cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abraum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑˌpɹaʊm/
rhymes: -ɑpɹaʊm
Forms: form: Abraum salts
Etymology: From German abräumen (“to remove”), from ab (“from”) (Old High German aba (“away”)) + raum (“space”) (Old High German rūm).
Senses: glosses: A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
abraxas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹæk.səs/
Forms: form: abraxases
Etymology: Mistaken spelling of Abrasax.
Senses: topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A transcription of Abrasax.
abray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: abrays
form: abraying
form: abrayed
form: abrayed
Etymology: Back-formation from the preterite abraid, abrayde. More at abraid.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abraid.
abreast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
ref: 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Guardian Unlimited:
text: The only path was narrow and rugged: two men could hardly walk abreast;
ref: 1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
coordinate_terms: tandem#Adverb
glosses: Side by side and facing forward.
glosses: Alongside; parallel to.
glosses: Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
examples: text: She believes it is important to keep abreast of new scientific developments.
glosses: Followed by of or with: up to a certain level or line; equally advanced.
examples: text: The west wind blew a tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water [of the Solway] three foot abreast.
glosses: Breast high (of an advancing wave).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Side by side; also, opposite; on a line with the vessel's beam.
examples: text: Abreast therewith began a convocation.
ref: 1842, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, From the birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII., 3rd edition, volume 1, page 412:
glosses: At the same time; simultaneously.
Synonyms: sense: informed
word: apprised
sense: informed
word: informed
sense: informed
word: up to date
sense: informed
word: up-to-date
Derived terms: line abreast
abreast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
Senses: glosses: Side by side, facing forward.
glosses: Alongside; parallel to.
glosses: Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
examples: text: to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science
text: Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
ref: c. 1900, Kate Chopin, A Reflection:
glosses: Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam.
abreast
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
Senses: examples: text: This ship sank abreast the island.
glosses: Abreast of; alongside.
abrenounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbɹiˈnaʊnts/
Forms: form: abrenounces
form: abrenouncing
form: abrenounced
form: abrenounced
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin abrenunciare, from Latin ab- (“from”) + renuntio (“revoke”).
Senses: examples: text: Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.
ref: 1536 June 16 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. Master Latimer’s Discourse on the Same Day in the Afternoon [Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, before the Parliament Began, the Sixth Day of June, the Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of the Late King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. […], volume I, London: […] J. Scott, […], published 1758, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: To renounce; to contradict.
abrenunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɹi.nʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abrenunciations
Etymology: From either Old French abrenonciation or from Late Latin abrenuntiatio, from Late Latin abrenuntiatiō, from ab + renuntiatiō (“to renounce”).
* See abrenounce.
Senses: examples: text: an abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed
ref: 1842, Fuller, The Church History of Britain:
glosses: Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction.
abreption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abreptions
Etymology: From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”).
Senses: examples: text: Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.
ref: 1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D., page 135:
glosses: A snatching away.
abreuvoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbɹuːˈvwɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: abreuvoirs
Etymology: Borrowed from French abreuvoir (“a watering place”).
Senses: glosses: A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc).
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
abricock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abricocks
Senses: glosses: apricot
abridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: abridges
form: abridging
form: abridged
form: abridged
Etymology: From Middle English abreggen, abregge, abrigge (“curtail, lessen”), from Old French abregier, abreger, from Late Latin abbreviō, abberiāre (“make brief”). Doublet of abbreviate.
Senses: glosses: To deprive; to cut off.
glosses: To debar from.
examples: text: She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 2, Chapter 31, p. 85:
text: The bridegroom, perceiving his condition, abridged the visit […]
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
examples: text: It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil. He abridged his Dictionary. He proposed to bring out an edition of Shakespeare by subscription, and many subscribers sent in their names and laid down their money; but he soon found the task so little to his taste that he turned to more attractive employments.
ref: 1911, Samuel Johnson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness."
ref: 1891, Henry Melville, chapter 3, in Billy Budd:
glosses: To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
glosses: Cut short; truncate.
examples: text: He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
glosses: To curtail.
Derived terms: abridgable
abridgeable
abridged
abridgement
abridger
abridgment
reabridge
Related terms: unabridged
abridger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: abridgers
Etymology: From abridge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.
ref: 1985, Carol Shields, “Accidents”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 47:
glosses: One who abridges, a person who shortens written works.
Synonyms: summarizer
abridgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Forms: form: abridgments
form: abridgement
Etymology: First attested in 1494. From Middle English abrygement, from Middle French abrégement. Equivalent to abridge + -ment.
Senses: examples: an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses
synonyms: diminution
lessening
shortening
glosses: The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
glosses: The state of being abridged or lessened.
examples: text: The article which embodied my researches having proved somewhat too long for its purpose, an abridgment of it only was inserted in the Encyclopædia.
ref: 1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, volume 1, page viii:
text: When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
ref: 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
glosses: An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
examples: text: What abridgment have you for this evening? What masque? what music?
ref: 1605, Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, V-i:
glosses: That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly
topics: law
glosses: Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
topics: law
glosses: The leaving out of certain portions of a plaintiff's demand, the writ still holding good for the remainder.
Synonyms: sense: act of abridging
word: compendium
sense: act of abridging
word: epitome
sense: act of abridging
word: abstract
sense: act of abridging
word: synopsis
sense: act of abridging
word: précis
Derived terms: nonabridgment
Related terms: abridge
abroach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: abroaches
form: abroaching
form: abroached
form: abroached
Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
Senses: examples: text: on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
ref: 1633, George Herbert, The Agonie:
glosses: To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
abroach
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
Senses: examples: text: 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115,
Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]
text: […] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 11, in Ivanhoe, volume 3, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 285:
glosses: Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
examples: text: I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
english: I do the wrong, and am the first to begin to quarrel. / The secret mischiefs that I set afoot, / I blame on others: […]
translation: I do the wrong, and am the first to begin to quarrel. / The secret mischiefs that I set afoot, / I blame on others: […]
bold_translation_offsets: 88
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text: 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64,
When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:
synonyms: afoot
astir
glosses: In a state to be diffused or propagated.
abroach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
Senses: glosses: Tapped; broached.
glosses: Astir; moving about.
abroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɔːd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɔd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: abrode
form: overbroad
form: abread
form: abreed
form: abrede
form: abraid
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
Senses: examples: text: I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody.
ref: 1929, King George V, widely (and variously) quoted
text: I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
ref: c. 1991, New Statesman & Society, volumes 3–4, page 180:
text: That is not a xenophobic remark. I am a xenophiliac; I love abroad. I love foreigners. I just do not like the way that they are running the European agricultural policy.
ref: 2001 March 13, The Earl of Onslow, speaking in the House of Lords, quoted in Hansard
glosses: Countries or lands abroad.
Derived terms: near abroad
abroad
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɔːd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɔd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: abrode
form: overbroad
form: abread
form: abreed
form: abrede
form: abraid
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
Senses: glosses: Throughout, over.
abroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɔːd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɔd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: abrode
form: overbroad
form: abread
form: abreed
form: abrede
form: abraid
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
Senses: examples: text: [...] much shorter than an abroad trip at eight nights although the average spending per person night is only slightly less on a US trip than an abroad trip, $37 compared with $41. Around half of Canadian trips to other countries are to Europe.
ref: 1991, Alan Jefferson, Leonard John Lickorish, Marketing Tourism: A Practical Guide:
text: [...] an abroad trip was going to raise some heat in the town, amongst our relatives. My family has always been the pioneers of middle-classism. My mother has still never owned a diamond.
ref: 2018 January 25, Shalini & Brajesh, My Traditional Dil-E-Maa, Notion Press, →ISBN:
text: [...] as her father had an abroad trip, he had dropped her mother here.
ref: 2018 April 12, Beena Sunil, Thorns of Love, Notion Press, →ISBN:
text: Sreeja argued with Lalit to reduce his abroad trip and Lalit did listen to her. [...] Sreeja started to feel lonely even when Lalit was around. At certain point Lalit couldn't take it anymore and left for months to an abroad trip.
ref: 2022 February 19, Deepika Kathiresan, Yuva Janani, Felicible Paradise, Unvoiced Heart, page 31:
text: He had contracted the disease during an abroad trip to draw up an agreement for the mass production of low-power engines.
ref: 2022 June 24, Alessandro Ferrari, Pietro Pizzo, Injection Technologies and Mixture Formation Strategies For Spark Ignition and Dual-Fuel Engines, SAE International, →ISBN, page 3:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: International.
abrogable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ɹə.ɡə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more abrogable
form: most abrogable
Etymology: From Latin abrogō. Equivalent to abrogate + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being abrogated.
abrogate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ă.bʹrə.gət
ipa: /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/
ipa: /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡət/
enpr: ăbʹrōgāt
enpr: ăbʹrəgāt
ipa: /ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: abrogen
Etymology: First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.
Senses: examples: text: Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 4:
glosses: Abrogated; abolished.
abrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abrogations
Etymology: First attested in 1535. From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.
ref: 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: The act of abrogating.
A repeal by authority; abolition.
glosses: The act of abrogating.
The blocking of a molecular process or function.
qualifier: molecular biology
Derived terms: abrogationism
abrogationist
abrogative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abrogative
form: most abrogative
Etymology: From abrogate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: an abrogative law
glosses: Tending or designed to abrogate.
abrogator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: abrogators
Etymology: From abrogate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who abrogates.
abrood
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹud/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more abrood
form: most abrood
Etymology: From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- + brood.
Senses: examples: text: The word in the original (as St. Hierom tells us from the Hebrew traditions) implies, that the Spirit of God sat abrood upon the whole rude mass, as birds upon their eggs, […]
ref: 1821, George D'Oyly, Hendrik Slatius, Henry Wharton, The life of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury:
glosses: Upon a brood; on a hatch.
glosses: Mischief.
abrood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹud/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more abrood
form: most abrood
Etymology: From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- + brood.
Senses: glosses: Upon a brood; hatching eggs.
glosses: Mischief.
abrook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: abrooks
form: abrooking
form: abrooked
form: abrooked
Etymology: From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).
Senses: examples: text: […] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, act 2, scene 4, lines 8–12:
glosses: To brook; to endure.
abrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌpt/
ipa: /æbˈɹʌpt/
rhymes: -ʌpt
Forms: form: abrupts
form: abrupting
form: abrupted
form: abrupted
Etymology: First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: Till death abrupts them.
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: To tear off or asunder.
glosses: To interrupt suddenly.
Derived terms: abruptedly
abrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌpt/
ipa: /æbˈɹʌpt/
rhymes: -ʌpt
Forms: form: abrupts
Etymology: First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: Over the vast abrupt.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, 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:
glosses: Something which is abrupt; an abyss.
abruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌp.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: abruptions
Etymology: From abrupt + -ion. From Latin abruptio, from abrumpo (“to break off”).
Senses: glosses: A sudden termination or interruption.
examples: text: By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight.
ref: 1837, Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cowley:
text: After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.
ref: 1996, Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, page 336:
glosses: A sudden breaking off or breaking away; a violent separation of bodies.
Related terms: abrupt
abruptive
abruptly
abruptness
placental abruption
abruptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌp.li/
ipa: /əˈbɹʌpt.li/
Forms: form: more abruptly
form: most abruptly
Etymology: From abrupt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The professor stopped her lecture abruptly when she noticed someone fall off their seat.
text: After weeks of speculation and intracoalitional debate, the text of the compromise was released on Sept. 21. By Sept. 27, the coalition had fallen apart, with Manchin somewhat abruptly pulling what had become known as the side deal from a must-pass budget resolution.
ref: 2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: abruptedly
glosses: In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously.
Derived terms: abruptly-pinnate
abruptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹʌp.nəs/
ipa: /əˈbɹʌpt.nəs/
Forms: form: abruptnesses
Etymology: From abrupt + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being abrupt or broken
examples: text: So be neither diffuse with damp and slippery words nor blunt the edge of your discourse by abruptness of style. Study in particular the purest period of style, that those who move only to Ciceronian rhythm call you not a Celt.
ref: 1853-6, Thomas Browne, To a friend intending a difficult work:
glosses: Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence.
Synonyms: sense: suddenness
word: spontaneity
word: subitaneousness
word: suddenness
abscess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbsɛs/
ipa: /ˈæbsɪs/
rhymes: -æbsɛs
rhymes: -æbsɪs
Forms: form: abscesses
Etymology: From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
Derived terms: abbey-countershirt-stud abscess
abscessation
abscessogenic
abscess root
Bartholin abscess
blind abscess
Brodie's abscess
cold abscess
collar-button abscess
collar stud abscess
deep abscess
dry abscess
hot abscess
microabscess
miliary abscess
milk abscess
mother abscess
Related terms: boil
carbuncle
gathering
pustule
abscess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbsɛs/
ipa: /ˈæbsɪs/
rhymes: -æbsɛs
rhymes: -æbsɪs
Forms: form: abscesses
form: abscessing
form: abscessed
form: abscessed
Etymology: From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.
Senses: glosses: To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.
abscession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abscessions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin abscessio (“a separation”); from abscedere. See abscess.
Senses: examples: text: […] neither justly excommunicated out of that particular Church, to which eh was orderly joyned, not excommunicating himself by voluntary Schisme, declared abscession, separation, or Apostasie.
ref: 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria:
text: I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow […]
ref: 1939, The British Journal of Rheumatism: An Independent Review, page 161:
text: Machine harvest is comparable in cost now to hand harvest and could be better if a suitable abscession material is found.
ref: 1971, Farmer's Digest, volume 35, issue 1, page 86
glosses: A separating; a removal; a going away.
examples: text: The abscession being already come to suppuration […]
ref: 1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6:
glosses: An abscess.
abscind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɪnd/
ipa: /æbˈsɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Forms: form: abscinds
form: abscinding
form: abscinded
form: abscinded
Etymology: From Latin abscindere (“cut off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + scindō (“cut, rend”).
Senses: examples: text: Two syllables... abscinded from the rest.
ref: January 26 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 90
glosses: To cut off.
Related terms: rescind
abscission
abscissa
abscision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/
Forms: form: abscisions
Etymology: From Latin abscisiō.
Senses: glosses: A cutting away.
absciss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs/
rhymes: -æbsɪs
Forms: form: abscisses
Etymology: From Latin abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō (“cut asunder”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abscissa
Derived terms: absciss layer
absciss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs/
rhymes: -æbsɪs
ipa: /əbˈsɪs/
ipa: /æbˈsɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈæb.sɪs/
rhymes: -æbsɪs
Forms: form: abscisses
form: abscissing
form: abscissed
form: abscissed
Etymology: Back-formation from abscission.
Senses: glosses: To cut off by abscission.
glosses: To separate (as a leaf from a twig) by abscission.
abscissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪs.ə/
Forms: form: abscissas
form: abscissae
form: abscissæ
Etymology: By ellipsis from Latin [linea] abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō (“cut off”). See abscind.
Senses: examples: text: The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: ordinate
glosses: The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: ordinate
glosses: The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown.
Synonyms: absciss
Hypernyms: sense: first of two coordinates
word: coordinate
sense: horizontal line
word: axis
Related terms: ordinate
applicate
Traditional Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈdɪʃənəl tʃaɪˈniːz/
Senses: glosses: Chinese written using the traditional form of Chinese characters, as opposed to Simplified Chinese (introduced by the PRC as script reform).
Related terms: Fantizi
jiantizi
Hanzi
shinjitai
kyujitai
Simplified Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Chinese written using the forms of Chinese characters introduced by the People's Republic of China as script reform. The characters are simplified (with a reduced number of strokes, etc.) compared to their pre-reform shapes.
Related terms: word: jiantizi
word: jianhuazi
word: Fantizi
word: Hanzi
word: shinjitai
raw_tags: in Japan
on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Southern US, Midland US, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ɔn/
ipa: /ɔʊn/
enpr: än
ipa: /ɑn/
ipa: [ɒːn ~ ɔːn]
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /än/
homophone: awn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -ɔːn
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.
Senses: examples: text: turn the television on
glosses: To an operating state.
examples: text: The lid wasn't screwed on properly.
text: Put on your hat and gloves.
glosses: So as to cover or be fitted.
examples: text: The policeman moved the tramp on.
text: Drive on past the railway station.
text: From now on things are going to be different.
text: rock on
text: He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
examples: text: and so on
text: He rambled on and on.
glosses: In continuation, at length.
examples: text: Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village.
qualifier: infrequent in the US
glosses: Later.
examples: text: That horse is twenty-to-one on, so you need to stake twenty pounds just to win one pound.
antonyms: against
glosses: Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
examples: text: The black was previously unavailable, but in potting that red, he's now pushed the black on.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: Of a ball, into a pottable position.
Synonyms: sense: later
word: after
sense: later
word: afterward
sense: later
word: afterwards
sense: later
word: later
sense: later
word: subsequently
sense: later
word: thence
on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Southern US, Midland US, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ɔn/
ipa: /ɔʊn/
enpr: än
ipa: /ɑn/
ipa: [ɒːn ~ ɔːn]
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /än/
homophone: awn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: ons
form: oning
form: onning
form: oned
form: oned
form: onned
form: onned
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-.
Cognate with North Frisian a (“on, in”), Saterland Frisian an (“on, at”), West Frisian oan (“on, at”), Dutch aan (“on, at, to”), Low German an (“on, at”), German an (“to, at, on”), Swedish å (“on, at, in”), Faroese á (“on, onto, in, at”), Icelandic á (“on, in”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, upon”), Albanian në (“in”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish på, Swedish på, Norwegian på, see upon.
Senses: examples: text: Can you on the light?
synonyms: turn on
glosses: To switch on.
on
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Southern US, Midland US, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ɔn/
ipa: /ɔʊn/
enpr: än
ipa: /ɑn/
ipa: [ɒːn ~ ɔːn]
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /än/
homophone: awn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: ohn
Etymology: From Old Norse ón, án (“without”), from Proto-Germanic *ēnu, *ēno, *ino (“without”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḗnu (“without”). Cognate with North Frisian on (“without”), Middle Dutch an, on (“without”), Middle Low German āne (“without”), German ohne (“without”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌿 (inu, “without, except”).
Unlikely to be related to Ancient Greek ἄνευ (áneu, “without”), which is likely akin to Proto-Germanic *sundraz instead (whence sunder).
Senses: glosses: Without.
on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Southern US, Midland US, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ɔn/
ipa: /ɔʊn/
enpr: än
ipa: /ɑn/
ipa: [ɒːn ~ ɔːn]
ipa: /ɒn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /än/
homophone: awn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -ɔːn
Etymology: From Japanese 音読み (on'yomi, literally “sound reading”).
Senses: examples: text: Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
glosses: In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
Related terms: word: kun
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: on dit
kun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 訓読み (kun'yomi), literally "meaning reading" (i.e. pronunciation based on meaning).
Senses: examples: text: Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
glosses: In the Japanese language, the pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character as a native Japanese word that means what the character represents, contrasted with on.
Related terms: kun-yomi
on
abscission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/
Forms: form: abscissions
Etymology: From Latin abscissiō, from abscindō (“I cut, I tear”).
Senses: examples: text: Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: The act or process of cutting off.
glosses: The state of being cut off.
glosses: A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
Derived terms: abscissional
abscission layer
abscission zone
Related terms: abscise
abscisic
abscisic acid
abscisin
abscissin
abscondence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbzˈkɑn.dn̩ts/
ipa: /æbzˈkɑn.dn̩s/
ipa: /æbˈskɑn.dn̩ts/
ipa: /æbˈskɑn.dn̩s/
Forms: form: abscondences
Etymology: From abscond + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: Security as a result became a thing of the past, and as a corollary, abscondences rose dramatically.
ref: 1976, Henry R. Rollin, “The care of the mentally abnormal offender and the protection of the public”, in Journal of Medical Ethics, →DOI:
text: The staff feared that earlier transfer to unlocked units would increase the abscondence.
ref: 1998, Compulsory treatment for alcohol use disorders, page 315:
glosses: The act of absconding, or illicitly escaping; hiding of a fugitive.
absconder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈskɑn.dɚ/
ipa: /æbˈzkɑn.dɚ/
ipa: /æbˈskɒn.də/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: absconders
Etymology: From abscond + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] unless such an Act of Grace do reach insolvent Absconders, who to shun the Cruelty of their severe Creditors confine themselves out of their Reach, ’tis humbly conceived, ’twill be but half an Act of Grace.
ref: 1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,:
text: What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […]
ref: 1909, O. Henry, “The Guardian of the Accolade”, in Roads of Destiny, Doubleday Page, page 33:
text: Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.
ref: 1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, page 112:
text: He smiled at the view over the hedge, at the other front gardens, at the approaching Rover and then its driver, squinting in a rictus of his own against the evening sun, and making Paul feel again like an intruder, or now perhaps an absconder.
ref: 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, Knopf Canada, Part Three, Chapter 1:
glosses: A person who absconds.
odd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏd
ipa: /ɒd/
ipa: /ɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: awed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: odds
Etymology: From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”).
Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon””) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("point").
Senses: examples: text: I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
glosses: Something left over, not forming part of a set.
examples: text: So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An odd number.
Derived terms: at odds
Related terms: Odd Rode
quiz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪz/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪz]
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: quizzes
form: quizzing
form: quizzed
form: quizzed
Etymology: Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin.
* The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz.
* The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
* Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
* Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin).
* Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
* A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.
Senses: examples: text: he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—
ref: 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis:
text: 'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—'
It was a custom of the corps to quiz Puddock about his cookery […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
glosses: To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
examples: text: He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour.
text: This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia diagnosis.
ref: 2023 August 31, “What's on in the Lords 4-7 September”, in UK Parliament:
glosses: To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
glosses: To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
glosses: To play with a quiz.
Derived terms: quizzable
calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.ən.də/
enpr: kălʹən-dər
ipa: /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/
ipa: [ˈkʰæl.(ə)n.dɚ]
rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
homophone: calender
homophone: qalandar
homophone: Callander
Forms: form: calendars
form: calendaring
form: calendared
form: calendared
form: kalendar
form: calender
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French calendierbor.
Middle English kalender
English calendar
From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
Senses: examples: text: The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.
topics: law
glosses: To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
examples: text: Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then Sinners dayes.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
raptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæptɚ/
rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Forms: form: raptors
form: raptour
Etymology: From Middle English raptour, from Latin raptor (“kidnapper, thief”).
Senses: glosses: A bird of prey.
glosses: One who ravishes or plunders.
Related terms: oviraptor
raptorial
raptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæptɚ/
rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Forms: form: raptors
Etymology: Popularized (and possibly coined) in 1990 by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park; clipping of velociraptor, ultimately of the same etymology as above.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws on the hind legs.
Hyponyms: utahraptor
velociraptor
Derived terms: Utahraptor
utahraptor
Related terms: Velociraptor
velociraptor
week
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wēk
ipa: /wiːk/
ipa: /wik/
homophone: weak
rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: And ho, ho, ho, went Mister Pig, and week, week, week, went she; […]
ref: 1837, William Evans Burton, Burton's Comic Songster, page 229:
text: […] his head came a-top of one of a litter of young pigs that happened at that moment to be foraging about: week! week! week! week! week! cried little piggy.
ref: 1848, The Garland, Or, Token of Friendship, page 231:
glosses: The squeal of a pig.
abashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Forms: form: more abashed
form: most abashed
form: abasht
Senses: examples: text: So spake the Lord Goldry Bluszco, standing in great pride and splendour beneath the starry canopy, and scowling terribly on the Ambassador from Witchland, so that the Ambassador was abashed and his knees smote together.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
Derived terms: abashedly
abashedness
bashful
unabashed
abashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Forms: form: abasht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abash
Synonyms: sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: ashamed
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: confounded
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: confused
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: discomfited
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: discomposed
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: disconcerted
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: discountenanced
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: dismayed
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: dumbfounded
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: embarrassed
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: humiliated
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: mortified
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: nonplussed
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: out of countenance
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: perturbed
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: shamefaced
sense: synonyms of "abashed"
word: taken aback
leap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lēp
ipa: /liːp/
ipa: /lip/
ipa: /lɛp/
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe (“to run”), Swedish löpa (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
Senses: qualifier: calendar
glosses: Intercalary, bissextile.