Synonyms of the word dig


DIGAPPREHEND - BARB - COMMENT - COMPASS - COMPREHEND - DELVE - DENT - DIGGING - DING - DRUDGE - EXCAVATE - EXCAVATION - FAG - GIBE - GOUGE - GRASP - GRIND - GROK - HOLLOW - JAB - JIBE - LABOR - LABOUR - MOIL - NICK - POKE - PROD - REMARK - REMOVE - SAVVY - SHAFT - SHOT - SITE - SLAM - STAB - TAKE - THRUST - TOIL - TOUCH - TOUCHING - TRAVAIL - UNDERSTAND - WITHDRAW - WORK

dig

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
  • v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
  • v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  • v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
  • v. To thrust; to poke.
  • v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
  • n. An archeological investigation.
  • n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
  • n. A thrust; a poke.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
  • n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
  • v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
  • v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

apprehend

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
  • v. (transitive) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
  • v. (transitive) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant…
  • v. (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
  • v. (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
  • v. (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.

barb

  • n. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted…
  • n. (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
  • n. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  • n. Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
  • n. (ornithology) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  • n. (zoology) Several species of freshwater fish of the cyprinid family.
  • n. (zoology) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States;…
  • n. (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  • n. (zoology) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  • n. (obsolete) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
  • n. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands…
  • n. (obsolete) A bit for a horse.
  • n. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their…
  • v. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear,…
  • v. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
  • v. (obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
  • v. (obsolete) To clip; to mow.
  • n. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  • n. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

comment

  • n. A spoken remark.
  • n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
  • v. (transitive) To remark.
  • v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
  • v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
  • v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

compass

  • n. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
  • n. A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
  • n. (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
  • n. (obsolete) A space within limits; area.
  • n. (obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.
  • n. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
  • n. Scope.
  • n. (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
  • v. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
  • v. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
  • v. (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
  • v. (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
  • adv. (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.

comprehend

  • v. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain.
  • v. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

delve

  • v. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To dig, to excavate.
  • n. (now rare) A pit or den.

dent

  • n. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
  • n. A type of maize/corn with with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at…
  • n. (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution,…
  • v. (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
  • v. (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
  • n. (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

digging

  • n. The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
  • n. A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
  • n. (archaic, colloquial) region; locality.
  • v. present participle of dig.

ding

  • n. (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
  • n. (colloquial) A rejection.
  • v. (transitive) To hit or strike.
  • v. To dash; to throw violently.
  • v. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  • v. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
  • n. A high-pitched sound of a bell, especially with wearisome continuance.
  • v. (intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
  • v. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, role-playing games, especially video games) To level up.
  • n. Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

drudge

  • n. A person who works in a low servile job.
  • n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
  • v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

excavate

  • v. (transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
  • v. (transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
  • v. (transitive) To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
  • n. (zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

excavation

  • n. (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part…
  • n. (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
  • n. (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
  • n. (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
  • n. (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
  • n. (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

fag

  • n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
  • n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
  • n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
  • v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
  • v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
  • v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
  • n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
  • n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

gibe

  • n. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
  • v. (intransitive) To agree.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

gouge

  • n. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
  • n. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
  • n. A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
  • n. An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
  • n. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
  • n. (slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
  • n. (slang) An impostor; a cheat.
  • v. (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  • v. (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

grasp

  • v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
  • v. To understand.
  • v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
  • n. Grip.
  • n. Understanding.
  • n. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

grind

  • v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
  • v. To shape with the force of friction.
  • v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
  • v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
  • v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
  • v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
  • v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
  • v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
  • v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
  • v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
  • v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
  • v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
  • v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
  • v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
  • n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
  • n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
  • n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
  • n. A tedious task.
  • n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
  • n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
  • n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
  • n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

grok

  • v. (transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively.
  • v. To know (something) without having to think intellectually (such as knowing the number of objects in a…
  • v. (transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

hollow

  • n. A small valley between mountains.
  • n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
  • n. (US) A sunken area.
  • n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
  • v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
  • adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
  • adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  • adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  • adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
  • adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
  • v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
  • interj. Alternative form of hollo.

jab

  • n. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
  • n. (boxing) A short straight punch.
  • n. (Britain) A medical injection.
  • n. (Britain) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
  • n. (US, figuratively) A verbal annoyance.
  • v. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
  • v. To deliver a quick punch.
  • v. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection.

jibe

  • n. (nautical) A maneuver in which the stern of a sailing boat or ship crosses the wind, typically resulting…
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To perform a jibe.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To cause to execute a jibe.
  • v. (intransitive) To agree.
  • n. A facetious or insulting remark, a jeer or taunt.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks, jeer.
  • v. (transitive) To mock, taunt.
  • v. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

labor

  • n. American standard spelling of labour.
  • v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

  • n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  • n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  • n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
  • n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  • n. The act of a mother giving birth.
  • n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
  • n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  • n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
  • v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  • v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
  • v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
  • v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  • v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

moil

  • v. To toil, to work hard.
  • v. To churn continually.
  • v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
  • n. Hard work.
  • n. Confusion, turmoil.
  • n. A spot; a defilement.
  • n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
  • n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
  • n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

nick

  • n. A small cut in a surface.
  • n. Meanings connoting something small.
  • n. (archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.
  • n. (Britain, slang) In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition.
  • n. (Britain, law enforcement slang) A police station or prison.
  • v. (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
  • v. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To steal.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, law enforcement slang) To arrest.
  • n. (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To nickname; to style.

poke

  • v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
  • v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
  • v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  • v. To put a poke on.
  • v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
  • v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
  • n. A prod, jab, or punch.
  • n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
  • n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
  • n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
  • n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
  • n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
  • n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
  • n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
  • n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
  • n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

prod

  • v. To poke, to push, to touch.
  • v. To encourage, to prompt.
  • n. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  • n. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  • n. A poke.
  • n. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
  • n. (computing, programming) production.

remark

  • n. Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
  • n. The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something worth attention…
  • n. A casual observation, comment, or statement.
  • n. (engraving) Alternative form of remarque.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
  • v. (transitive) To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to…
  • v. (transitive) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
  • v. (transitive) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a…
  • n. Alternative spelling of re-mark.
  • v. Alternative spelling of re-mark.

remove

  • v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
  • v. (transitive) To murder.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
  • v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
  • v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
  • v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
  • n. The act of removing something.
  • n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
  • n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
  • n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
  • n. Distance in time or space; interval.
  • n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
  • n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

savvy

  • adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
  • v. (informal) To understand.
  • interj. (informal) Do you understand?
  • n. Shrewdness.

shaft

  • n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
  • n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
  • n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
  • n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
  • n. A beam or ray of light.
  • n. The main axis of a feather.
  • n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
  • n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
  • n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
  • n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
  • n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
  • n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
  • n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
  • v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

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.

site

  • n. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
  • n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
  • n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation.
  • n. The posture or position of a thing.
  • n. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
  • n. A website.
  • n. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
  • n. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
  • n. A part of the body which has been operated on.
  • v. (architecture) To situate or place a building.

slam

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by…
  • v. (transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
  • v. (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
  • v. (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
  • v. (transitive) to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without…
  • v. to drink off, to drink quickly.
  • v. to compete in a poetry slam.
  • v. (transitive, drugs, slang) to inject intravenously; shoot up.
  • n. (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
  • n. (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
  • n. (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
  • n. (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
  • n. (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
  • n. A poetry slam.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
  • n. (obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
  • n. (card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
  • n. (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

stab

  • n. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
  • n. A wound made by stabbing.
  • n. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
  • n. (informal) An attempt.
  • n. Criticism.
  • n. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
  • n. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle…
  • v. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
  • v. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used…
  • v. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

take

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

thrust

  • n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
  • n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
  • n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
  • n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
  • v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
  • v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
  • v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
  • v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
  • v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

toil

  • n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
  • n. trouble, strife.
  • n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
  • v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
  • v. (intransitive) To struggle.
  • v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
  • v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

touch

  • v. Primarily physical senses.
  • v. Primarily non-physical senses.
  • v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  • v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  • n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  • n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  • n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  • n. A little bit; a small amount.
  • n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  • n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  • n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  • n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  • n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  • n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  • n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
  • n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
  • n. The children's game of tag.
  • n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  • n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  • n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

touching

  • v. present participle of touch.
  • adj. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
  • n. The act by which something is touched.

travail

  • n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
  • n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
  • n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
  • n. Obsolete form of travel.
  • n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
  • v. To toil.
  • v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

understand

  • v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
  • v. To believe, based on information.
  • v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
  • v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

withdraw

  • v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
  • v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
  • v. (intransitive) To retreat.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

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.

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