| strange |
| 1. adj. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. | |
| He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter. | |
| 2. adj. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. | |
| I moved to a strange town when I was ten. | |
| 3. adj. (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment. | |
| 6. adj. (obsolete) Backward; slow. | |
| 7. adj. (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished (at something). | |
| 11. n. (slang) vagina | |
| weird |
| 1. adj. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates. | |
| 2. adj. (archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate. | |
| 3. adj. (archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny. | |
| 4. adj. (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power. | |
| There was a weird light shining above the hill. | |
| 5. adj. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. | |
| There are lots of weird people in this place. | |
| 6. adj. Deviating from the normal; bizarre. | |
| It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day. | |
| 7. n. (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck. | |
| 8. n. A prediction. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm. | |
| 10. n. That which comes to pass; a fact. | |
| 11. n. (archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified). | |
| 12. v. To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery. | |
| 13. v. To warn solemnly; adjure. | |
| fear |
| 1. n. A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | |
| He was struck by fear on seeing the snake. | |
| 2. n. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. | |
| Not everybody has the same fears. I have a fear of ants. | |
| 3. n. Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. | |
| 4. v. To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm. | |
| I fear the worst will happen. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something). | |
| Never fear; help is always near. | |
| She fears for her son’s safety. | |
| 6. v. To venerate; to feel awe towards. | |
| People who fear God can be found in Christian churches. | |
| 7. v. Regret. | |
| I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt. | |
| 11. adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. | |
| hale and fear | |
| inspiring |
| 1. adj. Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating. | |
| 2. v. present participle of inspire | |
| 3. n. inspiration | |
| inspire |
| 1. v. To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. | |
| 2. v. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to. | |
| Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale. | |
| 4. v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. | |
| 5. v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. | |
| 6. v. To spread rumour indirectly. | |
