overgo
overspread
invade
overswarm
spelder
overrun
sny
perfusive
instrew
go around
forage
outscatter
suffusive
beflood
bescatter
dwindle
break
permeative
pervasive
permeant
distribute
permeating
pass through
permeate
bleed out
engird
scatter
invadable
spreadingly
march on
stock up
circumfuse
interdash
circumvent
cair
peddle
bespread
erupt
float
disinhume
displayed
coinfiltrate
rend
infiltrative
swirl
splay
overcome
seminate
run
erumpent
spill
explode
spree
burst forth
pour in
transverse
break loose
run afoul of
sprawl
slaister
flytrap
spread
outsally
pass over
make the rounds
translocate
pass
dissolve
aberuncate
peel
dyke
upstir
annexure
crossflow
interwind
rear
stoor
diverge
inflow
unspool
shrithe
riddle
outflow
unfurl
assiege
outplace
dissipate
propagate
track
unbrutalize
unroll
quitch
perfusive
suffusive
permeative
pervasive
permeant
permeating
invadable
displayed
infiltrative
splay
erumpent
spreadingly
flytrap
annexure
overgo
overspread
invade
overswarm
spelder
overrun
sny
instrew
go around
forage
outscatter
beflood
bescatter
dwindle
break
distribute
pass through
permeate
bleed out
engird
scatter
march on
stock up
circumfuse
interdash
circumvent
cair
peddle
bespread
erupt
float
disinhume
coinfiltrate
rend
swirl
overcome
seminate
run
spill
explode
spree
burst forth
pour in
transverse
break loose
run afoul of
sprawl
slaister
spread
outsally
pass over
make the rounds
translocate
pass
splay
dissolve
aberuncate
peel
dyke
upstir
crossflow
interwind
rear
stoor
diverge
inflow
unspool
shrithe
riddle
outflow
unfurl
assiege
outplace
dissipate
propagate
track
unbrutalize
unroll
quitch
verb
- To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- To run past; to run beyond.
- To continue for too long.
- To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- To run past the end of.
- To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
noun
verb
verb
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To scatter or spread.
- To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- To supply to retail outlets.
- To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- To deliver or pass out.
- To divide into portions and dispense.
- To classify or separate into categories.
- To be distributive.
- To apportion (more or less evenly).
- To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
verb
- To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- To be dispersed upon.
- Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- To deflect (radiation or particles).
- To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
noun
verb
verb
- To circulate.
- To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- To be capable of floating.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
- To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- To move in a fluid manner.
- To drift gently through the air.
- To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
- To drift or wander aimlessly.
- To extend a short-term loan to.
- To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- To perform a float.
- To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
noun
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- A float board.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
- Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
- A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- A lowboy trailer.
- Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
adj
verb
- To move or spread quickly.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To come undone.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- burst outward, usually with noise
- show a violent emotional reaction
- destroy by exploding
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
- drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
- show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
verb
noun
adj
- (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
- Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
verb
- spread across or over
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- move outward
- cover by spreading something over
- distribute over a surface in a layer
adj
- distributed or spread over a considerable extent
- prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out
- fully extended in width
noun
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- decorative cover for a bed
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
verb
verb
- To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over.
- To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else.
- To bypass (something); to skip (something).
- To overlook; not to note or resent.
- To die and thus progress to the afterlife.
verb
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- 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 reject; to pass up.
- 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 decline something that is offered or available.
- 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 disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
- To destroy, make disappear.
- To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
noun
verb
- To move, separate (off or away).
- To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- To remove one's clothing.
- To play a peel shot.
- To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
noun
- A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- The action of peeling away from a formation.
- A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- An equal or match; a draw.
- The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
verb
- To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- To scour a watercourse.
- To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
noun
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
- To move; stir.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To get angry.
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- To breed and raise.
- To carve.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
adj
adv
noun
verb
- To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
- To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
- Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
verb
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
noun
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
verb
verb
- To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
- To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
- To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
- To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
- To generate; to produce.
- To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
verb
- To traverse; to move across.
- To create music using tracker software.
- To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- To create a musical recording (a track).
- To exhibit good cognitive function.
- To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- To tow.
- To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- To follow the tracks of.
- To move.
- To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
noun
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- Physical course; way.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- The pitch.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- The way or rails along which a train moves.
- Sound stored on a record.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
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the use of slang.
to scrounge
mocking.
tufty
made of wood
rheumatoid arthritis
patrol car
To set free
paracusis
endogenous
trompe-l'oeil
root crops
bolt
anemometer
business use
quintet
salmon (color, colour)
something easy to do
walk with the wise and become wise
dangerous, risky.
undone
not recognized
Serving to palliate
new variety
I say
ungenerous
scalloped.
to rush.
obnoxious.
conflagration
the old
antioxidant
debauched
small size
expropriation
to feel tense
scholarly
stoma
e-book
IMO
inborn
flighty
directions
lonely
just now