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verb
noun
verb
- To obstruct or surround.
- To offset the risk associated with.
- To construct or repair a hedge.
- To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- To avoid verbal commitment.
noun
- Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
verb
- To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
- To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
- To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- Hearing that song always makes me choke up.
verb
noun
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- A structure that bars passage.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.
- The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.
- Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding cliff or rock wall.
- That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.
verb
- To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adv
adj
noun
verb
verb
- To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- To make a hem.
- To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
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noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
verb
- To make an opening in; to breach.
- To leave suddenly.
- To notch, as a sword or knife.
- To check the size of a gap.
noun
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- The regions between the outfielders.
- A vacant space or time.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
verb
verb
- To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
- To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
noun
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A choking coil.
- In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
verb
- To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
- To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
- To shake, rattle.
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 enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
- To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
- To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
- To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
noun
- A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
- A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
- A teasing joke.
- A stalk of celery.
- A single strand of hair.
- Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
- The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
- Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
- A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
- A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
- Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
- Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
- Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
- Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
noun
- A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- The groove of a pulley.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- An act of gorging.
- A concave moulding; a cavetto.
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verb
- To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
- To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
verb
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
verb
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
noun
- The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
- The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
- Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
- A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
verb
noun
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- A beam compass.
verb
adj
noun
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
- Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
verb
- To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- To compel (someone or something) to do something.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- To violate (a woman); to rape.
- To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
noun
- A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
- The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
- A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Legal validity.
- Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- Synonym of police force
- Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- A waterfall or cascade.
verb
- To become deactivated; to become powered down.
- To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).
- To leave a road; to exit.
- To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.
verb
noun
- Constraint by threat.
- Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
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