n
The public execution of those sentences, often by burning at the stake.
v
To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
v
(obsolete) To pad with, or as with, bombase.
n
One who boults or sifts.
v
(transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
n
(slang) A violently destructive attack.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop up.
v
(transitive) To cause a body of water to become choppy.
v
(transitive, obsolete) Synonym of claw (“to rail, revile, or scold (someone or something)”)
n
A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
v
(chiefly US, idiomatic) Alternative form of cut a wide swath [(chiefly US) To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action.]
v
(chiefly US) To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action.
v
Alternative spelling of cut a wide swath [(chiefly US) To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action.]
v
(simile) To be very sharp (of a character, or remark)
v
(transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
n
A stab from, or as if from, a dagger.
v
To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly.
v
(transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
v
(transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
adj
Fitted for, or relating to, digging.
n
An automotive decoration, first used in the 1950s, consisting of two oversized (usually six-sided) plush dice which hang from the rear-view mirror.
v
(transitive) to kill using a garrote
v
(transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
v
(idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment.
n
An act of glassing (stabbing with broken glass).
adj
Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
n
(idiomatic) An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.
v
(transitive) to typewrite in an awkward, unskilled way, with two or even a single finger.
v
(transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
v
(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
v
(obsolete) To pierce, as with a lance; to lance.
v
(transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
v
(transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
v
(transitive) To hammer more or harder than.
v
To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
v
(by extension) To clumsily dig through something.
v
(Britain, regional) To work hard and painstakingly at something; to plod or persevere.
v
(obsolete) To skirmish in advance of an army.
n
An instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.
v
(transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
v
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
v
(transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
n
A sensation of darting pain.
n
(figuratively) A sharp reduction.
adv
With a slashing motion.
adj
Obsolete form of slashed. [Having been slashed, cut or rent.]
adj
resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
v
(dated, Britain) To cut, slit or slash.
v
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
v
(transitive) To cut; lop; prune.
v
To break off; to snatch away.
v
(intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
n
(Internet) removal of the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message
n
A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To trim; to set in order.
v
(transitive) To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).
v
(informal) To unleash such a bombardment.
v
To boldly remove excess material from.
v
(intransitive) To pluck out hairs using tweezers.
n
A person who wedges clay.
n
A device or effect that is startling or amazing.
n
(informal) Thrilling, explosive action.
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