To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
An object of an ardent desire.
A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
To utter with effort.
To throw, cast.
To displace (a vein, stratum).
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
To rise and fall.
To pull up with a rope or cable.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
An effort to vomit; retching.
Broken wind in horses.
The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory