pick off
pick out
throw off
cast
cast off
take out
shake off
take off
shed
throw
take
drop
throw away
cut out
pull off
outtake
excise
clean
scratch
deselect
strip down
exsect
thresh out
fetch
shovel out
clear
wash away
excavate
shearing
aspirate
scrape off
extermination
suck out
draw out
abstract
wipe away
wipe off
freeze out
knock out
cast away
degeminate
burn
sublation
trash
filter out
slough
scrap
pluck up
bate
cut away
quelch
cut off
subtraction
dele
oust
bit bucket
uninvolve
blip out
remotion
fortake
eliminatory
removal
remove
removably
deconfigure
take away
chuck out
deletion
cart
subduct
sublate
decontrol
kick off
delete
off
strike
skim
wipe
detract
derogate
destroy
ungorge
unpack
unniche
have out
purge
sweep out
clear away
throw aside
discardable
uncan
wash out
eliminatory
discardable
removably
off
shearing
extermination
sublation
subtraction
remotion
removal
remove
deletion
delete
pick off
pick out
throw off
cast
cast off
take out
shake off
take off
shed
throw
take
drop
throw away
cut out
pull off
outtake
excise
clean
scratch
deselect
strip down
exsect
thresh out
fetch
shovel out
clear
wash away
excavate
aspirate
scrape off
suck out
draw out
abstract
wipe away
wipe off
freeze out
knock out
cast away
degeminate
burn
trash
filter out
slough
scrap
pluck up
bate
cut away
quelch
cut off
dele
oust
bit bucket
uninvolve
blip out
fortake
remove
deconfigure
take away
chuck out
cart
subduct
sublate
decontrol
kick off
strike
skim
wipe
detract
derogate
destroy
ungorge
unpack
unniche
have out
purge
sweep out
clear away
throw aside
uncan
wash out
verb
verb
- to remove
- put or send forth
- deposit
- select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet
- throw forcefully
- assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- choose at random
- formulate in a particular style or language
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
noun
- the actors in a play
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
- object formed by a mold
- the act of throwing dice
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- a violent throw
verb
verb
- to remove
- propel through the air
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- place or put with great energy
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- put or send forth
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- cause to be confused emotionally
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- organize or be responsible for
- make on a potter's wheel
- cause to fall off
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- a single chance or instance
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
verb
- To remove.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- to remove
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- go down in value
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- terminate an association with
- utter with seeming casualness
- stop pursuing or acting
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- lose (a game)
- pay out
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- hang loosely
- stop associating with
- let or cause to fall in drops
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- leave undone or leave out
- change from one level to another
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- give birth; used for animals
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a steep high face of rock
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- the act of dropping something
verb
- To remove, omit.
- To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- To intercept.
- To arrange or prepare.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
- To oust, to replace.
- To separate from a herd.
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- To leave suddenly.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- remove while making clean
- make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- clean and tidy up the house
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
- be cleanable
- deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- remove unwanted substances from
- remove shells or husks from
noun
adj
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- free from impurities
- (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
- free from sepsis or infection
- morally pure
- (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- without difficulties or problems
- thorough and without qualification
- not carrying concealed weapons
- free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
- free of drugs
adv
adj
verb
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
- remove
- rid of obstructions
- make a way or path by removing objects
- become clear
- grant authorization or clearance for
- go unchallenged; be approved
- be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
- go away or disappear
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
- clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
- yield as a net profit
- make as a net profit
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- sell to get rid of
- pass an inspection or receive authorization
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- settle, as of a debt
- make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- rid of instructions or data
- remove (people) from a building
- remove the occupants of
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
noun
adj
- readily apparent to the mind
- allowing light to pass through
- accurately stated or described
- free from clouds or mist or haze
adv
adj
- free from confusion or doubt
- affording free passage or view
- free from contact or proximity or connection
- characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity
- clear of charges or deductions
- easily deciphered
- freed from any question of guilt
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
verb
verb
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To create abstractions.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- Lacking a story.
- Absolute.
- Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Insufficiently factual.
noun
- A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
verb
verb
- To discard.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To insult or defeat.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- To blackmail.
- To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To betray.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To cauterize.
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
noun
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- Tobacco.
- The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A stream.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
- To discard.
- To disrespect someone or something
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To make into a mess.
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- To beat soundly in a game.
noun
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
verb
- To discard.
- To shed (skin).
- To slide off (like a layer of skin).
- To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
noun
- A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- A muddy or marshy area.
- A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
verb
- To discard.
- To make into scrap.
- to fight
- To stop working on indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
noun
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- The smallest amount.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- Leftover food.
verb
- To cut off, remove, take away.
- To deprive of.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- To masturbate.
- To waste away.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
noun
verb
- To remove via cutting.
- To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- (North American) swerve in front of (another car) while driving; cut [someone] up
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To stop providing funds to (someone).
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
verb
verb
noun
- The supposed place where bits (binary digits) go when they fall off the end of a register during a shift operation; the notional resting place of lost or missing digital information.
- A container for holding chad (“small punched-out pieces of paper”) from paper tape or punch cards used with teleprinters, early computers, and other machines; a chad box.
noun
noun
- The process of removing, or the fact of being removed.
- The relocation of a business etc.
- Murder.
- An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers are said before and after the journey, after which mourners are typically received at the home of the deceased.
- The dismissal of someone from office.
verb
- To delete.
- To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To murder.
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away.
- To dismiss a batsman.
noun
- The act of removing something.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- Emotional distance or indifference.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
verb
- take out or remove
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- take from a person or place
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- get rid of something abstract
- take away a part from; diminish
verb
noun
- A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
- A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
- A shopping cart.
- A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
- A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
verb
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
adv
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
noun
verb
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
verb
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To read quickly, skipping some detail.
- To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- To ricochet.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To become coated over.
- To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
adj
noun
verb
- To erase.
- To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
- To deperm (a ship).
- To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
- To remove an expression from one's face.
noun
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- The act of wiping something.
- An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
verb
- To remove data.
- To sing a song poorly.
- To put down or euthanize.
- To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
- To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- To damage beyond use or repair.
- To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- To defeat soundly.
- To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
verb
- To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
- To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- To forcibly remove people from.
- To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- To trim, dress, or prune.
- To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
- To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
- To become pure, as by clarification.
- To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
noun
verb
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