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(v)
(ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
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(transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
(transitive) To involve or engage deeply.
(intransitive) To swim under water.
(n)
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
(adj)
Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
A lower section of a road or geological feature.
(transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
(transitive) To completely engage the attention of; to involve.
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
A waterfall.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
(economics, etc.) A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
(intransitive) To jump.
(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.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
(N)
a real-time card game from James Ernest in which all players are falling from the sky for no apparent reason.
(intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
The act of declining or refusing something.
(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
(adv)
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(transitive) To push or throw over.
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
Having no variations in height.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
(transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
decline
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
(informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
(transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
To operate a vehicle:
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A sudden forward motion.
(cricket) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
A rich person who lives in luxury.
people who have retreated
Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
(intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
(intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
(intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
(transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
(transitive) To throw (something) with force.
(transitive) To plunge (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.
(transitive, obsolete) To plunge (something into something else).
Alternative form of implunge. [(transitive, obsolete) To plunge (something into something else).]
(transitive, obsolete) To sink or immerse; to steep.
(intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
(pathology) Any undesirable substance or group of cells that has made its way into part of the body.
(transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
(transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.
(transitive) To steep or soak; drench.
(transitive) To cause to become pregnant.
(transitive) To fill something with (a liquid) by pouring.
(chiefly figurative) A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
An instance of wallowing.
(figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
(transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
(transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).