befall
hap
pass off
pass
become of
go on
beget
arrive
bechance
come to pass
bring to pass
set up
take place
-in-waiting
go down
occur
transpire
on course
eventuate
have
make
come upon
come to
manifest
written in the stars
hold
be
fall
rehappen
bound
happen
fiat
so as to
come
dissemble
impend
offer
act
prove
catch up
bring about
come off
probable
get
certain
sure
betime
flare
work
drive
break
render
develop
recrudesce
recur
like
prospective
eventualize
waiting to happen
wind up
ten to one
casual
crop up
until
play out
incident
go
chance
subvene
betide
racing certainty
ad
with any luck
about
fetch
matter of time
happening
pre-see
mishappen
feed
there
fare
leave
invoke
previse
draw
bring upon
overfall
enact
stop
stand a chance
written in the stars
bound
probable
certain
sure
prospective
casual
incident
waiting to happen
there
racing certainty
matter of time
happening
befall
hap
pass off
pass
become of
go on
beget
arrive
bechance
come to pass
bring to pass
set up
take place
go down
occur
transpire
eventuate
have
make
come upon
come to
manifest
hold
be
fall
rehappen
happen
fiat
come
dissemble
impend
offer
act
prove
catch up
bring about
come off
get
betime
flare
work
drive
break
render
develop
recrudesce
recur
like
eventualize
wind up
crop up
play out
go
chance
subvene
betide
fetch
pre-see
mishappen
feed
fare
leave
invoke
previse
draw
bring upon
overfall
enact
stop
stand a chance
verb
- To happen.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
verb
verb
- To cause to happen.
- To trick someone in order to make them do something.
- To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- To gel or harden.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To ready something for use.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To ready for use.
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
adj
verb
- To take place, happen.
- To crash.
- To be soundly defeated.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- To be received or accepted.
- To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- To perform oral sex.
- To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- To sink.
- To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- To stop functioning, to go offline.
- To be recorded or remembered (as).
- Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
verb
- To cause to be.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
verb
- To cause to be.
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To behave, to act.
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To interpret.
- To write or compose.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
verb
- To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
- To total; to amount to.
- To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.
- To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
- To reach; to arrive at.
- To seek help from.
- To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- To regard or specifically pertain to.
verb
- To will something to exist.
- To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
- To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
- To become manifest; to be revealed.
adj
- Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
- Detected; convicted.
- Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
noun
verb
- To take place, to occur.
- To detain.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To occur, to take place.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.
- Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to form the continuous aspect.
- To occupy a place.
- Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- To exist.
- Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate the time of day.
- Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- To exist or behave in a certain way.
- Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- Used to form the passive voice.
- Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.
- Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
noun
verb
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- 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 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 come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- 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
adj
- Very likely (to), certain to
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
- Obliged (to).
- Constrained by a quantifier.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
noun
- A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
verb
verb
noun
phrase
verb
- Happen.
- To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To become butter by being churned.
- To have a certain social background.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To move towards the listener.
- To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To move towards an unstated agent.
- To move towards the speaker.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To germinate.
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- To arrive.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
prep
intj
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
noun
verb
- To happen, to present itself.
- To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
- To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
- To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
- To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
- To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
- To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
- To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
noun
verb
- To feign.
- To do something.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To perform a theatrical role.
- To play (a role).
- To convey an appearance of being.
- To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To have an effect (on).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
noun
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A display of behaviour.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- Any organized activity.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- Something done, a deed.
verb
- To turn out to be.
- To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
- To put to the test, to make trial of.
- To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
- To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
- simple past tense of proove
- To turn out; to manifest.
noun
verb
- To cause to do.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
verb
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
verb
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To cause to become.
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To move forcefully.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To operate (an aircraft).
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- To compel (to do something).
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- Desire or interest.
- A stroke made with a driver.
- An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- A driveway.
- A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A straight level shot or pass.
- An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- A type of public roadway.
- A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
verb
- happen
- 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
- give up
- 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
- 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
- To cause to become.
- To translate into another language.
- To make over as a return.
- To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- To have fat drip off meat from cooking.
- To pass down.
- To give; to give back; to deliver.
- To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- To yield or give way.
noun
verb
- happen
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- work out
- gain through experience
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- change the use of and make available or usable
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- create by training and teaching
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- become technologically advanced
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- generate gradually
- grow emotionally or mature
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- expand in the form of a series
verb
verb
- To be likely.
- To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
- To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
- To want, desire. See also would like.
- To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
- To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
- To accept as an input.
adv
conj
particle
- A delayed filler.
- Likely.
- Indicating approximation or uncertainty.
- Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.
adj
prep
- Typical of
- Approximating
- In the manner of, similarly to
- Such as
- Similar to, reminiscent of
- As if there would be
- Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something
noun
- An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
- The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
- Something that a person likes (prefers).
- Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
adj
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
noun
- 1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple;[…]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher:[…], volume IV, London: […] John Stockdale,[…], published 1811, →OCLC, page 573, column 2
- [T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.
- A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
verb
- To end up; to arrive or result.
- To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- To upset; to anger or distress.
- To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- To increase (in some aspect).
- To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- To excite.
- To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
prep_phrase
adj
- Happening by chance.
- Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Careless.
noun
- A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
- A player of casual games.
- Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
adj
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- Falling on or striking a surface.
noun
verb
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- be the case by chance
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
noun
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a risk involving danger
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
adj
verb
phrase
prep
- See about to.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
- In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- On one's person; nearby the person.
- Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
- Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
adv
- To the opposite tack: see go about.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- On all sides; around.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
adj
verb
- To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
- To reduce; to throw.
- To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
noun
- An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- An act of fetching data.
- The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
intj
verb
verb
- To pass to.
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- To give to a machine to be processed.
- To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
- To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
- To supply with something.
- To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- To eat (usually of animals).
- To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
noun
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- Something supplied continuously.
- Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- A meal.
- A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
adv
- To or into that place; thither.
- In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
- In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
- In this world, used to say that someone or something exists; see pronoun section below.
noun
pron
- That.
- Appended to words of greeting etc.
- Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
- Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
- Used with other verbs, when raised.
intj
verb
- To cause, to result in.
- To let be or do without interference.
- To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- To transfer possession of after death.
- To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- To produce leaves or foliage.
- To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
noun
- The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- Permission.
verb
- To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
- To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
- To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
- To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
- To conjure up with incantations.
- To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
- To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
verb
verb
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To close or block an opening.
- Not to continue.
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
punct
verb
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