gently
day by day
step by step
daily
gradually
bit by bit
largo
drain
phase in
graceful
gradualize
gentle
like molasses
steply
percolate
draw
dreely
by inches
gradualness
inch by inch
adagio
tardily
wear
instill
transfuse
ungradual
inching
filter
slower
ooze through
work
limp
inch
graduate
progressive
slow
build
progress
work up
develop
build up
distil
slowest
one step at a time
lurch
graduality
agile
quick
nimble
spry
poco a poco
by degrees
adagissimo
slob
slowsome
gradatory
hardly
plodding
slow up
slow-paced
nickel-and-dime
hard
slow down
inchmeal
chevy
taper
over time
move slowly
evaporate
untimely
processively
melt
taihoa
glegly
larghissimo
disappear
crawl
slow-acting
creepage
outgrowth
room for doubt
emergence
advancement
growth
putt
turtle
climb
climb up
dart about
trickle
graceful
gentle
steply
ungradual
progressive
agile
quick
nimble
spry
gradatory
plodding
slow-paced
taihoa
larghissimo
slow-acting
gently
day by day
step by step
daily
gradually
bit by bit
largo
dreely
inch by inch
adagio
tardily
slower
slow
slowest
one step at a time
poco a poco
adagissimo
slowsome
hardly
hard
inchmeal
steply
untimely
processively
glegly
gradualness
inching
graduality
creepage
progress
outgrowth
room for doubt
emergence
advancement
growth
drain
phase in
gradualize
percolate
draw
wear
instill
transfuse
filter
ooze through
work
limp
inch
graduate
build
progress
work up
develop
build up
distil
lurch
slob
slow
slow up
nickel-and-dime
slow down
chevy
taper
move slowly
evaporate
melt
disappear
crawl
putt
turtle
climb
climb up
dart about
trickle
verb
- To flow gradually.
- To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- To deplete of energy or resources.
- To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- To cause liquid to flow out of.
- To lose liquid.
noun
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- An outhole.
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An act of urination.
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- move or go steadily or gradually
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- select or take in from a given group or region
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
prep_phrase
verb
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
adj
verb
- To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- To sort, sift, or isolate.
- To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
noun
- self-restraint in speech.
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
adv
verb
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
adj
noun
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
- To change gradually.
- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
- To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- The man graduated in 1967.
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
noun
- A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
adj
adj
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
adj
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
adv
verb
- To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
- To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
- To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
adj
- Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
noun
verb
- form or accumulate steadily
- make by combining materials and parts
- build or establish something abstract
- improve the cleansing action of
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- give form to, according to a plan
- be engaged in building
- found or ground
- bolster or strengthen
- develop and grow
noun
verb
- generate gradually
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- work out
- gain through experience
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- change the use of and make available or usable
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- create by training and teaching
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- become technologically advanced
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- grow emotionally or mature
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- happen
- expand in the form of a series
verb
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
adv
prep_phrase
adv
adv
- slowly and with difficulty
- with effort or force or vigor
- with firmness
- earnestly or intently
- causing great damage or hardship
- indulging excessively
- into a solid condition
- very near or close in space or time
- with pain or distress or bitterness
- to the full extent possible; all the way
adj
- very strong or vigorous
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- dried out
adj
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- dispassionate
- resisting weight or pressure
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
verb
- To diminish gradually.
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
verb
verb
- become less intense and fade away gradually
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
- become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
noun
verb
- To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- To swim using the crawl stroke.
- To act in a servile manner.
- To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- Followed by with: see crawl with.
- To feel a swarming sensation.
noun
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- A very slow pace.
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
noun
noun
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- vegetation that has grown
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- something grown or growing
verb
- To move along slowly.
- To turn and swim upside down.
- To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
- To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
- To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
noun
- A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- A low stand for a lamp etc.
- A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- A marine reptile of that order.
- The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
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