exertion or striving, mental or physical; effort.

weariness caused by physical or mental effort.

a difficult condition; trouble; distress.

the act of thinking seriously and deeply; pondering; meditation.

mental distress or agitation resulting from concern usu. for something impending or anticipated; worry.

a small, flat, wingless insect with sucking mouthparts, parasitic in the hair of humans; the head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis order; Anoplura).

a hard, tough metal, malleable under certain conditions, composed of iron alloyed with small percentages of carbon and often variously with other metals, as nickel, chromium, manganese, etc., to produce hardness, resistance to rusting, etc.; steel.

(dial.) a clamp to hold the share to the plough;

ಉಕ್ಕಿನ ಕಡಲೆ ukkina kaḍale (fig.) a very difficult, hard or complex thing, situation, subject to understand; an abstruse subject; ಉಕ್ಕಿನ ತೆರೆ ukkina tere (fig.) a barrier of secrecy and censorship regarded as isolating the erstwhile Soviet Union and other countries in its sphere or a similar barrier to information in other regions; iron curtain; ಉಕ್ಕಿನ ಮನುಷ್ಯ ukkina manuṣya (fig.) a firm, unyielding, rigorous man with severe control; an iron-handed man; ಉಕ್ಕಿನ ಕೊಡಲಿಯಾದರೂ ಮರದ ಕಾವೇ ಬೇಕು ukkina koḍaliyādarū maradakāvē bēku (prov.) however strong a person be, the goal can hardly be achieved without cooperation form others.

to pull or draw towards.

to pull out; to draw out.

to extract a thing, money etc. from another using force; to rob; to exploit.

to ward off; to prevent from happening; to remove or stop what is happening, affecting, etc.

to throw off or away; to slough; to cast off.

to be fallen or dropped.

to flush out; to splash on (as water etc.).

(math.) to separate (a number or quantity) into equal parts by a divisor; to divide.

to eject from within the mouth; to spit.

to give out (as perfume, beauty, charm etc.); to emit.

to express contempt or hatred by or as if by spitting saliva; to reproach in bad language; to rebuke.

to say; to utter.

ಉಗಿದರೆ ತುಪ್ಪ ಕೆಡುತ್ತದೆ, ನುಂಗಿದರೆ ಗಂಟಲು ಕೆಡುತ್ತದೆ ugidare tuppa keḍuttade, nuŋgidare gaṇṭalu keḍuttade (prov.) (said about dilemmatic situation) a compulsion of choosing between two unpleasant alternatives; ಉಗಿದು ಉಪ್ಪು ಹಾಕು ugidu uppu hāku (prov.) to rebuke, reprimand or scold severely.

a round vessel (of any size, gen. an earthenware); a boiling vessel; a cooking pot.

to empty; to draw off or let out completely (air or any other gas, water, etc.) as from a container.

to be afraid of; to dread; to fear.

to pass into or through (as a pointed instrument does); to pierce; to penetrate.

to tear, pull apart or split with the nail.

to squeeze between a finger and the thumb or between two surfaces, edges, etc.; to pinch.