the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
overuse
overabsorb
hogging
whore
choke off
burnt out
crumple up
raddled
chronophage
erosion
run away with
overcompress
elusory
the jug goes to the well until it breaks
go
sweep up
run thin
overloadable
devalorize
disintegrate
bungholing
contabescent
exploded
beat-up
battel
overused
run short
finished
overemploy
oversoak
splosh
overdeliberation
overchange
snow under
drivel
overweary
stock
commonplace
shopworn
trite
overdraft
timeworn
tired
hackneyed
give out
creaky
threadbare
old-hat
banal
well-worn
dead weight
wear thin
wear through
tabid
time sink
overwork
fall off a cliff
jettison
soured
overpeel
consumable
gruelling
kill
overdisperse
overburdeningly
complex
cut up
roil
time-waste
succumb
run out
jazz
dislustre
overpermed
complicative
eat away at
back
overpowering
go to pieces
dumfungled
fight a losing battle
confuscate
blanch
distorting
overwipe
fall apart
away
grow apart
overfrequently
wear out
shit up
ball up
overturn
overprotracted
exhaustion
die
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beat-up
overused
finished
stock
commonplace
shopworn
trite
timeworn
tired
hackneyed
creaky
threadbare
old-hat
banal
well-worn
tabid
soured
consumable
gruelling
overpermed
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overburdeningly
back
away
overfrequently
hogging
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overdeliberation
overchange
overdraft
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time sink
time-waste
overpowering
exhaustion
overuse
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whore
choke off
crumple up
run away with
overcompress
go
sweep up
run thin
devalorize
disintegrate
battel
run short
overemploy
oversoak
splosh
snow under
drivel
overweary
give out
wear thin
wear through
overwork
fall off a cliff
jettison
overpeel
kill
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complex
cut up
roil
succumb
run out
jazz
dislustre
eat away at
go to pieces
fight a losing battle
confuscate
blanch
overwipe
fall apart
grow apart
wear out
shit up
ball up
overturn
die
verb
- To overuse something.
- To prostitute oneself.
- To engage the services of a prostitute.
- To promote shamelessly.
- To pimp; to pander.
- To pursue false gods.
- To pursue false goals.
noun
- A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
- A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
- A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
- A contemptible person.
- Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
noun
- The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
- A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
- One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
- The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
- The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
- Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
- Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
- In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).
verb
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- To be spent or used up.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
verb
adj
noun
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- a supply of something available for future use
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- an ornamental white cravat
- any animals kept for use or profit
verb
verb
- To break down, get out of order, fail.
- To issue; to distribute.
- To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
- To complain, sulk, chastise.
- To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
- To desist.
- To put forth, utter (prayers).
- To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
- To run short, come to an end.
- To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
verb
- To use up or to waste.
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To produce intense pain.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
verb
adj
- A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
noun
- A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A problem.
- An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
- A complex number.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- A network of interconnected systems.
verb
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
adj
verb
- To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out.
- To extend a piece of material, or clothing.
- To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)
- To use up; to consume all of something. See also run low, run short.
- to be got out in this way.
- To conclude in, to end up
- To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being.
verb
- To complicate.
- To play (jazz music).
- To destroy.
- To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
- To distract or pester.
- To ejaculate.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
noun
- Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- Semen, jizz.
- Energy, excitement, excitability.
- Nonsense.
adj
adv
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
postp
verb
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To grow or become white.
- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
- To use evasion.
- To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
- To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
adj
verb
adv
- So as to remove or use up something.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- From a place, hence.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- Without restraint.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
adj
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- Not on one's home territory.
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- Out.
intj
verb
adv
verb
- To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- To punish by spanking.
- Of apparel, to display in public.
- To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
- To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.
- Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
- To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.
verb
- To turn over, capsize or upset.
- To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- To overthrow or destroy.
- Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
- To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
noun
verb
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
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