draw back
ana-
retrad
arseling
backstep
retrose
retropose
back down
reflexed
back up
back off
retrodisplace
backpedal
shake
rock
sway
back
remotion
set back
retrograde
sidle
backwardsness
sashay
retrocedent
fall back
retrocessive
reverted
rursiradiate
backwardly
retruse
backwardness
backflowing
reciprocating
regredient
reciprocatory
retrogradely
reciprocative
retrofocus
retrocurved
aversely
reversewise
reverseways
pass
go by
backwind
travel by
surpass
pass by
go past
retrogress
reverse
recurvate
recurved
double
downstrike
arselong
retroflexion
retroflection
longitudinal
downturn
frontward
retrotort
proverse
retro-
up and down
caudad
re-
backsie
linearly
orthopalinal
regardant
backlash
descent
opisthocline
gostun
fall
sink
retrography
dip
ass-backwards
downcoming
rearwards
obvolvent
shift
backhanded
in reverse
tilt
wobble
careen
retrad
retrose
reflexed
retrocedent
retrocessive
reverted
rursiradiate
retruse
backflowing
reciprocating
regredient
reciprocatory
reciprocative
retrograde
retrocurved
recurvate
recurved
longitudinal
frontward
proverse
back
orthopalinal
regardant
opisthocline
downcoming
rearwards
obvolvent
backhanded
arseling
retrograde
backwardly
retrogradely
aversely
reversewise
reverseways
double
arselong
frontward
up and down
caudad
linearly
ass-backwards
rearwards
backstep
remotion
backwardsness
backwardness
reverse
retroflexion
retroflection
retrograde
backsie
backlash
descent
fall
retrography
draw back
retropose
back down
back up
back off
retrodisplace
backpedal
shake
rock
sway
back
set back
sidle
sashay
fall back
backstep
retrofocus
pass
go by
backwind
travel by
surpass
pass by
go past
retrogress
downstrike
downturn
retrotort
gostun
sink
dip
reverse
shift
tilt
wobble
careen
adj
adv
noun
- A step backwards
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
verb
- To take a step backwards
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
adj
adj
verb
- move back and forth or sideways
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
verb
noun
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- pitching dangerously to one side
verb
- travel backward
- cause to travel backward
- be behind; approve of
- give support or one's approval to
- support financial backing for
- be in back of
- place a bet on
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- establish as valid or genuine
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
adj
adv
- in or to or toward a former location
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward an original condition
- in or to or toward a past time
- in reply
- in repayment or retaliation
noun
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
adj
noun
adv
adj
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adj
verb
- move past
- go across or through
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
adj
noun
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
verb
verb
noun
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The opposite of something.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
verb
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
adj
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
adv
verb
- increase twofold
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- make or do or perform again
noun
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
adj
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- twice as great or many
- large enough for two
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
adj
verb
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To strike from above.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
noun
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adv
adj
adj
noun
- A sudden backward motion.
- A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
- The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
- The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
verb
noun
- a movement downward
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a downward slope or bend
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
verb
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be inherited by
- slope downward
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
verb
- appear to move downward
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- cause to sink
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go under
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- fall or sink heavily
- embed deeply
noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
verb
- appear to move downward
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- take a small amount from
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- slope downwards
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
noun
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
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past perfect tense
lethal gene
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aforementioned.
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tassel flower
specie
before and after
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widely cultivated as an ornamental
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