tapped

• abandoned
• banged
• bashed
• basket-case
• batted
• beat
• bled
• bonked
• bopped
• bored
• chinked
• chucked
• clapped
• clapt
• clattered
• cleaned
• cleared
• clicked
• clinked
• debilitated
• decanted
• defenseless
• dented
• dependent
• depleted
• destitute
• dinted
• drafted
• drained
• drummed
• effused
• embossed
• emptied
• evacuated
• exhausted
• exposed
• feeble
• flicked
• flushed
• forlorn
• forsaken
• friendless
• hammered
• handcuffed
• hit
• impotent
• imprinted
• incapable
• incompetent
• inefficient
• inexpert
• infirm
• invalid
• knocked
• miked
• milked
• needled
• over a barrel
• paralyzed
• pasted
• patted
• pierced
• pinged
• pinned
• pit-a-patted
• pitter-pattered
• pounded
• powerless
• pricked
• prostrate
• pumped
• punctured
• purged
• rapped
• shiftless
• siphoned
• slammed
• smacked
• socked
• stamped
• struck
• sucked
• swatted
• syphoned
• tapped out
• thudded
• thumped
• thwacked
• tipped
• unable
• unfit
• unprotected
• up creek without paddle
• vacated
• vacuated
• voided
• vulnerable
• walloped
• weak
• whacked
• with hands tied

• able
• bathed
• capable
• competent
• deluged
• doused
• dowsed
• drenched
• drowned
• enterprising
• filled
• fit
• flooded
• independent
• inundated
• overflowed
• potent
• powerful
• resourceful
• secure
• skilled
• soaked
• soused
• strong
• submerged
• swamped
• unwired
• washed
• watered
• wet
• wetted

• verb
  1. To furnish with taps.
  2. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
  3. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
  4. To exploit.
  5. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
  6. To intercept a communication without authority.
  7. To cut an internal screw thread.
  8. To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
  9. To cadge, borrow or beg.
  10. To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
  11. To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
  12. To strike lightly.
  13. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
  14. To make a sharp noise.
  15. To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
  16. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
  17. To have sexual intercourse with.
  18. To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
  19. To force (an opponent) to submit.
  20. To put a new sole or heel on.
• adjective
  1. Furnished with active taps (e.g. a keg or a maple tree).
  2. Of a card or playing piece, used up for the current turn.

• She tapped the screen to unlock her phone.
• He tapped his fingers on the table while waiting.
• The company tapped him for a leadership role.
• She tapped the microphone to check if it was working.
• The tree was tapped to collect maple syrup.

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