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brunt collapse: main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"

torque collapse

aggravation collapse: action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse; "the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care"; unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment; an exasperated feeling of annoyance

lesion collapse: any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part

tug collapse: a sudden abrupt pull; struggle in opposition; "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts"; pull hard; "The prisoner tugged at the chains"; "This movie tugs at the heart strings"; pull or strain hard at; "Each oar was tugged by several men"; move by pulling hard; "The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud"; tow (a vessel) with a tug; "The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor"; strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

annoyance collapse: the act of troubling or annoying someone; something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"; anger produced by some annoying irritation

foot collapse: travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"; any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates; a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"; the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"; the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"; a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger; a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall"; add a column of numbers; walk; "let's hoof it to the disco"; pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"

overplay collapse

straining collapse

Cockney collapse: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London; a native of the east end of London; relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"; characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"

overexert collapse: exert (oneself) excessively and go beyond one's strength; "don't overexert yourself when exercising!"

quantity collapse: an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"; something that has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable

patois collapse: a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard

pile drive collapse

haul collapse: transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"; draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

moment collapse: the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value; a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force); a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"; an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"

superiority collapse: the quality of being superior; displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man's superiority and condescension"; the quality of being a competitive advantage

taxing collapse

notation collapse: the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters; a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

ache collapse: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain; have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"; be the source of pain

bummer collapse: a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug; an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"

grief collapse: something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"; intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

throes collapse: violent pangs of suffering; "death throes"

exigency collapse: a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency"

tension collapse: the action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the belt in the pulleys"; (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear"; a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history"; (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"; the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"

slur collapse: (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato; utter indistinctly; speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"; play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"

torsion collapse: a twisting force

dwell collapse: inhabit or live in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

localism collapse: a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality

cancel collapse: make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets"; declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"; postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"; make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"

difficulty collapse: the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"; a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"; a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"

affliction collapse: a cause of great suffering and distress; a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health; a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

consequence collapse: having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security"; the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual; "that result is of no consequence"; a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"

beat collapse: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing; a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"; a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"; the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"; a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"; a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations; come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"; give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"; hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"; strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting; strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"; stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"; shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"; produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"; make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"; move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"; indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"; sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"; move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"; move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"; glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"; avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"; be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"

enforce collapse: ensure observance of laws and rules; "Apply the rules to everyone";; compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy"

dot collapse: the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code; mark with a dot; "dot your `i's"; make a dot or dots; scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights"

urgency collapse: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"; an urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"; the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity

provincialism collapse: a lack of sophistication

plight collapse: a solemn pledge of fidelity

Yankee collapse: an American (especially to non-Americans); an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War); used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

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