Synonyms of the word strike


STRIKEACCOMPLISH - ACHIEVE - AFFECT - ASSAIL - ASSUME - ATTACK - ATTAIN - BANG - BLOW - BUMP - CANCEL - COIN - CREATE - DELETE - DELIVERY - DISCOVER - DISPLACE - DISSENT - EVEN - EXCISE - EXPUNGE - FALL - FIND - FLUSH - FORM - HAP - HAPPEN - HIT - IMPACT - IMPRESS - LEVEL - LICK - MAKE - MINT - MOVE - OCCUR - ONRUSH - ONSET - ONSLAUGHT - PASS - PENETRATE - PERFORATE - PITCH - PROTEST - RAP - REACH - READ - RECORD - REGAIN - REGISTER - RESIST - SCORE - SCRATCH - SHAPE - SHINE - SHOW - SMASH - SMASHER - SOLVE - STRICKLE - SUCCESS - TAKE - TAP - TEN-STRIKE - TOUCH - WORK

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.

accomplish

  • v. (transitive) To finish successfully.
  • v. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
  • v. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished;…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.

achieve

  • v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed…
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
  • v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).

affect

  • v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
  • v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
  • v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
  • v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
  • n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
  • n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
  • n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

assail

  • v. To attack violently using words or force.

assume

  • v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
  • v. To take on a position, duty or form.
  • v. To adopt a feigned quality or manner.
  • v. To receive or adopt.
  • v. To adopt an idea or cause.

attack

  • n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
  • n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
  • n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
  • n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  • n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
  • n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
  • n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
  • n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  • n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
  • n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
  • v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
  • v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  • v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  • v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

attain

  • v. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.
  • v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
  • v. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
  • v. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object,…
  • v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
  • v. (obsolete) To overtake.

bang

  • n. A sudden percussive noise.
  • n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  • n. An explosion.
  • n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
  • n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
  • n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  • n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
  • n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  • n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
  • n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
  • v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
  • v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
  • v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  • v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  • adv. Right, directly.
  • adv. Precisely.
  • adv. With a sudden impact.
  • interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
  • n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

blow

  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
  • v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  • v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
  • v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
  • v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
  • v. (intransitive) To explode.
  • v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
  • v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
  • v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
  • v. (transitive) To leave.
  • v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  • v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  • v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  • v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
  • v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  • v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
  • n. A strong wind.
  • n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
  • n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
  • n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
  • n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
  • n. The act of striking or hitting.
  • n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  • n. A damaging occurrence.
  • v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
  • n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  • n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  • n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bump

  • n. A light blow or jolting collision.
  • n. The sound of such a collision.
  • n. A protuberance on a level surface.
  • n. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
  • n. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or…
  • n. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to…
  • n. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
  • n. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning…
  • n. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
  • n. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
  • n. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
  • n. A coarse cotton fabric.
  • n. A training match for a fighting dog.
  • n. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
  • v. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
  • v. To move up or down by a step.
  • v. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it…
  • v. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
  • v. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
  • v. (transitive) To move the time of a scheduled event.
  • v. (archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
  • interj. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to…

cancel

  • v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
  • v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
  • v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
  • v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
  • v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
  • v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  • v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  • v. (slang) To kill.
  • n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
  • n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  • n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

coin

  • n. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or…
  • n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
  • n. (figuratively) That which serves for payment or recompense.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, US, African American Vernacular) money in general, not limited to coins.
  • n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  • n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
  • n. A small circular slice of food.
  • v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
  • v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
  • v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

create

  • v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
  • v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
  • v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
  • v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
  • v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
  • adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

delete

  • v. To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
  • n. (computing) A deletion.
  • n. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Delete.
  • n. (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.

delivery

  • n. The act of conveying something.
  • n. The item which has been conveyed.
  • n. The act of giving birth.
  • n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • n. The manner of speaking.
  • n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
  • n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
  • n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

discover

  • v. To find or learn something for the first time.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
  • v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
  • v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

displace

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

dissent

  • v. (intransitive) To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).
  • v. (intransitive) To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
  • v. (obsolete) To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
  • n. Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
  • n. An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
  • n. (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome…
  • n. (sports) A violation that arises when disagreement with an official call is expressed in an inappropriate…

even

  • adj. Flat and level.
  • adj. Without great variation.
  • adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
  • adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
  • adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
  • adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
  • adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
  • adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
  • adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
  • adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
  • v. (transitive) To make flat and level.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
  • adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
  • adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
  • adv. Emphasizing a comparative.
  • adv. (ironic) Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance. Rather.
  • n. (mathematics, diminutive) An even number.
  • n. (archaic or poetic) Evening.

excise

  • n. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from…
  • v. To impose an excise tax on something.
  • v. To cut out; to remove.
  • v. (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.

expunge

  • v. To erase or strike out.
  • v. To eliminate completely; annihilate.

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.

find

  • v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
  • v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
  • v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
  • v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
  • v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To point out.
  • v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
  • v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
  • v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
  • n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
  • n. The act of finding.

flush

  • n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
  • v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
  • adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
  • adj. Wealthy or well off.
  • adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
  • adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
  • adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
  • n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
  • n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
  • n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
  • n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
  • n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
  • v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
  • v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
  • v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
  • v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
  • v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
  • v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
  • v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
  • v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
  • v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
  • v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
  • n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

form

  • n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  • n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  • n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • n. Level of performance.
  • n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
  • n. The den or home of a hare.
  • n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
  • n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  • n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
  • n. (geometry) A quantic.
  • n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  • v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  • v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  • v. (intransitive) To take shape.
  • v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

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.

hit

  • v. (heading, physical) To strike.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
  • v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
  • v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
  • v. (heading, games) To make a play.
  • v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
  • n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
  • n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
  • n. An attack on a location, person or people.
  • n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
  • n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  • n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  • n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
  • n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  • n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
  • n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • adj. Designating of a popular song.
  • pron. (dialectal) It.

impact

  • n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
  • n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
  • n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
  • n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
  • v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
  • v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
  • v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

impress

  • v. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
  • v. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
  • v. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
  • v. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
  • v. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
  • v. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
  • v. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
  • n. The act of impressing.
  • n. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
  • n. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
  • n. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
  • n. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
  • n. A heraldic device; an impresa.
  • n. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which…

level

  • adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  • adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
  • adj. Unvaried in frequency.
  • adj. Unvaried in volume.
  • adj. Calm.
  • adj. In the same position or rank.
  • adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
  • adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
  • adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
  • n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
  • n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
  • n. Degree or amount.
  • n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
  • n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
  • n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
  • n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
  • n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
  • n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
  • v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  • v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  • v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
  • v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  • v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
  • v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
  • v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
  • v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  • v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

lick

  • n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
  • n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • n. (colloquial) A bit.
  • n. (music) A short motif.
  • n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
  • v. To stroke with the tongue.
  • v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • v. (colloquial) To overcome.
  • v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
  • v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

make

  • v. (transitive, heading) To create.
  • v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  • v. To constitute.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  • v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
  • v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  • v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  • v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  • v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  • v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
  • v. To appoint; to name.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
  • v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  • v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  • v. To enact; to establish.
  • v. To develop into; to prove to be.
  • v. To form or formulate in the mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
  • v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
  • v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
  • n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  • n. How a thing is made; construction.
  • n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  • n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  • n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  • n. A person's character or disposition.
  • n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
  • n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
  • n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
  • n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
  • n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  • n. (slang, military) A promotion.
  • n. A home-made project.
  • n. (basketball) A made basket.
  • n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mint

  • v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
  • v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
  • n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
  • n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  • n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  • n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  • v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
  • adj. (of condition) as new.
  • adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  • adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
  • n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  • n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  • n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
  • n. A green colour, like that of mint.
  • n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
  • adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

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…

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.

onrush

  • n. A forceful rush or flow forward.
  • n. An aggressive assault.
  • v. To rush or flow forward forcefully.
  • v. To assault aggressively.

onset

  • n. A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
  • n. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
  • n. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
  • n. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to…
  • n. (obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
  • n. (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
  • n. the start (of something).
  • v. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
  • v. (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

onslaught

  • n. A fierce attack.
  • n. A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

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).

penetrate

  • v. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
  • v. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
  • v. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
  • v. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
  • v. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

perforate

  • v. to pierce; to penetrate.
  • v. to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.
  • adj. (philately, biology) perforated.

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.

protest

  • v. (intransitive) To make a strong objection.
  • v. (transitive) To affirm (something).
  • v. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To object to.
  • v. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
  • v. (law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against…
  • n. A formal objection, especially one by a group.
  • n. A collective gesture of disapproval: a demonstration.

rap

  • n. (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
  • n. (uncountable) Blame (for something), whether or not it results in a conviction.
  • n. (informal) A casual talk.
  • n. (music, uncountable) Rap music.
  • n. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
  • v. (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
  • v. (informal, intransitive) To talk casually.
  • n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
  • n. Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century;…
  • n. A whit; a jot.

reach

  • v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
  • v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
  • v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
  • v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
  • v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
  • v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
  • v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
  • v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
  • v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
  • v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
  • v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
  • v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  • v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
  • n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
  • n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
  • n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
  • n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
  • n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
  • n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
  • n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
  • n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
  • n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
  • n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
  • n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

read

  • v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
  • v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
  • v. To consist of certain text.
  • v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  • v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
  • v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
  • v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
  • v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  • v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
  • v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  • v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
  • n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
  • n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
  • n. (in combination) That which is to be read.

record

  • n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
  • n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
  • n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
  • n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
  • n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
  • v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
  • v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
  • v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
  • v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
  • v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

regain

  • v. (transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.

register

  • n. A formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.
  • n. A book of such entries.
  • n. An entry in such a book.
  • n. The act of registering.
  • n. A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing…
  • n. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording…
  • n. A device that automatically records a quantity.
  • n. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
  • n. (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
  • n. (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit,…
  • n. (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
  • n. (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
  • n. (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
  • n. (music) An organ stop.
  • n. (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
  • n. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct.
  • n. (chiefly US) Clipping of cash register.
  • v. (transitive) To enter in a register.
  • v. (transitive) To enroll, especially to vote.
  • v. (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
  • v. (transitive) To buy the full version of a trial software.
  • v. (transitive) To express outward signs.
  • v. (transitive, mail) To record officially and handle specially.
  • v. (transitive, printing) To adjust so as to be properly aligned.
  • v. (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
  • v. (intransitive) To enroll as a student.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an impression.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in proper alignment.
  • v. (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.

resist

  • v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
  • v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
  • v. (intransitive) To oppose.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
  • n. A protective coating or covering.

score

  • n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
  • n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
  • n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
  • n. Twenty, 20 (number).
  • n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
  • n. A weight of twenty pounds.
  • n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
  • n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
  • n. Subject.
  • n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
  • n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
  • n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
  • n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
  • n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
  • v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
  • v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
  • interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

scratch

  • v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
  • v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
  • v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
  • v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
  • v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
  • v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
  • v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
  • v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
  • v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
  • v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
  • n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
  • n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
  • n. (sports).
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
  • n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
  • n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
  • n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
  • adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
  • adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
  • adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
  • adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
  • adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
  • adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

shape

  • n. The status or condition of something.
  • n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  • n. Form; formation.
  • n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
  • n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
  • n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
  • n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
  • v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  • v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
  • v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

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.

show

  • v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
  • v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
  • v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
  • v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  • v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  • n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  • n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
  • n. (countable) A demonstration.
  • n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
  • n. (countable) A movie.
  • n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
  • n. A project or presentation.
  • n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
  • n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  • n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  • n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

smash

  • n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
  • n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
  • n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
  • n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
  • n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
  • v. To break (something brittle) violently.
  • v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
  • v. To hit extremely hard.
  • v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
  • v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
  • v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

smasher

  • n. Something that, or someone who, smashes.
  • n. (slang) An attractive person (see also smashing).
  • n. (slang, dated) Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
  • n. (Britain, slang, obsolete) One who passes counterfeit coins.

solve

  • v. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • v. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
  • v. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen…
  • n. (obsolete) A solution; an explanation.

strickle

  • n. A rod used to level grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
  • n. A tool for sharpening scythes.
  • n. An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
  • n. (carpentry, masonry) A templet; a pattern.
  • n. An instrument used in dressing flax.
  • v. (transitive) To level using a strickle.

success

  • n. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
  • n. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
  • n. (business) financial profitability.
  • n. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
  • n. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

tap

  • n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
  • n. A device used to dispense liquids.
  • n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
  • n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
  • n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die…
  • n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
  • n. An interception of communication by authority.
  • v. To furnish with taps.
  • v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
  • v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
  • v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
  • v. To intercept a communication without authority.
  • v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
  • v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already…
  • n. Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
  • v. To strike lightly.
  • v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
  • v. To make a sharp noise.
  • v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
  • v. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
  • v. To put a new sole or heel on.
  • n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
  • n. tap dance.
  • n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
  • n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel;…
  • n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring…
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard…

ten-strike

  • n. (bowling) A strike; the knocking down of all ten pins with one delivery of the ball.
  • n. (US, informal) Any quick, decisive stroke or act.

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.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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