dis-
⠁⠛⠌
agyen
ferninst
gainst
with
contra-
on
versus
anenst
toe to toe
antimannan
make head against
turn against
withgo
traverse
go against
oppose
react
contra
anti-
proscribe
disallow
interdict
nix
veto
prohibit
forbid
antirusting
in the face of
forenenst
appulsive
contro-
fly in the teeth of
fly in the face of
rival
counterpoint
thwarten
gainstay
antagonize
antagonise
witherward
counteract
gainstand
enantio-
refudiate
anticompetitively
diametrical
act on
counter
antagonistic
anti-skub
upriver
contrary
upstream
in the teeth of
lean
verse
against
counter-
peg back
counteroppositional
at antipodes
counter-argumentative
with-
anticommerce
rash
gainstanding
impingent
countertrader
combatable
lay siege
anti-Russian
break
againstness
opposingly
fight
face
antideserter
diametric
fight down
confront
antipopular
defend
fight back
gainstriving
resistive
antisurvival
counterweigh
antipublic
antimannan
antirusting
appulsive
diametrical
counter
antagonistic
anti-skub
counteroppositional
counter-argumentative
anticommerce
impingent
combatable
anti-Russian
antideserter
diametric
antipopular
witherward
resistive
antisurvival
antipublic
toe to toe
witherward
anticompetitively
upriver
upstream
opposingly
gainstand
contrary
gainstanding
countertrader
againstness
gainstriving
make head against
turn against
withgo
traverse
go against
oppose
react
proscribe
disallow
interdict
nix
veto
prohibit
forbid
fly in the teeth of
fly in the face of
rival
counterpoint
thwarten
gainstay
antagonize
antagonise
counteract
gainstand
refudiate
act on
lean
verse
peg back
rash
lay siege
break
fight
face
fight down
confront
defend
fight back
counter
counterweigh
abbrev
prep
prep
prep
- Against.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
- Having, owning.
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- In regard to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- In the employment of.
- In support of.
adv
prefix
prep
- Against; in opposition to.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
verb
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adv
adj
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
prep
adv
verb
noun
- A deal to swap goods or services.
- A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- A contra dance.
prefix
- Against, hostile to.
- Related to antiparticles or antimatter.
- Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.
- Opposite of, reverse.
- Indicating that a game's conventional victory conditions have been reversed: misère.
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- Contrasting with the norm.
- That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
adj
prefix
verb
verb
verb
- To oppose or compete with.
- To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
noun
- A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
adj
verb
noun
prefix
adj
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
noun
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
adv
adv
adj
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- In the direction from the client to the server.
- Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
noun
- Part of the river towards the upstream direction.
- The original developers or maintainers of software.
verb
verb
- To press against.
- To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To hang outwards.
- To conceal.
- Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
noun
- An inclination away from the vertical.
- An organism that is lean in stature.
- Meat with no fat on it.
- A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
adj
prep
- In opposition to.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- In a contrary direction to.
- In competition with, versus.
- In front of; before (a background).
- Close to, alongside.
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- In exchange for.
- To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- As counterbalance to.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- As a charge on.
prefix
prep_phrase
verb
- Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
- Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
- To emit or issue (something) hastily.
- To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- Of rain: to fall heavily.
- To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
- Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
- To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
noun
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
adj
verb
- To counter-attack.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- oppose, as in hostility or a competition
- deal with (something unpleasant) head on
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- be opposite
- turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction
- present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
- turn so as to expose the face
- line the edge (of a garment) with a different material
- cover the front or surface of
noun
- the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the general outward appearance of something
- the striking or working surface of an implement
- a part of a person that is used to refer to a person
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- the part of an animal corresponding to the human face
- the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object)
- a contorted facial expression
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- status in the eyes of others
- impudent aggressiveness
- a vertical surface of a building or cliff
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