle touch or tap.
- A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- An act or instance of vomiting.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A small pebble.
- A casual throw.
verb
- To defeat decisively.
- To botch or mangle.
- To devour, ravish.
- To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
- To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
noun
- The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought.
- Something terrible to endure.
- A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
- The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
- The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification.
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
- To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- To do anything partially.
- To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- To lap.
- To perform cunnilingus.
- To beat with repeated blows.
- To stroke with the tongue.
- To overcome.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A small amount; a whit.
- A short motif.
- A stroke or blow.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
verb
- To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To become separated into small portions.
- To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
- To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
adj
noun
- A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
verb
- To defeat soundly.
- To sing a song poorly.
- To put down or euthanize.
- To remove data.
- To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
- To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- To damage beyond use or repair.
- To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
verb
- To terminate; to call the end of.
- To terminate a computer program.
- To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
- Of a wave, to break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
- To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join.
- To seal off.
- Synonym of close (“to make a sale”)
verb
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- 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.
- 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
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
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