To untie, disassemble, or loosen, To cause the ruin or downfall of; destroy, To come open or unfastened, transitive verb_ To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught, To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve, To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like, verb_ cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect, cause the ruin or downfall, remove the outer cover or wrapping of

A plant, Matthiola incana, the common stock, Plural form of hope, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hope

One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good, A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy, the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled, verb_ be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes, intend with some possibility of fulfilment, transitive verb_ To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of, obsolete To expect; to fear, intransitive verb_ To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for, To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in

To afford a basis for expecting, To make a declaration assuring that something will or will not be done, To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil, transitive verb_ To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage, To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow, To be assured; to have strong confidence, verb_ make a promise or commitment, promise to undertake or give, give grounds for expectations, noun_ a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future, An oath or affirmation; a vow, That which is promised; fulfilment or grant of what is promised, adjective_ In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act, That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction, Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised

To move with haste; rush, To discourage or dispirit, To break or smash by striking violently, transitive verb_ To damn, noun_ A swift, violent blow or stroke, A sudden movement; a rush, A sudden check; frustration; abashment_ as, his hopes met with a dash

A protocol that sends a message to another computer and waits for acknowledgment, often used to check if another computer on a network is reachable, A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound, a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal), verb_ sound like a car engine that is firing too early, To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response, networking A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence