v
(transitive) To daggle; to soil by dragging over wet ground.
v
(intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
v
(informal) To plop (land loosely).
v
(intransitive) To bob up and down.
v
(of a plug, filter or pipe) To become plugged up.
n
A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
v
To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
v
(intransitive) To creep, crawl, or clamber, like a crab
n
(usually in the plural) A branch that has been broken and blown onto the ground by the wind.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
v
To flop; to move or behave in a loose or uncoordinated way.
v
(transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
v
(chiefly UK, intransitive) To gently delve; to probe or rummage tentatively.
v
(intransitive) To choke (be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe)
v
(obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt [14th–19th c.]
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To search in a similar way using an implement.
v
(dialectal, intransitive) To work in an inefficient and laborious way; to do rough, dirty work.
v
Alternative spelling of grok [(transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.]
v
Alternative form of garble [To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert]
v
(intransitive) To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
v
To stutter or break the flow of words when speaking.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To sport with roughly; to rumple.
n
(obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
v
Alternative form of quitch [(transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move.]
v
Obsolete spelling of quitch [(transitive, obsolete) To shake (something); to stir, move.]
v
(intransitive, now UK, regional) To stir; to move.
v
(intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
v
(idiomatic) To forage for, or (figuratively) to quickly prepare, something.
v
(intransitive) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
n
(obsolete) One of the days during Lent when meat was scarce.
n
Obsolete form of skirmish. [(military) A brief battle between small groups, usually part of a longer or larger battle or war.]
v
(colloquial) To leave quickly.
v
(transitive) To gather hastily.
adj
Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
v
(intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
v
To pull down or rip off (something) with force.
v
(transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
n
A kind of marching band whose members run from one form to another without following a predefined path.
n
(sciences) A type of competition where the resource is inadequate to fit the needs of all, resulting in each competitor obtaining an equally partitioned amount and thus never the amount it needs.
n
(colloquial) pay-per-view television watched without a descrambler, so that the picture is distorted or missing
v
(transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
v
(idiomatic) To settle for a poor option due to a lack or unavailability of anything better
v
To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.
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(transitive, UK, dialect, Northern England) To scuffle; to wrestle.
n
(American football, rare) A scrimmage.
v
(intransitive) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
n
(slang) Poverty; struggle.
v
(intransitive) To move; to proceed; to creep, roam, wander.
v
(transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
v
(slang, usually as "toss one's cookies") To vomit.
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(intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To shake vigorously.
v
Alternative form of yerk [(transitive, archaic) To stab (someone or something).]
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