go down
resink
sinkward
founder
sench
sinky
lave
ablute
absorb
relaunder
swamp
sink
submarine
down
overflow hole
take on water
dip
wash out
swill
bewash
sinkwater
reside
sie
squizzle
leaching
submerge
drawk
submerse
sluice
rerinse
spillage
washbasin
non-buoyant
depress
drainer
inblow
lower
take
rewash
sinklike
fairy liquid
sough
sodden
spillingly
spring a leak
dish soap
swatter
subside
droop
spilt
sinkability
retrojection
settle
countersink
infall
clear up
run off
trinkle
wash down
drown
sinkerball
overleak
drainable
scrub up
lap
cough up
swim
scrub
mire
doline
drain out
water-wash
dribble
jabble
plash
sloosh
flouse
slike
prerinse
jaup
yote
duck
cat-lick
outflush
rewet
slop
plouter
clamshell
waterfast
water
sinky
non-buoyant
sinklike
spilt
drainable
waterfast
sinkward
spillingly
sink
overflow hole
sinkwater
leaching
spillage
washbasin
drainer
fairy liquid
dish soap
sinkability
retrojection
sinkerball
doline
cat-lick
go down
resink
founder
sench
lave
ablute
absorb
relaunder
swamp
sink
submarine
down
take on water
dip
wash out
swill
bewash
reside
sie
squizzle
submerge
drawk
submerse
sluice
rerinse
depress
inblow
lower
take
rewash
sough
sodden
spring a leak
swatter
subside
droop
settle
countersink
infall
clear up
run off
trinkle
wash down
drown
overleak
scrub up
lap
cough up
swim
scrub
mire
drain out
water-wash
dribble
jabble
plash
sloosh
flouse
slike
prerinse
jaup
yote
duck
outflush
rewet
slop
plouter
clamshell
water
verb
- To sink.
- 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 take place, happen.
- 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
adv
verb
- To flood with water and sink.
- To fail; to miscarry.
- To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
noun
- One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- Someone for whose parents one has no data.
verb
verb
verb
- To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- To take in energy and convert it, as
- To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- To occupy or consume time.
- To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- Assimilate mentally.
- To accept or purchase in quantity.
- To defray the costs.
- in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
verb
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
- cause to sink
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go under
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- appear to move downward
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- fall or sink heavily
- embed deeply
noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
verb
- To sink or submerge oneself.
- To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- To operate or serve on a submarine.
- To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).
adj
- Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea.
- Hidden or undisclosed.
- Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
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.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
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.
verb
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
noun
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
noun
verb
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
noun
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
verb
- To let in (water).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
noun
adv
verb
noun
verb
- sink down or precipitate
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- take up residence and become established
- come to terms
- go under
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- establish or develop as a residence
- come to rest
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- form a community
- come as if by falling
noun
verb
noun
- The act or process of falling in.
- Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
- The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
- An incursion; an inroad.
verb
noun
verb
verb
verb
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
verb
- To let something fall in drips.
- To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
- In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
- To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
noun
verb
verb
- To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To enter a place for a short moment.
- To evade doing something.
- To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To bow.
noun
- A long-necked medical urinal for men.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- Trousers made of such material.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- A cairn used to mark a trail.
- A playing card with the rank of two.
- Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
noun
verb
- To spill or dump liquid, especially over the edge of a container when it moves.
- To make one's way through soggy terrain.
- In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
- To feed pigs.
- To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
noun
- Domestic liquid waste; household wastewater.
- A policeman.
- Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
- A rubber thong sandal.
- Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.
- Semi-solid like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
- See slops.
- Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
verb
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
- To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with take-out food.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
adj
verb
- To fill with or secrete water.
- To dilute.
- To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- To urinate onto.
- To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- To get or take in water.
- To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
noun
- The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- A serving of liquid water.
- A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- Urine.
- The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
- Water in a body; an area of open water.
- A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- A person's intuition.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
- Spa water.
- Mineral water.
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