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woe
ruin
dig one's own grave
suck a lemon
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tio
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bum
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bego
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shake up
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verb
- To worsen a situation.
- To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
- To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
noun
- A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
adj
verb
- To become weaker or worse.
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
verb
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- To be upset or in a bad mood.
- 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 sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
noun
verb
- To make something worse.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To stun or amaze.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- To perplex or puzzle.
noun
verb
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
intj
noun
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- be the source of pain
- give trouble or pain to
- cause damage or affect negatively
- hurt the feelings of
- feel physical pain
- be in pain
adj
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
noun
verb
noun
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.
noun
- The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
- Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- A thing that has degenerated.
adj
adj
noun
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
verb
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To feel contempt for some person or thing.
- To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
- To be fatigued.
- To be surprised.
- To break or ruin.
intj
verb
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- To be upset or knocked over.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- To tip or overturn (something).
- To defeat unexpectedly.
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- An overturn.
- Disturbance or disruption.
- An upset stomach.
adj
verb
- To make someone feel bad emotionally.
- To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- To reduce.
- To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- To make a ruler lose their position of power.
- To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.
- To humble.
verb
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- 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.
noun
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- 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.
adj
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- indicating hostility or enmity
- presaging ill fortune
adj
adv
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
noun
verb
- To depress; to make unhappy.
- To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
intj
noun
- The anus.
- A drinking spree.
- A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- The buttocks.
- A homeless person, usually a man.
- A player or racer who often performs poorly.
adj
noun
- Badness or mediocrity.
- An act of fellatio.
- Milk drawn from the breast.
- A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- The ability to suck; suction.
verb
- To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- To perform fellatio.
- To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
verb
- To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- To search by sense of touch.
- To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- To be or become aware of.
- To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- To understand.
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
verb
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
adj
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
noun
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
verb
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
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