retract
draw back
withdraw
unback
set forward
draw
pack
repulse
undertow
retraction
carry
tail
lower
horse
retreat
move back
flap
retire
revulse
recede
pull back
pull away
redound
nantle
unhoist
carry out
pull-up
Cartesian square
retracted
reverberate
bring in
back
rash
taw
wring
reflux
retrieve
addorse
jerk
haul
firk
yank
tuck
put one's shoulder into
reoperate
lug
nicker
suck
backstop
resupinate
turn back
pluck
relapse
nab
fetch
hold tight
pull in
whip out
recess
crisscross
trail
recession
bundle
into
recrate
intromittent
touse
recarry
tow
mucociliated
scoot over
tear off
backlog
winch
rug pull
convey
downbear
sink
relocate
inturn
intake
draw in
crowd together
thrust
contain
tilt
tractile
rip off
shift
pull-down
behind
tug
careen
wobble
retracted
intromittent
mucociliated
tractile
pull-down
behind
retraction
Cartesian square
backstop
recession
retract
draw back
withdraw
unback
set forward
draw
pack
repulse
undertow
carry
tail
lower
horse
retreat
move back
flap
retire
revulse
recede
pull back
pull away
redound
nantle
unhoist
carry out
pull-up
reverberate
bring in
back
rash
taw
wring
reflux
retrieve
addorse
jerk
haul
firk
yank
tuck
put one's shoulder into
reoperate
lug
nicker
suck
resupinate
turn back
pluck
relapse
nab
fetch
hold tight
pull in
whip out
recess
crisscross
trail
bundle
recrate
touse
recarry
tow
scoot over
tear off
backlog
winch
rug pull
convey
downbear
sink
relocate
inturn
intake
draw in
crowd together
thrust
contain
tilt
rip off
shift
tug
careen
wobble
verb
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
verb
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
verb
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- carry, as on one's back
- arrange in a container
- fill to capacity
- compress into a wad
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- press tightly together or cram
- hike with a backpack
- press down tightly
- seal with packing
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
noun
- a large indefinite quantity
- a complete collection of similar things
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- an association of criminals
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a group of hunting animals
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
verb
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
noun
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The penis of a person or animal.
- A tailing.
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The buttocks or backside.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
adj
verb
- to pull down
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- To bring down; to humble
- (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- To reduce the height of
- To depress as to direction
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- To make less elevated
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
adj
verb
- To take or carry on the back.
- To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- To play mischievous pranks on.
- To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- To flog.
- To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- To copulate with (a mare).
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
noun
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- A xiangqi piece, that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- A jackstay.
- An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
- A large and sturdy person.
- Heroin (drug).
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- move away, as for privacy
- move back
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
noun
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
- To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
- To move loosely back and forth.
- Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
noun
- A side fin of a ray.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- A hinged leaf.
- The labia, the vulva.
- A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
verb
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- withdraw from active participation
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- lose interest
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- cause to get out
- prepare for sleep
verb
- To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- To reverberate, to echo.
- To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- To arise from or out of something.
- To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
noun
verb
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
adj
verb
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
postp
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
- Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
- To emit or issue (something) hastily.
- To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- Of rain: to fall heavily.
- To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
- Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
- To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
noun
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
adj
verb
- To push; to tug; to tow.
- To shoot a marble.
- To beat; to scourge.
- To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
- To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
noun
verb
- To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
- To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
- To bend or strain out of its position.
- To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
- To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
- To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
- To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
- To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
noun
verb
- To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
- To remember or recall something.
- To regain or get back something.
- To fetch and bring in game.
- To salvage something
- To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- To rescue (a creature).
- To remedy or rectify something.
noun
verb
- To drag, to pull, to tug.
- To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- To haul ass (“go fast”).
- Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- To draw or pull something heavy.
noun
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
verb
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
noun
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- The beat of a drum.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- To run at too slow a speed.
- To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
noun
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- An ear or ear lobe.
- A lugworm.
- A lug nut.
- A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A lugsail.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- A request for money, as for political purposes.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- A rod or pole.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
verb
- To snatch or steal.
- To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
noun
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Pound sterling.
- The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- nigger.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
verb
- To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- 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 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.
noun
- 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.
- Badness or mediocrity.
- 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.
noun
- A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
- A catcher; the position of catcher.
- The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
- Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
- A wall or fence behind home plate.
- A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
verb
verb
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To pull or twitch sharply.
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
noun
verb
- To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
- To reduce; to throw.
- To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
intj
noun
- An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- An act of fetching data.
- The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
verb
verb
- To inset into something, or to recede.
- To take or declare a break.
- To appoint, with a recess appointment.
- To make a recess in.
- To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
- To place in a recess.
- To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.
noun
- A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
- A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
- An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
- A remote, secret or abstruse place.
- A break, pause or vacation.
- A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
verb
adj
adv
noun
verb
- To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To run or climb like certain plants.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- To leave (a trail of).
- To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- To create a trail in.
noun
- A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- A route or circuit generally.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
noun
- The act of ceding something back.
- A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- A period of reduced economic activity
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
verb
- To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- To dress someone warmly.
- To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- To hurry.
- To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
noun
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A large amount, especially of money.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
- A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
prep
- To or towards the inside of.
- After the start of.
- Interested in or attracted to.
- Against, especially with force or violence.
- Investigating the subject (of).
- Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
- Indicates transition into another form or substance.
- To or towards the region of.
- Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
verb
verb
- To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
- To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
noun
- The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
- Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
- The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
- A rope or cable used in towing.
- Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
- A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
- An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
verb
noun
verb
- To push (something) into something.
- 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 make by digging or delving.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- 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.
verb
noun
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- The quantity taken in.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
adj
noun
- A dynamic menu; a list of options in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it.
- A technique by which a protein is brought down in a test tube by another.
- The conversion of video footage to a higher frame rate by duplicating certain frames.
- A trick done with rings where each ring is pulled down over the head instead of being caught and held in the hand.
- An exercise mostly performed by pulling cables, a bar, or handles from a machine situated diagonally to the front top of the sportsman and targetting the rear muscles.
- Dodder (plant of genus Cuscuta).
adv
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
adj
noun
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