cut one's losses
throw good money after bad
total
pull out of the fire
quit while one is ahead
decimate
cruel
put out to pasture
terminate
false economy
fritter away
unfix
go back on
down the toilet
arrested decay
salvage
relieve
salve
save
drop
blow
lose one's way
take the count
spurn
muck up
eradicate
pitch
ruinously
dead duck
choke out
defeatingly
nonprolongation
downbear
scant
blow up in one's face
off the nut
blow up
kamikaze
stay fresh
wash
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keep
divest
vitiate
tabefy
fight back
throw up one's hands
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drive a coach and horses through
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throw to the dogs
cash in one's chips
give something up as a bad job
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run into the ground
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blackball
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crap out
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clamp down on
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draw up
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unhelp
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stumblingly
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verb
- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- To conclude.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- To kill someone or something.
- To issue or result.
adj
verb
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- provide physical relief, as from pain
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- relieve oneself of troubling information
- provide relief for
- free from a burden, evil, or distress
- take by stealing
- grant exemption or release to
- alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
verb
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- bring into safety
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- accumulate money for future use
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from sins
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- retain rights to
- record data on a computer
noun
verb
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
verb
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- (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 fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- 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 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 discard for some gain.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- To prevent (light) from passing through.
- To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
verb
det
adj
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- To fail disastrously.
- To blow something upward.
- To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- To blow the whistle.
- To suddenly get very angry.
- To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- To become popular very quickly.
- To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
- Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
- To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
- To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
- To enlarge or zoom in.
verb
- To fail disastrously.
- To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
- To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
adj
noun
- A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
- A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
- An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
- One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
- A deliberate wipeout.
- One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
verb
noun
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
verb
- clean with some chemical process
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- move by or as if by water
- be capable of being washed
- admit to testing or proof
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- form by erosion
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- wash by removing particles
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
verb
verb
- fail to spoil or rot
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- retain possession of
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- conform one's action or practice to
- stick to correctly or closely
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- maintain by writing regular records
- supply with room and board
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- supply with necessities and support
- behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- to rear
- retain rights to
- store or keep customarily
- have as a supply
- maintain for use and service
- hold and prevent from leaving
- prevent the action or expression of
- prevent (food) from rotting
noun
verb
verb
- To waste away.
- To deprive of.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- To masturbate.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To cut off, remove, take away.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
noun
verb
verb
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
- Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
- To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
noun
verb
- To conserve.
- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
- To provide with a husband.
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A prudent or frugal manager.
- The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- A polled tree; a pollard.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
verb
- To reduce.
- To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- To make someone feel bad emotionally.
- To make a ruler lose their position of power.
- To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.
- To humble.
verb
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- To terminate a process prior to completion.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
noun
verb
- To reduce.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a website.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To swallow.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
verb
- To undo something.
- To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
- To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
- To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- To separate (something that is wound up)
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- To rid of sexuality.
noun
- A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The neuter gender.
adj
noun
- Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
- The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
- The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
- Anything lost by wear or waste.
- The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
verb
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- put an end to
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
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