Synonyms of the word

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

cull

• v. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
• v. To gather, collect.
• v. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled…
• v. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
• v. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
• n. A selection.
• n. An organised killing of selected animals.
• n. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
• n. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

deplume

• v. (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lay bare; to expose.

displume

• v. To deprive of feathers, plumes, awards.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

fearlessness

• n. The quality of being fearless.

fleece

• n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
• n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
• n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
• n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• v. to con or trick someone out of money.
• v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

gazump

• v. (Britain) To swindle; to extort.
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after…
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted…
• v. (Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone…
• n. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
• n. A politician who takes bribes.

gutsiness

• n. The state or condition of being gutsy.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

hustle

• v. (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
• v. (transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.
• v. (transitive) To bundle, to stow something quickly.
• v. To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
• v. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
• v. To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
• v. To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
• v. (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
• v. To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
• n. A state of busy activity.
• n. A type of disco dance.
• n. (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn…

overcharge

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain…
• v. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
• v. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
• v. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
• n. An excessive load or burden.
• n. An excessive charge in an account.

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

pluckiness

• n. The characteristic of being plucky.

plume

• n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
• n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
• n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
• n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
• n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
• n. An upward spray of water or mist.
• n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
• n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
• n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
• v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
• v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
• v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
• v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
• v. To form a plume.
• v. To write; to pen.

plunk

• v. (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
• v. (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
• v. (baseball, transitive) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
• v. (intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
• v. (transitive) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string); to twang.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
• n. The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
• n. (slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
• n. (slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

pulling

• v. present participle of pull.
• n. The act by which something is pulled.

rob

• v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
• n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

steal

• v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
• v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
• v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
• v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
• v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
• v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
• v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
• v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
• n. The act of stealing.
• n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
• n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
• n. (baseball) A stolen base.
• n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
• n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

surcharge

• n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
• n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
• n. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp;…
• n. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
• n. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's…
• n. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
• n. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
• v. To apply a surcharge.
• v. To overload; to overburden.
• v. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or…
• v. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

tweak

• n. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
• n. A slight adjustment or modification.
• n. Trouble; distress; tweag.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
• n. (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation…
• v. (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
• v. (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
• v. (transitive) To twit or tease.
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness,…
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement…