heave
pull off
flounder
work at
hustle
work on
press
break a sweat
challenging
lay to
tough
hinder
upseek
reach
drive
make a play
give it one's best shot
give it some welly
queer someone's pitch
pain point
labour
put one's mind to it
heavy
tinker
laboured
labored
prise
wrestle
prize
put a shift in
lever
bear
make hard work of
pry
pull teeth
jimmy
buller
run to
tew
welly
pressure
lean on
gather strength
Matterhorn
effortful
toughening
clutch
rush job
struggle
go
thring
toughen
heft
effort
go to the trouble
tug
implemented
boil the ocean
enforced
make an effort
outpress
bust ass
labor
push
force one's way
attempt
bulldog
jostling
challengingly
intensive
endeavor
bull
lean into
drift
ungainly
purchase
drop someone in it
compel
pushingly
strainful
chase
force someone's back to the wall
toughen up
boss up
reaching
beaver away
stretch
multichallenge
pedgill
forcible
hard
difficult
pound out
tough
heavy
laboured
labored
effortful
clutch
implemented
enforced
intensive
ungainly
strainful
multichallenge
forcible
hard
difficult
challengingly
pushingly
hard
challenging
pain point
labour
bear
welly
toughening
rush job
heft
attempt
jostling
drift
reach
reaching
stretch
heave
pull off
flounder
work at
hustle
work on
press
break a sweat
lay to
hinder
upseek
reach
drive
make a play
give it one's best shot
give it some welly
queer someone's pitch
put one's mind to it
tinker
prise
wrestle
prize
put a shift in
lever
make hard work of
pry
pull teeth
jimmy
buller
run to
tew
pressure
lean on
gather strength
struggle
go
thring
toughen
labour
effort
go to the trouble
tug
boil the ocean
make an effort
outpress
bust ass
labor
push
force one's way
bulldog
endeavor
bull
lean into
purchase
drop someone in it
compel
chase
force someone's back to the wall
toughen up
boss up
beaver away
pedgill
pound out
verb
- To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- To throw, cast.
- To displace (a vein, stratum).
- To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- To rise and fall.
- To utter with effort.
- To pull up with a rope or cable.
- To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- Broken wind in horses.
- The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
verb
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To hasten, urge onward.
- To lay stress upon.
- To throng, crowd.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- To urge, beseech, entreat.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- To compress, squeeze.
- To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
noun
- A printing machine.
- Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A publisher.
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- A device used to apply pressure to an item.
verb
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To strike or touch.
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
noun
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
verb
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- cause to move back by force or influence
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- move by being propelled by a force
- urge forward
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
noun
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- The act of a mother giving birth.
- Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- A group of moles.
- The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
verb
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- To toil, to work.
adj
- requiring or showing effort
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- darkened by clouds
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of relatively large extent and density
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- prodigious
- full and loud and deep
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- slow and laborious because of weight
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- sharply inclined
- full of; bearing great weight
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
adj
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- of great intensity or power or force
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
noun
adv
verb
- To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
- To work as a tinker.
noun
- A bird, the razor-billed auk.
- A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
- The act of repair or invention.
- Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
- Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
verb
- To struggle or strive
- To take part in a wrestling match with someone
- To move or lift something with difficulty
- To fight.
- To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
- To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
noun
noun
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- 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.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
adj
verb
- 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 sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- 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 claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
verb
verb
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
noun
- The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
- Weight.
- Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness.
- A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
- Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
- Influence; importance.
- A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
- An animal that has become hefted thus.
- A part of a serial publication.
verb
verb
verb
noun
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move with force
- press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- press against forcefully without moving
- approach a certain age or speed
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- move strenuously and with effort
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
noun
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
noun
- Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- A bulldog edition.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- One of the proctors' officers.
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To lie, to tell untruths.
- To polish boots to a high shine.
- To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- To endeavour to raise prices in.
- To mock; to cheat.
- To endeavour to raise the market price of.
adj
- Large and strong, like a bull.
- Adult male.
- Stupid.
- Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
noun
- A policeman.
- The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- Any adult male bovine.
- Beef.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
- An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- A lie.
- Nonsense.
- An elderly lesbian.
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
- A large, strong man.
- Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
- A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
verb
- To make an effort with; to work hard at; to show determination and perseverance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lean, into.
- To embrace; to experience fully or respond to wholeheartedly.
- To take on or embrace something difficult or unpleasant, usually through determination or perseverance; to find a way to benefit from, or alleviate the harm of, risk, uncertainty and difficult situations.
noun
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
verb
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
noun
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
adv
verb
- To seek to attain.
- To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- To follow at speed.
- To hunt.
- To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- To cut (the thread of a screw).
- To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
- To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- To groove; indent.
- To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
noun
- A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- The cavity of a mold.
- A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- A children's game where one player chases another.
- A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
noun
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
adj
adv
- with effort or force or vigor
- with firmness
- earnestly or intently
- causing great damage or hardship
- slowly and with difficulty
- indulging excessively
- into a solid condition
- very near or close in space or time
- with pain or distress or bitterness
- to the full extent possible; all the way
adj
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- dispassionate
- resisting weight or pressure
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
adj
English words for 'To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.'
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