English words for 'make into scrap or refuse'
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verb
- make into scrap or refuse
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- have a disagreement over something
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
noun
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
verb
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- claim back
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
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- reuse (materials from waste products)
- regain a former condition after a financial loss
- get over an illness or shock
- get or find back; recover the use of
- regain or make up for
- cover anew
- (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To cover again.
- (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
- (transitive) To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
- (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
- (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
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- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- Food waste material of any kind.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Something or someone worthless.
- (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
- (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
- a worthless message
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
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- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
- To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
- refuse entrance or membership
- not accept as true
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- show unwillingness towards
- elude, especially in a baffling way
- refuse to let have
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- (intransitive, MTE, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, of a drill) To produce a lip of debris around the drill hole.
- (transitive) To crush or form into a ball shape.
- (slang, bowling, intransitive) To switch to using a stronger bowling ball.
- (transitive) To form melted metals into balls or lumps to roll them out of a furnace for further use.
- (intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
- (intransitive) To become ball-shaped.
- (skiing, of skis) To become covered in damp snow.
- (ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
- (basketball, intransitive) To play basketball, especially playing well.
- (transitive, slang) To ruin or botch.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
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- the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
- A wobbling motion.
- (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
- (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
- (British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
- A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
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- an embarrassing mistake
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- speak haltingly
- (originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
- (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
- (intransitive, frequently with on) To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length.
- (intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
- (intransitive, of an insect) To buzz or bum.
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noun
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- erect or fluff up
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
- (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
- (transitive, slang, by extension) To bring to a state of excitement.
- (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
noun
- something of little value or significance
- any light downy material
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
- (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
- Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- (used only in imperative, vulgar) Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- (transitive, vulgar) To botch or make a mess of.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) Synonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or completely”)
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
- (vulgar) To cause someone to become intoxicated or otherwise alter someone's mental state.
- (vulgar) To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
- (transitive, vulgar) To injure or damage badly.
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- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
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verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- disturb the smoothness of
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- (transitive) To damage; injure.
- (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
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- (sports) dropping the ball
- a warm tubular covering for the hands
- (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
- The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
- (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- A bird, the whitethroat.
- (synecdochic, vulgar slang) A woman or girl.
- (slang) A muffin.
- (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
- A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
- (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- make more intense
- twist into a strained configuration
- screw or turn higher
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- become unfit for consumption or use
- treat with excessive indulgence
- alter from the original
- destroy and strip of its possession
- make imperfect
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
- (intransitive) To be very eager (for something).
noun
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- the act of stripping and taking by force
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
noun
- The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
- (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
- the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
- (usually figurative) Something made by recycling something else.
- used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
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- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
noun
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- A dead body; carrion.
- The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- A small pit.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
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- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
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- A waste product from working with metal.
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- The impurities in metal.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
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- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- violating accepted standards or rules
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- unethical or dishonest
- vile; despicable
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- unpleasantly stormy
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- (slang) Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
- (cellular automata) Producing much ash.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Out of tune.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
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- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
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- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
- Dung; compost; manure.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- Country or territory.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
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- collect discarded material
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- (transitive, of discarded goods) To put to use.
- (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) To rescue.
- (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
- (transitive, logic) To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
- (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
noun
- property or goods saved from damage or destruction
- the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
- the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
- (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
verb
- collect discarded material
- clean refuse from
- feed on carrion or refuse
- remove unwanted substances from
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
noun
- The dumping of rubbish.
- (music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
- (Australia) A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
- The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
- The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
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- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
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- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
noun
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- Food waste material of any kind.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Something or someone worthless.
- (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
- (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
- a worthless message
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
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noun
adj
verb
- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.
- To fuse again, as with, or after, heating or melting.
- refuse entrance or membership
- not accept as true
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- show unwillingness towards
- elude, especially in a baffling way
- refuse to let have
noun
- The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
- (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
- the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
- (usually figurative) Something made by recycling something else.
- used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
verb
noun
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- A dead body; carrion.
- The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- A small pit.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
verb
noun
- A waste product from working with metal.
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- The impurities in metal.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
noun
- The dumping of rubbish.
- (music) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
- (Australia) A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
- The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
- The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
verb
noun
name
noun
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
verb
- make into scrap or refuse
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- have a disagreement over something
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
noun
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
verb
- make into scrap or refuse
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- have a disagreement over something
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- to fight
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
noun
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- The smallest amount.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
verb
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- claim back
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
noun
verb
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- regain a former condition after a financial loss
- get over an illness or shock
- get or find back; recover the use of
- regain or make up for
- cover anew
- (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To cover again.
- (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
- (transitive) To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
- (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
- (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
noun
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- (intransitive, MTE, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, of a drill) To produce a lip of debris around the drill hole.
- (transitive) To crush or form into a ball shape.
- (slang, bowling, intransitive) To switch to using a stronger bowling ball.
- (transitive) To form melted metals into balls or lumps to roll them out of a furnace for further use.
- (intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
- (intransitive) To become ball-shaped.
- (skiing, of skis) To become covered in damp snow.
- (ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
- (basketball, intransitive) To play basketball, especially playing well.
- (transitive, slang) To ruin or botch.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
adj
intj
verb
noun
- the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
- A wobbling motion.
- (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
- (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
- (British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
- A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
verb
adj
noun
verb
intj
noun
verb
noun
- an embarrassing mistake
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- speak haltingly
- (originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
- (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
- (intransitive, frequently with on) To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length.
- (intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
- (intransitive, of an insect) To buzz or bum.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- erect or fluff up
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
- (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
- (transitive, slang, by extension) To bring to a state of excitement.
- (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
noun
- something of little value or significance
- any light downy material
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
- (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
- Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- (used only in imperative, vulgar) Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- (transitive, vulgar) To botch or make a mess of.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) Synonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or completely”)
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
- (vulgar) To cause someone to become intoxicated or otherwise alter someone's mental state.
- (vulgar) To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
- (transitive, vulgar) To injure or damage badly.
intj
noun
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- handle clumsily
- feel about uncertainly or blindly
- drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
noun
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- disturb the smoothness of
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- (transitive, slang) To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- (transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- (transitive) To damage; injure.
- (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- (transitive) To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- (transitive) To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (sports) dropping the ball
- a warm tubular covering for the hands
- (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
- The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
- (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- A bird, the whitethroat.
- (synecdochic, vulgar slang) A woman or girl.
- (slang) A muffin.
- (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
- A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
- (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- make more intense
- twist into a strained configuration
- screw or turn higher
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
verb
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- become unfit for consumption or use
- treat with excessive indulgence
- alter from the original
- destroy and strip of its possession
- make imperfect
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
- (intransitive) To be very eager (for something).
noun
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- the act of stripping and taking by force
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
verb
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
adj
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
verb
adj
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- violating accepted standards or rules
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- unethical or dishonest
- vile; despicable
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- unpleasantly stormy
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- (slang) Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
- (cellular automata) Producing much ash.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Out of tune.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
adv
noun
verb
noun
verb
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
noun
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
- Dung; compost; manure.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- Country or territory.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
verb
- collect discarded material
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- (transitive, of discarded goods) To put to use.
- (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) To rescue.
- (Philippines) To perform summary execution.
- (transitive, logic) To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.
- (Philippines) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
noun
- property or goods saved from damage or destruction
- the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
- the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
- (Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The process of acquiring, dismantling, and stocking the pieces of old property such as ships, houses, and vehicles, so that they can be sold on to be reused or recycled.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
verb
- collect discarded material
- clean refuse from
- feed on carrion or refuse
- remove unwanted substances from
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
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