preen
palaver
lay it on thick
pitch woo
sweet-talk
beflatter
even
tickle the ear
flannel
blandisher
flatten
flatten out
adulate
collogue
butter up
slighten
good
lower
wemble
smooth-spoken
toot
trump
soft-sawder
bust a move
pass gas
deflate
arise
earwig
take away
flattering
roose
peer
true
ding
deplanate
enhance
unbend
move up
straighten
flatterer
climb
broaden
scale up
elevate
uplevel
pinnacle
flatly
whipstitch
cancel
level up
tower
top
flop
upbrim
ruche
solidify
steepen
raise up
outcalculate
lift up
raise
flatteringly
lift
cheese cutter
weightedly
equably
get up
tallen
bring up
outreckon
flew
shallow
scale
saturant
shoal
inexpediently
kiss someone's ass
nivellate
only too
uppluck
abate
fall off
slacken
flat
maximizable
upvalue
all too
complanate
taper
windy
flatteringness
even
smooth-spoken
deplanate
flew
saturant
maximizable
windy
flatly
flop
flatteringly
weightedly
equably
inexpediently
only too
flat
all too
blandisher
earwig
flattering
flatterer
cheese cutter
flatteringness
preen
palaver
lay it on thick
pitch woo
sweet-talk
beflatter
even
tickle the ear
flannel
flatten
flatten out
adulate
collogue
butter up
slighten
good
lower
wemble
toot
trump
soft-sawder
bust a move
pass gas
deflate
arise
take away
roose
peer
true
ding
enhance
unbend
move up
straighten
climb
broaden
scale up
elevate
uplevel
pinnacle
whipstitch
cancel
level up
tower
top
upbrim
ruche
solidify
steepen
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outcalculate
lift up
raise
lift
get up
tallen
bring up
outreckon
shallow
scale
shoal
kiss someone's ass
nivellate
uppluck
abate
fall off
slacken
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complanate
taper
verb
- To flatter.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
- To pin; fasten.
noun
verb
verb
adj
- Flat and level.
- Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
- On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
- parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
- On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Without great variation.
- Divisible by two.
noun
adv
verb
verb
adj
noun
noun
verb
- To make something flat or flatter.
- To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
- To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- To knock down or lay low.
- To lower by a semitone.
- To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
- To be knocked down or laid low.
- To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
verb
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
adv
intj
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
verb
- To make less elevated
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- To bring down; to humble
- (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- To reduce the height of
- To depress as to direction
- to pull down
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
adj
verb
verb
- To flatulate.
- To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
- Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To see; to spy.
- To stand out, or be prominent.
- To peep; to look narrowly.
- To go on a drinking binge.
- To snort (a recreational drug).
- To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
- To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).
noun
verb
- To flatulate.
- To blow a trumpet.
- To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- To supersede.
- To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
noun
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- A playing card of that suit.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- Flatulence.
verb
verb
- To belch or flatulate
- To let down or disappoint.
- To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- To become deflated.
- To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
- To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
verb
- To subtract or diminish something.
- To remove something and put it in a different place.
- To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.
- To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
- To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
noun
prep
verb
- To make equal in rank.
- To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
- To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
noun
- Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- A look; a glance.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
verb
- To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
- To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
noun
adj
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- Genuine; legitimate, valid.
- Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- based on actual historical events.
- Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- Loyal, faithful.
- Accurate; following a path toward the target.
adv
verb
- To level up.
- To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
- To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- To hit or strike.
- To fire or reject.
- To mishit (a golf ball).
- To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- To dash; to throw violently.
noun
verb
- To put higher on a list.
- To raise, put onto a higher place.
- To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).
- To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
- To be promoted.
- To pass to a higher level.
- To promote, put onto a higher level.
- To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
noun
verb
- To scale; to get to the top of something.
- To mount; to move upwards on.
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- to jump high
- Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- to practise the sport of climbing
- To ascend; rise; to go up.
noun
verb
- To raise (something) to a higher position.
- To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
- To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
- To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
- To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
- To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
verb
- To offset or equalize something.
- To cross out something with lines etc.
- To kill.
- To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
- To invalidate or annul something.
- To stop production of a programme.
- To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
noun
verb
noun
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- A water tower.
- A strong refuge; a defence.
- The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
- A control tower.
- Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
- An interlocking tower.
- A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
- One who tows.
- An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
verb
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- To anally penetrate in gay sex.
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- To commit suicide.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To murder.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cover with another dye.
- To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
adj
- Situated on the top of something.
- Best; of the highest quality or rank.
- Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
adv
noun
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- A top quark.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A lid, cap or cover of a container.
- A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- the part of something that is usually the top.
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin
- (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
- A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere
- A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
adv
verb
- To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- To cause to drop heavily.
- To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- To flip; to reverse (an image).
noun
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
- A flophouse.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
intj
verb
verb
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- raise the level or amount of something
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- move upwards
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- increase the level of
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
- cause to become alive again
noun
verb
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To arrest (a person).
- To steal.
- to cause to move upwards.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To raise or rise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
noun
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A thief.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Air.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- An improvement in mood.
- The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
verb
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- look after a child until it is an adult
- promote from a lower position or rank
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- make reference to
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
verb
noun
adj
adj
verb
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- To climb to the top of.
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- To scatter; to spread.
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- To remove the scales of.
noun
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A scale insect.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
verb
adv
verb
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
- 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 put an end to (a nuisance).
- 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.
noun
adv
- So as to be flat.
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
verb
adv
verb
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To diminish gradually.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
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