beleaguer
chevy
hag
bestand
roust
naggle
atray
moither
come at
harassable
worry
spite
mommick
assault
bedevil
pick on
jobe
berate
tekan
kick around
pelt
tease
tantalize
rally
twit
tantalise
bait
taunt
razz
give it to someone
cod
ride
rag
nettle
lash
belabour
let someone have it
exasperate
revile
hector
vituperate
work over
enturbulate
flay
jaw
screw around
tew
overharass
harrying
mau-mau
bring low
flagellate
strong-arm
persecutor
stint
overrun
harassingly
hound
haranguer
haze
hounder
monster
rack
snarer
bluster
harasser
squeeze
inch
downtread
lay into
strike
bite in the arse
dog
get at
flog
tee off
slow-walk
harassment
provokee
persecute
brutalize
animalize
beratingly
give curry
animalise
bearbait
give someone what for
harried
brutalise
chopse
bite someone's head off
persecution
give stick
call on the carpet
cop it
aggressionist
brutalisation
brutalization
harangue
harassable
harried
harassingly
beratingly
harrying
persecutor
haranguer
hounder
snarer
harasser
harassment
provokee
persecution
aggressionist
brutalisation
brutalization
beleaguer
chevy
hag
bestand
roust
naggle
atray
moither
come at
worry
spite
mommick
assault
bedevil
pick on
jobe
berate
tekan
kick around
pelt
tease
tantalize
rally
twit
tantalise
bait
taunt
razz
give it to someone
cod
ride
rag
nettle
lash
belabour
let someone have it
exasperate
revile
hector
vituperate
work over
enturbulate
flay
jaw
screw around
tew
overharass
mau-mau
bring low
flagellate
strong-arm
stint
overrun
hound
haze
monster
rack
bluster
squeeze
inch
downtread
lay into
strike
bite in the arse
dog
get at
flog
tee off
slow-walk
persecute
brutalize
animalize
give curry
animalise
bearbait
give someone what for
brutalise
chopse
bite someone's head off
give stick
call on the carpet
cop it
harangue
verb
noun
- An evil woman.
- A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- Sleep paralysis.
- A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- An ugly old woman.
- A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
verb
noun
- A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
- A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
- A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
- An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
- An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
- The tort whose action is such an act.
- The crime whose action is such an attempt.
verb
- To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
- Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
- Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
- To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
- To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
- To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
- Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
- To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
noun
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
verb
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- annoy persistently
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
- tear into pieces
- 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
verb
adj
noun
verb
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
- continue undisturbed and without interference
- move like a floating object
- be sustained or supported or borne
- have certain properties when driven
- be contingent on
- lie moored or anchored
- sit on and control a vehicle
- climb up on the body
- ride over, along, or through
- keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
- copulate with
noun
verb
- To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
- Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
noun
- Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
- Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle,
- ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
- Various species of the genus Dendrocnide
- Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
- Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
- Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle,
- rock nettle (Eucnide);
- small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
- Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
- false nettle (Boehmeria, family Urticaceae);
- flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus);
- hedge nettle (Stachys);
- hemp nettle (Galeopsis);
- Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
- horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
- Celtis (hackberry).
- nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
- Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
- dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
- Urtica ferox (tree nettle);
- Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
- Urera baccifera (scratchbush),
verb
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- To assail or abuse by scolding.
- To talk; to converse.
- To scold; to clamor.
- (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
noun
- Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.
- Axle guard.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- A notch or opening.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
verb
- To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- To run past; to run beyond.
- To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- 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 run past the end of.
- To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
noun
verb
noun
- A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
- Someone who seeks something.
- A houndfish.
- Any canine animal.
- A despicable person.
- A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
- Projections at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on; foretop
- A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
noun
verb
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
noun
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
verb
- To harass.
- To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
- To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
noun
- A terrifying and dangerous creature.
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- Something unusually large.
- A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- A badly behaved child, a brat.
- A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.
adj
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
noun
verb
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- To fit into a tight place.
noun
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
noun
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
adj
verb
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- To criticize.
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
noun
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- The meat of this animal, eaten as food
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- A man, guy, chap.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- Something that performs poorly.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- A sexually aggressive man.
- Underdog.
- Foot.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
adj
verb
- To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
- To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.
- To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
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