cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
donga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɒŋɡə/
Forms: form: dongas
Etymology: From Afrikaans donga, from Zulu udonga.
Senses: examples: text: Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.
ref: 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Halt at Bloemfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 349:
text: There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
ref: 1901, Ernest William Hornung, “The Knees of the Gods”, in Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 284:
text: Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.
ref: 1948, Henry Vollam Morton, In Search of South Africa, Methuen, page 168:
text: Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head.
ref: 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 98:
synonyms: arroyo
wadi
wash
glosses: A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
donga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɒŋɡə/
ipa: /dɔŋə/
ipa: /ˈdɔŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɒŋɡə/
Forms: form: dongas
Etymology: Unknown; probably connected in some way with Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Menzies Hotel ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, donga $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - dongas (temporary miner′s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.
ref: 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 152:
text: He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman′s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.
ref: 2004, James Woodford, The Dog Fence, page 225:
text: 2009, David Marr, The Ibdian Ocean Solution, Robyn Davidson (editor), The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 118,
Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
glosses: A transportable building providing accommodation for one person, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
donga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈdɒŋɡə/
ipa: /dɔŋə/
Forms: form: dongas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of donger (“penis”).
citify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: citifies
form: citifying
form: citified
form: citified
form: cityfy
Etymology: From city + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."
ref: 1946, Harper's Magazine, volume 192:
text: The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace.
ref: 1970, United States House Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Appropriations:
text: My wife and I happened to have fought with authorities to address the extremely dangerous roads throughout this citifying rural community.
ref: 2010, Dr Dan Budenz, Analyzing Monsters - Family Cures: The Drew Peterson Saga, page 105:
glosses: To become more like or more in the character of a city.
examples: text: Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.
ref: 1975, Robert Lipsyte, Sportsworld: an American Dreamland:
text: In her role as a citifying presence, Athena often is associated with political structures, the administration of justice, and the arts of persuasion, such as rhetoric.
ref: 1989, David R. Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West:
text: "But these newcomers are citifying the rural atmosphere." They're also citifying prices.
ref: 1995, National Geographic Society, National Geographic, volume 187:
glosses: To make more like or more in the character of a city.
examples: text: We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape."
ref: 1992 July 17, Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 239:
text: In taking his gage from a prostitute in the London stews, he appropriates in a burlesque mode the faltering aristocratic rituals that Richard and his father try to manage. He citifies them, or reveals how they have already been invaded by city modes of violence and desire in the history world.
ref: 2005, John Michael Archer, Citizen Shakespeare: freemen and aliens in the language of the plays, page 97:
text: I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them.
ref: 2007, Matthew Desmond, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters:
glosses: To make more like a city person.
Synonyms: urbanize
there oughtta be a law
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there ought to be a law.
linking verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linking verbs
Senses: glosses: Copula, copulative verb.
hotbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotbeds
Etymology: From hot + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: hotbox
text: Tomato seedlings will be ready to transplant from the hotbed to the coldframe in 12 to 18 days after sowing the seed, depending upon the amount of sunshine and the care given the bed.
ref: 1924, Erval Jackson Newcomer, M. A. Yothers, Warren Draper Whitcomb, Control of the Codling Moth in the Pacific Northwest, page 11:
coordinate_terms: cold frame
;
cloche
glosses: A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.
examples: text: The problem faced by Government and railway alike is the dreadful legacy of the 'stay home' policy which has left millions of people fearing that trains are a hotbed of infection to be avoided like the... well, do I have to say it?!
ref: 2020 August 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail at the brink? Not yet...”, in Rail, page 3:
text: In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).
ref: 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: seedbed
glosses: An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.
glosses: An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
Related terms: breeding-ground
nidus
freed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free
Derived terms: freedman
Freedman
freedperson
freedwoman
unfreed
confounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaʊndɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: simple past and past participle of confound
confounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaʊndɪd/
Forms: form: more confounded
form: most confounded
Senses: examples: text: The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what.
ref: 2017 March 6, “Mark Levin on why Obama may have been spying on Trump; Reps. Gohmert, Meadows detail new health care proposal”, in Fox News, retrieved 06 Mar 2017:
text: Reagan has famously stumped his chroniclers. His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so confounded by the assignment that he resorted to fiction, producing a muddled portrait of “Dutch” (Reagan’s longtime nickname) that was blasted by reviewers.
ref: 2024 September 9, Jennifer Burns, “Book Review: 'Reagan' by Max Boot”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2024:
glosses: Confused, astonished.
examples: text: Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
Confounded though immortal: […]
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3:
glosses: Defeated, thwarted.
examples: text: The confounded thing doesn't work.
text: "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177:
text: Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
glosses: Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.
Derived terms: confoundedly
confoundedness
unconfounded
regretted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regret
imposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impose
imposing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: more imposing
form: most imposing
Senses: examples: text: an imposing presence
text: an imposing building
text: The castle was an imposing sight on the hilltop.
text: He had an imposing figure and a deep voice.
text: Considerable remains of that terminus still exist, and it does not appear to have been a very imposing place.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:
glosses: Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.
Derived terms: imposingly
imposingness
unimposing
loftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loftinesses
Etymology: From lofty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being lofty.
glosses: arrogance or haughtiness
piled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪld/
rhymes: -aɪld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pile
piled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪld/
rhymes: -aɪld
Senses: examples: text: piled iron
qualifier: iron manufacturing
glosses: Formed from a pile or fagot.
examples: text: Meges threw a spear well piled.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Having a pile or point; pointed.
examples: text: Three-piled velvet.
ref: 1816, Henry Hart Milman, Fazio:
glosses: Having a pile or nap.
Derived terms: unpiled
SB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: examples: text: The SB infiltrated one of their men into our organisation.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 181:
glosses: Initialism of Special Branch.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Standard Babylonian.
glosses: Initialism of West Sumatra: a province of Indonesia.
SB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SBs
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of stretcher bearer.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of season best (this season's personal best).
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of stolen base; The statistic reporting the number of stolen bases.
topics: business
communication
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Sideband.
glosses: Abbreviation of sexbot.
examples: text: SB5
text: SB 1211 was signed into law to streamline the process and takes effect in January. Currently you can have no more than two ADUs on a property, but the new law increases the limit to eight.
ref: 2024 December 25, Devin Trubey, “California to remove restrictions on ADUs, add enforcement if cities don't comply with housing laws”, in ABC10:
text: “Exposing companies to such extreme civil penalties would likely force the overpolicing of lawful expression, chill free speech, and distort the online environment in ways that harms all users,” said ADC National Executive Director, Abed Ayoub. “Beyond moral and political concerns, SB 771 also raises serious constitutional issues.”
ref: 2025 July 17, “ADC Warns: California’s SB 771 is Censorship Disguised as Civil Rights”, in American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee:
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: Initialism of senate bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a senate”) (Compare HB.)
raw_tags: followed by a number
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: Initialism of state bill.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Initialism of Sauvignon blanc.
topics: maritime
nautical
transport
related: word: S.B.
word: S. B.
coordinate_terms: SV
SY
MB
glosses: Initialism of sailing barge.
topics: maritime
nautical
transport
related: word: S.B.
word: S. B.
coordinate_terms: SS
SL
PS
TS
MB
glosses: Initialism of steam barge.
topics: maritime
nautical
transport
related: word: S.B.
word: S. B.
coordinate_terms: SS
SL
PS
TS
MB
glosses: Initialism of steamboat.
Derived terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
communication
communications
word: DSB
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
communication
communications
word: SSB
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
communication
communications
word: VSB
Related terms: topics: politics
government
law
word: AB
topics: politics
government
law
word: AR
topics: politics
government
law
word: HB
topics: politics
government
law
word: HR
topics: politics
government
law
word: SR
sense: season's best
word: OB
sense: season's best
word: PB
sense: season's best
word: WB
SB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: coordinate_terms: NB
EB
WB
glosses: Initialism of southbound.
SB
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: coordinate_terms: NB
EB
WB
glosses: Initialism of southbound.
SB
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: SBs
form: SBing
form: SBed
form: SBed
form: SB'd
form: SB'd
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: examples: text: i have a handful of moots that if they sb'd or hb'd me id genuinely be upset this app has ruined me huh
ref: 2021 September 1, Jekyll (@rottingca9s), Twitter:
related: word: sb
coordinate_terms: word: HB
english: hard-block
translation: hard-block
glosses: To soft-block.
pursuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsjuː.ɪŋ/
ipa: /pɚˈsu.ɪŋ/
ipa: /pəˈʃu.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pursue
pursuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsjuː.ɪŋ/
ipa: /pɚˈsu.ɪŋ/
ipa: /pəˈʃu.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: pursuings
Senses: examples: text: And they need to be check'd in their erratic doings,
In their scholarly flights and whimsical pursuings.
ref: 1900, Edward Stephens, Infidelity Disarmed in a Reply to Lectures, page 23:
glosses: pursuit
wiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪpt/
rhymes: -aɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wipe
speed queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed queens
Senses: glosses: A female speedfreak; a woman who abuses stimulating drugs.
targe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /tɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: targes
Etymology: From Middle English targe, either:
* from Old French targe, from Frankish *targā (“buckler”);
or
* from Old English targa (masculine) and targe (feminine);
both ultimately from Old Norse targa (“round shield”) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“border, frame”)). However, the soft -g- seems to indicate a French origin.
Senses: examples: text: Or burley Hero [Ajax the Great] Sev'nfold Targe who bore, / With Choler furibund, vindictive Steel / Plunging in Brutal Gore; [...]
ref: 1730, Andrew Brice, Freedom: A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the Rapacious Claws of Bailiffs, and Devouring Fangs of Goalers, […], Exon [Exeter, Devon]: […] [T]he author, […], →OCLC, page 80:
text: The Jester wore his usual fantastic habit, but late accidents had led him to adopt a good cutting falchion, instead of his wooden sword, with a targe to match it; [...]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 242:
text: But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 33:
text: The Bearkillers’ swordmistress danced. Her targe beat aside a spearhead, and then the backsword flicked out in a blurring thrust.
ref: 2004, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, Dies the Fire, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 444:
glosses: A small shield.
synonyms: target
glosses: A pendant or tassel.
Derived terms: target
takedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takedowns
Etymology: Deverbal from take down.
Senses: glosses: A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
examples: Takedown (grappling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.
examples: text: The DMCA also gives the targets of notice-and-takedown complaints a limited opportunity to have access to their materials restored.
ref: 2001, Charles H. Kennedy, An introduction to U.S. telecommunications law:
glosses: Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.
Related terms: teardown
encroachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹoʊt͡ʃmənt/
ipa: /ɛŋˈkɹoʊt͡ʃmənt/
Forms: form: encroachments
form: incroachment
Etymology: From encroach + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:
text: […] the largest extents of encroachments were found in the Dry Zone Districts, such as Anuradhapura, Kurunegala and Moneragala, where encroachable State lands were readily available (Table I). […] Between 1979-1985, some 104,490 new encroachments covering an extent of 70,646 Ha (174,566 acres) took place with high encroachments in the Central Province (40% increase over 1978). The Western Province comes second. This excludes […]
ref: 1990, Quest, numbers 105-106, Centre for Society and Religion, pages 56-57:
glosses: An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion.
examples: text: The Legislative department derives a superiority in our Governments from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more extensive, and less susceptible of precise limits, it can, with the greater facility, mask, under complicated and indirect measures, the encroachments which it makes on the coördinate departments.
ref: 1788, Publius [pseudonym; James Madison], “Number XXXXVII”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], →OCLC:
text: Ah! my brother, we do well to watch our birthright jealously; the least invasion on the meanest peasant, the slightest encroachment of the powerful, are not matters to be neglected—such are the first steps of tyranny.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 53–54:
glosses: An intrusion upon another's possessions or rights; infringement.
glosses: That which is gained by such unlawful intrusion.
topics: law
glosses: An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
Derived terms: nonencroachment
Related terms: encroach
grieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
homophone: greaved
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grieve
grieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
homophone: greaved
Forms: form: more grieved
form: most grieved
Senses: examples: text: An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,
Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
glosses: Very sad or distressed, sorely upset.
Derived terms: ungrieved
striving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strive
striving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: strivings
Senses: examples: text: Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
ref: 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine:
text: Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?
ref: 2007, Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul, page 192:
glosses: Effort; the act of one who strives.
magistrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstɹeɪts/
ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstɹəts/
Senses: glosses: plural of magistrate
pillars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlɚz/
ipa: /ˈpɪləz/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of pillar
pillars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlɚz/
ipa: /ˈpɪləz/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pillar
penetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of penetrate
indulged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more indulged
form: most indulged
Senses: examples: text: By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]
ref: 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 245:
glosses: Having had all desires, wishes, and whims granted; having been brought up lavishly, wanting for nothing.
Derived terms: unindulged
indulged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indulge
revived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /rəˈvaɪvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revive
charities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹətiz/
ipa: /ˈtʃæɹɪtiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of charity
devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of devil
devils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devil
meathead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmitˌhɛd/
Forms: form: meatheads
Etymology: From meat + head.
The term meathead is often said to come from the classic 1970s television situation comedy All In The Family, wherein main character Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) used the nickname to address his son-in-law, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), starting with the premiere episode ("Meet the Bunkers") that first aired January 12, 1971. The term is also used three times in the "Star Witness" episode of the television situation comedy Green Acres, an episode that first aired January 26, 1971, exactly two weeks after the premiere of All in the Family. However, the word appeared in writing as early as 1863.
Senses: glosses: An ungainly, dull, or stupid person; someone who is lazy, disrespectful, and/or whose beliefs and philosophies clash with those of another.
examples: text: Gary was a hulking meathead who, when he wasn't playing football, was either hunting, fishing or getting drunk and rowdy in some topless bar.
synonyms: brute
jock
glosses: A large, muscular, stupid man, especially an athlete.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the Canadian Forces Military Police.
Related terms: bimbo
himbo
crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: plural of crown
crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crown
scanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskænɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scan
scanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskænɪŋ/
Forms: form: scannings
Senses: examples: text: In the other case the scanner performs a given number of scannings, thus giving an automatic display of the complete set of measuring points.
ref: 1994, IGIC, Inc. Staff, Fiber Optic Sensors, page 147:
text: In the dispute with the RMT about scanning tickets, Jackson said it was the right thing to do to pay conductors something to scan tickets. Northern pays two pence per scan, Jackson noted, adding that ticket scanning helps to cut fraud and increase staff visibility.
ref: 2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Network News: TPE MD: consider impact of strikes on passengers”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 11:
glosses: The act of something being scanned.
Derived terms: differential scanning calorimetry
low-dose CT scanning
monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
scanning electron micrograph
scanning electron microscope
scanning electron microscopy
scanning transmission electron microscope
scanning tunneling microscope
foreigners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪ.nəz/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚz/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹ.ɪ.nɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of foreigner
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Luxemburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Luxembourg: A small country in Western Europe.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Luxembourg: A province of Wallonia, Belgium.
glosses: A town in Iowa.
glosses: A town and village in Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Luxemburg City
Luxemburger
Luxemburgian
Luxemburgish
Nederland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnidɚlənd/
Etymology: From Dutch Nederland.
Senses: glosses: A city in Jefferson County, Texas.
big gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big guns
Senses: examples: text: London, Nov. 1: The big guns opened fire on Paris today at mid-day.
ref: 1870 December 2, “The Suez Mail”, in Southland Times, number 1342, New Zealand, page 2:
text: The smaller crew was possible because the battleship was stripped of all but her big guns.
ref: 1968 March 26, “Battleship begins Viet Tests”, in Evening News, Newburgh, NY, USA, retrieved 19 Aug 2011, page 1:
text: The USS West Virginia became one of many symbols of American resolve. . . . Her big guns pounded the enemy at the battles of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
ref: 2008 December 6, William J. Bennett, John Cribb, “Deadly resolve answered attack”, in Daily Courier, USA, retrieved 19 Aug 2011:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: great gun
glosses: A large artillery gun or one of the largest-caliber naval guns (as on a battleship).
examples: text: This has been a great day for the big guns. This does not refer to Prof. Lummis and the other big guns of the Board of Visitors, for every day is a great one for them.
ref: 1888 June 6, “A Great Day for Big Guns”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Aug 2011:
text: Berra Is Big Gun In Yankee Victory
ref: 1957 Aug. 28, Ed Wilks, "Sports" (Headline), Park City News (USA), p. 15 (retrieved 20 Aug. 2011)
text: And the administration's big guns — Bush, Cheney, Powell and once-and-current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — had the clout to make bold and necessary changes.
ref: 2001 June 29, Frank Pellegrini, “Whatever Happened to Military Restructuring?”, in Time:
text: Clapton kept the big guns for last, finishing the set off with Derek and the Domino's "Layla", complete with the haunting instrumentals at song's end.
ref: 2007 March 26, Yuri Wuensch, “Eric Clapton simply masterful”, in canoe.ca, Canada, retrieved 20 Aug 2011:
synonyms: word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A person, group, thing, or course of action that is powerful, influential, or particularly effective.
examples: text: Special boards are used called "big guns."
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A large surfboard used to ride very large, powerful waves.
presumptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presumptious
form: most presumptious
Senses: examples: text: I heard a presumptious man say once that he did not care for the future, he should get just what he deserved, and no more. That is just what I fear.
ref: 1878, Robert Nourse, Plain Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, page 101:
glosses: Archaic form of presumptuous.
mover and shaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movers and shakers
Senses: examples: text: The sales team sought to talk to the movers and shakers within an organization, rather than to their underlings.
text: He really is a mover and a shaker in those circles.
text: Being loyal to the people you work for is also an important initial step on your road to becoming a mover and shaker.
ref: 2005, Dave Yoho, Have a Great Year Every Year: A Four Point Program for Maximizing Your Performance, OakHill Press, page 175:
text: People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
glosses: Someone who has power and influence in a field or activity; one who accomplishes tasks, who gets things done.
wikipedia: Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Synonyms: instigator
straw that stirs the drink
nutant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutant
form: most nutant
Etymology: From nūtāns (“nodding”), present active participle of nūtō (“nod, signal”).
Senses: glosses: nodding, drooping
raw_tags: of bodily organs and flowers
seizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsizɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːzɪŋ
Etymology: From seize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seize
seizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsizɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːzɪŋ
Forms: form: seizings
Etymology: From seize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of grabbing or taking possession.
examples: text: The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.
glosses: Something seized.
examples: text: Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
glosses: A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
seizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsizɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːzɪŋ
Forms: form: more seizing
form: most seizing
Etymology: From seize + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 45:
glosses: That seizes the attention; impressive.
shrugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrug
prospects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒspɛkts/
enpr: präsʹpĕkts
ipa: /ˈpɹɑspɛkts/
Senses: glosses: plural of prospect
prospects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒspɛkts/
enpr: präsʹpĕkts
ipa: /ˈpɹɑspɛkts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prospect
detained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈteɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detain
Derived terms: undetained
smote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: smōt
ipa: /sməʊt/
enpr: smōt
ipa: /smoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: smot
Senses: examples: text: Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: simple past of smite
examples: text: As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 132:
text: "We should have smote him," continued the ex-president of the Directory, still fretful from his misfortune;[…]
ref: 1828, Laure Junot duchesse d'Abrantès, Memoirs of the Duchess d'Abrantés, volume 1, page 197:
text: The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
ref: 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
text: So that's the story- God did not smote us for that story. We finished the whole thing. Penn Jillette in Las Vegas with Michale Goudeau- we'll be back, we'll take some phone calls. God hath not smote my ass!
ref: 2006 January 4, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 19:01 from the start, in Penn Radio, number 2:
text: "God has use for Satan, or He would have smote him centuries ago. In any case, Captain Dan is nothing without Barbary. He will shrivel and drift before the first clean draught that blows unhampered across the ruins.”
ref: 2008 February 5, Loren D. Estleman, Port Hazard: A Page Murdock Novel, →ISBN, page 261:
glosses: past participle of smite
glosses: simple past of smight
saluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlutɪd/
ipa: /səˈl(j)uːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salute
dragging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæɡɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹæɡɪŋ]
Forms: form: more dragging
form: most dragging
Etymology: From drag + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:
glosses: That drags.
glosses: boring; dull
glosses: excessively long
Derived terms: draggingly
dragging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæɡɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹæɡɪŋ]
Forms: form: draggings
Etymology: From drag + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, after the first few draggings it is found that the surface becomes constantly smoother and harder and little rain remains on the roadway
ref: 1914, Charles Edward Morrison, Earth Roads, page 24:
glosses: gerund of drag: an instance of something being dragged.
glosses: Synonym of drag racing.
synonyms: word: drag racing
dragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæɡɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹæɡɪŋ]
Etymology: From drag + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drag
Derived terms: foot-dragging
frame dragging
knee dragging
knuckle-dragging
van-dragging
contemplated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.təmˌpleɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contemplate
framed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Forms: form: more framed
form: most framed
Senses: glosses: Having, or enclosed in, a frame
Derived terms: framed decision
framed egg
multiframed
satellite-framed
verb-framed
framed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Senses: examples: text: Penny also received a framed copy of her original picture next to the final digital copy.
ref: 2022 November 30, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 971, page 87:
glosses: simple past and past participle of frame
delights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of delight
delights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delight
discoveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌvəɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of discovery
rapscallion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæpˈskæljən/
Forms: form: rapscallions
Etymology: From an alteration of rascallion, a fanciful elaboration of rascal (“someone who is naughty”).
Senses: examples: text: “If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations.
ref: 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford M. Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter 3, in The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: She had a studio built for him on a loft of the carriage house behind the family mansion when he was only ten years old, and she hired a rapscallion German cabinetmaker, who had studied art in Berlin in his youth, to give Father drawing and painting lessons on weekends and after school.
ref: 1982, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Deadeye Dick:
text: But I’m the kind of rapscallion who often prefers the very good to the GREAT.
ref: 2025 June 19, Scott Heller, quoting Stephen Fry, “Stephen Fry Knows He’s Become a Middle-Aged Cliché”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
rapscallion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæpˈskæljən/
Forms: form: more rapscallion
form: most rapscallion
Etymology: From an alteration of rascallion, a fanciful elaboration of rascal (“someone who is naughty”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Miss Stanbury’s Generosity”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 93:
text: "I baint a-going to give my master's property to a lot of rapscallion thieves and robbers like you."
ref: 1895, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 23, in The Carbonels:
glosses: Disreputable, roguish.
decorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəɹeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decorate
decorated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəɹeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more decorated
form: most decorated
Senses: glosses: Having had decorations applied; adorned with attractive items.
examples: text: a decorated decorated footballer
text: Nihlus Kryik is one of the Citadel Council's most decorated Spectre agents. Born in a small mercenary outpost outside Hierarchy space, he learned the hard way to fight for what he wanted. His father died when he was 16, and his mother forced him to join the turian military. His outsider status made life difficult; though he was always at the top of his class, his superiors and peers never truly accepted him.
ref: 2010s, “Spectre Agent Nihlus Kryik”, in BioWare, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2013:
glosses: Having received prizes, awards, laurels etc.
topics: architecture
synonyms: dec.
glosses: In one of the styles of English Gothic architecture.
Derived terms: immunodecorated
nondecorated
undecorated
tasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taste
regulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃənz/
ipa: /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of regulation
enlarged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈlɑːd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlarge
Derived terms: enlargedly
enlargedness
nonenlarged
unenlarged
gratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡrætɪfaɪd/
ipa: [ˈɡɹæːɾɨ.faɪːd̚]
Forms: form: more gratified
form: most gratified
Derived terms: gratifiedly
ungratified
gratified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡrætɪfaɪd/
ipa: [ˈɡɹæːɾɨ.faɪːd̚]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gratify
fortified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹtɪfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɔːtɪfaɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fortify
Synonyms: castellate
castellated
incastled
encastled
incastellated
encastellated
fortified
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹtɪfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɔːtɪfaɪd/
Forms: form: fortifieds
Senses: examples: text: In 1969 output of table wines exceeded that of fortifieds for the first time, and by 1973 more than twice as much table wine as fortified was being produced.
ref: 2012, Barbara Santich, Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage, page 136:
glosses: A fortified wine.
fortified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹtɪfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɔːtɪfaɪd/
Forms: form: more fortified
form: most fortified
Senses: examples: text: Every day he becomes stronger against evil, and more fortified against temptation.
ref: 1858, James Carter, Six Sermons, more or less bearing on the application of Christian principles to the circumstances of the present age, etc, page 37:
text: Similarly, this material world, the universe, is covered by seven layers, and one layer, the first layer is there, and the second layer is ten times thicker than the first layer. the third layer is ten times thicker than the second layer. In this way, this universe is covered tightly, very fortified.
ref: 2019, Raj Behera, Pink Conch:
text: The DMZ was and is very fortified, probably as fortified as any border in the world.
ref: 2014, Phillip C. Schaefer, Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives, page 63:
glosses: Having strong defenses.
examples: text: Fortified milk is cow’s milk that contains extra vitamins and minerals that are not naturally found in milk in significant amounts. Typically, vitamins D and A are added to milk sold in the United States. However, milk can be fortified with various other nutrients, including zinc, iron, and folic acid.
ref: 2019 September 3, SaVanna Shoemaker, “What Is Fortified Milk? Benefits and Uses”, in Healthline:
qualifier: nourishment
glosses: Being enriched with (additional) minerals and vitamins.
Derived terms: biofortified
nonfortified
unfortified
expenditures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚz/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚz/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃəz/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of expenditure
lectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛkt͡ʃɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɛkt͡ʃəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of lecture
lectures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛkt͡ʃɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɛkt͡ʃəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lecture
prophets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prŏfʹits
ipa: /ˈpɹɑfɪts/
enpr: prŏfʹits
ipa: /ˈpɹɒfɪts/
homophone: profits
Senses: glosses: plural of prophet
realised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹi.ə.laɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɹɪə.laɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of realise
kindled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪndl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kindle
choked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃəʊkt/
ipa: /t͡ʃoʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of choke
Derived terms: choke up
choked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃəʊkt/
ipa: /t͡ʃoʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
Forms: form: more choked
form: most choked
Senses: glosses: Having been unable to breathe due to airway obstruction (choking) or strangulation, but usually to the point of pain and discomfort without death.
examples: text: It gave the green light to pedestrianisation of the station's porte cochère (which had been traffic-choked when used as a drop-off point by motorists), [...].
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Stephen, “Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Large: Nottingham”, in RAIL, number 970, page 46:
glosses: Blocked or obstructed by thick material, often plant growth.
Derived terms: nonchoked