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- subscribe verb (subscribe, subscribes, subscribed, subscribing)
To pay regularly to get something, such as a magazine, a streaming service or a newspaper. - subsequent adjective (formal)
1) (formal) Coming after something else in time or order; following; later. 2) subsequent to (formal): after. - subsequently adverb (formal)
1) (formal) Afterwards; later; after something that has just been mentioned. - subsist verb (subsist, subsists, subsisted, subsisting); noun subsistence
To subsist is to stay alive, often with very little food or money: they subsisted on bread and water. - substance noun (a substance, substances; also uncountable for "importance/meaning")
A material or kind of matter with particular qualities, like a sticky substance, or a chemical substance such as water, salt or iron. - substantial adjective (substantial, more substantial, most substantial)
1) Large in amount, size or importance. 2) Strong, solid and well made. 3) (of a meal) Big and filling. - substitute noun (a substitute, substitutes; a sub); verb (substitute, substitutes, substituted, substituting)
A substitute is a person or thing used instead of another. - substitution noun (a substitution, substitutions; substitution, uncountable)
A substitution is putting one person or thing in the place of another. - subtle adjective (subtle, subtler, subtlest)
1) Subtle means very small, delicate or hard to notice. 2) Subtle means clever in a quiet, sly way, good at thinking of tricks. - subtlety noun (subtleties)
1) Subtlety is cleverness in planning tricks that are hard to see. 2) A subtlety is a small, delicate detail that is hard to notice. - subtly adverb
In a sly, clever, hidden way. - subvert verb
To overturn or ruin something, especially to twist a person's case so justice fails. - succeed verb (succeed, succeeds, succeeded, succeeding)
To succeed is to do what you tried or hoped to do. - success noun (success, uncountable; a success, successes)
Success is doing what you wanted or tried to do. - successful adjective (successful, more successful, most successful)
1) Achieving what you wanted or tried to do. 2) Having done well in life, work or business, often becoming rich or famous. 3) Turning out… - succession noun (a succession, successions; also uncountable)
A succession is a number of people or things that follow one after another. - successive adjective
1) Coming or happening one after another, in a row, without a break. - succoth noun
A place name meaning "booths" or "huts." - succour noun (no plural); verb (succours, succoured, succouring); old use
Succour is help given to someone in trouble or need. - such determiner, pronoun (such)
Such means of that kind or like the one just named: such boxes. - suck verb (suck, sucks, sucked, sucking)
To suck is to pull liquid or air into your mouth by tightening your lips and cheeks, as through a straw. - suckle verb (suckle, suckles, suckled, suckling)
When a mother mammal suckles her baby, she feeds it with milk from her body. - suckling noun
A baby or young animal that still drinks its mother's milk. - sudden adjective
1) Sudden means happening quickly and without warning. - suddenly adverb (suddenly); adjective sudden
1) Suddenly means quickly and without warning, when you didn't expect it. - suet noun (suet — uncountable)
1) Suet is hard white fat from around the kidneys of cows and sheep, used in cooking. 2) Vegetable suet is a similar fat made from plants. - suffer verb (suffer, suffers, suffered, suffering)
To suffer is to feel pain, illness, sadness or other bad things. - suffering noun (suffering, sufferings); verb (-ing form of suffer)
1) Pain, sadness or difficulty that a person or animal feels. 2) Feeling pain or having a problem: "She is suffering from a cold." - suffice verb (suffice, suffices, sufficed, sufficing)
1) (formal) To suffice is to be enough. 2) (formal) «Suffice it to say» means «I will only say this, because it is enough». - sufficiency noun
Having enough, or a great abundance. - sufficient adjective (sufficient); adverb sufficiently; noun sufficiency
1) (formal) Enough; as much as is needed for a purpose. - suggest verb (suggest, suggests, suggested, suggesting)
To suggest is to give an idea or a plan for others to think about. - suggestion noun (a suggestion, suggestions)
A suggestion is an idea or plan that you offer for others to think about, like «Let's play outside». - suit noun (suit, suits); verb (suit, suits, suited, suiting)
A suit is a set of clothes made of the same cloth, usually a jacket with trousers or a skirt. - suitable adjective (suitable, more suitable, most suitable)
1) Right or good for a person, a purpose or a situation: "suitable clothes for the rain". - sullen adjective (sullen, sullener, sullenest)
Sullen means quiet and bad-tempered, not wanting to talk or smile. - sum noun, verb (sum, sums, summed, summing)
The sum is the answer you get when you add numbers together: the sum of 3 and 4 is 7. - summer noun (summer, summers)
Summer is the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn (fall). - summon verb (summon, summons, summoned, summoning)
To officially order someone to come: summoned to the head teacher's office. - sun noun (the sun, suns; sun — sunshine); verb (sun yourself, suns, sunned, sunning)
The star that our Earth goes around; it gives us light and heat. - sunder verb
To break or split something apart, or to cut it in two. - sung verb (past participle of sing: sung)
Sung is the form of "sing" used after have, has, had and be: "I have sung", "It was sung". - sunk verb form — past participle of sink (sink, sinks, sank, sunk, sinking); adjective (sunk, sunken)
Sunk is a form of sink: gone down under water or below a surface, as in the ship had sunk. - sunrise noun (a sunrise, sunrises; sunrise)
Sunrise is the time in the morning when the sun first appears above the horizon. - sunshine noun (sunshine, uncountable)
Sunshine is the light and warmth that come from the sun. - super adjective (informal); adverb (informal: super easy); prefix (super-); noun (a super — short for superintendent or superannuation)
Super means very good or excellent (informal). - superficial adjective (superficial, more superficial, most superficial)
A superficial wound or damage is only on the surface and not deep or serious: a superficial cut. - superior adjective (superior); noun (a superior, superiors)
Better in quality or more skilled than others: superior goods. - superiority noun (superiority — uncountable)
Superiority is being better, stronger or higher in quality than others. - superlative adjective (superlative); noun (a superlative, superlatives)
A superlative is the form of an adjective or adverb that shows the most or least: biggest, fastest, most beautiful, best, worst. - supernal adjective
Belonging to a higher, heavenly world; very high and divine. - supernatural adjective; noun (the supernatural — uncountable)
Seeming to come from beyond the natural world, not explained by science, like ghosts, magic or spirits. - superstition noun (a superstition, superstitions; superstition — uncountable)
A superstition is a belief that some action or object brings good or bad luck, even though there is no real reason or proof for it. - superstitious adjective (superstitious, more superstitious, most superstitious)
A superstitious person believes in luck or magic signs, like thinking black cats, broken mirrors or Friday the 13th bring bad luck. - supplant verb (supplant, supplants, supplanted, supplanting)
To supplant someone or something is to take their place, often by being newer or better (formal). - supplanter noun
A person who trips up or pushes aside another to take his place, often by trickery. - supple adjective (supple, suppler, supplest)
1) Able to bend and move easily: a supple body, supple joints. 2) Soft and bending without cracking: supple leather, a supple branch. - supplement noun (a supplement, supplements); verb (supplement, supplements, supplemented, supplementing)
A supplement is something added to something else to make it complete or better. - supplemental adjective
Added as an extra part to make something more complete. - supplementary adjective (supplementary)
Added to something to make it bigger, better or complete; extra. - suppliant noun
A person who humbly begs or prays for help. - supplication noun (a supplication, supplications; also uncountable)
Supplication is asking for something humbly and seriously, especially from God or a powerful person (formal). - supply noun (a supply, supplies); verb (supply, supplies, supplied, supplying)
To supply is to give or provide something that people need. - support verb (support, supports, supported, supporting); noun (support — uncountable; a support, supports)
To support means to hold something up so it doesn't fall. - supporter noun (a supporter, supporters)
A supporter is a person who likes and cheers for a sports team. - suppose verb (suppose, supposes, supposed, supposing)
To suppose means to think something might be true, or to guess it. - supposition noun (a supposition, suppositions; also uncountable)
A supposition is an idea or belief that you think is true but have not proved: a guess based on some reasons. - supreme adjective; noun (in «reign supreme»)
1) Highest in rank or power. 2) Greatest, best or most important; very great. 3) (in «reign supreme») To be the best or the most powerful… - surcease noun
An end or stop to something, a pause or rest. - sure adjective (sure, surer, surest); adverb (sure — yes, of course)
If you are sure, you know something is true and have no doubt. - surely adverb (surely)
1) Surely means for certain, with no doubt. 2) Surely is often used when you think something must be true and are surprised it might not… - surety noun (sureties)
A surety is a promise to pay or do something if another person fails, or the person who makes such a promise. - surface noun (a surface, surfaces); verb (surface, surfaces, surfaced, surfacing)
The surface is the outside or top layer of something: the surface of a table, the Earth's surface. - surname noun (a surname, surnames)
1) A surname is your family name, the name you share with your family, which usually comes last in English names (in «Tom Smith», «Smith»… - surpass verb (surpass, surpasses, surpassed, surpassing)
To surpass is to be better or greater than someone or something: she surpassed her own best score. - surrender verb (surrender, surrenders, surrendered, surrendering); noun (surrender)
To surrender is to stop fighting and admit you are beaten. - surround verb (surround, surrounds, surrounded, surrounding); noun (a surround, surrounds — the edge or frame around something)
To surround something is to be all around it on every side. - surrounded verb, past form of surround (surround, surrounds, surrounded, surrounding); adjective (surrounded by)
Surrounded is the past of surround: was or were all around something. - survey noun (survey, surveys); verb (survey, surveys, surveyed, surveying)
A survey is when you ask many people the same questions to find out what they think or do. - survive verb (survive, survives, survived, surviving)
To survive means to stay alive, especially through something dangerous. - suspense noun (suspense, uncountable)
Suspense is the excited or worried feeling of waiting to find out what will happen next. - sustain verb (sustain, sustains, sustained, sustaining)
To sustain something is to keep it going for a long time. - sustained adjective (sustained); verb, past form of "sustain" (sustain, sustains, sustained, sustaining)
Sustained means kept going for a long time without stopping: sustained effort. - sustenance noun (sustenance — uncountable)
Sustenance is food and drink that keeps a person, animal or plant alive and strong: "The travellers had no sustenance for days.". - sw noun
A fragment, probably a stray bit of text or an abbreviation, not a real English word. - swaddle verb (swaddle, swaddles, swaddled, swaddling); noun (swaddling clothes, old use)
To swaddle is to wrap a baby tightly in soft cloth so it cannot move its arms or legs much. - swallow verb (swallow, swallows, swallowed, swallowing); noun (a swallow, swallows — a bird; a swallow — one act of swallowing)
To make food, drink or something else go down your throat into your stomach. - swarm noun (a swarm, swarms); verb (swarm, swarms, swarmed, swarming)
A swarm is a big group of insects, such as bees, wasps or locusts, flying together. - swarthy adjective (swarthier, swarthiest)
1) Swarthy means having dark skin or a dark complexion, often from being in the sun. (old use) - sway verb (sway, sways, swayed, swaying); noun (sway)
To sway is to move slowly from side to side, like trees in the wind or a person dancing. - swear verb (swear, swears, swore, sworn, swearing)
1) To swear is to use rude or bad words. 2) To swear is also to make a serious promise or say something is really true. 3) To swear… - swearer noun
A person who makes an oath, a solemn promise before God. - sweat noun (sweat, uncountable); verb (sweat, sweats, sweated or sweat, sweating); adjective sweaty
Sweat is the salty water that comes out of your skin when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous. - sweep verb (sweep, sweeps, swept, sweeping); noun (a sweep, sweeps)
To sweep means to clean a floor or path with a brush or broom, pushing dirt away. - sweeping noun (sweepings, plural); adjective (sweeping, more sweeping)
Sweepings are the dirt, dust and bits of rubbish gathered up by a broom. - sweet adjective, noun (sweet, sweeter, sweetest; sweets)
1) Sweet means tasting like sugar or honey. 2) Sweets (UK) are candies; a sweet is one candy. 3) A sweet (UK) is a dessert, the sweet dish… - sweetly adverb
1) In a kind, gentle and pleasant way. 2) With a nice, sweet sound or smell. 3) Smoothly and well, as in a ball sweetly struck. 4)… - sweetness noun (sweetness — uncountable)
1) The taste of sugar or honey; being sweet. 2) Kindness, gentleness and a pleasant nature. 3) A pleasant quality of a sound or smell. 4)… - swell verb (swell, swells, swelled, swollen or swelled, swelling); noun (a swell — waves; swelling); adjective (swell — old-fashioned US slang: great)
To get bigger, rounder or fuller, often because of injury, water or air (My ankle swelled up). - swelling noun (a swelling, swellings; swelling — uncountable); verb (swell, swells, swelled, swollen, swelling — "swelling" is the -ing form)
A part of the body that has become bigger and puffy, often because of an injury, an infection or an allergy.
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