yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
curtail
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Alteration of curtal, from Old French courtault (“which has been shortened”), itself from court (“short”) (from Latin curtus) + -ault
Inflected forms:
form: curtails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curtailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curtailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curtailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: curtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cut short the tail of (an animal).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
gloss: To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
Although British involvement in the slave trade prior to 1807 cannot be denied, or its effects diminished, it is also a fact that the Royal Navy was pretty much the only force in the world in the 19th century with the numbers, drive, willingness, firepower, and capability to curtail the global slave trade, and that, without these efforts, many more would no doubt have been taken to slave plantations and other such destinations during the 19th, and possibly even into the 20th, centuries, as it must be remembered that a great many European powers would only begrudgingly commit to ending the slave trade when the other option was continuous war with the British Empire.
gloss: To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed.
The current Israeli government has been working to curtail and eliminate critical voices within Israeli society in recent years, particularly those fighting to end the occupation and expose human rights violations against Palestinians and marginalized communities.
gloss: A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
pos: noun
Synonyms: shorten
control
limit
restrain
Related words: curt
curtal
Derived words: curtailable
curtail dog
curtailer
curtailment
uncurtailed
Translations:
decorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the following:
* Latin decōrus (“becoming, fitting, proper, suitable”) + English -ous (suffix adjectives denoting presence of a quality in any degree, typically an abundance). Decōrus is derived from decor (“elegrance, grace; charm beauty”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives); and decor is from decēre, the present active infinitive of decet (“to adorn; to be decent; to be proper or suitable”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to perceive; to take”).
* Possibly also influenced by Late Latin decorōsus (“beautiful; elegant”), from decoris + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of’ forming adjectives from nouns). Decoris is the genitive singular of decus (“beauty, grace, ornament, splendour; distinction, glory, honour”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱos (“that which is proper”), from *deḱ- (see above).
Inflected forms:
form: more decorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most decorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards; becoming, seemly.
pos: adj
examples: The narrovv path of truth and virtue inclines neither to the right nor left—it is a ſtraightforvvard buſineſs, and they vvho are earneſtly purſuing their road, may bound over many decorous prejudices, vvithout leaving modeſty behind.
[S]ome grumbling voice, / Which now and then will make a slight inroad / Upon decorous silence, […]
There came a day when the round of decorous pleasures and solemn gaieties in which Mr. Jos Sedley’s family indulged, was interrupted by an event which happens in most houses.
On these beautiful moonlight nights, Rome appears to keep awake and stirring, though in a quiet and decorous way.
To this Defensio Wordsworth afterward added a supplement, and the two form a treatise of permanent value for philosophic statement and decorous English.
But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
gloss: Appropriate, suitable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [B]oth the truth vvhich the Prophecy aims at is faithfully conveyed, and that decorous embelliſhment in the external Cortex of the Prophecy punctually obſerved.
And it is no vvonder this falling Star or Comet ſhould be looked upon as ſo miſchievous to Rivers and VVaters, vvhen Natural Hiſtory ſpeaks of falling Comets that have drunk up vvhole Rivers; ſo decorous is the repreſentation.
[…] It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα [autourgeîn hápanta], ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters.
Related words: decor
decorum
dedecorous
Derived words: decorously
decorousness
indecorous
undecorous
Translations:
denigrate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Derived from Latin dēnigrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēnigrō (“to blacken”) [see -ate (verb-forming suffix)], from dē- (“of; from”) + nigrō (“to blacken”) [from niger (“black”)]. Cognate with Middle English denigart(e) (“darkened, discolored”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: denigrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denigrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: denigrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: denigrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more denigrate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most denigrate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To criticize so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What grand engines they were! Yet I have noticed a disposition on the part of quite a diversity of present-day commentators to denigrate those engines.
Although in public Soviet officials tend to denigrate the French electric locomotives imported recently, there is little doubt that lessons learnt from these engines will be incorporated in new Russian designs.
gloss: To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You have no right to denigrate people and things that you have no personal experience with.
gloss: To blacken.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
gloss: Blackened.
pos: adj
tags: transitive
Derived words: denigration
denigrative
denigrator
denigratory
Translations:
disdain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).
Inflected forms:
form: disdains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disdaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disdained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disdained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of contempt or scorn.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.
He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle,
Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie,
Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie:
What will he doe ſupported by a king?
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner.
gloss: That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain.
gloss: The state of being despised; shame.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; Exempt from envy , but not from disdain
gloss: To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.
The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.
The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
gloss: To be indignant or offended.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?
Synonyms: abomination
condescension
contempt
despisal
scorn
abominate
contemn
Antonyms: adoration
admiration
honor
respect
reverence
adore
admire
revere
Derived words: disdainable
disdainful
disdainer
disdainingly
undisdained
undisdaining
Translations:
dogged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.
Base: dog
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more dogged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dogged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: stubbornly persevering, steadfast
pos: adj
examples: Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
Rushing out to the point above the reef, we watched the conflict between canoe and sea. When the man reached the gas boat, the screams of the boy stopped. With great risk they loaded the canoe till she began to take water. The boy bailed furiously. The long dogged pull of the man's oars challenged death inch by inch, wave by wave.
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Using the latest technology, and with the dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme, we've successfully identified the person in question.
Translations:
dogmatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French dogmatique and its etymon, Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).
Inflected forms:
form: more dogmatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dogmatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dogmatical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dogmatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dogmatical
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
pos: adj
examples: Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
gloss: Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
pos: adj
gloss: Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
pos: adj
gloss: One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
pos: noun
Related words: dogmatize
dogmatism
dogmatist
Derived words: adogmatic
antidogmatic
dogmatically
dogmaticism
dogmatic theology
historicodogmatic
monodogmatic
multidogmatic
nondogmatic
overdogmatic
ultradogmatic
undogmatic
Translations:
unusual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English usual
English unusual
From un- + usual.
Inflected forms:
form: more unusual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unusual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unusuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: unusuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unusuall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not usual, out of the ordinary.
pos: adj
examples: Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.
It’s definitely not unusual for a couple to meet through friends or be set up on a date.
His behavior was unusual in that it was considered childish for a man of his age.
I’ve had no problem with female docs. I’ve had some – how should I say it – unusual experiences with a couple of male ones. And I have heard from girlfriends about their unusual experiences as well.
gloss: Something that is unusual; an anomaly.
pos: noun
examples: I should say that it was very unusual for such men to leave a bottle half empty. How do all these unusuals strike you, Watson?
Two of these unusuals have been selected for special effort throughout the season. They are kneeling pads and water-proof garden gloves. During the bulb planting season they are displayed with the bulbs […]
Translations:
shrunk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more shrunk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shrunk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: shrunken
pos: adj
examples: […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne / Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]
Translations:
slew
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.
Inflected forms:
form: slews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act, or process of slewing.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used for slewing.
pos: noun
gloss: A change of position.
pos: noun
gloss: To rotate or turn something about its axis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: "Fuck that! Open fire!" His assistant, Lloyd Mustin, was recording accurate ranges from the narrowcasting fire-control radar and didn't need help from other wavelengths. "Action port. Illuminating ship is target," he instructed his gun captains. Mustin, controlling the after trio of five-inch mounts, and Nickelson slewed their directors onto the lights and opened fire immediately.
gloss: To veer a vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the 5th Battle Squadron comes into the range of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Evan-Thomas, who, so far, has dutifully followed Beatty's orders (or lack of them), has finally had just about enough. He can see the danger, plain as day, as the High Seas Fleet's leading elements open up a barrage with every gun they possess. He therefore issues his own squadron orders to expect to have to make sudden course changes and to follow his lead, before ordering the wheel hard over and slewing Barham around. Valiant and Warspite move to follow, replicating the "turn in succession" order, whilst the trailing HMS Malaya sees the oncoming danger and prepares to turn as soon as it possibly can without crashing into Warspite.
gloss: To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pivot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To skid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.
Treforest: The track has been slewed to create space for the new island station platform at Treforest Estate, on the Cardiff-Merthyr line.
gloss: To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
Derived words: slew rate
Translations:
slain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: the slain
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
Senses:
gloss: Those who have been killed.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: […]Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man ¶ May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, ¶ Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain ; ¶ Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, ¶ A bony heap, through ages to remain, ¶ Themselves their monument ;— the Stygian coast ¶ Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.
While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain, they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.
Translations:
slit
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English slitten, from Old English slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”). Doublet of slite; also related to slice through French borrowing. Apparently unrelated to English slot, whose etymology, however, is uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: slits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slitten
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
pos: noun
examples: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
gloss: The vulva.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: […]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…]
gloss: A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
gloss: To cut a narrow opening.
pos: verb
examples: He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
gloss: To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut; to sever; to divide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And slits the thin-spun life.
gloss: Having a cut narrow opening.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: arrowslit
arrow slit
dorsal slit
double-slit experiment
eyeslit
gill slit
microslit
nanoslit
piss-slit
piss slit
preslit
slit drum
slit-eyed
slit-faced bat
slit gong
slit-gong
slit lamp
slitless
slitlet
slitlike
slitmask
slitmouth
slit-scan
slitshell
slit-shell
slittable
slitted
slitter
slit trench
slitty
slitwidth
slitwise
unslit
slit one's throat
slit someone's throat
Translations:
spoke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
Inflected forms:
form: spokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spoking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spoked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spoked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
pos: noun
examples: The wheels were at first copies of a light hand-cart wheel, the wood spokes were brought together by tapering the spoke ends and wedging them together at the nave or hub and inserting the other ends in slots in the felloe or wood rim.
gloss: A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
pos: noun
gloss: A rung of a ladder.
pos: noun
gloss: A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
pos: noun
gloss: To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: hub-and-spoke
key spoke
leading spoke
multispoke
put a spoke in someone's wheel
respoke
spoke-bone
spoke-dog
spoke key
spokeless
spoke nipple
spokescouncil
spokeshave
spoke-shave
spoke target
spokewise
spoke wrench
spoky
trailing spoke
underspoke
Translations:
smelt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English smelt, from Old English smelt, from Proto-West Germanic *smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.
Inflected forms:
form: smelt
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smelts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
pos: noun
gloss: A fool; a simpleton.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will, this is a very Smelt
Derived words: blacksmelt
European smelt
Japanese pond smelt
Japanese smelt
sand smelt
Translations:
spoken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Morphologically spoke + -n.
Base: spoke
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: more spoken
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spoken
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expressed in speech.
pos: adj
gloss: Speaking in a specified way.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: soft-spoken
well-spoken
They are both described as thoughtful, slow-spoken men.
gloss: Of a language, produced by articulate sounds.
pos: adj
examples: Algebra is not a spoken language like French or Spanish, it is a math language.
Synonyms: oral
verbal
Antonyms: unspoken
Derived words: aforespoken
fair-spoken
fine-spoken
forespoken
foul-spoken
free-spoken
nonspoken
outspoken
plainspoken
plain-spoken
short-spoken
smooth-spoken
soft-spoken
spoken for
spokenness
spoken pause
spoken word
sweet-spoken
unspokenness
well-spoken
Translations:
sped
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From SPED.
Inflected forms:
form: speds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A special education student.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
Translations:
speeded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Measured in terms of speed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a speeded lexical decision task
Translations:
spent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a spent cartridge
gloss: Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
gloss: Of a conviction: no longer appearing on a person's criminal record.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
Related words: brewers' spent grains
forspent
heartspent
spent force
time spent listening
unspent
Translations:
spat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to spit.
Inflected forms:
form: spats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As spat-fall often occurs in areas away from environments suitable for oyster growing, the collection, transport and sale of oyster spat has developed into a separate industry.
But Orata’s oysters were, like the dormice and fish, collected in the wild, as spat.
gloss: A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat.
If the spat are allowed to remain attached to the tank bottom for more than two days, they are difficult to remove without damage to the shell.
Derived words: spatfall
Translations:
spoiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spoiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spoiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spoilt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
pos: adj
gloss: The state of being heavily pampered.
pos: adj
examples: The child was spoiled by constant gifts.
gloss: Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
pos: adj
Derived words: spoiled for choice
spoiled grape juice
spoiledness
spoiled rotten
unspoiled
Translations:
spoilt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spoilt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spoilt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spoiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having lost its original value
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The food went spoilt in the heat and had to be thrown away.
gloss: Having a selfish or greedy character, especially due to pampering
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The child was so spoilt that she expected everything to be done for her.
After years of luxury, he became a spoilt brat.
Antonyms: eatable
edible
fresh
good
unspoilt
unspoilt
Derived words: spoilt for choice
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 寵壞 /宠坏
roman: chǒnghuài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溺愛 /溺爱
roman: nì'ài
lang: Czech
word: rozmazlený
lang: Dutch
word: verwend
lang: Finnish
word: hemmoteltu
lang: Finnish
word: poispilattu
lang: Finnish
word: pilattu
lang: French
word: gâté
lang: French
word: pourri
lang: Georgian
word: გაფუჭებული
roman: gapuč̣ebuli
lang: German
word: verwöhnt
lang: German
word: verzogen
lang: Greek
word: κακομαθημένος
roman: kakomathiménos
lang: Hungarian
word: elkényeztetett
lang: Italian
word: viziato
lang: Malay
word: mua
lang: Mongolian
word: эрх
roman: erx
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bortskjemt
lang: Persian
word: لوس
roman: lus
lang: Persian
word: ننر
roman: nonor
lang: Portuguese
word: mimado
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: размажено
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: razmaženo
lang: Spanish
word: mimado
lang: Spanish
word: regalón
lang: Spanish
word: consentido
lang: Spanish
word: malcriado
lang: Swedish
word: bortskämd
lang: Ukrainian
word: зіпсо́ваний
roman: zipsóvanyj
spoon-fed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pampered, as a baby too young to feed themselves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: So simplified that one might expect a baby to understand it.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
spoon-feed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spoon + feed.
Compound parts: spoon
feed
Inflected forms:
form: spoon-feeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spoon-feeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spoon-fed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spoon-fed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spoonfeed
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To help somebody (usually a baby or elder) to eat using a spoon; to feed using a spoon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To overly pamper or indulge (someone), so that they do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I can help you with your homework, but you must understand the concept, because I will not spoon-feed you.
gloss: To give (something) in an overly pampering way, so that the recipients do not (or because they failed to) act or think for themselves.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What do you mean "I don't know"? I'm practically spoon-feeding you the answer!
gloss: To explain (something, to someone) in simple words; to explain (it, to them) in words of one syllable; to spell (it) out (for them).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
sprung
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more sprung
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sprung
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fitted or cushioned with springs.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: spring-loaded
a sprung mattress
the sprung weight of a vehicle
gloss: Worn out such that the springiness has dissipated.
pos: adj
examples: My old money clip was sprung, so I replaced it.
gloss: Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest; originally and literally, having a penile erection.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I like big butts and I cannot lie. / You other brothers can’t deny / that when a girl walks in / with a itty bitty waist / and a round thing in your face you get sprung.
[…] / ’Cause your love got the best of me, / And baby, you’re making a fool of me. / You got me sprung and I don’t care who sees, / ’Cause baby, you got me so crazy.
’Cause I’m sprung over you / And ain’t nothin’ I can do / […] / Thoughts of you fill my head / […]
My lips like sugar. / This candy got you sprung.
gloss: Caught doing something illegal or against the rules.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: `Sprung!' cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo.
gloss: drunk.
pos: adj
tags: dated
slang
gloss: cracked or strained.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: taken
splintered
Antonyms: unsprung
Derived words: coil-sprung
leaf-sprung
Translations:
stole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English stole, from Latin stola, from Ancient Greek στολή (stolḗ, “stole, garment, equipment”); akin to stall. Doublet of stola.
Inflected forms:
form: stoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stoal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stoale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stolle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck, each end hanging over the chest, worn in ecclesiastical settings or sometimes as a part of graduation dress, corresponding to the Eastern epitrachelion.
pos: noun
examples: 1994-1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98, Multimedia Edition
Certain robes indicate a position in the hierarchy; others correspond to function and may be worn by the same individual at different times. The most important vestment among the insignia [of the clergy] is the stole, the emblem of sacerdotal status, the origin of which is the ancient pallium. The stole originally was a draped garment, then a folded one with the appearance of a scarf, and, finally, in the 4th century, a scarf. As a symbol of jurisdictionin the Roman Empire, the supreme pontiff (the pope, or bishop of Rome) conferred it upon archbishops and, later, upon bishops, as emblematic of their sharing in the papal authority.
With sou'-wester under arm, and oilskin open so that God might see the stole and know that there was no deception, he chanted from a prayer-book in a tone exactly like that of a blackfellow devil-dovvening: […]
gloss: A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.
pos: noun
Derived words: stoled
stole fee
stolelike
Translations:
stolen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stolen, istolen, from Old English stolen, ġestolen, from Proto-Germanic *stulanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal”), equivalent to stole + -en. Cognate with Scots stellin, stollin (“stolen”), Saterland Frisian stäälen (“stolen”), West Frisian stellen (“stolen”), Dutch gestolen (“stolen”), German Low German stohlen (“stolen”), German gestohlen (“stolen”), Swedish stulen (“stolen”).
Base: stole
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: stolens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That has been stolen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Something which has been stolen.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
US
examples: Oh, a few months back, a detective came by with pictures of identical diamonds. Wanted to know if anybody had come around maybe trying to sell them. I told him I read the pawn sheets regular and I haven't seen them listed. He tells me they don't want the stolens on any sheets.
Spinner, shotty, semi
These shots ain't no Henny
If this Glock holds twenty
I make it scream like Dezzie
Dilemma like Kelly
Before I had a bar like Peggy
How many pagans? Many
Ask my probation...
She knows it's many, many
And if I take it there it's edgy
You see my stolens come with petty
A island I wanna live somewhere silent
I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds
Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying
I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding
The young bulls get the green light, suttin's gettin' sabotaged
They’ll get it done in a hoopty on the ped or even on the handlebars
But the main focus is doe bro rest in peace M we're just tryna have it large
Screaming fuck feds get gwop let me see your battle scars
We trap in stolens 24's shag whips and rattle cars
Pray for my soldiers that's ridin’ in stolens
Fill that clip with golden worms
Grap that dots and fold it first
(snap!) make sure that the stolen works
Translations:
stuck
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stuck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stuck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to move.
pos: adj
examples: Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.
If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
gloss: Unable to progress with a task.
pos: adj
examples: I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
gloss: No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
pos: adj
examples: There are several ways to close a stuck program.
gloss: In the situation of having no money.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
Derived words: bleed like a stuck hog
bleed like a stuck pig
get stuck in
get stuck into
hardstuck
Homestuck
like a stuck pig
permastuck
squeal like a stuck pig
stare like a stuck pig
stuckholder
stuck in a rut
stuck in one's ways
stuck in the mud
stuck in the Stone Age
stuck in time
Stuckism
Stuckist
stuck like Chuck
stuckness
stuck on
stuck on oneself
stuck pixel
stuck record
stuck twin syndrome
stuck up
stuck-up
unstuck
Translations:
stank
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Respelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
Inflected forms:
form: stanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
slang
examples: Fishy, pussy funky elevator
 Pissy, broke ass project elevator
 Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator
 I'm not climbing no 17 flights[…]
This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.
They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.
gloss: A stink; a foul smell.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Translations:
strew
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”).
Cognate with Scots strow, straw (“to strew”), West Frisian streauwe (“to strew”), Dutch strooien (“to strew, scatter, sprinkle”), German streuen (“to strew, scatter”), Swedish strö (“to strew”), Icelandic strá (“to strew”), Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”).
Inflected forms:
form: strews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: strewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strewed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: strewn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: straw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: to strew sand over a floor
The files had been strewn all over the floor.
Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.
And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
[…] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.
gloss: To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Leaves strewed the ground.
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
gloss: To spread abroad; to disseminate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: She may strew dangerous conjectures.
gloss: To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
pos: verb
examples: error-strewn
Synonyms: scatter
sprinkle
Related words: strain
streusel
Derived words: bestrew
instrew
overstrew
strewable
strewage
strewer
strewment
strewments
strewnfield
unstrewed
Translations:
strewn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more strewn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most strewn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered, scattered or overspread with objects.
pos: adj
Translations:
impact
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Attested since the 17th century, from Latin impāctus.
Inflected forms:
form: impacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: impacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impacted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The striking of one body against another; collision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The hatchet cut the wood on impact.
gloss: A forced impinging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact, which caused numbness in his leg.
gloss: A significant or strong influence or effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
proscribed
uncountable
examples: His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
December 7, 1941, November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001 had an impact on many throughout the world.
The French revolution, the Russian revolution, and the Iranian revolution had an impact on many throughout the world.
One way to reduce the environmental impact of meat eating is to make livestock more productive.
gloss: To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
As a microbullet impacts the graphene, the diameter of the cone it creates – determined by later examination of the petals – provides a way to measure how much energy the graphene absorbs before breaking.
gloss: To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
gloss: To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
proscribed
transitive
examples: I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
gloss: To stamp or impress onto something.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Ideas impacted on the mind.
Synonyms: percussion
Related words: impinge
Derived words: impactable
impacter
impaction
impactor
reimpact
Translations:
stimulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey-?
Latin stimulus
Latin stimulo
Latin stimulatusbor.
English stimulate
Borrowed from Latin stimulātus, perfect passive participle of stimulō (“to urge, goad on”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin stimulus (“a sting or prick; a stimulus, goad”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: stimulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stimulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stimulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stimulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To encourage into action.
pos: verb
examples: stimulate the economy
To most others Lord Allerton's obvious preference for Mary would have been an insuperable obstacle; it only served to stimulate her ladyship.
gloss: To arouse an organism to functional activity.
pos: verb
examples: stimulate my mind
He was sexually stimulated by the dancer's moves.
Related words: stimulant
stimulation
stimulator
stimulatory
stimulus
Derived words: autostimulate
biostimulate
colony-stimulating factor
costimulate
counterstimulate
destimulate
electrostimulate
follicle-stimulating hormone
follicle stimulating hormone
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
gravistimulate
hyperstimulate
immunostimulate
instimulate
interstimulate
melanocyte-stimulating hormone
microstimulate
neurostimulate
overstimulate
photostimulate
prestimulate
restimulate
self-stimulate
stimulable
stimulancy
stimulatable
stimulatee
stimulater
superstimulate
thyroid-stimulating hormone
understimulate
Translations:
stiffen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stifnen, equivalent to stiff + -en.
Base: stiff
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: stiffens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stiffening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stiffened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stiffened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make stiff.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As Willis spoke and tried to smile the voices inside him rang together like a bell, stiffening him and hollowing him and emptying him of his troubled song.
Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
It followed a sequence of functions: a machine cuts cloth panels to be sewn, the panels are drenched with the polymer and stiffened, a robotic arm uses suction cups to lift each panel and position it in a sewing machine. Finally, the robotic arm lifts the stitched T-shirt off the sewing machine. […] The system could work for most fabrics, with the exception of leather and waterproof materials that can't be drenched with the stiffening polymer. […] Zornow has patents pending in 10 countries for the process to stiffen fabric.
gloss: To become stiff.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Bewildered by the unexpected greeting, my son stiffened, but managed a polite answer.
He does note that fascia, like most connective tissue in the body, stiffens with age, overuse and injury.
Synonyms: starken
Related words: stiff
Derived words: nonstiffened
nonstiffening
restiffen
stiffener
stiffen up
unstiffen
unstiffened
Translations:
stiffness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff + -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English stīþness (“stiffness”).
Base: stiff
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: stiffnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His stiffness hampered the conversation.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
After years when I met a friend inside the aircraft and could sense stiffness in the conversation, a whiff of mild slang was the ice breaker, followed by loads of campus nostalgia.
gloss: Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
Derived words: death-stiffness
Translations:
stricken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.
Inflected forms:
form: more stricken
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stricken
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: striken
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Struck by something.
pos: adj
examples: The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
gloss: Disabled or incapacitated by something.
pos: adj
examples: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Services had to be diverted, damaged lines restored, and materials for coastal defence and relief supplies conveyed to the stricken areas with all possible speed.
Given the perils for divers trying to enter the stricken submarine, the recovery effort is expected to focus on raising the vessel, a daunting challenge since the flooded weight of the Kursk is estimated at 25,000 tonnes.
At about twenty past three in the afternoon, these aircraft duly began to arrive. The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft. They managed to miss the barely-moving Hornet with all but one drop... but one hit was really all that it took, the location causing additional damage to the stricken carrier and demolishing most of the repairs that had been made to the earlier damage.
Ministry of Defence officials, who were managing small boats in the Channel at the time, told the Guardian in January that they disputed that the stricken dinghy had entered UK waters.
gloss: Disabled or incapacitated by something.
pos: adj
Derived words: awestricken
awe-stricken
dumbstricken
grief-stricken
heartstricken
horror-stricken
moonstricken
panic-stricken
planet-stricken
poverty-stricken
stage-stricken
strickenly
strickenness
sunstricken
terrorstricken
terror-stricken
thunderstricken
unstricken
Translations:
sworn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en.
Base: swear
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Given or declared under oath.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His sworn statement convinced the judge.
gloss: Bound as though by an oath.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm sworn to secrecy.
Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.
gloss: Ardent, devout.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a sworn foe
a sworn socialist
Derived words: nonsworn
sworn broker
sworn virgin
unsworn
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: vázaný přísahou
swept
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cleared of mines (explosive devices).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Having survived the seemingly-random attacks through the day, and now under the cover of night, the Germans seem to have a clear run to safety. However, back when the route became clear thanks to the Enigma intercepts, Bomber Command had laid more mines in the swept channel. And now, along comes Gneisenau!
Translations: