Synonym of the word FALL

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.

accrue

v. (intransitive) To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth…
v. (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
v. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
n. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

autumn

n. Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded…
n. (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
adj. Of or relating to autumn; autumnal.

be

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

begin

v. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation.
v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

break

v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
v. (sports and games).
v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
n. A short holiday.
n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
n. The beginning (of the morning).
n. An act of escaping.
n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
n. (sports and games).
n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

capitulation

n. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
n. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist…
n. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
n. An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.

change

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

choke

v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
n. (electronics) choking coil.
n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

come

v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
v. (intransitive) To arrive.
v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
v. (intransitive) Happen.
v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
n. (slang) Semen.
n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…

commence

v. (intransitive) To begin, start.
v. (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
v. (Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

conk

n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom…
n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
n. Alternative spelling of conch.
v. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
n. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
v. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

crepuscle

n. Alternative form of crepuscule.

crepuscule

n. (now rare) Twilight.

croak

n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
n. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit).
n. The cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
v. (intransitive) To make a croak.
v. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
v. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
v. (slang) To die.
v. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
v. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

crumble

v. To fall apart; to disintegrate.
v. To render into crumbs.
n. A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

dawdle

v. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
v. (transitive) To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
v. (intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.
n. A dawdler.

decease

n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
v. (now rare) To die.

declension

n. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective…
n. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

declination

n. At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
n. At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the…
n. A refusal.
n. (grammar) Declension.
n. (archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination.
n. (archaic) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay;…
n. (archaic) Deviation.

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…

declivity

n. (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill.
n. a downward bend in a path.

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.

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).

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.

die

v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
n. Any small cubical or square body.
n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

diminish

v. (transitive) To make smaller.
v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
v. (intransitive) To taper.
v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
v. To take away; to subtract.

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.

disappear

v. (intransitive) To vanish.
v. (transitive) To make vanish.
v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.

downfall

n. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
n. The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
n. An act of falling down.
v. (intransitive) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.

downslope

adj. in a direction down a slope.
adv. down a slope.
n. a descent or declivity.

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.

dusk

n. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night,…
n. A darkish colour.
v. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
v. (transitive) To make dusk.
adj. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

egress

n. An exit or way out.
n. The process of exiting or leaving.
n. (astronomy) The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.
v. (intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out.

emerge

v. (intransitive) To come into view.
v. (intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
v. (intransitive) To become known.

evenfall

n. (poetic) dusk, twilight.

event

n. An occurrence; something that happens.
n. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
n. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
n. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating…
n. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
n. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
n. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
v. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.

exit

n. A way out.
n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
n. The action of leaving.
n. Death.
v. To go out.
v. To leave.
v. To die.

expire

v. (intransitive) to die.
v. (intransitive) to become invalid.
v. (intransitive) to exhale; to breathe (out).
v. (transitive) to exhale (something).
v. (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
v. (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.

fail

v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
v. (transitive) To neglect.
v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

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.

flop

v. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer).
v. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise…
v. (poker, transitive) To participate in the flop, thus building one's hand with the first community cards.
v. (slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
adv. With a flopping sound.
n. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

flow

n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
n. The rising movement of the tide.
n. Smoothness or continuity.
n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

founder

n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…

get

v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
v. (transitive) To receive.
v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
v. (copulative) To become.
v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
v. (transitive) To cause to do.
v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
v. (transitive) To getter.
v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
v. (euphemistic) To kill.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
n. Offspring.
n. Lineage.
n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
n. Something gained.
n. (Britain, regional) A git.
n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

gloam

n. (obsolete) gloaming, twilight.
v. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
v. To be sullen or morose.

gloaming

n. (poetry, Scotland, Britain, Northern England) twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening;…
n. (obsolete) sullenness; melancholy.

go

v. To move.
v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
v. (intransitive) To attend.
v. To proceed.
v. To follow or travel along (a path).
v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
v. To pass, to be used up.
v. (intransitive) To die.
v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
v. To break down or apart.
v. (intransitive) To be sold.
v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
v. To say (something), to make a sound.
v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
v. To apply or subject oneself to.
v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
v. (intransitive) To date.
v. To attack.
v. To be in general; to be usually.
v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
n. (uncommon) The act of going.
n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
n. An attempt, a try.
n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
n. An act; the working or operation.
n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
n. A period of activity.
n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

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.

hap

n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

happen

v. To occur or take place.
v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

hour

n. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
n. A season, moment, time or stound.
n. (poetic) The time.
n. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
n. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

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.

issue

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

lag

adj. late.
adj. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
adj. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
n. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
n. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
n. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
n. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
n. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball…
n. One who lags; that which comes in last.
n. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
n. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the…
n. A bird, the greylag.
v. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
v. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
v. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
v. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

lessen

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

light

n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
n. A source of illumination.
n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
n. A flame or something used to create fire.
n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
n. The power of perception by vision.
n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
v. (transitive) To illuminate.
v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
adj. Having light.
adj. Pale in colour.
adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
adj. Easy to endure or perform.
adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
adv. Carrying little.
n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
v. To find by chance.
v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

locomote

v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

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.

loss

n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
n. destruction, ruin.
n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

miscarry

v. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
v. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
v. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so.
v. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
v. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.

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…

nightfall

n. The close of the day; the coming of night.

occur

v. To happen or take place.
v. To present or offer (itself).
v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
v. (sciences) To be present or found.

pass

v. (heading) Physical movement.
v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
v. (heading) To move through time.
v. (heading) To be accepted.
v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
v. (heading) To do or be better.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
n. An attempt.
n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
n. A sexual advance.
n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

perish

v. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
v. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.

n. A sewing pin, sometimes called a ballhead pin, which is a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out…
n. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
n. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
n. (wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed…
n. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
n. (in plural pins; informal) A leg.
n. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
n. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
n. (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing…
n. (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece…
n. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole.
n. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area).
n. (dated) A mood, a state of being.
n. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
n. (medicine, obsolete) caligo.
n. A thing of small value; a trifle.
n. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
n. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
n. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
n. (Britain, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
n. (informal) A pinball machine.
v. (often followed by a preposition such as to or on) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
v. (chess, usually passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
v. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
v. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
v. (computing, graphical user interface) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
v. Alternative form of peen.

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.

precipitate

v. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
v. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
v. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
v. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
v. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet,…
v. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
adj. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
adj. Very steep; precipitous.
adj. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
adj. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
adj. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
n. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
n. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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.

recede

v. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
v. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
v. To take back.

resign

v. (transitive) To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
v. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
v. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
v. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.

return

v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
n. The act of returning.
n. A return ticket.
n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
n. An answer.
n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
n. Gain or loss from an investment.
n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
n. (computing) A carriage return character.
n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

season

n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter.
n. A part of a year when something particular happens.
n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
n. (Canada, US, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals…
n. (obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
v. (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
v. (transitive) To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
v. (transitive) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with…
v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

separate

adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

settle

v. (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively;…
v. (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
v. (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or…
v. (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
v. (transitive) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous…
v. (Britain, dialectal) To silence, especially by force; by extension, to kill.
v. (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
v. (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired state, or make final disposition of (something).
v. (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to…
v. (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
v. (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
v. (transitive) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
v. (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take…
v. (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
v. (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (as dregs, sediment, etc).
v. (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
v. (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit properly.
v. (transitive, of an animal) To impregnate.
v. (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare…
v. (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
v. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) (intransitive)…
v. (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed;…
v. (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
v. (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have…
v. (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively…
v. (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
v. (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house,…
v. (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
v. (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
v. (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a spouse.
v. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) (intransitive,…
n. (archaic) A seat of any kind.
n. (now rare) A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.
n. (obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare…

shine

v. (intransitive) To emit light.
v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
n. Brightness from a source of light.
n. Brightness from reflected light.
n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
n. Shoeshine.
n. Sunshine.
n. (slang) Moonshine.
n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

side

n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
n. One set of competitors in a game.
n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
v. To lean on one side.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

sin

n. (theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.
n. A misdeed.
n. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
n. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
v. (intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.
n. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ.
n. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س.

sinning

v. present participle of sin.
n. The act of committing a sin.

slip

n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
n. A long, thin piece of something.
n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
v. (intransitive) To err.
v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
n. An act or instance of slipping.
n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
n. A slipdress.
n. A mistake or error.
n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
n. An outside covering or case.
n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
n. A particular quantity of yarn.
n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
n. A fish, the sole.

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.

spill

v. (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
v. (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
v. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled,…
n. (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
n. A fall or stumble.
n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from…
n. A slender piece of anything.
n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing…
n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…
n. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for…

start

n. The beginning of an activity.
n. A sudden involuntary movement.
n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

strike

v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
v. To touch; to act by appulse.
v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
v. To make and ratify.
v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
v. To balance (a ledger or account).
n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
n. The discovery of a source of something.
n. A strike plate.

surrender

v. (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
v. (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
v. (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to…
v. (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
v. (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
v. (transitive, intransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial…
n. An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
n. The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
n. (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy…

transgress

v. (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
v. (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
v. (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
v. (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

travel

v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
v. (transitive) To force to journey.
v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
n. The act of traveling.
n. pl A series of journeys.
n. pl An account of one's travels.
n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

trespass

n. sin.
n. (law) Any of various torts involving interference to another's enjoyment of his property, especially the…
v. (intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).
v. (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
v. (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
v. (obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

trip

n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
n. A stumble or misstep.
n. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
n. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
n. A faux pas, a social error.
n. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
n. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
n. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
n. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
n. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
n. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
n. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
n. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
n. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
n. A flock of wigeons.
v. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
v. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety,…
v. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
v. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
v. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
v. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
v. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
v. (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
v. (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
v. (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
adj. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips.

triumph

n. A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
n. A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
n. (obsolete) Any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.
n. A state of joy or exultation at success.
n. (obsolete) A trump card.
n. A card game, also called trump.
n. (historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement…
n. A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
v. To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
v. To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
v. To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
v. To be prosperous; to flourish.
v. To play a trump in a card game.

tumble

n. A fall.
n. An act of sexual intercourse.
v. (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.
v. To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
v. To roll over and over.
v. (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
v. (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
v. To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

turn

v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
v. (archaic) To translate.
n. A change of direction or orientation.
n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
n. A single loop of a coil.
n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
n. A deed done to another.
n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
n. Character; personality; nature.
n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twilight

n. The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned…
n. The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
n. (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
n. Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
adj. Pertaining to or resembling twilight.

vanish

v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

victory

n. (countable) An instance of having won a competition or battle or succeeded in an effort.
n. (uncountable) The condition of having succeeded in a conflict or other effort.
n. (countable) A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See Winged victory.
v. (rare) To achieve a victory.

weakening

v. present participle of weaken.
n. An instance or process of loss of strength.
n. (uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses…

yield

v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

Synonyms of the word

fall

accrue

autumn

be

begin

break

capitulation

change

choke

come

commence

conk

crepuscle

crepuscule

croak

crumble

dawdle

decease

declension

declination

decline

declivity

decrease

decrement

descend

descent

devolve

die

diminish

dip

disappear

downfall

downslope

drop

dusk

egress

emerge

evenfall

event

exit

expire

fail

fall

flop

flow

founder

get

gloam

gloaming

go

gravitation

hang

hap

happen

hour

incline

issue

lag

lessen

light

locomote

lose

loss

miscarry

move

nightfall

occur

pass

perish

pin

pitch

precipitate

quit

recede

resign

return

season

separate

settle