To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
To euthanize (an animal).
To make prices, or taxes, lower.
To pay.
To terminate a call; to hang up.
To give something as a reason for something else.
To add a name to a list.
To insult, belittle, or demean.
To land.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
To write (something).
To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To remove the stem from.
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
A branch of a family.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
The penis.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
A person's leg.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.