cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
packed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pækt/
rhymes: -ækt
homophone: pact
Forms: form: more packed
form: most packed
Senses: examples: text: packed lunch
glosses: Put into a package.
examples: text: packed with goodness
text: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
examples: text: The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
text: On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed. It is a vast space, with a roof that almost closes in on itself capturing the air like a superheated bubble.
ref: 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
text: We picked up returning Millwall supporters at New Street, together with a couple of British Transport Police officers, and the train, an 11-car set, was now packed.
ref: 2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:
glosses: Filled to capacity with people.
Synonyms: sense: filled to capacity with people
word: crowded
word: rammed
word: compact
Derived terms: action-packed
badly packed kebab
close-packed
flatpacked
hardpacked
jam-packed
manpacked
nonpacked
packed cells
packed decimal
packed like sardines
packed lunch
packed meal
packed to the gills
packed to the rafters
prepacked
ram-packed
unpacked
vacuum-packed
pow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊ/
ipa: [pəʉ]
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
ref: 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2:
glosses: The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
examples: text: Pow, they took off.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71:
text: ‘Pow-pow-pow...’ Monte drew and slaughtered the besiegers.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 41:
glosses: The sound of an explosion or gunshot.
Derived terms: kerpow
pow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊ/
ipa: [pəʉ]
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: pows
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The sound of a violent impact.
glosses: The sound of an explosion.
pow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊ/
ipa: [pəʉ]
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: pows
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: examples: text: he'd snuffle round the door till the few remaining hairs on the bald pow of Munro would fair rise on end.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of poll.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).
acuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːmɪnət/
Forms: form: more acuminate
form: most acuminate
form: accuminate
Etymology: First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin acuminātus, perfect passive participle acuminō (“to sharpen to a point”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
glosses: Tapering to a point; pointed.
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Tapering to a long point in concave manner at its apex.
Derived terms: biacuminate
long-acuminate
subacuminate
acuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: acuminates
form: acuminating
form: acuminated
form: acuminated
form: accuminate
Etymology: First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin acuminātus, perfect passive participle acuminō (“to sharpen to a point”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: September 17, 1784, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. John Newton
To acuminate even despair.
glosses: To render sharp or keen; to sharpen.
glosses: To end in or come to a sharp point.
Derived terms: acumination
acumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkjuːmɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: acuminations
Senses: examples: text: The coronary thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers by that figure into which they were contrived, but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
acuminose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acuminose
form: most acuminose
Etymology: From Latin acūminōsus. Doublet of acuminous.
Senses: glosses: Terminating in a flat, narrow end.
acuminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acuminous
form: most acuminous
Etymology: From Latin acūminōsus. Doublet of acuminose.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by acumen; keen.
acupressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.kjuˌpɹɛʃ.ə/
ipa: /ˈæ.kjuˌpɹɛʃ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈæ.kjə-/
Forms: form: acupressures
Etymology: Blend of acupuncture + pressure. By surface analysis, acu- + pressure.
Senses: glosses: An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
examples: text: The warm needles of water acted like tiny acupressures on his face.
ref: 2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher:
glosses: An act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.
glosses: A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
Derived terms: acupressurist
Related terms: acupuncture
circumclusion
retroclusion
torsoclusion
puke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pyo͞ok
ipa: /pjuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: pukes
Etymology: Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.
Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Senses: examples: 2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"
the puke saber … pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"
glosses: vomit.
examples: text: "at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day."
ref: 1776, Physician Lewis Beebe, Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician:
glosses: A drug that induces vomiting.
glosses: A worthless, despicable person.
examples: text: "Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois.
ref: 2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream:
glosses: A person from Missouri.
Synonyms: word: vomit
word: rotter
Derived terms: fairy puke
puke for brains
unicorn puke
puke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pyo͞ok
ipa: /pjuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: pukes
form: puking
form: puked
form: puked
Etymology: Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.
Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, he could not hold it long enough till the end of the ride, so he puked on the bus seat.
text: At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: I obſerue our Ducheſſe / Is ſicke a dayes, ſhe puykes, her ſtomacke ſeethes, […]
ref: 1612–1613 (date written), John Webster, The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1623, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, recto:
glosses: To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.
Synonyms: regurgitate
vomit
barf
spew
throw up
spew up
Derived terms: puke one's brains out
puke one's guts out
puke one's ring
puker
puke up
puke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pyo͞ok
ipa: /pjuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Senses: examples: text: Puke-stocking caddis garter
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A fine grade of woolen cloth.
glosses: A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.
acupuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.kjuˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɜ/
ipa: /ˈæ.kjuˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɝ/
ipa: /ˈæ.kjə-/
Forms: form: acupunctures
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *akus
New Latin acus
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.
Proto-Italic *pungō
New Latin pungō
New Latin pūnctus
New Latin -tura
New Latin pūnctūra
New Latin acūpūnctūralbor.
English acupuncture
Learned borrowing from New Latin acūpūnctūra, from acus + pūnctūra.
 First attested in 1684. By surface analysis, acu- + puncture.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese doctors at Chishan County Hospital in Shansi Province have used acupuncture on the scalp to cure a patient suffering from paralysis of the right limbs caused by inflammation of the brain’s blood vessels.
ref: 1974 October 16, “Acupuncture”, in The Jerusalem Post, volume XLIV, number 14221, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
glosses: The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body affecting the Qi or energy along energetic pathways of the body called meridians. This modality is traditionally used as a form of internal medical treating all disease and illnesses, in Western countries it is widely used for the purposes of pain relief.
Derived terms: acupoint
acupunctural
acupuncturist
auriculoacupuncture
colorpuncture
electroacupuncture
acupuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.kjuˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɜ/
ipa: /ˈæ.kjuˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɝ/
ipa: /ˈæ.kjə-/
Forms: form: acupunctures
form: acupuncturing
form: acupunctured
form: acupunctured
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *akus
New Latin acus
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.
Proto-Italic *pungō
New Latin pungō
New Latin pūnctus
New Latin -tura
New Latin pūnctūra
New Latin acūpūnctūralbor.
English acupuncture
Learned borrowing from New Latin acūpūnctūra, from acus + pūnctūra.
 First attested in 1684. By surface analysis, acu- + puncture.
Senses: glosses: To treat with acupuncture.
Related terms: word: acupressure
acupuncturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acupuncturations
Etymology: From acupuncture (verb) + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acupuncture
she'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːl/
ipa: /ʃil/
ipa: /ʃɪl/
homophone: shill (in some accents)
rhymes: -iːl
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: she’l
Senses: examples: text: Yet Ile not leaue to interceſsionate, / To her hard Breaſt, for my too gentle Hart : / That if her Rigor ſhe'le not mitigate, / At leaſt ſhe'le ſomewhat eaſe me of this Smart : / I onely craue if ſhe'le not yeelde relieſe, / T'adiourne my paine, and to proroge my Griefe.
ref: 1598, Robert Tofte, “The Second Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover. (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Contraction of she will.
glosses: Contraction of she shall.
Related terms: he'll
I'll
it'll
they'll
we'll
you'll
acutangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkjuːˈtæŋ.ɡju.lə/
ipa: /əˌkjuˈtæŋ.ɡju.lɚ/
ipa: /-ɡjə-/
Etymology: Blend of acute + angular
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: acute-angled.
examples: text: an acutangular stem
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Sharply angular.
acutifoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin acutifolius, from acutus (“sharp”) + folium (“leaf”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having sharp-pointed leaves.
Related terms: acute
foliate
adactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪˈdæk.tɪl.əs/
Etymology: From a- + dactyl + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Without fingers or without toes.
glosses: Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
adage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈɛəd.ɪd͡ʒ]
Forms: form: adages
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adā̆gium.
Senses: examples: text: He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
ref: 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:
synonyms: word: proverb
word: colloquialism
word: apophthegm
word: byword
word: saying
word: adage
word: saw
word: proverb
word: maxim
word: apothegm
word: apophthegm
word: dictum
word: gnome
word: gnomic saying
word: mantra
word: paroemia
glosses: An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
examples: text: Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135:
synonyms: old saw
glosses: An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
Derived terms: adagial
adagial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adagial
form: most adagial
Etymology: From adage + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
adamantean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of adamant; hard as adamant.
adamantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.taɪn/
ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.tin/
ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.taɪn/
ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.tɪn/
Forms: form: more adamantine
form: most adamantine
Etymology: From Middle English adamantine, from Latin adamantinus, equivalent to adamant + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: adamantine bonds    adamantine chains
text: [T]o a vviſe man there can happen no iniury or offence at all, to moleſt the felicity of his minde, vvhich (in the Stoicks opinion) ought to bee imperturbable, and his heart adamantine.
ref: 1605, Giacomo Affinati d’Acuto Romano, chapter 23, in A[nthony] M[unday], transl., The Dumbe Divine Speaker, or: Dumbe Speaker of Diuinity. […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for William Leake, […], →OCLC, page 257:
text: Him the Almighty Power / Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie / With hideous ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, / Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 44–49:
text: Snatch, snatch those gentle forms from war's alarms, / And throw your adamantine shield around their shrinking charms.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Missolonghi, page 187:
text: For two hours they stand; Bouillé's sword glittering in his hand, adamantine resolution clouding his brows[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: 1984, Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" in Carole S. Vance, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 267-319.
Sex law is the most adamantine instrument of sexual stratification and erotic persecution.
glosses: Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated.
glosses: Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Derived terms: adamantinely
adamantinoma
subadamantine
adamantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.taɪn/
ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.tin/
ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.taɪn/
ipa: /ˌæd.əˈmæn.tɪn/
Etymology: From Middle English adamantine, from Latin adamantinus, equivalent to adamant + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adamantium.
synonyms: word: adamantium
adambulacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + ambulacral.
Senses: examples: text: The adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
glosses: Next to the ambulacra
adambulacral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adambulacrals
Etymology: From ad- + ambulacral.
Senses: glosses: Such an ossicle or spine
adamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adamites
Senses: glosses: A descendant of Adam; a human being.
adamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881) in 1866.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, Zn₂AsO₄OH.
Derived terms: cuproadamite
paradamite
Adamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Adam + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Adamic
adance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + dance.
Senses: examples: text: shadows across the table sent adance
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: Dancing.
adangle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + dangle.
Senses: examples: text: The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.
text: […] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 37:
text: Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.
ref: 1902, Virna Sheard, A Maid of Many Moods, Toronto: Copp, Clark, Chapter, page 76:
text: […] he presented an easy target for scoffing. His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?
ref: 2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, page 325:
glosses: Dangling.
trajectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/
Forms: form: trajectories
Etymology: From New Latin trāiectōria f (“trajectory”) (used by Newton), the feminine of trāiectōrius (“of or pertaining to throwing across”), from Latin trāiectus (“thrown over or across”), past participle of trāiciō, from trans- (“across, beyond”) (see trans-) + iaciō (“to throw”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw, impel”)). Middle French and Middle English had trajectorie (“end of a funnel”), from Latin trāiectōrium.
Senses: examples: text: The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.
ref: 2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: The path an object takes as it moves.
topics: aerospace
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: The path of a body as it travels through space.
qualifier: cybernetics
glosses: The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
examples: text: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
glosses: A course of development, such as that of a war or career.
Derived terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
sense: space
word: flyby trajectory
Related terms: sense: cybernetics
word: run
affray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: affrays
form: affraying
form: affrayed
form: affrayed
form: afray
Etymology: From Middle English affraien (“to terrify, frighten”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”) and Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”) (compare modern French effrayer), from Vulgar Latin *exfridāre.
The second part of this is in turn from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Old High German fridu (“peace”), Old English friþ (“peace, frith”), Old English frēod (“peace, friendship”), German Friede (“peace”). More at free, friend.
Senses: glosses: To startle from quiet; to alarm.
examples: text: That voice doth us affray.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
Derived terms: affrayer
Related terms: afraid
affray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: affrays
form: afray
Etymology: From Middle English affraien (“to terrify, frighten”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”) and Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”) (compare modern French effrayer), from Vulgar Latin *exfridāre.
The second part of this is in turn from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Old High German fridu (“peace”), Old English friþ (“peace, frith”), Old English frēod (“peace, friendship”), German Friede (“peace”). More at free, friend.
Senses: examples: text: A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident for affray towards attending paramedics.
ref: 2015, 8 November, "Rugby league journalist Gary Carter critically ill after Bethnal Green attack", BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-34755963
glosses: The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.
glosses: A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
examples: text: The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder.
glosses: The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
examples: text: full of ghastly fright and cold affray
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Terror.
Synonyms: fray
brawl
alarm
terror
fright
Related terms: fray
agenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Forms: form: ageneses
Etymology: From a- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization
Derived terms: Müllerian agenesis
premaxillary agenesis
Related terms: agenic
agennesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek γέννησις (génnēsis, “engendering”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Impotence; sterility.
Related terms: agenesis
ageratum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ageratums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78,
The way before him was little more than a bridle-path along the earth […] . The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually.
text: They helped carry things up a sidewalk bordered with a purple fringe of ageratums into the small house behind the parsonage.
ref: 1988, Barbara Kingsolver, chapter 17, in The Bean Trees, New York: HarperPerennial, page 218:
text: A stone path edged with ageratum leads to the grape arbor […]
ref: 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, London: Fourth Estate, page 195:
glosses: Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
agential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agential
form: most agential
Etymology: From agent + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
ref: 2012 January 24, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
examples: text: Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function.
ref: 1918, Henry Bradley, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume IX, page 922, column 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That forms agent nouns.
Derived terms: agentially
agential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agentials
Etymology: From agent + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Semantically, a majority of agentials refer to avian vocalization. Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat.
ref: 1986, Geolinguistics, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An affix that forms agent nouns.
agendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.dəm/
Forms: form: agenda
form: agendums
form: agend
Etymology: From Latin agendum, substantive use of the neuter singular of agendus (“which ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“I do, act, make”).
Senses: glosses: A task which ought to be done.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
coordinate_terms: credendum
glosses: Something to be done; a practical duty, rather than an article of faith.
Related terms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20050831172847/http://bartleby.com/61/81/A0138100.html
word: The American Heritage Dictionary's entry and usage note for 'agenda'
urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20050831172847/http://bartleby.com/61/81/A0138100.html
word: 'agendum' in the AHD
aggeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggenerations
form: adgeneration
Etymology: From Medieval Latin aggeneratio (“generating in addition”), from aggenerat- (past participle stem of aggenerare) + io (“-ion”).
Senses: examples: text: There haue beene..additions vnto this Church without substraction; continuall adgeneration without corruption.
ref: 1627, Thomas Jackson, Treatise Catholike Faith:
glosses: The act of producing in addition.
glosses: The act of producing in addition.
Growth or regeneration from grafting.
examples: text: The higher task is now ours of the regeneration of the race, or, if we wish to express that betterment less questionably, the aggeneration of the race.
ref: 1912, Henry Havelock Ellis, Task of Social Hygiene:
glosses: The act of producing in addition.
Contribution to a race through reproduction.
qualifier: eugenics
Derived terms: aggenerate
agger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: aggers
Etymology: From Middle English agger (“heap, pile”), from Latin agger (“earthwork, rubble, rampart”), from ad- (“toward, towards”) + gerere (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: The phænomenon of long continued high water or double high water in estuaries is, we believe, not uncommon. [...] The first high water appears to be considered by the Dutch, in common language, as the real high water, and the second is called the agger, but so little difference is there between them, that, in making the extensive series of simultaneous tide-observations proposed by Mr. Whewell, the agger was sometimes observed for high water.
ref: 1845, George Biddell Airy, Tides and Waves, page 375:
text: A double tide or agger is a high tide consisting of two maxima of nearly the same height, separated by a relatively small depression; or a low tide consisting of two minima separated by a relatively small elevation.
ref: 1969, United States. Naval Oceanographic Office, Navigation Dictionary, page 254:
text: [page 62:] As can be seen [...], once the water has reached the lowest level, it remains low for some time. After rising slightly, it then drops again and a second low tide follows. Only then does the water rise quickly and the flood sets in. A slight rise like this followed by a drop is called an agger or a double tide. […] [page 279:] […] these 'overtones' may cause the phenomena of agger or double high water […]
ref: 2006, Huibert-Jan Lekkerkerk, Handbook of Offshore Surveying:
glosses: A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again
examples: text: By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.
ref: 2012, Seth G. Bernard, “Continuing the Deabte on Rome's Earliest Circuit Walls”, in Papers of the British School at Rome, number 80, page 2:
glosses: Synonym of earthwork in ancient Roman contexts, particularly a defensive wall or mound.
synonyms: word: earthwork in ancient Roman contexts
word: particularly a defensive wall or mound
Related terms: agger nasi
aggerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aggerates
form: aggerating
form: aggerated
form: aggerated
Senses: glosses: To heap up.
Related terms: exaggerate
aggerose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In heaps; full of heaps.
Related terms: agger
agglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: əglŏ'mərət
ipa: /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/
ipa: /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/
Forms: form: more agglomerate
form: most agglomerate
form: aglomerate
Etymology: From Latin agglomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from ad (“to”) + glomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
Senses: glosses: collected into a ball, heap, or mass
Synonyms: agglomerated
agglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agglomerates
form: aglomerate
Etymology: From Latin agglomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from ad (“to”) + glomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
Senses: glosses: A collection or mass.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
Synonyms: sense: collection or mass
word: agglomeration
sense: collection or mass
word: collection
sense: collection or mass
word: mass
agglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: əglŏ'mərāt
ipa: /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/
Forms: form: agglomerates
form: agglomerating
form: agglomerated
form: agglomerated
form: aglomerate
Etymology: From Latin agglomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from ad (“to”) + glomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
Senses: examples: text: The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together, and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so agglomerated, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups […] appear to belong to one whole, by the artifice of composition, and the effect of light.
ref: 1789, William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye: and Several Parts of South Wales, 2nd edition, London: R. Blamire, Section 10, p. 122:
text: 1820, William Hazlitt, “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in Dramatic Essays London: Scott, 1895, p. 197,
His [Jean Racine’s] tragedies are not poetry, are not passion, are not imagination: they are a parcel of set speeches, of epigrammatic conceits, of declamatory phrases, without any of the glow, and glancing rapidity, and principle of fusion in the mind of the poet, to agglomerate them into grandeur, or blend them into harmony.
text: There were few white friends in the social life of the peasants. The white colony agglomerated in the towns and the peasants were 80 per cent of a population of a million.
ref: 1937, Claude McKay, chapter 3, in A Long Way from Home, New York: Arno Press, published 1969, page 35:
text: It feels like doing eighty on the freeway / as little towns agglomerate and blur:
ref: 2009, Peter Campion, “Imperium”, in The Lions, University of Chicago Press, page 14:
glosses: To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).
Synonyms: sense: collect into a ball
word: ball
sense: collect into a ball
word: ball up
sense: collect into a ball
word: bundle up
sense: collect into a ball
word: clew
sense: collect into a ball
word: conglobate
sense: collect into a ball
word: conglobe
sense: collect into a ball
word: globe
sense: collect into a ball
word: orb
sense: collect into a ball
word: wind
sense: gather into a mass
word: amass
word: gather
word: gather up
word: merge
word: pile up
word: coalesce
Derived terms: agglomeratic
deagglomerate
disagglomerate
en
heteroagglomerate
reagglomerate
Related terms: agglomeration
agglomerative
agglomerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agglomerative
form: most agglomerative
Etymology: From Latin agglomerāt- (past participial stem of agglomerō) + -ive. By surface analysis, agglomerate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Having a tendency to agglomerate.
Derived terms: agglomeratively
agglutinant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪnʌnt/
Forms: form: more agglutinant
form: most agglutinant
Senses: glosses: Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
agglutinant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪnʌnt/
Forms: form: agglutinants
Senses: glosses: Any viscous substance which causes agglutination
agglutinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪnət/
ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/
Etymology: From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).
Senses: glosses: United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
examples: text: an agglutinate language
text: an agglutinate family of languages
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.
agglutinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪnət/
ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/
Forms: form: agglutinates
form: agglutinating
form: agglutinated
form: agglutinated
Etymology: From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).
Senses: glosses: To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To form through agglutination.
Derived terms: agglutinin
antiagglutinating
autoagglutinate
autoagglutinating
haemagglutinating
macroagglutinate
nonagglutinated
nonagglutinating
subagglutinating
unagglutinated
Related terms: agglutination
agglutinative
agglutinant
agglutinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪnət/
ipa: /əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/
Forms: form: agglutinates
Etymology: From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).
Senses: examples: text: In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.
glosses: A clump of agglutinated material.
examples: text: The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.
glosses: Agglutinated material.
aggrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: aggraces
form: aggracing
form: aggraced
form: aggraced
Etymology: From Latin aggratiare, from ad (“to”) and gratia (“grace”).
Senses: examples: text: And heare the wisedome of her words diuine. / She graunted, and that knight so much agraste, / That she him taught celestiall discipline, / And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
glosses: To favour; to grace.
aggrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Etymology: From Latin aggratiare, from ad (“to”) and gratia (“grace”).
Senses: examples: text: So goodly purpose they together fond, / Of kindnesse and of curteous aggrace;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:
glosses: grace; favour
aggrandizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aggrandize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The supremacy of the various dynasties over the country depicts more of an aggrandizable character than of a permanent settlement.
ref: 1958, Muhammad Sardar Khan Baluch, History of Baluch Race and Baluchistan, Process Pakistan, page 50
text: Especially now, in a culture that rewards self-aggrandizement (I mean, please, Donald Trump is still a celebrity?) to such a warped degree that some people find even their most grotesquely squalid distinctions aggrandizable.
ref: 2004, Bruce Weber, “Ideas & Trends; It's All About Me, Especially the Ugly Parts”, in The New York Times, 2004 January 18 edition, section 4, page 12
text: The G.S’ aggrandizable velocity is big when Tc is relative^([sic]) low. But the G.S’ aggrandizable velocity is lower with Tc’s ascend.^([sic])
ref: 2006, Yiwu Ma et al., “Bi₂Ru₂O₇ Conductive Phase and its Effects on the Gauge Factor of Ru_based Thick-film Resistors”, in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition, →ISBN, page 247:
glosses: Capable of being made great; increasable.
aggrandizement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrandizements
form: aggrandisement
Etymology: From French agrandissement, from agrandir; equivalent to aggrandize + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
text: He contented himself therefore with repeating, that his attachment was to Miss Ashton personally; that he desired neither wealth nor aggrandizement from her father's means and influence, and that nothing should prevent his keeping his engagement, excepting her own express desire that it should be relinquished—and he requested as a favour that the matter might be no more mentioned betwixt them at present, assuring the Marquis of A—— that he should be his confident in its progress or its interruption.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The political analyst, speaking on the second installment of the show after its debut on Saturday, said the president's motivation has always been either 'self-aggrandizement' or 'self-preservation.'
ref: 2025 May 5, Leigh Kimmins, Aging, Slurring Trump ‘Lives in Fear’ of Dad’s Dementia, The Daily Beast, retrieved 05 May 2025:
glosses: The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
Synonyms: aggrandization
Derived terms: self-aggrandizement
aggrandization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrandizations
Etymology: From aggrandize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The emperor seeks only the aggrandization of his own family.
glosses: The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
Synonyms: aggrandizement
aggrandizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrandizers
Etymology: From aggrandize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes great or aggrandizes.
aggravative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggravative
form: most aggravative
Etymology: From aggravate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to aggravate.
aggravative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggravatives
Etymology: From aggravate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That which aggravates.
Tigrinya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɡɹiːnjə/
Forms: form: Tigrigna
form: Tigriña
form: Tigrinia
form: Tigrinian
form: Tigrinyan
form: Təgrəñña
form: Tégréñña
form: Tegreñña
Etymology: From Tigrinya ትግርኛ (təgrəñña). The spelling Tigrigna came via Italian.
Senses: glosses: A Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It is written in the Ge'ez alphabet.
Related terms: word: Tigray
word: Tigrayan
word: Tigray Region
word: Tigray-Tigrinya
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigrinya terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/tir
word: ti
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/tir
word: tir
word: tir ⁠
earthnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθ.nʌt/
ipa: /ˈɝθ.nʌt/
Forms: form: earthnuts
form: earth-nut
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English erthenote, from Old English eorþhnutu, from Proto-Germanic *erþōhnuts; equivalent to earth + nut.
Senses: glosses: Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground:
A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).
synonyms: earth chestnut
hawknut
pignut
glosses: Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground:
A dwarf ginseng: Panax trifolius.
glosses: Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground:
Synonym of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
synonyms: word: peanut
extra: Arachis hypogaea
glosses: Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground:
An underground tuber of a plant of the genus Tuber.
synonyms: truffle
Related terms: groundnut
tree nut
vaagmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɑɡ.mɝ/
Forms: form: vaagmers
form: vaagmar
form: vaagmaer
Etymology: From Icelandic vagmeri (“flounder”, literally “wave mare”).
Senses: glosses: The dealfish, Trachipterus arcticus
Synonyms: dealfish
aggregately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aggregately
form: most aggregately
Etymology: From aggregate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: collectively; in mass.
Synonyms: collectively
jointly
mutually
wanghee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwe(ɪ)ŋˌhi/
Forms: form: wanghees
form: whangee
form: whanghee
Etymology: From Mandarin 黃藜 /黄藜 (huánglí).
Senses: glosses: Bamboo species of the genus Phyllostachys, especially Phyllostachys nigra.
glosses: A walking cane made from such bamboo.
Synonyms: sense: Phyllostachys nigra
word: black bamboo
aggrege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aggreges
form: aggreging
form: aggreged
form: aggreged
form: aggredge
Etymology: From Old French agreger, from Vulgar Latin *aggraviō, variant of Classical Latin aggravō. Doublet of aggravate and aggrieve.
Senses: glosses: To make heavy; to aggravate.
aggress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.
Senses: examples: text: his aggress / Was made with such precaution as to quench / Douay's intent and throw him in a mess.
ref: 1875, anonymous author, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy: a poem:
glosses: Aggression.
aggress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: aggresses
form: aggressing
form: aggressed
form: aggressed
Etymology: From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.
Senses: glosses: To set upon; to attack.
glosses: To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone.
raw_tags: construed with on
Derived terms: microaggress
Related terms: aggression
aggressive
aggressiveness
aggressor
aggrievance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrievances
Senses: synonyms: word: hardship
word: sorrow
word: affliction
word: aggrievance
word: distress
word: grief
word: grievance
word: hardship
word: misery
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: undelight
word: vexation
word: woe
word: wrong
glosses: oppression; hardship; grievance.
aggroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aggroups
form: aggrouping
form: aggrouped
form: aggrouped
Senses: glosses: To bring together in a group; to group.
Derived terms: aggroupment
aggroupment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggroupments
Etymology: From aggroup + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
aggri
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aggry.