madden
drove someone up the wall
shrink
funk
cringe
quail
recoil
wince
flinch
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mount up
bestride
hop on
climb on
get on
mount
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nerve-rackingly
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dither
jittery
grate
nervulet
crash
uprushing
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climacophobia
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fret
upshoved
upsteal
tiswas
nerviness
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escalade
chap someone's hide
get it on
shy
ball up
push
misshelving
ascending
pusher
rebound
up-pulled
shouldering
paretic
boost
andele
booty down
piling
reach out
reach
hike up
climb
inclining
supination
shove
upsend
nervate
hitch up
inclination
nervose
uprun
stumping
unnerve
brace
stand up
boost up
push up
mantel
tread
shinny
grind
upquiver
beat
scutum
ride up
stretch
get up someone's nose
kerwallop
scrambler
straighten
intimidate
climant
start
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verb
- get up on the back of
- attach to a support
- go up or advance
- fix onto a backing, setting, or support
- put up or launch
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- copulate with
noun
- a lightweight horse kept for riding only
- the act of climbing something
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
adv
noun
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An early start or an advantage.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
verb
- To cause to jump.
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
verb
- To do something nervously.
- To render an approximation of (an image or graphic) by using dot patterns to simulate the appearance of colors or shades not in the system palette.
- To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
- To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold.
- To intentionally add noise to a signal to randomize errors.
noun
noun
verb
- move violently as through a barrier
- fall or come down violently
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- break violently or noisily; smash
- occupy, usually uninvited
- make a sudden loud sound
- enter uninvited; informal
- cause to crash
- hurl or thrust violently
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- stop operating
- sleep in a convenient place
noun
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- the act of colliding with something
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
verb
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
adj
verb
- To jump back in fear.
- To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (transitive) or (intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match. To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
- To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
noun
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- In soccer, a throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head. In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- An act of throwing.
- A place for throwing.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
adj
verb
- To press or urge forward; to drive.
- To move (a pawn) directly forward.
- To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
- To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
- To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
- To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
- To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- To make an all-in bet.
- To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To approach; to come close to.
- To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
- To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
noun
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
- A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
- An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
- A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
- The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
- A great effort (to do something).
- The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
noun
- Someone or something that pushes.
- A girl or woman.
- Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”)
- A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
- An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
- A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
- A device that one pushes in order to transport a baby while on foot, such as a stroller or pram (as opposed to a carrier such as a front or back pack).
- A tolkach.
- A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
- A drug dealer.
verb
- To jump up or get back up again.
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- To send back; to reverberate.
- To give back an echo.
noun
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
- A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
- An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
adj
verb
- move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- be in or establish communication with
- to gain with effort
- to extend as far as
- reach a goal
- place into the hands or custody of
- to exert much effort or energy
noun
noun
verb
- To mount; to move upwards on.
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- to jump high
- Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- to practise the sport of climbing
- To scale; to get to the top of something.
- To ascend; rise; to go up.
noun
- The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
- The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.
- The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
- The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
adj
verb
noun
- the act of inclining; bending forward
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees
- (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
adj
verb
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- The mouth of a shaft.
verb
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- To launch, propel upwards
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
verb
noun
- A manner of stepping.
- A step taken with the foot.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
- The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
verb
- To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
- To beat or press with the feet.
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- To step or walk upon.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To copulate with.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
verb
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
verb
verb
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
noun
- A scute.
- The kneecap.
- One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
- An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
- A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)
verb
- To pull tight.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To flinch or draw back.
- To begin.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- rise to one's feet
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- come to the surface
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- get up and out of bed
- rise in rank or status
- become heartened or elated
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- increase in volume
- come up, of celestial bodies
- return from the dead
noun
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- an increase in cost
- increase in price or value
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