rousing
swaggersome
tremble
stimulating
skitter
seethe
incentive
activeness
activity
swoop up
swoop
awakening
cavortingly
pushful
wince
galvanize
startle
boost
galvanise
throw
vigorous
swoopingly
stimulation
plough into
propelling
burst
elbow
high-energy
vertigo
action
jog
high-powered
high-voltage
high-octane
beat the wing
vertiginous
high-power
circumrotatory
tilty
goose
deaden
swoopy
reef
churn
wiggle
jolt
innervate
skimming
pluck
blunt
make the dust fly
worm
flirt
vellicate
wriggle
wrestle
brisk
writhe
twist
squirm
swivel
switchy
vitalize
pouncingly
turbination
bob
gnashy
vitalise
spatula
exertive
bustle
crash
long-acting
throughgoing
dash
hustle
churned-up
bustle about
overactive
hyperactive
shake
rampler
hip-hop
activate
wallowy
churning
fleet
flit
dush
seesaw
twinge
flutter
premotion
stir
pound
oblique motion
dart
dominant
lumber
jab
rousing
swaggersome
stimulating
incentive
pushful
vigorous
high-energy
high-powered
high-voltage
high-octane
vertiginous
high-power
circumrotatory
tilty
swoopy
brisk
switchy
gnashy
exertive
long-acting
throughgoing
churned-up
overactive
hyperactive
rampler
wallowy
churning
dominant
cavortingly
swoopingly
pouncingly
activeness
activity
awakening
stimulation
propelling
vertigo
action
skimming
turbination
seesaw
premotion
oblique motion
tremble
skitter
seethe
swoop up
swoop
wince
galvanize
startle
boost
galvanise
throw
plough into
burst
elbow
jog
beat the wing
goose
deaden
reef
churn
wiggle
jolt
innervate
pluck
blunt
make the dust fly
worm
flirt
vellicate
wriggle
wrestle
writhe
twist
squirm
swivel
vitalize
bob
vitalise
spatula
bustle
crash
dash
hustle
bustle about
shake
hip-hop
activate
fleet
flit
dush
twinge
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stir
pound
dart
lumber
jab
verb
- To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
- To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
- To cause to have diarrhea.
- To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
- To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
noun
noun
- the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically
- any specific behavior
- the state of being active
- an organic process that takes place in the body
- (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
verb
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- propel through the air
- to remove
- place or put with great energy
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- put or send forth
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- cause to be confused emotionally
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- organize or be responsible for
- make on a potter's wheel
- cause to fall off
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- a single chance or instance
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
verb
- move suddenly, energetically, or violently
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- burst outward, usually with noise
- be in a state of movement or action
- emerge suddenly
- cause to burst
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
noun
verb
- To nudge, jostle or push.
- To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
- To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
noun
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
- Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- A hit with the elbow.
- Two nearby crossings of a rope.
noun
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- the series of events that form a plot
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
verb
verb
- To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
- To cause to move at an energetic trot.
- To shake, stir or rouse.
- To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
- To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
- To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
noun
verb
- To stimulate; to spur.
- To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
- To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks of (a person).
- Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
noun
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
- An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- A silly person.
- A female goose (sense 1).
verb
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
- make vapid or deprive of spirit
- lessen the momentum or velocity of
- become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
verb
- To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
- To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
- To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
- To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
adj
noun
- A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
- A reef knot.
- The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
- A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
- A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
- Dandruff.
verb
- To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- To stop using a company's product or service.
- To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- A milk churn.
- The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
- The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
verb
- To pull or twitch sharply.
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
noun
verb
noun
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
verb
- To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
- To blurt out.
- To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
- To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
- To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
adj
noun
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn in the opposite direction
- form into a spiral shape
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- do the twist
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
noun
- an unforeseen development
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a circular segment of a curve
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- a jerky pulling movement
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- the act of winding or twisting
- turning or twisting around (in place)
verb
noun
- A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
- A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun.
- Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will.
- The act of swivelling.
- A rotating of the hips.
- A small, usually ball- or barrel-shaped device used in angling to connect sections of fishing lines, consisting of two rings linked via a thrust bearing pivot joint.
verb
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
- ride a bobsled
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- cut hair in the style of a bob
noun
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
verb
noun
- A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
- A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
- A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
- A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
- A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
verb
- hurl or thrust violently
- fall or come down violently
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- move violently as through a barrier
- break violently or noisily; smash
- occupy, usually uninvited
- make a sudden loud sound
- enter uninvited; informal
- cause to crash
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- stop operating
- sleep in a convenient place
noun
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- the act of colliding with something
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
verb
- hurl or thrust violently
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- destroy or break
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- add an enlivening or altering element to
noun
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a quick run
- a footrace run at top speed
- a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- the act of moving with great haste
verb
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
noun
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shock or disturbance.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
adj
verb
verb
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
verb
- move heavily or clumsily
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- move rhythmically
- partition off into compartments
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- place or shut up in a pound
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
noun
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
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