| scag | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. big h, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack, thunder | street names for heroin. |
| ~ diacetylmorphine, heroin | a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush. |
| ~ street name | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug).; "`smack' is a street name for heroin" |
| erupt | | |
| v. (change) | 1. break out, erupt | start abruptly.; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc" |
| ~ begin, start | have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000" |
| v. (change) | 2. break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up, irrupt | erupt or intensify suddenly.; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" |
| ~ deepen, intensify | become more intense.; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" |
| v. (weather) | 3. catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire | start to burn or burst into flames.; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ blow out | erupt in an uncontrolled manner.; "The oil well blew out" |
| ~ catch | start burning.; "The fire caught" |
| ~ light up | start to burn with a bright flame.; "The coal in the BBQ grill finally lit up" |
| ~ combust, burn | cause to burn or combust.; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels" |
| v. (change) | 4. break through, come out, erupt, push through | break out.; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" |
| ~ dehisce | burst or split open.; "flowers dehisce when they release pollen" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| ~ erupt | appear on the skin.; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant" |
| v. (change) | 5. belch, erupt, extravasate | become active and spew forth lava and rocks.; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while" |
| ~ explode, burst | burst outward, usually with noise.; "The champagne bottle exploded" |
| v. (emotion) | 6. break, burst, erupt | force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up.; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" |
| ~ express emotion, express feelings | give verbal or other expression to one's feelings. |
| v. (change) | 7. erupt | appear on the skin.; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| ~ push through, break through, erupt, come out | break out.; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" |
| v. (change) | 8. break out, erupt, recrudesce | become raw or open.; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce" |
| ~ pain, ail, trouble | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed. |
| sprout | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. sprout | any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud. |
| ~ plant organ | a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus. |
| ~ shoot | a new branch. |
| ~ bud | a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals. |
| n. (food) | 2. sprout | a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed). |
| ~ greens, leafy vegetable, green | any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables. |
| ~ bean sprout | any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans. |
| ~ alfalfa sprout | sprouted alfalfa seeds. |
| v. (change) | 3. bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud | produce buds, branches, or germinate.; "the potatoes sprouted" |
| ~ grow | increase in size by natural process.; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"; "her hair doesn't grow much anymore" |
| ~ germinate | cause to grow or sprout.; "the plentiful rain germinated my plants" |
| v. (body) | 4. sprout, stock | put forth and grow sprouts or shoots.; "the plant sprouted early this year" |
| ~ acquire, develop, produce, grow, get | come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).; "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" |
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