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Synonyms of the word 
DIE → ACHE - BREAK - CHANGE - CHOKE - CONK - CROAK - CUBE - CUTLERY - CUTTER - DECEASE - DICE - DISAPPEAR - ENDURE - EXIT - EXPERIENCE - EXPIRE - FAIL - FEEL - GO - LANGUISH - PALL - PASS - PERISH - PINE - PLAY - SNAP - SUFFER - TURN - VANISH - YEARN - YENdie- v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
- v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
- v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
- v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
- v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
- v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
- n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
- n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
- n. Any small cubical or square body.
- n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
- n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
- v. Obsolete spelling of dye.
ache- v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
- v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
- n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
- n. (obsolete) Parsley.
- n. Rare spelling of aitch.
break- v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
- v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
- v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
- v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
- v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
- v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
- v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
- v. (sports and games).
- v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
- v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
- n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
- n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
- n. A short holiday.
- n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
- n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- n. The beginning (of the morning).
- n. An act of escaping.
- n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
- n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- n. (sports and games).
- n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
- n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
- n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…
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.
choke- v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
- v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
- v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
- v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
- v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
- v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
- v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
- v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- n. (electronics) choking coil.
- n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
conk- n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom…
- n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
- n. Alternative spelling of conch.
- v. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
- n. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
- v. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
croak- n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
- n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
- n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
- v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
- v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
- v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
- v. (slang) To die.
- v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
- v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
cube- n. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- n. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- n. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- n. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
- v. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself…
- v. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
- v. (transitive) To cut into cubes.
- v. (Britain) to use a Rubik's cube.
- n. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
cutlery- n. A collective ensemble of eating and serving utensils such as knives, forks and spoons.
- n. The business of a cutler.
cutter- n. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- n. (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast…
- n. A foretooth; an incisor.
- n. A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
- n. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- n. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- n. (baseball) A cut fastball.
- n. (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use…
- n. (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
- n. (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
- n. (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
- n. (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
- n. A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
decease- n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
- v. (now rare) To die.
dice- n. (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
- n. (countable, proscribed by some; standard in British English) A die.
- n. (uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
- v. (intransitive) To play dice.
- v. (transitive) To cut into small cubes.
- v. (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
- n. plural of die.
disappear- v. (intransitive) To vanish.
- v. (transitive) To make vanish.
- v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.
endure- v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
- v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- v. (intransitive) To last.
- v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
- v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
- v. (obsolete) To indurate.
exit- n. A way out.
- n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
- n. The action of leaving.
- n. Death.
- v. To go out.
- v. To leave.
- v. To die.
experience- n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
- n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
- n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
- n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…
expire- v. (intransitive) to die.
- v. (intransitive) to become invalid.
- v. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
- v. (transitive) to exhale (something).
- v. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- v. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
fail- v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
- v. (transitive) To neglect.
- v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
- v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
- v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
- v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
- v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
- n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
- n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
- n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
- adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
- n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
feel- v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
- v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
- n. A vague mental impression.
- n. An act of fondling.
- n. A vague understanding.
- n. An intuitive ability.
- n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
- pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
- adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
- adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
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…
languish- v. (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
- v. (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
- v. (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
- v. (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.
pall- n. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
- n. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
- n. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the…
- n. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
- n. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter…
- n. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
- n. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
- n. (obsolete) nausea.
- n. A feeling of gloom.
- v. To cloak.
- v. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
- v. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
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).
perish- v. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
- v. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.
pine- n. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- n. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- n. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- n. (archaic except South Africa) A pineapple.
- n. (archaic) A painful longing.
- v. To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem. ; to think something over.
- v. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
- v. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
- v. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
- v. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
play- v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
- v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
- v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
- v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
- v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
- v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
- v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
- v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
- v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
- n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
- n. The conduct, or course of a game.
- n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
- n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
- n. (countable) A major move by a business.
- n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
- n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
- n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
- n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
snap- n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- n. A sudden break.
- n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
- n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
- n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
- n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
- n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
- n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
- n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
- n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
- n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
- n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
- n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
- n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
- n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
- v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
- v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
- v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
- v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
- v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
- v. To misfire.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
- interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
- interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
- interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
- interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
- adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.
suffer- v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
- v. (intransitive) To become worse.
- v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.
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.
vanish- v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
- v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
- n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
- n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
yearn- v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
- v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
- v. (intransitive) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
- v. (transitive) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
- v. (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
- n. (nonstandard) yen; yearning.
yen- n. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
- n. A coin or note worth one yen.
- n. A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
- v. (transitive) To have a strong desire for.
- n. Opium.
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