To come as if by dropping down.
To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
To become.
To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
To be brought to the ground.
To die, especially in battle or by disease.
To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
To come down, to drop or descend.
A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
The action of a batsman being out.
The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
The chasing of a hunted whale.
A loss of greatness or status.
That which falls or cascades.
The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
To bore with a jumper.
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
To attack suddenly and violently.
To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
To cause to jump.
To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
A kind of loose jacket for men.
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
A jumping move in a board game.
An early start or an advantage.
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
A change of the path of execution to a different location.
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.