Synonym of the word BREAK

break

v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
v. (sports and games).
v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
n. A short holiday.
n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
n. The beginning (of the morning).
n. An act of escaping.
n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
n. (sports and games).
n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

accident

n. An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the…
n. (transport, vehicles) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
n. Any chance event.
n. (uncountable) Chance.
n. Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
n. (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
n. (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
n. (philosophy, logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
n. (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
n. (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
n. (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
n. (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary…
n. (military) An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s)…
n. (uncountable, philosophy, uncommon) Appearance, manifestation.

alter

v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
v. (intransitive) To become different.
v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

alteration

n. The act of altering or making different.
n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

annul

v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

appear

v. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
v. (intransitive) To come before the public.
v. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge,…
v. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation…
v. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

assign

v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
n. An assignee.
n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

avoid

v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

bankrupt

adj. In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
adj. Having been legally declared insolvent.
adj. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
v. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
n. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
n. (Britain, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud…

become

v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

better

adj. comparative form of good: more good.
adj. comparative form of well: more well.
adv. comparative form of well: more well.
adv. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
n. An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
v. (transitive) To improve.
v. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
v. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
v. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
v. (colloquial) Had better.
n. Alternative spelling of bettor.

blunt

adj. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
adj. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
adj. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
adj. Hard to impress or penetrate.
adj. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
n. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
n. A short needle with a strong point.
n. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
n. (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money.
n. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
v. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
v. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of.

breach

n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
v. (transitive) To violate or break.
v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

break

v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
v. (sports and games).
v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
n. A short holiday.
n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
n. The beginning (of the morning).
n. An act of escaping.
n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
n. (sports and games).
n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

breakage

n. The act of breaking.
n. Something that has been broken.
n. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the…

breaking

v. present participle of break.
n. The act by which something is broken.
n. (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
n. (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
n. breakdancing.

breakout

n. An escape from prison.
n. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
n. An outbreak.
n. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
n. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
adj. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

breakup

n. The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
n. The termination of a friendship, or a romantic relationship.
n. A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
n. (Alaska) Spring.

bump

n. A light blow or jolting collision.
n. The sound of such a collision.
n. A protuberance on a level surface.
n. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
n. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or…
n. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to…
n. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
n. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning…
n. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
n. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
n. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
n. A coarse cotton fabric.
n. A training match for a fighting dog.
n. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
v. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
v. To move up or down by a step.
v. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it…
v. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
v. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
v. (transitive) To move the time of a scheduled event.
v. (archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
interj. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to…

burst

n. An instance of, or the act of bursting.
n. A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
n. A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
v. (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
v. (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
v. (transitive) To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
v. (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
v. (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.

bust

n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
v. To break something.
v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

cease

v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

change

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

check

n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
n. An inspection or examination.
n. A control; a limit or stop.
n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
n. A small chink or crack.
v. To inspect; to examine.
v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
v. To control, limit, or halt.
v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
v. To leave in safekeeping.
v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
v. To act as a curb or restraint.
v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

cleft

n. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
n. A piece made by splitting.
n. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
v. simple past tense and past participle of cleave.

collapse

v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
n. The act of collapsing.
n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

commute

v. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
v. (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing…
v. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment…
n. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
n. The route, time or distance of that journey.

convert

n. A person who has converted to a religion.
n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
v. (intransitive) To become converted.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

crack

v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of…
v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
v. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
v. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
v. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
v. (transitive) To open slightly.
v. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative).
v. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.).
v. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
v. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application…
v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
n. A narrow opening.
n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
n. (informal) An attempt at something.
n. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous…
n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news.
n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
n. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
adj. Highly trained and competent.
adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

crevice

n. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
v. To crack; to flaw.

crumble

v. To fall apart; to disintegrate.
v. To render into crumbs.
n. A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

damage

n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
n. (slang) Cost or expense.
v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

damp

adj. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
adj. (figuratively) despondent; dispirited, downcast.
n. Moisture; humidity; dampness.
n. (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
n. (archaic) Dejection or depression.
n. (archaic or historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
v. (transitive, archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet.
v. (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain,…
v. (transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to…

dampen

v. (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
v. (transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
v. (intransitive) To become damp; to deaden.

dance

n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

dash

n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal…
n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
n. A short run.
n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
n. Vigor.
n. A dashboard.
n. (Nigeria and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
n. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.).
v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
v. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
v. (transitive) To throw violently.
v. (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
v. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
v. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
v. To draw quickly; jot.
v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something…
interj. (euphemistic) Damn!

deaden

v. (transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
v. (intransitive) To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
v. (transitive) To make soundproof.

decay

n. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
n. A deterioration of condition.
v. (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
v. (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by…
v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to…
v. (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
v. (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.

decrease

v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

delay

n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

delegate

n. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
n. a representative at a conference, etc.
n. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
n. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous…
v. to authorize someone to be a delegate.
v. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate.
v. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else…

demote

v. (transitive) To lower the rank or status of something or someone.
v. (transitive) To relegate.

depute

v. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
v. To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
v. To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
v. To appoint; to assign; to choose.
n. (Scotland) Deputy.

designate

adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

destroy

v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

detach

v. To take apart from; to take off.
v. (military) To separate for a special object or use.

detachment

n. (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
n. (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
n. (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
n. (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
n. (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or…
n. (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
n. (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
n. (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.

develop

v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
v. (transitive) To create.
v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

die

v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
n. Any small cubical or square body.
n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

diminish

v. (transitive) To make smaller.
v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
v. (intransitive) To taper.
v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
v. To take away; to subtract.

diphthongise

v. Alternative spelling of diphthongize.

diphthongize

v. (transitive, phonetics) To change to a diphthong (as by inserting or removing a vowel).
v. (intransitive, phonetics) To become a diphthong.

disclose

v. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
v. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
v. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
n. (obsolete) A disclosure.

discontinue

v. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop…

discover

v. To find or learn something for the first time.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

disperse

v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
adj. Scattered or spread out.

disrespect

n. A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour.
v. (transitive) To show a lack of respect to someone or something.

disrupt

v. (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
v. (transitive) To interrupt or impede.
v. (transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the…
adj. (obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

disruption

n. An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
n. A continuing act of disorder.

dissipate

v. To drive away, disperse.
v. To use up or waste.
v. To vanish by dispersion.

disunite

v. (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
v. (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
v. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.

divide

v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
n. A thing that divides.
n. An act of dividing.
n. A distancing between two people or things.
n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

divulge

v. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a…
v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

domesticate

v. (transitive) To make domestic.
v. (transitive) To make fit for domestic life.
v. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
v. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
v. (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one…
n. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

domesticise

v. Alternative form of domesticize.

domesticize

v. To make domestic; domesticate.

emerge

v. (intransitive) To come into view.
v. (intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
v. (intransitive) To become known.

end

n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
n. Death, especially miserable.
n. Result.
n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

erupt

v. (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.

escape

v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
n. (computing) escape key.
n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
n. (obsolete) A sally.
n. (architecture) An apophyge.

exceed

v. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
v. (transitive) To be better than (something).
v. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
v. (intransitive) To predominate.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.

exchange

n. An act of exchanging or trading.
n. A place for conducting trading.
n. A telephone exchange.
n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
n. A conversation.
n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

expose

v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

fail

v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
v. (transitive) To neglect.
v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

fall

n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
n. A loss of greatness or status.
n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
n. See falls.
n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

fault

n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
n. A mistake or error.
n. A weakness of character; a failing.
n. A minor offense.
n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
n. (obsolete) want; lack.
n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

faulting

v. present participle of fault.
n. Formation of a geological fault.

finish

n. An end; the end of anything.
n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
v. (transitive) To complete (something).
v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

fissure

n. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
n. (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
v. To split, forming fissures.

flee

v. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
v. (transitive) To escape from.
v. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

flight

n. The act of flying.
n. An instance of flying.
n. A collective term for doves or swallows.
n. A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or…
n. A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
n. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
n. A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
n. A paper plane.
n. (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
n. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
n. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
n. An air force unit.
n. Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full…
n. (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
adj. (obsolete) Fast, swift.
v. (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than…
v. (sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or…
n. The act of fleeing.

fly

n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
n. (obsolete) A parasite.
n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
v. To hunt with a hawk.
v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
n. An act of flying.
n. (baseball) A fly ball.
n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
n. The free edge of a flag.
n. The horizontal length of a flag.
n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

fortuity

n. (uncountable) The state of being fortuitous.
n. (countable) A fortuitous event; an accident.

founder

n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…

fracture

n. the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage.
n. (geology) a fault or crack in a rock.
v. to break, or cause something to break.

gaolbreak

n. Alternative form of jailbreak.

gap

n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
n. A vacant space or time.
n. A hiatus.
n. A mountain or hill pass.
n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

give

v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
v. To be going on, to be occurring.
n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

go

v. To move.
v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
v. (intransitive) To attend.
v. To proceed.
v. To follow or travel along (a path).
v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
v. To pass, to be used up.
v. (intransitive) To die.
v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
v. To break down or apart.
v. (intransitive) To be sold.
v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
v. To say (something), to make a sound.
v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
v. To apply or subject oneself to.
v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
v. (intransitive) To date.
v. To attack.
v. To be in general; to be usually.
v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
n. (uncommon) The act of going.
n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
n. An attempt, a try.
n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
n. An act; the working or operation.
n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
n. A period of activity.
n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hap

n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

happen

v. To occur or take place.
v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

happening

v. present participle of happen.
adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
n. Something that happens.
n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

harm

n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
n. emotional or figurative hurt.
n. detriment; misfortune.
n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

holdup

n. Alternative spelling of hold-up.

hurt

v. (intransitive) To be painful.
v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
adj. Wounded, physically injured.
adj. Pained.
n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
n. A husk.

impart

v. To give a part or share.
v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
v. To hold a conference or consultation.
v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

impoverish

v. (transitive) Make poor.
v. (transitive) Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.
v. (intransitive) Become poor.

infract

v. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
adj. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

injure

v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

injury

n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
n. (archaic) injustice.
v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

intermission

n. A break between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.

intermit

v. (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

interrupt

v. To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
v. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
v. (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
n. (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it…

interruption

n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

interval

n. A distance in space.
n. A period of time.
n. (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to…
n. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
n. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
n. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
n. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.

intrude

v. To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.

invalidate

v. To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.

jailbreak

n. An escape from prison.
v. To escape from prison.
v. (transitive) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove…

lessen

v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
v. (intransitive) To become less.

lick

n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
n. (colloquial) A bit.
n. (music) A short motif.
n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
v. To stroke with the tongue.
v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
v. (colloquial) To overcome.
v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

modification

n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

modify

v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

nullify

v. (transitive, law) to make legally invalid.
v. to prevent from happening.

occur

v. To happen or take place.
v. To present or offer (itself).
v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
v. (sciences) To be present or found.

occurrence

n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

adj. Current, actual, occurring.
n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

offend

v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

outdo

v. (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

outgo

v. (poetic) To go out, to set forth.
v. (archaic) To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
v. To overtake; to travel faster than.
v. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
n. The act or process of going out.
n. A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
n. (business, commerce) an expenditure, cost or outlay.

outmatch

v. (transitive) to surpass or be better than something or someone else.

outperform

v. To perform better than something or someone.

outstrip

v. (transitive) To outrun or leave behind.
v. (transitive) To exceed, excel or surpass.

part

n. A portion; a component.
n. Duty; responsibility.
n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
v. (intransitive) To leave.
v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
v. (transitive) To divide in two.
v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
v. To leave; to quit.
v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
adj. Fractional; partial.
adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

pass

v. (heading) Physical movement.
v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
v. (heading) To move through time.
v. (heading) To be accepted.
v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
v. (heading) To do or be better.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
n. An attempt.
n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
n. A sexual advance.
n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

pause

v. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
v. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
v. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
v. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
n. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
n. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation…
n. A break or paragraph in writing.
n. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
n. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate.

penetrate

v. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
v. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
v. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
v. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
v. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

perforate

v. to pierce; to penetrate.
v. to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.
adj. (philately, biology) perforated.

quash

v. To defeat forcibly.
v. To crush or dash to pieces.
v. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

quit

v. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
v. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
v. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
v. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to…
v. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
v. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
v. (transitive) To leave (a place).
v. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
v. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
n. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

recess

n. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
n. An inset, hole, space or opening.
n. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
n. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
n. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
n. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
n. A secret or abstruse part.
n. (botany, zoology) A sinus.
v. To inset into something, or to recede.
v. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
v. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
v. To make a recess in.
adj. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).

reclaim

v. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
v. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
v. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
v. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
v. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
v. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
v. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
n. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
n. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

recrudesce

v. (intransitive) to recur, or break out anew after a dormant period.

relegate

v. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
v. (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.
v. (transitive) Refer or submit.
n. (historical, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without…
adj. (archaic) Relegated; exiled.

respite

n. A brief interval of rest or relief.
n. (law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
n. (law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
v. (transitive) To delay or postpone.

reveal

n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
n. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
n. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway,…
v. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
v. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural…

rift

n. A chasm or fissure.
n. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
n. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
v. (intransitive) To form a rift.
v. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
v. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
v. past participle of rive.

ruin

n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

rupture

n. A burst, split, or break.
n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

scatter

v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

scissure

n. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

score

n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
n. Twenty, 20 (number).
n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
n. A weight of twenty pounds.
n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
n. Subject.
n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

separate

adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

separation

n. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
n. The place at which a division occurs.
n. An interval, gap or space that separates things.
n. (law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
n. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

severance

n. The act of severing or the state of being severed.
n. A separation.
n. A severance payment.

shift

n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
n. (computing) A bit shift.
n. (baseball) The infield shift.
n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
v. (transitive) To change, swap.
v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
v. (intransitive) To change position.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
v. (transitive) To dispose of.
v. (intransitive) To hurry.
v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

shoot

v. To launch a projectile.
v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
v. (sports) To act or achieve.
v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
v. To develop, move forward.
v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
n. A photography session.
n. A hunt or shooting competition.
n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
n. A rush of water; a rapid.
n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
n. A shoat; a young pig.
n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

shot

adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
adj. Tired, weary.
adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
n. An opportunity or attempt.
n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
n. A single serving of espresso.
n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
n. A vaccination or injection.
n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

smash

n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
v. To break (something brittle) violently.
v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
v. To hit extremely hard.
v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

soften

v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.

solve

v. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
v. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
v. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen…
n. (obsolete) A solution; an explanation.

split

adj. Divided.
adj. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
adj. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
adj. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price…
adj. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than the usual eighths.
adj. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred…
n. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
n. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
n. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
n. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
n. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading…
n. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
n. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between…
n. A split shot or split stroke.
n. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
n. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard …
n. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
n. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
n. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
n. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt…
n. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
v. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
v. (intransitive) Of something solid particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a…
v. (transitive) To share; to divide.
v. (slang) To leave.
v. to separate or break up.
v. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
v. To burst out laughing.
v. (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
v. (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and…

sprint

n. A short race at top speed.
n. A burst of speed or activity.
n. In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.

stop

v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
v. (intransitive) To not continue.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
v. (intransitive) To tarry.
v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
n. (photography) An f-stop.
n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
interj. halt! stop!
punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

stroke

n. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
n. A blow or hit.
n. A single movement with a tool.
n. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or…
n. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done…
n. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly.
n. A streak made with a brush.
n. The time when a clock strikes.
n. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
n. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
n. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
n. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
n. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
n. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
n. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
n. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
n. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
n. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
n. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
n. (obsolete) Power; influence.
n. (obsolete) appetite.
v. (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
v. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
v. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
v. (transitive) To row the stroke oar of.

surmount

v. To get over; to overcome.
v. To cap; to sit on top off.

surpass

v. (transitive) To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

suspension

n. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
n. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
n. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a…
n. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
n. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly…
n. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which…
n. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted…
n. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an…
n. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain…
n. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car,…

switch

n. A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
n. A change.
n. (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one…
n. A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in…
n. (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
n. (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of…
n. (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously,…
n. (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows…
n. (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role.
n. A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly…
v. (transitive) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
v. (transitive) To whip or hit with a switch.
v. (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
v. (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
v. To swing or whisk.
v. To be swung or whisked.
v. To trim.
v. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
v. (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
adj. (snowboarding) riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.

tame

adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
adj. Not exciting.
adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
v. (transitive) to make something tame.
v. (intransitive) to become tame.
v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;…

tell

v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
v. (transitive) To narrate.
v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
v. (transitive) To reveal.
v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

terminate

v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

transgress

v. (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
v. (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
v. (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
v. (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

trauma

n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
n. An event that causes great distress.

trespass

n. sin.
n. (law) Any of various torts involving interference to another's enjoyment of his property, especially the…
v. (intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).
v. (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
v. (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
v. (obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

turn

v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
v. (archaic) To translate.
n. A change of direction or orientation.
n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
n. A single loop of a coil.
n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
n. A deed done to another.
n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
n. Character; personality; nature.
n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

unwrap

v. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

vary

v. (transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
v. (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
v. (intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
v. (of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
v. (intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
v. (transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
v. (transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key,…
v. (obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
n. (obsolete) alteration; change.

violate

v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
v. (euphemistic) To rape.

void

adj. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
adj. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
adj. Being without; destitute; devoid.
adj. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
adj. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
adj. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
adj. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
n. An empty space; a vacuum.
n. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
n. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
n. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
v. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
v. (transitive, medicine) To empty.
v. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
n. (now rare, historical) A voidee.

weaken

v. (transitive) To make weaker.
v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

wear

v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
n. (uncountable) fashion.

work

n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
v. (transitive) To set into action.
v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
v. (intransitive) To ferment.
v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
v. (transitive) To cause to work.
v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

wound

n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

Synonyms of the word

break

accident

alter

alteration

annul

appear

assign

avoid

bankrupt

become

better

blunt

breach

break

breakage

breaking

breakout

breakup

bump

burst

bust

cease

change

check

cleft

collapse

commute

convert

crack

crevice

crumble

damage

damp

dampen

dance

dash

deaden

decay

decrease

delay

delegate

demote

depute

designate

destroy

detach

detachment

develop

die

diminish

diphthongise

diphthongize

disclose

discontinue

discover

disperse

disrespect

disrupt

disruption

dissipate

disunite

divide

divulge

domesticate

domesticise

domesticize

emerge

end

erupt

escape

exceed

exchange

expose

fail

fall

fault

faulting

finish

fissure