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adj
- Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
- Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
- Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
- Unconvincing or unbelievable.
verb
noun
adj
- Relating to the ability to move.
- Relating to motor cars.
- Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).
verb
- To rotate a jet engine or turboprop using the engine's starter, without introducing fuel into the engine.
- To progress at a brisk pace.
- To leave.
noun
- The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- A motor car, or automobile, even a goods vehicle.
- A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.
- Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
- A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
verb
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To move forwards; to approach.
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise or increase (a price, rate).
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To increase (a number or amount).
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
noun
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
- An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
adj
verb
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
verb
- To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
- To guide, steer, manage purposefully
- To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
noun
- A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
- The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
- A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
- A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
- Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
verb
- To push or force backwards.
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
postp
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- wind onto or off a reel
noun
- a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- music composed for dancing a reel
- winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
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
noun
- The ability to move; capacity for movement.
- A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.
- The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.
- People's ability to move between different social levels or professional occupations.
- The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.
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)
noun
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
verb
- 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
- capture after a fight
- 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
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
- hold spellbound
- transport commercially
- send from one person or place to another
noun
- something that serves as a means of transportation
- an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
- the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
- a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
- a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
- the act of moving something from one location to another
noun
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- psychological suffering
- a damage or loss
- the act of damaging something or someone
adj
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
verb
verb
- To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- To pass across or over; to traverse.
- To travel quickly over a long distance.
- To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- To beat severely; to thrash.
- To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
noun
verb
- To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- To create in or via a trance.
- To travel quickly over a long distance.
- To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
- To pass across or over; to traverse.
noun
- A dazed or unconscious condition.
- A tedious journey.
- A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
- A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
verb
- To suffer griping pains.
- To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- To annoy or bother.
- To complain; to whine.
noun
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
verb
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- To leave, resign.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
- To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
noun
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- A distance walked.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A trip made by walking.
- An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A person's conduct or course in life.
- An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
verb
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
verb
- move with force
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- do forcibly; exert force
- take by force
noun
- a powerful effect or influence
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- a unit that is part of some military service
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
verb
- move with force
- move strenuously and with effort
- press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- press against forcefully without moving
- approach a certain age or speed
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
noun
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