Synonym of the word CUT

cut

adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
adj. Reduced.
adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
adj. Removed from a team roster.
adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
n. An opening resulting from cutting.
n. The act of cutting.
n. The result of cutting.
n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
n. A share or portion.
n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
n. A slab, especially of meat.
n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
n. A haircut.
n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
n. A skein of yarn.
v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
v. (transitive, slang) To write.
v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

abbreviate

v. (obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
v. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
v. (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable…
v. (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
adj. (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
adj. (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
n. (obsolete) An abridgment.

abridge

v. (transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
v. (transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
v. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
v. (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
v. (transitive) Cut short; truncate.
v. (transitive) To curtail.

abridged

adj. Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
v. simple past tense and past participle of abridge.

absence

n. A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.
n. Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
n. Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
n. Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
n. (medicine) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in…
n. (fencing) Lack of contact between blades.

abuse

n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
n. (now rare) Catachresis.
n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

acquire

v. (transitive) To get.
v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
v. (medicine) To contract.
v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

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.

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.

be

v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

burn

n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
n. The act of burning something.
n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
v. (transitive) To waste (time).
v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

canal

n. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
n. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
n. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the…
v. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage.
v. To travel along a canal by boat.

castrate

n. A castrated man; a eunuch.
v. (transitive) To remove the testicles of an animal.
v. (transitive) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.

castrated

adj. Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
v. simple past tense and past participle of castrate.

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.

chopped

adj. Cut or diced into small pieces.
adj. (chiefly of meat) Ground, having been processed by grinding.
adj. (automotive, slang) Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
adj. (slang) High on drugs.
adj. (slang) Fired from a job or cut from a team or training program; having got the chop.
v. simple past tense and past participle of chop.

clipped

v. simple past tense and past participle of clip.
adj. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
adj. (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
adj. (informal) Circumcised.

contend

v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

contract

n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
v. To betroth; to affiance.

contumely

n. Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.

cope

v. To deal effectively with something difficult.
v. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
v. (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
n. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
n. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
n. The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
n. (construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry,…
n. (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
n. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
v. (transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
v. (intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
v. (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
v. (obsolete) To exchange or barter.
v. (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
v. (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
v. (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

create

v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

curve

adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

cutting

v. present participle of cut.
n. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
n. (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
n. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
n. (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
n. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
n. (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
n. (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
n. (machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
n. (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
adj. (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
adj. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

deal

n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
v. (baseball) To pitch.
v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
adj. Made of deal.

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…

decreased

v. simple past tense and past participle of decrease.

deletion

n. An item that has been or will be deleted.
n. The act of deleting.
n. (genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.

demasculinise

v. Alternative spelling of demasculinize.

demasculinize

v. To remove the testicles from.

design

n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
n. The composition of a work of art.
n. Intention or plot.
n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
n. The art of designing.
v. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

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…

dilute

v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
adj. Having a low concentration.
adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

diluted

v. simple past tense and past participle of dilute.
adj. That has had something added in order to dilute it.

diminution

n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
n. The act or process of making diminutive.
n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

discharge

v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
v. To expel or let go.
v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
n. the act of expelling or letting go.
n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

disregard

n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
v. To ignore; misregard.

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.

dissolve

v. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
v. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
v. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
v. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
v. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
v. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
v. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
v. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
v. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
v. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the…
v. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
v. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
v. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
n. (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

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.

division

n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
n. A section of a large company.
n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

do

v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
v. To cook.
v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
v. (transitive) To take drugs.
v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
n. (informal) A hairdo.
n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

drop

n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
n. (American football) A dropped pass.
n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
n. (architecture) A gutta.
n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
n. A drop press or drop hammer.
n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
v. To give birth to.
v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

edit

n. A change to the text of a document.
n. (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
v. To change a text, or a document.
v. (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
v. (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, programme etc.
v. (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
v. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.

editing

v. present participle of edit.
n. An act or instance of something being edited.

eliminate

v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

emasculate

adj. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
v. (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
v. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly…

emasculated

v. simple past tense and past participle of emasculate.

excerpt

n. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition…
v. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

excerption

n. The act of excerpting or selecting.
n. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

excision

n. The deletion of some text during editing.
n. (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.
n. (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
n. (topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is…

execute

v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
v. (transitive) To perform.
v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.

extract

n. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential…
n. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.
n. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant…
n. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all…
n. Ancestry; descent.
n. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein,…
v. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction,…
v. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare…
v. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
v. (transitive) To select parts of a whole.
v. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

fashion

n. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical,…
n. (uncountable) Popular trends.
n. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship;…
n. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
v. To make, build or construct.
v. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
v. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
v. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

fell

v. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
v. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
v. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
n. A cutting-down of timber.
n. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat,…
n. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
n. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
n. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
n. (archaic outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
n. (archaic outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
adj. Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
adj. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
adj. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
adv. Sharply; fiercely.
n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
n. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

flip

n. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
n. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
n. (US, slang) A slingshot.
v. (transitive) To throw (as in to turn over).
v. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
v. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
v. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
v. To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
v. (computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
interj. (Britain, mildly vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
adj. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
adj. Sarcastic.
adj. (informal) Disrespectful.
n. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog).

foreshorten

v. To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
v. to abridge, reduce, contract.
v. to make shorter.

free

adj. (social) Unconstrained.
adj. Obtainable without any payment.
adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
adv. Without needing to pay.
adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
n. free transfer.
n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…

function

n. What something does or is used for.
n. A professional or official position.
n. An official or social occasion.
n. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
n. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of…
n. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
n. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
n. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
n. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
v. (intransitive) to have a function.
v. (intransitive) to carry on a function; to be in action.

furrow

n. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
n. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
n. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
v. (transitive) To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
v. (transitive) To wrinkle.
v. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.

gash

n. A deep cut.
n. (slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy.
n. (slang, offensive) A woman.
n. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit.
n. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft.
n. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
n. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
v. To make a deep, long cut, to slash.

gashed

adj. Having gashes; slashed.
v. simple past tense and past participle of gash.

geld

n. Money; notably.
v. (transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).

gelded

v. simple past tense and past participle of geld.
adj. Castrated.

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.

glean

v. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
v. To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
v. To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
v. To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.
n. A collection made by gleaning.
n. (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth.

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…

gradation

n. A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
n. A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. See Synonyms at nuance.
n. The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
n. Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
n. (countable) A calibration marking.
n. (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
n. (phonetics) Apophony.
v. (transitive) To form with gradations.

grapple

v. (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
v. (transitive, figuratively) Normally used with with: to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem.
v. (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
v. (intransitive) To use a grapple.
v. (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
n. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
n. A close hand-to-hand struggle.
n. (uncountable) The act of grappling.

grow

v. (ergative) To become bigger.
v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

hack

v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
v. To strike in a frantic movement.
v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
n. A tool for chopping.
n. A hacking blow.
n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
n. A dry cough.
n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
n. (slang, military) Time check.
n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
n. A kick on the shins in football.
n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
n. A food-rack for cattle.
n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
n. A grating in a mill race.
v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
n. (obsolete) A procuress.
v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
v. To play hackeysack.

handle

n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

harvest

n. (Britain dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
n. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
n. The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
n. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
n. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
n. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
v. (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
v. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
v. (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

hewn

adj. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
adj. Having been cut or mown down.
v. past participle of hew.

hit

v. (heading, physical) To strike.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
v. (heading, games) To make a play.
v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
n. An attack on a location, person or people.
n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
adj. Designating of a popular song.
pron. (dialectal) It.

ignore

v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
v. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
v. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

incised

v. simple past tense and past participle of incise.

injured

v. simple past tense and past participle of injure.

insult

v. (transitive) To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
v. (obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
n. Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
n. (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
n. (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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…

issue

n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
v. To rush out, to sally forth.
v. To extend into, to open onto.
v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
v. To send out; to put into circulation.
v. To deliver for use.
v. To deliver by authority.

lesion

n. A wound or injury.
n. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.
n. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
v. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

lessen

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

look

v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
v. To appear, to seem.
v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
v. To face or present a view.
v. To expect or anticipate.
v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
interj. Pay attention.
n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
n. A facial expression.

make

v. (transitive, heading) To create.
v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
v. To constitute.
v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
v. To appoint; to name.
v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
v. To enact; to establish.
v. To develop into; to prove to be.
v. To form or formulate in the mind.
v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
n. How a thing is made; construction.
n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
n. A person's character or disposition.
n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
n. (slang, military) A promotion.
n. A home-made project.
n. (basketball) A made basket.
n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

manage

v. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
v. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
v. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
v. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
v. To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
n. (horseriding) Manège.

meat

n. (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
n. (now rare) A type of food, a dish.
n. (now archaic) A meal.
n. (uncountable) The flesh of an animal used as food.
n. (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
n. (slang) A penis.
n. (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
n. (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
n. (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
n. A meathead.
n. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

minify

v. To make smaller.
v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

miss

v. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
v. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
v. (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
v. (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
v. (transitive) To fail to attend.
v. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
v. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
v. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
n. A failure to hit.
n. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
n. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
n. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
n. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
n. An unmarried woman; a girl.
n. A kept woman; a mistress.
n. (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted…

mix

v. To stir two or more substances together.
v. To combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate.
v. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
v. To use a mixer (machine) on.
v. (music) To combine several tracks.
v. (music) To produce a finished version of a recording.
v. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
n. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
n. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
n. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.
n. (music) The finished version of a recording.

modify

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

move

v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
n. The act of moving; a movement.
n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
n. The event of changing one's residence.
n. A change in strategy.
n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

mown

v. past participle of mow.

new-mown

adj. That has recently been mown.

opening

v. present participle of open.
n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
n. Something that is open.
n. An act or instance of beginning.
n. Something that is a beginning.
n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

operate

v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

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).

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.

percentage

n. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
n. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
n. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

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.

perforated

adj. Pierced with holes.
adj. Specifically, having a series of holes enabling easy tearing along a straight line.
v. simple past tense and past participle of perforate.

perform

v. To do something; to execute.
v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.

pierced

v. simple past tense and past participle of pierce.

portion

n. An allocated amount.
n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
n. One's fate; lot.
n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

produce

v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
n. Items produced.
n. Amount produced.
n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
n. Offspring.
n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

prune

n. (obsolete) A plum.
n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
n. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
v. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make…
v. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
v. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
v. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
v. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged…

punctured

v. simple past tense and past participle of puncture.

rationalise

v. (British spelling) alternative spelling of rationalize.

rationalize

v. To make something rational or more rational.
v. To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable…
v. (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
v. To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles…

reap

v. (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
v. (transitive) to gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
v. (transitive)To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
v. (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
n. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

rebuff

n. A sudden resistance or refusal.
n. Repercussion, or beating back.
v. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
v. To buff again.

record

n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

redaction

n. (countable) Edited or censored version of a document.
n. (countable) The change or changes made while editing.
n. (uncountable) The process of editing or censoring.

reduce

v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

reduced

v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce.
adj. Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
adj. Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price.
adj. In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.

reduction

n. The act, process, or result of reducing.
n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
n. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen…
n. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
n. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
n. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction…
n. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
n. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness…
n. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

resolve

v. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
v. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
v. (transitive) To solve again.
v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
v. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate;…
v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code;…
v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
n. Determination, will power.

revilement

n. The act of reviling.

ruffle

n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

run

v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
v. (fluids) To flow.
v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
v. (social) To carry out an activity.
v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
v. To have growth or development.
v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
n. A pleasure trip.
n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
n. Migration (of fish).
n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
n. A (regular) trip or route.
n. The route taken while running or skiing.
n. The distance sailed by a ship.
n. A voyage.
n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
n. A trial.
n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
n. Any sudden large demand for something.
n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
n. (cricket) A point scored.
n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
n. Unrestricted use of.
n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
n. A pair or set of millstones.
n. (video games) A playthrough.
n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
adj. Cast in a mould.
adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

seem

v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

selection

n. The process or act of selecting.
n. Something selected.
n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
n. A musical piece.
n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

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.

severed

v. simple past tense and past participle of sever.
adj. separated, cut off or broken apart.

n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
n. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit…
n. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
n. (Internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
n. The sharebone or pubis.
v. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
v. To have or use in common.
v. To divide and distribute.
v. To tell to another.
v. (obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
n. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

sheared

v. simple past tense and past participle of shear.

sheer

adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
v. (obsolete) To shear.

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.

shorten

v. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
v. (intransitive) To become shorter.
v. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
v. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
v. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
v. (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
v. (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.

shortened

v. simple past tense and past participle of shorten.

shortening

n. (US, cooking) Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry.
n. verbal noun of shorten.
v. present participle of shorten.

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.

shredded

v. simple past tense and past participle of shred.
adj. cut or torn into narrow pieces.
adj. (bodybuilding): Having extreme muscular definition.

shuffle

n. The act of shuffling cards.
n. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
n. (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with…
n. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
v. To put in a random order.
v. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
v. To change; modify the order of something.
v. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
v. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
v. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
v. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

skip

v. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
v. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
v. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
v. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
v. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
v. To place an item in a skip.
v. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
v. (transitive, informal) To leave.
v. To leap lightly over.
v. To jump rope.
n. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
n. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
n. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
n. (radio) skywave propagation.
n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back…
n. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
n. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
n. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
n. A beehive.
n. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
n. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
n. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

slash

n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
v. To move quickly and violently.
v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

slashed

adj. Having been slashed, cut or rent.
adj. Marked with a slash.
v. simple past tense and past participle of slash.

slew

n. (US) A large amount.
n. The act, or process of slaying.
n. A device used for slaying.
n. A change of position.
v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
v. (intransitive) To pivot.
v. (intransitive) To skid.
v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
v. simple past tense of slay.
n. A wet place; a river inlet.

slice

n. That which is thin and broad.
n. A thin, broad piece cut off.
n. amount.
n. A piece of pizza.
n. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
n. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
n. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything,…
n. A salver, platter, or tray.
n. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned,…
n. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare…
n. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
n. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook,…
n. (Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
n. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed…
n. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.).
v. To cut into slices.
v. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
v. (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
v. (tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low…
v. (badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
v. (soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
v. (rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
v. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

sliced

adj. That has been cut into slices.
v. simple past tense and past participle of slice.

slight

adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
v. To act negligently or carelessly.
v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
v. To make even or level.
v. To throw heedlessly.
n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
n. (obsolete) Sleight.

slue

v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
v. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
v. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
v. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
n. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
n. A slough; a run or wet place.

snub

adj. Conspicuously short.
adj. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
n. A deliberate affront or slight.
n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
n. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
v. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
v. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
v. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
v. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure…
v. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
v. To sob with convulsions.

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…

step

n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
n. A small space or distance.
n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
n. A gait; manner of walking.
n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
n. (plural) A walk; passage.
n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
n. (slang) A stepsibling.
v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

step-down

adj. That decreases in stages.
adj. (of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage.

stinger

n. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
n. Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
n. Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
n. a cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
n. A device used by police and military forces consisting of a portable bed of nails to puncture car tires.
n. A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed…
n. A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
n. A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
n. (slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
n. (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
n. (slang, television and film) An extension cord.
n. Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.

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.

swerve

v. (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
v. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
v. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law,…
v. To bend; to incline.
v. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
v. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
v. of a projectile, to travel in a curved line.
n. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.

swing

v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
v. (intransitive) To dance.
v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
v. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
v. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
v. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than…
v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
v. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
v. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
n. The manner in which something is swung.
n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
n. A dance style.
n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
n. The amount of change towards or away from something.
n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
n. The diameter that a lathe can cut.
n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in…
n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

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.

tailor

n. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
n. (Australia) The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.
v. (transitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.
v. (transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
v. (transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

tape

n. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
n. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
n. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
n. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
n. Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
n. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
n. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick.
v. To bind with adhesive tape.
v. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
v. (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.

thin

adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
v. To dilute.
v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thinned

v. simple past tense and past participle of thin.

throw

v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
v. (transitive) To imprison.
v. To organize an event, especially a party.
v. To roll (a die or dice).
v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
n. The flight of a thrown object.
n. The act of throwing something.
n. One's ability to throw.
n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
n. Misspelling of throe.

track

n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
n. A road or other similar beaten path.
n. Physical course; way.
n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
n. A tract or area, such as of land.
n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
n. (cricket) The pitch.
n. Sound stored on a record.
n. The physical track on a record.
n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
n. A session talk on a conference.
v. To continue observing over time.
v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

transit

n. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
n. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system;…
n. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger…
n. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
n. (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees…
n. (Britain) A Ford Transit van.
n. (US) Public transport system.
v. To pass over, across or through something.
v. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
v. (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
v. (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation…

transition

n. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
n. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
n. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
n. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine);…
n. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
n. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
n. (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving…
n. (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
n. (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance…
v. (intransitive) To make a transition.
v. (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
v. (intransitive, LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line…

treat

v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
v. To provide something special and pleasant.
n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

trend

n. An inclination in a particular direction.
n. A tendency.
n. A fad or fashion style.
n. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
n. (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat…
n. (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she…
v. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
v. (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
v. (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or…
n. (Britain, dialect, dated) clean wool.
v. To cleanse, as wool.

trim

v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
adj. Physically fit.
adj. Slender, lean.
adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

trimmed

v. simple past tense and past participle of trim.
adj. that has been trimmed.
adj. furnished with trimmings.

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.

undercut

n. A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
n. The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
n. The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
n. A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
v. To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
v. To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
v. To undermine.

unsexed

adj. Not separated by sex.
v. simple past tense and past participle of unsex.

veer

v. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
n. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
v. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
v. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a…
v. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
v. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
v. (transitive) To turn.

vilification

n. slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination.

weaken

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

weakened

adj. Reduced, made less strong.
v. simple past tense and past participle of weaken.

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.

write

v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
v. (transitive) To send written information to.
v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
v. (intransitive) To be an author.
v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

Synonyms of the word

cut

abbreviate

abridge

abridged

absence

abuse

acquire

alter

appear

be

burn

canal

castrate

castrated

change

chopped

clipped

contend

contract

contumely

cope

create

curve

cutting

deal

decrease

decreased

deletion

demasculinise

demasculinize

design

develop

dilute

diluted

diminution

discharge

disregard

disrupt

dissolve

disunite

divide

division

do

drop

edit

editing

eliminate

emasculate

emasculated

excerpt

excerption

excision

execute

extract

fashion

fell

flip

foreshorten

free

function

furrow

gash

gashed

geld

gelded

get

glean

go

gradation

grapple

grow

hack

handle

harvest

hewn

hit

ignore

incised

injured