v
(transitive, figuratively, informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise.
v
(slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
v
(intransitive) To become brittle.
v
(slang, transitive, of one's eyes) To cause to bulge.
adv
In a bumping way; with bumps or jolts.
v
(UK, slang) To murder by suffocation.
v
(rugby) Cause to waste energy.
v
(transitive) To rush somebody.
v
(idiomatic) To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.
v
To freshen a pillow by shaking it
v
(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
v
(transitive) To make the ground uneven, generally unintentionally.
v
To cause a storm (weather phenomenon).
v
(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
adj
(informal) Following a course of action likely to result in injury or other trouble for oneself.
n
Synonym of soften the blow
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To upbraid.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To be eager, prone; hurry.
v
To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
v
(idiomatic) To create a disturbance, usually within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tear to tatters; tatter.
v
(idiomatic) To acquire great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness from (something or someone).
v
(of a person) To snap (suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension).
v
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
v
To obtain satisfaction for a wrong by committing violence against someone.
v
(transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
adj
(obsolete) Having a "fallen" or locked jaw (and hence sometimes unable to speak), variously attributed to dejection (the previous sense) or lockjaw.
n
The act of one who lunges; a lunge.
v
(idiomatic) To cause a disturbance.
v
(transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).
v
(chiefly Britain) To abscond, scram, flee.
n
(idiomatic) Used to form idioms meaning "to force oneself to work hard or to focus intensely upon one's work".
v
(transitive) To gnaw more or better than; to surpass in gnawing.
v
(transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
n
The action of quashing something.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To faint away.
v
(transitive) To squelch; to eliminate.
n
(obsolete, idiomatic, Puritanism) Alternative form of quenchcoal [(obsolete, idiomatic, Puritanism) A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion.]
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To stretch oneself; rouse up from sleep.
v
(intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
v
To stir or move from a state of calm or order.
v
Alternative form of ruffle some feathers; used in negative-polarity contexts [(figuratively) To cause a disturbance; to arouse resentment, anger, or concern.]
n
The act of something that sags.
v
(idiomatic) To look or see beyond what is obvious.
v
To bristle; to react in a defensive and bad-tempered manner.
v
(slang) To scarper; to run away; to flee.
n
(chiefly Britain) A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.
n
The act of one who shoves.
v
(dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
n
(rare) a person who is being shushed
v
(transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
v
To run together; to articulate poorly.
v
(dated) To deal with something hurriedly; to treat in a perfunctory manner.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
v
To smother and suffocate.
v
(intransitive) To produce a sound.
v
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To stifle, suffocate, kill.
v
(idiomatic) To consider or argue about fine details; to worry about minutiae.
v
(US, informal) To achieve something by a small margin.
v
(transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
n
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
v
(intransitive, slang) To be stingy or miserly.
v
(transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
v
(transitive) To mix (ingredients) by stirring.
v
(transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
v
(informal) To overwhelm.
v
(informal) To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.
v
(transitive) To shake with vigor.
n
One who suffocates (themself or another)
v
(figuratively) To overwhelm.
v
To sense weakness in another, encouraging one to attack or (figuratively) to press home an advantage in a debate etc.
n
A stick of wax impregnated with menthol, applied beneath an actor's eyes to induce tears.
n
(obsolete, acting) An overactor.
v
(UK, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex or worry.
v
(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.
v
(transitive, figuratively, now rare) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.
v
(rare, intransitive) To thunder.
v
(obsolete) To shake violently; shake to pieces.
v
(of someone lying down, asleep or attempting to sleep) to be constantly moving, unable to lie still
v
(obsolete) To upset, agitate, or disturb.
adj
(dated) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud, contemptuous, affectedly indifferent.
v
(figuratively) To be on the brink of collapse.
v
(obsolete, UK, slang) To comprehend; often in tumble to.
v
(obsolete) To exert oneself.
v
To observe or allow a fight or upset that results from a situation.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
v
(transitive, Britain) To acquire with difficulty, as by thorough scrutiny.
n
(figuratively) A twisted or distorted view or understanding.
v
To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To alter, as one's mind or mental faculties; effect a change in.
v
(intransitive) To take part in such an interaction.
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