(transitive, UK dialectal) To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).
derv
derv
noun
(UK) Diesel fuel for motor vehicles.
deva
deva
noun
A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
deve
devi
devs
devs
noun
plural of dev
devy
dive
dive
noun
(aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
A decline.
A downward swooping motion.
A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
A jump or plunge into water.
A swim under water.
Obsolete form of daeva.
plural of diva
verb
(especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
(figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
(transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
To descend sharply or steeply.
To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
To jump into water head-first.
To swim under water.
dove
dove
noun
(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
(countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
(countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
(slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
verb
(chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive
(nonstandard) past participle of dive
edva
mved
revd
vade
vade
verb
(obsolete) To fade; to vanish.
veda
vedi
veld
veld
noun
(chiefly South Africa) The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries.
vend
vend
noun
(UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
The act of vending or selling; a sale.
The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
verb
(programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
Synonym of sell, now especially to sell through a vending machine.
verd
verd
noun
(obsolete) greenness; freshness
(obsolete, UK, law) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
(obsolete, UK, law) The right of pasturing animals in a forest
vide
vide
verb
(Parliamentary jargon, imperative) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)
(US, African-American Vernacular) divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder)
See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.