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noun
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- The amount of increase.
- The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- The waxing of the moon.
- An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
- A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
verb
adj
- Significantly increased or expanded.
- Stimulated, excited.
- Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- Under the influence of stimulants; high.
- Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- Reprehensible; objectionable.
noun
- The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
- The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
noun
- An increase in the value or amount of something.
- I found sand pushed all the way to the edge of my home by the run-up of Wednesday's tsunami.
- The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
- The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
- A period of time just before an important event.
- The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.
verb
- To increase in quantity or intensity.
- To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
- To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
- To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
- To sit on a combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
- To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- To have sexual intercourse with someone.
- To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
- To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
- To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
- To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
noun
- A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
- An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).
- A hill or mountain.
- A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
- A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- A signal for mounting a horse.
- A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
- A green hillock in the base of a shield.
- Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
noun
- the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something
- the event of something being raised upward
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- a raised or elevated geological formation
- distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)
- (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump
- drawing of an exterior of a structure
verb
- expand the influence of
- extend in scope or range or area
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- make available; provide
- thrust or extend out
- reach outward in space
- offer verbally
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- cause to move at full gallop
- open or straighten out; unbend
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- continue or extend
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
verb
verb
- expand the influence of
- extend in one or more directions
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- grow vigorously
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
noun
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Access; admittance.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
- Agreement.
- The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
verb
noun
- Something which adds or increases.
- A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
- The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- The common European adder (Vipera berus).
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
verb
- To increase.
- To reach.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- To put on weight.
- To run fast.
- To acquire possession of.
- To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
adv
noun
- The thing or things gained.
- The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
adj
noun
- The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
- Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
- The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
- The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
- Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.
- A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
- Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
- The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
- The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
verb
- To increase.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To increase (in some aspect).
- To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- To end up; to arrive or result.
- To upset; to anger or distress.
- To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- To excite.
- To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
verb
- To aggravate; to increase.
- To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
- To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
- To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.
- To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession.
noun
verb
- To increase in magnitude.
- To add; to subject to addition.
- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- To increase a correction.
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- To improve.
adj
- Electrically positive.
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
- Positive, or involving advantage.
prep
noun
conj
noun
- the act of increasing the density of something
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams
- the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state
- atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- a shortened version of a written work
verb
- increase the level of
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- move upwards
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
- cause to become alive again
noun
verb
- To increase suddenly.
- To destroy with an explosion.
- To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- To destroy violently or abruptly.
- Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- To make a violent or emotional outburst.
- To ejaculate.
- To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- To create an exploded view of.
adj
- Having increased in size, quantity, or intensity over time; accumulated.
- Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.
- Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.
- Constructed or enhanced.
- (of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.
- (of an area of land) Having specific traffic signaling and therefore usually subject to a maximum 50 km/h speed limit.
noun
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
verb
- To increase or expand rapidly.
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
noun
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- A bomb or shell.
- The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- A woman's breast.
- A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- A speech bubble.
- Synonym of balloon payment
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
noun
- A big increase.
- A humming noise from something moving very fast.
- A quick ascent.
- An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
- A video teleconferencing call.
verb
- To zoom climb.
- To move rapidly.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To go up sharply.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
intj
prefix
noun
- the process of fostering the growth of something
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
verb
- increase twofold
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- make or do or perform again
adv
adj
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
adj
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- twice as great or many
- large enough for two
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
noun
noun
- the act of raising something
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
verb
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- lift or elevate
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
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