cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
engulfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engulf
engulfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engulf
engulfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌlft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engulf
thiazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiazole
spindled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spindle
unbuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbuckle
unbuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbuckle
unbuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbucklings
Senses: examples: text: Ladislao, back on deck, watched the three other ceremonial unbucklings.
ref: 1978, Francis Steegmuller, Silence at Salerno: A Comedy of Intrigue, page 148:
glosses: The act of unfastening a buckle.
unbuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not buckled.
unbuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Appleby[…]rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of unbuckle
covings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coving
disregards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːdz/
ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: plural of disregard
disregards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːdz/
ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disregard
disregarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disregard
facilitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facilitate
facilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facilitate
facilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made easier
Derived terms: facilitated communication
nonfacilitated
unfacilitated
arrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arrogate
tannoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tannoy
heterodyning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heterodyne
heterodyned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heterodyne
inebriates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inebriate
inebriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inebriate
inebriating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inebriating
form: most inebriating
Senses: glosses: Having intoxicating qualities
Derived terms: uninebriating
inebriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inebriate
intoxicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intoxicate
incapacitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incapacitate
enhances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enhance
retrieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrieve
understandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understanding
questioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questioner
vaccinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vaccinate
vaccinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vaccinate
vaccinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vaccinate
vaccinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaccinated
form: most vaccinated
Senses: examples: text: I'll come and see you again once I'm fully vaccinated.
text: In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.
ref: 2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2021, Asia & Pacific:
glosses: Inoculated with a vaccine.
Derived terms: double-vaccinated
nonvaccinated
quackcinated
unvaccinated
valuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valuation
vaporizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vaporize
volleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volley
teenyboppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teenybopper
sesquipedalianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquipedalianist
kibozes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kiboze
kibozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kiboze
kibozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kiboze
attenuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attenuate
attenuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attenuate
westies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of westie
corpsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpsicle
oxygenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oxygenate
oxygenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oxygenate
oxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oxygenate
oxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oxygenated
form: most oxygenated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing oxygen, or oxygen-containing radicals, as substituents
Derived terms: bisoxygenated
epoxygenated
nonoxygenated
overoxygenated
polyoxygenated
semioxygenated
trioxygenated
underoxygenated
unoxygenated
claustrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claustrophile
sesquiplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquiplane
reproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reproof
allocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allocate
allocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allocate
suffragettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffragette
reconciles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconcile
reconciling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconcile
litigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of litigate
litigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of litigate
litigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of litigate
defaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defame
defaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defamings
Senses: glosses: defamation
defamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defame
defamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a lion defamed
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: defame
glosses: Shown rampant without its tail.
bastardises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bastardise
bastardising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bastardise
spides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spide
swabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: plural of swab
swabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swab
synamphoterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synamphoteron
captivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of captivate
captivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more captivated
form: most captivated
Senses: glosses: rapt; mesmerized
Derived terms: uncaptivated
captivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of captivate
separators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separator
suppositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supposition
tiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪfs/
rhymes: -ɪfs
Senses: glosses: plural of tiff
tiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪfs/
rhymes: -ɪfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiff
tiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tiff
tiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiffings
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tiffin (“light snack”).
tiffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tiff
nauseates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nauseate
alphabetises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alphabetise
alphabetising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alphabetise
alphabetised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: alphabetized
Senses: glosses: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Derived terms: nonalphabetized
unalphabetised
alphabetised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alphabetized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alphabetise
officiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of officiate
officiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of officiate
ogled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ogle
encloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enclose
murses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murse
exonerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exonerate
exonerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exonerate
dissociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissociate
dissociating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissociate
dissociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissociate
intrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intrude
implicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of implicate
rummages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rummage
rummages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rummage
rummaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rummage
orchestrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orchestrate
orchestrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orchestrate
socialites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socialite
oscillates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oscillate
muffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muffle
muffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mufflings
Senses: examples: text: It was not until he had ascertained that all his mufflings were adjusted, and his coat-collar brought as near his hat as was consistent with leaving any of his face out[…]
ref: 1839, Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, volume 37, page 220:
glosses: That which muffles; heavy clothing.
yahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yah
yearbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yearbook
yieldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yielding
xerographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xerograph
nutriments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutriment
waddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waddle
waddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waddle
waddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waddle
waddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waddlings
Senses: examples: text: the dastardly man who insolently compared the flights of a swan to the waddlings of the domestic duck
ref: 1896, George Birbeck Norman Hill, Talks about Autographs, page 81:
glosses: The act of one who waddles.
waddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waddle
waggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waggle
waggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagglings
Senses: examples: text: Of a sudden […] a cross-bencher leaped on his seat and there played an imaginary double-bass with tremendous maestro-like wagglings of the elbow.
ref: 1917, (Rudyard Kipling), The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat:
glosses: The act of something being waggled.
waggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waggle
perforates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perforate
restores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restore
toponyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toponym
walkabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkabout
walkaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkaway
alpenstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpenstock
lemniscates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemniscate
warpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warpath
watchtowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchtower
hyphenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɪf(ə)neɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of hyphenate
hyphenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɪf(ə)neɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyphenate
hyphenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyphenate
steeplechases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeplechase
suffocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suffocate
grundling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grundle
grundled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grundle
relapses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relapse
submerges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of submerge
submerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of submerge
menstruates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of menstruate
menstruating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of menstruate
menstruated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of menstruate
washstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washstand
watchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watcher
watchstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchstrap
waterfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterfront
topples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of topple
topples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topple
toppled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of topple
situates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of situate
situating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of situate
wisenheimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wisenheimer
getups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of getup
plagiarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plagiarize
smaragds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smaragd
stumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stump
stumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stumpings
Senses: examples: text: Wicket-keepers are measured by the number of catches and stumpings they make.
ref: 2013, Julian Knight, Cricket For Dummies:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of somebody being stumped.
cleanses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cleanse
wavebands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waveband
sculpturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sculpture
sculpturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculpturings
Senses: examples: text: Later winds, if of sufficient force, will erode away the kalutoqaniq, producing sculptured forms which have great beauty but which are exceeding difficult to traverse. The sculpturings are widely known by the terms zastrugi (Russian) or skavler (Norwegian), but are more accurately known as kaioqlaq (Eskimo [Inuit]).
ref: 2003, William C. Wonders, Canada's changing North, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: The act or product of one who sculpts; sculpture.
undeletes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undelete
undeleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undelete
wayfarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wayfarer.
examples: text: I can see you / Your brown skin shining in the sun / You got your hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
ref: 1984, “The Boys of Summer”, in Don Henley (lyrics), Building the Perfect Beast:
text: I'm tense, my hair is slicked back. Wayfarers on, my skull is aching.
ref: 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, “Dry Cleaners”, in American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses.
weathercocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weathercock
propitiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of propitiate
propitiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of propitiate
propitiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propitiate
demimondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demimonde
domesticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of domesticate
weedkillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weedkiller
weighbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighbridge
ridging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgings
Senses: examples: text: I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]
ref: 1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:
glosses: A pattern of ridges.
ridging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ridge
ridged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪdʒd
Forms: form: more ridged
form: most ridged
Etymology: From Middle English rigged, riggid, ryggyd, rugged, equivalent to ridge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having ridges.
Synonyms: enridged
Derived terms: ridged band
ridged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪdʒd
Etymology: From Middle English rigged, riggid, ryggyd, rugged, equivalent to ridge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ridge
subdues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subdue
subduing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subdue
subduing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subduings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being subdued.
sledging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sledgings
Senses: examples: text: In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright.
ref: 2012, Chris Turney, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, page 19:
glosses: The act of using a sledge to travel over snow.
examples: text: It is necessary, therefore, to force the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging, or by some other equivalent means;
ref: 1905, "The "Lap-Joint Crack" in Steam Boilers", The Locomotive, new series 25: 162
glosses: The act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.
examples: text: Mind you, Wally wasn't bad at the sledging caper himself.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 181:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting the batter.
sledging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sledge
Derived terms: sledging biscuit
Related terms: trash-talk
sledged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sledge
wetnurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetnurse
wetnurses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wetnurse
wetnursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wetnurse
wetnursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wetnurse
wheelbases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelbase
leks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lek
Franklins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Franklin
Franklins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Franklin
connoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of connote
connoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of connote
connoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an ideologically connoted term
glosses: Having a specified connotation.
categorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of categorize
widowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widower
luring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lure
luring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lurings
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings, can be found in Windsor-Forest […]
ref: 1988, Ruth Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine:
text: […] the criminals […] carry on with all their endeavours for many months or even years, building up a reputation of invulnerability in the process and thus presenting a bad example to those susceptible to the seemingly profitable lurings of crime.
ref: 2004, Adam Edwards, Peter Gill, Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security:
glosses: allurement
winders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winder
windpumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windpump
windowpanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windowpane
windowsills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windowsill
desolates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desolate
desolating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desolating
form: most desolating
Senses: examples: text: So when Mary's whole nature rose to meet this word of Jesus, and threw itself into the consent she gave, and turned her forcibly as it weer from Jesus to John, it was as if the whole anguish of the Crucifixion gained a new life, a fresh activity, a more potent bitterness, a more desolating power.
ref: 1858, Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross: Or, the Sorrows of Mary, page 302:
text: Since falling in love with Brake, and since their separation, these evening hours had become even more desolating, particularly since Grace knew he was somewhere in the house, pacing the library or the drawing room and talking about the things which interested not only him but her too, the unending fascination of colour, of trying to reshape nature, of seeing with the heart, while she sat trapped in a room under the roof mending the children's clothes and half-listening yet again to Dora's ill-determined plans to escape somehow from her servitude to find fame in the music halls.
ref: 2011, Charlotte Bingham, Nanny:
text: Roger's Death was a more intimate and a more desolating event than the death of Lytton.
ref: 2017, Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, page cxl:
glosses: Causing anguish and despair.
examples: text: Why, that it was the cause of Pure Democracy which we were thus called on to support; of universal suffrage, Jacobin clubs, and a furious press; of revolutionary confiscation, democratic anarchy, and unbridled injustice; of the most desolating of tyrannies, the most ruinous of despotisms.
ref: 1832 September, Vicomte de Martignac, “The Spanish Revolution”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 32, page 342:
text: In the reign of Henry VI. commenced one of the most desolating of wars — the War of the Roses.
ref: 1856 July, “Sketches of School-Work: The Historical Lesson”, in National Society's Monthly Paper, number 116, page 183:
text: It prospered from its first opening until another war, more desolating than that of the Revolution, called away its students, diminished its property, and impoverished its patrons.
ref: 1883, Industrial Education in the United States, page 204:
glosses: Destructive; ruinous.
Derived terms: desolatingly
desolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desolate
desolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desolate
wingtips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingtip
wipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiper
irritates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of irritate
colludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collude
comports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comport
comporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comport
comported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comport
copiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copier
derides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deride
disgruntles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disgruntle
disgruntling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disgruntle
manhandles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manhandle
manhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manhandle
manhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manhandlings
Senses: examples: text: The memory of harassments, threats and manhandlings, the fear brought by torture pricks painfully in his subconscious.
ref: 1986, Justice & Peace Review, volumes 1-7, page 13:
glosses: The act of one who manhandles; rough physical treatment.
manhandled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of manhandle
dodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dodge
dodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dodge
dodging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodgings
Senses: examples: twistings and dodgings
glosses: The act of dodging; a dodge.
Related terms: fare-dodging
soap-dodging
dodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dodge
frustrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frustrate
boondoggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boondoggle
dehydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehydrate
dehydrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dehydrating
form: most dehydrating
Senses: glosses: that dehydrates.
Derived terms: nondehydrating
dehydrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehydrate
cellphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellphone
reminisces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reminisce
reminiscing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reminisce
reminiscing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reminiscings
Senses: examples: the reminiscings of an old farmer
glosses: reminiscence
reminisced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reminisce
undulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undulate
mensas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mensa
undulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undulate
ululates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ululate
wrangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrangle
wrangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrangle
wrangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrangle
wrongdoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrongdoer
bridling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bridle
bridling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridlings
Senses: examples: 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, Tales of Fashionable Life
[…] with infinite difficulty in bringing herself to speak on such a subject, after inconceivable bridlings of the head, and contortions of every muscle of her neck, she insinuated to him her fears […]
glosses: The act of one who bridles.
bridled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bridle
bridled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bridled
form: most bridled
Senses: glosses: Equipped with a bridle; controlled.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having bridle-shaped marks.
Derived terms: bridled tern
bridled titmouse
excoriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excoriate
discourages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discourage
congratulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of congratulate
congratulating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congratulatings
Etymology: By surface analysis, congratulate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: As, when speaking familiarly we say of a new-married couple, they are gone to pass the honey-moon together; seems, te pas, de hou-inne hije muê hun: q. e. it is quite right, the visiting and receiving troubles tires them; it is as it ought to be, for the congratulatings and ceremonial visits molests and fatigues them; […]
ref: 1840, John Bellenden Ker, “Phrases and Sayings Which by Their Literal Form Do Not Bear Out the Meaning They Are Used in, and Terms Not Yet Satisfactorily Accounted For”, in A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of the Essay on the Archæology of Our Popular Phrases, Terms, and Nursery Rhymes, London: James Ridgway, […], page 14:
text: It will be a mighty host, that company of the Redeemed! To say nothing of the babes who have died in infancy, untasted by them the cup of sin which the world administers to its votaries—not counting those cherubs numerous as the stars of the milky way, what crowds shall be there of those who had repented them of their sins before their day of grace was past and gone; and Oh, what greetings and congratulatings of long separated friends!
ref: 1882, William H. Cooper, “The Company, Worship, and Bliss of Heaven”, in Problems of the Future State. A Series of Sermons, Delivered in Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church, Ottawa, Ontario. […], page 7, column 1:
text: The basic illocutionary acts are assertions (describing, stating, concluding), directives (orders, requests, suggestions, questions), commissives (threats, promises), expressives (apologies, thankings, congratulatings), and declarations (baptisms, marriage pronouncements).
ref: 2011, Stephen Barker, “Speech-Acts”, in Patrick Colm Hogan, editor, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 786, column 2:
glosses: The act by which someone is congratulated; congratulation.
congratulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, congratulate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of congratulate
fatiguing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatiguing
form: most fatiguing
Synonyms: word: draining
word: exhausting
word: exhaustive
word: fatiguing
word: tiresome
word: tiring
word: weariful
word: wearing
word: wearisome
word: weary
Hyponyms: word: backbreaking
word: burdensome
word: taxing
Derived terms: fatiguingly
fatiguingness
unfatiguing
Related terms: word: fatigued
fatiguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fatigue
defiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defile
evaluates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evaluate
whams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wham
whams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wham
reappearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reappearance
waring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕrʹĭng
ipa: /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: wearing
homophone: Waring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ware
wared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ware
expiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expiate
expiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expiate
expiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expiate
veinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veining
vendettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vendetta
ventriloquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventriloquist
viaducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viaduct
interferes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interfere
vicariances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicariance
spinsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinster
Bruces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bruce
supervising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supervise
whatshisfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatshisface
webmags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webmag
victimizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimization
videocassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videocassette
videotaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of videotape
videotaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videotapings
Senses: examples: text: The campaign asks potential endorsers to sit for videotapings; hand over their organization’s mailing list; send letters to their neighbors; and write an opinion piece for newspapers praising Mr. Bloomberg.
ref: 2009 August 26, Michael Barbaro, “Bloomberg Campaign Is Juggernaut of Detail”, in New York Times:
glosses: A recording onto videotape.
videotaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of videotape
videotaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more videotaped
form: most videotaped
Senses: glosses: Having been recorded on videotape.
vigils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigil
humiliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of humiliate
visualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of visualize
visualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of visualize
visualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of visualize
visualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more visualized
form: most visualized
Senses: glosses: Having been the subject of visualization; having had (its) appearance or existence imagined or designed.
ulcerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ulcerate
ulcerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ulcerate
umbellets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbellet
commerces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commerce
commercing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commerce
decapitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decapitate
importunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of importune
importunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of importune
importuning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: importunings
Senses: examples: text: She should never have married him, never have yielded to his importunings, never have weakened in her determination to provide for herself and her son.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: The act by which somebody is importuned; pleading harassment.
importuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of importune
importuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of importune
salving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salve
salved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salve
septicemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septicemia
domestic partnerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domestic partnership
whittles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whittle
whittling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whittle
whittling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whittlings
Senses: glosses: A chip or shaving whittled from some larger substance.
coordinate_terms: woodcarving
wood carving
glosses: The art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife.
glosses: A process of repeatedly shaving slivers from a piece of wood (non-artistic).
examples: text: a whittling down
text: Result: nothing would prevent the rapid destruction of the Deco District. Already the developers are calling for a whittling down of the original square mile to a few blocks. The few blocks will no doubt be whittled down to one building, and in the end all that will be left will be a Deco mailbox well pissed on by the local dogs. In another era it was called salami tactics.
ref: 1988, Alexander Cockburn, Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era (Haymarket Series), Verso, →ISBN:
glosses: The reducing of something by degrees, especially at the expense of some effort.
whittled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whittle
bodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊdɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈboʊdɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of boding
syllabics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlæb.ɪks/
rhymes: -æbɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabic
glosses: Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, as opposed to the Latin alphabet.
heckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heckle
heckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heckle
marshalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marshaled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marshal
breakdanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breakdance
bowdlerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bowdlerise
bowdlerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowdlerise
uncouples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncouple
uncoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncouple
uncoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncouplings
Senses: examples: text: It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
text: This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: The act by which persons or things are uncoupled.
Derived terms: conscious uncoupling
prejudicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prejudice
commingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commingle
commingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commingle