hold out
compromising
hesitant
have it your way
hang back
down on one's knees
whistle for
back the wrong horse
meet halfway
hope against hope
fall into a trap
miss the boat
wear down
fall back
wait for the other shoe to drop
Hollywooding
lash oneself to the mast
stymie
butt heads
diehard
stump up
outwait
bottle
cut
irresistible impulse
compulsion
play the odds
inflexible
wear
deathbed conversion
punk out
stubborn
break down
pigeonhole
hang in the balance
nolo episcopari
concessionary
prisoner of hope
transigent
scruple
cool one's heels
conciliatory
happen
blink first
insubordinate
kick one's heels
take on the chin
anticompromise
drag
willy-nilly
backward
aspirational
stubborn up
truculent
flat out
boof
get ideas
uncompromising
cut and dried
land up
turn rusty
block
hopeless
go off half-cocked
rebuff
reluctantly
cheat
turn against
done
disappoint
go for it
show willing
prostrate
unwilling
gian peng
retract
get one's hopes up
resist
compromiser
relinquish
pessimize
stand firm
counterscrutiny
begrudge
resign oneself
shit or get off the pot
on the wrong foot
turn to
discomfit
beat
withstand
fish or cut bait
cowardly lion
show one's butt
soft
brinkmanship
zugzwang
cry all the way to the bank
know when to fold 'em
compromising
hesitant
diehard
inflexible
stubborn
concessionary
transigent
conciliatory
insubordinate
anticompromise
backward
aspirational
truculent
uncompromising
cut and dried
hopeless
done
unwilling
gian peng
soft
willy-nilly
reluctantly
Hollywooding
irresistible impulse
compulsion
deathbed conversion
prisoner of hope
compromiser
counterscrutiny
cowardly lion
brinkmanship
zugzwang
hold out
hang back
whistle for
back the wrong horse
meet halfway
hope against hope
fall into a trap
miss the boat
wear down
fall back
wait for the other shoe to drop
lash oneself to the mast
stymie
butt heads
stump up
outwait
bottle
cut
play the odds
wear
punk out
break down
pigeonhole
hang in the balance
scruple
cool one's heels
happen
blink first
kick one's heels
take on the chin
drag
stubborn up
flat out
boof
get ideas
land up
turn rusty
block
go off half-cocked
rebuff
cheat
turn against
disappoint
go for it
show willing
prostrate
retract
get one's hopes up
resist
relinquish
pessimize
stand firm
begrudge
resign oneself
shit or get off the pot
turn to
discomfit
beat
withstand
fish or cut bait
show one's butt
cry all the way to the bank
know when to fold 'em
verb
- To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- To throw away a leading position.
- To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- To feed (an infant) baby formula.
noun
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The contents of such a container.
- A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- A building; house.
- (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
verb
- To make or negotiate.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
intj
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
noun
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
- A decrease.
verb
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
noun
- An abrupt, last-minute change in one's professed beliefs, principles, or point of view in order to escape a serious threat or to increase one's chances of success.
- Acceptance of religious belief immediately before one dies, typically in a state of anxiety or fear of the insecurity of what will happen to one in and after death.
verb
- To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally)
- To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- To cease to function. (others)
- To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle)
- To give in, relent, concede, or surrender.
- To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- To digest.
- To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly)
verb
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
adj
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
verb
adj
- Complete, total, downright.
- Lazy, sleeping.
- Very busy.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out.
adv
noun
- A uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
verb
- To get something wrong or make a mistake.
- To consume (drugs) rectally.
- To puff out in a voluminous way.
- (Of fish, especially barramundi) to surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
- To conceal (a prohibited item) in one's rectum.
- To make this kind of jump when whitewater kayaking.
- To have anal sex with someone, usually as the penetrative partner (possibly with negative connotations).
- To make this sound.
intj
verb
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To hit with a block.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
- To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
noun
- A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- Someone who cheats.
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- The weed cheatgrass.
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
verb
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
adj
- willing to negotiate and compromise
- easily hurt
- (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value
- using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation
- tolerant or lenient
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- having little impact
- out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
- not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
- mild and pleasant
- not brilliant or glaring
adv
adj
- yielding readily to pressure or weight
- compassionate and kind; conciliatory
- (of sound) relatively low in volume
- produced with vibration of the vocal cords
- not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
- (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone
- (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
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