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partisanship
inform
loyalist
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shape
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power broker
countenance
in favor of
vouch
yes
take someone's side
stick to one's guns
strike a blow
back up
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take sides with
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verb
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
- state emphatically and authoritatively
- announce publicly or officially
- state firmly
- declare to be
- authorize payments of
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
prep_phrase
verb
- To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- To call a raise from the big blind.
- To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
verb
noun
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- an indefinitely short time
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- a particular point in time
- following the first in an ordering or series
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a speech seconding a motion
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
adv
adj
verb
adj
verb
- give support or one's approval to
- be behind; approve of
- travel backward
- cause to travel backward
- support financial backing for
- be in back of
- place a bet on
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- establish as valid or genuine
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
adj
adv
- in or to or toward a former location
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward an original condition
- in or to or toward a past time
- in reply
- in repayment or retaliation
noun
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
adj
noun
- A strong supporter of a cause, or perhaps the strongest and most visible supporter of said cause.
- An aircraft carrier serving as a flagship
- A transportation company, such as a shipping or airline company, that is registered in a given state
- A person carrying a standard or flag, usually at sporting events and parades, previously on the battlefield.
- A national airline (typically having the flag, or other national insignia, on the tail)
verb
- To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).
- To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
- To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
- To say in an expression of sympathy.
verb
- To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- To grow strong or stronger.
- To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
- To augment; to improve; to intensify.
verb
noun
- A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.
- That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
- A waiting area in front of a bank of elevators.
- A class or group of interested people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
- lobscouse
- An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
- A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
- An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
- A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
verb
- To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
- To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
- To put a tap on (a shoe).
- simple past tense of underlie
- To incline from the vertical.
noun
- A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
- Anything that is underlaid.
- A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
- A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
verb
- To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
- To cause to speed up.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
noun
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- The biceps.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- Violent blasts of wind.
- An expert.
- Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- An electron gun.
verb
- To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- To discuss; to talk about.
- To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- To gossip; to create scandal.
- Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- To speak (a certain language).
- To confess, especially implicating others.
noun
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- A lecture.
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- A major topic of social discussion.
- Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- Gossip; rumour.
verb
- To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
- To enjoy a commanding position in some field
- To overlook from a height.
- To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
- To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
adj
noun
noun
- One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
- The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.
- A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
- Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.
- An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
- A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
verb
- To undermine something that has control over a situation; to find a way to counter or oppose.
- To make available.
- To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.
- To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge or potential.
- To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
noun
verb
- To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- To exceed a stated mark.
- To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- To obtain a clearance.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- To earn a profit of; to net.
- To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
noun
- A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
adj
- Free of obstacles.
- Good, the best.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Without clouds.
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- Transparent in colour.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Better than, superior to.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without a thickening ingredient.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
adv
adj
- Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
- A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence.
- Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
- Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
- Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.
- Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
- Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
- Attracting the liking of others.
verb
- To give influence to.
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- To create or make.
- To give something a shape and definition.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
noun
- Form; formation.
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
- A loaded die.
- A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
- A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- The status or condition of something
verb
- To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
- To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
- To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
- To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
- To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
- To cherish; to comfort.
verb
- To cite or rely on (an authority, a written work, etc.) in support of one's actions or opinions.
- To assert, aver, or declare (something).
- To provide evidence or proof.
- To back, confirm, or support (someone or something) with credible evidence or proof.
- To call on (someone) to be a witness to something.
- To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
- To bear witness or testify; to guarantee or sponsor.
- To bear witness or testify to the nature or qualities (of someone or something).
- In full vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty: to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land.
- Followed by over: of a vouchee (a person summoned to court to establish a warranty of title): to summon (someone) to court in their place.
- To express confidence in or take responsibility for (the correctness or truth of) something.
noun
noun
- A vote of support or in favor/favour of something.
- An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
intj
- An exclamation of pleasure or approval, usually transcribed with an exclamation point.
- Response that confirms that the user is paying attention.
- Used to ask for more information with a request.
particle
- Answer to a question presuming one answer when all answers are correct.
- Used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.
- Used to show agreement or acceptance.
verb
adv
verb
- To provide support or the promise of support to.
- For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- To undo one's actions.
- For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- To fill up because of a backlog.
- To halt the flow or movement of something.
- To reconsider one's thoughts.
- To move a vehicle backwards.
- Coordinate terms: back away, back off, stand back
noun
- A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A power to attract or interest.
verb
- To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- To be attractive.
- To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
noun
- A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
- Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
- A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
- A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBT), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
- A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
- An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.
verb
- To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
- Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
- To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
- Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
verb
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To support with reasons, as a request.
- To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
- To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
noun
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- A premise placed after its conclusion.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
verb
- Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.
- To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
- To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
- To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).
- Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).
- To inhabit or occupy a place.
- Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
- To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with (a person).
prep
- Supporting, in favour of.
- Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
- So (that), in order to
- On behalf of.
- Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- Because of.
- Over (a period of time).
- To be, or as being.
- Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In honor of; after.
- Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Despite, in spite of.
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
conj
particle
suffix
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- Used to form diminutives.
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- More; used to form the comparative.
- Person or thing connected with.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
- Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually a portion of the given name.)
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
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