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Matterhorn
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induration
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spike someone's guns
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sow dragon's teeth
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flaw
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toil
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arm-wrestle
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verb
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- To gradually weaken.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
noun
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- Any juice.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
verb
- To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- 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 collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly)
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.
noun
- Process of becoming hard.
- Hardness.
- The quality of non-friability; the extent to which a rock does not crumble; rock strength.
- The process of the strengthening of rocks by heating, compaction or cementation, or a combination thereof.
- An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction. Most often this term is used to describe dermatologic findings.
- Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
verb
- To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
- To ensnare.
- To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
- To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
verb
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
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 be difficult or challenging for.
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
noun
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- A thing that frustrates.
- The feeling of annoyance at impassibility from resistance.
- The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
verb
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- To perform a clog dance.
noun
noun
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
verb
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
verb
- To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
adj
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
noun
verb
- To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- To become entangled.
- To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
- To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
noun
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A squabble.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
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.
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
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
verb
- To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
- To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
- Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- To be very good, to rule, go hard.
- Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To break, to destroy.
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
- To scold.
adv
intj
- Expressing surprise.
- Expressing dismay or discontent.
- A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
particle
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
- To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
- To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
- To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
- To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
- To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
noun
verb
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
- To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
noun
- A storm of short duration.
- An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
verb
- To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
- To shake, rattle.
- To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
noun
- A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
- A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹⁄₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
- A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
- A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.
verb
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- To push (something) into something.
- To make by digging or delving.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
noun
- An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- Descending motion; descent.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A sinkhole.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A heat sink.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- The motion of a sinker pitch.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
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