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autofecundation
self-right
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put one's mind to it
wince
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fall down on
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overhead press
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Sitzfleisch
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aquacise
alley oop
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lake
push
rise
huck
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self-right
jazzercise
shake
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wince
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fatigue
draw close
up
high-stick
open-hand
overexercise
exultate
make the dust fly
fall
pull-up
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
aquacise
beat down
verb
verb
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To produce intense pain.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To use up or to waste.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
verb
noun
- A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
verb
- To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
- To move (a pawn) directly forward.
- To press or urge forward; to drive.
- To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
- To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
- To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
- To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
- To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- To make an all-in bet.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To approach; to come close to.
- To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
- To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
noun
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
- A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
- An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
- A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
- The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
- A great effort (to do something).
- The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
verb
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise to one's feet
- rise up
- come to the surface
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- get up and out of bed
- rise in rank or status
- become heartened or elated
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- increase in volume
- come up, of celestial bodies
- return from the dead
noun
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- an increase in cost
- increase in price or value
noun
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- a sudden and decisive increase
- an abrupt transition
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
verb
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- make a sudden physical attack on
- increase suddenly and significantly
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
noun
- forceful exertion
- (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
- enterprising or ambitious drive
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- any source of usable power
verb
- To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
- To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
- To throw or chuck.
- To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
- To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
- To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
- To throw a frisbee a long distance.
- To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
noun
noun
- manner of acting or controlling yourself
- the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
- (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
noun
- manner of acting or controlling yourself
- the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
- (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
verb
- To act in a non destructive or damaging manner, whether physically or mentally to those you hold dear and/or respect. To exercise self-control.
- To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
- To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.
- To mark or secure a boundary by walking along it.
verb
- do forcibly; exert 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
- move with force
- 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
- 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
noun
- an intense or violent exertion
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- the act of singing
verb
- to exert much effort or energy
- test the limits of
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
- become stretched or tense or taut
- remove by passing through a filter
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
verb
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- provoke or excite
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
verb
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
noun
- Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- A bulldog edition.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- One of the proctors' officers.
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To lie, to tell untruths.
- To polish boots to a high shine.
- To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- To endeavour to raise prices in.
- To mock; to cheat.
- To endeavour to raise the market price of.
adj
- Large and strong, like a bull.
- Adult male.
- Stupid.
- Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
noun
- A policeman.
- The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- Any adult male bovine.
- Beef.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
- An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- A lie.
- Nonsense.
- An elderly lesbian.
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
- A large, strong man.
- Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
- A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
noun
verb
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
noun
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shock or disturbance.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
verb
- To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
- To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
- To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
- To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
- To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
noun
verb
- To physically raise or lift.
- To upload.
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
noun
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
adj
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
verb
verb
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
intj
noun
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
verb
- To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (of rain) To strike with great force.
- (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- To severely beat someone up.
noun
- An exercise performed lying on the back in which the arms are extended behind the head and exertion lifts the weight above the head.
- A sweater that must be put on by pulling it over the head; a sweater without buttons or a zipper in front
- An exercise in which the gymnast pulls up from a hang lifting the legs up and over the bar thus rolling into a support position.
- An instance of a vehicle being pulled over.
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