fret
starve
hunger
famish
make a pig of oneself
chomp down on
swattle
frit away
pickle
scran
eating
feeding
lick clean
snack down on
grind
scoff
chow
house
manducate
feed one's face
consume
yam
nyam
stuff one's face
eat
comestible
overeat
quid
manducation
sapu
surfeit
get stuck into
uneat
gulp down
tuck
appetizingness
toss out
dig in
repletion
ate away
masticate
untaste
fill up
gobble
foodlessly
swallie
dinnerless
bolt
breadless
outeat
munch
manavelins
fast
draw away
slurp
buzz off
fasting
tuck away
clem
bibble
delocate
foodless
peel away
yaup
abstinence
scrap
put up
strip
eat like a bird
fill
pitch in
spatchcock
wipe
dry up and blow away
range
wolf
woof
swallow
liquidate
expenditure
using up
make a meal of
take a bite out of
consumption
monophagous
wolf back
exit
pingle
gluttonize
fletcherize
dinnerless
breadless
foodless
monophagous
foodlessly
eating
feeding
comestible
scoff
manducation
appetizingness
surfeit
repletion
munch
manavelins
fast
fasting
abstinence
scrap
expenditure
using up
consumption
fret
starve
hunger
famish
make a pig of oneself
chomp down on
swattle
frit away
pickle
scran
lick clean
snack down on
grind
scoff
chow
house
manducate
feed one's face
consume
yam
nyam
stuff one's face
eat
overeat
quid
sapu
surfeit
get stuck into
uneat
gulp down
tuck
toss out
dig in
ate away
masticate
untaste
fill up
gobble
swallie
bolt
outeat
draw away
slurp
buzz off
tuck away
clem
bibble
delocate
peel away
yaup
put up
strip
eat like a bird
fill
pitch in
spatchcock
wipe
dry up and blow away
range
wolf
woof
swallow
liquidate
make a meal of
take a bite out of
wolf back
exit
pingle
gluttonize
fletcherize
verb
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
verb
verb
- To eat sparingly.
- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- To pilfer.
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- To serialize.
noun
- A difficult situation; peril.
- A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- A mildly mischievous loved one.
- A penis.
- A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- A rundown.
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
verb
verb
- To eat.
- 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 move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- 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 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
noun
verb
- To eat.
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To keep within a structure or container.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
noun
- House music.
- A workhouse.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- A theatre.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A place of rest or repose.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
verb
verb
noun
- An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
- A potato.
- home
- The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
- Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
- A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
- A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
- Taro.
verb
verb
verb
- To be eaten.
- To consume a meal.
- To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
- To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
- To take the loss in a transaction.
- To cause (someone) to worry.
- To corrode or erode.
- To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
- To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
- To destroy, consume, or use up.
- To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
- To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
- To be very good; to rule; to rock.
- To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
noun
verb
verb
noun
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- A sovereign or guinea.
- The inherent nature of something.
- pound sterling (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- the act of chewing such tobacco
- dollar, dollars
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- various national currencies typically known by the name "pound"
- euro
verb
- To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- To fill (something) to excess.
- To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- To indulge (in something) to excess.
- To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
- To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
noun
verb
- To eat; to consume.
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
noun
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- The beat of a drum.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To satisfy one's hunger; to stop being hungry.
- To satisfy the hunger of (someone).
- To annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging.
- To fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
- To become completely full.
- To make (something) completely full.
- To become tearful as a result of strong emotion.
- To fill in / fill out a form etc.
- To make a full house on the turn or the river.
adv
adj
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- move or jump suddenly
- secure or lock with a bolt
- swallow hastily
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- make or roll into bolts
noun
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
adv
verb
noun
adv
adj
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
- resistant to destruction or fading
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- hurried and brief
- securely fixed in place
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
verb
adj
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To take away from something else.
- To burn out while accelerating and rapidly depart; to peel off, peel out.
- To become separate through peeling.
- To separate off from the main body; to move off to one side (as in troop movements on a parade ground or in an organized retreat, or columns in a procession).
noun
- Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
- The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
- The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
- Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
- Delay of spending to accrue capital.
- Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
noun
- Leftover food.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- The smallest amount.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
verb
verb
- To store away.
- To set (matter) in capital letters.
- To hang; to mount.
- To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard..
- To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
- To house; to shelter; to take in.
- To cause (wild game) to break cover.
- To present, especially in "put up a fight".
- To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
- To build a structure.
- To provide funds in advance.
- To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
- To place in a high location.
- To make available; to offer.
- To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
verb
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To perform a striptease.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To take off clothing.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- A strip steak.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- A trough for washing ore.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A landing strip.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A comic strip.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
verb
verb
- To erase.
- To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
- To deperm (a ship).
- To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
- To remove an expression from one's face.
noun
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- The act of wiping something.
- An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
verb
- let eat
- change or be different within limits
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- assign a rank or rating to
noun
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- the limits within which something can be effective
- a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
- a series of hills or mountains
- a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
- a variety of different things or activities
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- the limit of capability
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
verb
- To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
- To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
- To hunt for wolves.
noun
- Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
verb
intj
noun
verb
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- To retract; to recant.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
noun
- Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
verb
- To do away with.
- To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
- To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
- To kill.
- To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
- To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
verb
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To give up the lead.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
noun
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
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