Synonyms of the word charge


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charge

  • n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
  • n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
  • n. A load or burden; cargo.
  • n. The amount of money levied for a service.
  • n. An instruction.
  • n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
  • n. An accusation.
  • n. An electric charge.
  • n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  • n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  • n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  • n. A forceful forward movement.
  • n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
  • n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
  • n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
  • n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
  • n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
  • v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
  • v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
  • v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
  • v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
  • v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
  • v. To impute or ascribe.
  • v. To call to account; to challenge.
  • v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
  • v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
  • v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
  • v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

account

  • n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
  • n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
  • n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
  • n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
  • n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
  • n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
  • n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  • n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
  • n. An authorization to use a service.
  • n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
  • n. Profit; advantage.
  • v. to provide explanation.
  • v. to count.

accusation

  • n. The act of accusing.
  • n. (law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
  • n. An allegation.

accuse

  • v. (transitive) To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
  • v. (transitive) To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an accusation against someone.
  • n. (obsolete) An accusation.

agitate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
  • v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
  • v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
  • v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

aim

  • n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
  • n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
  • n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
  • n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
  • n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
  • v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
  • v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
  • v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
  • v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
  • n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

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.

appoint

  • v. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting…
  • v. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings…
  • v. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
  • v. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

ascribe

  • v. (transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.

asking

  • v. present participle of ask.
  • n. The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
  • n. (Rare in the singular) A request, or petition.

assertion

  • n. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement…
  • n. A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
  • n. Maintenance; vindication.
  • n. (computing) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point,…

asseveration

  • n. An earnest affirmation or declaration of support.

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.

assignment

  • n. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
  • n. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
  • n. An assigned task.
  • n. A position to which someone is assigned.
  • n. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
  • n. (law) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
  • n. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
  • n. (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

attack

  • n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
  • n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
  • n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
  • n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  • n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
  • n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
  • n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
  • n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  • n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
  • n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
  • v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
  • v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  • v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  • v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

attribute

  • n. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
  • n. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
  • n. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
  • n. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
  • n. (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
  • n. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
  • v. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
  • v. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

averment

  • n. The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
  • n. verification; establishment by evidence.
  • n. A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

bang

  • n. A sudden percussive noise.
  • n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  • n. An explosion.
  • n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
  • n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
  • n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  • n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  • n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
  • n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
  • v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
  • v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
  • v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  • v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  • adv. Right, directly.
  • adv. Precisely.
  • adv. With a sudden impact.
  • interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
  • n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

bearing

  • adj. That which bears (whatever this combining form combines with).
  • adj. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
  • n. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
  • n. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or…
  • n. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
  • n. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
  • n. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
  • n. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
  • n. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  • n. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
  • n. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
  • v. present participle of bear.

bid

  • v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
  • v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
  • v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
  • v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
  • v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
  • n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
  • n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
  • n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

bidding

  • v. present participle of bid.
  • n. That which one is bidden to do; a command.
  • n. The act of placing a bid.

bill

  • n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
  • n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  • n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  • n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  • n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
  • v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
  • n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
  • n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  • n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
  • v. (obsolete) To peck.
  • v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
  • n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
  • n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
  • n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  • n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
  • n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  • n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  • n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
  • n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
  • n. A set of items presented together.
  • v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  • v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
  • n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

billing

  • v. present participle of bill.
  • n. Amounts billed.
  • n. Accounts receivable.
  • n. The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with…
  • n. The act or situation of including someone or something to those that make up a complete list.

blame

  • n. Censure.
  • n. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
  • n. Responsibility for something meriting censure.
  • n. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion…
  • v. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
  • v. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
  • v. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative;…

boot

  • n. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
  • n. A blow with the foot; a kick.
  • n. (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and…
  • n. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
  • n. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a…
  • n. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice…
  • n. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and…
  • n. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  • n. (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
  • n. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
  • n. (informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone.
  • n. (Britain, slang) unattractive person, ugly woman.
  • n. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended…
  • n. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
  • n. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
  • v. To kick.
  • v. To put boots on, especially for riding.
  • v. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
  • v. (informal) To forcibly eject.
  • v. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  • v. (slang) To vomit.
  • n. (dated) remedy, amends.
  • n. (uncountable) profit, plunder.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in…
  • n. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To profit, avail, benefit.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
  • n. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
  • v. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
  • n. A bootleg recording.

buck

  • n. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the…
  • n. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  • n. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  • n. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  • n. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  • n. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  • n. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
  • n. (US, slang) One hundred.
  • n. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object,…
  • n. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
  • n. (finance, jargon) One million dollars.
  • n. (informal) A euro.
  • n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • n. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal…
  • n. (African American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
  • v. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • v. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
  • v. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down…
  • v. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  • v. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together,…
  • v. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  • v. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  • v. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal;…
  • v. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb…
  • v. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  • v. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter.
  • n. (Scotland) The beech tree.
  • n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  • n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • v. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  • v. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • v. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

burden

  • n. A heavy load.
  • n. A responsibility, onus.
  • n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
  • n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
  • n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
  • n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
  • n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
  • n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
  • v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
  • v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
  • n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
  • n. The drone of a bagpipe.
  • n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

burster

  • n. One who, or that which, bursts (causes to burst).

calculate

  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical…
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
  • v. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
  • v. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other…
  • v. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of…

care

  • n. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow.
  • n. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
  • n. Worry.
  • n. Maintenance, upkeep.
  • n. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
  • n. The state of being cared for by others.
  • n. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned about, have an interest in.
  • v. (intransitive) To look after.
  • v. (intransitive) To be mindful of.
  • v. (intransitive) Polite or formal way to say want.

cathexis

  • n. (psychoanalysis) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.

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.

claim

  • n. A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
  • n. A new statement of something you believed to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified…
  • n. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush).
  • n. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
  • v. To demand ownership of.
  • v. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
  • v. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
  • v. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
  • v. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  • v. (archaic) To proclaim.
  • v. (archaic) To call or name.

command

  • n. An order to do something.
  • n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
  • n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
  • n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
  • n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
  • n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
  • n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
  • n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
  • n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
  • v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
  • v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
  • v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
  • v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
  • v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
  • v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
  • v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

commission

  • n. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
  • n. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
  • n. The thing to be done as agent for another.
  • n. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
  • n. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
  • n. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
  • v. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art).
  • v. (transitive) To put into active service.

commit

  • v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
  • v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  • v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
  • v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  • v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  • v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
  • v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
  • n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

commove

  • v. To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse.

compel

  • v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
  • v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
  • v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
  • v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
  • v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
  • v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
  • v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

complaint

  • n. A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.
  • n. (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim…
  • n. (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the…
  • n. A consumer complaint.
  • n. A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.

confide

  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To trust, have faith (in).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
  • v. (intransitive) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. (+ in).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.

consign

  • v. (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
  • v. (transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
  • v. (transitive) To send to a final destination.
  • v. To assign; to devote; to set apart.
  • v. To stamp or impress; to affect.

cost

  • n. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
  • n. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
  • v. To incur a charge; to require payment of a price.
  • v. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
  • v. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
  • v. To calculate or estimate a price.
  • n. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
  • n. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic…
  • n. (obsolete) A rib; a side.
  • n. (heraldry) A cottise.

criminate

  • v. (transitive, construed with of) To accuse, incriminate, impeach.
  • v. (transitive, construed with of) To rebuke, censure, reprimand.

debit

  • n. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
  • n. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal…
  • v. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
  • v. To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
  • adj. of or relating to process of taking money from an account.
  • adj. of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card…

dependant

  • adj. Obsolete spelling of dependent.
  • n. (Britain) A person who depends on another for support, particularly financial support (= US dependent).
  • n. (US) Misspelling of dependent.

dependent

  • adj. Relying upon; depending upon.
  • adj. (of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain…
  • adj. (medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while…
  • adj. Hanging down.
  • n. (US) One who relies on another for support.
  • n. (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers…
  • n. (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but…

determine

  • v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
  • v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
  • v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
  • v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
  • v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
  • v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
  • v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
  • v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

dictation

  • n. (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
  • n. (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
  • n. (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
  • n. (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.

direct

  • adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
  • adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
  • adj. Straightforward; sincere.
  • adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  • adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
  • adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
  • adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
  • adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
  • adv. Directly.
  • v. To manage, control, steer.
  • v. To aim (something) at (something else).
  • v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
  • v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
  • v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

direction

  • n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
  • n. An general trend for future action.
  • n. Guidance, instruction.
  • n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
  • n. (archaic) An address.

disturb

  • v. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions…
  • v. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
  • v. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
  • n. (obsolete) disturbance.

entrust

  • v. To trust to the care of.

excite

  • v. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
  • v. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
  • v. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron…
  • v. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

excitement

  • n. (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
  • n. (countable) something that excites.

exhilaration

  • n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
  • n. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.

explosive

  • n. Explosive substance.
  • adj. With the capability to, or likely to, explode.
  • adj. Having the character of an explosion.
  • adj. (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.

file

  • n. A collection of papers collated and archived together.
  • n. A roll or list.
  • n. Course of thought; thread of narration.
  • n. (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
  • v. (transitive) To commit official papers to some office.
  • v. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
  • v. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
  • v. (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To make a formal request for the benefit of an official status.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
  • n. A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side…
  • n. (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
  • n. (chess) one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter)…
  • v. (intransitive) To move in a file.
  • n. A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing…
  • n. (slang, archaic) A cunning or resourceful person.
  • v. (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
  • v. (archaic) to defile.
  • v. to corrupt.

fill

  • v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
  • v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
  • v. To enter (something), making it full.
  • v. (intransitive) To become full.
  • v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
  • v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
  • v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
  • v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
  • n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
  • n. An amount that fills a container.
  • n. The filling of a container or area.
  • n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
  • n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
  • n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
  • n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
  • n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

flush

  • n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
  • v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
  • adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
  • adj. Wealthy or well off.
  • adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
  • adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
  • adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
  • n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
  • n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
  • n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
  • n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
  • n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
  • v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
  • v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
  • v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
  • v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
  • v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
  • v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
  • v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
  • v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
  • v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
  • v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
  • n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

furnish

  • n. Material used to create an engineered product.
  • v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

guardianship

  • n. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.

hasten

  • v. To move in a quick fashion.
  • v. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
  • v. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

heraldry

  • n. (uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies…
  • n. (countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.
  • n. (uncountable) Pageantry.

hie

  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
  • v. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
  • n. Haste; diligence.

hotfoot

  • n. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting…
  • adv. (Britain) hastily; without delay.

impeach

  • v. To hinder, impede, or prevent.
  • v. To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
  • v. To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
  • v. (law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same…

impregnate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become pregnant.
  • v. (transitive) To fertilize.
  • v. (transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
  • v. (transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.

impute

  • v. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
  • v. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
  • v. (transitive) To take into account; to consider; to regard.
  • v. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

incriminate

  • v. (transitive) To accuse or bring criminal charges against.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate the guilt of.

institutionalise

  • v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of institutionalize.

institutionalize

  • v. to establish as a normal practice.
  • v. to commit a person to confinement in an institution.

instruct

  • v. (transitive) to teach by giving instructions.
  • v. (transitive) to direct; to order (usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier…
  • n. (obsolete) instruction.
  • adj. (obsolete) arranged; furnished; provided.
  • adj. (obsolete) instructed; taught; enlightened.

intrust

  • v. Alternative form of entrust.

kick

  • v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
  • v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
  • v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
  • v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
  • v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
  • v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
  • v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
  • v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
  • v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
  • n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
  • n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
  • n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
  • n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
  • n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
  • n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
  • n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
  • n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
  • n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
  • n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
  • n. a recoil of a gun.
  • n. (informal) pocket.
  • n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
  • v. To die.

level

  • adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  • adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
  • adj. Unvaried in frequency.
  • adj. Unvaried in volume.
  • adj. Calm.
  • adj. In the same position or rank.
  • adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
  • adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
  • adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
  • n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
  • n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
  • n. Degree or amount.
  • n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
  • n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
  • n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
  • n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
  • n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
  • n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
  • v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  • v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  • v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
  • v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  • v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
  • v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
  • v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
  • v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  • v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

liabilities

  • n. plural of liability.
  • n. (finance) An amount of money in a company that is owed to someone and has to be paid in the future, such…

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

load

  • n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
  • n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
  • n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  • n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity…
  • n. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
  • n. The volume of work required to be performed.
  • n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  • n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  • n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
  • n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  • n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
  • n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  • n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
  • n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
  • n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
  • n. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
  • n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  • v. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  • v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
  • v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  • v. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  • v. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a…
  • v. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  • v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
  • v. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  • v. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  • v. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
  • v. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
  • v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

lodge

  • n. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • n. Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
  • n. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
  • n. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  • n. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • n. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • n. A den or cave.
  • n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • n. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore…
  • n. A collection of objects lodged together.
  • n. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration,…
  • v. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  • v. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  • v. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • v. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • v. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

mission

  • n. (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer.
  • n. (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
  • n. (in the plural, "the missions") third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide…
  • n. (countable) (Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part…
  • n. A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
  • n. (obsolete) dismissal; discharge from service.
  • n. A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
  • v. (transitive) To send to a mission.

modify

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

onrush

  • n. A forceful rush or flow forward.
  • n. An aggressive assault.
  • v. To rush or flow forward forcefully.
  • v. To assault aggressively.

onset

  • n. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
  • n. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
  • n. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
  • n. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to…
  • n. (obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
  • n. (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
  • n. the start (of something).
  • v. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
  • v. (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

onslaught

  • n. A fierce attack.
  • n. A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

paint

  • n. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds…
  • n. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting…
  • n. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
  • n. (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
  • n. (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
  • n. (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
  • n. Makeup.
  • v. (transitive) To apply paint to.
  • v. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  • v. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
  • v. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
  • v. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
  • v. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  • v. (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.

pay

  • v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
  • v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
  • v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
  • v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
  • v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
  • n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
  • adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
  • adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
  • v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…

pleading

  • n. The act of making a plea.
  • n. (law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the…
  • v. present participle of plead.
  • adj. That pleads.

point

  • n. A discrete division of something.
  • n. A sharp extremity.
  • n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
  • n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
  • n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
  • n. Lace worked by the needle.
  • n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
  • n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
  • n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
  • n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
  • n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
  • n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
  • n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
  • v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
  • v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
  • v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
  • v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
  • v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
  • v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
  • v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
  • v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
  • v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
  • v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
  • v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
  • v. (obsolete) To appoint.
  • v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

protection

  • n. The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
  • n. The state of being safe.
  • n. A means of keeping or remaining safe.
  • n. A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.
  • n. (insurance) Coverage.
  • n. Immunity from harm obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.
  • n. (economics) Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers…
  • n. (computing) An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

race

  • n. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective…
  • n. (computing) A race condition.
  • n. A progressive movement toward a goal.
  • n. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
  • n. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
  • n. Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
  • n. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
  • n. Travels, runs, or journeys.
  • n. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
  • v. (transitive) To compete against in such a race.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
  • n. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics.
  • n. (taxonomy) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly…
  • n. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
  • n. (figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with…
  • n. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities,…
  • n. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
  • n. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

request

  • n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
  • n. A formal message requesting something.
  • n. Condition of being sought after.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
  • v. to express the need or desire for.
  • v. to ask somebody to do something.

require

  • v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
  • v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
  • v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
  • v. To demand of (someone) to do something.

rouse

  • n. An arousal.
  • n. (military, Britain and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers…
  • v. To wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
  • v. To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
  • v. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
  • v. (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
  • v. (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
  • n. An official ceremony over drinks.
  • n. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
  • n. Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

rush

  • n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
  • n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
  • n. The merest trifle; a straw.
  • n. A sudden forward motion.
  • n. A surge.
  • n. General haste.
  • n. A rapid, noisy flow.
  • n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
  • n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
  • n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
  • n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
  • n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
  • n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
  • n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
  • v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
  • v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
  • v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
  • v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
  • v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
  • adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

saddle

  • n. A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
  • n. An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
  • n. A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
  • n. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
  • n. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
  • n. (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially…
  • n. The raised floorboard in a doorway.
  • n. (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
  • n. (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
  • n. (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as…
  • n. The clitellus of an earthworm.
  • n. Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
  • v. To put a saddle on an animal.
  • v. To get into a saddle.
  • v. (idiomatic) To burden or encumber.
  • v. (idiomatic) To give a responsibility to someone.

saturate

  • v. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
  • v. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that…

send

  • v. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
  • v. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  • v. To bring to a certain condition.
  • v. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • v. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  • v. (nautical) To pitch.
  • n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.

set

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
  • v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
  • v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
  • v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • v. (intransitive) To solidify.
  • v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
  • v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • v. To place or fix in a setting.
  • v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
  • v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
  • n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
  • n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
  • n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  • n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  • n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
  • n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
  • n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
  • n. A young oyster when first attached.
  • n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
  • n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
  • n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  • adj. Fixed in position.
  • adj. Rigid, solidified.
  • adj. Ready, prepared.
  • adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
  • adj. Prearranged.
  • adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
  • adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
  • n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  • n. A rudimentary fruit.
  • n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  • n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  • n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
  • n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
  • n. An object made up of several parts.
  • n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
  • n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
  • n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
  • n. The scenery for a film or play.
  • n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  • n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  • n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  • n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
  • n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  • n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
  • v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

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.

speed

  • n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
  • n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
  • n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
  • n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
  • n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
  • n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
  • n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
  • n. (slang) Personal preference.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
  • v. (intransitive) To go fast.
  • v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
  • v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
  • v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
  • v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
  • v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

tear

  • v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
  • v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
  • v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
  • v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
  • v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
  • v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
  • v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
  • n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
  • n. (slang) A rampage.
  • n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
  • n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
  • n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
  • n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

thrill

  • v. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify;…
  • v. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  • v. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  • v. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
  • n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
  • n. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
  • n. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
  • n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

train

  • n. Elongated portion.
  • n. Connected sequence of people or things.
  • v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
  • v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
  • v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
  • v. To proceed in sequence.
  • v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
  • v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
  • v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
  • v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
  • v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
  • n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
  • n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
  • n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
  • n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

transfer

  • v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
  • v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
  • n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

trouble

  • n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
  • n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
  • n. A violent occurrence or event.
  • n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
  • n. A malfunction.
  • n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
  • n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
  • v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
  • v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
  • v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

trust

  • n. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  • n. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  • n. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
  • n. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  • n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  • n. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  • n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  • n. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit…
  • n. (law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose…
  • n. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities…
  • n. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
  • v. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
  • v. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  • v. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
  • v. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  • v. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
  • v. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
  • v. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  • v. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
  • adj. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  • adj. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
  • adj. (law) of or relating to a trust.

tutelage

  • n. The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding; guardianship; protection.
  • n. The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; care or protection enjoyed.
  • n. Instruction; teaching; guidance.

upset

  • adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
  • n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
  • n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
  • n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
  • n. An upset stomach.
  • n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
  • v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  • v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
  • v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
  • v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
  • v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

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