regret
dismissingly
refuse
dismissively
abjure
downturn
sulk
retract
kick to the curb
misdispense
dismissiveness
disregardfully
downstrike
cough up
forbear
abjured
disputatively
spit up
pony up
take
walk away from
misken
genteel
grudge
pass
submit
disconsider
declinal
show one's butt
indisposed
declinature
access
kiss off
by halves
coaxing
neglectedly
crave
declinable
spit out
ingratiatory
disobey
passively
acceptably
shabbily
declinate
rejection
turn down
peaceable
climb down
active
hit the skids
withsay
repulse
misfavored
decline
good-natured
heteroclite
peace-loving
decommit
misheed
nait
subdeflected
thumbs down
nolo episcopari
lousily
betray
lapse
neglectfully
resignedly
dive
resigned
fail
deafening silence
falloff
frustrate
back out
begrudge
misacknowledge
object
shoot
violated
incline
get knotted
loathly
assentive
declensionist
on sufferance
reproach
willing
balk
dispositionally
rumbling
à contrecœur
respondent
abjured
genteel
indisposed
coaxing
declinable
ingratiatory
peaceable
active
misfavored
good-natured
heteroclite
peace-loving
subdeflected
resigned
violated
assentive
declensionist
willing
respondent
dismissingly
dismissively
disregardfully
disputatively
neglectedly
passively
acceptably
shabbily
lousily
neglectfully
resignedly
loathly
dispositionally
à contrecœur
dismissiveness
declinal
declinature
access
rejection
repulse
decline
misheed
thumbs down
lapse
dive
deafening silence
falloff
reproach
rumbling
regret
refuse
abjure
downturn
sulk
retract
kick to the curb
misdispense
downstrike
cough up
forbear
spit up
pony up
take
walk away from
misken
grudge
pass
submit
disconsider
show one's butt
kiss off
crave
spit out
disobey
declinate
turn down
climb down
hit the skids
withsay
decommit
nait
decline
misheed
betray
fail
frustrate
back out
begrudge
misacknowledge
object
shoot
incline
balk
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
verb
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To strike from above.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
adv
noun
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adj
verb
verb
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- 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
- 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
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- To refuse to acknowledge; disown; repudiate; pass over; ignore; disregard; neglect; overlook; disavow; disclaim; disown; deny.
- To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.
- To misunderstand; mistake; have the wrong idea of.
- To fail to mention.
- To fail to recognise or identify.
- To fail to know; be ignorant or unaware of; appear to be ignorant of.
- To esteem oneself incorrectly; have a false or exaggerated opinion of oneself or one's position.
verb
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- refer for judgment or consideration
- put before
- yield to the control of another
- hand over formally
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- make an application as for a job or funding
- make over as a return
- accept as inevitable
noun
- Complicity or assent.
- Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
- An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
- Admission to sexual intercourse.
- A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
- The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- The process of locating data in memory.
verb
adj
- disposed to take action or effectuate change
- tending to become more severe or wider in scope
- characterized by energetic activity
- exerting influence or producing a change or effect
- full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
- (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
- expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:
- (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
- (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting
- (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt
- engaged in full-time work
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- A weakening.
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
verb
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
noun
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A fall or apostasy.
- An interval of time between events.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- memory lapse
verb
noun
- A decline.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
verb
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
verb
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- be unsuccessful
- stop operating or functioning
- be unable
- judge unacceptable
- fail to get a passing grade
- fall short in what is expected
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- prove insufficient
- deteriorate
verb
- To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
- To exit a mode or function.
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also bare back).
- To undo (a change).
- Coordinate terms: cancel, call off, get cold feet
- To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
- See also: sell short
- To dare (someone) to not withdraw from a challenge.
- To bet on someone losing.
- Coordinate term: scare off
verb
- be averse to or express disapproval of
- express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent
noun
- a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon
- the focus of cognitions or feelings
- (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer
verb
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
verb
- feel favorably disposed or willing
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
- lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
- be at an angle
- make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
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