mess up
give someone a hard time
leave
stir shit
thwart
touch off
blunder
problemise
fractious
problem
play the devil with
sursumduct
troublement
come back to bite
weigh on
troublemaking
drive
oximate
render
up the pole
act up
harm
causal
bad luck
misflip
cotransform
bollocks up
check
misfortune
crevice
fossick
break
where the shoe pinches
causate
subject
crackle
bring on
troublous
thanks
look for trouble
let the devil out
cost
give
trip up
gall
kipper
raise hob
criticize
let
a bad penny always turns up
disadvantageous
trouble spot
unfavorable
bring up against
ask for trouble
bring to pass
set up
problematize
unfavourable
get to
ail
burble
get one's tits in a wringer
back up
scorch
clog
sow dragon's teeth
perturbable
blow
problematicity
rear one's head
troublesomeness
badass
panic
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bungholing
work
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miskindle
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ail
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verb
- To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- To damage; injure.
- To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
verb
- To cause, to result in.
- To let be or do without interference.
- To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- To transfer possession of after death.
- To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- To produce leaves or foliage.
- To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
noun
- The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- Permission.
verb
noun
- A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
- A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
adj
adj
noun
verb
- To cause to become.
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To move forcefully.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To operate (an aircraft).
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- To compel (to do something).
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- Desire or interest.
- A stroke made with a driver.
- An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- A driveway.
- A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A straight level shot or pass.
- An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- A type of public roadway.
- A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
verb
- To cause to become.
- To translate into another language.
- To make over as a return.
- To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- To have fat drip off meat from cooking.
- To pass down.
- To give; to give back; to deliver.
- To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- To yield or give way.
noun
verb
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To mark with a check pattern.
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
adj
verb
- cause the failure or ruin of
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
adj
- possibly accepting or permitting
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- likely to be affected by something
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
adj
verb
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- To lead (onto or into).
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To devote or apply (oneself).
- To pledge.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To exceed expectations.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives?
- To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To make a present or gift of.
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
noun
verb
- To bother or trouble.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To exasperate.
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
noun
- Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- A feeling of exasperation.
- The gall bladder.
- A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To damage or treat with smoke.
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
adj
noun
- A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- A child or young person.
- A torpedo.
- A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A male salmon after spawning.
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- A fool.
- A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
verb
- To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
- To allow the release of (a fluid).
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
- To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
noun
verb
verb
- To cause to happen.
- To trick someone in order to make them do something.
- To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- To gel or harden.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To ready something for use.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To ready for use.
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
adj
verb
verb
- (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
noun
verb
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
noun
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
adj
verb
- To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- Of a computer system: to crash.
- To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
noun
- Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
adj
verb
- To cause to work.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
noun
verb
- become or cause to become obstructed
- hit a foul ball
- make impure
- commit a foul; break the rules
- spot, stain, or pollute
- make unclean
- become soiled and dirty
adj
adj
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- offensively malodorous
- violating accepted standards or rules
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- characterized by obscenity
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- especially of a ship's lines etc
noun
verb
- become or cause to become obstructed
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- be too tight; rub or press
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- reduce the air supply
- cause to retch or choke
noun
verb
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause damage or affect negatively
- hurt the feelings of
- feel physical pain
- be in pain
adj
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
noun
verb
noun
- Need; requirement, necessity.
- The time when something happens.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A special event or function.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
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