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(obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

(by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

(usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

(chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.

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To mend, to repair.

(informal) To prepare (food or drink).

To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.Sutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]

(informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

(semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.

(informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

(transitive chemistry)(biology) To convert into a stable or available form.

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

(inject) To shoot; to inject a drug.

A repair or corrective action.

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. +

(injection)(slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.

(by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.

(by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.

(prearrangement) A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

An understanding, grasp of something.

A determination of location.

(aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.

(fettlings) (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)