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noun
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
verb
adj
verb
- be captured
- 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
- 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
noun
- 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
- a movement downward
- 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
noun
- A substitute; a hostage.
- A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
- One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
- Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
- Certainty.
- That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
noun
- A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A woman.
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- A male homosexual; a gay man.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Cod; codfish.
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- A period of time spent fishing.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- An instance of seeking something.
verb
- To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To hoist the flukes of.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
noun
noun
- someone who guards prisoners
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- slang for sexual intercourse
verb
noun
- Preservation from escape; close custody.
- An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
- A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
- The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
- Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
- A safety squeeze.
verb
verb
noun
- a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
- (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
- anything worn or placed about the neck
- a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part
- the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
- a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
- necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
- a figurative restraint
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- take into custody
- take and lift upward
- take up by hand
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- gather or collect
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- get in addition, as an increase
- buy casually or spontaneously
- register (perceptual input)
- lift out or reflect from a background
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- gain or regain energy
verb
- capture after a fight
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- serve as a means for expressing something
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- support or hold in a certain manner
- contain or hold; have within
- extend to a certain degree
- continue or extend
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- win in an election
- include, as on a list
- behave in a certain manner
- have on hand
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- propel
- pass on a communication
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- keep up with financial support
- have or possess something abstract
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- win approval or support for
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- take further or advance
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- bear (a crop)
- propel or give impetus to
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be able to feed
- have a certain range
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be successful in
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- be pregnant with
noun
verb
- To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- To release a person under such guarantee.
- To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
- To exit quickly.
- To confine.
noun
- Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- The person providing such payment.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
noun
- A sudden act of seizing.
- An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
- A quick passage from one note to the next.
verb
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
verb
- take hold of; grab
- take or capture by force
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- hook by a pull on the line
- affect
- capture the attention or imagination of
verb
- To enter solitary confinement at one's own request for protection from other prisoners.
- To verify a person's information and record their arrival, such as at a hotel, airport, etc.
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To visit in order to see how someone is doing.
- To announce or record one's own arrival at a hotel, airport etc.
- To contact another person in order to keep the other person informed of one's situation.
- To return (a book to a library, source code to a repository, etc.).
- To send somebody to solitary confinement; to make somebody be admitted to solitary confinement.
verb
verb
noun
- the act of grasping
- a tense critical situation
- a number of birds hatched at the same time
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
- a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
- a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
noun
verb
- To hold (someone or something) hostage, especially in a way that constrains or controls the person or thing held, or in order to exchange for something else.
- To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).
noun
- The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.
- Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.
- A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.
- A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.
- One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.
noun
- A sequestrum.
- sequestration; separation
- A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
verb
- To separate in order to store.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- To seize and hold enemy property.
- To withdraw; to retire.
- To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
noun
verb
- To rescue (a creature).
- To remember or recall something.
- To regain or get back something.
- To fetch and bring in game.
- To salvage something
- To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- To remedy or rectify something.
- To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
noun
adj
noun
- A right to take possession.
- In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- An act of following in sequence.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A race or series of descendants.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- Rotation, as of crops.
noun
noun
- An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
- One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
- A cafeteria at a movie studio.
- A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
- The judge in a commissary court.
- An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
- A higher-ranking police officer.
- An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
verb
- take into one's possession
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
noun
- A pursuer.
- A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
- One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
- A tool used to remove the core from a pin-tumbler lock without causing the driver pins and springs to fall out.
- Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position.
- An imitator, who follows another's example.
- A machine part receiving motion from another.
- An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.
- One who follows, comes after another.
- A man courting a maidservant; suitor.
- Something that comes after another thing.
- One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
- Young cattle.
noun
- An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff.
- A senior or geezer.
- A conker, especially one with a flat side.
- A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making.
- A jovial greeting.
- A broad gleeful grin.
- Someone who is immature.
- Someone who adds cheese to a pizza in an assembly line.
- A particularly strong-smelling fart.
- A cocktail sandwich made with cheese.
- Someone who makes or sells cheese.
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