aberrate
wry
retreat
detour
distalward
deviation
backhandedness
descending
dodge
distodorsally
coming back
return
wandering
receding
step aside
distolaterally
offshooting
derail
astray
deviate
tail off
rake
slantingly
divergence
disperse
break up
aberrance
scatter
dispel
dissipate
broken-field
bring about
deflect
wild
fork off
subdistally
decline
branch off
unevenly
wayward
off-track
errancy
dip
digression
behind
ampullofugal
tail away
turn around
reversal
brisure
go out
sidewardly
sweep
about-face
untwist
anteromesially
directivity
oblique
renverse
distomedially
retroversion
burrowing junction
twist
divergingly
averse
retrograde
splay
reverse
tailspin
bewill
discursion
backwardly
inferiorly
divergency
transspinally
offset
reversely
anteroventrally
pathoplastically
perverse
squint
back-to-back
anterobuccally
nondivergence
distoventrally
self-exile
radiating
mislead
aberrant
tipped
recedingly
canted
get around
tilted
leaning
atilt
wry
descending
receding
broken-field
wayward
off-track
renverse
averse
splay
reverse
perverse
retrograde
back-to-back
radiating
aberrant
tipped
canted
tilted
leaning
atilt
distalward
distodorsally
distolaterally
astray
slantingly
wild
subdistally
unevenly
behind
ampullofugal
sidewardly
anteromesially
distomedially
divergingly
retrograde
backwardly
inferiorly
transspinally
reversely
anteroventrally
pathoplastically
anterobuccally
distoventrally
recedingly
retreat
detour
deviation
backhandedness
coming back
return
wandering
offshooting
rake
divergence
aberrance
errancy
dip
digression
turn around
reversal
brisure
sweep
about-face
untwist
directivity
retroversion
burrowing junction
twist
tailspin
discursion
divergency
offset
nondivergence
self-exile
reverse
aberrate
dodge
step aside
derail
deviate
tail off
disperse
break up
scatter
dispel
dissipate
bring about
deflect
fork off
decline
branch off
tail away
go out
oblique
tailspin
bewill
squint
mislead
get around
noun
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
- A period of meditation, prayer or study.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
- A signal for a military withdrawal.
- Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
verb
noun
- The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
- A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
- A detour in a road or railway.
- The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
- The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
- A departure from the correct way of acting.
- For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
- The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
- The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
verb
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
noun
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- a coming to or returning home
- getting something back again
- the act of going back to a prior location
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the act of someone appearing again
verb
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- give back
- go back to a previous state
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- return in kind
- make a return
- answer back
- be restored
- pay back
- pass down
- elect again
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- give or supply
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
noun
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
verb
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- disband
- break violently or noisily; smash
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- set or keep apart
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- release ice
- close at the end of a session
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- come to an end
- break or cause to break into pieces
- cause to separate
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- laugh unrestrainedly
adv
adj
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
noun
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
adj
- in a state of extreme emotion
- deviating widely from an intended course
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without a basis in reason or fact
- talking or behaving irrationally
- involving risk or danger
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without civilizing influences
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
verb
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- 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 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
noun
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
verb
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
adv
- In a rearward direction.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
adj
noun
noun
- turning in an opposite direction or position
- turning in the opposite direction
- a change from one state to the opposite state
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
verb
- To recede; to ebb.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To fail.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To pass out of fashion.
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- To be turned off or extinguished.
noun
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
verb
- To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew;
- To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
- To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
adj
- Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- Not straightforward; obscure or confusing.
- Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
noun
noun
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
verb
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
adv
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
noun
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
adj
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
verb
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The opposite of something.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
noun
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
verb
verb
- To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
- To look or glance sideways.
- To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
- To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
- To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
- To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
noun
- An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
- A quick or sideways glance.
- A hagioscope.
- A short look; a peep.
- The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
- The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
adj
noun
- A separation or alienation from ones inner self.
- The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.
- A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.
- Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.
verb
verb
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To visit numerous different places.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- To be sexually promiscuous.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
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