v
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
v
(intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
n
(rare) The act of thrusting away.
n
The process of adlecting.
v
(intransitive, uncommon) To regain or return to consciousness or attentiveness after having blacked out.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To censor or cover up.
n
Alternative spelling of blackout [A temporary loss of consciousness.]
n
An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To become blank.
n
(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
n
An instance of something being blanked out.
n
A temporary loss of memory, consciousness, etc.
v
(transitive, informal) To eliminate; to skip over or ignore.
v
(transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
n
Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil
v
(ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
v
(obsolete) To do no harm; to make no difference.
v
To embarrass or humiliate.
n
Alternative spelling of brownout [A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination]
n
(Philippines, some other countries) A blackout, regardless of time of day.
v
(intransitive) To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
v
(intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
v
(intransitive, slang) To calm down.
n
Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
v
To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud.
v
(intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
v
(obsolete) to cut off; to separate
v
To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.
n
(music) An instruction to play gradually more softly.
v
To cut off (a part of something).
n
The act by which something is derailed.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
v
(transitive) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
v
(intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
v
(intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
v
Of music, noise, etc., to reduce in volume until no longer audible.
n
A break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection.
adj
(obsolete) Drawn from the entrails.
v
(transitive) To disarrange or loosen (hair, clothing, etc.).
adj
(obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
adv
In a decisive and possibly humiliating manner
v
(transitive) To disparage; to cause to lose face.
v
(idiomatic) To cover, obscure, or overwhelm by being louder or more intense than.
v
(transitive) To lessen; to bring low.
n
(especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
v
(transitive) To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
v
(obsolete) To plough up.
v
(transitive) To deprive of eyes; blind.
v
(transitive) To turn or thrust outwards.
v
(intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
v
To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.
v
(intransitive) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
n
noise in an information retrieval search.
adj
(obsolete) Felled, fallen.
v
(obsolete) To kill, destroy.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To wound or injure severely.
v
(figuratively, by extension) To deteriorate; to decline into an unkempt or debased condition.
n
The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.
n
(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
v
(transitive, literary) To blot out.
v
(intransitive) To faint; to become unconscious.
v
(transitive, law) To destroy or defeat.
v
To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.
v
(transitive, medicine) To apply a drug (to someone) in order to make them unconscious
v
To run out; to be fully consumed; to expire.
v
To avoid or forget an undesirable memory or trauma.
v
To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it.
v
(informal) To calm down.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
v
To enervate or make tired; to sap the strength or vitality of.
v
(transitive) To free from muddle; to sort out or organize.
v
To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither.
v
(idiomatic) To lessen or weaken over time, as from overuse.
v
To contract; to shorten.
n
(computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
v
(transitive) To delete; to cross out, especially to conceal or suggest vulgar language.
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