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verb
- To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- To pass across or over; to traverse.
- To travel quickly over a long distance.
- To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- To beat severely; to thrash.
- To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
noun
verb
- To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
- To understand.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
noun
- The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
- Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
- The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
- The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
- Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
noun
- a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
- someone who is under suspicion
verb
- imagine to be the case or true or probable
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
- hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty
adj
verb
- To take legal proceedings against.
- To perform a particular process on a thing.
- To develop photographic film.
- To walk in a procession
- To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
noun
- Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- An executable task or program.
- Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- A structure that arises above a surface.
- An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
noun
- A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
- Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
- A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
- The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
verb
verb
- To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
- To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
- To enforce the law.
- To subject to legal restrictions.
noun
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
verb
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
noun
- the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
- traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments
- the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery
- (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo
verb
- Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- To be attractive.
- To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
noun
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A power to attract or interest.
verb
- To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
- to rescue.
- To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- To perform summary execution.
- to put to use.
noun
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
verb
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To move forcefully.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- To operate (an aircraft).
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- To cause to become.
- To compel (to do something).
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- Desire or interest.
- A stroke made with a driver.
- An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- A driveway.
- A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A straight level shot or pass.
- An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- A type of public roadway.
- A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
noun
- A defendant in a civil action.
- A fighter who seeks to repel an attack.
- Someone who defends people or property.
- A lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK).
- One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.
verb
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
noun
- A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
- An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- A suitcase.
- A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- Four of a kind.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
verb
- To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
adj
noun
- A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
- As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
- Divine inspiration.
- Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
- Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
- That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
- Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
- […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
verb
- To charge or accuse in return.
- To attack again or anew.
- To reload a gun with ammunition.
- To request payment again from.
- To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed.
- To add or restore water to an aquifer.
- To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.
noun
noun
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- A measure of such ability; volume
- The maximum amount that can be held
- Electrical capacitance.
- Mental ability; the power to learn
- The maximum that can be produced.
- The ability to hold, receive, or absorb
- The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- A role; the position in which one functions
- Capability; the ability to perform some task
- A faculty; the potential for growth and development
adj
noun
- the act of committing a crime
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- a group of representatives or delegates
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
verb
noun
- The proceedings under a criminal libel.
- A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
- Any habitual intake or consumption.
- A session of exams
- A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
- The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
verb
- To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
- To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
adj
noun
- The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
- Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
- The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
noun
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
- a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
- formal and explicit approval
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
verb
verb
- To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- To call a raise from the big blind.
- To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
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