cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
luxury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
rhymes: -əɹi
Forms: form: luxuries
Etymology: From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence
synonyms: luxuriousness
luxe
antonyms: austerity
spartanness
penury
poverty
glosses: Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
examples: text: “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […]”
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: And with Millennial and Gen Z consumers accounting for a growing proportion of spending, the luxury market is increasingly sensitive to the social and environmental causes they identify with. […] With all this in mind, here are CNN Style’s best small luxuries for the conscientious gift giver: […]
ref: 2020 December 15, Marianna Cerini, “Holiday gift guide: Ethical luxuries for conscientious shoppers”, in CNN:
antonyms: necessity#Noun
essential#Noun
essentials#Noun
basics#Noun
glosses: Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.
examples: text: As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
antonyms: necessity#Noun
essential#Noun
essentials#Noun
basics#Noun
glosses: Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).
examples: text: Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 51, column 2:
glosses: Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
examples: text: Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 258, column 1:
glosses: Copulation; the act or action of sex.
Derived terms: antiluxury
hard luxury
lap of luxury
luxurist
luxury belief
luxury good
luxury tax
nonluxury
quiet luxury
semiluxury
soft luxury
superluxury
ultraluxury
unluxury
luxury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
rhymes: -əɹi
Forms: form: more luxury
form: most luxury
Etymology: From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Senses: synonyms: luxurious
glosses: Very expensive.
glosses: Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
Coordinate terms: premium
economy
Related terms: luxe
luxuriant
luxuriate
luxurious
luxuriously
cadaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kəˈdɑːv.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kəˈdeɪ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /kəˈdævɚ/
Forms: form: cadavers
form: cadavera
Etymology: From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.
Senses: examples: text: He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.
text: “Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.”
ref: 2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 98:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
Synonyms: body
corpse
Derived terms: cadaver dog
cadaveric
cadaverine
cadaverize
cadaverous
cadaverously
cadaverousness
Related terms: cadence
agenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Forms: form: agendas
form: agendae
Etymology: From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“I do, act, make”).
Senses: examples: text: Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club, retrieved 24 Nov 2024:
synonyms: docket
tasklist
to-do list
worklist
coordinate_terms: program
schedule
glosses: A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
coordinate_terms: program
schedule
glosses: A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
examples: text: A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
ref: 2005, Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue, A Parent's Guide To Special Education: Insider Advice On How To Navigate The System And Help Your Child Succeed, →ISBN, page 145:
text: It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
ref: 2011, Spencer Marc Aronfeld, Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student's Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm, AuthorHouse, page 12:
text: The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas.
ref: 2011, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, Mary Esther Huerta, Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
examples: text: These plans are the complete opposite of the path pursued by Emmanuel Macron since 2017. His agenda has exacerbated both income and wealth inequality, while there has been no change in investment, job creation or growth.
ref: 2024 July 3, Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty, “France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I haven't got an agenda / I haven't еven got a gender
ref: 2025, “My Sex”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp:
text: By invoking a wartime authority in service of a peacetime deportation agenda, he has gone beyond what even this draconian power permits.
ref: 2025 April 24, Katherine Yon Ebright, Elizabeth Goitein, “Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
glosses: A ritual.
Derived terms: agendaless
agendapost
agenda-setting
fungenda
hidden agenda
non-agenda
sunshine agenda
vagenda
agenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Etymology: From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“I do, act, make”).
Senses: glosses: plural of agendum
aggravated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggravate
aggravated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/
Forms: form: more aggravated
form: most aggravated
Senses: glosses: Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry.
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: Of or characterized by factors that increase the heinousness or offensiveness of the criminal offense.
examples: text: The cruel fallacy, long acted upon, that the insane were insensible to cold, and to other modifications of pain, is exploded; and under the new system, they are treated with the tenderest care, and ample provision is made for their every physical want. The old system inculcated that insane minds could not be stungby insult or shame, dishonor or injustice; the new teaches that “harshness and abuse fall with tenfold force upon minds impaired and enervated by disease; that in most cases of insanity enough of intelligence and feeling are retained to render the patient fully sensible of the import and the cruelty of what is said; and that in many cases the mind, instead of becoming obluse, or deadened, is endowed with an unusual sensitiveness, with an acuteness of perception, upon which the insults and insinuations of the rude, or the indelicate, or the cruel, must produce the most aggravated pain.”
ref: 1842, New York State Legislature Senate, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Issues 1-20, Boericke and Tafel, pages 5–6:
text: The cough seems to come from the depths of the abdomen, and causes pain in muscles and the chest: this remains a short time after the cough, which is followed by great exhaustion; cough especially aggravated at night and on lying down; sputum composed of thick yellow mucus.
ref: 1880, United States National Transportation Safety Board, The Homoeopathic Times, Volume 7, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 108:
text: While lying on the right side in bed, and at the moment of becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocating attacks, from suspended respiration , causing a quick effort to prevent suffocation, by changing position. On full inspiration, pleuritic pain; aggravated pain in side.
ref: 1886, Edwin Moses Hale, The Special Symptomatology of the New Remedies, Boericke and Tafel, page 81:
glosses: Having become worse, more severe, or more dangerous.
Synonyms: aggro
Derived terms: aggravated assault
aggravatedly
unaggravated
aggravate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/
ipa: /ˈæɡɹəvət/
Forms: form: more aggravate
form: most aggravate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + gravō (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: Aggravated.
raw_tags: as a participle
glosses: Loaded, burdened, weighed down.
glosses: Heightened, intensified.
raw_tags: in a bad sense
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.
aggressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: aggressives
Etymology: From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Senses: glosses: One who is aggressive.
examples: text: [...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.
ref: 2012 February 1, Siobhan Brooks, Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 110:
qualifier: Black lesbian slang
glosses: A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.
aggressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aggressively
form: most aggressively
Etymology: From aggressive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport), archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014:
text: The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue - including a recording of one of the calls with a senior MI5 officer.
ref: 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News, retrieved 06 Jul 2025:
glosses: In an aggressive manner.
Derived terms: hyperaggressively
passive-aggressively
Related terms: aggress
aggression
aggrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggrieved
form: most aggrieved
Senses: examples: text: I am aggrieved at the conditions which have been forced upon me.
text: Steven Fletcher headed in for Wolves late on, who were denied a penalty and what appeared to be a legitimate equaliser in stoppage time.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Angry or resentful due to unjust treatment.
examples: text: The aggrieved person may present their petition to the court for review.
topics: law
glosses: Having one's rights denied or curtailed.
Derived terms: aggrievedly
aggrievedness
aggrieved party
unaggrieved
aggrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggrieve
aggrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: aggrieves
form: aggrieving
form: aggrieved
form: aggrieved
Etymology: From Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, injure”), from Latin gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate.
Senses: examples: text: Right is positive; wrong is negative—is merely the negation of right; as cold is the negation of heat—darkness of light. That a thing may be wrong, it is necessary that there be some other thing in relation to which it is wrong—some condition which it fails to satisfy; some law which it violates; some being whom it aggrieves.
ref: 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 58:
synonyms: word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
synonyms: word: mourn
word: rue
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To grieve; to lament.
Derived terms: aggrievement
aggriever
aghast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡæst/
ipa: /əˈɡɑːst/
ipa: /əˈɡast/
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: more aghast
form: most aghast
Etymology: From Middle English agast, agasted, past participle of agasten (“to terrify”), from Old English a- (compare with Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-), German er-, originally meaning "out") + gæstan (“to terrify, torment”): compare Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”, literally “to fix, to root to the spot with terror”); akin to Latin haerere (“to stick fast, cling”). By surface analysis, a- + ghast/gast. See gaze.
Senses: examples: text: I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.
text: Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue,
Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: […]
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 III, scene ii:
text: And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
ref: 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle., The Hound of the Baskervilles:
text: 1985, Les Misérables, the song "Red and Black"
I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last?
text: We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.
ref: 2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:
text: Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.
ref: 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
text: For months, Democrats have watched aghast as President Donald Trump has unleashed his head-spinning, all-of-government brand of disruption.
ref: 2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its voice again?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Derived terms: aghastness
unaghast
agile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/
ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒ.əl/
rhymes: -ædʒaɪl
rhymes: -ædʒəl
Forms: form: agiler
form: more agile
form: agilest
form: most agile
form: Agile
Etymology: From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent.
Senses: examples: text: an agile creature
text: an agile wit
text: The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
ref: 1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, →OCLC:
synonyms: nimble
glosses: Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.
examples: text: agile movements
glosses: Characterised by quick motion.
examples: text: agile methods
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
Synonyms: active
alert
nimble
brisk
lively
quick
Derived terms: agile gibbon
agilely
agileness
agile wallaby
agilist
agility
nonagile
superagile
agile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/
ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒ.əl/
rhymes: -ædʒaɪl
rhymes: -ædʒəl
Forms: form: Agile
Etymology: From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Agile software development.
Derived terms: big agile
agility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [əˈd͡ʒɪl.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: agilities
Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis (“nimble, fleet, quick”), equivalent to agile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: His superior agility countered his lack of strength.
synonyms: nimbleness
glosses: The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion
glosses: A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.
Derived terms: superagility
unagility
agitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒɪteɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agitate
agitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒɪteɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more agitated
form: most agitated
Senses: examples: text: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:
glosses: Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
glosses: Violently and chaotically moving around, such as because of being shaken.
raw_tags: of a solution or substance
Derived terms: agitated delirium
agitatedly
agitatedness
unagitated
agitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/
Forms: form: agitates
form: agitating
form: agitated
form: agitated
Etymology: From Middle English agitat(e) (“set in motion”), borrowed from Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (“to put in motion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of agō (“to drive, move, push”), see -tō. Cognate with French agiter. See also act and agent.
Senses: examples: text: He was greatly agitated by the news.
synonyms: word: disturb
word: unsettle
word: agitate
word: freak
word: bother
word: bring down
word: discompose
word: disconcert
word: enturbulate
word: disturb
word: mortify
word: perturb
word: put out
word: ruffle
word: throw off balance
word: unsettle
word: upset
antonyms: appease
calm
quieten
glosses: To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
examples: text: to agitate water in a vessel
text: The wind agitates the sea.
text: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
ref: 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford:
synonyms: move
muddle
roil
shake
glosses: To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
examples: text: NAMBLA is working to build a coalition of gay, lesbian, progressive and civil liberties groups to agitate against the increasing state attacks on gay men who associate with boys.
ref: 1981 August 1, Mitzel, “NAMBLA Says National Crackdown Starting”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
synonyms: activate
animate
excite
trigger
rouse
set off
glosses: To set in motion; to actuate.
examples: text: Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.
ref: 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
synonyms: discuss
debate
canvass
glosses: To discuss or debate.
examples: text: Politicians agitate desperate designs.
synonyms: word: revolve
word: ruminate
word: afterthink
word: agitate
word: bethink
word: call to mind
word: chew
word: chew over
word: chew the cud
word: cogitate
word: consider
word: contemplate
word: deliberate
word: introspect
word: mull
word: mull over
word: muse
word: ponder
word: meditate
word: quander
word: reflect
word: rethink
word: reconsider
word: revolve
word: ruminate
word: second-guess
word: think
word: think over
glosses: To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise.
Derived terms: agitate the communicator
circumagitate
counteragitate
overagitate
reagitate
Related terms: agitable
agitant
agitatee
agitation
agitational
agitative
agitator
agitatory
agitatrix
inagitable
agitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ad͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /æ.d͡ʒɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: agitations
Etymology: From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō (“movement, agitation”).
Senses: examples: text: During a storm the sea is in agitation.
glosses: The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
examples: text: She causes great agitation within me.
synonyms: perturbation
glosses: A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind.
examples: text: the antislavery agitation
text: labor agitation
text: After this conflict pro-independence agitation temporarily died down.
text: […] religious agitations […]
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
examples: text: […] a logical agitation of the matter […]
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: […] the project now in agitation […]
ref: 1732, Jonathan Swift, The Advantages Proposed by Repealing the Sacramental Test:
glosses: Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
glosses: Putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing.
Synonyms: emotion
commotion
excitement
trepidation
tremor
perturbation
Derived terms: agitational
agitationist
agitprop
counteragitation
microagitation
ago
Language: English
Part of speech: postp
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-gō'
ipa: /əˈɡoʊ/
enpr: ə-gō'
ipa: /əˈɡəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: agoe
form: agon
form: agone
form: ygo
form: ygoe
Etymology: From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”).
Senses: examples: text: I got married ten years ago.
text: Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Damned if you don’t”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: When they first met in 2000, my dad told my mom how he had gotten the money. The story begins 20 years ago.
text: It was two weeks ago that I saw her last.
glosses: Before now, before the present time
Derived terms: four score and seven years ago
long ago
long long ago
many moons ago
three days ago
two years ago
ago
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-gō'
ipa: /əˈɡoʊ/
enpr: ə-gō'
ipa: /əˈɡəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: agoe
form: agon
form: agone
form: ygo
form: ygoe
Etymology: From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”).
Senses: examples: text: in days ago / in days agone
glosses: Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
examples: text: Woe the day—she is agone!
glosses: Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)
agony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈɡoni/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈaɡɵni/
Forms: form: agonies
Etymology: 14th century, via Old French and Latin from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”). Specifically of the struggle that precedes death (mortal agony) from the 1540s.
The sense of "extreme pain" from c. 1600.
Senses: examples: text: When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.
glosses: Extreme pain.
examples: text: And being in an agonie, he prayed more earneſtly,[…].
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 22:44, column 1:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).
examples: text: The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
qualifier: Dated
glosses: Violent contest or striving.
examples: text: With cries and agonies of wild delight.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book X”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
qualifier: Dated
glosses: Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
glosses: The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Synonyms: word: anguish
word: torment
word: throe
word: distress
word: pang
word: suffering
word: agony
word: anguishment
word: bereavement
word: living death
word: torture
Hypernyms: word: distress
word: grief
word: hurt
word: pain
word: suffering
Derived terms: agony aunt
agony auntie
agony aunty
agony box
agony column
agony-pipe
agony uncle
Related terms: word: agon
word: agonal
word: agonist
word: antagonist
word: protagonist
word: agonistes
word: agonize
word: agonise
word: agonizing
word: agonized
word: sad
agonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɡən.aɪzd/
Forms: form: more agonized
form: most agonized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agonised.
Synonyms: word: agonised
word: tortured
Hypernyms: word: anxious
word: distressed
word: painful
word: sad
Hyponyms: word: bereaved
word: distraught
word: grief-stricken
word: grief-struck
word: heartsick
word: heartsore
word: mournful
word: overfraught
word: overwrought
word: woeful
Derived terms: agonizedly
unagonized
Related terms: word: agony
word: agonizing
word: pain
agonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɡən.aɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agonize
agonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/
Forms: form: more agonizing
form: most agonizing
form: agonising
Senses: examples: text: It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
glosses: Causing physical or mental agony.
Synonyms: word: agonizing
word: ailsome
word: excruciating
word: groanful
word: hurtful
word: painable
word: painful
word: terrible
word: tormenting
word: tormentous
word: torturous
word: unpleasant
word: wrenchful
Derived terms: agonizingly
unagonizing
Related terms: word: agonize
word: agony
word: agonized
word: torture
agonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/
Forms: form: agonising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agonize
agonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/
Forms: form: agonizings
form: agonising
Senses: examples: text: I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.
ref: 1918, W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago:
glosses: The act of one who agonizes.
agonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/
ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/
ipa: /ˈæɡ.ə.naɪz/
ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɪ.nɑez/
rhymes: -æɡənaɪz
Forms: form: agonizes
form: agonizing
form: agonized
form: agonized
form: agonise
Etymology: From French agoniser, from Late Latin agonizare, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνίζομαι (agōnízomai, “to fight, contend”). See agony.
Senses: examples: text: His Touch, if tremblingly alive all o’er, / To smart, and agonize at ev’ry pore?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 13, lines 223–24:
synonyms: word: ache
word: hurt
word: ache
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: hurt
word: pain
word: passion
word: suffer
word: thole
word: throe
word: wark
word: wring
glosses: To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
examples: text: So I took a last stare round, agonizing to see if there was any way of escape; but the stone walls and roof were solid enough to crush me, and the stack of casks too closely packed to hide more than a rat.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
synonyms: fret
glosses: To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically.
examples: text: That dreadful bill […] was one of the chief torments of her life. At all hours of the night or day it was waiting just round the corner of her consciousness, ready to spring upon her and agonise her […]
ref: 1935, George Orwell, A Clergyman’s Daughter, page 8:
synonyms: word: afflict
word: torment
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To cause agony or anguish in someone.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
Synonyms: word: agonize
word: lament
word: bereave
word: fret
word: torture
Hypernyms: word: angst
word: worry
Derived terms: agonizer
overagonize
Related terms: word: agon
word: agony
word: agonization
word: deagonize
word: agonizing
durational pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durational patterns
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Foreground details, such as rhythmic units or rhythmic gestures, as projected against a background metric structure.
Related terms: duration
metric structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metric structures
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Regular rhythmic components of a song, including its metre and tempo.
Related terms: metre
metric level
presto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛstəʊ/
enpr: prĕs'tō
ipa: /ˈpɹɛstoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛstəʊ
Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Very fast or quickly; a directive for the musician(s) to play in a very quick tempo.
presto
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛstəʊ/
enpr: prĕs'tō
ipa: /ˈpɹɛstoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛstəʊ
Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”).
Senses: examples: text: So I put my hand into the hat and presto! Out comes a rabbit!
text: You know the old man's ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it ; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 31, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: Used by magicians when performing a trick; ta-da; voilà.
Derived terms: hey presto
presto change-o
presto chango
Related terms: abracadabra
presto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛstəʊ/
enpr: prĕs'tō
ipa: /ˈpɹɛstoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛstəʊ
Etymology: From Italian presto (“quickly”).
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of fives as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
allegro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/
ipa: /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/
Forms: form: allegros
Etymology: From Italian allegro.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: more traditionally
glosses: An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
examples: text: And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
ref: 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
allegro
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/
ipa: /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/
Etymology: From Italian allegro.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in a quick, lively tempo
allegro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/
ipa: /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/
Etymology: From Italian allegro.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: in a quick and lively manner
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from noun, adjective or adverb sense
word: allegro ma non troppo
sense: Terms derived from noun, adjective or adverb sense
word: allegro moderato
sense: Terms derived from noun, adjective or adverb sense
word: allegro non troppo
sense: Terms derived from noun, adjective or adverb sense
word: sonata-allegro form
beat level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beat levels
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The main level of a piece.
Related terms: metric structure
agreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːd/
ipa: /əˈɡɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: examples: It was agreed to move to a new headquaters.
glosses: simple past and past participle of agree
agreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːd/
ipa: /əˈɡɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: more agreed
form: most agreed
Senses: examples: text: We are much more agreed on goals than on methods.
text: Grammarians are agreed that contact clauses are a paratactic construction of two independent clauses.
glosses: In harmony.
Derived terms: nonagreed
pre-agreed
unagreed
within the agreed time
agreed
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːd/
ipa: /əˈɡɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: examples: text: Totally agreed!
glosses: Indicates agreement on the part of the speaker.
agrees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: examples: text: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agree
agreeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːəbəl/
ipa: /əˈɡɹɪbəl/
ipa: /əˈɡɹiəbəl/
Forms: form: more agreeable
form: most agreeable
form: agreable
Etymology: From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an agreeable contract
glosses: Able to agree; possible to be agreed.
examples: text: a man with agreeable manners
text: not completely agreeable remarks
text: She’s quite an agreeable person.
text: This fruit has an agreeable taste.
text: the train of agreeable reveries.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.
examples: text: If the committee is agreeable, we'll make an arrangement agreeable to both sides.
text: These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
ref: 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge:
glosses: Willing; ready to agree or consent.
examples: text: That which is Agreeable to the Nature of one thing, is many times Contrary to the Nature of another.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: conformable
correspondent
concordant
glosses: Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
examples: text: Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
text: And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation
ref: 1883, Charles Colcock Jones, The History of Georgia: Revolutionary epoch:
synonyms: sympathetic
glosses: Pursuant, conformant, accordant.
Synonyms: sense: pleasing, pleasant
word: pleasant
sense: willing
word: acquiescent
word: accordant
word: agreeable
word: agreeing
word: concordant
word: conformable
word: congruent
word: congruous
word: consonant
word: corresponding
word: harmonious
word: like-minded
word: of like mind
Derived terms: agreeableness
agreeably
unagreeable
Related terms: word: great minds think alike
word: agree
word: agreement
word: normal
word: correspondent
word: friendly
agreeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːəbəl/
ipa: /əˈɡɹɪbəl/
ipa: /əˈɡɹiəbəl/
Forms: form: agreeables
form: agreable
Etymology: From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
ref: 1855, Blackwood's magazine, volume 77, page 331:
glosses: Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
agricultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌltjʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Forms: form: more agricultural
form: most agricultural
Etymology: From agriculture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the agricultural class
text: an agricultural tool
text: agricultural show
text: The Neolithic Revolution (about 8000-3000 B.C.E.) was characterized by people moving from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles.
ref: 2004, Monty Armstrong, David Daniel, Abby Kanarek, Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2004-2005, The Princeton Review, page 328:
glosses: Of or pertaining to agriculture.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: As if played with a scythe.
glosses: Coarse or uncultured.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clumsy or tactless.
Derived terms: agflation
aggie
agricultural ant
agricultural biodiversity
agricultural density
agricultural extension
agricultural holder
agriculturalise
agriculturalism
agriculturalist
agriculturalization
agriculturalize
agricultural lien
agriculturally
agricultural pipe
agricultural revolution
agricultural shot
agricultural surplus
agrimation
agripreneur
antiagricultural
astroagricultural
full agricultural tenancy
hydroagricultural
non-agricultural
nonagricultural
postagricultural
preagricultural
unagricultural
Related terms: agriculturally
agriculture
agricultural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌltjʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Forms: form: agriculturals
Etymology: From agriculture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In what follows we divide commodities into three group—energy, metals, and agriculturals—and use equity indexes that are sensible for each commodity group.
ref: 2008, Adam Dunsby, John Eckstein, Jess Gaspar, Commodity Investing:
glosses: A product or commodity from agriculture.
ague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āʹgyo͞o
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɡju/
Forms: form: agues
Etymology: From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”).
Doublet of acute.
Senses: glosses: An acute fever.
examples: text: He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 8, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 163:
text: He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
 “I think you have got the ague,” said I.
 “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he.
“It’s bad about here,” I told him. “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.”
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 35–36:
text: Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.
ref: 1852, Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada:
text: ’Twere hard to say who fared the best:
 Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
 He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I’ve the ague
ref: 1810, Lord Byron, Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
examples: text: fever and ague
glosses: The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever.
examples: November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart
I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague
glosses: A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
examples: text: Where I’m from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.
ref: 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
glosses: Malaria.
Derived terms: ague cake
aguelike
agueproof
ague tree
agueweed
aguey
aguish
buck ague
Covent Garden ague
duck ague
dumb ague
face ague
fever and ague
Related terms: acute
fainaigue
ague
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: āʹgyo͞o
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɡju/
Forms: form: agues
form: aguing
form: agued
form: agued
Etymology: From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”).
Doublet of acute.
Senses: glosses: To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.