lash oneself to the mast
let someone down gently
scruple
disincline
abhor
kiasi
brush-off
look back
kick
acceptive
have it
close one eye
frustrate
pass
prefer
shut the door on
fall into a trap
stubborn up
blench
better safe than sorry
pass over
swipe right
rejective
wear
when in doubt, do nowt
rise above
swerve
make peace
mistakeproof
show willing
swipe left
opt out
cop out
boof
decline
withstand
sheep
mislike
give up
stand pat
scorn
stubborn
drop by the wayside
throw in the towel
quit
bite the bullet
cut bait
throw in
make the best of a bad job
drop out
chuck up the sponge
withsay
zugzwang
fall by the wayside
cast off
lower one's sights
punk out
say no
hedge one's bets
bottle
think better of
retract
get ideas
par off
slighting
pessimize
ixnay
pessimism
run for one's life
soften up
rebuff
face the music
scout
hang over one's head
cheat
rejectable
show one's butt
yield up
afraid
obviate
repine
take
brass
overpass
punk
bag
endure
desperate times call for desperate measures
wimp out
hang back
reprove
throw something in someone's face
butt heads
take the bitter with the sweet
wish someone ill
at one's own peril
go by
forbear
kiasi
acceptive
rejective
mistakeproof
stubborn
afraid
brush-off
sheep
zugzwang
slighting
pessimism
rejectable
brass
lash oneself to the mast
let someone down gently
scruple
disincline
abhor
look back
kick
have it
close one eye
frustrate
pass
prefer
shut the door on
fall into a trap
stubborn up
blench
pass over
swipe right
wear
rise above
swerve
make peace
show willing
swipe left
opt out
cop out
boof
decline
withstand
mislike
give up
stand pat
scorn
drop by the wayside
throw in the towel
quit
bite the bullet
cut bait
throw in
make the best of a bad job
drop out
chuck up the sponge
withsay
fall by the wayside
cast off
lower one's sights
punk out
say no
hedge one's bets
bottle
think better of
retract
get ideas
par off
pessimize
ixnay
run for one's life
soften up
rebuff
face the music
scout
hang over one's head
cheat
show one's butt
yield up
obviate
repine
take
overpass
punk
bag
endure
wimp out
hang back
reprove
throw something in someone's face
butt heads
take the bitter with the sweet
wish someone ill
go by
forbear
verb
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To reject; to pass up.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over.
- To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).
- To bypass (something); to skip (something).
- To overlook; not to note or resent.
- To die and thus progress to the afterlife.
verb
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
noun
verb
- To get something wrong or make a mistake.
- To consume (drugs) rectally.
- To puff out in a voluminous way.
- (Of fish, especially barramundi) to surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
- To conceal (a prohibited item) in one's rectum.
- To make this kind of jump when whitewater kayaking.
- To have anal sex with someone, usually as the penetrative partner (possibly with negative connotations).
- To make this sound.
intj
verb
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
verb
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up what is not strictly needed
- part with a possession or right
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- relinquish possession or control over
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- stop consuming
verb
verb
- To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- To throw away a leading position.
- To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- To feed (an infant) baby formula.
noun
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The contents of such a container.
- A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- A building; house.
- (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- 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 reject with contempt.
- To scoff.
- To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.
- To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- A fighter aircraft.
- Term of address for a man or boy.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A fielder in a game for practice.
- A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- The guillemot.
- A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
verb
- To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
- To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
noun
- A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- Someone who cheats.
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- The weed cheatgrass.
verb
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- 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 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.
noun
- A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass
- A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
- A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten
- A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
- The colour of brass.
- A brass nail; a prostitute.
- Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
- Inferior composition.
- High-ranking officers.
adj
- Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
- Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
- Of the colour of brass.
- Impertinent, bold: brazen.
- Of inferior composition.
- Brass monkey; cold.
verb
verb
- To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
- To pimp.
- To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
- To prank.
- To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
noun
- Any of the punk genres: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A young, untrained animal or worker.
- The larger nonconformist social movement associated with punk rock and its fans.
- Synonym of fellow: any person, especially a male comrade.
- Synonym of amateur.
- Synonym of prostitute: a person paid for sex.
- A worthless person
- Synonym of faggot: any male homosexual.
- Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- Synonym of bottom: any passive or effeminate homosexual male.
- Synonym of sissy: a weak, timid person.
- A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
- A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
adj
verb
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- To arrest.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To steal.
- To put into a bag.
- To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- To drop away from the correct course.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
noun
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- One's preference.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- The scrotum.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- £1000, a grand.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- An ugly woman.
- A fellow gay man.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- First, second, or third base.
- A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
verb
- To reject some act in a spiteful manner.
- To repay an act of kindness with disappointment or betrayal.
- To lord over someone by exerting dominance, following a successful confrontation; sometimes in a subtle or snide manner.
- To raise a past transgression in order to admonish someone.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, something, in, someone, face.
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