pussyfoot
steal
creep
stalk
glide
sneak away
sneak off
steal away
sneak out
slip away
slip out
mousy
mouse
whisk
aloud
sneak
slip
quietlike
faintly
skulk
shushy
hushedly
pad
ease
diligent
persevering
watch one's step
dumbly
blunder
stealthily
stalking
trail behind
out of sight
in hiding
doggo
hushfully
in silence
step
creepingly
ooch
tick a lock
breathe
drivel
go round
sail
quiesce
keep a low profile
forsakenly
quietly
insecurely
run
sluggishly
subsonic
sotto voce
softly, softly, catchee monkey
slob
slow train
drawl
slink
tread softly
shack
edge
benny
winly
trail
quiet
silentious
murmur
take one's time
mutter
amble
quietish
still-hunt
sit tight
mutely
dishily
stealthwise
obambulate
stir
mutedly
calm down
hushen
lull
shrithe
dig out
one step at a time
motionlessly
isolatedly
drag
mousy
shushy
diligent
persevering
subsonic
sotto voce
silentious
quietish
aloud
quietlike
faintly
hushedly
dumbly
stealthily
out of sight
in hiding
doggo
hushfully
creepingly
forsakenly
quietly
insecurely
sluggishly
winly
mutely
dishily
stealthwise
mutedly
one step at a time
motionlessly
isolatedly
skulk
stalking
slow train
pussyfoot
steal
creep
stalk
glide
sneak away
sneak off
steal away
sneak out
slip away
slip out
mouse
whisk
sneak
slip
skulk
pad
ease
watch one's step
blunder
trail behind
step
ooch
tick a lock
breathe
drivel
go round
sail
quiesce
keep a low profile
run
slob
drawl
slink
tread softly
shack
edge
benny
trail
quiet
murmur
take one's time
mutter
amble
still-hunt
sit tight
obambulate
stir
calm down
hushen
lull
shrithe
dig out
drag
verb
- To move silently or secretly.
- To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
- To borrow for a short moment.
- To dispossess
- To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- To acquire at a low price.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing
- To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
noun
- A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price.
- A stolen base.
- Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
- A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- The act of stealing.
verb
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
noun
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
verb
- To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
- To walk haughtily.
- To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
noun
- The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
- An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- A haughty style of walking.
verb
- To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- To cause to glide.
- To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
- To pass with a glide, as the voice.
noun
- An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
- A bird, the glede or kite.
- The joining of two sounds without a break.
- A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
- A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
- The act of gliding.
- A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
verb
noun
- any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- person who is quiet or timid
- a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad
verb
- To move lightly and nimbly.
- To move whiskers.
- In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
- To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
- To move something rapidly and with no warning.
noun
- A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
- A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
verb
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- make off with belongings of others
- pass on stealthily
noun
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
adj
verb
- move stealthily
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- pass out of one's memory
- move out of position
noun
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- a young and slender person
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a slippery smoothness
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a small sheet of paper
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
verb
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
intj
noun
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
verb
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To proceed with little effort.
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To lessen in intensity.
- To give respite to (someone).
noun
- Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Ability, the means to do something
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
adv
prep_phrase
verb
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To dance.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To set, as the foot.
noun
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To quietly force to move without drama or noticeable disruption.
- To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
- To progress or change a little bit or in small increments.
- To exceed a limit by a small amount.
- To move or slide a small amount; scoot; scooch.
- To cry out in pain or discomfort.
- To work toward a goal by using small low-risk steps.
- To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.
intj
noun
verb
- To whisper quietly.
- To inspire (scripture).
- To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- To live.
- To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
- To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
- To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
- To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
- To give an impression of, to exude.
- To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
- To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
- To draw something into the lungs.
- To exchange gases with the environment.
- To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
verb
- To circulate, to move aimlessly but ghostly (threateningly and invisibly).
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone.
- To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go around the side of sth., to bypass something.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- To physically swirl or rotate.
- To evade sth.
- To pass around, to circulate sth.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)
verb
- To move briskly but sedately.
- To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
- To set sail; to begin a voyage.
- To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
- To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
- To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
- To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
noun
- A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
- Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
- A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
- A sailfish.
- The blade of a windmill.
- The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
- The conning tower of a submarine.
- The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
- an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
- A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
verb
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- have a particular form
- move along, of liquids
- perform as expected when applied
- change or be different within limits
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- be operating, running or functioning
- change from one state to another
- cause to perform
- be affected by; be subjected to
- continue to exist
- occur persistently
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- conduct to completion
- pass over, across, or through
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- make without a miss
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- cause an animal to move fast
- be diffused
- sail before the wind
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- travel a route regularly
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- compete in a race
- progress by being changed
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- become undone
noun
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- the act of testing something
- a race run on foot
- an unbroken series of events
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- a regular trip
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- unrestricted freedom to use
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- a small stream
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a row of unravelled stitches
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- a short trip
verb
- To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
- To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
- To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
- To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
noun
verb
verb
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To win by a small margin.
noun
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
adv
verb
noun
- a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
- a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant
- an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves
- a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
adj
adv
verb
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
verb
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
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