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verb
verb
noun
verb
- To make a hole through something.
- simple past tense of bear
- To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- To inspire boredom in somebody.
- simple past tense of bare
noun
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- The place where such a well exists.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
verb
noun
- A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- A sunken area.
- A small valley between mountains.
- A feeling of emptiness.
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- Pertaining to hollow body position
- Having an empty space or cavity inside.
adv
verb
- make a hole by poking
- poke or thrust abruptly
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- stir by poking
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
noun
- tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
noun
noun
- A hole in one.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person owning a "first rank" talent.
- A perfect score on a school exam.
- A dollar bill.
- A person who is asexual.
- A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- The best pitcher on the team.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A card or die face so marked.
- A single point or spot on a playing card or die normally indicating it as the prime, i.e. first and forefront. (in playing cards, of that series)
- A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
verb
- To make an ace (hole in one).
- To win a point by an ace.
- To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
adj
verb
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
noun
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
verb
- To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- To yell at or berate.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- To remove (material) by reaming.
- To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Not steep; close to horizontal.
- Not far forward, close to the net.
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- Extending not far downward.
- Lacking interest or substance.
verb
- To stamp holes in; to perforate.
- To eagerly seize an opportunity.
- To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
- To attack suddenly by leaping.
- To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
- To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
noun
- Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- A sudden leaping attack.
- A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- A punch or stamp.
- Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
verb
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To pick (someone) up
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
- To form cracks.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
adj
verb
- To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- To shoot; to kill.
- To hit or kick with a lot of power.
noun
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
verb
- To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
- To discard, to throw away.
- To vomit.
- To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
- To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- To jilt; to dump.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- To touch or tap gently.
- To leave; to depart; to bounce.
- To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
- To make a clucking sound.
noun
- Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- A clucking sound.
- A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
- A gentle touch or tap.
- A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- An act or instance of vomiting.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A small pebble.
- A casual throw.
verb
- To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.
- To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
- To provide reserve support.
- To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
- To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
noun
verb
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
prep
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
noun
- A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
- A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
- A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
- A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure hunters or vandals.
- A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.
- A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
noun
verb
- To be bent into a flange.
- To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
- To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
noun
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- The vulva.
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
- An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
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