v
(transitive) To assault.
n
One who accosts somebody.
v
(transitive) To set upon; to attack.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To invite somebody, especially on a date.
v
(transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
n
(informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
n
(archaic) A blow or strike, especially in jousting.
v
(obsolete) To pierce; to attack.
n
Alternative form of attaint [(archaic) A blow or strike, especially in jousting.]
v
(business, politics, slang) To engage in a reciprocal action.
v
(transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.
v
(transitive) To say "fie" to; defy.
v
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
v
(idiomatic) To have employment which provides remuneration to satisfy the basic needs of oneself and one's family.
v
(UK) To penalise someone for a punishable offence.
v
(informal) To act a part in an exaggerated or affected manner.
v
(intransitive, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
n
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
v
Obsolete form of seize. [(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.]
v
(theater) To face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.
v
To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
v
(dated, slang, transitive) To deceive or get the better of; overreach.
v
(informal) To do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.
v
(transitive) To sneakily arrive near someone in a position to startle them; to startle someone by creeping up behind them.
n
The act of one who delves.
n
(psychology) A compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a lesser request by first having them reject a larger one.
v
(slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.
n
(countable) A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building.
v
(obsolete) To take by storm; capture.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
v
(dated) To carry gossip, news, etc., from one person to another; to bear tales, to gossip.
v
(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
v
(criminology, slang) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.
v
(transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
n
(figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
v
(UK, intransitive, informal) To study in detail; to familiarize oneself with all available information.
v
(dated, slang) To attain a decided advantage over (someone).
v
(slang, transitive) To appropriate.
v
(idiomatic) To bribe a person.
v
To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that person.
v
(Britain, slang) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
v
(idiomatic, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To be attractive or socially successful or have an aura of success.
v
(transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
v
(transitive, informal) To contact someone, especially with a definite purpose.
n
(chiefly Britain, figuratively) A place that one is said to inhabit when facing an imminent disaster with diminishing or limited remaining opportunities to avoid it; a last chance to take action.
v
(idiomatic) To guilt, guilt-trip.
v
(idiomatic) To deceive, hoodwink, mislead, or seduce someone.
v
To be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly.
v
(transitive) To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.
n
(idiomatic) Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means.
v
(idiomatic, Ireland) To embarrass oneself or others in public.
v
(idiomatic) To produce something refined, admirable, or valuable from something which is unrefined, unpleasant, or of little or no value.
v
(idiomatic, originally US) To embarrass oneself or others in public.
v
(now chiefly US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
v
(obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
v
(dated) To pay dearly for one's caprice.
v
(transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
v
(idiomatic) To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does.
v
(business, transitive, intransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
v
(idiomatic, with on) To fool, trick, or deceive.
v
To trick or delude someone.
v
(idiomatic) To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong.
n
(idiomatic) An attempt to trick, deceive, or con someone.
v
(Internet slang, online gaming, originally leet, transitive, intransitive) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
v
to take enthusiastically
v
(transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
v
(idiomatic) To persuade people to go against their best interests or to accept something unnecessary or preposterous.
v
To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value for something of very low, but immediate value.
v
Alternative form of serve someone the same sauce [To treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.]
v
(informal, chiefly US) To show off.
v
(transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
v
(figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive, entertainment) To be the best performer during a performance.
v
(figuratively) To soothe (someone); also, to flatter or indulge (someone).
v
(Britain) To pretend not to be embarrassed; to deny that an embarrassing thing ever happened.
v
To study particularly hard to learn a subject quickly.
v
(transitive, military) To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack.
v
(idiomatic) To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
v
(intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
v
(idiomatic) To create falsely, to fabricate (particularly applied to accusations, (legal) charges or evidence).
v
(transitive) To sexually arouse.
v
(idiomatic) To excite (often sexually), to increase interest.
v
Synonym of do the trick (“to work, to be sufficient or adequate”)
n
Alternative form of turn-on [(idiomatic) Something that attracts, gives pleasure, or encourages, especially sexually.]
v
(transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
v
(idiomatic) To be careful and sensitive, in handling very sensitive matters.
v
(transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
v
To force someone to give (something), usually truth, or money.
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