hard up
despo
for dear life
like one's life depended on it
cry
despairingly
despondently
in extremis
for one's life
pleading
imploring
beseeching
overdesperate
time-critical
tightrope
wall
hard-pressed
rough
cry out for
clamant
time-sensitive
imperious
acute
do it tough
cry for
on the tap
dys-
ultraurgent
demand
hurry
give something a go
in the worst way
pressure
clamancy
pressingness
urgentness
desperate
bhurji
press
begrudging
landrush
shool
beggingly
assay
requisitory
make hard work of
wnt
tight
necessity
essay
unseekable
take a stab at
panhandling
take a crack at
give something a try
give something a shot
whim
caprice
prayer
entreaty
impulse
appeal
raid
desideration
fiend
bang down the door
exigent
needy
attempt
needihood
snap of a finger
scamblingly
trivially
quaesitum
unassisted
call
try
single-handedness
make a play
snorter
hollow-hearted
hard
wished-for
pant
yearned-for
uphill
down on one's knees
longed-for
hack
ask for
hot-hoof
thirsty
thin on the ground
sorely
requested
craving
scarcen
eke out
hard up
despo
pleading
imploring
beseeching
overdesperate
time-critical
hard-pressed
rough
clamant
time-sensitive
imperious
acute
ultraurgent
desperate
bhurji
begrudging
requisitory
tight
unseekable
exigent
needy
unassisted
hollow-hearted
wished-for
yearned-for
longed-for
thirsty
thin on the ground
requested
for dear life
despairingly
despondently
in the worst way
beggingly
scamblingly
trivially
hard
uphill
hot-hoof
sorely
cry
tightrope
wall
demand
hurry
pressure
clamancy
pressingness
urgentness
landrush
necessity
essay
panhandling
whim
caprice
prayer
entreaty
impulse
appeal
desideration
needihood
snap of a finger
quaesitum
call
single-handedness
snorter
pant
hack
craving
cry out for
do it tough
cry for
give something a go
press
shool
assay
make hard work of
wnt
take a stab at
take a crack at
give something a try
give something a shot
raid
fiend
bang down the door
attempt
try
make a play
ask for
scarcen
eke out
adj
adv
prep_phrase
noun
- A desperate or urgent request.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- A shout or scream.
- A group of hounds.
- A clamour or outcry.
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
- A typical sound made by the species in question.
verb
- To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- To shed tears; to weep.
- To shout, scream, yell.
- To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
adv
adv
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
adj
adj
noun
- A point of desperation.
- A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
- A spring of water.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- A barrier to vision.
- A barrier.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
verb
adj
- Difficult; trying.
- Turbulent.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Not polished; uncut.
- Harsh-tasting.
- Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Not smooth; uneven.
noun
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
verb
- To render rough; to roughen.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
adv
adj
- Urgent.
- Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
- Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- Brief, quick, short.
- After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
- With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- High or shrill.
- Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
verb
noun
prep_phrase
adj
noun
- Urgency.
- Rushed action.
- an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
- A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
verb
- Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- To cause to be done quickly.
- To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- To do things quickly.
- To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
verb
noun
noun
noun
adj
- In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
- Intense; extremely intense.
- Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
- Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
- Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
noun
adj
verb
- be urgent
- exert pressure or force to or upon
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
- squeeze or press together
- crowd closely
- create by pressing
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- press from a plastic
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- press and smooth with a heated iron
- lift weights
- ask for or request earnestly
noun
- the state of demanding notice or attention
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- a machine used for printing
- a dense crowd of people
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
verb
- To attempt (something).
- To affect.
- To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
- To try tasting, as food or drink.
noun
- Tested purity or value.
- Trial, attempt.
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
verb
adj
- Scarce, hard to come by.
- Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- Under high tension; taut.
- Unyielding or firm.
- Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
- Not conceding many goals.
- Intimate, close, close-knit.
- A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- Intimately friendly.
- Angry or irritated.
- Miserly or frugal.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
- Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Limited or restricted.
adv
noun
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- Indispensable requirements (of life).
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
adj
noun
verb
noun
noun
- earnest or urgent request
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- request for a sum of money
verb
noun
noun
noun
- Need; necessity.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
verb
- To want
- To test someone's patience.
- To put on trial.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To put to test.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To attempt to conceive a child.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
noun
adv
adj
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- Containing alcohol.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- Strong.
- Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Unquestionable, unequivocal.
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- Tough and muscular.
- High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- Far, extreme.
- Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- Resistant to pressure.
- hardcore
- Plosive.
- Unvoiced.
noun
adj
noun
- Eager longing.
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
- Of or relating to pants.
- Any public drinking fountain.
- A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
verb
- Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
- To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- To heave, as the breast.
adj
adj
noun
- A try, an attempt.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
adv
adj
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