n
(Britain, idiomatic) Hesitance to proceed; limited approval or permission to proceed.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To make haste; hurry.
v
(obsolete) to labour, toil; belabour
v
(transitive) To wet with tears.
adj
(by extension) Causing emotional sting; disappointing; unsatisfactory
adj
Causing a stinging sensation.
n
(obsolete) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
n
The act of one who blenches.
n
A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.
n
The shattering effect of the energy released in an explosion.
v
(transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
v
(transitive) To trouble or confuse.
v
(idiomatic) To suddenly start crying or sobbing.
v
(intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortions of the body or limbs.
n
The last breath taken before death.
adj
Containing fangs; full of sharp teeth.
v
(intransitive) To become tearful as a result of strong emotion.
n
A sudden outburst of emotion.
v
(intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.
n
That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
v
(intransitive) To emit gas.
v
(informal, Canada and US, sometimes hyphenated) To commit such an act.
v
To pant with eagerness or excitement; to show vehement desire.
n
A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
v
To shift from a calm state to an agitated state.
v
(archaic, dialect) To gnash one's teeth.
adj
(MTE, slang) To get riled up about something, or to be in a state of anger.
adj
(colloquial) Excited or agitated; heated up.
v
(UK, dialect) To toil; to labour.
v
(transitive) To surpass in grinning.
adj
(music) Characteristic of overdrive
n
The act of one who pines.
adv
With a motion like a plunge.
adj
Obsolete form of quenched.
v
(idiomatic) To become enraged, angry, or irritated.
adj
(figuratively) (Apparently) shaking or trembling.
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
n
(chiefly plural) A shiver.
adj
something that makes a slumping voice
v
Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [(obsolete, rare, intransitive) move, proceed]
n
Obsolete form of sore (“A young hawk”). [An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.]
v
Obsolete form of sound. [(intransitive) To produce a sound.]
v
(intransitive, slang, derogatory) To have a tantrum or fit of rage.
v
(transitive) To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).
n
The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
n
Something surprising and unpleasant that concludes a chain of events.
v
(poetic) Obsolete form of stolen.
n
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
v
Obsolete form of stound. [(obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.]
n
(medicine) A shaking of the body to ascertain whether there is liquid in the thorax.
n
The act of one who sulks.
n
(dialectal) A swimming of the head; a fainting fit; a swoon.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To swoon; faint.
adj
(UK dialectal, Northern England) Faint.
v
(archaic) third-person singular present simple form of swell
adj
(slang) Followed by up: upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
n
Obsolete form of swoon. [A faint.]
adj
Tending to swoon or faint
n
Obsolete form of swoon. [A faint.]
n
A kind of ornamental glass vase with a fixture shaped for a person's eye, supposed to be used to collect tears of sorrow.
v
(transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
v
(obsolete) To stir up; to make tempestuous.
v
(dated, informal, figuratively) To start crying, especially in a way that the speaker finds irritating.
v
(intransitive) To be in pain; ache.
n
(figuratively) An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
v
To move or function while in a daze.
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