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smart
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in high gear
shrewd
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severity
supersevere
superdrastic
hyperacute
semisevere
acutish
explosion
oversevere
ultradrastic
angry
wallop
overseverity
severely
flare-up
burst
superacute
frightmare
bang
outburst
yeow
postdistress
trauma
abrupt
cruel
slam
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postacute
drastically
inexorable
torturingly
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scar
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twinge
stupefied
traumatically
ironclad
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splitting
shock
postshock
outbreak
swollenly
curse
tough
drastic
torment
irruption
suddenness
badly
shocked
gravely
macroshock
seriously
pobby
trouble
seizure
shaken
acute
gnawing
aposteme
hiccup
painfully
ultrasevere
swelling
extreme
ictic
shituation
beast
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tyranny
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adj
- Sudden and intense.
- Higher in pitch than required.
- Intelligent.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- Illegal or dishonest.
- Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- Tactical; risky.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Stylish or attractive.
- Observant; alert; acute.
verb
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
adv
- To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
- Exactly.
- In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
noun
- A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- Something that is sharp.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- A sharp tool or weapon.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
- A hypodermic syringe.
adj
- Sudden and intense.
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
noun
verb
adj
- serious or severe
- significant
- loud and firm
- conspicuous in position or importance
- prodigious
- exhibiting self-importance
- feeling self-importance
- (of animals) fully developed
- marked by intense physical force
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- given or giving freely
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
adj
adv
adj
- serious or severe
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- not capable of being collected
- below average in quality or performance
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- physically unsound or diseased
- capable of harming
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- reproduced fraudulently
- not working properly
noun
adj
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
adv
adj
- Severe; very bad or intense.
- Highly stimulating to the senses.
- Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
- Having a specified number of people or units.
- Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
- Capable of producing great physical force.
- Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
- Determined; unyielding.
- Having a high alcoholic content.
- Not easily subdued or taken.
- Having wealth or resources.
- Impressive, good.
- That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
- Convincing.
- Having a lot of power.
- Capable of withstanding great physical force.
adv
prep_phrase
adj
adj
adj
noun
- a sudden outburst
- a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
- the act of exploding or bursting
- a sudden great increase
- the noise caused by an explosion
- the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
- a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
noun
noun
- a sudden intense happening
- the act of exploding or bursting
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
verb
- 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
- move suddenly, energetically, or violently
- be in a state of movement or action
- emerge suddenly
- cause to burst
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
adj
adv
intj
noun
- An explosion.
- A sudden percussive noise.
- An explosive product.
- A thrill.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
- strong smell (of)
- An abrupt left turn.
- The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
verb
adj
noun
- A sudden impact or blow.
- 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 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 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 speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- 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.
adj
- Harsh, severe.
- Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- Dead, deceased.
- Erect.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
verb
- To tip ungenerously.
- To kill.
- To cheat someone
- To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
adv
noun
- Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- A customer who does not leave a tip.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- A cadaver; a dead person.
- Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- A flop; a commercial failure.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
verb
noun
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
- A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
noun
- A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- A stand; a stop.
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- Astonishment; amazement.
verb
noun
- a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
- the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material
- symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible
- (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
- a sudden very loud noise
- the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum
noun
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance.
- Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- A shock wave.
adj
verb
adv
- to a severe or serious degree
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- evilly or wickedly
- in a disobedient or naughty way
- with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
- very much; strongly
- without skill or in a displeasing manner
- in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display
noun
- Something unpleasant and difficult.
- Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
- Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A sex offender.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
adj
verb
noun
- Extreme severity or rigour.
- A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government.
- The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
- Absolute power, or its use.
- A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
adv
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