You probably know the adjective sore, but do you know what it means “to be a sight for sore eyes,” “to stick out like a sore thumb,” and “to be like a bear with a sore head?” Come find out!
Cleave can mean either ‘to divide’ or ‘to cling.’ Remember what that meant? Check that out, and the many more meanings of cleave we have to tell you about…
You probably know what a plug is. But did you know that to plug is something you might do to a leaking pipe or a bathtub? How about something an actor might do on a talk show? There are many more meanings to it…
To stun is something a boxer might do to his/her opponent or something that a performer’s daring feats might do to the audience. And it can also be used figuratively…
A slat is a long, narrow strip of wood, metal, or the like used as a support for a bed, or the horizontal strips Venetian blinds have, for example. Colloquially, in US English, always in the plural form, slats are ribs. The verb to slat means…
A plow, in US English, or plough, in UK English, is a large tool used in farming for cutting, lifting, turning over, and breaking up soil, or any other tool that resembles this, such as those used to…
