put the wood in the hole
down
collect skin
can
steek
kick off
reshut
close one's doors
unconnect
misclose
tine
occluded
shuttable
encloister
shurrup
pop off
foreclose
upclose
hush one's mouth
shut
cork it
close
belt up
wind down
go dark
impen
snip-snap
calve
unwall
off
close up
draw up
heave to
interclude
self-locking
autoclose
power off
reclude
shutness
infract
shaddap
forshut
thiam
strike down
stop
fail-safe
fair up
nize
go out
continue
bounce
shutting
crimped
stall
moulder
shut up shop
rot
clam up
intercloud
fall over
decompose
break
head up
molder
ouster
slam
plant closing
shut down
wind one's neck in
hasp
pack a sad
axe
parrock
still
beclose
abscise
closet
detether
gun down
exit program
excide
offcut
stilled
break down
desk
X out
unshutter
debranch
sport
pack in
seclude
chillax
relax
throw in
slow one's roll
inwall
unruffle
down
occluded
shuttable
self-locking
fail-safe
crimped
stilled
shutness
shutting
plant closing
exit program
put the wood in the hole
collect skin
can
steek
kick off
reshut
close one's doors
unconnect
misclose
tine
encloister
shurrup
pop off
foreclose
upclose
hush one's mouth
shut
cork it
close
belt up
wind down
go dark
impen
snip-snap
calve
unwall
off
close up
draw up
heave to
interclude
autoclose
power off
reclude
infract
forshut
strike down
stop
fair up
nize
go out
continue
bounce
stall
moulder
shut up shop
rot
clam up
intercloud
fall over
decompose
break
head up
molder
ouster
slam
shut down
wind one's neck in
hasp
pack a sad
axe
parrock
still
beclose
abscise
closet
detether
gun down
excide
offcut
break down
desk
X out
unshutter
debranch
sport
pack in
seclude
chillax
relax
throw in
slow one's roll
inwall
unruffle
verb
adj
- shut
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- becoming progressively lower
- being put out in a game of baseball
- understood perfectly
- lower than previously
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- filled with melancholy and despondency
adv
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- in an inactive or inoperative state
verb
- drink down entirely
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come or go down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
adj
noun
verb
- To shut up.
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
verb
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To turn off.
- To release flatulence, generally in short rapid succession.
- To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity).
- To die suddenly.
- To thrust away, or put off promptly.
- To speak frankly.
- To kill someone.
- To fire or launch (a shot, projectile, or missile), especially singly or in small bursts.
- To leave and return in a short time.
verb
verb
- become closed
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- come to a close
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- engage at close quarters
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- come together, as if in an embrace
- draw near
- bring together all the elements or parts of
- bar access to
- fill or stop up
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
adv
adj
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- close in relevance or relationship
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
noun
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the last section of a communication
- the concluding part of any performance
adj
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- marked by fidelity to an original
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- crowded
- lacking fresh air
- of textiles
- strictly confined or guarded
- confined to specific persons
- fitting closely but comfortably
- used of hair or haircuts
- giving or spending with reluctance
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
verb
- to break off
- to shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
- to give birth to (a calf)
- to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
- to shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
- to give birth to a calf
verb
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
noun
intj
intj
verb
- To close or block an opening.
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- Not to continue.
punct
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
verb
verb
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To fail.
- To recede; to ebb.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To pass out of fashion.
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
verb
- To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
- To make a continuation bet.
- To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- To make last; to prolong.
- To resume.
noun
verb
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To return undelivered.
noun
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
verb
- To come to a standstill.
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
noun
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
verb
verb
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
verb
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- To make a slam bid.
- To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
noun
- An insult.
- Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- A slambook.
- The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
- A slam dunk.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
verb
- To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
- To furnish with an axle.
- To fell or chop with an axe.
noun
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- A drastic reduction or cutback.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
verb
- To calm down, to quiet.
- To cause to fall by drops.
- To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
adj
- Not effervescing; not sparkling.
- Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
- Not moving; calm.
- Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- Uttering no sound; silent.
noun
- A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
- The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
- A device for distilling liquids.
- A period of calm or silence.
- A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
- A resident of the Falkland Islands.
- A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
adv
verb
- To shut away for private discussion.
- To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
- To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
adj
- closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet)
- Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
noun
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
- One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
verb
verb
- To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally)
- To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- To cease to function. (others)
- To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle)
- To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- To give in, relent, concede, or surrender.
- To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- To digest.
- To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly)
verb
noun
- A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
- A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
- A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
verb
- To close (a door).
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- To amuse oneself, to play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
noun
- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
verb
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