Synonyms of the word

retire

• v. (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
• v. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
• v. (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
• v. (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
• v. (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service;…
• v. (transitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next…
• v. (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out,…
• v. (intransitive) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from…
• v. (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
• v. (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
• v. (intransitive) To go to bed.
• n. (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
• n. a place to which one retires.
• n. (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
• v. (transitive) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

adjourn

• v. (transitive) To postpone.
• v. (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
• v. (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.

bed

• n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
• n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
• n. (heading) A layer or surface.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

can

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

cease

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

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

diddle

• n. (music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the…
• n. (slang, childish) The penis.
• v. (transitive) to cheat; to swindle.
• v. (transitive) to have sex with.
• v. (transitive) to masturbate (especially of women).
• v. (transitive) to waste time.
• v. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

discard

• v. (transitive) to throw away, to reject.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
• v. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
• n. Anything discarded.
• n. A discarded playing card in a card game.

discontinue

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

dismiss

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

dispose

• v. (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
• v. To distribute and put in place.
• v. To deal out; to assign to a use.
• v. To incline.
• v. (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
• v. (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

fatigue

• n. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
• n. (often in the plural) A menial task(s), especially in the military.
• n. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
• v. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
• v. (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
• v. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
• v. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result…

fiddle

• n. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of…
• n. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
• n. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
• n. A fraud; a scam.
• n. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects…
• v. To play aimlessly.
• v. To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
• v. (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
• v. To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt…

fire

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

fling

• n. An act of throwing, often violently.
• n. An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
• n. An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
• n. A short, often sexual, relationship.
• n. (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
• n. (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
• n. A kind of dance.
• n. (obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
• v. (transitive) To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.

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.

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…

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

locomote

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

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…

pall

• n. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
• n. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
• n. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the…
• n. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
• n. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter…
• n. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
• n. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
• n. (obsolete) nausea.
• n. A feeling of gloom.
• v. To cloak.
• v. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

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.

recall

• v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
• v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
• n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• n. Memory; the ability to remember.
• n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

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.

retire

• v. (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
• v. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
• v. (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
• v. (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
• v. (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service;…
• v. (transitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next…
• v. (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out,…
• v. (intransitive) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from…
• v. (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
• v. (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
• v. (intransitive) To go to bed.
• n. (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
• n. a place to which one retires.
• n. (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
• v. (transitive) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

retreat

• n. The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
• n. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
• n. A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
• n. (rare and obsolete, euphemistic) An peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse;…
• n. A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
• n. A period of meditation, prayer or study.
• n. Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
• n. A signal for a military withdrawal.
• n. A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
• n. A military ceremony to lower the flag.
• n. (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
• v. (of military forces) to withdraw from a position, go back.
• v. (of a glacier) to shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures.

sack

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

stop

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

terminate

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

tire

• v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
• v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
• v. (transitive) To bore.
• n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
• n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
• n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
• n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
• n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
• n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
• n. A tier, row, or rank.

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…

toy

• n. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
• n. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
• n. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
• n. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.
• n. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.
• n. (slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
• n. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
• n. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women…
• v. (intransitive) To play (with).
• v. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
• v. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.

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.

weary

• adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
• adj. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
• adj. Expressive of fatigue.
• adj. Causing weariness; tiresome.
• v. To make or to become weary.

withdraw

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