cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
caching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cachings
Senses: examples: text: Both static and dynamic web page cachings are supported by the policy.
ref: 2010, Alexandros Labrinidis, Qiong Luo, Jie Xu, Caching and Materialization for Web Databases - Volume 2, page 74:
text: Caching is implemented at the lowest level of the caching mechanism, just before the I/O is issued to the disk.
ref: 2012, Bertrand Dufrasne, In Kyu Park, Francesco Perillo, Solid-State Drive Caching in the IBM XIV Storage System, page 13:
glosses: The act or process of caching.
Derived terms: caching proxy
caching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cache
Derived terms: femtocaching
geocaching
noncaching
chocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chock
chocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chock
chocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chock
chocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chock
aviates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aviate
aviating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aviate
aviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aviate
denudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denude
denuding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denude
derates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derate
derating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derate
derating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deratings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is derated.
derated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derate
doers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doer
doted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dote
doted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊtɪd/
Forms: form: more doted
form: most doted
Senses: examples: text: Senseless speech and doted ignorance.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:
glosses: stupid; foolish
examples: text: doted wood
glosses: half-rotten
duffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duff
duffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of duff
duffing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duffing
form: most duffing
Senses: examples: text: 'I don't comprehend your meaning, Mr. St. Leger,' was the respectful reply.
'What a duffing old file you must be, then! Caractacus, of course.'
ref: 1875, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (ed.), Belgravia, a London magazine (page 41)
glosses: Like a duffer; incompetent or worthless.
duffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duff
erodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of erode
exuding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exude
exuding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exudings
Senses: examples: text: Such a notion identified woman with breaches in boundaries, with lack of shape or definition, with openings and exudings and spillings forth.
ref: 2005, Margaret E. Owens, Stages of Dismemberment, page 58:
glosses: The process by which something exudes.
fobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fob
fobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fob
gaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gage
gaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gage
gaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtɪŋ/
homophone: gating
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gait
gaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtɪd/
homophone: gated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gait
gaited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtɪd/
homophone: gated
Senses: examples: text: a slow-gaited animal
glosses: Having a particular gait.
Derived terms: double-gaited
gyrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gyrate
gyrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gyrate
gyrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gyrate
hobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hob
hobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hob
hogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogan
hucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: plural of huck
hucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of huck
incises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incise
incising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incise
incised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incised
form: most incised
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: cut, particularly with a V shape
Derived terms: incised meander
unincised
incised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incise
intoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intone
intoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intonings
Senses: examples: text: The "tragic elevation" and musical intonings common in early-twentieth-century revivals were looked on as cardinal sins; all efforts were focused on creating a technique that would convey the illusion of "natural" speech[…]
ref: 1999, Michael A. Morrison, John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor, page 79:
glosses: intonation
intoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intone
legumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɪˈɡjuːmz/
/ˈlɛɡjuːmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of legume
methyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methyl
miring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mire
negates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of negate
negating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of negate
negated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈɡeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of negate
niggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of niggle
niggling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My dear Hooker, I am getting very much amused by my tendrils, it is just the sort of niggling work which suits me, and takes up no time and rather rests me whilst writing.
ref: 1863, Charles Darwin's letter to J. D. Hooker, 14th of July 1863
glosses: Petty
examples: text: Sellafield hasn’t suffered an accident of equivalent scale since the 1957 fire, but the niggling fear that some radioactivity is leaking out of the facility in some fashion has never entirely vanished
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Irritating.
Derived terms: nigglingly
niggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigglings
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally a paranoia or slight insecurity that is not based on reality will bring nigglings of that bad time.
ref: 2009, Jenny Parratt, Feelings of Change: Stories of Having a Baby, page 10:
glosses: A small irritating sensation.
niggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of niggle
pinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinner
ratters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratter
recuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recuse
recusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recuse
recused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recuse
somas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soma
sparges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sparge
sparged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sparge
tweezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tweeze
tweezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tweeze
tweezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tweeze
vees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vee
wangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wangle
wangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanglings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who wangles.
wangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wangle
zags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zag
spumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spume
spumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spume
spuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spume
de-emulsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˌɛˈmʌɫsɪfaɪ]
ipa: [diːˌɛˈmʊɫsɪfaɪ]
Forms: form: de-emulsifies
form: de-emulsifying
form: de-emulsified
form: de-emulsified
Etymology: From de- + emulsify.
Senses: glosses: to separate an emulsion into its constituent parts.
Derived terms: de-emulsifier
spumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spume
vitiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vitiate
vitiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vitiate
drudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drudge
drudging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: drudgings
Senses: glosses: Tiresome, thankless work; drudgery.
drudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ʌdʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drudge
assembles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assemble
recharges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recharge
recharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recharge
recharging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rechargings
Senses: examples: text: Frequent rechargings may wear down a battery.
glosses: The act by which something is recharged.
recharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recharge
appeases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appease
apperceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apperception
appraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈpɹeɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appraise
besieges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besiege
besieging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of besiege
besieging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besiegings
Senses: examples: text: […] stories of warriors and abbots and bards, of feudal lords at ruthless war with each other, of besiegings and battles and captives and torments.
ref: 1907, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle:
glosses: The act by which a place is besieged.
canonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canonization
censuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of censure
censuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: censurings
Senses: examples: text: But, silent be my rash censurings; be hush'd, ye stormy tumults of my disturb'd mind […]
ref: 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded:
glosses: An act of censure.
contingents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contingent
cradled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cradle
crazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of craze
crazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of craze
crazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪzɪŋ/
Forms: form: crazings
Senses: glosses: A covering of fine cracks on a hard smooth surface such as a glazed object or car exterior.
Related terms: word: crazed
dazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daze
de-emulsifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˌɛˈmʌɫsɪfaɪ(j)ə(ɹ)]
ipa: [diːˌɛˈmʊɫsɪfaɪ(j)ə]
Forms: form: de-emulsifiers
Etymology: From de- + emulsifier.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demulsifier.
deceases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decease
deceases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decease
deceasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decease
degenerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degeneration
deliberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deliberate
deliberating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deliberate
depletes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deplete
deteriorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deteriorate
disproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disprove
disproving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disprove
disproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disprove
dissociations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissociation
disparages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disparage
emancipates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emancipate
emancipating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emancipate
encases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encase
encasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encase
encasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encasings
Senses: examples: text: Put two encasings on a mattress if one must be removed periodically for cleaning.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey C. May, Connie L. May, Jeff May’s Healthy Home Tips, page 124:
glosses: That which encases; an outer cover.
encased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encased
form: most encased
Senses: examples: text: Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way.
ref: 2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:
text: "She was quite stiff," he recalled. "I don't think she really enjoyed it. She felt very encased in her body."
ref: 2016, Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, page 25:
text: We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
ref: 2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:
glosses: Enclosed; existing within a container.
Derived terms: unencased
encased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encase
enlaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlace
enlacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlace
enlaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlace
enshrines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enshrine
enshrining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enshrine
enshrining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enshrinings
Senses: examples: text: How long the remains of Condlead rested in Killeen Cormac is nowhere stated. The “inventions,” and the enshrinings of relics were of frequent occurrence in the seventh and eighth centuries, […]
ref: 1874, Journal, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 556:
glosses: enshrinement
enshrined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enshrine
ensures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensure
ensured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensure
enwreathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enwreathe
enwreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enwreathe
enwreathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enwreathe
excitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excitation
expatiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expatiate
expatiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expatiate
financed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finance
flawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flaw
gauged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gauge
gazetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gazette
gazetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazettings
Senses: examples: text: They were kept at fever heat by the rumors and the gazettings which told of the alternations of the conflict on this side of the water, and by the successive measures of a blundering and discomfited ministry.
ref: 1886, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 58, page 563:
glosses: Publication in a gazette.
gazetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gazette
gazetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Listed in a gazette.
glosses: Of a beach: officially maintained as a facility for public bathing.
Derived terms: ungazetted
cored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a core
Derived terms: uncored
cored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of core
cottaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cottage
cottaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cottaged
form: most cottaged
Senses: examples: May 1745, William Collins, Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles Rose, in the Action at Fontenoy
even humble Harting's cottaged vale
glosses: Filled with or having cottages.
Derived terms: uncottaged
grazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of graze
hales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hale
haling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hale
haled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hale
hedging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hedge
hedging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: hedgings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
glosses: Any plant used to form a hedge.
examples: text: Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
topics: business
finance
glosses: the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
Derived terms: hedging bill
hedging-bill
over-hedging
subhedging
superhedging
under-hedging
hedged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɛdʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hedge
hedged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɛdʒd
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Offset by another financial asset.
Derived terms: nonhedged
underhedged
unhedged
immerses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immerse
immersing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immerse
imprecates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imprecate
imprecated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imprecate
inflames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inflame
inflaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inflame
inflaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflaming
form: most inflaming
Senses: glosses: Tending to arouse strong emotions; tending to inflame.
Derived terms: inflamingly
uninflaming
japing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jape
japing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japings
Senses: glosses: japery; joking
japed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jape
kedging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kedge
kedged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We paddled to the reef where the Tiaré was already kedged, with sails furled and decks in order as though she had been there for days.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 163:
glosses: simple past and past participle of kedge
laming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamings
Etymology: From Middle English laminge, equivalent to lame + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: One young driver had been the subject of seven lamings, and had thriven in spite of them all. Any boy who had escaped with but one or two slight injuries was considered as particularly favoured.
ref: 1851, William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 18:
text: In contrast, the laming of a body part doesn't incapacitate one's ability to make spiritual progress. Lameness places rigorous constraints on the soul and body, but the believer is still able to go deep in God and grow in Christlikeness.
ref: 2016, Bob Sorge, The Chastening of The Lord:
glosses: The act or process of rendering lame
laming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lame + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lame
liberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liberate
martinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martinet
marvelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English merveilynge; equivalent to marvel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marvel
marvelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marvellings
Etymology: From Middle English merveilynge; equivalent to marvel + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
ref: 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:
glosses: The act of one who marvels; amazement.
meanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meander
meanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meander
meandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meander
paragoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paragon
paragoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: unparagoned
paragoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paragon
pathways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathway
payers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payer
plunges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
ref: 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plunge
pollinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pollinate
pollinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pollinate
pollinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That pollinates, or leads to pollination
pollinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pollinate
preconceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preconceive
preconceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preconceive
prising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
homophone: prizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prise
prised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪzd/
rhymes: -aɪzd
homophone: prized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prise
ravers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raver
razes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raze
reiterates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reiterate
reiterating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reiterate
renames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rename
renames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rename
sagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sag
sagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sagged
form: most sagged
Senses: glosses: Worn hanging low off the waist; sagging.
raw_tags: of pants or shorts
sanguining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sanguine
sanguined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sanguine
saturates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saturate
saturating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saturate
scribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪblɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
Forms: form: scribblings
Senses: glosses: That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.
glosses: The carding of wool or cotton.
scribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪblɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scribble
scribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scribe
scribing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scribings
Senses: glosses: Something scribed; an inscription.
Related terms: scribing block
scribing compass
scribing iron
scribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scribe
scythed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scythe
scythed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Chariots scyth'd, on thundering axles rolled.
glosses: Armed with scythes.
Derived terms: scythed chariot
skived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skive
slakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slake
slakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slake
slaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slake
slams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slam
slams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slam
Salmanazar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salmanazars
Etymology: After Salmanazar, Assyrian king.
Senses: glosses: A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 9 liters of fluid, twelve times the volume of a standard bottle.
wikipedia: Shalmaneser V
souses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of souse
sousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of souse
sousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sousings
Senses: examples: text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An immersing or drenching in liquid.
spiking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: spiky
examples: text: By referring to Figs. 1, and 2, it will be seen that the spiking pieces are all in place along the edges of the " tees " of beams and girders.
ref: 1912 March, Francis W. Wilson, “Structural Details of Skeleton Frame Construction”, in The Cement Age; a Magazine Devoted to the Uses of Cement, page 130:
glosses: protruding like a spike.
examples: text: The presence of background material often increases the difficulty level for analysis because the background may hide the spiking chemicals or may even react with the spiking chemicals.
ref: 2005, Markku Mesilaakso, Chemical Weapons Convention Chemicals Analysis, page 94:
text: The spikes in every 2 x 2 non-overlapping region of the convolutional maps are summed up and normalized by the kernel size (4 for a 2 x 2 kernel) to produce the pooled output maps, which are then fed to a layer of Integrate and Fire (IF) spiking neurons to generate the pooled spike maps.
ref: 2020, Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Kaushik Roy, “ReStpCMet: Residual Stochastic Binary Convolutional Spiking Neural Network for Memory-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing”, in Guoqi Li, Yam Song (Yansong) Chua, Haizhou Li, editor, Spiking Neural Network Learning, Benchmarking, Programming and Executing, page 46:
text: Other neuron models exist which us mathematical abstractions to model the dynamics of various spiking behaviors.
ref: 2023, Nitish V. Thakor, Handbook of Neuroengineering, page 1466:
glosses: Associated with or causing one or more sudden sharp increases.
Derived terms: spiking neural network
spiking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spike
spiking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spikings
Senses: examples: text: You're looking for reported cases of suspected poisonings, drink-spikings leading to illness or death, unexplained deaths that could have been down to poison, anything like that.
ref: 2012, Barry Maitland, Dark Mirror, page 18:
glosses: The act by which something is spiked.
squires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squire
squires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squire
squiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squire
squired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squire
subscribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subscribe
subsiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subside
subsiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: subsidings
Senses: examples: text: With such violent subterranean forces in operation, even at the present day, it is easy to apprehend how numerous must have been the uprisings and subsidings of the solid matter of the earth in this region during bye-gone ages.
ref: 1871, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific:
glosses: The act by which something subsides.
suffices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəˈfaɪsəz/
Etymology: suffice + -s
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suffice
suffices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəˈfaɪsəz/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɪsiːz/
ipa: /ˈsəˈfaɪsəz/
Etymology: By analogy with terms such as appendices and indices.
Senses: glosses: plural of suffix
sufficing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suffice
surmising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surmise
surmising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surmisings
Senses: examples: text: And not only so but mutual jealousies soon begin to prevail, and evil surmisings with regard to each other; and from evil surmisings soon springs a firm belief corresponding to these surmisings; and from this belief comes evil speaking[…]
ref: a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Charity the Veil of Sins:
glosses: The act of making surmises.
moderating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moderate
swathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swathe
recombinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recombination
tricing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trice
triced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trice
unseats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ...and lifts a special bronze diaphragm which unseats the upper valve pin.
ref: 1907, The Heating and Ventilating Magazine, volume 4, number 10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unseat
unseating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unseat
unseated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + seat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unseat
unseated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + seat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not seated.
wanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wane
wanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wane
whalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whaler
historiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historiologies
Etymology: From history + -ology.
Senses: glosses: a discourse on history.
organizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of organize
inwreathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwreathe
inwreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inwreathe
inwreathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inwreathe
demonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demonize
demonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demonize
demonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demonize
deploring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deplore
deplored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deplore
meriting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meriting
form: most meriting
Derived terms: unmeriting
meriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of merit
behooves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behoove
behooving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of behoove
behooved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behoove
behoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behove
behoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of behove
behoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behove
decorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decorate
venerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of venerate
venerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of venerate
articulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of articulate
caustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caustic
desponsates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desponsate
desponsating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desponsate
desponsated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desponsate
diptychs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diptych
triptychs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triptych
mandating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mandate
misunderestimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misunderestimate
misunderestimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misunderestimate
misunderestimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misunderestimate
jiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪvɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jive
jived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪvd/
rhymes: -aɪvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jive
Oregonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oregonian
evidencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evidence
explodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of explode
enervates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enervate
piccolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piccolo
babbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of babble
babbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babble
babbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of babble
babillards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babillard
bacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bac
procreates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of procreate
procreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of procreate
procreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of procreate
estivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of estivate
estivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of estivate
estivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of estivate
reneges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renege
reneging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renege
coddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coddle
coddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The "coddled" prisoner has been the subject of more newspaper editorials, and more discussion by the general public than almost any other phase of our criminal problem.
ref: 1951, Joseph Fulling Fishman, Sex in Prison: Revealing Sex Conditions in American Prisons, page 163:
text: As the most coddled subgroup (white males) of what might well be the most coddled generation in human history, Homer and his peers have had their every whim catered to since birth by a society geared almost exclusively to their priorities.
ref: 2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson, page 97:
text: I don't think any of us did at that point ... nurses and doctors were very, very coddled at that point. They needed us so much that they didn't make us do a lot of things.
ref: 2021, Janet D. Tanner, Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War, page 75:
glosses: Pampered; overprotected and/or overindulged.
examples: text: In the first menu the veal needs about an hour and a half's cooking; the potatoes an hour's; the coddled pears two hours'; the sponge caked twenty minutes' and the oysters ten minutes'.
ref: 1917, Ida Bailey Allen, Mrs. Allen's Cook Book, page 107:
text: For a perfect product for apple sauce the score is 100; for baked apple, 48; and for coddled apple, 44 as indicated on grading sheets.
ref: 1932, North and South Dakota Horticulture - Volumes 4-9, page 107:
text: Whatever its beginnings, the original salad of romaine lettuce mixed with grated cheese, coddled eggs and bread cubes fried in olive oil started a no-end-in-sight trend.
ref: 1976, Betty Crocker's Cooking American Style, page 108:
glosses: Stewed or simmered.
Derived terms: uncoddled
coddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coddle
Derived terms: coddled egg
expropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expropriate
expropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expropriate
partnering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of partner
partnering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partnerings
Senses: examples: text: In the above sermons, Archbishop Bean justifies the case against promiscuous sex and multiple partnerings in two ways. First, he suggests that promiscuity and multiple partnerings without companionship cheapen both partners alike […]
ref: 2008, Pamela Leong, Therapeutic Religion:
glosses: The formation of a partnership.
Derived terms: multi-partnering
partnered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more partnered
form: most partnered
Derived terms: nonpartnered
self-partnered
unpartnered
partnered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of partner
cognizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cognize
cognizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cognize