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(v)
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
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(transitive) To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To be late (for a regular event)
To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
To retreat.
(idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
(n)
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
(adv)
In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
(adj)
Stuck; unable to progress; having been bogged down.
(intransitive) To vanish.
(transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
(intransitive) To feel pain.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
(transitive) To delete.
(transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
(transitive) To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.
(transitive) To turn aside from a course.
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
(slang) Very drunk or stoned.
(transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
A competitor thought unlikely to win.
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(intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.
(transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
(intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.
(of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
(intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
(transitive) To lose remembrance of.
(figurative, of a location) Desolate, boring and depressing.
(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
(intransitive) To make a detour.
(transitive) To eject; to expel.
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
(transitive) To give up; yield to another. [with to]
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
(transitive) To run faster than.
(transitive) To trick; to deceive.
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.
(transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
(intransitive, informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
(transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
(transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
To precede, to go before.
(transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
(transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
(transitive) To defile or taint.
Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
(intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
surrendered as a penalty
(intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
(transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
(transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.
The act of gaining; acquisition.