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verb
verb
- take in and retain
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
verb
- To keep back; to retain.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation.
- To keep in store for future or special use.
noun
- A reserve price in an auction.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- A resist.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
- Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
verb
- To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
- To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- To wear.
- To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
- To have or display (a mark or other feature).
- To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
- To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
- To have (a name, title, or designation).
- To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
- To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
- To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
- To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
- To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
- To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
- To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
- To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
- To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
- To behave or conduct (oneself).
- To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
- To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
- To support or sustain; to hold up.
- To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
- To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- To push, thrust, press.
- To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
- To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
- To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- To warrant, justify the need for.
- To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
- Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
- To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
adj
noun
- The meat of this animal.
- A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
- A portable punching machine.
- An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
noun
verb
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- 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 hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- 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.
verb
verb
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- To remain without ruin or injury.
- To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- To be valid.
- Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- To place in an upright or standing position.
- To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- To appear in court.
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- To be positioned to gain or lose.
- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- To remain motionless.
- To be present, to have welled up.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be a candidate (in an election).
- To act as an umpire.
- To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- To tolerate.
- To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
noun
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A single set, as of arms.
- The act of standing.
- A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- A partnership.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
verb
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To shoot (an arrow).
- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
adj
- Not compact.
- Not fitting closely
- Relaxed.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Having oversteer.
noun
- All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
- The release of an arrow.
- A letting go; discharge.
- Freedom from restraint.
intj
verb
- To persist, to endure.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
- hold and prevent from leaving
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- retain possession of
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- conform one's action or practice to
- stick to correctly or closely
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- maintain by writing regular records
- supply with room and board
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- supply with necessities and support
- fail to spoil or rot
- behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- to rear
- retain rights to
- store or keep customarily
- have as a supply
- maintain for use and service
- prevent the action or expression of
- prevent (food) from rotting
noun
verb
- To maintain, or keep in existence.
- To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- To provide for or nourish.
- To encourage or sanction (something).
- To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
noun
verb
- To conserve.
- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
- To provide with a husband.
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A prudent or frugal manager.
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- A polled tree; a pollard.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
verb
- To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- To feel smothered; to find it difficult to breathe.
- To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- To die of suffocation.
- To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
noun
verb
- endure
- put, fix, force, or implant
- stay put (in a certain place)
- stick to firmly
- be or become fixed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- be loyal to
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- be a mystery or bewildering to
noun
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- informal terms for the leg
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- threat of a penalty
verb
noun
intj
adj
verb
verb
- fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
- fail to win
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- fail to get or obtain
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- withdraw, as from reality
- be set at a disadvantage
noun
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
verb
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adv
verb
verb
- be capable of holding or containing
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- To await; to be left to.
- To continue in a state of being.
- To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
noun
English words for 'To withhold; retain.'
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