duty period, work shift, shift - the time period during which you are at work

MDMA, methylenedioxymethamphetamine - a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States; "MDMA is often used at parties because it enables party-goers to remain active for long periods of time"

attempt, effort, try, endeavor, endeavour - earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

board game - a game played on a specially designed board

Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

circulate, go around, spread - become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"

carry - cover a certain distance or advance beyond; "The drive carried to the green"

ease - move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair"

whish - move with a whishing sound; "The car whished past her"

float - move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"

swap - move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

seek - go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"

whine - move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us"

fly - be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying"

ride - move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night sky"

come - cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"

ghost - move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

betake oneself - displace oneself; go from one location to another

overfly, pass over - fly over; "The plane passed over Damascus"

travel - undergo transportation as in a vehicle; "We travelled North on Rte. 508"

wend - direct one's course or way; "wend yoour way through the crowds"

do - travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"

raft - travel by raft in water; "Raft the Colorado River"

get about, get around - move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?"

resort, repair - move, travel, or proceed toward some place; "He repaired to his cabin in the woods"

cruise - travel at a moderate speed; "Please keep your seat belt fastened while the plane is reaching cruising altitude"

journey, travel - travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"

come, come up - move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"

move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

round - wind around; move along a circular course; "round the bend"

trundle - move heavily; "the streetcar trundled down the avenue"

push - move strenuously and with effort; "The crowd pushed forward"

travel purposefully - travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal

swing - change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"

rove, stray, roam, vagabond, wander, swan, ramble, range, drift, tramp, cast, roll - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

take the air, walk - take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday"

meander, thread, wind, wander, weave - to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

spirt, spurt, forge - move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

crawl, creep - move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

scramble - to move hurriedly; "The friend scrambled after them"

slither, slide - to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through the wicket in the big gate"

roll, wheel - move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"

glide - move smoothly and effortlessly

jounce, bounce - move up and down repeatedly

breeze - to proceed quickly and easily

act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"

work - proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; "work your way through every problem or task"; "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived"; "Start from the bottom and work towards the top"

venture, embark - proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer"

steamroll, steamroller - proceed with great force; "The new teacher tends to steamroller"

shove along, shove off, blow - leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!"

exit, get out, go out, leave - move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"

change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

sober up, sober - become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up"

sober, sober up - become more realistic; "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"

work - arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"

take effect - go into effect or become effective or operative; "The new law will take effect next month"

run - change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue"; "run riot"

take - be seized or affected in a specified way; "take sick"; "be taken drunk"

break - come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air"

settle - become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"

come - enter or assume a condition, relation, use, or position; "He came into contact with a terrorist group"; "The shoes came untied"; "I came to see his point of view"; "her face went red with anger"; "The knot came loose"; "Your wish will come true"

be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

come - extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles"

ray, radiate - extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions"

range, run - change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"

go deep, go far - extend in importance or range; "His accomplishments go far"

hap, happen, occur, come about, take place, go on, pass off, fall out, pass - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

drag on, drag out, drag - proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"

fare, get along, make out, do, come - proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way"

disappear, vanish, go away - get lost, especially without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"

be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

snarl - make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us"

sing, whistle - make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear"

cause to be perceived - have perceptible qualities

blow - make a sound as if blown; "The whistle blew"

ting - make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'

make noise, noise, resound - emit a noise

splat - give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact

twang - sound with a twang; "the bowstring was twanging"

clang, clangor - make a loud noise; "clanging metal"

clank - make a clank; "the train clanked through the village"

clangor, clangour - make a loud resonant noise; "the alarm clangored throughout the building"

boom out, boom - make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song"

drum, thrum, beat - make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

rattle - make short successive sounds

ticktack, ticktock, tick, beat - make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

resonate, vibrate - sound with resonance; "The sound resonates well in this theater"

tweet, twirp - make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting in the tree"

skirl - make a shrill, wailing sound; "skirling bagpipes"

gurgle - make sounds similar to gurgling water; "The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it"

glug - make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle; "the wine bottles glugged"

blow - sound by having air expelled through a tube; "The trumpets blew"

whish - make a sibilant sound

guggle - make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle

ping - make a short high-pitched sound; "the bullet pinged when they struck the car"

ping, pink, knock - sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"

trump - produce a sound as if from a trumpet

squelch - make a sucking sound

chug - make a dull, explosive sound; "the engine chugged down the street"

ring, peal - sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang"

bombilate, bombinate, buzz - make a buzzing sound; "bees were buzzing around the hive"

chime - emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"

rustle - make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"

crack, snap - make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"

crack - make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"

beep, claxon, honk, toot, blare - make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"

whistle - make whistling sounds; "He lay there, snoring and whistling"

resound, reverberate, ring, echo - ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"

thud, thump - make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door"

clop, clump, clunk, plunk - make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

patter, pitter-patter - make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering rain"

pink, rap, knock, tap - make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

tick, click - make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"

chatter, click - click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth"

pop - make a sharp explosive noise; "The cork of the champagne bottle popped"

chink, tink, tinkle, clink - make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells"

double - do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary"

roll - begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"

run - be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still running--turn it off!"

run - be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still running--turn it off!"

cut - function as a cutting instrument; "This knife cuts well"

work - operate in or through; "Work the phones"

service, serve - be used by; as of a utility; "The sewage plant served the neighboring communities"; "The garage served to shelter his horses"

go - be spent; "All my money went for food and rent"

end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

live, be - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

subsist, exist, survive, live - support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

hold water, stand up, hold up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water"

perennate - survive from season to season, of plants

live out - live out one's life; live to the end

co-occur with, collocate with, construe with, cooccur with, go with - go or occur together; "The word 'hot' tends to cooccur with 'cold'"

change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"

buy it, pip out - be killed or die;

drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"

croak, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, snuff it, pop off, conk, choke - die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket"

predecease - die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband"

conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go - stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

starve, famish - die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

die - suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"

succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed

be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

compare - be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"

come on, go on, come up - start running, functioning, or operating; "the lights went on"; "the computer came up"

get off the ground, take off - get started or set in motion, used figuratively; "the project took a long time to get off the ground"

make a motion, move - propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting

bluff, bluff out - deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand

stalemate - subject to a stalemate

castle - move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

serve - put the ball into play; "It was Agassi's turn to serve"

open - make the opening move; "Kasparov opened with a standard opening"

cast, draw - choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots"

ruff, trump - play a trump

maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate - perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

check - decline to initiate betting

fit, go - be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won't fit into the puzzle"

accord, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize, consort, agree - go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"

be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

tesselate - fit together exactly, of identical shapes; "triangles tesselate"

joint - fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly"

blend in, blend, go - blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs"

fit - conform to some shape or size; "How does this shirt fit?"

search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

run low, run short, go - to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest"

choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"

change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

break - render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"

decease, die, pass away, perish, expire, exit, go, pass - pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"

go down, crash - stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

blow out, burn out, blow - melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew"

misfire - fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

malfunction, misfunction - fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned"