leave well enough alone
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
gild the lily
unfix
tighten up
unsolve
reform
rectification
correction
enhancement
sweetening
self-critical
stand pat
straighten out
sweal
put a lid on
dispose
color
deconflict
underfix
shrink back
improve on
moral excellence
virtuousness
virtue
reversibly
put right
fettle
step over
turn one's life around
repair
fallible
cleanliness
essentialize
let lie
peg
get off
rise above
crap out
clean up
take action
punt
make one's own luck
polish
misrectify
omission
overfix
refit
forget
self-reformation
strike
ungrasp
fail
bear
bear down
self-improvement
retool
calculate
keep sight of
neglect
play around
trim one's sails
absent
engolden
leave
ruin
fossilization
divergent thinker
box oneself into a corner
bowl out
unawares
misadapt
paint oneself into a corner
recover
alter
upgrade
hold in
omit
fiddle while Rome burns
emend
revamp
self-help
elaboration
expunge
redress
operative
unfuck
exit
refinement
swerve
save
go to the wall
smack down
buang
kick
kick into touch
elide
self-critical
fallible
operative
reversibly
unawares
rectification
correction
enhancement
sweetening
reform
moral excellence
virtuousness
virtue
cleanliness
omission
self-reformation
self-improvement
ruin
fossilization
divergent thinker
self-help
elaboration
refinement
redress
leave well enough alone
gild the lily
unfix
tighten up
unsolve
reform
stand pat
straighten out
sweal
put a lid on
dispose
color
deconflict
underfix
shrink back
improve on
put right
fettle
step over
turn one's life around
repair
essentialize
let lie
peg
get off
rise above
crap out
clean up
take action
punt
make one's own luck
polish
misrectify
overfix
refit
forget
strike
ungrasp
fail
bear
bear down
retool
calculate
keep sight of
neglect
play around
trim one's sails
absent
engolden
leave
box oneself into a corner
bowl out
misadapt
paint oneself into a corner
recover
alter
upgrade
hold in
omit
fiddle while Rome burns
emend
revamp
expunge
redress
unfuck
exit
swerve
save
go to the wall
smack down
buang
kick
kick into touch
elide
verb
- To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better
- To form again or in a new configuration.
- to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal
- To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits
noun
noun
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
noun
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- something substituted for an error
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- the act of disciplining
- treatment of a specific defect
verb
- To affect without completely changing.
- To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- To give something color.
- To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- To become red through increased blood flow.
adj
noun
- The flag of a nation or team.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- A paint.
- An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- The spectral composition of visible light.
- A standard or banner.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- Gang insignia.
- Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
verb
- To alter (something) to avoid conflicting with something else
- To change the flight path of a craft or weapon to reduce the chance of an accidental collision or conflict with other obstacles, the terrain or weather
- To provide information to a military force in order to prevent escalation of a conflict
- To resolve contradictory conclusions or responses to queries in a rule-based or deductive reasoning system.
verb
- To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- To be upset or in a bad mood.
- In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
noun
verb
- To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- To affix or pin.
- To fasten using a peg.
- To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- To throw.
- To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
- To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
- To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- To fix a value or price.
noun
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- A stump.
- A support; a reason; a pretext.
- A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.
- A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- A step; a degree.
- A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
verb
- To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- To make (someone) fall asleep.
- To acquire (something) from (someone).
- To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
- To kiss; to smooch.
- To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
- To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
- To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- To get high (on a drug).
- To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- To fall asleep.
- To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
verb
- To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
- To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.
- To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.
- To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.
verb
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To eject; to kick out of a place.
noun
- A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
- A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- A wild guess.
- A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- A bet or wager.
- The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A point in the game of faro.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
verb
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
- 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 shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
noun
verb
- To fit out or supply again (with something).
- To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
- To fit again; to put back into its place.
- To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
noun
verb
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- be unsuccessful
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- stop operating or functioning
- be unable
- judge unacceptable
- fail to get a passing grade
- fall short in what is expected
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- prove insufficient
- deteriorate
verb
- To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
- To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- To wear.
- To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
- To have or display (a mark or other feature).
- To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
- To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
- To have (a name, title, or designation).
- To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
- To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
- To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
- To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
- To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
- To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
- To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
- To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
- To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
- To behave or conduct (oneself).
- To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
- To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
- To support or sustain; to hold up.
- To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
- To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- To push, thrust, press.
- To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
- To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
- To warrant, justify the need for.
- To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
- Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
- To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
adj
noun
- The meat of this animal.
- A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
- A portable punching machine.
- An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
verb
- To intensify one's efforts.
- To approach in a determined manner.
- To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
verb
- To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- To plan; to expect; to think.
- To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
- To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
verb
noun
prep
adj
verb
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- go away from a place
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- move out of or depart from
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- produce as a result or residue
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- put into the care or protection of someone
- leave or give by will after one's death
- have left or have as a remainder
- be survived by after one's death
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- leave behind unintentionally
noun
noun
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- The act of ruining something.
- Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
verb
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
verb
- to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
- To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
- To cover again.
- To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process
- To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
noun
verb
- to improve what was old or outdated
- rate higher; raise in value or esteem
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- get better travel conditions
- give better travel conditions to
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
verb
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- To dress again.
noun
- A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
verb
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To give up the lead.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
noun
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
noun
verb
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
noun
verb
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
conj
prep
verb
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
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