Synonym of the word DROP

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.

alter

v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
v. (intransitive) To become different.
v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

bead

n. (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
n. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
n. A small round object.
n. (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
n. A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
n. (chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color…
n. Front sight of a gun.
v. (intransitive) To form into a bead.
v. (transitive) To apply beads to.
v. (transitive) To form into a bead.
v. (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).

bear

n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
v. (transitive) To carry something.
v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
v. (transitive) To wear or display.
v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
v. (transitive) To put up with something.
v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

birth

n. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
n. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
n. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
n. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
n. That which is born.
n. Misspelling of berth.
adj. A familial relationship established by childbirth.
v. (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
v. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

can

v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
n. (slang) Jail or prison.
n. (slang) Headphones.
n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
v. To shut up.
v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

cast

v. (heading, physical) To move, or be moved, away.
v. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
v. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
v. (heading, social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
v. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
v. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
v. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
v. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
v. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
v. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by…
v. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
v. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
v. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
v. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
v. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
n. An act of throwing.
n. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
n. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
n. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
n. The casting procedure.
n. An object made in a mould.
n. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
n. The mould used to make cast objects.
n. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
n. A squint.
n. Visual appearance.
n. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
n. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
n. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
n. A group of crabs.

cease

v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

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.

cliff

n. A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
n. (music) Obsolete form of clef.

curtain

n. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
n. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
n. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified…
n. (euphemistic, also "final curtain") Death.
n. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
n. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
v. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
v. (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

cut

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

dangle

v. (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
v. (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order…
v. (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
v. (intransitive, dated) To trail or follow around.
n. An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to…
n. (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order…
n. A dangling ornament or decoration.

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.

degenerate

adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

deliver

v. To set free.
v. (process) To do with birth.
v. To free from or disburden of anything.
v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
v. To discover; to show.
v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

deposit

n. Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material…
n. That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care…
n. (banking) Money placed in an account.
n. Anything left behind on a surface.
n. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve…
n. A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned,…
n. A place of deposit; a depository.
v. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
v. To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
v. To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
v. (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
v. To lay aside; to rid oneself of.

depositary

adj. Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
n. One who receives a deposit in trust.
n. A place where deposits are kept.

depository

n. A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation; a repository.
n. A trustee; a depositary.

descend

v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

descent

n. An instance of descending.
n. A way down.
n. A sloping passage or incline.
n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

deteriorate

v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

devolve

v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

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.

discharge

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

discontinue

v. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop…

dismiss

v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
v. (transitive) To order to leave.
v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
v. To send or put away.
v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

displace

v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
v. (psycology) to repress.

drape

n. (Britain) A curtain, a drapery.
n. (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
n. (US) See drapes.
n. (US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore,…
v. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
v. To rail at; to banter.
v. To make cloth.
v. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
v. To hang or rest limply.
v. To spread over, cover.

drapery

n. (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
n. (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
n. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
n. Cloth, or woollen materials in general.

drib

v. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
v. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
v. (transitive) To entice step by step.
v. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
v. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
v. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
v. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
v. (transitive, now chiefly Britain dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
v. (transitive, now chiefly Britain dialectal) To scold.
v. (transitive, now chiefly Britain dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from…
n. (obsolete) A drop.

dribble

v. To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool.
v. To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle.
v. In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet.
v. (basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with…
v. To advance by dribbling.
v. (transitive) to let something fall in drips.
v. (transitive) in various ball games, to move the ball by repeated light kicks so as not to lose control…
v. (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
n. A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
n. A small amount of a liquid.
n. In sport, the act of dribbling.

driblet

n. A small portion or part.
n. A small or petty sum.

drip

v. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
v. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
v. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
v. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
v. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
v. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
n. A drop of a liquid.
n. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's…
n. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
n. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
n. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond…
acr. (finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

drop-off

n. A sudden downward slope.
n. A sudden decrease (such as in the level of sales).

expend

v. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource).
v. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse.

express

adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
n. An express rifle.
n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
n. An express office.
n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

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.

fell

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

fire

n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
v. To feed or serve the fire of.
v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
v. (farriery) To cauterize.
v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
adj. (slang) Amazing.
interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
interj. A signal to shoot.

flatten

v. (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
v. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order…
v. (transitive) To knock down or lay low.
v. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
v. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
v. (music) To lower by a semitone.
v. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
v. (programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array…
v. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

formation

n. Something possessing structure or form.
n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

gravitation

n. (physics) The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all particles with mass in the universe…

hang

v. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
v. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
v. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to…
v. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, or the like.
v. (transitive, law) To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
v. (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised…
v. (intransitive, informal) To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
v. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
v. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
v. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must…
v. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
v. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
v. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
v. (transitive, baseball, slang) Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
n. The way in which something hangs.
n. (figuratively) A grip, understanding.
n. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
n. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
n. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
n. Alternative spelling of Hang.

have

v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
v. (transitive) To give birth to.
v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
v. To trick, to deceive.
v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
v. (transitive) To host someone.

lose

v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate…
v. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
v. (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
v. (transitive) To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
v. (transitive) To shed (weight).
v. (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
v. (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or…
v. (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
v. (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
v. Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
v. To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
v. To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
n. (obsolete) Fame, renown; praise.

mantle

n. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare…
n. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
n. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
n. (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
n. (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
n. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
n. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns,…
n. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
n. A penstock for a water wheel.
n. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
n. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
n. A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel.
n. (heraldry) A mantling.
v. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
v. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
v. (of face, cheeks) To flush.

miss

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

modify

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

move

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

neglect

v. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
v. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
v. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
n. The act of neglecting.
n. The state of being neglected.
n. Habitual lack of care.

omit

v. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
v. (transitive) To fail to perform.
v. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

overleap

v. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
v. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out.

overlook

n. A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
v. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to…
v. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly.
v. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
v. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
v. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.
v. To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.

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.

pay

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

pearl

n. A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the…
n. (figuratively) Something precious.
n. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
n. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
n. A whitish speck or film on the eye.
n. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
n. A light-colored tern.
n. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
n. (uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as…
n. A fringe or border.
n. (obsolete) A jewel or gem.
v. (also figuratively) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
v. To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains.
v. To resemble pearl or pearls.
v. To give or hunt for pearls.
v. (surfing) to dig the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.

pour

v. (transitive) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of…
v. (transitive) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
v. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
v. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
v. (intransitive) to move in a throng, as a crowd.
n. The act of pouring.
n. Something, or an amount, poured.
n. (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
v. Misspelling of pore.

pretermit

v. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's…

quit

v. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
v. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
v. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
v. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to…
v. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
v. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
v. (transitive) To leave (a place).
v. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
v. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
n. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

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.

repository

n. a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
n. a burial vault.
n. a person to whom a secret is entrusted.

sack

n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense⁴ below.
n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
v. To put in a sack or sacks.
v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
v. Alternative spelling of sac.
n. Alternative spelling of sac.

shed

v. (transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
v. (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
v. (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
v. (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.
v. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
v. (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
n. (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
n. (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
n. (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
n. (obsolete) The top of the head.
n. (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
n. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front;…
n. (Britain, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
n. (Britain, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

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.

spend

v. To pay out (money).
v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
v. (dated) To squander.
v. To exhaust, to wear out.
v. To consume, to use up (time).
v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
v. To be diffused; to spread.
v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure.
n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
n. Discharged semen.
n. Vaginal discharge.

sphere

n. (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure…
n. A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
n. (astronomy, now rare) The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow…
n. (historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to…
n. (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
n. (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
n. (geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology)…
n. (logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which…
v. (transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
v. (transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

stop

v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
v. (intransitive) To not continue.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
v. (intransitive) To tarry.
v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
n. (photography) An f-stop.
n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
interj. halt! stop!
punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

swing

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

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.

terminate

v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

throw

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

unload

v. (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
v. (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
v. (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
v. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
v. (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
v. (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
v. (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
v. (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
v. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice.
v. (transitive) To draw the charge from.

utter

adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
adj. (obsolete) Outward.
adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
v. (transitive) To say.
v. (transitive) To use the voice.
v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

v. To speak or to use words to express.
v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

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.

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.

worsen

v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.

Synonyms of the word

drop

alter

bead

bear

birth

can

cast

cease

change

cliff

curtain

cut

dangle

decline

decrease

decrement

degenerate

deliver

deposit

depositary

depository

descend

descent

deteriorate

devolve

dip

discharge

discontinue

dismiss

displace

drape

drapery

drib

dribble

driblet

drip

drop-off

expend

express

fall

fell

fire

flatten

formation

gravitation

hang

have

lose

mantle

miss

modify

move

neglect

omit

overleap

overlook

pall

pay

pearl

pour

pretermit

quit

remove

repository

sack

shed

sink

spend

sphere

stop

swing

take

terminate

throw

unload

utter

verbalise

verbalize

wane