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(n)
A burst, split, or break.
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(v)
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
(transitive) To deplume; to strip of feathers.
(transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
To deprive of feathers or plumes.
A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
(slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
(transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
(countable) The noise of a horn or whistle.
(transitive, idiomatic) To criticize (a request) to the point of preclusion.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
a single tear (clear, salty liquid secreted by the eye).
(transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
The amount of money levied for a service.
(transitive, intransitive, often with on) To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol or media consumption.
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
(informal) A session of heavy drinking.
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
(transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst.
(medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
(transitive) To remove the limbs of.
(transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
(transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
(transitive) To push or throw over.
(transitive) To pull or twist violently.
(transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
(transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
An act of tracing.
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
A very small drop.
(intransitive) To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
(transitive) To have on:
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
(in combination) Uninhibited activity.
(adj)
True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
(uncountable, slang) Food.
Someone or something that jerks.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
(intransitive) To break apart; to split.
A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
A slashing action or motion:
(transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
(transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
A deep cut.
(transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
To cut unevenly.
(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
A state of great damage.
A tear (in paper, etc.).
The action of one who rips (in any sense).
A surname.
(transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
(adv)
Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
(anatomy) relating to a labrum (lip-like projection)
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
That has not been shed.
A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
(sometimes attributive) A mark left by scuffing or scraping.
(archaic, literary) Into separate parts or pieces.
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
A strong wind.