English words containing bollix:

verb

Eat breakfast.

Usage examples:

She breakfasted on fried bread and bacon

noun

A meal eaten in the morning, the first of the day.

Usage examples:

I don't eat breakfast

verb

Past simple and past participle of breakfast

Usage examples:

She usually breakfasts alone., they breakfasted hurriedly on coffee and toast (= ate coffee and toa…

adjective

Showing the loss of all hope.

Usage examples:

He gave a despairing little shrug

verb

Lose or be without hope.

Usage examples:

We should not despair

adjective

Showing or feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation

Usage examples:

A despairing glance/cry, with every day that passed he became ever more despairing.

adjective

(of a disease) accompanied by a rash with lesions resembling millet seed.

Usage examples:

Miliary tuberculosis

adjective

In a nondecreasing list of numbers or amounts, each number or amount is not less than the previous one

Usage examples:

Let us consider a nondecreasing function f., throughout this article the term "increasing" is used …

verb

Loosen (something, especially a rope).

Usage examples:

Slacking the outhaul allows you to adjust the sail

adjective

Not taut or held tightly in position; loose.

Usage examples:

A slack rope

adjective

(of business or trade) characterized by a lack of work or activity; quiet.

Usage examples:

Business was rather slack