Synonyms of the word

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

binge

• n. A short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
• n. (eating disorder) A rapid and excessive consumption of food.
• v. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

bout

• n. A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.
• n. (boxing) A boxing match.
• n. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
• n. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
• n. A fighting competition.
• n. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of…
• n. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland,…
• v. To contest a bout.
• prep. (colloquial) about.

buck

• n. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the…
• n. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
• n. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
• n. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
• n. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
• n. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
• n. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
• n. (US, slang) One hundred.
• n. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object,…
• n. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
• n. (finance, jargon) One million dollars.
• n. (informal) A euro.
• n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
• n. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal…
• n. (African American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
• v. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
• v. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down…
• v. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
• v. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together,…
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal;…
• v. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb…
• v. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
• v. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter.
• n. (Scotland) The beech tree.
• n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
• n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
• v. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
• v. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
• v. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

cry

• v. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
• v. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
• v. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found,…
• v. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
• n. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
• n. A shout or scream.
• n. Words shouted or screamed.
• n. (collectively) A group of hounds.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
• n. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
• n. A desperate or urgent request.
• n. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

deplume

• v. (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lay bare; to expose.

displume

• v. To deprive of feathers, plumes, awards.

disunite

• v. (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
• v. (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
• v. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

drib

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

driblet

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

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

hasten

• v. To move in a quick fashion.
• v. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
• v. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

hie

• v. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
• v. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
• n. Haste; diligence.

hotfoot

• n. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting…
• adv. (Britain) hastily; without delay.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

race

• n. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective…
• n. (computing) A race condition.
• n. A progressive movement toward a goal.
• n. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
• n. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
• n. Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
• n. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
• n. Travels, runs, or journeys.
• n. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
• v. (transitive) To compete against in such a race.
• v. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed.
• v. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
• n. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics.
• n. (taxonomy) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly…
• n. A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
• n. (figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with…
• n. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities,…
• n. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
• n. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

rent

• n. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
• n. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
• n. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade…
• n. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
• n. (obsolete) income; revenue.
• v. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
• v. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
• v. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
• v. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
• n. A tear or rip in some surface.
• n. A division or schism.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rend.

revel

• n. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
• v. To make merry; to have a gay, lively time.
• v. To take delight in.
• v. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
• n. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal.

revelry

• n. Joyful merry-making.

rip

• n. A tear (in paper, etc.).
• n. A type of tide or current.
• n. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
• n. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
• v. (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric),…
• v. (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move quickly and destructively.
• v. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable…
• v. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
• v. (slang) To fart.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on).
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
• v. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
• v. (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover;…
• v. (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
• n. A wicker basket for fish.
• n. (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
• n. (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

rupture

• n. A burst, split, or break.
• n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
• n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
• n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

separate

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

separation

• n. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
• n. The place at which a division occurs.
• n. An interval, gap or space that separates things.
• n. (law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
• n. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

snag

• n. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot;…
• n. Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into…
• n. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
• n. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly…
• n. (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
• n. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
• n. One of the secondary branches of an antler.
• v. To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
• v. (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather…
• v. (slang) To obtain or pick up (something).
• v. (slang) To stealthily steal with legerdemain prowess (something).
• v. (Britain, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A light meal.
• n. (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
• n. (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
• n. A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

speed

• n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
• n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
• n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
• n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
• n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
• n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
• n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
• n. (slang) Personal preference.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
• v. (intransitive) To go fast.
• v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
• v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
• v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
• v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
• v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
• v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
• v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

split

• adj. Divided.
• adj. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
• adj. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
• adj. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price…
• adj. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than the usual eighths.
• adj. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred…
• n. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
• n. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
• n. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
• n. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
• n. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading…
• n. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
• n. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between…
• n. A split shot or split stroke.
• n. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
• n. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard …
• n. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
• n. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
• n. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
• n. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt…
• n. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
• v. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
• v. (intransitive) Of something solid particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a…
• v. (transitive) To share; to divide.
• v. (slang) To leave.
• v. to separate or break up.
• v. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
• v. To burst out laughing.
• v. (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
• v. (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and…

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

teardrop

• n. a single tear (clear, salty liquid secreted by the eye).
• n. The shape of a drop of liquid about to fall.

weep

• v. To cry; shed tears.
• v. To lament; to complain.
• v. (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
• v. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
• v. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
• n. The lapwing; the wipe.