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An accident in which a motor vehicle reverses over an unseen person.
v
To press a mound of something against something else.
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(intransitive) To prepare for adversity.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To send someone away quickly and without fussing
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(intransitive, surfing) To perform the cutback maneuver.
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(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) Used to dismiss the risks of a dangerous action.
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(military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.
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(obsolete, intransitive) To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.
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(intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.
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(transitive) To haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location.
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ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
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(intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
n
One who stands still on the left of an escalator impeding those wanting to move more quickly (often the right of the escalator is for standing and the left is for walking).
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(nautical) To prevent (a vessel) from running against anything with too much violence.
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(transitive, idiomatic) Use a flag or similar kind of signal to get someone's attention.
v
To leave one's parents or childhood guardians and begin an independent life as an adult.
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(intransitive, Canada, US slang) To turn left, to take a left turn.
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(US, slang, idiomatic) Make a left turn while driving a vehicle.
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(US, slang, idiomatic) To make a right turn while driving a vehicle.
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(said of a seal or sea-lion) To come out of the water, in order to rest
n
A sharp upward tug to raise something.
n
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
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(obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
v
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
n
Alternative form of kickdown [(automotive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal.]
n
(automotive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal.
v
(transitive, UK) To prepare a boat or vehicle for a voyage or journey.
n
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
v
(transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
n
Alternative form of liftoff [(aerospace) The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.]
n
The point at which a person or animal leaves the ground, as for example when jumping.
v
(automotive) To damage a car when incorrectly shifting to a lower gear when a higher gear is desired
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(transitive, intransitive) To visibly carry a firearm in a public space.
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(transitive, motor racing) To brake late in order to get an advantage over.
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(motor racing) To brake too late and go wide in a curve.
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(transitive) To sail faster or further than.
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(shipbuilding, transitive) To run the butts or scarphs of planks or pieces of timber to a certain distance beyond the adjacent ones, in order to strengthen the work.
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(intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
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to lose the control of one's vehicle in a corner due to rear wheels sliding and not following the front wheels
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(transitive) To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company.
adj
(aviation) After a stall.
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Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
v
(transitive, horse racing) To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
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(transitive, intransitive) (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).
v
(transitive) To close again by means of a bung; to put the bung back in.
v
(idiomatic) To increase the speed of an engine, especially that of a stationary motor car.
v
(intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To reduce thrust without having been commanded to do so.
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(figuratively, by extension) To be aimless or pointless; to make no progress.
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Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
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(idiomatic) To either improve one's behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one's performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely.
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(intransitive) To depart, especially for a sea voyage or military assignment.
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Alternative form of shock stalled
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(slang, auto racing, car culture) To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
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(transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
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(aviation, of a turbine engine) To decrease in rotational speed, producing a decrease in thrust.
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(of water, air, etc) To cease to flow or run.
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(transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
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(idiomatic) To intentionally cause a delay; to stop; to wait.
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(intransitive, of an engine, motor, aircraft, etc.) To stall completely; to come to an end or quit through stalling
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(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
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(idiomatic) To slow or stop the flow of something.
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(obsolete, slang, transitive) To cease; to stop doing something.
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To rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.
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(intransitive, of an engine) to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear).
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(medicine, transitive) To apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc.).
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(intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
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(nautical slang) To turn in, go to bed.
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(nautical, military, of ships in a line of battle) To change course one at a time in sequence, with all ships following the track of the leading ship as if on rails and turning at the same location, so as to preserve the layout of the battleline throughout the turn.
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(transitive, intransitive) To leave a passenger vehicle such as a train or ship; to disembark.
n
A vehicle accident in which one vehicle partially slides underneath another.
v
(nautical) To pass along and under, e.g. a cable, for the purpose of taking it in or examining it.
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(transitive) To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.
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(astronautics) To depart a spaceship from a dock/berth/mount/mooring under its own power
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(transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
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(nautical, transitive) To release (a sail that was previously reefed, or taken in).
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(intransitive) To be lifted up; rise.
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(intransitive, obsolete, nautical) To lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.
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(idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
n
(idiomatic) Something in the past that cannot be controlled or undone, but must be accepted, forgiven, or forgotten.
v
To stall in this fashion.
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