break
chuck in
give up
dispense with
part with
spare
scintillate
pack in
punk out
let something ride
persistent
throw in the towel
succumb
throw up
give over
unadopt
wave the white flag
fold like a cheap suit
afford
flummox
kiss goodbye
throw in one's hand
have done with
go to water
relinquish
gave up
dissolve
portion
assign
allot
pack up
turn
jettison
quat
bin
abandon
resign oneself
renounce
tenacious
throw over
drop out
close
sell
drop by the wayside
unstrung
penny-pinching
near
dislustre
throw in
cheeseparing
chuck up the sponge
skinny
quit
leave over
fall by the wayside
quitter
foreswear
fall apart
despond
go to pieces
throw to the dogs
exit
darkhearted
undersparred
resign
turn over
deflate
eliminate
get rid of
cede
extinguish
cut bait
do away with
inch
omission
gave something up as a bad job
absorb
cut and dried
assimilate
unminded
ingest
time-poor
take in
unbacked
unadvised
off
unyielded
unconnect
unproviding
apostatize
bursting point
unbottle
mindless
persistent
tenacious
close
unstrung
penny-pinching
near
cheeseparing
skinny
darkhearted
undersparred
cut and dried
unminded
time-poor
unbacked
unadvised
unyielded
unproviding
mindless
quitter
omission
bursting point
break
chuck in
give up
dispense with
part with
spare
scintillate
pack in
punk out
let something ride
throw in the towel
succumb
throw up
give over
unadopt
wave the white flag
fold like a cheap suit
afford
flummox
kiss goodbye
throw in one's hand
have done with
go to water
relinquish
gave up
dissolve
portion
assign
allot
pack up
turn
jettison
quat
bin
abandon
resign oneself
renounce
throw over
drop out
sell
drop by the wayside
dislustre
throw in
chuck up the sponge
quit
leave over
fall by the wayside
foreswear
fall apart
despond
go to pieces
throw to the dogs
exit
resign
turn over
deflate
eliminate
get rid of
cede
extinguish
cut bait
do away with
inch
gave something up as a bad job
absorb
assimilate
ingest
take in
unconnect
apostatize
unbottle
verb
- give up
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- put an end to a state or an activity
- part with a possession or right
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- relinquish possession or control over
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- stop consuming
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- use frugally or carefully
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
adj
adj
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- non-transient.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Indefinitely continuous.
verb
verb
verb
- lose control emotionally
- grow less and less substantial until it disappears
- cause to go into a solution
- come to an end
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
- cause to lose control emotionally
- cause to fade away
- pass into a solution
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- declare void
noun
verb
noun
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
verb
- to send or let go
- to change orientation or direction
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- undergo a change or development
- cause to move around or rotate
- change to the contrary
- pass to the other side of
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- move around an axis or a center
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- change color
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- accomplish by rotating
- get by buying and selling
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- alter the functioning or setting of
- direct at someone
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- go sour or spoil
- become officially one year older
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- an unforeseen development
- a movement in a new direction
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
verb
- To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
- To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
- To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
- To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
- To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
noun
verb
- To give up, resign, surrender.
- To cast off, repudiate.
- To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
- To make a renunciation of something.
- To surrender formally some right or trust.
- To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
noun
adj
- giving or spending with reluctance
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- marked by fidelity to an original
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- crowded
- lacking fresh air
- of textiles
- strictly confined or guarded
- confined to specific persons
- fitting closely but comfortably
- used of hair or haircuts
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
adj
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- close in relevance or relationship
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
verb
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- come to a close
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- engage at close quarters
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- come together, as if in an embrace
- draw near
- bring together all the elements or parts of
- bar access to
- fill or stop up
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
noun
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the last section of a communication
- the concluding part of any performance
adv
verb
- give up for a price or reward
- exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
- be sold at a certain price or in a certain way
- persuade somebody to accept something
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- be approved of or gain acceptance
- be responsible for the sale of
- deliver to an enemy by treachery
noun
verb
- To give up the lead.
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
noun
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
verb
- To relinquish; give back.
- To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- To mull, ponder
- To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- To transfer.
- To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
verb
- To let down or disappoint.
- To belch or flatulate
- To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- To become deflated.
- To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
- To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
verb
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
noun
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
adj
verb
- take up mentally
- provide with shelter
- fool or hoax
- suck or take up or in
- visit for entertainment
- call for and obtain payment of
- see or watch
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- fold up
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take into one's family
- make (clothes) smaller
prep
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
noun
verb
verb
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