cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
waistcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: spelling pronunciation
enpr: wās(t)'-kōt
ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/
note: spelling pronunciation
enpr: wĕs'kət
ipa: /ˈwɛskət/
Forms: form: waistcoats
Etymology: From waist + coat. Compare Yola wauscoat, wazcoote.
Senses: glosses: An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
ref: 2025 September 12, Jack Collins, “Why Did Men Stop Wearing Three-Piece Suits?”, in Gentleman's Gazette:
synonyms: word: vest
coordinate_terms: gilet
glosses: A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.
Derived terms: shawl waistcoat
straitwaistcoat
horrible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: [-bəɫ]
ipa: /ˈhɑɹ.ɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: horribles
Etymology: First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Senses: examples: text: Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
ref: 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate:
text: The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
ref: 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey:
text: I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
ref: 2000 January 21, John Dean, CNN interview:
text: Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
ref: 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights:
glosses: A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
glosses: A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
horrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: [-bəɫ]
ipa: /ˈhɑɹ.ɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: horribler
form: more horrible
form: horriblest
form: most horrible
Etymology: First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Senses: examples: text: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
ref: 1949, J. D. Salinger, The Laughing Man:
text: Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.
ref: 1953, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451:
text: Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
ref: 1933, James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times:
glosses: Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
examples: text: Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.
ref: 2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599:
glosses: Tremendously bad.
Synonyms: frightening
bad
Derived terms: horribleness
horribly
unhorrible
Related terms: horrendous
horrific
horrify
horror
heteroauxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroauxins
Etymology: From hetero- + auxin.
Senses: glosses: A growth-promoting hormone, 3-indoleacetic acid, occurring in some plants.
hetero
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.tɚ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛt.(ə).ɹoʊ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: more hetero
form: most hetero
Etymology: Clipped from heterosexual.
Senses: examples: text: This novel depicts a hetero couple who are in love.
glosses: Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
Synonyms: sense: heterosexual
word: het
sense: heterosexual
word: heterosexual
sense: heterosexual
word: straight
sense: heterosexual
word: breeder
hetero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.tɚ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛt.(ə).ɹoʊ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: heteros
Etymology: Clipped from heterosexual.
Senses: examples: text: You only have to watch Dominic West’s dancing in the film Pride for two seconds to understand that there are some things beyond a hetero’s range.
ref: 2018, Caspar Salmon, “Casting Jack Whitehall as a gay Disney character is an act of queer erasure”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A heterosexual person.
Derived terms: cishetero
hetero-fascism
heterofriendly
heteronormativity
heterosexism
heterocerc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocercs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish having a tail with unequal lobes.
Related terms: heterocercal
heterochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterochromatic
form: most heterochromatic
Etymology: From hetero- + chromatic.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one colour; relating to heterochromia.
glosses: Of light, having more than one wavelength.
glosses: Of or relating to heterochromatin.
heterochromatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterochromatins
Etymology: From hetero- + chromatin.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Heterochromatic tightly coiled chromosome material; believed to be genetically inactive
Derived terms: heterochromatinic
heterochromatinization
Related terms: chromatin
euchromatin
heterochronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterochronic
form: most heterochronic
Etymology: From hetero- + chronic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring at different times or intermittently.
Derived terms: heterochronicity
heterochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterochronous
form: most heterochronous
Etymology: From hetero- + -chronous.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: formed at different periods
heteroclite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/
Forms: form: more heteroclite
form: most heteroclite
Etymology: From Late Latin heteroclitus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + κλίνω (klínō, “lean, incline”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Irregularly declined or inflected.
examples: text: he was, on the contrary, as mercurial and sublimated a composition, […] as heteroclite a creature in all his declensions; […] with as much life and whim, and gaité de cœur about him, as the kindliest climate could have engendered and put together.
ref: 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:
text: Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
Derived terms: heteroclitical
Related terms: eclectic
heteroclite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/
Forms: form: heteroclites
Etymology: From Late Latin heteroclitus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + κλίνω (klínō, “lean, incline”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An irregularly declined or inflected word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
glosses: A person who is unconventional; a maverick.
Synonyms: sense: unconventional person
word: free spirit
word: individualist
word: nonconformist
word: maverick
Related terms: heteroclitic
heterocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocycles
Etymology: From hetero- + cycle.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic compound or ring.
Derived terms: azaheterocycle
heterocyclyl
nitroheterocycle
polyheterocycle
Related terms: heterocyclic
heterodoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛtɛɹədɒksi/
Forms: form: heterodoxies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑτεροδοξία (heterodoxía).
Senses: glosses: The quality of being heterodox.
examples: text: A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 337:
glosses: A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
c'mon
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɒn/
ipa: /kəˈmɔn/
ipa: /kəˈmɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: c'm'on
form: cmon
Senses: glosses: Contraction of come on.
Related terms: c'mere
c'min
heterodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterodromous
form: most heterodromous
Etymology: From hetero- + -dromous.
Senses: glosses: Of levers, in which the power and weight move in opposite directions
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Spiralling in opposite directions on a stem or branch
Derived terms: heterodromy
d'you
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: other: /ˈdɪd juː/
other: /ˈdəd juː/
other: [dː juː]
ipa: /dʒuː/
ipa: /dʒu/
ipa: /dʒə/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Contraction of did you.
Senses: examples: text: D’you go to the store yet?
glosses: Contraction of did you.
d'you
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: other: /ˈdɪd juː/
other: /ˈdəd juː/
other: [dː juː]
ipa: /dʒuː/
ipa: /dʒu/
ipa: /dʒə/
rhymes: -uː
other: /duː juː/
other: /də juː/
ipa: /djuː/
ipa: /dju/
ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
ipa: /djə/
ipa: /d͡ʒə/
rhymes: -uː
other: /ˈdɪd juː/
other: /ˈdəd juː/
other: [dː juː]
ipa: /dʒuː/
ipa: /dʒu/
ipa: /dʒə/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Contraction of do you.
Senses: examples: text: D’you think this outfit suits me?
glosses: Contraction of do you.
Synonyms: word: d’ye
Related terms: d’y’all
d'ye
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Did ye.
examples: text: D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey?
glosses: Do ye.
Synonyms: word: d'ya
word: d'you
Derived terms: how-d'ye-do
heterodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: Of two oscillations: having two slightly different frequencies such that, when combined, they produce a beat
heterodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodynes
Etymology: From hetero- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: The beat so produced
glosses: Either the sum or difference of the two oscillations
Derived terms: autoheterodyne
multiheterodyne
self-heterodyne
superheterodyne
supersonic heterodyne receiver
heterodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterodynes
form: heterodyning
form: heterodyned
form: heterodyned
Etymology: From hetero- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: To produce heterodyne interference in a radio
glosses: To change the frequency of a signal by such a process
'sup
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: s'up
form: sup
form: ssup
form: zup
Etymology: Abbreviation of what's up.
Senses: examples: text: Sup, bro?
glosses: How are you? What is new?
Synonyms: t'sup
w'sup
wassup
fo'c'sle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fōkʹsəl
ipa: /ˈfəʊk.səl/
Forms: form: fo'c'sles
form: fo'c's'le
form: fo'c'stle
Etymology: Contraction of forecastle.
Senses: examples: text: We loafed moodily about the well-deck, between the fo'c'sle and the high midship bridge structure […] "When shall we get something to eat?" I asked Boldini, as he emerged from the fo'c'sle hatch.
ref: 1924 October, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Gay Romantics”, in Beau Geste, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, […], February 1928, →OCLC, part II (The Mystery of the “Blue Water”), § 5, pages 197–198:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: forecastle.
whassup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wassup.
Derived terms: that's whassup
heifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛfə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhɛfɚ/
rhymes: -ɛfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: heifers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heyfre, hayfre, heyfer, from Old English hēahfore, hēahfru, of disputed origin; see the Old English entry for more discussion.
Senses: examples: text: And the Lord ſpake vnto Moſes and vnto Aaron, ſaying, This is the ordinance of the Law, which the Lord hath commaunded, ſaying, Speak vnto the childꝛen of Iſrael, that they bꝛing thee a red heifer without ſpot, wherein is no blemiſh, and vpon which neuer came yoke.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 19:1–2:
text: We muſt be neat; not neat, but cleanly, Captaine: / And yet the Steere, the Heycfer^([sic]), and the Calfe, / Are all call'd Neat.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 278:
text: The breath of the mountain heifer was fragrant as the gales of Sirendiep, by feeding on ſpicy herbs.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
coordinate_terms: heiferette
cow
calf
bull
bullock
glosses: A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
examples: text: Her, whom I shall choose for my heicfar.
ref: 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II(please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals), page 549:
glosses: A wife.
examples: text: I have half a mind to marry that heifer, tho' wives are bothersome critters when you have too many of them.
ref: 1853, T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws, volume II, page 282:
text: Stop your crying, heifer, I don't need all that, I got a job for you, the braided-up pimp is back!
ref: 2000, Mystikal, Shake Ya Ass:
text: My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers...
ref: 2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World:
glosses: An unattractive or unpleasant woman.
Derived terms: heiferbud
heifer-bud
heifer dust
heiferette
heiferhood
heifer yearling
Mullingar heifer
plough with one's heifer
plow with one's heifer
Bislama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪʃləmɑː/
Forms: form: Beachlamar
form: Beach-la-Mar
form: Bichelama
form: Bichelamar
Etymology: Borrowed from Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”). In the mid-nineteenth century, sea cucumbers were harvested and dried at the same time that sandalwood was gathered. The name came to be associated with the kind of pidgin speech that was used by the local laborers between themselves, as well as their English-speaking overseers.
Senses: glosses: A creole language spoken on the South Pacific island-nation of Vanuatu, derived from Indo-European (mainly from English) and Oceanic languages.
Related terms: pidgin
inebriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈniːbɹiət/
ipa: /ɪˈniːbɹieɪt/
Forms: form: inebriates
Etymology: From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: As he walked along, the inebriate, whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help.
ref: 1889, Horatio Alger, chapter 18, in Driven From Home:
glosses: A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
Synonyms: drunkard
inebriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈniːbɹiət/
ipa: /ɪˈniːbɹieɪt/
Forms: form: inebriates
form: inebriating
form: inebriated
form: inebriated
Etymology: From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).
Senses: glosses: To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
examples: text: the inebriating effect of popular applause
ref: 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)
glosses: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.
examples: text: fish that come from the Euxine Sea ; that when they come into the fresh water , do inebriate and turn up their bellies , so as you may take them with your hand
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To become drunk.
Synonyms: intoxicate
Derived terms: inebriacy
inebriant
inebriation
inebriative
inebriety
inebriism
inebrious
inebriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈniːbɹiət/
ipa: /ɪˈniːbɹieɪt/
Forms: form: more inebriate
form: most inebriate
Etymology: From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: Victoria, on the other hand, has apparently become more inebriate, as, according to the figures, arrests for drunkenness within her boundaries, in proportion to the population, increased from 12 per 1,000 in 1880 to 16½ in 1890 and nearly 16 in 1891; but even the latter proportions were still lower than in New South Wales during the same periods.
ref: 1894, Victorian Year-book - Volume 20, Part 2, page 355:
text: At 30 he was inebriate, with a drink period of twelve or fifteen days.
ref: 1894, Norman Kerr, Inebriety; Or, Narcomania;, page 608:
text: Karim found Sudhir disgusting when he was inebriate, as he was totally unpredictable and thoroughly inappropriate, albeit abusive and condescending; truly a rear-end of a donkey.
ref: 2019, Onaly A. Kapasi, Tectonic Dyssynchrony:
glosses: intoxicated; drunk
Synonyms: drunk
intoxicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: intoxicates
form: intoxicating
form: intoxicated
form: intoxicated
Etymology: First attested in 1450, in Middle English; from Middle English intoxicaten, from intoxicat(e) (“(of a weapon or drug) smeared, anointed or filled with poison; (of a human being, animal) poisoned, intoxicated”, also used as the past participle of intoxicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from intoxicātus, perfect passive participle of intoxicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Late Latin toxicō (“to smear, anoint with poison”), from toxicus (“toxic, poisonous”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón). By surface analysis, in- + toxic + -ate.
Senses: synonyms: drunken
get drunk
inebriate
glosses: To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
synonyms: word: awaken
word: exhilarate
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To excite to enthusiasm or madness.
Derived terms: autointoxicate
disintoxicate
intoxicative
lipointoxicate
Related terms: intoxication
intoxicant
toxic
toxicant
intoxicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɒksɪkət/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɑksɪkət/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: intoxicates
Etymology: First attested in 1425, in Middle English; from Middle English intoxicat(e) (“(of a weapon or drug) smeared, anointed or filled with poison; (of a human being, animal) poisoned, intoxicated”, also used as the past participle of intoxicaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who is intoxicated.
stupefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈst(j)upəˌfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈst͡ʃupəˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: stupefies
form: stupefying
form: stupefied
form: stupefied
form: stupify
Etymology: From Middle French stupéfier, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“I am stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“do, make”).
Senses: examples: text: a stupefying drug; a stupefacient
text: He stupefied her by means of chloroform, a general anaesthetic.
topics: law
glosses: To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.
examples: text: The police's negligence and callousness continued to stupefy her.
text: What if I love you!—This misery / Of your dissatisfaction and misprision / Stupefies me.
ref: 1917, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “A Bad Beginning”, in Look! We Have Come Through!, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: To astonish or stun, especially as a result of some distressing action.
examples: text: The next is, when it is not malleable, but yet it is not fluent, but stupified^([sic]).
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Articles of Enquiry.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 226:
glosses: To deprive a material of the ability to undergo change or movement, especially deformation.
Derived terms: stupefaction
stupefied
stupefiedness
stupefier
stupefyingly
Related terms: stupe
stupendous
stupid
stupor
dazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæzəl/
rhymes: -æzəl
Forms: form: dazzles
form: dazzling
form: dazzled
form: dazzled
Etymology: From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
Senses: examples: text: Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
text: Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
text: Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, 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: An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
ref: 1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde, volume 1, page 45:
hypernyms: blind#Verb
coordinate_terms: daze#Verb
disorient#Verb
glosses: To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
examples: text: The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
synonyms: impress
overpower
glosses: To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
examples: text: For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.
ref: 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries:
text: […] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy:
glosses: To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
Derived terms: adazzle
bedazzle
dazzlement
dazzler
dazzlesome
endazzle
endazzlement
nondazzle
outdazzle
overdazzle
razzle-dazzle
redazzle
technodazzle
undazzle
dazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæzəl/
rhymes: -æzəl
Forms: form: dazzles
Etymology: From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
Senses: glosses: A light of dazzling brilliancy.
glosses: Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
examples: text: We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
ref: 1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition)
text: Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]
ref: 2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176:
text: I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
ref: 2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22:
text: A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.
ref: 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
glosses: A herd of zebra.
glosses: Dazzle camouflage.
Synonyms: sense: group of zebras
word: herd
sense: group of zebras
word: zeal
Derived terms: antidazzle
Related terms: if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull
incapacitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.kəˈpæ.sɪ.teɪt/
Forms: form: incapacitates
form: incapacitating
form: incapacitated
form: incapacitated
Etymology: Mid-17th century, from incapacity + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French incapaciter.
Senses: examples: text: The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head.
synonyms: prostrate
glosses: To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
examples: text: Wilson's principal motivation for situation-oriented policies was the desire to change the real world by proposing politically practicable policies. And his principle prescription was to incapacitate a larger number of habitual offenders.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: prostrate
glosses: To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
To imprison a potential offender and thereby prevent them from offending.
topics: law
glosses: To make someone ineligible; to disqualify.
Synonyms: disable
Derived terms: incapacitated
incapacitating
incapacitation
incapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkeɪpəbl̩/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkeɪpəbl̩/
Forms: form: more incapable
form: most incapable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incapable, in- + capable.
Senses: examples: text: A pint glass is incapable of holding more than a pint of liquid.
text: I consider him incapable of dishonesty.
text: The British people seem incapable of avoiding the habit of leaving litter wherever they go, and the railways certainly seem to receive their fair share of it, in carriages and on stations.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 254:
glosses: Not capable (of doing something); unable.
examples: incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury
glosses: Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
Synonyms: sense: not capable
word: unable
sense: not in a state to receive
word: refusing
Derived terms: incapability
incapableness
incapably
Related terms: incapacitate
incapacitation
incapable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkeɪpəbl̩/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkeɪpəbl̩/
Forms: form: incapables
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incapable, in- + capable.
Senses: glosses: One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
unable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈeɪbl̩/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: unabler
form: more unable
form: unablest
form: most unable
Etymology: From Middle English unable, unabel, unhable, unhabil, equivalent to un- + able.
Senses: examples: text: Are you unable to mind your own business or something?
text: Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.
ref: 2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0-5 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
text: The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7:
glosses: Not able; lacking a certain ability.
Synonyms: helpless
Derived terms: be unable to believe one's eyes
unable to can
Related terms: inability
unable
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈeɪbl̩/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Etymology: From Middle English unable, unabel, unhable, unhabil, equivalent to un- + able.
Senses: examples: text: "November three seven kilo, climb and maintain twelve thousand." "Unable, we have pressurization problems. Maintaining nine thousand."
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Indicating that a requested course of action is not possible to carry out.
unable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈeɪbl̩/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: unables
form: unabling
form: unabled
form: unabled
Etymology: From Middle English unablen, equivalent to un- + able.
Senses: glosses: To render unable; to disable.
Beach-la-Mar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bislama.
bêche-de-mer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bêches-de-mer
form: bêche de mer
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bêche-de-mer.
Senses: examples: text: The Hunter had called in at Fiji to collect sandalwood and bêche de mer on a voyage between Calcutta and New South Wales.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 18:
glosses: Synonym of sea cucumber.
synonyms: word: sea cucumber
disable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈeɪbəl/
ipa: /dɪzˈeɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: disables
form: disabling
form: disabled
form: disabled
Etymology: From dis- + able.
Senses: glosses: To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.
examples: text: Falling off the horse disabled him.
text: Krav is a martial art of last resort that assumes no quarter and focuses purely on disarming, disabling and, if necessary, destroying your opponent.
ref: 2013, Steven McLaughlin, Clubland UK: On the Door in the Rave Era:
text: Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.
text: At the end of March 2015 the onboard software configuration of the AGILE satellite was modified in order to disable the veto signal of the anticoincidence shield for the minicalorimeter instrument.
ref: 2016, M. Marisaldi, A. Argan, A. Ursi, T. Gjesteland, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti, M. Galli, M. Tavani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, F. D'Amico, N. Østgaard, S. Mereghetti, R. Campana, P.W. Cattaneo, A. Bulgarelli, S. Colafrancesco, S. Dietrich, F. Longo, F. Gianotti, P. Giommi, A. Rappoldi, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, “Enhanced detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by AGILE”, in arXiv:
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
Synonyms: word: unable
word: deactivate
word: disable
word: disenable
word: cripple
word: incapacitate
Hypernyms: word: damage
word: debilitate
word: deteriorate
word: devitalize
word: empayre
word: harm
word: hinder
word: hurt
word: injure
word: impair
word: worsen
Hyponyms: word: blind
word: blinden
word: deafen
word: disfigure
word: founder
word: lame
word: paralyse
word: maim
word: mangle
word: mutilate
word: hamstring
word: hock
word: hough
word: hox
word: castrate
word: desex
word: emasculate
word: fix
word: geld
word: neuter
word: spay
word: unsex
word: debuff
word: nerf
Derived terms: disability
disableable
disablement
disableness
disabler
disablism
disablist
redisable
Related terms: word: attack
disable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈeɪbəl/
ipa: /dɪzˈeɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: more disable
form: most disable
Etymology: From dis- + able.
Senses: examples: text: Our disable and unactive force.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: Lacking ability; unable.
heterogamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogametes
Etymology: From hetero- + gamete.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of conjugating gametes that differ in structure or behaviour, such as the spermatozoon and the ovum.
Synonyms: anisogamete
Derived terms: heterogametism
sleeveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːvlɪs/
Forms: form: sleaveless
Etymology: From Middle English slevelees, sleveles, from Old English slīeflēas (“sleeveless”), equivalent to sleeve + -less.
Senses: glosses: Of a garment, having no sleeves.
examples: text: a sleeveless errand
text: might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], line 8:
text: 1738-1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated
The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
glosses: Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
collarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From collar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them.
ref: 1963 November 15, “The New Madness”, in Time:
text: He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis.
ref: 2010 January 7, “Yemen's problems evident at the border”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: Of a garment, having no collar.
examples: text: The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […]
ref: 1918, Sinclair Lewis, “Afterglow”, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 81:
text: He was pining for England, though he dreaded facing it, as one dreads facing a pretty girl when one is collarless and unshaven.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 5, in Burmese Days:
glosses: Of a man, not wearing a detachable collar.
examples: text: I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog.
ref: 1963, François Mauriac, chapter IX, in Wallace Fowlie, transl., What I Believe, New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., page 118:
text: I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history.
ref: 1999, Barbara Smuts in J. M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, Princeton University Press, page 115:
glosses: Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.
Derived terms: collarlessness
visual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪʒuːəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪzjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪʒəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪʒuəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪʒwəl/
Forms: form: more visual
form: most visual
form: visuall
Etymology: From Middle English vysual, from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.
Senses: examples: text: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
glosses: Related to or affecting the vision.
glosses: That can be seen; visible.
Derived terms: audiovisual
nonvisual
visual acuity
visual aid
visual angle
visual art
visual artist
visual arts
visual axis
visual binary
visual cortex
visual diary
visual dictionary
visual display unit
visual effects
visual field
visual hole
visualization
visualize
visual kei
visual language
visually
visual magnitude
visual merchandising
visual novel
visual poem
visual poetry
visual pollution
visual presenter
visual programming language
visual proximity
visual pun
visual purple
visual rhyme
visual servoing
visual snow
visual space
visual streak
visual text
visual voicemail
visual white
visual yellow
VLOS
Related terms: envisage
evidence
visage
visible
vision
visionary
visual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪʒuːəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪzjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪʒəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪʒuəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪʒwəl/
Forms: form: visuals
form: visuall
Etymology: From Middle English vysual, from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't the first time I pulled an all-nighter, but normally I was coming off an acid trip and still seeing visuals dancing around in my head.
ref: 2016, S. C. Sterling, Teenage Degenerate, page 5:
glosses: Any element of something that depends on sight.
glosses: An image; a picture; a graphic.
glosses: All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A preliminary sketch.
examples: text: The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.
qualifier: marching band
glosses: Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
Derived terms: have a visual on
heterogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -gamous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers
in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: involving heterogametes in the reproductive process
Synonyms: heterogene
Related terms: heterogamy
impair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛɹ/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: impairs
form: impairing
form: impaired
form: impaired
form: empair
Etymology: From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, from Early Medieval Latin impeiōrāre, from in- + Late Latin peiōrāre (“worsen”), from peiōrem (“worse”), comparative of malus (“bad”).
Senses: examples: text: In 2016, it was announced that Jones had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impairs the ability to communicate.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
examples: text: Flesh may empaire,[…]but reason can repaire.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To grow worse; to deteriorate.
Synonyms: hinder
Derived terms: impairable
impairer
impairment
impair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛɹ/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more impair
form: most impair
form: empair
Etymology: From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, from Early Medieval Latin impeiōrāre, from in- + Late Latin peiōrāre (“worsen”), from peiōrem (“worse”), comparative of malus (“bad”).
Senses: examples: text: giues he not till iudgement guide his bounty, / Nor dignifies an impaire thought with breath:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
impair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛɹ/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪmˈpeː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: impair
form: impairs
form: empair
Etymology: From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, from Early Medieval Latin impeiōrāre, from in- + Late Latin peiōrāre (“worsen”), from peiōrem (“worse”), comparative of malus (“bad”).
Senses: glosses: The act of impairing or deteriorating.
glosses: The fact of being impaired or having grown worse.
examples: text: Suppoſe a mans credit ſhould ſuffer an impair with thoſe whoſe cenſure is not to be valued; yet think, which is worſe, ſhame or ſin? Wilt thou ſin againſt God to ſave thy credit?
ref: 1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, pages 146–147:
glosses: An impairment or deterioration.
heterogeneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogeneities
Senses: examples: text: Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment.
ref: 2025 April 24, “Reciprocal Tariff Calculations”, in Office of the United States Trade Representative:
glosses: Diversity
glosses: A composition of diverse parts.
glosses: The quality of a substance which is not uniform.
Derived terms: macroheterogeneity
microheterogeneity
nanoheterogeneity
nonheterogeneity
Related terms: heterogeneous
heterogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogeneses
Etymology: From hetero- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abnormal organic development.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abiogenesis.
glosses: Spontaneous generation.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: metagenesis
alternation of generations
antonyms: homogenesis
glosses: The birth of a living being from a parent of a different kind; having two different forms in the life cycle.
Derived terms: heterogenetic
Related terms: monogenesis
orthogenesis
parthenogenesis
heterogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + genetic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to heterogenesis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a disease: produced by infection from outside the body.
weaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwikən/
rhymes: -iːkən
Forms: form: weakens
form: weakening
form: weakened
form: weakened
Etymology: From weak + -en.
Senses: examples: text: weaken a bond
text: weaken a joint
glosses: To make weaker or less strong.
examples: text: Over the years my enthusiasm for the job has weakened.
text: My friends, we are confronted with a serious situation. But it is typical of the security problems of the world today. Powerful and aggressive forces are constantly probing, now here, now there, to see whether the free world is weakened. In the face of this, there are no easy choices available. It is misleading for anyone to imply that there are. However, the present situation, though serious, is by no means desperate or hopeless.
ref: 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower, 3:06 from the start, in President Eisenhower Speaks On The Formosa Situation (1958), British Pathé:
glosses: To become weaker or less strong.
Synonyms: attenuate
blunt
dilute
hebetate
Derived terms: weaken up