scorch
whip
scald
blister
rebukement
hot water
slating
rebuke
stricture
castigation
brickbat
attack
line of attack
flak
animadversion
censure
harsh on
crit
stab
exception
blast
flack
maul
fire
pan
slate
hypercriticism
reproach
Aristarch
upbraid
sifflicate
bdelygmia
get down
pillory
knock
criticization
get up
bash
take apart
fustigate
bag out
antecritical
panning
jump down someone's throat
harsh
rail
overcriticism
take aim
metacriticism
fulminate
criticizingly
Monday-morning quarterback
brickbatting
knocker
pile on
tough-skinned
thick-skinned
slater
vituperate
gaff
faultfinding
anathematizer
objectionable
take the flak
bitching
pick apart
slam
dog
drub
animadversive
upbraiding
stick
deconstruct
cavilingly
critique
thrust
anticritical
savage
whine
find fault
aspersion
aisle sitter
slur
rouse
controversiality
reflection
reproachment
roast
antecritical
tough-skinned
thick-skinned
vituperate
objectionable
animadversive
anticritical
criticizingly
cavilingly
rebukement
hot water
slating
rebuke
stricture
castigation
attack
line of attack
flak
animadversion
censure
crit
stab
exception
brickbat
blast
flack
fire
pan
hypercriticism
Aristarch
bdelygmia
knock
criticization
panning
overcriticism
metacriticism
brickbatting
knocker
slater
gaff
faultfinding
anathematizer
bitching
upbraiding
stick
critique
thrust
whine
aspersion
aisle sitter
slur
controversiality
reflection
reproachment
roast
scorch
whip
scald
blister
brickbat
harsh on
maul
slate
reproach
upbraid
sifflicate
get down
censure
pillory
get up
bash
take apart
fustigate
bag out
jump down someone's throat
harsh
rail
take aim
fulminate
Monday-morning quarterback
pile on
rebuke
take the flak
pick apart
slam
dog
drub
deconstruct
savage
find fault
rouse
verb
- subject to harsh criticism
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- defeat thoroughly
- thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash
- strike as if by whipping
- whip with or as if with a wire whisk
noun
- an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
- a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
- a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
- (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
- a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
- strong criticism
- intense adverse criticism
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of attacking
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
verb
verb
noun
- Criticism.
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- An attempt.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
verb
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
noun
- intense adverse criticism
- the event of something burning (often destructive)
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
- a severe trial
verb
- start firing a weapon
- cause to go off
- bake in a kiln so as to harden
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- go off or discharge
- drive out or away by or as if by fire
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- destroy by fire
- provide with fuel
- generate an electrical impulse
- become ignited
- start or maintain a fire in
noun
- Strong adverse criticism.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A human face, a mug.
- A part; a portion.
- The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
- Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- A loaf of bread.
- A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
adj
verb
- To turn out well; to be successful.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- To turn horizontally.
verb
- To criticise harshly.
- To cover with slate.
- To schedule.
- To set a dog upon (a person).
- To anticipate or strongly expect.
- To nominate, appoint, or designate.
noun
- An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
- A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
- A record of money owed.
- A tablet computer.
- A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
- A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
- A roofing-tile made of slate.
adj
noun
verb
- To criticise
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, down.
- To party.
- To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
- To concentrate; attend.
- To swallow (something).
- To leave the table after dining.
- To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
- To have sex.
- To record in writing.
- To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down.
- To depress; discourage; fatigue.
- To dance, particularly without inhibition or restraint, or in a sexually suggestive manner.
noun
- A criticism.
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
- A sharp impact.
- A batsman's innings.
- A blow or setback.
- Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
- Synonym of hunger knock
verb
noun
verb
- To criticise.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
verb
verb
- criticize severely
- complain bitterly
- enclose with rails
- provide with rails
- separate with a railing
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- lay with rails
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- spread negative information about
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
noun
noun
- A critic; one who disparages.
- A person who knocks.
- A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
- One who defaults on payment of a wager.
- A woman's breast.
- A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
- A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
- A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
- A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
noun
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- A place of residence.
- A trick or con.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the male genitalia tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
verb
verb
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- To make a slam bid.
- To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
noun
- An insult.
- Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- A slambook.
- The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
- A slam dunk.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
verb
- To criticize.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
adj
noun
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- The meat of this animal, eaten as food
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- A man, guy, chap.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- Something that performs poorly.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- A sexually aggressive man.
- Underdog.
- Foot.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
noun
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
verb
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
adj
verb
- To criticise vehemently.
- To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
- To attack with the teeth.
noun
- An aggressively defiant person.
- A person living in a traditional, especially tribal, rather than civilized society, especially when viewed as uncivilized and uncultivated; a barbarian.
adj
noun
verb
- To tell off; to criticise.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
noun
- An implied criticism.
- The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
- The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
- The folding of a part; a fold.
- Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
- The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
- Careful thought or consideration.
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