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noun
noun
noun
- an escape from jail
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
verb
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
noun
noun
- The act of slipping, especially from a secure location.
- Movement of earth on a slope, a landslip.
- The amount by which something has slipped.
- A lessening of performance or achievement.
- A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system due to slipping.
- The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.
verb
noun
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
- An outlaw.
- An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
- One who cheats others.
adj
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not officially recognized or controlled
- not literal
- emptying easily or excessively
- not tense or taut
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not carefully arranged in a package
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
adj
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- not affixed
adv
verb
noun
- An escape or means of escape.
- The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wristwatch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration.
- The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
- A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.
verb
noun
- an association of criminals
- a characteristic sound
- a toroidal shape
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
verb
noun
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- a complete collection of similar things
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a group of hunting animals
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
verb
- arrange in a container
- fill to capacity
- compress into a wad
- carry, as on one's back
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- press tightly together or cram
- hike with a backpack
- press down tightly
- seal with packing
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
verb
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- To escape.
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
adv
noun
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
verb
- To flee.
- Confound; damn; drat.
- To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
- To hunt rabbits.
noun
- A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
- A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
- A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
- A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
- A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- The meat from this animal.
- The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
verb
verb
- To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
- Sometimes followed by up: to animate with vigour; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit.
noun
- A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
- Energy; ardour.
- Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state.
- A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
- The manner or style of something.
- Stannic chloride.
- One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
- Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
- The soul of a person or other creature.
- Enthusiasm.
verb
- To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To lend.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- To adopt a word from another language.
- To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
noun
noun
noun
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- 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
verb
- 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
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
- (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
- anything worn or placed about the neck
- a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part
- the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
- a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
- necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
- a figurative restraint
verb
noun
- A criminal.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- A gullible or easily-cheated person.
- The face.
- A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
- Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")
verb
- To assault for the purpose of robbery.
- To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
- To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
- To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
adj
noun
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- A small aperture.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Ventriloquism.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
verb
noun
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
verb
noun
- The practice by police of apprehending someone but then letting them go without making an arrest.
- A variety of angling where the fish are released after capture, as a conservation measure.
- The immigration policy of releasing illegal immigrants while they await a hearing, rather than detaining them.
- The practice of a patent holding company buying a patent, offering a license to its members, and then selling or donating the patent after a certain period.
noun
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- A structure that provides support for some other material.
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
verb
adv
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