| recklessly |
| 1. adv. In a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence | |
| 2. adv. With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others. | |
| abandoned |
| 1. adj. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. | |
| 2. adj. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. | |
| 3. adj. Free from constraint; uninhibited. | |
| 4. adj. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it. | |
| 5. v. simple past tense and past participle of abandon | |
| abandon |
| 1. v. To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. | |
| 2. v. To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. | |
| 3. v. To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. | |
| Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. | |
| 6. v. To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. | |
| 7. v. To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss. | |
| 8. n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences.(R:CDOE, page=2). | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| sensual |
| 1. adj. Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations. | |
| That massage was a very sensual experience! | |
| 2. adj. Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory. | |
| Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm. | |
| 3. adj. Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses. | |
| pleasures |
| 1. n. plural of pleasure | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pleasure | |
| pleasure |
| 1. n. A state of being pleased or contented; gratification. | |
| He remembered with pleasure his home and family. | |
| I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax. | |
| 2. n. A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment. | |
| It was a pleasure to meet you. | |
| Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures. | |
| 3. n. One's preference. | |
| What is your pleasure: coffee or tea? | |
| 4. n. (formal) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power. | |
| to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked | |
| to be imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasureupright - : to be imprisoned indefinitely | |
| at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires | |
| 5. interj. pleased to meet you | |
| 6. v. To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify. | |
| 7. v. To give sexual pleasure to. | |
| Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure. | |
| to go pleasuring | |
