Concept cluster: Physical processes > Fire or combustion
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(idiomatic) To expose to air; to leave open or spread out, as to allow odor or moisture to dissipate.
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(medicine) To tear off forcibly.
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(slang) To extinguish the life of.
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(figuratively) An instance of any system or item that loses its necessary components, such as a machine and its fuel or a company and its money.
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(Alaska and northern Canada) The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
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The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
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(dated, colloquial) A collapse; failure; bankruptcy.
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(intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
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(transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
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(intransitive) To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
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(hydrology, of a river or stream) To discharge into a larger body of water such as a lake or sea.
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(intransitive, botany) To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content.
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(obsolete) To immerse.
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(intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
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(colloquial, transitive) to decorate, tidy or clean
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(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
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(by extension) To strip, undress, get naked.
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(slang, idiomatic) To pull down one's trousers (pants).
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(transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
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The act of moving a corpse from the place of death and abandoning it in a deserted area, typically to conceal a murder.
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(intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
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(very rare, literary, archaic) To dig up.
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(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
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(intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
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Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
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(figuratively) Any psychological mechanism to relieve stress.
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(transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents
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(transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
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(transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
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The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork, or in a dramatic manner; a person or organization that fails in this way.
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(transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (β€œto remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)
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(intransitive) To become exhausted; to run out of gas or steam.
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(transitive, proscribed, viewed as catachrestic) To gloss over.
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(figuratively) To escalate to an extremely high level of excitement or enthusiasm.
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(idiomatic, UK, Australia) To become of diminished intensity or urgency.
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(idiomatic, figuratively) To be cancelled or ruined without any hope of return.
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(intransitive, of a light source) To become extinguished.
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The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.
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The action by which something is jettisoned.
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(intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
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(finance) Of the price of a security, to increase to an unexpected degree.
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The act of breaking out.
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(transitive, obsolete) To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.
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(transitive) To quench entirely; to extinguish.
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(transitive, intransitive) To waste entirely.
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(construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
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(transitive) To make sweaty (of clothes).
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(intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
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(intransitive) To pour or appear in large quantity or large numbers.
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Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.
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A moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ
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The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.
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(idiomatic) to produce in large quantities
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(transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
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(obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
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(typography, attributive) Synonym of dry transfer
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(botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.
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(intransitive, figuratively) To diminish or wane away slowly.
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Obsolete spelling of sink [A basin used for holding water for washing.]
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(transitive, dialectal) To quench; to allay; to slake.
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(transitive) To remove the sludge from.
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(transitive) To extinguish, to stop a process, to kill, to rub out.
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(intransitive, said of emotions or feelings) to be released without constraint
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(transitive) To deplete, especially of a liquid; to finish the last of a drink.
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To thaw completely
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(obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
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(transitive) To relieve of a crick (cramp or spasm).
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(intransitive, dated) To stop being contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
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(transitive, obsolete) To emit or give off (breath).
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To eventually persuade or defeat (someone) through persistent effort.
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(intransitive) to disappear because of being abraded, over-polished, or abused
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(intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
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(transitive) To hide an error or other material on a surface by covering it with correcting fluid.

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