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verb
- To make a hole through something.
- simple past tense of bear
- To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- To inspire boredom in somebody.
- simple past tense of bare
noun
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- The place where such a well exists.
verb
verb
- make a hole by poking
- poke or thrust abruptly
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- stir by poking
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
noun
- tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
verb
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- To make holes in (an object or surface).
- To go into a hole.
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- To destroy.
noun
- An undesirable place to live or visit.
- A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- A container or receptacle.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- Sex, or a sex partner.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
noun
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
verb
- To pierce or wound with a stake.
- To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
- To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
verb
noun
- A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- A sunken area.
- A small valley between mountains.
- A feeling of emptiness.
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- Pertaining to hollow body position
- Having an empty space or cavity inside.
adv
verb
- To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- To shoot; to kill.
- To hit or kick with a lot of power.
noun
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
verb
- To break into small pieces or fragments.
- To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- To sinter.
- To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
verb
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
noun
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
verb
- To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
- To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
noun
- A mine.
- A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- The bottom part of something.
- Armpit.
- A mosh pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- A bed.
- A luggage hold.
- A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
- A hole in the ground.
- The emergency department.
- The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- A pit bull terrier.
- A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
- Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- A trading pit.
- A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- The center of the line.
- Only used in the pits.
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
verb
- To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- To dig a tunnel.
noun
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
verb
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
noun
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
noun
- A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
- A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
- A dagger.
- A type of long thin arrowhead.
- A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.
- A hairpin.
adv
verb
- To break small pieces from.
- To chop or cut into small pieces.
- To make fun of.
- To become chipped.
- to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
- to contribute.
- To ante (up).
noun
- A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
- Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A token used in place of cash.
- A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
- A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- To circumcise.
noun
- A vasectomy.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
verb
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
noun
- A short needle with a strong point.
- A marijuana cigar.
- A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
- A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
verb
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
adj
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
verb
- break into small pieces
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
noun
verb
- To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
- To curl; to make frizzy.
- Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
- To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
- To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
noun
noun
- A sharp, needle-like piece.
- A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
- A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials
- A small spike of flowers.
- A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
- Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
verb
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- deliver a sting to
noun
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- a strong odor or taste property
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- a portion removed from the whole
verb
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
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