shut down
shut off
pop off
close
put the kibosh on
switch out
redlight
stay
delay
detain
give up
kick off
kick out
nark
balk
cease
halt
off
stall
let up
conk
put a block on
pull over
kibosh
foreclose
cess
go out
cut
cut off
cut out
open
check
belay
shutoff
interclude
stop over
squelch
lay off
rein up
go off
stoplessness
awaken
dead
disrupt
power off
come to rest
disavail
leave off
nip in the bud
let her rip
stopple
stop
pierce
scare off
leave alone
shut it
unstopper
pull up
cheese
come to a stop
break
vibe
put down
cease and desist
rescind
misstop
call it quits
stound
knock off
have done with
leash
short
quit
fill up
heave to
draw up
end
autostop
terminate
stop short
seclude
knock it off
subtract
stanch
stoppable
sustentatio
lin
hit pause
stoppable
short
shutoff
stoplessness
stopple
stop
sustentatio
shut down
shut off
pop off
close
put the kibosh on
switch out
redlight
stay
delay
detain
give up
kick off
kick out
nark
balk
cease
halt
off
stall
let up
conk
put a block on
pull over
kibosh
foreclose
cess
go out
cut
cut off
cut out
open
check
belay
interclude
stop over
squelch
lay off
rein up
go off
awaken
dead
disrupt
power off
come to rest
disavail
leave off
nip in the bud
let her rip
pierce
scare off
leave alone
unstopper
pull up
stop
cheese
come to a stop
break
vibe
put down
cease and desist
rescind
misstop
call it quits
stound
knock off
have done with
leash
quit
fill up
heave to
draw up
end
autostop
terminate
stop short
seclude
subtract
stanch
lin
hit pause
verb
- To turn off.
- To release flatulence, generally in short rapid succession.
- To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity).
- To die suddenly.
- To thrust away, or put off promptly.
- To speak frankly.
- To kill someone.
- To fire or launch (a shot, projectile, or missile), especially singly or in small bursts.
- To leave and return in a short time.
verb
- To turn off; to switch off.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
verb
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- stay put (in a certain place)
- dwell
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- remain behind
- stay behind
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- stop a judicial process
- fasten with stays
- overcome or allay
noun
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
verb
- To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
- To admit defeat, capitulate
- Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c.
- To abandon (someone or something)
- To relinquish (something)
- To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- To surrender (someone or something)
- To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
verb
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- To stop, check, block.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To bring to a stop.
- To stop either temporarily or permanently.
- To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
- To limp; move with a limping gait.
- To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- To falter.
- To stop marching.
- To cause to discontinue.
- To waver.
noun
verb
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
noun
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
verb
- come to a stop
- postpone doing what one should be doing
- deliberately delay an event or action
- put into, or keep in, a stall
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- cause an engine to stop
noun
- a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
- seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- small individual study area in a library
- a tactic used to mislead or delay
verb
verb
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To fail.
- To recede; to ebb.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To pass out of fashion.
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
verb
- cease, stop
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- refuse to acknowledge
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
adj
- with parts removed
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- mixed with water
noun
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
adj
verb
- To turn on; to switch on.
- To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To bring up, broach.
- To make accessible to customers or clients.
- To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- To become open.
- To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
- To enter upon, begin.
- To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
- To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- To start (a campaign).
- To begin conducting business.
- To reveal one's hand.
- To load into memory for viewing or editing.
noun
- Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
- The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
- A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
- A sports event in which anybody can compete.
adj
- Not fulfilled.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Having a free variable.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- Public
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- not covered, showing what is inside
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Able to be accessed (physically).
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Receptive.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
verb
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To mark with a check pattern.
adj
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
verb
- To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
- To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
noun
verb
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
verb
- To stop operating; to switch off.
- To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
- To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
- To fire, especially accidentally.
- To begin clanging or making noise.
- To explode.
- To depart; to leave.
- To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
- To like less.
- (chiefly UK, of epoxy resins) To cure; to set.
- To ejaculate.
verb
- To prevent by disabling; stop.
- To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- To kill.
adj
- Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead (literally or as a hyperbole).
- Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- Broken or inoperable.
- Not imparting motion or power by design.
- Not in play.
- Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- Tagged out.
- So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- No longer living; (usually only when referring to people) deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Unproductive; fallow.
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- Devoid of living things; barren.
- No longer used or required.
- Exact; on the dot.
noun
- (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
adv
verb
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
punct
verb
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To close or block an opening.
- Not to continue.
verb
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To pull forward.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
verb
- To stop; to refrain from.
- To smile excessively, as for a camera.
- To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
- To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
- To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
noun
- Money.
- A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
- That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- Any particular variety of cheese.
- In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- Smegma.
- A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
- A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
- A fastball.
intj
verb
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- 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 make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- 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 halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
- To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
- To euthanize (an animal).
- To make prices, or taxes, lower.
- To pay.
- To terminate a call; to hang up.
- To give something as a reason for something else.
- To add a name to a list.
- To insult, belittle, or demean.
- To land.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
- To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- To write (something).
- To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
- To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
verb
noun
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- A stand; a stop.
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- Astonishment; amazement.
verb
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To have sex with.
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
verb
noun
adv
- so as to interrupt
- clean across
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
noun
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
adj
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- lacking foresight or scope
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
verb
verb
- To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- To leave (a place).
- To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- To close (an application).
- To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- To abandon, renounce (a thing).
noun
adj
verb
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- put an end to
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
verb
- To check or stop, or deter, (an action).
- To stop the flow of (blood); to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
- To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
- To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
- Of bleeding: to stop.
noun
noun
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