Synonyms of the word

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

arrest

• n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

cabbage

• n. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
• n. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
• n. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
• n. Used as a term of endearment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Money.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
• n. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
• n. The cabbage palmetto.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally…
• v. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

capture

• n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
• n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
• n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
• n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
• n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
• v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
• v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
• v. To reproduce convincingly.
• v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

chomp

• n. The act of chomping (see below).
• v. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
• v. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or,…

clip

• v. To grip tightly.
• v. To fasten with a clip.
• v. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
• v. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
• n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
• n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
• n. (obsolete) An embrace.
• n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm…
• n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the…
• n. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
• v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
• v. To curtail; to cut short.
• v. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
• v. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting…
• v. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
• v. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering…
• v. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
• n. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole.
• n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
• n. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
• n. (informal) A blow with the hand.

clipping

• v. present participle of clip.
• n. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
• n. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
• n. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain…
• n. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
• n. (uncountable, American football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's…

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

crimp

• adj. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• adj. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together,…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
• n. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• n. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many…
• n. (obsolete) A card game.
• v. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• v. To style hair into a crimp.
• v. To join the edges of food products.
• n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing…
• n. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a…
• v. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

crisis

• n. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
• n. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an…
• n. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover…
• n. (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
• n. (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

crop

• n. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or…
• n. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
• n. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
• n. The lashing end of a whip.
• n. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
• n. A rocky outcrop.
• n. The act of cropping.
• n. A short haircut.
• n. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store…
• n. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
• n. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of…
• n. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
• n. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
• v. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
• v. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
• v. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
• v. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
• v. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

emergency

• n. A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
• n. (US, Canada, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
• n. An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
• n. (archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.

exigency

• n. The demands or requirements of a situation (usually plural.).
• n. An urgent situation.
• n. A situation requiring extreme effort or attention.

filch

• v. (transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
• n. Something which has been filched or stolen.
• n. An act of filching; larceny, theft.
• n. (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
• n. (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

grip

• v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• v. To trench; to drain.
• n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• n. A handle or other place to grip.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
• n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
• n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
• n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
• n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• n. (obsolete) The griffin.

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hint

• n. A clue.
• n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
• n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
• n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
• n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
• v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
• v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
• v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

irritate

• v. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
• v. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
• v. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
• v. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
• v. (obsolete) To render null and void.

jot

• n. Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
• n. A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.
• n. (obsolete) Moment, instant.
• n. A brief and hurriedly written note.
• v. (usually with "down") To write quickly.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

lop

• n. (Geordie) A flea.
• v. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune…
• v. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
• v. To allow to hang down.
• n. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
• n. (US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
• n. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

mite

• n. A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species.
• n. A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
• n. A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
• n. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
• n. (sometimes used advernially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
• n. (colloquial, often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of might.

nip

• n. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
• n. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
• v. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or…
• v. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
• v. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
• v. To annoy, as by nipping.
• v. To taunt.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
• n. A playful bite.
• n. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
• n. Briskly cold weather.
• n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
• n. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
• n. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
• n. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
• n. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
• n. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another.
• n. (historical slang) A pickpocket.
• v. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

nobble

• v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
• v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

pilfer

• v. To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.

prune

• n. (obsolete) A plum.
• n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
• n. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
• v. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
• v. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged…

purloin

• v. (transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to…
• v. (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.

seizure

• n. The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
• n. A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
• n. A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
• n. (obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
• n. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

snarf

• v. (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
• v. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take…
• v. (transitive, slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.

sneak

• n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
• n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
• n. An informer; a tell-tale.
• n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
• n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
• v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
• v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
• v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
• v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
• adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
• adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

snip

• v. To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
• v. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
• v. To break off; to snatch away.
• v. (informal) To circumcise.
• v. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
• n. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
• n. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
• n. Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
• n. A small amount of something; a pinch.
• n. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
• n. A small or weak person, especially a young one.
• n. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
• n. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A tailor.

soupcon

• n. Alternative form of soupçon.

speck

• n. (countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
• n. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
• n. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma (Doration) stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
• v. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
• n. Fat; lard; fat meat.
• n. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
• n. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
• n. The fat of the hippopotamus.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

squeezing

• v. present participle of squeeze.
• n. The act of pressing; compression.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

swipe

• v. (transitive) To steal or snatch.
• v. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding something through a reader.
• v. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
• n. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; A sweep.
• n. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
• n. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
• n. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

tinge

• n. A small amount of something, especially of an added color.
• n. The degree of vividness of a color; shade, hue or tint.
• v. (transitive) To add a small amount of color; to tint.
• v. (transitive) To imbue or impregnate.

top

• n. The highest part or component of an object.
• n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A top quark.
• n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
• n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
• n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
• n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
• n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
• v. To cover on the top or with a top.
• v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
• v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
• v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
• v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
• v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
• v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
• v. (archaic) To predominate.
• v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
• v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
• v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
• v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
• v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
• v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
• v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
• v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
• adj. Situated on the top of something.
• adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
• adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
• adv. Rated first.

touch

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

trauma

• n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
• n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
• n. An event that causes great distress.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

tweak

• n. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
• n. A slight adjustment or modification.
• n. Trouble; distress; tweag.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
• n. (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation…
• v. (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
• v. (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
• v. (transitive) To twit or tease.
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness,…
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement…

tweet

• n. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
• n. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
• v. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
• interj. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

twinge

• n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• n. A sudden sharp pain.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• v. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting…

twitch

• n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
• n. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over…
• n. (physiology, countable) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal…
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
• v. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
• v. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed).

vellicate

• v. To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmo…
• v. to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
• v. To pinch.
• v. To cause to twitch.