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{
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"pick over":{
"as in check (out) , pore (over)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pick up":{
"as in increase , boost":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
],
"examples":[
"he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forget",
"misunderstand",
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"related":[
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)",
"imbibe",
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig up",
"discern",
"discover",
"examine",
"find out",
"hear",
"hit (on or upon)",
"run down",
"scare up",
"search (for)",
"see",
"track (down)",
"tumble (to)",
"unearth",
"major (in)",
"study",
"memorize"
],
"synonyms":[
"get",
"learn",
"master"
]
},
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"consummate",
"end",
"finalize",
"finish",
"belay",
"break",
"can",
"cease",
"check",
"cut",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"halt",
"knock off",
"leave off",
"quit",
"scuttle",
"shut off",
"stay",
"stop",
"terminate"
],
"related":[
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"recrudesce"
],
"synonyms":[
"continue",
"proceed (with)",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"examples":[
"pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"related":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"round up"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"could you pick up some milk at the store?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"retail",
"sell",
"vend"
],
"related":[
"acquire",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure",
"win",
"finance",
"pay (for)",
"spring (for)",
"barter (for)",
"deal (for)",
"dicker (over)",
"exchange (for)",
"haggle (for)",
"negotiate (about)",
"trade (for)",
"bargain (with)",
"chaffer (with)",
"horse-trade (with)",
"palter (with)",
"bid",
"offer",
"rebuy",
"repurchase"
],
"synonyms":[
"buy",
"cop",
"purchase",
"take"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"antonyms":[
"decrease (in)",
"lose"
],
"examples":[
"the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"decline (in)",
"diminish (in)",
"dip",
"dwindle",
"fall (in)",
"lessen",
"taper",
"taper off"
],
"related":[
"double (in)",
"triple (in)",
"accrue",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"excite",
"stimulate",
"enhance",
"enlarge",
"enrich",
"expand",
"extend",
"maximize",
"boost",
"elevate",
"jack (up)",
"mount",
"ramp (up)",
"step up"
],
"synonyms":[
"build up",
"gain",
"gather",
"grow (in)"
]
},
"to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I thought you said you had picked up , so why are these things still lying around the rec room?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clutter",
"disarrange",
"mess (up)"
],
"related":[
"houseclean",
"housekeep",
"clean (off)",
"neaten",
"police (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"turn out",
"unclutter",
"arrange",
"order"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean (up)",
"tidy (up)"
]
},
"to make neat":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"rumple",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"tousle",
"tumble",
"upset"
],
"related":[
"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
"synonyms":[
"neaten",
"redd (up or out)",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up or out)",
"tidy (up)",
"trim"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"antonyms":[
"drop",
"lower"
],
"examples":[
"pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"slip",
"bear",
"depress",
"press",
"push",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"related":[
"ascend",
"mount",
"rise",
"rear",
"upend"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"perk (up)",
"raise",
"take up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift",
"upraise"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
],
"examples":[
"police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"related":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"run in",
"seize"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"picked off":{
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"picked off more passes than any other player in the division"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"captured",
"caught",
"collared",
"corralled",
"grabbed",
"seized",
"snared",
"snatched",
"trapped"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocked",
"intercepted",
"interdicted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picking off":{
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"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"picked off more passes than any other player in the division"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"capturing",
"catching",
"collaring",
"corralling",
"grabbing",
"seizing",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocking",
"intercepting",
"interdicting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"picking over":{
"as in checking (out) , poring (over)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picking up":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"antonyms":[
"unlearning"
],
"examples":[
"he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgetting",
"misunderstanding",
"missing",
"overlooking",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting"
],
"related":[
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"grasping",
"knowing",
"understanding",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"digesting",
"drinking (in)",
"imbibing",
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging up",
"discerning",
"discovering",
"examining",
"finding out",
"hearing",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"searching (for)",
"seeing",
"tracking (down)",
"tumbling (to)",
"unearthing",
"majoring (in)",
"studying",
"memorizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"getting",
"learning",
"mastering"
]
},
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completing",
"concluding",
"consummating",
"ending",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"belaying",
"breaking",
"canning",
"ceasing",
"checking",
"cutting",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dropping",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"leaving off",
"quitting",
"scuttling",
"shutting off",
"staying",
"stopping",
"terminating"
],
"related":[
"resuscitating",
"reviving",
"recrudescing"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuing",
"proceeding (with)",
"renewing",
"reopening",
"restarting",
"resuming"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"examples":[
"pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"related":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"bulking (up)",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"rounding up"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"could you pick up some milk at the store?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dealing (in)",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"retailing",
"selling",
"vending"
],
"related":[
"acquiring",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"winning",
"financing",
"paying (for)",
"springing (for)",
"bartering (for)",
"dealing (for)",
"dickering (over)",
"exchanging (for)",
"haggling (for)",
"negotiating (about)",
"trading (for)",
"bargaining (with)",
"chaffering (with)",
"horse-trading (with)",
"paltering (with)",
"bidding",
"offering",
"rebuying",
"repurchasing"
],
"synonyms":[
"buying",
"copping",
"purchasing",
"taking"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"antonyms":[
"decreasing (in)",
"losing"
],
"examples":[
"the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"declining (in)",
"diminishing (in)",
"dipping",
"dwindling",
"falling (in)",
"lessening",
"tapering",
"tapering off"
],
"related":[
"doubling (in)",
"tripling (in)",
"accruing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"exciting",
"stimulating",
"enhancing",
"enlarging",
"enriching",
"expanding",
"extending",
"maximizing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"jacking (up)",
"mounting",
"ramping (up)",
"stepping up"
],
"synonyms":[
"building up",
"gaining",
"gathering",
"growing (in)"
]
},
"to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I thought you said you had picked up , so why are these things still lying around the rec room?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cluttering",
"disarranging",
"messing (up)"
],
"related":[
"housecleaning",
"housekeeping",
"cleaning (off)",
"neatening",
"policing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"turning out",
"uncluttering",
"arranging",
"ordering"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleaning (up)",
"tidying (up)"
]
},
"to make neat":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"discomposing",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disordering",
"disorganizing",
"disrupting",
"disturbing",
"jumbling",
"messing (up)",
"mixing (up)",
"muddling",
"mussing",
"rumpling",
"scrambling",
"shuffling",
"tousling",
"tumbling",
"upsetting"
],
"related":[
"arranging",
"arraying",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"systematizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"neatening",
"redding (up or out)",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up or out)",
"tidying (up)",
"trimming"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"antonyms":[
"dropping",
"lowering"
],
"examples":[
"pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descending",
"dipping",
"falling",
"pitching",
"plunging",
"slipping",
"bearing",
"depressing",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"sinking",
"submerging"
],
"related":[
"ascending",
"mounting",
"rising",
"rearing",
"upending"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosting",
"craning",
"elevating",
"heaving",
"hefting",
"heightening",
"hiking",
"hoisting",
"jacking (up)",
"lifting",
"perking (up)",
"raising",
"taking up",
"upholding",
"uplifting",
"upping",
"upraising"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharging"
],
"examples":[
"police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"unchaining"
],
"related":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping",
"committing",
"confining",
"detaining",
"holding",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"rearresting",
"remanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"busting",
"collaring",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"nicking",
"pinching",
"pulling in",
"restraining",
"running in",
"seizing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picklock":{
"as in cat burglar , housebreaker":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picks over":{
"as in checks (out) , pores (over)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pictograph":{
"as in icon , attribute":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in image , picture":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"picture book":{
"being entirely without fault or flaw":{
"examples":[
"the players gave a picture-book performance that will go down in the annals of football as one of the all-time great games"
],
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"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"ideal",
"immaculate",
"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"picture-perfect",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"consummate",
"expert",
"masterly",
"classic",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prime",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"terrific",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"completed",
"finished",
"perfected",
"polished",
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"mint",
"unbruised",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unspoiled",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"airtight",
"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"fallible",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"broken",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"impaired",
"injured",
"malformed",
"marred",
"misshapen",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"wretched",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"censurable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"reproachable"
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]
},
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"as in album , anthology":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"album",
"almanac",
"anthology",
"casebook",
"chapbook",
"omnibus",
"novel",
"novelette",
"pulp",
"monograph",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"tract",
"treatise",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"cyclopedia",
"cyclopaedia",
"dictionary",
"encyclopedia",
"guidebook",
"handbook",
"how-to",
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
]
},
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"bad",
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"imperfect",
"reproachable"
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"great",
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"marvellous",
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"top",
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"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
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"unspoiled",
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"fancy",
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"special",
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"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
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"infallible",
"unerring",
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"flawless",
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"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"picture-book",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description":{
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"examples":[
"wrote a picturesque tale of their journey across the country"
],
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"nebulous",
"obscure",
"sketchy",
"unclear",
"vague",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dark",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"muddy",
"murky",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"ambiguous",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious"
],
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"depicted",
"descriptive",
"expressive",
"concrete",
"explicit",
"specific",
"faithful",
"lifelike",
"natural",
"photographic",
"realistic",
"fresh",
"incisive",
"sharp"
],
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"delineated",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"pictorial",
"visual",
"vivid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention":{
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"big",
"consequential",
"considerable",
"important",
"material",
"significant"
],
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"there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer"
],
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"serious",
"substantial",
"weighty",
"eventful",
"momentous",
"pivotal",
"conspicuous",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"striking",
"appreciable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"measurable"
],
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"inferior",
"mean",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"little",
"puny",
"tiny",
"hairsplitting",
"nitpicking",
"pettifogging",
"quibbling",
"one-horse",
"small-fry",
"two-bit"
],
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"chicken",
"de minimis",
"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddling",
"piffling",
"pimping",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"piece (together)":{
"as in assemble , compound":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
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"as in figure out , work out":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"piecing (together)":{
"as in assembling , compounding":{
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"synonyms":[]
},
"as in figuring out , working out":{
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to go or come in or into":{
"antonyms":[
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"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
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"thoughts of revenge relentlessly pierced her mind"
],
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"related":[
"barge (in)",
"breeze (in)",
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"waltz (in)",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"stray (into)",
"wander (into)",
"crash",
"encroach",
"gate-crash",
"infiltrate",
"infringe",
"intrude",
"invade",
"trespass"
],
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"access",
"enter",
"penetrate"
]
},
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"examples":[
"pierced his ears with a needle"
],
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"fill",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal"
],
"related":[
"broach",
"tap",
"poke",
"prick",
"prickle",
"penetrate",
"burrow (into)",
"excavate",
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"notch",
"rend",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split"
],
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"bore",
"drill",
"hole",
"perforate",
"punch",
"puncture",
"riddle"
]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
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"examples":[
"the saber pierced his chest, releasing a spurt of blood"
],
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"related":[
"spindle",
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"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
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"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"piety":{
"adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty":{
"antonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
],
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"familial piety keeps me from refusing to help my brother in this financial crisis"
],
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"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"separation"
],
"related":[
"affection",
"fondness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolution",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness"
],
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"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fastness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
]
},
"belief and trust in and loyalty to God":{
"antonyms":[
"atheism",
"godlessness"
],
"examples":[
"her piety is quiet but profound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disbelief",
"doubt",
"unbelief",
"unfaith",
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"apostasy",
"lapse",
"tergiversation"
],
"related":[
"devoutness",
"piousness",
"religiousness",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"profession",
"protestation"
],
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"devotion",
"faith",
"religion"
]
},
"the quality or state of being spiritually pure or virtuous":{
"antonyms":[
"godlessness",
"impiety",
"ungodliness",
"unholiness"
],
"examples":[
"among fellow clerics he is respected and admired for his piety"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemousness",
"irreverence",
"sacrilegiousness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"hypocrisy",
"sanctimoniousness",
"sanctimony"
],
"related":[
"asceticism",
"devotion",
"morality",
"prayerfulness",
"religiousness",
"spirituality",
"priestliness",
"goodness",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"consecration",
"sacredness"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessedness",
"devoutness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piousness",
"sainthood",
"saintliness",
"saintship",
"sanctity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"pigeonhole":{
"as in cubbyhole , snuggery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pigeonholes":{
"as in cubbyholes , snuggeries":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed ."
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"piggish":{
"having a huge appetite":{
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"examples":[
"a piggish dog who ate anything left within reach"
],
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"content",
"full",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"stuffed"
],
"related":[
"hearty",
"wolfish",
"devouring",
"gobbling",
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"insatiable",
"unquenchable",
"unslakable",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished"
],
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"edacious",
"esurient",
"gluttonous",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"swinish",
"voracious"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"as in colorful , colored":{
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"synonyms":[]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
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"decolorized"
],
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"pigmented varnishes"
],
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"blanched",
"bleached",
"whitened"
],
"related":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"darkened",
"embrowned",
"toned (down)",
"checkered",
"dappled",
"daubed",
"flecked",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"patterned",
"polychromed",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"striated",
"striped",
"variegated"
],
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"bepainted",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"stained",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"pigmenting":{
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorizing"
],
"examples":[
"pigmented varnishes"
],
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"blanching",
"bleaching",
"whitening"
],
"related":[
"brightening",
"lightening",
"darkening",
"embrowning",
"toning (down)",
"checkering",
"dappling",
"daubing",
"flecking",
"marbling",
"mottling",
"patterning",
"polychroming",
"specking",
"speckling",
"streaking",
"striating",
"striping",
"variegating"
],
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"bepainting",
"coloring",
"dyeing",
"painting",
"staining",
"tincturing",
"tingeing",
"tinging",
"tinting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pike":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
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"you can take the pike all the way to the city"
],
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"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
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"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
]
},
"a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade":{
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"examples":[
"a foot soldier armed with a pike"
],
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"dart",
"spike",
"gaff",
"halberd",
"halbert",
"harpoon",
"leister",
"trident"
],
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"javelin",
"lance",
"pikestaff",
"shaft",
"spear"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrow":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the spear's metal pike was designed to cause a gaping wound when it was pulled out of the victim"
],
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"related":[
"pinpoint",
"prong",
"tine",
"barb",
"jag",
"prickle",
"snag",
"spike",
"sticker"
],
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"apex",
"cusp",
"end",
"nib",
"nose",
"point",
"tip"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to leave a place often for another":{
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"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
],
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"early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
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"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"related":[
"set out",
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"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"as in bayoneting , quilling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"piled":{
"to gather into a closely packed group":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the kids piled into the car"
],
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"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)"
],
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"assembled",
"collected",
"concentered",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"congregated",
"convened",
"converged",
"flocked",
"forgathered",
"foregathered",
"herded",
"swarmed",
"thronged",
"encircled",
"mobbed",
"surrounded",
"embraced",
"hugged"
],
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"bunched",
"clustered",
"crowded",
"huddled",
"pressed"
]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
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"examples":[
"piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away"
],
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"related":[
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"layered",
"pyramided",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"massed",
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaped",
"mounded",
"stacked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"piles":{
"a considerable amount":{
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"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"examples":[
"a job that paid piles of money"
],
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"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
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"bunches",
"clumps",
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"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
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"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
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"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
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"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
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"nicking",
"nipping",
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"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
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"stealing",
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"thieving"
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"poaches",
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"shoplifts",
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"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
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"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
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]
},
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"verb"
]
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"she can be such a pill when things don't go her way"
],
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"lady",
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"saint"
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"schmoe",
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"heel",
"hound",
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"scum",
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"skunk",
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"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
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"snake",
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"you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu"
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],
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"tablet"
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"noun"
]
},
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"pillage":{
"to search through with the intent of committing robbery":{
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"soldiers pillaging the countryside for anything of value"
],
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"the pirate ship was laden with the pillage of merchant ships from across the Spanish Main"
],
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"pilferage",
"windfall"
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"plunder",
"spoil",
"swag"
]
}
},
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"pillars":{
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
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"the ancient Greek temple boasted graceful marble pillars with richly ornamented tops"
],
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"piles",
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],
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"posts",
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]
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"my father has been my pillar throughout this crisis"
],
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"crutches",
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"refuges"
],
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]
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]
},
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"to subject (someone) to harsh public criticism":{
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"The press pilloried the judge for her decision."
],
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"The press pilloried the judge for her decision."
],
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},
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"as in":{
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},
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"noun"
]
},
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"a lower limb of an animal":{
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"a cat that was still a little unsteady on its pins after anesthesia"
],
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"drumstick",
"ham",
"shank",
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"thigh"
],
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"leg"
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"as in":{
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"verb"
]
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],
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"the summer intern made only pin money but gained valuable work experience"
],
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"wealth",
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"bonanza",
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"treasury"
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"mite",
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"pittance",
"shoestring",
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]
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"noun"
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},
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"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
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"this labor pinch means that there'll be long lines at the checkouts"
],
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"need",
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"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
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"the pinch of my favorite sweater really bugged me!"
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"holdup",
"mugging",
"stickup"
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"discharge"
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"emancipation",
"liberation",
"release"
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"capture",
"entrapment",
"seizure",
"captivity",
"confinement",
"detention",
"enchainment",
"hold",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"rearrest",
"remand"
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"arrest",
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"bust",
"collar"
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"antonyms":[
"waste"
],
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"if we pinch hard for the upcoming year, we can probably afford the vacation at that fancy resort"
],
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"blow",
"dissipate",
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"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"splurge"
],
"related":[
"conserve",
"husband",
"maintain",
"manage",
"preserve",
"scrape",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"retrench",
"hoard",
"lay up"
],
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"scrimp",
"skimp",
"spare"
]
},
"to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the zipper on those jeans always pinches me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drop",
"free",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring"
],
"related":[
"crimp",
"tweak",
"clasp",
"clutch",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"take"
],
"synonyms":[
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pinched the earrings while the boutique owner was distracted by another customer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
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"related":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
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"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
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"appropriate",
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"filch",
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"hook",
"lift",
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"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
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"pinched the purse snatcher just two blocks from where he had robbed the old lady"
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"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
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"unbind",
"unchain"
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"related":[
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"commit",
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"hold",
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"lock (up)",
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"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"synonyms":[
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"apprehend",
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"bust",
"collar",
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"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pull in",
"restrain",
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},
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
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"as in":{
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"adjective"
]
},
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"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
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"pining for a house in the mountains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
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"detested",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"spurned"
],
"related":[
"spoiled (for)",
"spoilt (for)",
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
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"admired",
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"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued"
],
"synonyms":[
"ached (for)",
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"died (for)",
"hankered (for or after)",
"hungered (for)",
"itched (for)",
"jonesed (for)",
"longed (for)",
"lusted (for or after)",
"panted (after)",
"repined (for)",
"salivated (for)",
"sighed (for)",
"thirsted (for)",
"wanted",
"wished (for)",
"yearned (for)",
"yenned (for)"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"as in rings , chimes":{
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"antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
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]
},
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"rock bottom"
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"top",
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"loose",
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"hairline",
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"precise",
"refined",
"rigorous",
"spot-on"
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],
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"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide",
"counterfeit",
"feign",
"sham",
"simulate"
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"diagnose",
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"find",
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"verb"
]
},
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"the nurse kindly put a decorated bandage over the pinprick from the injection"
],
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"groove",
"hollow",
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"cut",
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"incision",
"laceration",
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"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
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"punch",
"puncture",
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"verb"
]
},
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},
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"noun"
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},
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},
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"noun"
]
},
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"a person who settles in a new region":{
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"the hardships that the pioneers endured while taming the wilderness"
],
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"related":[
"explorer",
"pathfinder",
"trailblazer",
"bushranger",
"mountain man",
"woodsman"
],
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"colonist",
"colonizer",
"frontiersman",
"homesteader",
"settler"
]
},
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"final",
"last",
"latest",
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"terminal",
"terminating",
"ultimate"
],
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"the nation's pioneer institution for the education of African-Americans"
],
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"advanced",
"late",
"consequent",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"succeeding",
"penultimate"
],
"related":[
"ancient",
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"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
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"primordial",
"antecedent",
"preceding",
"previous"
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"maiden",
"original",
"premier",
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"close (down)",
"phase out",
"shut (up)"
],
"examples":[
"he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research"
],
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"abolish",
"annihilate",
"annul",
"nullify",
"end",
"finish",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
"round (off or out)",
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"wrap up"
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"he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research"
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"annihilating",
"annulling",
"nullifying",
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"finishing",
"halting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
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"organizing",
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"reinitiating",
"reinstituting",
"relaunching"
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"planting",
"setting up",
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)":{
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"examples":[
"the plumber came and fixed the water pipe that was leaking"
],
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"related":[
"drain",
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"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"smokestack",
"spout",
"standpipe",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
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"waterspout",
"pipage",
"pipeage",
"pipeline",
"piping"
],
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"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"line",
"penstock",
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"tube"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
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"a full pipe of wine"
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"cistern",
"tub",
"vat",
"can",
"drum"
],
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"butt",
"cask",
"firkin",
"hogshead",
"keg",
"kilderkin",
"puncheon",
"rundlet",
"runlet",
"tun"
]
},
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"piped water into every house"
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"related":[
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"convey",
"transmit",
"concentrate",
"consolidate",
"focus"
],
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"canalize",
"channel",
"channelize",
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"direct",
"funnel",
"siphon",
"syphon"
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},
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"the baby piped shrilly in his bed"
],
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"chatter",
"jabber",
"sing",
"trill",
"warble"
],
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"chirrup",
"chitter",
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"pip",
"tweet",
"twitter"
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},
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"verb"
]
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"piped water into every house"
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"conveyed",
"transmitted",
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"consolidated",
"focused",
"focussed"
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"syphoned"
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"the baby piped shrilly in his bed"
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"pipped",
"tweeted",
"twittered"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"piped up":{
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
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"don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked"
],
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"dummied up",
"hushed",
"shut up",
"suppressed",
"quieted"
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"called",
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"sung (out)",
"shouted",
"thundered",
"vociferated",
"yelled",
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"having a notably high temperature":{
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"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
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"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
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"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
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"refrigerated",
"unheated",
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"numb",
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"related":[
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"seething",
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"overheated",
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"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
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"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
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"burning",
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"fiery",
"hot",
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"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
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"ultrahot",
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]
},
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"a black horse with white pips"
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"freckles",
"moles",
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"points",
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"splotches",
"spots"
]
},
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"that new sports car is a real pip"
],
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"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"related":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
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"beauts",
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"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"doozies",
"doozers",
"dreams",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
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},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"listening to all that chat show blather gives me the pip"
],
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"delights",
"pleasures"
],
"related":[
"agitations",
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"irritabilities",
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"perturbations",
"pets",
"piques",
"resentments",
"troubles",
"angers",
"chafes",
"danders",
"dudgeons",
"galls",
"huffs",
"indignations",
"ires",
"outrages",
"umbrages"
],
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"aggravations",
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"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"griefs",
"irritations",
"vexations"
]
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},
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"baby birds pipping loudly in their nest"
],
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"related":[
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"cackles",
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"jabbers",
"sings",
"trills",
"warbles"
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],
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"cheeps",
"chirps",
"chirrups",
"chitters",
"jargons",
"peeps",
"pipes",
"tweets",
"twitters"
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]
},
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"noun",
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"verb"
]
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"serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction":{
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"noninflammatory"
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"piquing remarks that were said mainly to get a rise out of the other guests at the party"
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"inflammatory",
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"inspiring",
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"motivational",
"motivative",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
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"galvanizing",
"quickening",
"vitalizing",
"angering",
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"maddening",
"upsetting",
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"annoying",
"bothersome",
"exasperating",
"galling",
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"pesky",
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"her seat companion piqued her by repeatedly poking her in the ribs"
],
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"obliging",
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"placating",
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"delighting",
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"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
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"quieting",
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"solacing",
"soothing"
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"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
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"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
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"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
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"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
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"freaking (out)",
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"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
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"getting",
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"griping",
"hacking (off)",
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"itching",
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"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
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"their sarcastic comments piqued him to respond in kind"
],
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"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
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"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
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"driving",
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"inducing",
"inspiring",
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"setting off",
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"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"raising",
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"maddening",
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"jeering",
"taunting",
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"she piques herself on her considerable musical abilities"
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"bragging",
"crowing",
"gasconading",
"swaggering",
"swanking",
"swashing",
"vaporing",
"vaunting",
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"pluming",
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]
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"as in canoe , rowboat":{
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"noun"
]
},
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"pistols":{
"a very energetic person":{
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"a real pistol , she dances rings around the other performers"
],
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"dynamos",
"fireballs",
"live wires"
],
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"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters",
"achievers",
"comers",
"dashers",
"doers",
"enterprisers"
],
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"loafers",
"loungers",
"triflers",
"clock-watchers",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"couch potatoes",
"deadbeats",
"do-nothings",
"drones",
"layabouts",
"lazybones",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds"
],
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},
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"examples":[],
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"fires (at)",
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"tommy-guns",
"blazes",
"peppers",
"potshots",
"snipes (at)",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"fells",
"ices",
"kills",
"slays",
"blows away",
"brings down",
"drops",
"picks off",
"shoots down",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"butchers",
"decimates",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"wipes out",
"drills",
"guns",
"plugs",
"pops",
"shoots"
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"pit":{
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"bulge",
"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
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"protuberance"
],
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"rise",
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"bunch",
"hump",
"lump",
"pimple",
"swell",
"swelling",
"tumor"
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"gutter",
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"basin",
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"nook",
"opening",
"socket",
"alveolus",
"dimple",
"gouge",
"impression",
"imprint",
"notch",
"pocket",
"borehole",
"chuckhole",
"crater",
"posthole",
"pothole",
"sinkhole",
"wallow",
"water hole",
"well",
"abyss",
"chasm",
"gulf",
"vacuity",
"vacuum",
"void"
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"hole",
"hollow",
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},
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"noun",
"verb"
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"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
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"her heart pit-a-patted with surprise"
],
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"oscillates",
"vibrates",
"quivers",
"trembles"
],
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"beats",
"palpitates",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pit-a-patting":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
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"her heart pit-a-patted with surprise"
],
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"oscillating",
"vibrating",
"quivering",
"trembling"
],
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"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
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"finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible"
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"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"related":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
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"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
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"brilliant",
"light",
"pale",
"palish"
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"dusky",
"inky",
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"brunet",
"brunette"
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"adjective"
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"level",
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"orderly",
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"symmetrical",
"symmetric"
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"irregular"
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"slanting",
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"level",
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"vertical",
"parallel",
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"sloping",
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"tilting"
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"surfaced"
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"submerged",
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"dove",
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"levelled",
"razed",
"tore down"
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"related":[
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"buttressed",
"propped (up)",
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"hove",
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"heightened",
"hiked",
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"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"perked (up)",
"picked up",
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"uplifted",
"upped"
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"set up",
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"we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again"
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"utilized",
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"held back",
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"abolished",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out"
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"cast (off)",
"chucked",
"deep-sixed",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"eighty-sixed",
"86'd",
"exorcised",
"exorcized",
"flung (off or away)",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"laid by",
"lost",
"rejected",
"scrapped",
"shed",
"shucked (off)",
"sloughed (off)",
"sluffed (off)",
"threw away",
"threw out",
"tossed",
"unloaded"
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},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
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"the ship pitched in the choppy sea"
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"halted",
"hitched",
"hobbled",
"jerked",
"jolted",
"reeled",
"shook",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"teetered",
"toddled",
"tottered",
"tumbled",
"vacillated",
"vibrated",
"waddled",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"wagged",
"waggled"
],
"synonyms":[
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"lurched",
"rocked",
"rolled",
"seesawed",
"swayed",
"tossed",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
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"the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers"
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"lauded",
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"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
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"reviewed",
"announced",
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"broadcasted",
"published"
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"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"talked up",
"touted"
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"pitched the baseball almost 50 feet"
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"passed",
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"shot",
"bucked",
"ejected",
"impelled",
"precipitated",
"projected",
"propelled",
"rifled",
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"dashed",
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"hove",
"hurled",
"hurtled",
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"lofted",
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"pelted",
"slung",
"threw",
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"the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow"
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],
"related":[
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"sloped",
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"tipped"
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"buying a house can be full of pitfalls for the unwary"
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"bombshell",
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"surprise",
"surprize",
"bait",
"decoy",
"lure"
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"joker",
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"snag"
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},
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"shield",
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"finally got to the pith of the discussion"
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"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
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"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
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"bullseyes",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
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"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
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"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
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"roots",
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"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
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"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
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"gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking"
],
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"benignant",
"gentle",
"kind",
"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
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"gracious",
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"understanding",
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"ironfisted",
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"knock-down-and-drag-out",
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"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
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"ungentle",
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"ill-natured",
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"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
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"cold",
"frosty"
],
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"cold-blooded",
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"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"pitter-patters":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his heart pitter-pattered with excitement as he waited for the right moment to propose"
],
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"related":[
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"oscillates",
"vibrates",
"quivers",
"trembles"
],
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"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pitying":{
"as in patient , understanding":{
"antonyms":[],
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"near antonyms":[],
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},
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"examples":[
"I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather"
],
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"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"disliking",
"hating",
"scorning"
],
"related":[
"caring (for)",
"grieving (for)",
"sorrowing (for)",
"loving",
"empathizing (with)",
"identifying (with)",
"tolerating",
"understanding"
],
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"aching (for)",
"bleeding (for)",
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"feeling (for)",
"sympathizing (with)",
"yearning (over)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"pivot":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
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"an issue that is the real pivot of the controversy"
],
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"direction",
"drift",
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"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
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"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
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"unscrew",
"twiddle",
"coil",
"crank",
"reel",
"wind",
"circulate"
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"roll",
"rotate",
"spin",
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"swirl",
"swivel",
"turn",
"twirl",
"twist",
"wheel",
"whirl"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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},
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"as in walled , buffered":{
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"having blotches of two or more colors":{
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"somehow, the pure white mare had a pinto foal"
],
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"dapple",
"marbled",
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"piebald",
"pied",
"splotched",
"spotted"
],
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"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
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"brindle",
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"stained",
"flecked",
"streaked",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
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"monochrome",
"monochromic",
"solid"
],
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"adjective",
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"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
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"baby birds pipping loudly in their nest"
],
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"chirped",
"chirruped",
"chittered",
"jargoned",
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"piped",
"tweeted",
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"chattered",
"jabbered",
"sang",
"sung",
"trilled",
"warbled"
],
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},
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},
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"as in dreadlock , cornrow":{
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},
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"as in mucked , played":{
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
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"early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
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"book",
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"buzz (off)",
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"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
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"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
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"pull out",
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"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
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"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
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"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
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"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
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"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"as in plunders , pillages":{
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in protester , demonstrator":{
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"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pip-squeak":{
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"I'm not changing my job based on the advice of some pip-squeak who cornered me at a party"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"related":[
"no-name",
"noncelebrity",
"least",
"inferior",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity",
"figurehead",
"puppet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chief",
"head",
"lead",
"leader",
"celebrity",
"luminary",
"notable",
"personality",
"planet",
"star",
"superstar",
"authority",
"superior",
"great power",
"party",
"power"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP"
]
},
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"noun"
]
},
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"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"snow piling up in the driveway at a rapid pace"
],
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"accreted",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"built up",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"gathered",
"massed",
"stacked (up)"
],
"related":[
"agglutinated",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"banked",
"drifted",
"ridged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"as in dips , pickpockets":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"shoplifters",
"sneak thiefs",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"poachers",
"rustlers",
"smugglers",
"burglars",
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"picklocks",
"safecrackers",
"bandits",
"footpads",
"highwaymen",
"pirates",
"larcenists",
"pinchers",
"purloiners",
"robbers",
"stealers",
"thieves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinwheels":{
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"the kayaker had got sucked into the whirlpool, and his kayak was pinwheeling helplessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrates",
"pirouettes",
"revolves",
"rolls",
"rotates",
"spins",
"turns",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"rounds",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twines",
"twists",
"winds",
"circles",
"circulates",
"encircles",
"orbits",
"rings",
"pivots",
"swivels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinstripes":{
"as in blazes , crossbars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"crossbars",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picks the brains of":{
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"The conference presented an opportunity to pick the brains of some of the world's greatest scientists."
],
"synonyms":[
"catechizes",
"examines",
"grills",
"interrogates",
"pumps",
"queries",
"questions",
"quizzes",
"sweats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefs",
"cross-examines",
"cross-questions",
"annoys",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"pesters",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"polls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pinches":{
"an instance of theft":{
"examples":[
"the pinch of my favorite sweater really bugged me!"
],
"synonyms":[
"grabs",
"heists",
"rip-offs",
"thefts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break-ins",
"burglaries",
"holdups",
"muggings",
"stickups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of taking into one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"an innocent person caught up in a city-wide pinch of drug dealers"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehensions",
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"raids",
"house arrests",
"captures",
"entrapments",
"seizures",
"captivities",
"confinements",
"detentions",
"enchainments",
"holds",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipations",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"this labor pinch means that there'll be long lines at the checkouts"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"droughts",
"drouths",
"failures",
"famines",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absences",
"omissions",
"necessities",
"needs",
"privations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"oversupplies",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundances",
"adequacies",
"amplitudes",
"opulences",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"sufficiencies",
"wealths"
]
},
"to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points":{
"examples":[
"the zipper on those jeans always pinches me"
],
"synonyms":[
"nips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crimps",
"tweaks",
"clasps",
"clutches",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drops",
"frees",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"pinched the earrings while the boutique owner was distracted by another customer"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"pinched the purse snatcher just two blocks from where he had robbed the old lady"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"runs in",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"to avoid unnecessary waste or expense":{
"examples":[
"if we pinch hard for the upcoming year, we can probably afford the vacation at that fancy resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"economizes",
"saves",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"spares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserves",
"husbands",
"maintains",
"manages",
"preserves",
"scrapes",
"cuts back",
"cuts down",
"retrenches",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"splurges"
],
"antonyms":[
"wastes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piracy":{
"the act or pursuit of robbing ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"many countries have harsh penalties for piracy now"
],
"synonyms":[
"pirating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"marauding",
"pillaging",
"plunder",
"plundering",
"raiding",
"robbery",
"sacking",
"privateering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piping down":{
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"if you don't pipe down , we're turning this car around and going straight home!"
],
"synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"chilling out",
"cooling",
"hushing",
"quieting",
"settling (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drying up",
"relaxing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"unwinding",
"zoning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowning (around)",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"showing off",
"skylarking"
],
"antonyms":[
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"cutting up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"\" Pipe down or I'll cancel recess!\" the teacher commanded"
],
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"belting up",
"clamming up",
"drying up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"cooling (down)",
"settling (down)",
"hawing",
"hemming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piping up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking",
"talking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picked up on":{
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"The students picked up on the new material quickly."
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
"caught on (to)",
"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"got",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"knew",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"saw",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to take for one's own use (something originated by another)":{
"examples":[
"She picked up on earlier styles of painting and added her own flourishes."
],
"synonyms":[
"adopted",
"borrowed",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"took on",
"took up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domesticated",
"naturalized",
"appropriated",
"arrogated",
"took over",
"usurped",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"incorporated",
"quoted",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"cultivated",
"followed",
"heeded",
"honored",
"used",
"utilized",
"brought up",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"raised",
"reared",
"affected",
"assumed",
"copied",
"imitated",
"pretended",
"put on",
"simulated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"gave up",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"abjured",
"abnegated",
"disowned",
"rejected",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"discarded",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"threw away",
"threw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pitches (upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"at a garage sale you just might pitch upon a table exactly the size you need"
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinko":{
"as in lefty , leftist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"social democrat",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist",
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinned (down)":{
"as in chose , determined":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adopted",
"assigned",
"chose",
"determined",
"established",
"opted (for)",
"picked",
"preferred",
"selected",
"settled",
"singled (out)",
"specified",
"appointed",
"designated",
"fixed",
"named",
"set",
"arranged",
"coordinated",
"orchestrated",
"advertised",
"announced",
"declared",
"published"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"pivotal":{
"of the greatest possible importance":{
"examples":[
"the report was missing a pivotal piece of information"
],
"synonyms":[
"critical",
"crucial",
"key",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisive",
"life-and-death",
"life-or-death",
"weighty",
"basic",
"elementary",
"fundamental",
"essential",
"indispensable",
"instrumental",
"necessary",
"requisite",
"pressing",
"urgent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"minor",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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}
}
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