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(v)
(transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
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(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(adj)
Making a strong impression.
To knock against or run into with a jolt.
(intransitive but with prepositional object, by extension) To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively).
(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
(chiefly US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
(transitive) To total; to amount to.
(transitive) To delete.
(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
(idiomatic) To finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
To reach (a destination)
(transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).
(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To create.
(intransitive) To occur or take place.
(transitive) To count something.
To try or risk.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
(idiomatic) To gain (points etc.; in a game or sport), to accumulate.
(transitive) To remove the pips from.
hit against; come into sudden contact with
To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.
(transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(transitive) To hit; to strike.
(n)
The pulsation of the heart.
(transitive) To strike with one's fist.
Having undergone pounding.
(transitive) To strike someone, typically with an open hand, often on the face.
To hit, slap or strike.
The act of giving a slap or slaps
(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
(transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
(slang) Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
(transitive) To get the flavor of.
(transitive, figurative, proscribed) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
To kill violently; to slay.
To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
Having undergone an impact.
(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
The act or motion of that which swings.
(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
(intransitive) To ride on a swing.
(intransitive) To form cracks.
(transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
(transitive) To applaud.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
(transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
(transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
(transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
(ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
Carrying out an attack.
Having been slashed, cut or rent.
Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
(heading) To capture, overtake.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
(transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle and gerund of combat
(intransitive) To happen.
(transitive) To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
(transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
(transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
Having dropped by the force of gravity.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
One who or that which kills.
The act of inflicting a wound.
Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
(colloquial) Filled to capacity, especially with people.
Packed, crowded, (of a venue) full of would-be customers.
Primarily physical senses.
(transitive) To hit with a whip.
That has been spilled.
(transitive, obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
(especially of a vehicle) destroyed
(transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
Defeated.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
In a state of shock or trauma.