Concept cluster: Physical processes > Damage or destruction
adj
crushing all
v
(UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
n
(obsolete) Destruction; death.
v
(transitive, archaic) To blister (cause to be blistered); blister badly; cover with blisters.
v
(engineering) To bleed a master cylinder.
n
(obsolete) Blowing; breath; inspiration.
v
(obsolete, dialect) To defile.
v
(intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
v
To die due to excess bloodloss; to bleed to death.
v
(idiomatic) To suffer from severe net losses.
v
(obsolete) To blanch.
n
(informal) A BLEVE
n
(by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.
v
(transitive) To affect or infect with blight; (by extension) to hinder or impede the growth or development of; stunt.
n
A cause of annoyance.
n
(informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
v
(transitive) To whisper quietly.
adj
(of an explosion or explosive) Having a shattering effect.
v
To take into the lungs; to inhale.
v
To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction.
v
(intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To exhaust with bleeding.
v
(transitive) To impregnate with gas.
v
To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
v
(intransitive) To bleed copiously.
n
The last gasp or breath a person takes before death.
n
(slang, US) To bleed.
adj
(colloquial) exhausting, causing someone to be out of breath.
n
Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
n
(informal) The nosebleed seats.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
v
(nonstandard, rare) To exhale.
v
(transitive) To stain the surface of; besmear.
v
(transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
v
(archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
v
(by extension, chiefly literary and poetic) To harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast; to scorch; to wither.
n
(colloquial) A caustic rebuke or criticism.
adv
In a way or to a degree that scorches
n
(obsolete) A blast or blight in plants.
v
(obsolete) To melt.
v
(transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To make chapped, as with cold.
n
(music) a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect
adj
(obsolete) Produced by the wind.
n
(Trinidad and Tobago) A sudden, strong urge to do something.
n
The throat or windpipe.
n
The act of inflicting a wound.

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