Synonyms of the word

dip

• n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
• n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
• n. A dip stick.
• n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
• n. A sauce for dipping.
• n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
• n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
• n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which…
• n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms…
• n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin…
• n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting…
• v. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
• v. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
• v. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order…
• v. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
• v. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
• v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents…
• v. To immerse for baptism.
• v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• v. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• v. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a…
• v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance…
• v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• v. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
• v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
• v. (dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower…
• v. To slightly and swiftly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position,…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
• n. A foolish person.
• n. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

candle

• n. A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
• n. The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
• n. (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
• n. (forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth…
• v. (embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
• v. (pottery) To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until…
• v. To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.

condiment

• n. Something used to enhance the flavor of food; for example, salt or pepper.
• v. To season with condiments.

cutpurse

• n. A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

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…

decrement

• n. A small quantity removed or lost. One of a series of regular subtractions.
• v. To decrease a value by a basic quantity unit.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

dip

• n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
• n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
• n. A dip stick.
• n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
• n. A sauce for dipping.
• n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
• n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
• n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which…
• n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms…
• n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin…
• n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting…
• v. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
• v. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
• v. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order…
• v. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
• v. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
• v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents…
• v. To immerse for baptism.
• v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• v. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• v. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a…
• v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance…
• v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• v. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
• v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
• v. (dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower…
• v. To slightly and swiftly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position,…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
• n. A foolish person.
• n. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

douse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
• v. (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
• v. (transitive) To strike.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
• n. A blow; stroke.

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.

duck

• v. (intransitive) To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• v. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
• v. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water…
• v. (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• v. (intransitive) To bow.
• v. (transitive) To evade doing something.
• v. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
• n. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
• n. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
• n. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round…
• n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
• n. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
• n. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
• n. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
• n. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
• n. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
• n. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
• n. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
• n. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
• n. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

dunk

• v. To submerge briefly in a liquid.
• v. To set down carelessly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing…
• n. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

fall

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

immerse

• v. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
• v. (transitive) To involve deeply.
• v. (mathematics) Map into an immersion.
• adj. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

immersion

• n. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
• n. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
• n. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept…
• n. (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation…
• n. (linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other…

impression

• n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
• n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
• n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
• n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
• n. An outward appearance.
• n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
• n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
• n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

• n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
• v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

inclination

• n. A physical tilt or bend.
• n. A slant or slope.
• n. A mental tendency.
• n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
• n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

lower

• adj. comparative form of low: more low.
• adj. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
• adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older.
• adv. comparative form of low: more low.
• v. (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down.
• v. (transitive) to pull down.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the height of.
• v. (transitive) To depress as to direction.
• v. (transitive) To make less elevated.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of.
• v. (transitive) To bring down; to humble.
• v. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
• v. (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
• v. Alternative spelling of lour.

pickpocket

• n. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
• v. To pick pockets; to steal.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

plunge

• n. the act of plunging or submerging.
• n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
• n. (dated) A swimming pool.
• n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
• n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
• n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
• v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
• v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
• v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

scoop

• n. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
• n. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
• n. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
• n. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
• n. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
• n. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
• n. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
• n. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
• n. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to literally scoop…
• n. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
• v. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
• v. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
• v. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to…
• v. To consume an alcoholic beverage.

sink

• v. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
• v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
• v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent…
• n. A basin used for holding water for washing.
• n. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
• n. (geology) A sinkhole.
• n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
• n. A heat sink.
• n. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
• n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
• n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink.
• n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network.

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

souse

• n. Something kept or steeped in brine.
• n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
• n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
• v. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
• n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
• n. A heavy blow.
• v. (now dialectal, transitive) to strike, beat.
• v. (now dialectal, intransitive) to fall heavily.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) to pounce upon.
• n. (obsolete) sou (the French coin).
• n. (dated) A small amount.

stain

• n. A discoloured spot or area.
• n. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
• n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
• n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
• v. To discolour something.
• v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation.
• v. To coat a surface with a stain.
• v. (cytology) To treat a microscope specimen with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features.
• v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

stealer

• n. (chiefly in combination) One who steals; a thief.
• n. (shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

submergence

• n. the act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.

submerging

• v. present participle of submerge.

submersion

• n. The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion.
• n. (mathematics) A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.

swim

• v. (intransitive, archaic) To float.
• v. (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural…
• v. (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize…
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
• v. (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
• v. (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather…
• v. (transitive) To undergo a giddy sensation.
• n. An act or instance of swimming.
• n. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
• n. (Britain) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
• abbr. (Internet slang, text messaging) Someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination,…

swimming

• v. present participle of swim.
• n. The activity of moving oneself through water using one's arms and legs while buoyed up by the water, carried…
• n. A giddy sensation.

taper

• n. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle.
• n. (by extension) a small light.
• n. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
• n. A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
• v. (transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.
• v. (intransitive) To diminish gradually.
• n. (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
• n. Someone who works with tape or tapes.

thief

• n. One who carries out a theft.
• n. (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

wane

• n. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
• n. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively…
• n. (literary) The end of a period.
• n. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
• v. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
• v. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
• v. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where…
• v. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
• n. (Scotland, slang) A child.
• n. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.