scrawm
claw
lacerate
shearing
fortear
divulsive
claut
toll
slite
rend
rip
rive
pull
beclaw
scrab
scart
tear up
debranch
excoriate
chafe
dilaniate
bemangle
berend
shred
rip up
scale off
discerp
ripple
laniary
dilacerate
break out
scarify
desquamate
rit
clabber
disbranch
snappy
overstrew
switchbladed
tear
rug
crack
smash
smart
rash
hack
tear to pieces
mist over
splatter
furbish
avulse
rake
shard
sift
pyroculture
scrattle
abrade
detrench
bugger
bite
rent
laniation
rendingly
riprap
crock
mistrim
scythe
bust one's ass
biff
break up
graunch
clour
harrow
forburst
touse
copse
wound
grade
seize with teeth
discerption
antitearing
tearingly
drib
do in
stuff up
bedash
chew
frazzle
slob
limpen
tease
lancination
shearing
divulsive
laniary
snappy
switchbladed
antitearing
rendingly
tearingly
tear
pyroculture
rent
laniation
grade
discerption
slite
lancination
scrawm
claw
lacerate
fortear
claut
toll
slite
rend
rip
rive
pull
beclaw
scrab
scart
tear up
debranch
excoriate
chafe
dilaniate
bemangle
berend
shred
rip up
scale off
discerp
ripple
dilacerate
break out
scarify
desquamate
rit
clabber
disbranch
overstrew
tear
rug
crack
smash
smart
rash
hack
tear to pieces
mist over
splatter
furbish
avulse
rake
shard
sift
scrattle
abrade
detrench
bugger
bite
riprap
crock
mistrim
scythe
bust one's ass
biff
break up
graunch
clour
harrow
forburst
touse
copse
wound
seize with teeth
drib
do in
stuff up
bedash
chew
frazzle
slob
limpen
tease
verb
verb
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To move with one's fingertips.
noun
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
adj
noun
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- The act or operation of reaping.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
verb
- To tear in pieces.
- To summon by ringing a bell.
- To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- To announce by tolling.
- To suspend.
- To take as a toll.
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- To impose a fee for the use of.
- To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
noun
- A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A tollbooth.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
- The act or sound of tolling.
verb
- tear or be torn violently
- cause to move by pulling
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- move into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- steer into a certain direction
- strain abnormally
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- operate when rowing a boat
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- strip of feathers
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- take away
noun
verb
- To tear into pieces.
- To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- To damage.
- To wrench out of the ground.
- To have intense penetrative sex with.
- To brutally assault.
- To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- To start shedding tears.
verb
verb
verb
- To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- To shape into a series of ripples.
- To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- To propagate like a moving wave.
- To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
noun
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
verb
- To take or force out by breaking.
- To bring out from storage, use, or present.
- To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1
- Of a record: to achieve success.
- To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. Notionally, to escape by breaking.
- To separate from a bundle.
- To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
- To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
verb
- To make scratches or cuts on.
- To harrow the feelings.
- To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
- To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
- To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
- To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
verb
verb
- To produce tears.
- To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- To injure as if by pulling apart.
- To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- To become torn, especially accidentally.
- To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- To remove by tearing.
- To smash or enter something with great force.
- To demolish
noun
- A rampage.
- A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
verb
noun
verb
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To form cracks.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
verb
- To break (something brittle) violently.
- To ruin completely and suddenly.
- To be destroyed by being smashed.
- To deform through continuous pressure.
- To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To hit extremely hard.
noun
- Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A traffic collision.
- Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
verb
- To hurt or sting.
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
noun
adj
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Sudden and intense.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
verb
- To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
- Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
- Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
- To emit or issue (something) hastily.
- To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- Of rain: to fall heavily.
- To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
- Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
noun
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
adj
verb
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
verb
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- To break (something) into shards.
- To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
- To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
noun
- An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- A component of a sharded distributed database.
- The plant chard.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
verb
- To sieve or strain (something).
- To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- [+object] (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
- [+ through (object)] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
verb
- To break or ruin.
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To feel contempt for some person or thing.
- To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
- To be fatigued.
- To be surprised.
intj
noun
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
verb
- To sting.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
noun
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- A division or schism.
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
- A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
verb
- To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- To be leased or let for rent.
- To grant occupation in return for rent.
adj
verb
- To break something or injure someone.
- To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- To give off crock or smut.
- To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
noun
- Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- A low stool.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb
- To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- To dissolve; to part.
- To break or separate into pieces.
- Become disorganised
- Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- be or cause to be overcome with laughter
- To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness.
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
verb
- To cut off; chop off.
- To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
- To beat; thrash; drub.
- To scold.
- To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
- To shoot at a mark at short range.
- To entice step by step.
- To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- To shoot directly at short range.
- To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
verb
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
noun
verb
- tear into pieces
- annoy persistently
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- separate the fibers of
- mock or make fun of playfully
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
noun
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