break
chuck in
pack in
throw in the towel
part with
scintillate
throw up
quat
give up
spare
dispense with
give over
fold like a cheap suit
pack up
flummox
punk out
throw in one's hand
succumb
resign oneself
exit
cut bait
resign
renounce
relinquish
foreswear
quit
allot
portion
assign
have done with
bury
kiss goodbye
unconnect
let something ride
roll over
bin
dislustre
afford
cede
throw to the dogs
unadopt
abrogate
get lost
off
persistent
make way
go without
collect skin
liquidate
bag
outcut
wave the white flag
unleash
leave over
exscind
go to water
end
give out
rack off, hairy legs
drop
raise
jettison
lift
put paid to
ride the bench
warm the bench
waive
kill off
forsake
stagger
excise
snip
dump
leave behind
ditch
surmount
86
can
cash in one's chips
throw over
rack off
let slide
sack off
see the back of
apostatize
get rid of
ouster
surrender
cashier
abolish
rid up
persistent
break
chuck in
pack in
throw in the towel
part with
scintillate
throw up
quat
give up
spare
dispense with
give over
fold like a cheap suit
pack up
flummox
punk out
throw in one's hand
succumb
resign oneself
exit
cut bait
resign
renounce
relinquish
foreswear
quit
allot
portion
assign
have done with
bury
kiss goodbye
unconnect
let something ride
roll over
bin
dislustre
afford
cede
throw to the dogs
unadopt
abrogate
get lost
off
make way
go without
collect skin
liquidate
bag
outcut
wave the white flag
unleash
leave over
exscind
go to water
end
give out
drop
raise
jettison
lift
put paid to
ride the bench
warm the bench
waive
kill off
forsake
stagger
excise
snip
dump
leave behind
ditch
surmount
86
can
cash in one's chips
throw over
rack off
let slide
sack off
see the back of
apostatize
get rid of
ouster
surrender
cashier
abolish
rid up
verb
- give up
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
verb
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- put an end to a state or an activity
- part with a possession or right
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- relinquish possession or control over
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- stop consuming
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- use frugally or carefully
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
adj
verb
verb
- To give up the lead.
- 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 go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- 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.
verb
noun
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
verb
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To outlive.
- To score a goal.
- To place in the ground.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To kill or murder.
noun
verb
verb
- To give in to.
- To increment, especially back to an initial value.
- To make a rolling motion or turn.
- To reinvest funds from a lottery into a subsequent one, because nobody won it.
- To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.
- To easily overwhelm; to steamroller; to brush aside.
- To move the cursor over.
- To cause a rolling motion or turn.
verb
noun
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
adj
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- non-transient.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Indefinitely continuous.
verb
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 drop away from the correct course.
- To arrest.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To steal.
- To put into a bag.
- To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
noun
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- One's preference.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- The scrotum.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- £1000, a grand.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- An ugly woman.
- A fellow gay man.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- First, second, or third base.
- A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
verb
verb
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- bring to an end or halt
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
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
verb
- To break down, get out of order, fail.
- To desist.
- To issue; to distribute.
- To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
- To complain, sulk, chastise.
- To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
- To put forth, utter (prayers).
- To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
- To run short, come to an end.
- To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
phrase
verb
- To drop out of the betting.
- 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 come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- 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 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
- put an end to
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- 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
- cause to become alive again
noun
verb
- put an end to
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- move upwards
- move upward
- make audible
- cancel officially
- make off with belongings of others
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- invigorate or heighten
- raise in rank or condition
- take off or away by decreasing
- rise up
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- take illegally
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- remove from a surface
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- the event of something being raised upward
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- a ride in a car
- the act of raising something
verb
verb
verb
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To cause to reel or totter.
noun
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- One who attends a stag night.
- The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
verb
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- To circumcise.
noun
- A vasectomy.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
verb
- To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- To end a romantic relationship with.
- To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
noun
- An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- An act of dumping, or its result.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- A pile of ore or rock.
- A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
verb
- To shut up.
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
verb
verb
- To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
- To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
- For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
- To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
- To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
noun
- An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
verb
verb
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file
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