cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
contest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kəntĕst'
ipa: /kənˈtɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: contests
form: contesting
form: contested
form: contested
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).
Senses: examples: text: I will contest for the open seat on the board.
text: Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
synonyms: compete
contend
go in for
joust
glosses: To contend.
examples: text: The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
text: Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
ref: 1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century:
text: On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
ref: 1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:
synonyms: call into question
oppose
antonyms: support
glosses: To call into question; to oppose.
examples: text: The troops contested every inch of ground.
glosses: To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
topics: law
synonyms: controvert
glosses: To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
Derived terms: contestability
contestable
contestation
contestee
contestible
recontest
combat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmˌbæt/
ipa: /ˈkʌmˌbæt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌbæt/
Forms: form: combats
Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
Senses: examples: text: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved into combat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders.
ref: 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 0:56 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
glosses: a struggle for victory
Derived terms: anticombat
armored combat
armoured combat
close combat
combatable
combat air patrol
combatant
combat armor suit
combat armour suit
combatative
combat boot
combat box
combat drone
combat engineer
combat fatigue
combat fatigues
combat general
combative
combat loading
combat log
combat pants
combat pay
combat-ready
combat roll
combat sport
combat stress reaction
combat trousers
combatworthy
combat zone
intercombat
mortal combat
mutual combat
noncombat
postcombat
post-combat
precombat
pre-combat
single combat
stage combat
trial by combat
Related terms: abate
abattoir
battalion
batter
battery
battle
debate
hors de combat
rebate
combat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈbæt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmˌbæt/
ipa: /ˈkʌmˌbæt/
ipa: /kəmˈbæt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌbæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: combats
form: combating
form: combatting
form: combated
form: combated
form: combatted
form: combatted
Etymology: 16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
Senses: examples: text: It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
text: President Donald Trump’s administration has made combating what it considers anti-Israel and antisemitic movements on college campuses a priority.
He signed an executive order during his second week in office to “combat antisemitism” in schools and on university campuses, and on February 3 announced the creation of a multiagency task force to carry out the mandate.
ref: 2025 March 10, Karina Tsui and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”, in CNN:
glosses: To fight; to struggle against.
examples: text: To combat with a blind man I disdain.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
glosses: To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
victory
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭkʹtəri
enpr: vĭkʹtri
ipa: /ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɪk.tɹi/
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye.
The interjection is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* French victoire
* Italian vittoria
* Portuguese vitoria
* Spanish victoria
* Romanian victorie
Senses: examples: text: Saint George and Victory; fight Souldiers, fight: […]
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 113, column 1:
text: Victory! Victory to the prostrate nations! / Bear witness Night, and ye mute Constellations / Who gaze on us from your crystalline cars! / Thoughts have gone forth whose powers can sleep no more! / Victory! Victory!
ref: 1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Fifth”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, […]; and C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, stanza LI, section 6, page 123:
text: Victory! Victory! Russia's famish'd eagles / Dare not to prey beneath the crescent's light.
ref: 1821 (date written), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Hellas: A Lyrical Drama, London: Charles and James Ollier […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.
victory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭkʹtəri
enpr: vĭkʹtri
ipa: /ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɪk.tɹi/
Forms: form: victories
form: victorying
form: victoried
form: victoried
Etymology: From Middle English victorien (“to overcome, vanquish”), from Old French victorier, or from Medieval Latin victōriāre, from Latin victōria (noun); see further at etymology 1.
Cognates
* Italian vittoriare
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen ſin got the upper hand of us, and vvee victoried by them; vve vvere then their ſervants, their ſlave: vvhen vvee overcome and have victoried them; let us make them our ſlaves perpetually; let us bind them in chaines, caſt them in priſon, and for ever utterly deſtroy their evill povver: […]
ref: 1639, John Welles, “Of Mortification”, in The Soules Progresse to the Celestiall Canaan, or Heavenly Jerusalem. […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] and are to be sold by Henry Shephard […], →OCLC, 2nd part, page 245:
text: [The game of dice and ball] is near of kin, in the nature of the vvord to that game of Cock-all, vvhich boyes uſe amongſt us, vvhich Cock-all, is as much vvin and take all, as a Cock does vvho victorying, has not onely the praiſe of all, but vvins all thats laied on the match by the Abettors againſt him.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLVIII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 517:
glosses: To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).
controversy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɹəˌvɜː.si/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɹəˌvɝ.si/
Forms: form: controversies
Etymology: From Middle English controversie, from Old French controversie, from Latin contrōversia (“debate, contention, controversy”), from contrōversus (“turned in an opposite direction”).
Senses: examples: text: [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 11, recto:
text: From time to time I have been permitted to behold the working, in different ages, of the great controversy between Christ, the Prince of life, the Author of our salvation, and Satan, the prince of evil, the author of sin, the first transgressor of God's holy law.
ref: 1911 [1888], Ellen G. White, “Introduction”, in The Great Controversy, page x:
text: The game was engulfed in controversy when [Jack] Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with [Luis] Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players – Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony – but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 – 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2019:
text: On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
synonyms: word: argument
word: argy-bargy
word: altercation
word: barney
word: bawl out
word: blue
word: bobbery
word: brawl
word: clash
word: conflict
word: controversy
word: debate
word: difference
word: ding-dong
word: disagreement
word: discordance
word: disharmony
word: disputation
word: dispute
word: dissonance
word: disunion
word: dustup
word: face-off
word: falling out
word: feud
word: fight
word: flite
word: hassle
word: quarrel
word: quibble
word: row
word: spat
word: squabble
word: tangle
word: threap
word: tiff
word: wrangle
antonyms: consensus
agreement
glosses: A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.
Derived terms: controversial
cybercontroversy
Hesychast controversy
manufactroversy
noncontroversy
nontroversy
postcontroversy
precontroversy
pseudo-controversy
teach the controversy
Related terms: controversialist
controvert
controverter
controvertible
opposing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: opposing armies
text: opposing players
text: opposing teams
glosses: That opposes or oppose; on the opposite side.
Derived terms: nonopposing
opposingly
unopposing
opposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oppose
opposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oppose
superiority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.ti/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: superiorities
form: superiourity
Etymology: From Middle English superiorite, from Old French superiorite, from Medieval Latin superioritas, from Latin superior.
Morphologically superior + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Many US colleges want to achieve superiority in the sport of football.
text: The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 15:
text: Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: The state of being superior.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
Synonyms: word: advantage
word: altitude
word: ascendance
word: ascendancy
word: betterhood
word: betterness
word: dominion
word: elderdom
word: excellence
word: forehand
word: greatness
word: leetness
word: mastery
word: overhand
word: precedency
word: precellence
word: precellency
word: predominance
word: preeminence
word: superiority
word: superiorness
word: supremacy
Hypernyms: word: inequality
Hyponyms: word: command
word: gree
word: nobility
word: perfection
word: prepollence
word: preponderance
word: air superiority
word: air supremacy
word: full-spectrum superiority
word: high ground
Derived terms: air superiority
casualty of superiority
comparative of superiority
full-spectrum superiority
full spectrum superiority
superiority complex
superlative of superiority
Related terms: word: superior
word: first among equals
word: the upper hand
word: whip hand
word: goodness
word: highness
word: purity
higher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹər
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhaj.jə(r)/
enpr: hīr
ipa: /haɪə/
ipa: /haɪɹ/
homophone: hire (some speakers)
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of high: more high
higher
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹər
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhaj.jə(r)/
enpr: hīr
ipa: /haɪə/
ipa: /haɪɹ/
homophone: hire (some speakers)
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of high: more high
higher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹər
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhaj.jə(r)/
enpr: hīr
ipa: /haɪə/
ipa: /haɪɹ/
homophone: hire (some speakers)
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: highers
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
Derived terms: advanced higher
higher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹər
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhaj.jə(r)/
enpr: hīr
ipa: /haɪə/
ipa: /haɪɹ/
homophone: hire (some speakers)
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: highers
form: highering
form: highered
form: highered
Senses: examples: text: It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the amount of your exports?
ref: 1847, George Crosby, Crosby's Parliamentary Record:
text: I am glad also that my hon. friend the Minister of Finance had the firmness to oppose all these influences to make him change his policy, and I hope, for the good of the country and the blessing of the Dominion, that when any change takes place it will be in the direction of lowering rather than of highering the tariff.
ref: 1903, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates, House of Commons:
glosses: To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
glosses: To ascend.
Derived terms: Coity Higher
Higher Bockhampton
Higher Buxton
Higher Heysham
Higher Hurst
highermost
higherness
higher-order
higher-speed rail
Llanrhidian Higher
Newcastle Higher
effort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfət/
ipa: /ˈɛfɚt/
Forms: form: efforts
Etymology: From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”).
Compare typologically Bulgarian усилие (usilie), Czech úsilí, Polish wysiłek, Russian уси́лие (usílije) (< Proto-Slavic *sila).
Senses: examples: text: make an effort
text: take a lot of effort
text: put in effort
text: It took a lot of effort to find a decent-sized, fully-furnished apartment within walking distance of the office. He made a conscious effort to not appear affected by the stories in the paper.
text: The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The 30-year-old South Korean, who joined United in 2005, retired from international duty after last season's Asian Cup in an effort to prolong his club
ref: 2011 June 22, Press Association, “Manchester United offer Park Ji-sung a new two-year contract”, in The Guardian:
text: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
synonyms: trouble
glosses: The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
examples: text: Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans.
text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: An endeavor.
examples: text: the two bodies between which the effort acts
ref: 1858, Macquorn Rankine, Manual of Applied Mechanics:
glosses: A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
Synonyms: struggle
Derived terms: A for effort
best efforts
center of effort
centre of effort
countereffort
effort distance
effortful
effortless
effortpost
joint efforts
low-effort syndrome
make an effort
make every effort
spare no effort
tractive effort
war effort
effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfət/
ipa: /ˈɛfɚt/
Forms: form: efforts
form: efforting
form: efforted
form: efforted
Etymology: From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”).
Compare typologically Bulgarian усилие (usilie), Czech úsilí, Polish wysiłek, Russian уси́лие (usílije) (< Proto-Slavic *sila).
Senses: glosses: To make an effort.
examples: text: When old, he lived in London where, being High-minded and Poor, he was exposed to the contempt of disingenuous persons. Yet he efforted his Spirits with a Commemoration of the Days of Old.
ref: 1684, Thomas Fuller, G. S., Anglorum Speculum: Or The Worthies of England, in Church and State:
glosses: To strengthen, fortify or stimulate
achieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈt͡ʃiːvɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of achieve
achieving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈt͡ʃiːvɪŋ/
Forms: form: achievings
Senses: glosses: An achievement; the process of achieving something.
exertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɝʃən/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɜːʃən/
Forms: form: exertions
Senses: examples: text: Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion, that sort of exertion of all the most tiresome, because the least interesting...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 246:
text: Liverpool have looked a little jaded from their exertions in recent weeks and there was an air of desperation about their attempts to restore equality in the closing minutes in the face of the experience and game management of opponents who are time-served masters of the Champions League art.
ref: 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
Derived terms: exertional
exertionless
inexertion
nonexertion
overexertion
systemic exertion intolerance disease
Related terms: exert
exerting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exert
exert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɝt/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɜːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: exerts
form: exerting
form: exerted
form: exerted
Etymology: From Latin exsertus, past participle of exserō (“to stretch or thrust forth or out”), from ex- + serō (“to string together”).
Senses: examples: text: He considered exerting his influence on John to gain an advantage for himself.
text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.
ref: 2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport:
text: How can the unions - or more specifically the RMT - possibly think this is a good time to exert a bit of industrial muscle and indulge in strikes both on the national railway and the London Underground?
ref: 2022 January 12, Christian Wolmar, “A new year... but the same old mistakes are being made”, in RAIL, number 948, pages 40–41:
synonyms: exercise
utilize
glosses: To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.
examples: text: I exerted myself in today's training.
synonyms: extend
glosses: To put in vigorous action.
Derived terms: coexert
exertable
exertive
exertment
overexert
unexerted
Related terms: exertion
vigorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪɡəɹəs/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /ˈvaɪɡɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪɡəɹəs
Forms: form: more vigorous
form: most vigorous
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vigrus, from Old French vigoros (French vigoureux), from Medieval Latin vigorosus, from Latin vigor. Doublet of vigoroso.
Senses: examples: text: a vigorous scrub
text: a vigorous search
text: Life in the country will be fuller, richer, and more comfortful, because it is freer, healthier, and more vigorous.
ref: 1895, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 280:
text: Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
Circling in singles and in pairs
In this vigorous anonymity
ref: 1976, Joni Mitchell, “Song for Sharon”:
glosses: Physically strong and active.
glosses: Mentally strong and active.
examples: text: a vigorous shrub
glosses: Rapid of growth.
Derived terms: vigorously
strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛŋ(k)θ/
ipa: [st̠͡ɹ̠ɛŋkθ]
ipa: [st̠͡ɹ̠ɛn̪θ]
ipa: [s̠t͡ʃɹ̥ɛn̪θ]
ipa: [st̠͡ɹ̠ɪŋkθ]
note: pre-/ŋ/ tensing
ipa: [st̠͡ɹ̠ɛɪŋkθ]
note: pre-/ŋ/ tensing
ipa: [st̠͡ɹ̠eɪŋkθ]
rhymes: -ɛŋθ
rhymes: -ɛnθ
Forms: form: strengths
form: strengthing
form: strengthed
form: strengthed
Etymology: From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
Senses: examples: text: ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Colossians j:[11], folio cclviiii, verso:
text: Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.
ref: 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] :
text: In witnes wherof we haue cauſed this pꝛeſent wꝛiting to be ſtrengthed with the ſeal of our facultie[…]
ref: 1550, Edward Halle, “King Henry the viij.”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illuſtre Famelies of Lancaſtre and Yoꝛke, page 1271:
synonyms: word: anneal
word: brace
word: build up
word: confirm
word: enstrengthen
word: fortify
word: harden
word: intend
word: indurate
word: invigorate
word: munite
word: nerve
word: nerve up
word: reinforce
word: roborate
word: steel
word: strength
word: strengthen
word: thicken
glosses: To strengthen (all senses).
muddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdl̩/
ipa: /ˈmʌd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: muddles
form: muddling
form: muddled
form: muddled
Etymology: From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). By surface analysis, mud + -le. Compare German Kuddelmuddel.
Senses: examples: text: Young children tend to muddle their words.
text: I will not , to please hostile critics , muddle the argument by making it one of recondite learning , in which neither I nor my readers are strong . I try to lay before the reader reasons from which he can judge for himself
ref: 1847, Francis William Newman, A History of the Hebrew Monarchy:
glosses: To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
examples: text: He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
glosses: To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
examples: c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage
Young ducklings foster'd by a hen;
But, when let out, they run and muddle
glosses: To dabble in mud.
examples: text: He did ill to Muddle the Water.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make turbid or muddy.
glosses: To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
examples: text: Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
text: […] I vvas for five Years often drunk, alvvays muddled, they carry'd me from Tavern to Tavern, to Alehouſes and Brandy Shops, and brought me acquainted vvith ſuch ſtrange Dogs!
ref: 1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter VIII. A Continuation of the Conversation betwixt John Bull and His Wife.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
examples: text: They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
ref: 1821, William Hazlitt, On the Want of Money:
glosses: To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
muddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdl̩/
ipa: /ˈmʌd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: muddles
Etymology: From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). By surface analysis, mud + -le. Compare German Kuddelmuddel.
Senses: examples: text: The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.
text: As a result, no single party or coalition immediately gained enough parliamentary seats to govern, thrusting Spain into a familiar political muddle and giving new life to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who only days ago seemed moribund.
ref: 2023 July 24, Jason Horowitz, “What the Collapse of Spain’s Far Right Means Going Forward”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
qualifier: cooking and cocktails
glosses: A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
examples: text: I must drive as quick with a thunder-rain pelting in my face, and the roads in a muddle, and the horses starting—I can’t call it shying, I have ’em too well in hand,—at every flash, just as quick as if it was a fine hard road, and fine weather.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: A muddy mess.
Derived terms: word: bemuddle
word: muddle along
word: muddlebrained
word: muddled
word: muddledom
word: muddlehead
word: muddleheaded
word: muddle-headed
word: muddlement
word: muddle on
word: muddler
word: muddlesome
word: muddle the waters
word: muddle through
word: muddle up
word: muddlingly
word: muddly
word: remuddle
word: unmuddle
Related terms: mudpuddle
muddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdl̩/
ipa: /ˈmʌd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: muddles
Senses: examples: text: We bought a few rugs and odds and ends and our sitting room looks quite European; then we have a bedroom with 2 beds and a dressing room, also a corridor for the muddles and servants.
ref: 1985, Lizzie Hessel, Ann Brown, Anne Rose, Lizzie: A Victorian Lady's Amazon Adventure, page 132:
text: I have an ayah (or lady's maid), and a tailor (for the ayahs cannot work); and A—84 has a boy: also two muddles—one to sweep my room, and another to bring water.
ref: 2022, Carl Thompson, Katrina O'Loughlin, Éadaoin Agnew, Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854, page 201:
glosses: A servant's attendant; underservant.
mix up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mixes up
form: mixing up
form: mixed up
form: mixed up
Senses: examples: text: She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.
glosses: To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
examples: text: All the smells of the food had mixed up together.
glosses: To combine thoroughly.
examples: text: She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil.
troponyms: whip up
glosses: To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
examples: text: I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.
text: I always mix up Jack with Jake.
synonyms: word: addle
word: baffle
word: lose
word: stick
word: stump
word: baffound
word: bamboozle
word: bedevil
word: befuddle
word: throw
word: bemuse
word: bewilder
word: bumfuzzle
word: complicate
word: confound
word: confuddle
word: confuse
word: confuzzle
word: dazzle
word: discombobulate
word: disconcert
word: dumbfound
word: ferhoodle
word: flabagast
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergaster
word: flurry
word: fluster
word: flummox
word: fuddle
word: jumble
word: knot
word: mix up
word: perplex
word: puzzle
glosses: To confuse or reverse.
examples: text: He got mixed up with a bad crowd.
text: Then he got mixed up with an older woman.
text: Now, he's mixed up with some half-baked religion.
text: Hey! What're you gonna do? Nice college boy, huh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business. Now you want to gun down a police captain. Why? 'Cause he slapped you in the face a little bit?
ref: 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Sonny Corleone (James Caan), Paramount Pictures:
text: KEELHAUL KEY!? That's that cursed island! Don't get mixed up with that place, for your own sake.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
raw_tags: with be or get
with with
examples: text: mix up this Rubik's cube
glosses: To shuffle.
Related terms: in the mix
mix it up
mix up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mix ups
form: mix-up
form: mixup
Senses: examples: text: Next time, let's ask a group with a different mix up.
glosses: A mix, blend, or variety.
examples: text: I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up.
glosses: A confusion or reversal.
devoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Etymology: From obsolete Middle English verb devoiden, from Old French desvuidier (“to empty out”) (compare French dévider).
Senses: examples: text: I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.
text: The shed, a steel-framed structure with a single-span roof devoid of intermediate support, is exceptionally well-lit by continuous glazing on the roof and along much of the sides, while there is fluorescent roof lighting for night work.
ref: 1960 July, “New Eastern Region diesel depot at Finsbury Park”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 422–423:
synonyms: empty
vacant
glosses: Completely without; having none of.
Derived terms: devoidness
devoid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: devoids
form: devoiding
form: devoided
form: devoided
Etymology: From obsolete Middle English verb devoiden, from Old French desvuidier (“to empty out”) (compare French dévider).
Senses: examples: text: The child will devoid the garbage after he devours his sandwich.
glosses: To empty out; to remove.
employed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplɔɪd/
ipa: /ɛmˈplɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: more employed
form: most employed
Senses: examples: text: You're just looking for a handout like every other—are you employed, Mr. Lebowski?
ref: 1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by The Big Lebowski (David Huddleston):
glosses: In a job; working.
examples: text: Studies on LLS in recent decades have identified a large number of strategies which are employed by English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) learners and several strategy categorisation patterns have also been established.
ref: 2018, Habók Anita, Andrea Magyar, “The Effect of Language Learning Strategies on Proficiency, Attitudes and School Achievement”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Used; in use.
Derived terms: malemployed
nonemployed
self-employed
subemployed
underemployed
unemployed
employed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplɔɪd/
ipa: /ɛmˈplɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of employ
used
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞ozd
ipa: /juːzd/
ipa: /juzd/
ipa: /juːst/
ipa: /just/
rhymes: -uːst
Etymology: From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: You used me! You never loved me at all!
text: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:
glosses: simple past and past participle of use
glosses: In used to.
used
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞ozd
ipa: /juːzd/
ipa: /juzd/
ipa: /juːst/
ipa: /just/
rhymes: -uːst
Forms: form: more used
form: most used
Etymology: From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
antonyms: unused
glosses: That is or has or have been used.
examples: text: He bought a used car.
synonyms: pre-owned
second-hand
antonyms: new
glosses: That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
glosses: In used to.
Derived terms: getting used to
get used
ill-used
oft-used
old time used to be
postally used
used bookstore
usedness
used-to-be
used up
Related terms: abused
ill-used
misused
used up
arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: arrests
Etymology: From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).
Senses: glosses: A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
examples: text: cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest
glosses: The condition of being stopped, standstill.
examples: text: State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
topics: law
glosses: The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
glosses: A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
glosses: A device to physically arrest motion.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
examples: text: The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
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: Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
Derived terms: aperest
arrestin
arrest warrant
cardiac arrest
cardiopulmonary arrest
citizen's arrest
de-arrest
dearrest
false arrest
growth arrest line
house arrest
nonarrest
postarrest
prearrest
resisting arrest
self-arrest
unarrest
under arrest
warrant of arrest
assemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛm.bəl/
Forms: form: assembles
form: assembling
form: assembled
form: assembled
Etymology: From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimulāre (“to bring together”), from ad- + simulō (“copy, imitate”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assimilate.
Senses: examples: text: He assembled the model ship.
text: The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.
ref: 1918, The Industrial Education Survey of the City of New York, page 44:
text: This micro-generation of Silicon Valley start-ups did two basic things: It put together a labor pool to deliver food or clean toilets or assemble IKEA bookshelves, and it found people who needed those things done.
ref: 2019 March 6, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Servant Economy”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To put together.
examples: text: The parents assembled in the school hall.
text: Thither he assembled all his train.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, 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:
text: All the men of Israel assembled themselves.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings viii:2:
text: Actually, no. The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling are not members of the gloom-and-doom chorus.
ref: 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
glosses: To gather as a group.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To translate from assembly language to machine code.
Synonyms: sense: to put together
word: build
word: construct
word: produce
word: put together
word: build
sense: to gather as a group
word: collect
word: begather
word: round up
word: assemble
word: congregate
word: congress
word: crowd
word: fall in with
word: flock
word: forgather
word: gather
word: gather up
word: group
word: herd
word: league
word: mass
word: meet
word: meet up
word: muster
word: pack
word: press
word: team
word: team up
word: thring
word: throng
word: thrutch
Hypernyms: word: join
Hyponyms: word: powwow
word: rally
Derived terms: assemblable
coassemble
disassemble
misassemble
overassemble
preassemble
reassemble
self-assemble
self-assembled
self-assembling
subassemble
unassemble
unassembled
Related terms: word: round up
word: coalesce
celebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɛbɹɪti/
ipa: /səˈlɛbɹɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɛləbɾɪʈi/
Forms: form: celebrities
Etymology: From Middle English celebritē, from Old French celebrite (compare French célébrité), from Latin celēbritās.
Senses: glosses: A rite or ceremony.
synonyms: big name
distinction
fame
eminence
renown
qualifier: uncommon outside high registers
glosses: Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
examples: text: "What do you put in your paper?" I asked, […] "Oh, news," said he, "and dull articles, and things about Celebrities. If you know any Celebrities, now?" Noël asked him what Celebrities were. "Oh, the Queen and the Princes, and people with titles, and people who write, or sing, or act—or do something clever or wicked."
ref: 1899, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers:
text: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: word: big name
word: star
word: celeb
word: sleb
word: luminary
word: notable
word: media darling
glosses: A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
Derived terms: anticelebrity
blogebrity
celeb
celebreality
celebretard
celebricide
celebrification
celebriphilia
celebritihood
celebritiness
celebritize
celebritydom
celebrityhood
celebrityness
celebrity obsession disorder
celebrityship
celebrityville
celebrity worship syndrome
celebutante
celebutard
celesbian
celetoid
cybercelebrity
delebrity
demicelebrity
e-celebrity
incelebrity
megacelebrity
microcelebrity
micro-celebrity
minicelebrity
minor celebrity
noncelebrity
nonebrity
pro-celebrity
pseudocelebrity
semicelebrity
subcelebrity
sublebrity
supercelebrity
weblebrity
Related terms: celeb
celebrate
celebration
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Forms: form: owt
Etymology: From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight.
Senses: examples: text: […] wouldst thou aught with me?
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 2:
text: Then Proclamation was made, that they that had ought to ſay for their Lord the King againſt the Priſoner at the Bar, ſhould forthwith appear and give in their evidence.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: […]to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar.
ref: 1748, [David Hume], “chapter 29”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: His life among these fierce apes had been happy; for his recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
ref: 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, Silmarillion, Ainulindalë, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Anything whatsoever, any part.
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Forms: form: owt
Etymology: From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight.
Senses: examples: text: […] and if your love
Can labour aught in sad invention,
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb,
And sing it to her bones [...]
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: At all, in any degree, in any respect.