12209 lines
239 KiB
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12209 lines
239 KiB
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"bloat":{
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"as in bulk":{
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"examples":[],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[],
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"synonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"block":{
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"a number of things considered as a unit":{
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"examples":[
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"bought a block of stocks"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"array",
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"assemblage",
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"band",
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"bank",
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"batch",
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"battery",
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"bunch",
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"clot",
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"clump",
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"cluster",
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"clutch",
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"collection",
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"constellation",
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"group",
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"grouping",
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"huddle",
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"knot",
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"lot",
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"muster",
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"package",
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"parcel",
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"passel",
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"set",
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"suite"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"accumulation",
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"aggregate",
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"aggregation",
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"conglomeration",
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"agglomeration",
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"assortment",
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"hodgepodge",
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"jumble",
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"miscellany",
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"mixture",
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"odds and ends",
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"sundries",
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"variety",
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"cycle",
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"run",
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"series",
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"suit"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"entity",
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"item",
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"single",
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"unit"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
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"examples":[
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"constant bickering that is only a block to the completion of the project"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"balk",
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"bar",
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"chain",
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"clog",
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"cramp",
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"crimp",
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"deterrent",
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"drag",
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"embarrassment",
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"encumbrance",
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"fetter",
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"handicap",
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"hindrance",
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"holdback",
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"hurdle",
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"impediment",
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"inhibition",
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"interference",
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"let",
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"manacle",
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"obstacle",
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"obstruction",
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"shackles",
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"stop",
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"stumbling block",
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"trammel"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"catch",
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"hitch",
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"rub",
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"snag",
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"barrier",
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"blockade",
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"blockage",
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"brick wall",
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"stone wall",
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"arrest",
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"bit",
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"brake",
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"check",
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"constraint",
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"curb",
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"hobble",
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"rein",
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"restraint",
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"embargo",
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"stoppage",
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"delay",
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"holdup",
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"stall",
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"burden",
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"cumber",
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"load",
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"danger",
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"hazard",
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"peril",
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"reef",
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"adversity",
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"difficulty",
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"disadvantage",
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"drawback",
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"hardship"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"catalyst",
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"goad",
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"impetus",
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"incentive",
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"spur",
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"stimulant",
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"stimulus",
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"advantage",
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"break",
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"edge",
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"aid",
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"assistance",
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"benefit",
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"boost",
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"handmaiden",
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"handmaid",
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"help"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth":{
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"examples":[
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"threatened to knock the block off the jerk next door if he didn't can the noise"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bean",
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"dome",
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"head",
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"mazard",
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"mazzard",
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"nob",
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"noddle",
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"noggin",
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"noodle",
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"nut",
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"pate",
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"poll"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"cranium",
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"crown",
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"scalp",
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"skull",
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"occiput"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"a group of people acting together within a larger group":{
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"examples":[
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"a more conservative block within the political party"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bloc",
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"body",
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"coalition",
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"faction",
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"party",
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"sect",
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"set",
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"side",
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"wing"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"splinter",
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"split",
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"crew",
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"gang",
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"pack",
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"team",
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"denomination",
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"persuasion",
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"schism",
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"scission",
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"caucus",
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"movement"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
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"examples":[
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"a block of oil-producing nations"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"alliance",
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"axis",
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"bloc",
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"coalition",
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"combination",
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"combine",
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"confederacy",
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"confederation",
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"federation",
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"league",
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"union"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"cabal",
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"conspiracy",
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"junto",
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"cartel",
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"syndicate",
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"trust",
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"faction",
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"front",
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"fusion",
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"side",
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"wing",
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"association",
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"group",
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"organization",
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"affiliation",
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"cooperative",
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"partnership",
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"circuit",
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"conference"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
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"examples":[
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"block up the opening in the wall where a window once was"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bung",
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"dam",
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"fill",
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"pack",
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"plug",
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"stop",
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"stuff"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"choke",
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"clog",
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"close (off)",
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"clot",
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"congest",
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"jam",
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"obstruct",
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"occlude",
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"caulk",
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"chink",
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"seal",
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"repack",
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"restuff"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"excavate",
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"hollow (out)",
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"scoop (out)",
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"shovel"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
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"examples":[
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"one of the patient's arteries was so blocked with fatty deposits that blood flow had been reduced to a trickle"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"choke",
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"clog",
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"clot",
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"congest",
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"dam",
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"gum (up)",
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"jam",
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"obstruct",
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"occlude",
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"plug (up)",
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"stop (up)",
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"stuff"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"bung",
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"cork",
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"spile",
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"stopper",
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"stopple",
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"fill",
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"gridlock",
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"pack",
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"fur",
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"silt",
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"flood",
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"glut",
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"inundate",
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"overwhelm",
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"swamp"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"excavate",
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"hollow (out)",
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"scoop (out)",
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"empty",
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"lighten"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"clear",
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"free",
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"open (up)",
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"unblock",
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"unclog",
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"unplug",
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"unstop"
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]
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},
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"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
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"examples":[
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"a thug suddenly stepped out of a doorway and blocked his escape down the alley"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"intercept",
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"interdict",
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"pick off"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"capture",
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"catch",
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"collar",
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"corral",
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"grab",
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"seize",
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"snare",
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"snatch",
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"trap"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"blockage":{
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"as in barrier , blockade":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"near synonyms":[
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"barrier",
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"blockade",
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"brick wall",
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"stone wall",
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"catch",
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"hitch",
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"rub",
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"snag",
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"arrest",
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"bit",
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"brake",
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"check",
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"constraint",
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"curb",
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"hobble",
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"rein",
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"restraint",
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"balk",
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"bar",
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"block",
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"chain",
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"clog",
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"cramp",
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"crimp",
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"deterrent",
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"drag",
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"embarrassment",
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"encumbrance",
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"fetter",
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"handicap",
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"hindrance",
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"holdback",
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"hurdle",
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"impediment",
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"inhibition",
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"interference",
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"let",
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"manacle",
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"obstacle",
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"obstruction",
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"shackles",
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"stop",
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"stumbling block",
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"trammel",
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"embargo",
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"stoppage",
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"delay",
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"holdup",
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"stall",
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"burden",
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"cumber",
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"load",
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"danger",
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"hazard",
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"peril",
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"reef",
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"adversity",
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"difficulty",
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"disadvantage",
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"drawback",
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"hardship"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"catalyst",
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"goad",
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"impetus",
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"incentive",
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"spur",
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"stimulant",
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"stimulus",
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"advantage",
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"break",
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"edge",
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"aid",
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"assistance",
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"benefit",
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"boost",
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"handmaiden",
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"handmaid",
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"help"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"blockages":{
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"as in barriers , blockades":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[],
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"synonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"blockbuster":{
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"a person or thing that is successful":{
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"examples":[
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"the movie is expected to be the biggest blockbuster of the summer"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"hit",
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"megahit",
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"smash",
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"success",
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"supernova",
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"winner"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"blue chip",
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"blue chipper",
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"corker",
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"crackerjack",
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"crackajack",
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"dandy",
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"jim-dandy",
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"pip",
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"prizewinner",
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"gem",
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"jewel",
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"treasure",
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"marvel",
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"natural",
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"phenomenon",
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"sensation",
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"wonder",
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"coup",
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"triumph",
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"victory"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"disappointment",
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"fizzle",
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"lemon",
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"loser"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"bomb",
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"bummer",
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"bust",
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"catastrophe",
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"clinker",
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"debacle",
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"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
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"dud",
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"failure",
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"fiasco",
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"flop",
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"misfire",
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"turkey",
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||
|
"washout"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"something that is unusually large and powerful":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a blockbuster of a fighter plane"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"behemoth",
|
||
|
"colossus",
|
||
|
"dinosaur",
|
||
|
"dreadnought",
|
||
|
"elephant",
|
||
|
"giant",
|
||
|
"Goliath",
|
||
|
"jumbo",
|
||
|
"leviathan",
|
||
|
"mammoth",
|
||
|
"mastodon",
|
||
|
"monster",
|
||
|
"titan",
|
||
|
"whale",
|
||
|
"whopper"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"amazon",
|
||
|
"giantess",
|
||
|
"bulk",
|
||
|
"hulk",
|
||
|
"heavyweight",
|
||
|
"juggernaut",
|
||
|
"steamroller"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"lightweight",
|
||
|
"weakling",
|
||
|
"wimp",
|
||
|
"wisp",
|
||
|
"nonentity",
|
||
|
"twerp",
|
||
|
"whippersnapper"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"diminutive",
|
||
|
"dwarf",
|
||
|
"half-pint",
|
||
|
"midget",
|
||
|
"mite",
|
||
|
"peewee",
|
||
|
"pygmy",
|
||
|
"pigmy",
|
||
|
"runt",
|
||
|
"shrimp"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blocking":{
|
||
|
"as in":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"block up the opening in the wall where a window once was"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"excavating",
|
||
|
"hollowing (out)",
|
||
|
"scooping (out)",
|
||
|
"shoveling",
|
||
|
"shovelling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"choking",
|
||
|
"clogging",
|
||
|
"closing (off)",
|
||
|
"clotting",
|
||
|
"congesting",
|
||
|
"jamming",
|
||
|
"obstructing",
|
||
|
"occluding",
|
||
|
"caulking",
|
||
|
"calking",
|
||
|
"chinking",
|
||
|
"sealing",
|
||
|
"repacking",
|
||
|
"restuffing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bunging",
|
||
|
"damming",
|
||
|
"filling",
|
||
|
"packing",
|
||
|
"plugging",
|
||
|
"stopping",
|
||
|
"stuffing"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"clearing",
|
||
|
"freeing",
|
||
|
"opening (up)",
|
||
|
"unblocking",
|
||
|
"unclogging",
|
||
|
"unplugging",
|
||
|
"unstopping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one of the patient's arteries was so blocked with fatty deposits that blood flow had been reduced to a trickle"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"excavating",
|
||
|
"hollowing (out)",
|
||
|
"scooping (out)",
|
||
|
"emptying",
|
||
|
"lightening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"bunging",
|
||
|
"corking",
|
||
|
"spiling",
|
||
|
"stoppering",
|
||
|
"stoppling",
|
||
|
"filling",
|
||
|
"gridlocking",
|
||
|
"packing",
|
||
|
"furring",
|
||
|
"silting",
|
||
|
"flooding",
|
||
|
"glutting",
|
||
|
"inundating",
|
||
|
"overwhelming",
|
||
|
"swamping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choking",
|
||
|
"clogging",
|
||
|
"clotting",
|
||
|
"congesting",
|
||
|
"damming",
|
||
|
"gumming (up)",
|
||
|
"jamming",
|
||
|
"obstructing",
|
||
|
"occluding",
|
||
|
"plugging (up)",
|
||
|
"stopping (up)",
|
||
|
"stuffing"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a thug suddenly stepped out of a doorway and blocked his escape down the alley"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"capturing",
|
||
|
"catching",
|
||
|
"collaring",
|
||
|
"corralling",
|
||
|
"grabbing",
|
||
|
"seizing",
|
||
|
"snaring",
|
||
|
"snatching",
|
||
|
"trapping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"intercepting",
|
||
|
"interdicting",
|
||
|
"picking off"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blood":{
|
||
|
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"in his mind, blood came before anything else, and he would not betray his criminal brother to the police"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"clan",
|
||
|
"family",
|
||
|
"folks",
|
||
|
"house",
|
||
|
"kin",
|
||
|
"kindred",
|
||
|
"kinfolk",
|
||
|
"kinfolks",
|
||
|
"kinsfolk",
|
||
|
"line",
|
||
|
"lineage",
|
||
|
"people",
|
||
|
"race",
|
||
|
"stock",
|
||
|
"tribe"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blended family",
|
||
|
"nuclear family",
|
||
|
"extended family",
|
||
|
"household",
|
||
|
"kith",
|
||
|
"brood",
|
||
|
"descendant",
|
||
|
"descendent",
|
||
|
"issue",
|
||
|
"offspring",
|
||
|
"progeny",
|
||
|
"scion",
|
||
|
"seed",
|
||
|
"clansman",
|
||
|
"kinsman",
|
||
|
"kinswoman",
|
||
|
"relative",
|
||
|
"dynasty"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ancestry",
|
||
|
"birth",
|
||
|
"descent",
|
||
|
"extraction",
|
||
|
"origin",
|
||
|
"pedigree"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the language expert was certain that a young woman with such an upper-class accent had to be of royal blood"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ancestry",
|
||
|
"birth",
|
||
|
"bloodline",
|
||
|
"breeding",
|
||
|
"descent",
|
||
|
"extraction",
|
||
|
"family tree",
|
||
|
"genealogy",
|
||
|
"line",
|
||
|
"lineage",
|
||
|
"origin",
|
||
|
"parentage",
|
||
|
"pedigree",
|
||
|
"stock",
|
||
|
"strain"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"heredity",
|
||
|
"succession",
|
||
|
"family",
|
||
|
"house",
|
||
|
"kin",
|
||
|
"kindred",
|
||
|
"relations",
|
||
|
"relatives",
|
||
|
"race"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"offspring",
|
||
|
"child",
|
||
|
"heir",
|
||
|
"inheritor",
|
||
|
"son",
|
||
|
"successor"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"issue",
|
||
|
"posterity",
|
||
|
"progeny",
|
||
|
"seed"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"in your blood you know this business deal just isn't right"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"belly",
|
||
|
"bone(s)",
|
||
|
"bosom",
|
||
|
"breast",
|
||
|
"core",
|
||
|
"gut",
|
||
|
"heart",
|
||
|
"heartstrings",
|
||
|
"inner space",
|
||
|
"inside",
|
||
|
"quick",
|
||
|
"soul"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"conscience",
|
||
|
"mind"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blood will always have blood , and so the killing never ends"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"foul play",
|
||
|
"homicide",
|
||
|
"murder",
|
||
|
"rubout",
|
||
|
"slaying"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"chance-medley",
|
||
|
"killing",
|
||
|
"manslaughter",
|
||
|
"bloodshed",
|
||
|
"butchery",
|
||
|
"carnage",
|
||
|
"decimation",
|
||
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
"massacre",
|
||
|
"slaughter",
|
||
|
"assassination",
|
||
|
"execution",
|
||
|
"hit",
|
||
|
"euthanasia",
|
||
|
"mercy killing",
|
||
|
"filicide",
|
||
|
"fratricide",
|
||
|
"matricide",
|
||
|
"parricide",
|
||
|
"patricide",
|
||
|
"regicide",
|
||
|
"uxoricide"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blood feud":{
|
||
|
"as in score , feud":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"feud",
|
||
|
"score",
|
||
|
"vendetta",
|
||
|
"animosity",
|
||
|
"animus",
|
||
|
"antagonism",
|
||
|
"antipathy",
|
||
|
"bad blood",
|
||
|
"bitterness",
|
||
|
"enmity",
|
||
|
"gall",
|
||
|
"grudge",
|
||
|
"hostility",
|
||
|
"jaundice",
|
||
|
"rancor",
|
||
|
"hate",
|
||
|
"hatred",
|
||
|
"loathing",
|
||
|
"vindictiveness",
|
||
|
"virulence",
|
||
|
"vitriol",
|
||
|
"alienation",
|
||
|
"disaffection",
|
||
|
"estrangement",
|
||
|
"conflict",
|
||
|
"coolness",
|
||
|
"discord",
|
||
|
"friction",
|
||
|
"strain",
|
||
|
"tension",
|
||
|
"inhospitableness",
|
||
|
"unfriendliness",
|
||
|
"malice",
|
||
|
"malignancy",
|
||
|
"malignity",
|
||
|
"spite",
|
||
|
"spitefulness",
|
||
|
"venom"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"amity",
|
||
|
"amiability",
|
||
|
"amicability",
|
||
|
"civility",
|
||
|
"cordiality",
|
||
|
"friendliness",
|
||
|
"hospitality",
|
||
|
"neighborliness",
|
||
|
"comity",
|
||
|
"empathy",
|
||
|
"friendship",
|
||
|
"goodwill",
|
||
|
"sympathy",
|
||
|
"understanding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blood pudding":{
|
||
|
"as in sausage , Vienna sausage":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodbaths":{
|
||
|
"the killing of a large number of people":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"butcheries",
|
||
|
"carnages",
|
||
|
"deaths",
|
||
|
"holocausts",
|
||
|
"massacres",
|
||
|
"slaughters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodlettings",
|
||
|
"bloodsheds",
|
||
|
"foul play",
|
||
|
"homicides",
|
||
|
"killings",
|
||
|
"manslaughters",
|
||
|
"murders",
|
||
|
"slayings",
|
||
|
"mortalities",
|
||
|
"annihilations",
|
||
|
"decimations",
|
||
|
"destructions",
|
||
|
"devastations",
|
||
|
"eradications",
|
||
|
"exterminations",
|
||
|
"genocides",
|
||
|
"pogroms",
|
||
|
"assassinations",
|
||
|
"executions"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodlines":{
|
||
|
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ancestries",
|
||
|
"births",
|
||
|
"blood",
|
||
|
"breedings",
|
||
|
"descents",
|
||
|
"extractions",
|
||
|
"family trees",
|
||
|
"genealogies",
|
||
|
"lineages",
|
||
|
"lines",
|
||
|
"origins",
|
||
|
"parentages",
|
||
|
"pedigrees",
|
||
|
"stocks",
|
||
|
"strains"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"heredities",
|
||
|
"successions",
|
||
|
"families",
|
||
|
"houses",
|
||
|
"kindreds",
|
||
|
"kins",
|
||
|
"relations",
|
||
|
"relatives",
|
||
|
"races"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"offspring",
|
||
|
"offsprings",
|
||
|
"children",
|
||
|
"heirs",
|
||
|
"inheritors",
|
||
|
"sons",
|
||
|
"successors"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"issues",
|
||
|
"posterities",
|
||
|
"progenies",
|
||
|
"seed",
|
||
|
"seeds"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodstained":{
|
||
|
"smeared or stained with blood":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"had to throw away the bloodstained washcloth after a particularly bad nosebleed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloody",
|
||
|
"gory"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodred",
|
||
|
"carmine",
|
||
|
"crimson",
|
||
|
"incarnadine",
|
||
|
"red",
|
||
|
"reddish",
|
||
|
"ruby",
|
||
|
"sanguine",
|
||
|
"sanguineous",
|
||
|
"sanguinary"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodsucker":{
|
||
|
"a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the union accused the company executives of being bloodsuckers , since they had given themselves raises at a time when the rank and file were forced to take cuts in their benefits"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"free rider",
|
||
|
"freeloader",
|
||
|
"hanger-on",
|
||
|
"leech",
|
||
|
"moocher",
|
||
|
"parasite",
|
||
|
"sponge",
|
||
|
"sponger"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dependent",
|
||
|
"deadbeat",
|
||
|
"idler",
|
||
|
"flunky",
|
||
|
"flunkey",
|
||
|
"flunkie",
|
||
|
"henchman",
|
||
|
"lackey",
|
||
|
"satellite",
|
||
|
"stooge",
|
||
|
"sycophant",
|
||
|
"toady",
|
||
|
"yes-man",
|
||
|
"cheapskate",
|
||
|
"miser",
|
||
|
"niggard",
|
||
|
"piker",
|
||
|
"scrooge",
|
||
|
"skinflint",
|
||
|
"tightwad"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"benefactor",
|
||
|
"philanthropist",
|
||
|
"supporter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a person who habitually preys upon others":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a sleazy lawyer who had a reputation for being a shyster, an ambulance chaser, and an all-around bloodsucker"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"buzzard",
|
||
|
"harpy",
|
||
|
"kite",
|
||
|
"predator",
|
||
|
"shark",
|
||
|
"vampire",
|
||
|
"vulture",
|
||
|
"wolf"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"exploiter",
|
||
|
"user",
|
||
|
"leech",
|
||
|
"sponge",
|
||
|
"sponger",
|
||
|
"destroyer",
|
||
|
"devourer"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"prey"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloody-minded":{
|
||
|
"eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"some bloody-minded individuals wanted to castrate the alleged rapists even without so much as a word of sworn testimony"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"appeasing",
|
||
|
"conciliatory",
|
||
|
"disarming",
|
||
|
"dovish",
|
||
|
"mollifying",
|
||
|
"pacific",
|
||
|
"pacifying",
|
||
|
"peaceable",
|
||
|
"peaceful",
|
||
|
"peacemaking",
|
||
|
"placating",
|
||
|
"placative",
|
||
|
"placatory",
|
||
|
"propitiatory",
|
||
|
"unaggressive",
|
||
|
"unassertive",
|
||
|
"benign",
|
||
|
"benignant",
|
||
|
"compassionate",
|
||
|
"good-hearted",
|
||
|
"humane",
|
||
|
"kind",
|
||
|
"kindhearted",
|
||
|
"sympathetic",
|
||
|
"tenderhearted",
|
||
|
"tender",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"warmhearted",
|
||
|
"clement",
|
||
|
"lenient",
|
||
|
"merciful",
|
||
|
"affable",
|
||
|
"amiable",
|
||
|
"amicable",
|
||
|
"benevolent",
|
||
|
"gentle",
|
||
|
"kindly",
|
||
|
"submissive",
|
||
|
"surrendering",
|
||
|
"yielding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"barbaric",
|
||
|
"barbarous",
|
||
|
"brutal",
|
||
|
"cold-blooded",
|
||
|
"cruel",
|
||
|
"heartless",
|
||
|
"inhumane",
|
||
|
"sadistic",
|
||
|
"savage",
|
||
|
"vicious",
|
||
|
"wanton",
|
||
|
"antagonistic",
|
||
|
"ferocious",
|
||
|
"fierce",
|
||
|
"gladiatorial",
|
||
|
"hostile",
|
||
|
"aggressive",
|
||
|
"assertive",
|
||
|
"bellicose",
|
||
|
"belligerent",
|
||
|
"combative",
|
||
|
"contentious",
|
||
|
"discordant",
|
||
|
"pugnacious",
|
||
|
"quarrelsome",
|
||
|
"scrappy",
|
||
|
"truculent",
|
||
|
"violent",
|
||
|
"merciless",
|
||
|
"pitiless",
|
||
|
"ruthless",
|
||
|
"bloodstained",
|
||
|
"fell",
|
||
|
"gory",
|
||
|
"grim",
|
||
|
"despiteful",
|
||
|
"hateful",
|
||
|
"malevolent",
|
||
|
"malicious",
|
||
|
"malign",
|
||
|
"malignant",
|
||
|
"mean",
|
||
|
"nasty",
|
||
|
"spiteful"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodthirsty",
|
||
|
"bloody",
|
||
|
"homicidal",
|
||
|
"murdering",
|
||
|
"murderous",
|
||
|
"sanguinary",
|
||
|
"sanguine",
|
||
|
"sanguineous"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"having or showing a habitually bad temper":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"amiable",
|
||
|
"good-humored",
|
||
|
"good-natured",
|
||
|
"good-tempered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"according to palace gossip, behind closed doors the prince was a bloody-minded bore"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"agreeable",
|
||
|
"amicable",
|
||
|
"congenial",
|
||
|
"friendly",
|
||
|
"pleasant",
|
||
|
"benign",
|
||
|
"gentle",
|
||
|
"kind",
|
||
|
"nice",
|
||
|
"sweet",
|
||
|
"bubbly",
|
||
|
"cheerful",
|
||
|
"cheery",
|
||
|
"effervescent",
|
||
|
"exuberant",
|
||
|
"high-spirited",
|
||
|
"joyful",
|
||
|
"lighthearted",
|
||
|
"lively",
|
||
|
"vivacious",
|
||
|
"content",
|
||
|
"glad",
|
||
|
"happy",
|
||
|
"calm",
|
||
|
"placid",
|
||
|
"serene",
|
||
|
"long-suffering",
|
||
|
"patient",
|
||
|
"tolerant"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"choleric",
|
||
|
"crabby",
|
||
|
"cranky",
|
||
|
"crotchety",
|
||
|
"fussy",
|
||
|
"grouchy",
|
||
|
"grumpy",
|
||
|
"querulous",
|
||
|
"irascible",
|
||
|
"irritable",
|
||
|
"peevish",
|
||
|
"peppery",
|
||
|
"petulant",
|
||
|
"quick-tempered",
|
||
|
"short-tempered",
|
||
|
"snappish",
|
||
|
"snippy",
|
||
|
"testy",
|
||
|
"touchy",
|
||
|
"argumentative",
|
||
|
"contentious",
|
||
|
"contrary",
|
||
|
"cussed",
|
||
|
"angry",
|
||
|
"exasperated",
|
||
|
"indignant",
|
||
|
"irate",
|
||
|
"mad",
|
||
|
"upset",
|
||
|
"uptight",
|
||
|
"depressed",
|
||
|
"dour",
|
||
|
"glum",
|
||
|
"morose",
|
||
|
"sullen",
|
||
|
"anal",
|
||
|
"old-maidish",
|
||
|
"schoolmarmish"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acid",
|
||
|
"bearish",
|
||
|
"bilious",
|
||
|
"cantankerous",
|
||
|
"disagreeable",
|
||
|
"dyspeptic",
|
||
|
"ill-humored",
|
||
|
"ill-natured",
|
||
|
"ill-tempered",
|
||
|
"ornery",
|
||
|
"splenetic",
|
||
|
"surly"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blooming":{
|
||
|
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the blooming faces of children at play in the great outdoors"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"florid",
|
||
|
"flush",
|
||
|
"full-blooded",
|
||
|
"glowing",
|
||
|
"red",
|
||
|
"rosy",
|
||
|
"rubicund",
|
||
|
"ruddy",
|
||
|
"sanguine"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bronzed",
|
||
|
"brown",
|
||
|
"suntanned",
|
||
|
"tanned",
|
||
|
"bloomy",
|
||
|
"blowsy",
|
||
|
"blowzy",
|
||
|
"blushing",
|
||
|
"flushed",
|
||
|
"pink",
|
||
|
"pinkish",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"cherubic"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"waxen",
|
||
|
"waxy",
|
||
|
"blanched",
|
||
|
"white",
|
||
|
"whitened",
|
||
|
"anemic",
|
||
|
"sick",
|
||
|
"sickly",
|
||
|
"bloodless",
|
||
|
"cadaverous",
|
||
|
"whey-faced",
|
||
|
"white-faced"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ashen",
|
||
|
"ashy",
|
||
|
"doughy",
|
||
|
"livid",
|
||
|
"lurid",
|
||
|
"mealy",
|
||
|
"pale",
|
||
|
"paled",
|
||
|
"palish",
|
||
|
"pallid",
|
||
|
"pasty",
|
||
|
"peaked",
|
||
|
"peaky",
|
||
|
"sallow",
|
||
|
"sallowish",
|
||
|
"wan"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"thought that the royals were blooming idiots for making such indiscreet statements"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"absolute",
|
||
|
"all-out",
|
||
|
"arrant",
|
||
|
"blank",
|
||
|
"bodacious",
|
||
|
"categorical",
|
||
|
"categoric",
|
||
|
"clean",
|
||
|
"complete",
|
||
|
"consummate",
|
||
|
"crashing",
|
||
|
"damn",
|
||
|
"damned",
|
||
|
"dead",
|
||
|
"deadly",
|
||
|
"definite",
|
||
|
"downright",
|
||
|
"dreadful",
|
||
|
"fair",
|
||
|
"flat",
|
||
|
"flat-out",
|
||
|
"out-and-out",
|
||
|
"outright",
|
||
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
"plumb",
|
||
|
"profound",
|
||
|
"pure",
|
||
|
"rank",
|
||
|
"regular",
|
||
|
"sheer",
|
||
|
"simple",
|
||
|
"stark",
|
||
|
"stone",
|
||
|
"straight-out",
|
||
|
"thorough",
|
||
|
"thoroughgoing",
|
||
|
"total",
|
||
|
"unadulterated",
|
||
|
"unalloyed",
|
||
|
"unconditional",
|
||
|
"unmitigated",
|
||
|
"unqualified",
|
||
|
"utter",
|
||
|
"very"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"authentic",
|
||
|
"classic",
|
||
|
"genuine",
|
||
|
"real",
|
||
|
"veritable",
|
||
|
"constant",
|
||
|
"endless",
|
||
|
"eternal",
|
||
|
"perpetual",
|
||
|
"undying",
|
||
|
"unremitting",
|
||
|
"extreme",
|
||
|
"unrestricted",
|
||
|
"confirmed",
|
||
|
"habitual",
|
||
|
"hopeless",
|
||
|
"inveterate",
|
||
|
"extraordinary",
|
||
|
"frightful",
|
||
|
"horrible",
|
||
|
"huge",
|
||
|
"main",
|
||
|
"superlative",
|
||
|
"supreme",
|
||
|
"surpassing",
|
||
|
"terrible",
|
||
|
"terrific"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"doubtful",
|
||
|
"dubious",
|
||
|
"equivocal",
|
||
|
"qualified",
|
||
|
"questionable",
|
||
|
"restricted",
|
||
|
"uncertain"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in flowering , blossoming":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blossoming",
|
||
|
"efflorescence",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"autumn",
|
||
|
"Indian summer",
|
||
|
"acme",
|
||
|
"apex",
|
||
|
"climax",
|
||
|
"meridian",
|
||
|
"peak",
|
||
|
"pinnacle",
|
||
|
"summit",
|
||
|
"zenith",
|
||
|
"bloom",
|
||
|
"blossom",
|
||
|
"florescence",
|
||
|
"floruit",
|
||
|
"flower",
|
||
|
"flush",
|
||
|
"heyday",
|
||
|
"high noon",
|
||
|
"prime",
|
||
|
"salad days",
|
||
|
"springtime",
|
||
|
"glory",
|
||
|
"grandeur",
|
||
|
"splendor",
|
||
|
"belle epoque",
|
||
|
"belle \u00e9poque",
|
||
|
"golden age",
|
||
|
"silver age",
|
||
|
"comeback",
|
||
|
"recovery",
|
||
|
"revival"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"decay",
|
||
|
"decline",
|
||
|
"downfall",
|
||
|
"bottom",
|
||
|
"nadir",
|
||
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
"withering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"forsythias only bloom at the beginning of spring"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blossoming",
|
||
|
"blowing",
|
||
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
"bourgeoning",
|
||
|
"efflorescing",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"unfolding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafing",
|
||
|
"leaving",
|
||
|
"budding",
|
||
|
"opening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"drying up",
|
||
|
"fading",
|
||
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
"withering",
|
||
|
"dropping",
|
||
|
"dying",
|
||
|
"expiring",
|
||
|
"perishing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she arrived at the house, blooming from her vigorous walk"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blushing",
|
||
|
"coloring",
|
||
|
"crimsoning",
|
||
|
"flushing",
|
||
|
"glowing",
|
||
|
"reddening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"incarnadining",
|
||
|
"rouging",
|
||
|
"ruddling",
|
||
|
"abashing",
|
||
|
"chagrining",
|
||
|
"discomfiting",
|
||
|
"disconcerting",
|
||
|
"embarrassing",
|
||
|
"fazing",
|
||
|
"humiliating",
|
||
|
"mortifying"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloomy":{
|
||
|
"as in":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blossoming":{
|
||
|
"as in flowering , flourishing":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooming",
|
||
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
"flourishing",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"undeveloped",
|
||
|
"unfinished",
|
||
|
"unfledged",
|
||
|
"unformed",
|
||
|
"unripe",
|
||
|
"unripened",
|
||
|
"babyish",
|
||
|
"childish",
|
||
|
"childlike",
|
||
|
"infantile",
|
||
|
"infantine",
|
||
|
"kiddish",
|
||
|
"callow",
|
||
|
"green",
|
||
|
"inexperienced",
|
||
|
"puerile",
|
||
|
"raw",
|
||
|
"embryonic",
|
||
|
"emergent",
|
||
|
"ephebic",
|
||
|
"minor",
|
||
|
"preteen",
|
||
|
"subadult",
|
||
|
"teenage",
|
||
|
"teenaged",
|
||
|
"underage",
|
||
|
"adolescent",
|
||
|
"immature",
|
||
|
"juvenile",
|
||
|
"young",
|
||
|
"youngish",
|
||
|
"youthful"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"adult",
|
||
|
"grown-up",
|
||
|
"mature",
|
||
|
"matured",
|
||
|
"aged",
|
||
|
"aging",
|
||
|
"ageing",
|
||
|
"ancient",
|
||
|
"elderly",
|
||
|
"geriatric",
|
||
|
"long-lived",
|
||
|
"old",
|
||
|
"older",
|
||
|
"oldish",
|
||
|
"senescent",
|
||
|
"senior",
|
||
|
"full-blown",
|
||
|
"full-fledged",
|
||
|
"golden",
|
||
|
"mellow",
|
||
|
"ripe",
|
||
|
"ripened",
|
||
|
"middle-aged",
|
||
|
"anile",
|
||
|
"decrepit",
|
||
|
"doddering",
|
||
|
"over-the-hill",
|
||
|
"senile",
|
||
|
"spavined",
|
||
|
"tottery"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in flourishing , flowering":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"flourishing",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"development",
|
||
|
"growth",
|
||
|
"maturation",
|
||
|
"maturing",
|
||
|
"ripening",
|
||
|
"mellowing",
|
||
|
"softening",
|
||
|
"evolution",
|
||
|
"evolvement",
|
||
|
"expansion",
|
||
|
"progression",
|
||
|
"coming-of-age",
|
||
|
"maturity"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"decadence",
|
||
|
"decay",
|
||
|
"decaying",
|
||
|
"declension",
|
||
|
"decline",
|
||
|
"declining",
|
||
|
"degeneration",
|
||
|
"descent",
|
||
|
"deterioration",
|
||
|
"ebbing",
|
||
|
"fading",
|
||
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
"waning",
|
||
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
"withering",
|
||
|
"death",
|
||
|
"decease",
|
||
|
"demise",
|
||
|
"dying",
|
||
|
"end",
|
||
|
"exit",
|
||
|
"expiration",
|
||
|
"expiring",
|
||
|
"expiry",
|
||
|
"perishing",
|
||
|
"regression",
|
||
|
"retrogression",
|
||
|
"reversion"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooming",
|
||
|
"blowing",
|
||
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
"bourgeoning",
|
||
|
"efflorescing",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"unfolding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafing",
|
||
|
"leaving",
|
||
|
"budding",
|
||
|
"opening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"drying up",
|
||
|
"fading",
|
||
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
"withering",
|
||
|
"dropping",
|
||
|
"dying",
|
||
|
"expiring",
|
||
|
"perishing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blot out":{
|
||
|
"to destroy all traces of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abolish",
|
||
|
"annihilate",
|
||
|
"black out",
|
||
|
"cancel",
|
||
|
"clean (up)",
|
||
|
"efface",
|
||
|
"eradicate",
|
||
|
"erase",
|
||
|
"expunge",
|
||
|
"exterminate",
|
||
|
"extirpate",
|
||
|
"liquidate",
|
||
|
"obliterate",
|
||
|
"root (out)",
|
||
|
"rub out",
|
||
|
"snuff (out)",
|
||
|
"stamp (out)",
|
||
|
"sweep (away)",
|
||
|
"wipe out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"decimate",
|
||
|
"demolish",
|
||
|
"destroy",
|
||
|
"devastate",
|
||
|
"ravage",
|
||
|
"dismantle",
|
||
|
"flatten",
|
||
|
"mow (down)",
|
||
|
"raze",
|
||
|
"tear down",
|
||
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
"total",
|
||
|
"waste",
|
||
|
"wreck",
|
||
|
"blast",
|
||
|
"blow up",
|
||
|
"dash",
|
||
|
"dynamite",
|
||
|
"smash",
|
||
|
"atomize",
|
||
|
"consume",
|
||
|
"devour",
|
||
|
"dissolve",
|
||
|
"fragment",
|
||
|
"powder",
|
||
|
"pulverize",
|
||
|
"shatter",
|
||
|
"splinter",
|
||
|
"doom",
|
||
|
"finish",
|
||
|
"kill",
|
||
|
"kill off",
|
||
|
"terminate",
|
||
|
"zap",
|
||
|
"cut",
|
||
|
"discard",
|
||
|
"ditch",
|
||
|
"eject",
|
||
|
"excise",
|
||
|
"expel",
|
||
|
"jettison",
|
||
|
"oust",
|
||
|
"throw out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserve",
|
||
|
"preserve",
|
||
|
"protect",
|
||
|
"save",
|
||
|
"build",
|
||
|
"construct",
|
||
|
"create",
|
||
|
"fabricate",
|
||
|
"fashion",
|
||
|
"forge",
|
||
|
"form",
|
||
|
"frame",
|
||
|
"make",
|
||
|
"manufacture",
|
||
|
"shape",
|
||
|
"fix",
|
||
|
"mend",
|
||
|
"patch",
|
||
|
"rebuild",
|
||
|
"recondition",
|
||
|
"reconstruct",
|
||
|
"renew",
|
||
|
"renovate",
|
||
|
"repair",
|
||
|
"restore",
|
||
|
"revamp"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"belie",
|
||
|
"blanket",
|
||
|
"cloak",
|
||
|
"conceal",
|
||
|
"cover",
|
||
|
"curtain",
|
||
|
"disguise",
|
||
|
"enshroud",
|
||
|
"hide",
|
||
|
"mask",
|
||
|
"obscure",
|
||
|
"occult",
|
||
|
"paper over",
|
||
|
"screen",
|
||
|
"shroud",
|
||
|
"suppress",
|
||
|
"veil"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bury",
|
||
|
"camouflage",
|
||
|
"cover (up)",
|
||
|
"smother",
|
||
|
"gild",
|
||
|
"gloss (over)",
|
||
|
"varnish",
|
||
|
"whitewash",
|
||
|
"becloud",
|
||
|
"bedim",
|
||
|
"befog",
|
||
|
"block",
|
||
|
"cloud",
|
||
|
"darken",
|
||
|
"eclipse",
|
||
|
"obstruct",
|
||
|
"occlude",
|
||
|
"overcast",
|
||
|
"overshadow",
|
||
|
"shade"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bring out",
|
||
|
"present",
|
||
|
"clarify",
|
||
|
"illuminate",
|
||
|
"advertise",
|
||
|
"air",
|
||
|
"broadcast",
|
||
|
"get out",
|
||
|
"proclaim",
|
||
|
"publicize",
|
||
|
"publish",
|
||
|
"spread"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bare",
|
||
|
"disclose",
|
||
|
"display",
|
||
|
"divulge",
|
||
|
"expose",
|
||
|
"reveal",
|
||
|
"show",
|
||
|
"uncloak",
|
||
|
"uncover",
|
||
|
"unmask",
|
||
|
"unveil"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotch":{
|
||
|
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a dog with a single small blotch of black"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dapple",
|
||
|
"dot",
|
||
|
"eyespot",
|
||
|
"fleck",
|
||
|
"mottle",
|
||
|
"patch",
|
||
|
"pip",
|
||
|
"point",
|
||
|
"speck",
|
||
|
"speckle",
|
||
|
"splotch",
|
||
|
"spot"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"birthmark",
|
||
|
"freckle",
|
||
|
"mole",
|
||
|
"blob",
|
||
|
"blot",
|
||
|
"mark",
|
||
|
"smear",
|
||
|
"smudge",
|
||
|
"smutch",
|
||
|
"stain",
|
||
|
"spatter",
|
||
|
"splash",
|
||
|
"polka dot"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that cell tower is another blotch on the landscape"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blemish",
|
||
|
"blight",
|
||
|
"defect",
|
||
|
"deformity",
|
||
|
"disfigurement",
|
||
|
"excrescence",
|
||
|
"excrescency",
|
||
|
"fault",
|
||
|
"flaw",
|
||
|
"imperfection",
|
||
|
"mar",
|
||
|
"mark",
|
||
|
"pockmark",
|
||
|
"scar"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abnormality",
|
||
|
"distortion",
|
||
|
"irregularity",
|
||
|
"malformation",
|
||
|
"misshape",
|
||
|
"bug",
|
||
|
"glitch",
|
||
|
"kink",
|
||
|
"blot",
|
||
|
"blur",
|
||
|
"spot",
|
||
|
"stain",
|
||
|
"taint",
|
||
|
"damage",
|
||
|
"defacement",
|
||
|
"impairment",
|
||
|
"injury",
|
||
|
"failing",
|
||
|
"weakness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"adornment",
|
||
|
"decoration",
|
||
|
"embellishment",
|
||
|
"enhancement",
|
||
|
"ornament"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dapple",
|
||
|
"dot",
|
||
|
"fleck",
|
||
|
"freckle",
|
||
|
"marble",
|
||
|
"mottle",
|
||
|
"pepper",
|
||
|
"shoot",
|
||
|
"speck",
|
||
|
"speckle",
|
||
|
"splotch",
|
||
|
"spot",
|
||
|
"sprinkle",
|
||
|
"stipple"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blot",
|
||
|
"dye",
|
||
|
"stain",
|
||
|
"band",
|
||
|
"bar",
|
||
|
"streak",
|
||
|
"stripe",
|
||
|
"intersperse",
|
||
|
"set",
|
||
|
"stud",
|
||
|
"bespatter",
|
||
|
"spatter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotches":{
|
||
|
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a dog with a single small blotch of black"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dapples",
|
||
|
"dots",
|
||
|
"eyespots",
|
||
|
"flecks",
|
||
|
"mottles",
|
||
|
"patches",
|
||
|
"pips",
|
||
|
"points",
|
||
|
"speckles",
|
||
|
"specks",
|
||
|
"splotches",
|
||
|
"spots"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"birthmarks",
|
||
|
"freckles",
|
||
|
"moles",
|
||
|
"blobs",
|
||
|
"blots",
|
||
|
"marks",
|
||
|
"smears",
|
||
|
"smudges",
|
||
|
"smutches",
|
||
|
"stains",
|
||
|
"spatters",
|
||
|
"splashes",
|
||
|
"polka dots"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that cell tower is another blotch on the landscape"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blemishes",
|
||
|
"blights",
|
||
|
"defects",
|
||
|
"deformities",
|
||
|
"disfigurements",
|
||
|
"excrescences",
|
||
|
"excrescencies",
|
||
|
"faults",
|
||
|
"flaws",
|
||
|
"imperfections",
|
||
|
"marks",
|
||
|
"mars",
|
||
|
"pockmarks",
|
||
|
"scars"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abnormalities",
|
||
|
"distortions",
|
||
|
"irregularities",
|
||
|
"malformations",
|
||
|
"misshapes",
|
||
|
"bugs",
|
||
|
"glitches",
|
||
|
"kinks",
|
||
|
"blots",
|
||
|
"blurs",
|
||
|
"spots",
|
||
|
"stains",
|
||
|
"taints",
|
||
|
"damages",
|
||
|
"defacements",
|
||
|
"impairments",
|
||
|
"injuries",
|
||
|
"failings",
|
||
|
"weaknesses"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"adornments",
|
||
|
"decorations",
|
||
|
"embellishments",
|
||
|
"enhancements",
|
||
|
"ornaments"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dapples",
|
||
|
"dots",
|
||
|
"flecks",
|
||
|
"freckles",
|
||
|
"marbles",
|
||
|
"mottles",
|
||
|
"peppers",
|
||
|
"shoots",
|
||
|
"speckles",
|
||
|
"specks",
|
||
|
"splotches",
|
||
|
"spots",
|
||
|
"sprinkles",
|
||
|
"stipples"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blots",
|
||
|
"dyes",
|
||
|
"stains",
|
||
|
"bands",
|
||
|
"bars",
|
||
|
"streaks",
|
||
|
"stripes",
|
||
|
"intersperses",
|
||
|
"sets",
|
||
|
"studs",
|
||
|
"bespatters",
|
||
|
"spatters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blots out":{
|
||
|
"to destroy all traces of":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserves",
|
||
|
"preserves",
|
||
|
"protects",
|
||
|
"saves",
|
||
|
"builds",
|
||
|
"constructs",
|
||
|
"creates",
|
||
|
"fabricates",
|
||
|
"fashions",
|
||
|
"forges",
|
||
|
"forms",
|
||
|
"frames",
|
||
|
"makes",
|
||
|
"manufactures",
|
||
|
"shapes",
|
||
|
"fixes",
|
||
|
"mends",
|
||
|
"patches",
|
||
|
"rebuilds",
|
||
|
"reconditions",
|
||
|
"reconstructs",
|
||
|
"renews",
|
||
|
"renovates",
|
||
|
"repairs",
|
||
|
"restores",
|
||
|
"revamps"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"decimates",
|
||
|
"demolishes",
|
||
|
"destroys",
|
||
|
"devastates",
|
||
|
"ravages",
|
||
|
"dismantles",
|
||
|
"flattens",
|
||
|
"mows (down)",
|
||
|
"razes",
|
||
|
"tears down",
|
||
|
"ruins",
|
||
|
"totals",
|
||
|
"wastes",
|
||
|
"wrecks",
|
||
|
"blasts",
|
||
|
"blows up",
|
||
|
"dashes",
|
||
|
"dynamites",
|
||
|
"smashes",
|
||
|
"atomizes",
|
||
|
"consumes",
|
||
|
"devours",
|
||
|
"dissolves",
|
||
|
"fragments",
|
||
|
"powders",
|
||
|
"pulverizes",
|
||
|
"shatters",
|
||
|
"splinters",
|
||
|
"dooms",
|
||
|
"finishes",
|
||
|
"kills",
|
||
|
"kills off",
|
||
|
"terminates",
|
||
|
"zaps",
|
||
|
"cuts",
|
||
|
"discards",
|
||
|
"ditches",
|
||
|
"ejects",
|
||
|
"excises",
|
||
|
"expels",
|
||
|
"jettisons",
|
||
|
"ousts",
|
||
|
"throws out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abolishes",
|
||
|
"annihilates",
|
||
|
"blacks out",
|
||
|
"cancels",
|
||
|
"cleans (up)",
|
||
|
"effaces",
|
||
|
"eradicates",
|
||
|
"erases",
|
||
|
"expunges",
|
||
|
"exterminates",
|
||
|
"extirpates",
|
||
|
"liquidates",
|
||
|
"obliterates",
|
||
|
"roots (out)",
|
||
|
"rubs out",
|
||
|
"snuffs (out)",
|
||
|
"stamps (out)",
|
||
|
"sweeps (away)",
|
||
|
"wipes out"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bares",
|
||
|
"discloses",
|
||
|
"displays",
|
||
|
"divulges",
|
||
|
"exposes",
|
||
|
"reveals",
|
||
|
"shows",
|
||
|
"uncloaks",
|
||
|
"uncovers",
|
||
|
"unmasks",
|
||
|
"unveils"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"brings out",
|
||
|
"presents",
|
||
|
"clarifies",
|
||
|
"illuminates",
|
||
|
"advertises",
|
||
|
"airs",
|
||
|
"broadcasts",
|
||
|
"gets out",
|
||
|
"proclaims",
|
||
|
"publicizes",
|
||
|
"publishes",
|
||
|
"spreads"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"buries",
|
||
|
"camouflages",
|
||
|
"covers (up)",
|
||
|
"smothers",
|
||
|
"gilds",
|
||
|
"glosses (over)",
|
||
|
"varnishes",
|
||
|
"whitewashes",
|
||
|
"beclouds",
|
||
|
"bedims",
|
||
|
"befogs",
|
||
|
"blocks",
|
||
|
"clouds",
|
||
|
"darkens",
|
||
|
"eclipses",
|
||
|
"obstructs",
|
||
|
"occludes",
|
||
|
"overcasts",
|
||
|
"overshadows",
|
||
|
"shades"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"belies",
|
||
|
"blankets",
|
||
|
"cloaks",
|
||
|
"conceals",
|
||
|
"covers",
|
||
|
"curtains",
|
||
|
"disguises",
|
||
|
"enshrouds",
|
||
|
"hides",
|
||
|
"masks",
|
||
|
"obscures",
|
||
|
"occults",
|
||
|
"papers over",
|
||
|
"screens",
|
||
|
"shrouds",
|
||
|
"suppresses",
|
||
|
"veils"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloviate":{
|
||
|
"as in declaim , pontificate":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blow",
|
||
|
"declaim",
|
||
|
"harangue",
|
||
|
"mouth (off)",
|
||
|
"orate",
|
||
|
"pontificate",
|
||
|
"bluster",
|
||
|
"fulminate",
|
||
|
"huff",
|
||
|
"rant",
|
||
|
"rave",
|
||
|
"spout",
|
||
|
"sound off",
|
||
|
"speak out",
|
||
|
"speak up",
|
||
|
"blare",
|
||
|
"blurt (out)",
|
||
|
"bolt",
|
||
|
"carry on",
|
||
|
"rage",
|
||
|
"storm",
|
||
|
"take on"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow a gasket":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew a gasket when he saw that his younger brother had borrowed his car without asking."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blow up",
|
||
|
"flare (up)",
|
||
|
"flip (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"anger",
|
||
|
"fulminate",
|
||
|
"rage",
|
||
|
"rant",
|
||
|
"rave",
|
||
|
"snap",
|
||
|
"snarl",
|
||
|
"sputter",
|
||
|
"storm",
|
||
|
"tee off",
|
||
|
"vent",
|
||
|
"vituperate",
|
||
|
"bristle",
|
||
|
"burn",
|
||
|
"foam",
|
||
|
"fume",
|
||
|
"glare",
|
||
|
"glower",
|
||
|
"seethe",
|
||
|
"sizzle",
|
||
|
"smolder",
|
||
|
"smoulder",
|
||
|
"steam",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"explode",
|
||
|
"flare (out)",
|
||
|
"flash",
|
||
|
"inflame",
|
||
|
"enflame",
|
||
|
"madden"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chill out",
|
||
|
"cool (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relax",
|
||
|
"hush",
|
||
|
"quiet (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calm (down)",
|
||
|
"simmer down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow one's cool":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew his cool when the tailgater rear-ended him."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blow up",
|
||
|
"flare (up)",
|
||
|
"flip (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"anger",
|
||
|
"fulminate",
|
||
|
"rage",
|
||
|
"rant",
|
||
|
"rave",
|
||
|
"snap",
|
||
|
"snarl",
|
||
|
"sputter",
|
||
|
"storm",
|
||
|
"tee off",
|
||
|
"vent",
|
||
|
"vituperate",
|
||
|
"bristle",
|
||
|
"burn",
|
||
|
"foam",
|
||
|
"fume",
|
||
|
"glare",
|
||
|
"glower",
|
||
|
"seethe",
|
||
|
"sizzle",
|
||
|
"smolder",
|
||
|
"smoulder",
|
||
|
"steam",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"explode",
|
||
|
"flare (out)",
|
||
|
"flash",
|
||
|
"inflame",
|
||
|
"enflame",
|
||
|
"madden"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chill out",
|
||
|
"cool (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relax",
|
||
|
"hush",
|
||
|
"quiet (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calm (down)",
|
||
|
"simmer down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The movie star tolerated the constant attention of the paparazzi, but finally blew her cool when one asked about her recent divorce."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"break down",
|
||
|
"break up",
|
||
|
"crack",
|
||
|
"flip (out)",
|
||
|
"freak (out)",
|
||
|
"melt down",
|
||
|
"wig (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choke"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow smoke":{
|
||
|
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He's been blowing smoke about his accomplishments all afternoon."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blow",
|
||
|
"boast",
|
||
|
"brag",
|
||
|
"bull",
|
||
|
"crow",
|
||
|
"gasconade",
|
||
|
"swagger",
|
||
|
"vapor",
|
||
|
"vaunt"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bluster",
|
||
|
"harangue",
|
||
|
"puff",
|
||
|
"pride",
|
||
|
"gush",
|
||
|
"exult",
|
||
|
"glory",
|
||
|
"rejoice",
|
||
|
"brandish",
|
||
|
"display",
|
||
|
"exhibit",
|
||
|
"expose",
|
||
|
"flaunt",
|
||
|
"glorify",
|
||
|
"parade",
|
||
|
"show off",
|
||
|
"magnify",
|
||
|
"maximize"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"belittle",
|
||
|
"deprecate",
|
||
|
"diminish",
|
||
|
"discount",
|
||
|
"laugh off",
|
||
|
"minimize",
|
||
|
"play down",
|
||
|
"pooh-pooh",
|
||
|
"pooh",
|
||
|
"shrug off",
|
||
|
"underrate",
|
||
|
"undervalue",
|
||
|
"bemoan",
|
||
|
"lament",
|
||
|
"mourn",
|
||
|
"regret"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She has a habit of blowing smoke when she gets nervous."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"babble",
|
||
|
"blab",
|
||
|
"cackle",
|
||
|
"chaffer",
|
||
|
"chat",
|
||
|
"chatter",
|
||
|
"chin",
|
||
|
"converse",
|
||
|
"gab",
|
||
|
"gabble",
|
||
|
"gas",
|
||
|
"jabber",
|
||
|
"jaw",
|
||
|
"kibitz",
|
||
|
"kibbitz",
|
||
|
"natter",
|
||
|
"palaver",
|
||
|
"patter",
|
||
|
"prate",
|
||
|
"prattle",
|
||
|
"rap",
|
||
|
"rattle",
|
||
|
"run on",
|
||
|
"schmooze",
|
||
|
"shmooze",
|
||
|
"talk",
|
||
|
"twitter",
|
||
|
"visit"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gossip",
|
||
|
"tattle",
|
||
|
"descant",
|
||
|
"discuss",
|
||
|
"expatiate",
|
||
|
"yak",
|
||
|
"yack",
|
||
|
"yammer",
|
||
|
"yap"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing":{
|
||
|
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that horse was really blowing after the race"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gasping",
|
||
|
"heaving",
|
||
|
"hyperventilating",
|
||
|
"panting",
|
||
|
"puffing",
|
||
|
"wheezing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choking",
|
||
|
"gagging",
|
||
|
"gulping",
|
||
|
"huffing",
|
||
|
"asphyxiating",
|
||
|
"smothering",
|
||
|
"stifling",
|
||
|
"strangling",
|
||
|
"snoring",
|
||
|
"snuffling",
|
||
|
"exhaling",
|
||
|
"expiring"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to use up carelessly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"each year he blows his holiday bonus on a trip to Las Vegas"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dissipating",
|
||
|
"fiddling away",
|
||
|
"frittering (away)",
|
||
|
"lavishing",
|
||
|
"losing",
|
||
|
"misspending",
|
||
|
"running through",
|
||
|
"spending",
|
||
|
"squandering",
|
||
|
"throwing away",
|
||
|
"trifling (away)",
|
||
|
"wasting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"splurging",
|
||
|
"consuming",
|
||
|
"depleting",
|
||
|
"exhausting",
|
||
|
"impoverishing",
|
||
|
"overspending",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"indulging",
|
||
|
"overindulging",
|
||
|
"disbursing",
|
||
|
"expending",
|
||
|
"laying out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"economizing",
|
||
|
"scrimping",
|
||
|
"skimping",
|
||
|
"preserving",
|
||
|
"protecting",
|
||
|
"saving",
|
||
|
"hoarding",
|
||
|
"laying up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserving"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a huge crater was formed when the volcano last blew"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"crumping",
|
||
|
"detonating",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"going off",
|
||
|
"popping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fragmenting",
|
||
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
"smashing",
|
||
|
"splintering",
|
||
|
"discharging",
|
||
|
"firing",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
"bourgeoning",
|
||
|
"mushrooming"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
"fizzling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"imploding"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one false move and we would be blown to bits"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasting",
|
||
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"popping",
|
||
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
"smashing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamiting",
|
||
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
"decimating",
|
||
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
"ruining",
|
||
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
"detonating",
|
||
|
"discharging",
|
||
|
"fragmenting",
|
||
|
"splintering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
"imploding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to proceed or move quickly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that car blew past us as if we were standing still"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barreling",
|
||
|
"barrelling",
|
||
|
"belting",
|
||
|
"blasting",
|
||
|
"blazing",
|
||
|
"bolting",
|
||
|
"bombing",
|
||
|
"bowling",
|
||
|
"breezing",
|
||
|
"bundling",
|
||
|
"bustling",
|
||
|
"buzzing",
|
||
|
"cannonballing",
|
||
|
"careening",
|
||
|
"careering",
|
||
|
"chasing",
|
||
|
"coursing",
|
||
|
"cracking (on)",
|
||
|
"dashing",
|
||
|
"driving",
|
||
|
"flying",
|
||
|
"haring",
|
||
|
"hastening",
|
||
|
"highballing",
|
||
|
"hotfooting (it)",
|
||
|
"humping",
|
||
|
"hurling",
|
||
|
"hurrying",
|
||
|
"hurtling",
|
||
|
"hustling",
|
||
|
"hying",
|
||
|
"hieing",
|
||
|
"jetting",
|
||
|
"jumping",
|
||
|
"motoring",
|
||
|
"nipping",
|
||
|
"pelting",
|
||
|
"racing",
|
||
|
"ramming",
|
||
|
"ripping",
|
||
|
"rocketing",
|
||
|
"running",
|
||
|
"rushing",
|
||
|
"rustling",
|
||
|
"scooting",
|
||
|
"scurrying",
|
||
|
"scuttling",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"speeding",
|
||
|
"stepping",
|
||
|
"tearing",
|
||
|
"traveling",
|
||
|
"travelling",
|
||
|
"trotting",
|
||
|
"whirling",
|
||
|
"whisking",
|
||
|
"zipping",
|
||
|
"zooming"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beetling",
|
||
|
"darting",
|
||
|
"flitting",
|
||
|
"scampering",
|
||
|
"scudding",
|
||
|
"scuffling",
|
||
|
"stampeding",
|
||
|
"streaking",
|
||
|
"whizzing",
|
||
|
"galloping",
|
||
|
"jogging",
|
||
|
"sprinting",
|
||
|
"accelerating",
|
||
|
"quickening",
|
||
|
"stepping out",
|
||
|
"catching up",
|
||
|
"fast-forwarding",
|
||
|
"outpacing",
|
||
|
"outrunning",
|
||
|
"outstripping",
|
||
|
"overtaking",
|
||
|
"arrowing",
|
||
|
"beelining"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dallying",
|
||
|
"dawdling",
|
||
|
"dillydallying",
|
||
|
"dragging",
|
||
|
"hanging (around or out)",
|
||
|
"lagging",
|
||
|
"lingering",
|
||
|
"loitering",
|
||
|
"poking",
|
||
|
"tarrying",
|
||
|
"ambling",
|
||
|
"lumbering",
|
||
|
"plodding",
|
||
|
"sauntering",
|
||
|
"shuffling",
|
||
|
"strolling",
|
||
|
"decelerating",
|
||
|
"slowing (down or up)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"crawling",
|
||
|
"creeping",
|
||
|
"poking"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he keeps blowing every job interview that comes his way"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bobbling",
|
||
|
"boggling",
|
||
|
"bollixing (up)",
|
||
|
"booting",
|
||
|
"botching",
|
||
|
"buggering (up)",
|
||
|
"bumbling",
|
||
|
"bungling",
|
||
|
"butchering",
|
||
|
"dubbing",
|
||
|
"flubbing",
|
||
|
"fluffing",
|
||
|
"foozling",
|
||
|
"fouling up",
|
||
|
"fumbling",
|
||
|
"goofing (up)",
|
||
|
"lousing up",
|
||
|
"mangling",
|
||
|
"messing (up)",
|
||
|
"mucking up",
|
||
|
"muffing",
|
||
|
"murdering",
|
||
|
"screwing up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blundering",
|
||
|
"gumming (up)",
|
||
|
"muddling",
|
||
|
"piffling",
|
||
|
"blemishing",
|
||
|
"blighting",
|
||
|
"damaging",
|
||
|
"flawing",
|
||
|
"harming",
|
||
|
"hurting",
|
||
|
"impairing",
|
||
|
"injuring",
|
||
|
"marring",
|
||
|
"mutilating",
|
||
|
"ruining",
|
||
|
"spoiling",
|
||
|
"vitiating",
|
||
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
"mishandling",
|
||
|
"mismanaging"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ameliorating",
|
||
|
"bettering",
|
||
|
"enhancing",
|
||
|
"helping",
|
||
|
"improving",
|
||
|
"meliorating",
|
||
|
"rectifying",
|
||
|
"refining",
|
||
|
"reforming",
|
||
|
"remedying",
|
||
|
"doctoring",
|
||
|
"fixing",
|
||
|
"patching",
|
||
|
"reconditioning",
|
||
|
"renovating",
|
||
|
"repairing",
|
||
|
"revamping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"another self-made millionaire blowing about how much he'd achieved"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"boasting",
|
||
|
"bragging",
|
||
|
"bulling",
|
||
|
"crowing",
|
||
|
"gasconading",
|
||
|
"swaggering",
|
||
|
"vaporing",
|
||
|
"vaunting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blustering",
|
||
|
"haranguing",
|
||
|
"puffing",
|
||
|
"priding",
|
||
|
"gushing",
|
||
|
"exulting",
|
||
|
"glorying",
|
||
|
"rejoicing",
|
||
|
"brandishing",
|
||
|
"displaying",
|
||
|
"exhibiting",
|
||
|
"exposing",
|
||
|
"flaunting",
|
||
|
"glorifying",
|
||
|
"parading",
|
||
|
"showing off",
|
||
|
"magnifying",
|
||
|
"maximizing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"belittling",
|
||
|
"deprecating",
|
||
|
"diminishing",
|
||
|
"discounting",
|
||
|
"laughing off",
|
||
|
"minimizing",
|
||
|
"playing down",
|
||
|
"pooh-poohing",
|
||
|
"poohing",
|
||
|
"shrugging off",
|
||
|
"underrating",
|
||
|
"undervaluing",
|
||
|
"bemoaning",
|
||
|
"lamenting",
|
||
|
"mourning",
|
||
|
"regretting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"longing for a grassy field in some far-off land where the wildflowers blow"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooming",
|
||
|
"blossoming",
|
||
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
"bourgeoning",
|
||
|
"efflorescing",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"unfolding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafing",
|
||
|
"leaving",
|
||
|
"budding",
|
||
|
"opening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"drying up",
|
||
|
"fading",
|
||
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
"withering",
|
||
|
"dropping",
|
||
|
"dying",
|
||
|
"expiring",
|
||
|
"perishing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing in":{
|
||
|
"as in barging (in) , breezing (in)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barging (in)",
|
||
|
"breezing (in)",
|
||
|
"bursting (in or into)",
|
||
|
"waltzing (in)",
|
||
|
"debarking",
|
||
|
"disembarking",
|
||
|
"checking in",
|
||
|
"clocking (in)",
|
||
|
"pulling in",
|
||
|
"touching down",
|
||
|
"fetching",
|
||
|
"hitting",
|
||
|
"making",
|
||
|
"reaching",
|
||
|
"appearing",
|
||
|
"arriving",
|
||
|
"coming",
|
||
|
"getting in",
|
||
|
"getting through",
|
||
|
"landing",
|
||
|
"showing up",
|
||
|
"turning up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"going",
|
||
|
"leaving",
|
||
|
"checking out",
|
||
|
"clocking (out)",
|
||
|
"fleeing",
|
||
|
"vamoosing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing off":{
|
||
|
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breaking off (with)",
|
||
|
"ditching",
|
||
|
"dumping",
|
||
|
"jilting",
|
||
|
"kissing off",
|
||
|
"leaving"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"brushing (aside or off)",
|
||
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"cold-shouldering",
|
||
|
"cutting",
|
||
|
"high-hatting",
|
||
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"slighting",
|
||
|
"snubbing",
|
||
|
"abandoning",
|
||
|
"deserting",
|
||
|
"forsaking",
|
||
|
"marooning",
|
||
|
"quitting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"hooking up (with)",
|
||
|
"taking",
|
||
|
"befriending",
|
||
|
"latching (on or onto)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to fail to attend":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"cutting",
|
||
|
"missing",
|
||
|
"skipping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ignoring",
|
||
|
"neglecting",
|
||
|
"passing over"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"attending",
|
||
|
"showing up (for)"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blown up":{
|
||
|
"as in expanded , ballooned":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
"bloated",
|
||
|
"blown",
|
||
|
"distended",
|
||
|
"overinflated",
|
||
|
"puffed",
|
||
|
"swollen",
|
||
|
"tumescent",
|
||
|
"tumid",
|
||
|
"turgid",
|
||
|
"varicose",
|
||
|
"varicosed",
|
||
|
"bulging",
|
||
|
"dilated",
|
||
|
"protuberant",
|
||
|
"ventricose",
|
||
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
"dilating",
|
||
|
"turgescent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"deflated",
|
||
|
"detumescent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"flared (up)",
|
||
|
"flipped (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angered",
|
||
|
"fulminated",
|
||
|
"raged",
|
||
|
"ranted",
|
||
|
"raved",
|
||
|
"snapped",
|
||
|
"snarled",
|
||
|
"sputtered",
|
||
|
"stormed",
|
||
|
"teed off",
|
||
|
"vented",
|
||
|
"vituperated",
|
||
|
"bristled",
|
||
|
"burned",
|
||
|
"burnt",
|
||
|
"foamed",
|
||
|
"fumed",
|
||
|
"glared",
|
||
|
"glowered",
|
||
|
"seethed",
|
||
|
"sizzled",
|
||
|
"smoldered",
|
||
|
"smouldered",
|
||
|
"steamed",
|
||
|
"warmed",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursted",
|
||
|
"exploded",
|
||
|
"flared (out)",
|
||
|
"flashed",
|
||
|
"inflamed",
|
||
|
"enflamed",
|
||
|
"maddened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chilled out",
|
||
|
"cooled (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxed",
|
||
|
"hushed",
|
||
|
"quieted (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calmed (down)",
|
||
|
"simmered down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the building blew up because of a gas leak"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blown",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursted",
|
||
|
"crumped",
|
||
|
"detonated",
|
||
|
"exploded",
|
||
|
"gone off",
|
||
|
"popped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fragmented",
|
||
|
"shattered",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"splintered",
|
||
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
"fired",
|
||
|
"shot",
|
||
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
"burgeoned",
|
||
|
"bourgeoned",
|
||
|
"mushroomed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"fizzled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"imploded"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blown",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursted",
|
||
|
"demolished",
|
||
|
"exploded",
|
||
|
"popped",
|
||
|
"shattered",
|
||
|
"smashed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamited",
|
||
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
"decimated",
|
||
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
"ruined",
|
||
|
"wrecked",
|
||
|
"detonated",
|
||
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
"fragmented",
|
||
|
"splintered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"imploded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ballyhooed",
|
||
|
"cracked up",
|
||
|
"cried up",
|
||
|
"glorified",
|
||
|
"touted",
|
||
|
"trumpeted",
|
||
|
"tub-thumped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acclaimed",
|
||
|
"applauded",
|
||
|
"extolled",
|
||
|
"lauded",
|
||
|
"magnified",
|
||
|
"commended",
|
||
|
"complimented",
|
||
|
"eulogized",
|
||
|
"advanced",
|
||
|
"advertised",
|
||
|
"announced",
|
||
|
"blared",
|
||
|
"blazed",
|
||
|
"blazoned",
|
||
|
"boosted",
|
||
|
"heralded",
|
||
|
"offered",
|
||
|
"plugged",
|
||
|
"promoted",
|
||
|
"publicized",
|
||
|
"asserted",
|
||
|
"averred",
|
||
|
"claimed",
|
||
|
"declared",
|
||
|
"laid down",
|
||
|
"made out",
|
||
|
"proclaimed",
|
||
|
"pronounced"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows":{
|
||
|
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that horse was really blowing after the race"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gasps",
|
||
|
"heaves",
|
||
|
"hyperventilates",
|
||
|
"pants",
|
||
|
"puffs",
|
||
|
"wheezes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"chokes",
|
||
|
"gags",
|
||
|
"gulps",
|
||
|
"huffs",
|
||
|
"asphyxiates",
|
||
|
"smothers",
|
||
|
"stifles",
|
||
|
"strangles",
|
||
|
"snores",
|
||
|
"snuffles",
|
||
|
"exhales",
|
||
|
"expires"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to use up carelessly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"each year he blows his holiday bonus on a trip to Las Vegas"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dissipates",
|
||
|
"fiddles away",
|
||
|
"fritters (away)",
|
||
|
"lavishes",
|
||
|
"loses",
|
||
|
"misspends",
|
||
|
"runs through",
|
||
|
"spends",
|
||
|
"squanders",
|
||
|
"throws away",
|
||
|
"trifles (away)",
|
||
|
"wastes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"splurges",
|
||
|
"consumes",
|
||
|
"depletes",
|
||
|
"exhausts",
|
||
|
"impoverishes",
|
||
|
"overspends",
|
||
|
"shoots",
|
||
|
"indulges",
|
||
|
"overindulges",
|
||
|
"disburses",
|
||
|
"expends",
|
||
|
"lays out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"economizes",
|
||
|
"scrimps",
|
||
|
"skimps",
|
||
|
"preserves",
|
||
|
"protects",
|
||
|
"saves",
|
||
|
"hoards",
|
||
|
"lays up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserves"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a huge crater was formed when the volcano last blew"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blows up",
|
||
|
"bursts",
|
||
|
"crumps",
|
||
|
"detonates",
|
||
|
"explodes",
|
||
|
"goes off",
|
||
|
"pops"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fragments",
|
||
|
"shatters",
|
||
|
"smashes",
|
||
|
"splinters",
|
||
|
"discharges",
|
||
|
"fires",
|
||
|
"shoots",
|
||
|
"balloons",
|
||
|
"burgeons",
|
||
|
"bourgeons",
|
||
|
"mushrooms"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapses",
|
||
|
"fizzles"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"implodes"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one false move and we would be blown to bits"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasts",
|
||
|
"blows up",
|
||
|
"bursts",
|
||
|
"demolishes",
|
||
|
"explodes",
|
||
|
"pops",
|
||
|
"shatters",
|
||
|
"smashes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamites",
|
||
|
"annihilates",
|
||
|
"decimates",
|
||
|
"destroys",
|
||
|
"ruins",
|
||
|
"wrecks",
|
||
|
"detonates",
|
||
|
"discharges",
|
||
|
"fragments",
|
||
|
"splinters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapses",
|
||
|
"implodes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to proceed or move quickly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that car blew past us as if we were standing still"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barrels",
|
||
|
"belts",
|
||
|
"blasts",
|
||
|
"blazes",
|
||
|
"bolts",
|
||
|
"bombs",
|
||
|
"bowls",
|
||
|
"breezes",
|
||
|
"bundles",
|
||
|
"bustles",
|
||
|
"buzzes",
|
||
|
"cannonballs",
|
||
|
"careens",
|
||
|
"careers",
|
||
|
"chases",
|
||
|
"courses",
|
||
|
"cracks (on)",
|
||
|
"dashes",
|
||
|
"drives",
|
||
|
"flies",
|
||
|
"hares",
|
||
|
"hastens",
|
||
|
"hies",
|
||
|
"highballs",
|
||
|
"hotfoots (it)",
|
||
|
"humps",
|
||
|
"hurls",
|
||
|
"hurries",
|
||
|
"hurtles",
|
||
|
"hustles",
|
||
|
"jets",
|
||
|
"jumps",
|
||
|
"motors",
|
||
|
"nips",
|
||
|
"pelts",
|
||
|
"races",
|
||
|
"rams",
|
||
|
"rips",
|
||
|
"rockets",
|
||
|
"runs",
|
||
|
"rushes",
|
||
|
"rustles",
|
||
|
"scoots",
|
||
|
"scurries",
|
||
|
"scuttles",
|
||
|
"shoots",
|
||
|
"speeds",
|
||
|
"steps",
|
||
|
"tears",
|
||
|
"travels",
|
||
|
"trots",
|
||
|
"whirls",
|
||
|
"whisks",
|
||
|
"zips",
|
||
|
"zooms"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beetles",
|
||
|
"darts",
|
||
|
"flits",
|
||
|
"scampers",
|
||
|
"scuds",
|
||
|
"scuffles",
|
||
|
"stampedes",
|
||
|
"streaks",
|
||
|
"whizzes",
|
||
|
"gallops",
|
||
|
"jogs",
|
||
|
"sprints",
|
||
|
"accelerates",
|
||
|
"quickens",
|
||
|
"steps out",
|
||
|
"catches up",
|
||
|
"fast-forwards",
|
||
|
"outpaces",
|
||
|
"outruns",
|
||
|
"outstrips",
|
||
|
"overtakes",
|
||
|
"arrows",
|
||
|
"beelines"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dallies",
|
||
|
"dawdles",
|
||
|
"dillydallies",
|
||
|
"drags",
|
||
|
"hangs (around or out)",
|
||
|
"lags",
|
||
|
"lingers",
|
||
|
"loiters",
|
||
|
"pokes",
|
||
|
"tarries",
|
||
|
"ambles",
|
||
|
"lumbers",
|
||
|
"plods",
|
||
|
"saunters",
|
||
|
"shuffles",
|
||
|
"strolls",
|
||
|
"decelerates",
|
||
|
"slows (down or up)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"crawls",
|
||
|
"creeps",
|
||
|
"pokes"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he keeps blowing every job interview that comes his way"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bobbles",
|
||
|
"boggles",
|
||
|
"bollixes (up)",
|
||
|
"boots",
|
||
|
"botches",
|
||
|
"buggers (up)",
|
||
|
"bumbles",
|
||
|
"bungles",
|
||
|
"butchers",
|
||
|
"dubs",
|
||
|
"flubs",
|
||
|
"fluffs",
|
||
|
"foozles",
|
||
|
"fouls up",
|
||
|
"fumbles",
|
||
|
"goofs (up)",
|
||
|
"louses up",
|
||
|
"mangles",
|
||
|
"messes (up)",
|
||
|
"mucks up",
|
||
|
"muffs",
|
||
|
"murders",
|
||
|
"screws up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blunders",
|
||
|
"gums (up)",
|
||
|
"muddles",
|
||
|
"piffles",
|
||
|
"blemishes",
|
||
|
"blights",
|
||
|
"damages",
|
||
|
"flaws",
|
||
|
"harms",
|
||
|
"hurts",
|
||
|
"impairs",
|
||
|
"injures",
|
||
|
"mars",
|
||
|
"mutilates",
|
||
|
"ruins",
|
||
|
"spoils",
|
||
|
"vitiates",
|
||
|
"destroys",
|
||
|
"wrecks",
|
||
|
"mishandles",
|
||
|
"mismanages"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ameliorates",
|
||
|
"betters",
|
||
|
"enhances",
|
||
|
"helps",
|
||
|
"improves",
|
||
|
"meliorates",
|
||
|
"rectifies",
|
||
|
"refines",
|
||
|
"reforms",
|
||
|
"remedies",
|
||
|
"doctors",
|
||
|
"fixes",
|
||
|
"patches",
|
||
|
"reconditions",
|
||
|
"renovates",
|
||
|
"repairs",
|
||
|
"revamps"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"another self-made millionaire blowing about how much he'd achieved"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"boasts",
|
||
|
"brags",
|
||
|
"bulls",
|
||
|
"crows",
|
||
|
"gasconades",
|
||
|
"swaggers",
|
||
|
"vapors",
|
||
|
"vaunts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blusters",
|
||
|
"harangues",
|
||
|
"puffs",
|
||
|
"prides",
|
||
|
"gushes",
|
||
|
"exults",
|
||
|
"glories",
|
||
|
"rejoices",
|
||
|
"brandishes",
|
||
|
"displays",
|
||
|
"exhibits",
|
||
|
"exposes",
|
||
|
"flaunts",
|
||
|
"glorifies",
|
||
|
"parades",
|
||
|
"shows off",
|
||
|
"magnifies",
|
||
|
"maximizes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"belittles",
|
||
|
"deprecates",
|
||
|
"diminishes",
|
||
|
"discounts",
|
||
|
"laughs off",
|
||
|
"minimizes",
|
||
|
"plays down",
|
||
|
"pooh-poohs",
|
||
|
"poohs",
|
||
|
"shrugs off",
|
||
|
"underrates",
|
||
|
"undervalues",
|
||
|
"bemoans",
|
||
|
"laments",
|
||
|
"mourns",
|
||
|
"regrets"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"longing for a grassy field in some far-off land where the wildflowers blow"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooms",
|
||
|
"blossoms",
|
||
|
"burgeons",
|
||
|
"bourgeons",
|
||
|
"effloresces",
|
||
|
"flowers",
|
||
|
"unfolds"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafs",
|
||
|
"leaves",
|
||
|
"buds",
|
||
|
"opens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dries up",
|
||
|
"fades",
|
||
|
"shrivels",
|
||
|
"wilts",
|
||
|
"withers",
|
||
|
"dies",
|
||
|
"drops",
|
||
|
"expires",
|
||
|
"perishes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he was dizzy for the rest of the day after the blow to his head"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bangs",
|
||
|
"bashes",
|
||
|
"bats",
|
||
|
"beats",
|
||
|
"belts",
|
||
|
"biffs",
|
||
|
"bops",
|
||
|
"boxes",
|
||
|
"buffets",
|
||
|
"busts",
|
||
|
"chops",
|
||
|
"claps",
|
||
|
"clips",
|
||
|
"clouts",
|
||
|
"cracks",
|
||
|
"cuffs",
|
||
|
"dabs",
|
||
|
"douses",
|
||
|
"fillips",
|
||
|
"hacks",
|
||
|
"haymakers",
|
||
|
"hits",
|
||
|
"hooks",
|
||
|
"knocks",
|
||
|
"larrups",
|
||
|
"lashes",
|
||
|
"licks",
|
||
|
"pelts",
|
||
|
"picks",
|
||
|
"plumps",
|
||
|
"pokes",
|
||
|
"pounds",
|
||
|
"punches",
|
||
|
"raps",
|
||
|
"slams",
|
||
|
"slaps",
|
||
|
"slugs",
|
||
|
"smacks",
|
||
|
"smashes",
|
||
|
"socks",
|
||
|
"spanks",
|
||
|
"stingers",
|
||
|
"stripes",
|
||
|
"strokes",
|
||
|
"swats",
|
||
|
"swipes",
|
||
|
"switches",
|
||
|
"thuds",
|
||
|
"thumps",
|
||
|
"thwacks",
|
||
|
"wallops",
|
||
|
"welts",
|
||
|
"whacks",
|
||
|
"whams",
|
||
|
"whops",
|
||
|
"whaps"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"counterblows",
|
||
|
"counter-blows",
|
||
|
"counterpunches",
|
||
|
"counters",
|
||
|
"counterstrokes",
|
||
|
"counter-strokes",
|
||
|
"body blows",
|
||
|
"hands",
|
||
|
"kicks",
|
||
|
"knees",
|
||
|
"lefts",
|
||
|
"one-twos",
|
||
|
"rabbit punches",
|
||
|
"right-handers",
|
||
|
"rights",
|
||
|
"roundhouses",
|
||
|
"shivers",
|
||
|
"sidewinders",
|
||
|
"sucker punches",
|
||
|
"swings",
|
||
|
"uppercuts",
|
||
|
"crunchers",
|
||
|
"kayos",
|
||
|
"knockdowns",
|
||
|
"knockouts",
|
||
|
"KOs",
|
||
|
"bastinadoes",
|
||
|
"bastinades",
|
||
|
"batterings",
|
||
|
"beatings",
|
||
|
"drubbings",
|
||
|
"lickings",
|
||
|
"pastings",
|
||
|
"thrashings",
|
||
|
"wallopings",
|
||
|
"whippings",
|
||
|
"whips"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a sudden brief rush of wind":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the ocean blows that sweep over the island are so strong that only the hardiest shrubs can grow there"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasts",
|
||
|
"flurries",
|
||
|
"gusts",
|
||
|
"scuds",
|
||
|
"williwaws",
|
||
|
"windblasts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breezes",
|
||
|
"zephyrs",
|
||
|
"currents",
|
||
|
"drafts",
|
||
|
"airs",
|
||
|
"breaths",
|
||
|
"wafts",
|
||
|
"puffs",
|
||
|
"whiffs",
|
||
|
"bluster",
|
||
|
"gales",
|
||
|
"hurricanes",
|
||
|
"squalls",
|
||
|
"tempests",
|
||
|
"tornadoes",
|
||
|
"tornados",
|
||
|
"windstorms",
|
||
|
"northeasters",
|
||
|
"northerlies",
|
||
|
"northers",
|
||
|
"northwesters",
|
||
|
"southeasters",
|
||
|
"southwesters",
|
||
|
"westerlies"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows off":{
|
||
|
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"hooks up (with)",
|
||
|
"takes",
|
||
|
"befriends",
|
||
|
"latches (on or onto)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"brushes (aside or off)",
|
||
|
"cold-shoulders",
|
||
|
"cuts",
|
||
|
"high-hats",
|
||
|
"slights",
|
||
|
"snubs",
|
||
|
"abandons",
|
||
|
"deserts",
|
||
|
"forsakes",
|
||
|
"maroons",
|
||
|
"quits"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breaks off (with)",
|
||
|
"ditches",
|
||
|
"dumps",
|
||
|
"jilts",
|
||
|
"kisses off",
|
||
|
"leaves"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to fail to attend":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"attends",
|
||
|
"shows up (for)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"ignores",
|
||
|
"neglects",
|
||
|
"passes over"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"cuts",
|
||
|
"misses",
|
||
|
"skips"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowsy":{
|
||
|
"lacking neatness in dress or person":{
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dapper",
|
||
|
"dashing",
|
||
|
"dolled up",
|
||
|
"sharp",
|
||
|
"smart",
|
||
|
"spruce"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chic",
|
||
|
"fashionable",
|
||
|
"modish",
|
||
|
"stylish",
|
||
|
"combed",
|
||
|
"groomed",
|
||
|
"neat",
|
||
|
"ordered",
|
||
|
"orderly",
|
||
|
"tidy",
|
||
|
"careful",
|
||
|
"fastidious",
|
||
|
"fussy",
|
||
|
"meticulous",
|
||
|
"clean",
|
||
|
"cleaned",
|
||
|
"cleanly",
|
||
|
"immaculate",
|
||
|
"sparkling",
|
||
|
"spotless",
|
||
|
"stainless",
|
||
|
"unsoiled",
|
||
|
"unsullied"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"slatternly",
|
||
|
"chaotic",
|
||
|
"cluttered",
|
||
|
"confused",
|
||
|
"disarranged",
|
||
|
"disheveled",
|
||
|
"dishevelled",
|
||
|
"disordered",
|
||
|
"messed",
|
||
|
"messy",
|
||
|
"muddled",
|
||
|
"mussed",
|
||
|
"mussy",
|
||
|
"rumpled",
|
||
|
"shaggy",
|
||
|
"uncombed",
|
||
|
"wrinkled",
|
||
|
"shabby",
|
||
|
"sleazy",
|
||
|
"besmirched",
|
||
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
"dingy",
|
||
|
"dirty",
|
||
|
"filthy",
|
||
|
"foul",
|
||
|
"grimy",
|
||
|
"grubby",
|
||
|
"grungy",
|
||
|
"mucky",
|
||
|
"nasty",
|
||
|
"scroungy",
|
||
|
"scuzzy",
|
||
|
"soiled",
|
||
|
"spotted",
|
||
|
"squalid",
|
||
|
"stained",
|
||
|
"sullied",
|
||
|
"unclean",
|
||
|
"uncleanly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dowdy",
|
||
|
"frowsy",
|
||
|
"frowzy",
|
||
|
"slobbish",
|
||
|
"slobby",
|
||
|
"sloppy",
|
||
|
"sloven",
|
||
|
"slovenly",
|
||
|
"unkempt",
|
||
|
"untidy"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowup":{
|
||
|
"an outburst or display of excited anger":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the boss had another blowup when someone fouled up the copy machine"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"explosion",
|
||
|
"fireworks",
|
||
|
"fit",
|
||
|
"hissy",
|
||
|
"hissy fit",
|
||
|
"huff",
|
||
|
"scene",
|
||
|
"tantrum"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"eruption",
|
||
|
"flare-up",
|
||
|
"outburst",
|
||
|
"storm",
|
||
|
"uproar",
|
||
|
"agitation",
|
||
|
"delirium",
|
||
|
"distraction",
|
||
|
"frenzy",
|
||
|
"furor",
|
||
|
"furore",
|
||
|
"fury",
|
||
|
"hysteria",
|
||
|
"rage",
|
||
|
"rampage",
|
||
|
"convulsion(s)",
|
||
|
"paroxysm",
|
||
|
"seizure",
|
||
|
"spasm",
|
||
|
"upheaval",
|
||
|
"angriness",
|
||
|
"choler",
|
||
|
"indignation",
|
||
|
"irateness",
|
||
|
"ire",
|
||
|
"lividity",
|
||
|
"lividness",
|
||
|
"spleen",
|
||
|
"wrath",
|
||
|
"wrathfulness",
|
||
|
"reaction",
|
||
|
"rise",
|
||
|
"dander",
|
||
|
"temper",
|
||
|
"grouch",
|
||
|
"hump",
|
||
|
"pet",
|
||
|
"pouts",
|
||
|
"snit",
|
||
|
"sulk(s)",
|
||
|
"sulkiness",
|
||
|
"sullenness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the last blowup of the volcano flattened trees for miles around"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blast",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"detonation",
|
||
|
"eruption",
|
||
|
"explosion",
|
||
|
"outburst"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
"firing",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"blowout",
|
||
|
"flare-up",
|
||
|
"bang",
|
||
|
"boom",
|
||
|
"pop",
|
||
|
"airburst",
|
||
|
"groundburst"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"flare (up)",
|
||
|
"flip (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"anger",
|
||
|
"fulminate",
|
||
|
"rage",
|
||
|
"rant",
|
||
|
"rave",
|
||
|
"snap",
|
||
|
"snarl",
|
||
|
"sputter",
|
||
|
"storm",
|
||
|
"tee off",
|
||
|
"vent",
|
||
|
"vituperate",
|
||
|
"bristle",
|
||
|
"burn",
|
||
|
"foam",
|
||
|
"fume",
|
||
|
"glare",
|
||
|
"glower",
|
||
|
"seethe",
|
||
|
"sizzle",
|
||
|
"smolder",
|
||
|
"smoulder",
|
||
|
"steam",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"explode",
|
||
|
"flare (out)",
|
||
|
"flash",
|
||
|
"inflame",
|
||
|
"enflame",
|
||
|
"madden"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chill out",
|
||
|
"cool (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relax",
|
||
|
"hush",
|
||
|
"quiet (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calm (down)",
|
||
|
"simmer down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the building blew up because of a gas leak"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blow",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"crump",
|
||
|
"detonate",
|
||
|
"explode",
|
||
|
"go off",
|
||
|
"pop"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fragment",
|
||
|
"shatter",
|
||
|
"smash",
|
||
|
"splinter",
|
||
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
"fire",
|
||
|
"shoot",
|
||
|
"balloon",
|
||
|
"burgeon",
|
||
|
"bourgeon",
|
||
|
"mushroom"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
"fizzle"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"implode"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blast",
|
||
|
"blow",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"demolish",
|
||
|
"explode",
|
||
|
"pop",
|
||
|
"shatter",
|
||
|
"smash"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamite",
|
||
|
"annihilate",
|
||
|
"decimate",
|
||
|
"destroy",
|
||
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
"wreck",
|
||
|
"detonate",
|
||
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
"fragment",
|
||
|
"splinter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
"implode"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ballyhoo",
|
||
|
"crack up",
|
||
|
"cry up",
|
||
|
"glorify",
|
||
|
"tout",
|
||
|
"trumpet",
|
||
|
"tub-thump"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acclaim",
|
||
|
"applaud",
|
||
|
"extol",
|
||
|
"extoll",
|
||
|
"laud",
|
||
|
"magnify",
|
||
|
"commend",
|
||
|
"compliment",
|
||
|
"eulogize",
|
||
|
"advance",
|
||
|
"advertise",
|
||
|
"announce",
|
||
|
"blare",
|
||
|
"blaze",
|
||
|
"blazon",
|
||
|
"boost",
|
||
|
"herald",
|
||
|
"offer",
|
||
|
"plug",
|
||
|
"promote",
|
||
|
"publicize",
|
||
|
"assert",
|
||
|
"aver",
|
||
|
"claim",
|
||
|
"declare",
|
||
|
"lay down",
|
||
|
"make out",
|
||
|
"proclaim",
|
||
|
"pronounce"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowzy":{
|
||
|
"lacking neatness in dress or person":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dowdy",
|
||
|
"frowsy",
|
||
|
"frowzy",
|
||
|
"slobbish",
|
||
|
"slobby",
|
||
|
"sloppy",
|
||
|
"sloven",
|
||
|
"slovenly",
|
||
|
"unkempt",
|
||
|
"untidy"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"slatternly",
|
||
|
"chaotic",
|
||
|
"cluttered",
|
||
|
"confused",
|
||
|
"disarranged",
|
||
|
"disheveled",
|
||
|
"dishevelled",
|
||
|
"disordered",
|
||
|
"messed",
|
||
|
"messy",
|
||
|
"muddled",
|
||
|
"mussed",
|
||
|
"mussy",
|
||
|
"rumpled",
|
||
|
"shaggy",
|
||
|
"uncombed",
|
||
|
"wrinkled",
|
||
|
"shabby",
|
||
|
"sleazy",
|
||
|
"besmirched",
|
||
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
"dingy",
|
||
|
"dirty",
|
||
|
"filthy",
|
||
|
"foul",
|
||
|
"grimy",
|
||
|
"grubby",
|
||
|
"grungy",
|
||
|
"mucky",
|
||
|
"nasty",
|
||
|
"scroungy",
|
||
|
"scuzzy",
|
||
|
"soiled",
|
||
|
"spotted",
|
||
|
"squalid",
|
||
|
"stained",
|
||
|
"sullied",
|
||
|
"unclean",
|
||
|
"uncleanly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chic",
|
||
|
"fashionable",
|
||
|
"modish",
|
||
|
"stylish",
|
||
|
"combed",
|
||
|
"groomed",
|
||
|
"neat",
|
||
|
"ordered",
|
||
|
"orderly",
|
||
|
"tidy",
|
||
|
"careful",
|
||
|
"fastidious",
|
||
|
"fussy",
|
||
|
"meticulous",
|
||
|
"clean",
|
||
|
"cleaned",
|
||
|
"cleanly",
|
||
|
"immaculate",
|
||
|
"sparkling",
|
||
|
"spotless",
|
||
|
"stainless",
|
||
|
"unsoiled",
|
||
|
"unsullied"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dapper",
|
||
|
"dashing",
|
||
|
"dolled up",
|
||
|
"sharp",
|
||
|
"smart",
|
||
|
"spruce"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blog":{
|
||
|
"a website on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities, and experiences":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She writes a blog about travel.",
|
||
|
"I enjoy reading her blog ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"annals",
|
||
|
"diary",
|
||
|
"journal",
|
||
|
"log",
|
||
|
"logbook",
|
||
|
"memoir",
|
||
|
"account",
|
||
|
"chronicle",
|
||
|
"chronology",
|
||
|
"commentary",
|
||
|
"commentaries",
|
||
|
"history",
|
||
|
"narration",
|
||
|
"narrative",
|
||
|
"record",
|
||
|
"report",
|
||
|
"story",
|
||
|
"version",
|
||
|
"deposition",
|
||
|
"documentation",
|
||
|
"testament",
|
||
|
"testimonial",
|
||
|
"testimony",
|
||
|
"witness",
|
||
|
"minutes",
|
||
|
"proc\u00e8s-verbal",
|
||
|
"anecdote",
|
||
|
"tale",
|
||
|
"yarn",
|
||
|
"epic",
|
||
|
"saga",
|
||
|
"gest",
|
||
|
"geste",
|
||
|
"romance",
|
||
|
"recital",
|
||
|
"recitation",
|
||
|
"case history",
|
||
|
"case study"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blocky":{
|
||
|
"as in dense , bulky":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blockish",
|
||
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
"dense",
|
||
|
"hefty",
|
||
|
"thickish",
|
||
|
"chunky",
|
||
|
"fat",
|
||
|
"thick",
|
||
|
"broad",
|
||
|
"deep",
|
||
|
"wide"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"skinny",
|
||
|
"slender",
|
||
|
"slim",
|
||
|
"thin",
|
||
|
"narrow",
|
||
|
"shallow"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloopers":{
|
||
|
"as in pratfalls , bloomers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloomers",
|
||
|
"boners",
|
||
|
"howlers",
|
||
|
"pratfalls",
|
||
|
"blunders",
|
||
|
"bobbles",
|
||
|
"boo-boos",
|
||
|
"boobs",
|
||
|
"bricks",
|
||
|
"clangers",
|
||
|
"clinkers",
|
||
|
"errors",
|
||
|
"faults",
|
||
|
"flubs",
|
||
|
"fluffs",
|
||
|
"fumbles",
|
||
|
"gaffes",
|
||
|
"gaffs",
|
||
|
"goofs",
|
||
|
"inaccuracies",
|
||
|
"lapses",
|
||
|
"miscues",
|
||
|
"missteps",
|
||
|
"mistakes",
|
||
|
"oversights",
|
||
|
"screwups",
|
||
|
"slips",
|
||
|
"slipups",
|
||
|
"stumbles",
|
||
|
"trips",
|
||
|
"foul-ups",
|
||
|
"snafus",
|
||
|
"misapprehensions",
|
||
|
"miscalculations",
|
||
|
"miscomprehensions",
|
||
|
"misconceptions",
|
||
|
"misconstructions",
|
||
|
"misdescriptions",
|
||
|
"misimpressions",
|
||
|
"misinterpretations",
|
||
|
"misjudgments",
|
||
|
"misreadings",
|
||
|
"misstatements",
|
||
|
"misunderstandings"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"accuracies",
|
||
|
"exactitudes",
|
||
|
"precisions",
|
||
|
"inerrancies",
|
||
|
"infallibilities",
|
||
|
"perfections"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloody-mindedness":{
|
||
|
"as in cussedness , contrariness":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"cantankerousness",
|
||
|
"contrariness",
|
||
|
"cussedness",
|
||
|
"narrow-mindedness",
|
||
|
"rigidity",
|
||
|
"rigidness",
|
||
|
"balkiness",
|
||
|
"contumacy",
|
||
|
"defiance",
|
||
|
"disobedience",
|
||
|
"frowardness",
|
||
|
"immovability",
|
||
|
"immovableness",
|
||
|
"insubordination",
|
||
|
"intractability",
|
||
|
"obstreperousness",
|
||
|
"rebelliousness",
|
||
|
"recalcitrance",
|
||
|
"recalcitrancy",
|
||
|
"refractoriness",
|
||
|
"unruliness",
|
||
|
"firmness",
|
||
|
"hardness",
|
||
|
"rigor",
|
||
|
"rigorousness",
|
||
|
"sternness",
|
||
|
"strictness",
|
||
|
"adamancy",
|
||
|
"adamance",
|
||
|
"determination",
|
||
|
"implacability",
|
||
|
"inexorability",
|
||
|
"inflexibility",
|
||
|
"inveteracy",
|
||
|
"perseverance",
|
||
|
"persistence",
|
||
|
"persistency",
|
||
|
"relentlessness",
|
||
|
"resolve",
|
||
|
"single-mindedness",
|
||
|
"steadfastness",
|
||
|
"stick-to-itiveness",
|
||
|
"tenaciousness",
|
||
|
"tenacity",
|
||
|
"anal-retentiveness",
|
||
|
"perverseness",
|
||
|
"perversity",
|
||
|
"waywardness",
|
||
|
"wrongheadedness",
|
||
|
"bullheadedness",
|
||
|
"doggedness",
|
||
|
"hardheadedness",
|
||
|
"intransigence",
|
||
|
"mulishness",
|
||
|
"obduracy",
|
||
|
"obdurateness",
|
||
|
"obstinacy",
|
||
|
"obstinateness",
|
||
|
"opinionatedness",
|
||
|
"pertinaciousness",
|
||
|
"pertinacity",
|
||
|
"pigheadedness",
|
||
|
"self-opinionatedness",
|
||
|
"self-will",
|
||
|
"stubbornness",
|
||
|
"willfulness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"broad-mindedness",
|
||
|
"open-mindedness",
|
||
|
"reasonability",
|
||
|
"reasonableness",
|
||
|
"receptiveness",
|
||
|
"receptivity",
|
||
|
"acceptance",
|
||
|
"acquiescence",
|
||
|
"flexibility",
|
||
|
"pliability",
|
||
|
"pliableness",
|
||
|
"pliancy",
|
||
|
"pliantness",
|
||
|
"compliance",
|
||
|
"docility",
|
||
|
"obedience",
|
||
|
"subordinateness",
|
||
|
"subordination",
|
||
|
"submission",
|
||
|
"surrender",
|
||
|
"willingness",
|
||
|
"yielding",
|
||
|
"slavishness",
|
||
|
"subservience",
|
||
|
"subserviency"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blood sausage":{
|
||
|
"as in sausage , Vienna sausage":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bologna",
|
||
|
"frank",
|
||
|
"frankfurter",
|
||
|
"hot dog",
|
||
|
"kielbasa",
|
||
|
"knockwurst",
|
||
|
"knackwurst",
|
||
|
"liver sausage",
|
||
|
"liver pudding",
|
||
|
"liverwurst",
|
||
|
"pepperoni",
|
||
|
"salami",
|
||
|
"Vienna sausage",
|
||
|
"weenie",
|
||
|
"wiener",
|
||
|
"weiner",
|
||
|
"wienerwurst",
|
||
|
"banger",
|
||
|
"link",
|
||
|
"sausage",
|
||
|
"wurst"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodies":{
|
||
|
"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blemishes",
|
||
|
"breaks",
|
||
|
"compromises",
|
||
|
"crabs",
|
||
|
"cripples",
|
||
|
"crosses (up)",
|
||
|
"damages",
|
||
|
"defaces",
|
||
|
"disfigures",
|
||
|
"endamages",
|
||
|
"flaws",
|
||
|
"harms",
|
||
|
"hurts",
|
||
|
"impairs",
|
||
|
"injures",
|
||
|
"mars",
|
||
|
"spoils",
|
||
|
"vitiates"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"deteriorates",
|
||
|
"enervates",
|
||
|
"enfeebles",
|
||
|
"undermines",
|
||
|
"weakens",
|
||
|
"erodes",
|
||
|
"scours",
|
||
|
"washes out",
|
||
|
"wears (away)",
|
||
|
"blights",
|
||
|
"tarnishes",
|
||
|
"dents",
|
||
|
"dings",
|
||
|
"dints",
|
||
|
"botches",
|
||
|
"gums (up)",
|
||
|
"queers",
|
||
|
"lacerates",
|
||
|
"wounds",
|
||
|
"disables",
|
||
|
"hamstrings",
|
||
|
"lames",
|
||
|
"maims",
|
||
|
"mangles",
|
||
|
"mutilates",
|
||
|
"torments",
|
||
|
"tortures",
|
||
|
"annihilates",
|
||
|
"bangs up",
|
||
|
"bashes",
|
||
|
"batters",
|
||
|
"clobbers",
|
||
|
"crushes",
|
||
|
"dashes",
|
||
|
"decimates",
|
||
|
"demolishes",
|
||
|
"desolates",
|
||
|
"destroys",
|
||
|
"devastates",
|
||
|
"does in",
|
||
|
"pulverizes",
|
||
|
"razes",
|
||
|
"ruins",
|
||
|
"scourges",
|
||
|
"shatters",
|
||
|
"smashes",
|
||
|
"tears down",
|
||
|
"totals",
|
||
|
"wastes",
|
||
|
"wipes out",
|
||
|
"wrecks"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"cures",
|
||
|
"heals",
|
||
|
"helps",
|
||
|
"rectifies",
|
||
|
"rehabilitates",
|
||
|
"remedies",
|
||
|
"edits",
|
||
|
"remodels",
|
||
|
"revises",
|
||
|
"ameliorates",
|
||
|
"betters",
|
||
|
"enhances",
|
||
|
"enriches",
|
||
|
"improves",
|
||
|
"meliorates",
|
||
|
"perfects",
|
||
|
"refines"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"doctors",
|
||
|
"fixes",
|
||
|
"mends",
|
||
|
"patches",
|
||
|
"rebuilds",
|
||
|
"reconditions",
|
||
|
"reconstructs",
|
||
|
"renovates",
|
||
|
"repairs",
|
||
|
"revamps"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotchy":{
|
||
|
"having blotches of two or more colors":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"using that bronzer just made my face look blotchy"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blotched",
|
||
|
"dappled",
|
||
|
"dapple",
|
||
|
"marbled",
|
||
|
"mottled",
|
||
|
"piebald",
|
||
|
"pied",
|
||
|
"pinto",
|
||
|
"splotched",
|
||
|
"spotted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"shaded",
|
||
|
"checkered",
|
||
|
"motley",
|
||
|
"multicolored",
|
||
|
"polychromatic",
|
||
|
"polychrome",
|
||
|
"varicolored",
|
||
|
"variegated",
|
||
|
"blotted",
|
||
|
"brindled",
|
||
|
"brindle",
|
||
|
"calico",
|
||
|
"specked",
|
||
|
"speckled",
|
||
|
"streaked",
|
||
|
"colored",
|
||
|
"colorful",
|
||
|
"pigmented",
|
||
|
"dotted",
|
||
|
"peppered",
|
||
|
"sprinkled",
|
||
|
"stippled",
|
||
|
"discolored",
|
||
|
"dyed",
|
||
|
"marked",
|
||
|
"stained",
|
||
|
"flecked",
|
||
|
"streaked",
|
||
|
"bespattered",
|
||
|
"spattered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"monochromatic",
|
||
|
"monochrome",
|
||
|
"monochromic",
|
||
|
"solid"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blooper":{
|
||
|
"as in pratfall , bloomer":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloomer",
|
||
|
"boner",
|
||
|
"howler",
|
||
|
"pratfall",
|
||
|
"blunder",
|
||
|
"bobble",
|
||
|
"boob",
|
||
|
"boo-boo",
|
||
|
"brick",
|
||
|
"clanger",
|
||
|
"clinker",
|
||
|
"error",
|
||
|
"fault",
|
||
|
"flub",
|
||
|
"fluff",
|
||
|
"fumble",
|
||
|
"gaff",
|
||
|
"gaffe",
|
||
|
"goof",
|
||
|
"inaccuracy",
|
||
|
"lapse",
|
||
|
"miscue",
|
||
|
"misstep",
|
||
|
"mistake",
|
||
|
"oversight",
|
||
|
"screwup",
|
||
|
"slip",
|
||
|
"slipup",
|
||
|
"stumble",
|
||
|
"trip",
|
||
|
"foul-up",
|
||
|
"snafu",
|
||
|
"misapprehension",
|
||
|
"miscalculation",
|
||
|
"miscomprehension",
|
||
|
"misconception",
|
||
|
"misconstruction",
|
||
|
"misdescription",
|
||
|
"misimpression",
|
||
|
"misinterpretation",
|
||
|
"misjudgment",
|
||
|
"misreading",
|
||
|
"misstatement",
|
||
|
"misunderstanding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"accuracy",
|
||
|
"correctness",
|
||
|
"exactitude",
|
||
|
"exactness",
|
||
|
"preciseness",
|
||
|
"precision",
|
||
|
"strictness",
|
||
|
"inerrancy",
|
||
|
"infallibility",
|
||
|
"perfection"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloats":{
|
||
|
"as in bulks":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bulks",
|
||
|
"drenches",
|
||
|
"floods",
|
||
|
"gluts",
|
||
|
"swamps",
|
||
|
"crowds",
|
||
|
"crushes",
|
||
|
"mats",
|
||
|
"presses",
|
||
|
"rams",
|
||
|
"shoves",
|
||
|
"squashes",
|
||
|
"squeezes",
|
||
|
"brims",
|
||
|
"charges",
|
||
|
"crams",
|
||
|
"fills",
|
||
|
"heaps",
|
||
|
"jam-packs",
|
||
|
"jams",
|
||
|
"loads",
|
||
|
"packs",
|
||
|
"stuffs",
|
||
|
"refills",
|
||
|
"refreshes",
|
||
|
"reloads",
|
||
|
"repacks",
|
||
|
"replenishes",
|
||
|
"overcharges",
|
||
|
"overfills",
|
||
|
"overflows",
|
||
|
"saturates",
|
||
|
"honeycombs",
|
||
|
"penetrates"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"clears",
|
||
|
"empties",
|
||
|
"evacuates",
|
||
|
"vacates",
|
||
|
"voids",
|
||
|
"lightens",
|
||
|
"depletes",
|
||
|
"drains",
|
||
|
"eliminates",
|
||
|
"exhausts",
|
||
|
"bleeds",
|
||
|
"draws (off)",
|
||
|
"cleans",
|
||
|
"flushes",
|
||
|
"purges",
|
||
|
"scours",
|
||
|
"sweeps"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"block grant":{
|
||
|
"as in aid , assistance":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"aid",
|
||
|
"assistance",
|
||
|
"grant-in-aid",
|
||
|
"set-aside",
|
||
|
"allocation",
|
||
|
"allotment",
|
||
|
"annuity",
|
||
|
"appropriation",
|
||
|
"entitlement",
|
||
|
"grant",
|
||
|
"subsidy",
|
||
|
"subvention",
|
||
|
"foreign aid",
|
||
|
"relief",
|
||
|
"state aid",
|
||
|
"advance",
|
||
|
"allowance",
|
||
|
"benefit",
|
||
|
"bequest",
|
||
|
"endowment",
|
||
|
"fund",
|
||
|
"legacy",
|
||
|
"stipend",
|
||
|
"trust",
|
||
|
"trust fund"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodcurdling":{
|
||
|
"causing great horror or fear":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"We heard bloodcurdling stories about the war.",
|
||
|
"bloodcurdling screams"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"alarming",
|
||
|
"dire",
|
||
|
"direful",
|
||
|
"fearful",
|
||
|
"fearsome",
|
||
|
"forbidding",
|
||
|
"formidable",
|
||
|
"frightening",
|
||
|
"gut-wrenching",
|
||
|
"hair-raising",
|
||
|
"heart-stopping",
|
||
|
"intimidating",
|
||
|
"redoubtable",
|
||
|
"scary",
|
||
|
"terrifying",
|
||
|
"appalling",
|
||
|
"atrocious",
|
||
|
"awful",
|
||
|
"dreadful",
|
||
|
"frightful",
|
||
|
"ghastly",
|
||
|
"grisly",
|
||
|
"gruesome",
|
||
|
"grewsome",
|
||
|
"hideous",
|
||
|
"horrendous",
|
||
|
"horrible",
|
||
|
"horrid",
|
||
|
"horrific",
|
||
|
"horrifying",
|
||
|
"lurid",
|
||
|
"macabre",
|
||
|
"monstrous",
|
||
|
"nightmare",
|
||
|
"nightmarish",
|
||
|
"shocking",
|
||
|
"terrible",
|
||
|
"terrific",
|
||
|
"abhorrent",
|
||
|
"deplorable",
|
||
|
"disagreeable",
|
||
|
"disgusting",
|
||
|
"distasteful",
|
||
|
"loathsome",
|
||
|
"nauseating",
|
||
|
"noisome",
|
||
|
"obnoxious",
|
||
|
"obscene",
|
||
|
"offensive",
|
||
|
"repugnant",
|
||
|
"repulsive",
|
||
|
"revolting",
|
||
|
"sickening",
|
||
|
"abominable",
|
||
|
"evil",
|
||
|
"foul",
|
||
|
"heinous",
|
||
|
"noxious",
|
||
|
"odious",
|
||
|
"unspeakable",
|
||
|
"vile",
|
||
|
"grotesque",
|
||
|
"ugly",
|
||
|
"unsightly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"agreeable",
|
||
|
"appealing",
|
||
|
"attractive",
|
||
|
"delectable",
|
||
|
"delicious",
|
||
|
"delightful",
|
||
|
"enjoyable",
|
||
|
"enticing",
|
||
|
"inviting",
|
||
|
"pleasant",
|
||
|
"pleasing",
|
||
|
"pleasurable",
|
||
|
"satisfying",
|
||
|
"welcome",
|
||
|
"cheering",
|
||
|
"comforting",
|
||
|
"soothing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodbath":{
|
||
|
"the killing of a large number of people":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"butchery",
|
||
|
"carnage",
|
||
|
"death",
|
||
|
"holocaust",
|
||
|
"massacre",
|
||
|
"slaughter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodletting",
|
||
|
"bloodshed",
|
||
|
"foul play",
|
||
|
"homicide",
|
||
|
"killing",
|
||
|
"manslaughter",
|
||
|
"murder",
|
||
|
"slaying",
|
||
|
"mortality",
|
||
|
"annihilation",
|
||
|
"decimation",
|
||
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
"devastation",
|
||
|
"eradication",
|
||
|
"extermination",
|
||
|
"genocide",
|
||
|
"pogrom",
|
||
|
"assassination",
|
||
|
"execution"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blocs":{
|
||
|
"a group of people acting together within a larger group":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a whole bloc of students got together to complain"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blocks",
|
||
|
"bodies",
|
||
|
"coalitions",
|
||
|
"factions",
|
||
|
"parties",
|
||
|
"sects",
|
||
|
"sets",
|
||
|
"sides",
|
||
|
"wings"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"splinters",
|
||
|
"splits",
|
||
|
"crews",
|
||
|
"gangs",
|
||
|
"packs",
|
||
|
"teams",
|
||
|
"denominations",
|
||
|
"persuasions",
|
||
|
"schisms",
|
||
|
"scissions",
|
||
|
"caucuses",
|
||
|
"movements"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the bloc that the United States and most of western Europe formed during the Cold War"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"alliances",
|
||
|
"axes",
|
||
|
"blocks",
|
||
|
"coalitions",
|
||
|
"combinations",
|
||
|
"combines",
|
||
|
"confederacies",
|
||
|
"confederations",
|
||
|
"federations",
|
||
|
"leagues",
|
||
|
"unions"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"cabals",
|
||
|
"conspiracies",
|
||
|
"juntos",
|
||
|
"cartels",
|
||
|
"syndicates",
|
||
|
"trusts",
|
||
|
"factions",
|
||
|
"fronts",
|
||
|
"fusions",
|
||
|
"sides",
|
||
|
"wings",
|
||
|
"associations",
|
||
|
"groups",
|
||
|
"organizations",
|
||
|
"affiliations",
|
||
|
"cooperatives",
|
||
|
"partnerships",
|
||
|
"circuits",
|
||
|
"conferences"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowhard":{
|
||
|
"a person who talks constantly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"babbler",
|
||
|
"blabber",
|
||
|
"blabbermouth",
|
||
|
"cackler",
|
||
|
"chatterbox",
|
||
|
"chatterer",
|
||
|
"conversationalist",
|
||
|
"gabbler",
|
||
|
"gasbag",
|
||
|
"jabberer",
|
||
|
"jay",
|
||
|
"magpie",
|
||
|
"motormouth",
|
||
|
"prattler",
|
||
|
"talker",
|
||
|
"windbag"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gossip",
|
||
|
"gossiper",
|
||
|
"talebearer",
|
||
|
"tattler",
|
||
|
"tattletale",
|
||
|
"blatherer",
|
||
|
"blatherskite",
|
||
|
"converser",
|
||
|
"discourser"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"someone who boasts":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blower",
|
||
|
"boaster",
|
||
|
"brag",
|
||
|
"braggadocio",
|
||
|
"braggart",
|
||
|
"bragger",
|
||
|
"cockalorum",
|
||
|
"cracker",
|
||
|
"gascon",
|
||
|
"gasconader",
|
||
|
"swaggerer",
|
||
|
"vaunter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blusterer",
|
||
|
"cock",
|
||
|
"self-advertiser",
|
||
|
"self-dramatizer",
|
||
|
"self-promoter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowups":{
|
||
|
"an outburst or display of excited anger":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the boss had another blowup when someone fouled up the copy machine"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"explosions",
|
||
|
"fireworks",
|
||
|
"fits",
|
||
|
"hissies",
|
||
|
"hissy fits",
|
||
|
"huffs",
|
||
|
"scenes",
|
||
|
"tantrums"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"eruptions",
|
||
|
"flare-ups",
|
||
|
"outbursts",
|
||
|
"storms",
|
||
|
"uproars",
|
||
|
"agitations",
|
||
|
"deliriums",
|
||
|
"distractions",
|
||
|
"frenzies",
|
||
|
"furies",
|
||
|
"furores",
|
||
|
"furors",
|
||
|
"hysterias",
|
||
|
"rages",
|
||
|
"rampages",
|
||
|
"convulsions",
|
||
|
"paroxysms",
|
||
|
"seizures",
|
||
|
"spasms",
|
||
|
"upheavals",
|
||
|
"cholers",
|
||
|
"indignations",
|
||
|
"ires",
|
||
|
"lividities",
|
||
|
"spleens",
|
||
|
"wraths",
|
||
|
"reactions",
|
||
|
"rises",
|
||
|
"danders",
|
||
|
"tempers",
|
||
|
"grouches",
|
||
|
"humps",
|
||
|
"pets",
|
||
|
"pouts",
|
||
|
"snits",
|
||
|
"sulks"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the last blowup of the volcano flattened trees for miles around"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasts",
|
||
|
"bursts",
|
||
|
"detonations",
|
||
|
"eruptions",
|
||
|
"explosions",
|
||
|
"outbursts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"discharges",
|
||
|
"firings",
|
||
|
"shootings",
|
||
|
"blowouts",
|
||
|
"flare-ups",
|
||
|
"bangs",
|
||
|
"booms",
|
||
|
"pops",
|
||
|
"airbursts",
|
||
|
"groundbursts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodthirstiness":{
|
||
|
"as in bloodlust , murderousness":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodlust",
|
||
|
"murderousness",
|
||
|
"sanguineness",
|
||
|
"sanguinity",
|
||
|
"atrociousness",
|
||
|
"atrocity",
|
||
|
"barbarity",
|
||
|
"barbarousness",
|
||
|
"brutality",
|
||
|
"cruelness",
|
||
|
"cruelty",
|
||
|
"fiendishness",
|
||
|
"heartlessness",
|
||
|
"inhumanity",
|
||
|
"inhumanness",
|
||
|
"sadism",
|
||
|
"savageness",
|
||
|
"savagery",
|
||
|
"truculence",
|
||
|
"viciousness",
|
||
|
"wantonness",
|
||
|
"hard-heartedness",
|
||
|
"mercilessness",
|
||
|
"pitilessness",
|
||
|
"ruthlessness",
|
||
|
"unfeelingness",
|
||
|
"fellness",
|
||
|
"ferociousness",
|
||
|
"ferocity",
|
||
|
"fierceness",
|
||
|
"grimness",
|
||
|
"cattiness",
|
||
|
"despitefulness",
|
||
|
"hatefulness",
|
||
|
"malevolence",
|
||
|
"maliciousness",
|
||
|
"malignity",
|
||
|
"meanness",
|
||
|
"nastiness",
|
||
|
"spitefulness",
|
||
|
"hardhandedness",
|
||
|
"harshness",
|
||
|
"heavy-handedness",
|
||
|
"oppressiveness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"tenderness",
|
||
|
"warmheartedness",
|
||
|
"warmness",
|
||
|
"warmth",
|
||
|
"charitableness",
|
||
|
"clemency",
|
||
|
"leniency",
|
||
|
"mercifulness",
|
||
|
"mercy",
|
||
|
"pity",
|
||
|
"benignity",
|
||
|
"compassion",
|
||
|
"good-heartedness",
|
||
|
"humaneness",
|
||
|
"humanity",
|
||
|
"kindheartedness",
|
||
|
"kindness",
|
||
|
"sympathy",
|
||
|
"tenderheartedness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloomed":{
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"forsythias only bloom at the beginning of spring"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blew",
|
||
|
"blossomed",
|
||
|
"burgeoned",
|
||
|
"bourgeoned",
|
||
|
"effloresced",
|
||
|
"flowered",
|
||
|
"unfolded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafed",
|
||
|
"leaved",
|
||
|
"budded",
|
||
|
"opened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dried up",
|
||
|
"faded",
|
||
|
"shriveled",
|
||
|
"shrivelled",
|
||
|
"wilted",
|
||
|
"withered",
|
||
|
"died",
|
||
|
"dropped",
|
||
|
"expired",
|
||
|
"perished"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she arrived at the house, blooming from her vigorous walk"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blushed",
|
||
|
"colored",
|
||
|
"crimsoned",
|
||
|
"flushed",
|
||
|
"glowed",
|
||
|
"reddened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"incarnadined",
|
||
|
"rouged",
|
||
|
"ruddled",
|
||
|
"abashed",
|
||
|
"chagrined",
|
||
|
"discomfited",
|
||
|
"disconcerted",
|
||
|
"embarrassed",
|
||
|
"fazed",
|
||
|
"humiliated",
|
||
|
"mortified"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing one's mind":{
|
||
|
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The disappearing trick completely blew my mind ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"addling",
|
||
|
"baffling",
|
||
|
"bamboozling",
|
||
|
"beating",
|
||
|
"befogging",
|
||
|
"befuddling",
|
||
|
"bemusing",
|
||
|
"bewildering",
|
||
|
"buffaloing",
|
||
|
"confounding",
|
||
|
"confusing",
|
||
|
"discombobulating",
|
||
|
"disorienting",
|
||
|
"flummoxing",
|
||
|
"foxing",
|
||
|
"fuddling",
|
||
|
"getting",
|
||
|
"graveling",
|
||
|
"gravelling",
|
||
|
"mazing",
|
||
|
"muddling",
|
||
|
"muddying",
|
||
|
"mystifying",
|
||
|
"perplexing",
|
||
|
"posing",
|
||
|
"puzzling",
|
||
|
"vexing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"sticking",
|
||
|
"stumping",
|
||
|
"weirding out",
|
||
|
"abashing",
|
||
|
"discomfiting",
|
||
|
"disconcerting",
|
||
|
"discountenancing",
|
||
|
"embarrassing",
|
||
|
"fazing",
|
||
|
"flustering",
|
||
|
"mortifying",
|
||
|
"nonplussing",
|
||
|
"nonplusing",
|
||
|
"rattling",
|
||
|
"agitating",
|
||
|
"bothering",
|
||
|
"chagrining",
|
||
|
"discomforting",
|
||
|
"discomposing",
|
||
|
"dismaying",
|
||
|
"disquieting",
|
||
|
"distressing",
|
||
|
"disturbing",
|
||
|
"perturbing",
|
||
|
"stunning",
|
||
|
"unhinging",
|
||
|
"unsettling",
|
||
|
"upsetting",
|
||
|
"beguiling",
|
||
|
"cozening",
|
||
|
"deceiving",
|
||
|
"deluding",
|
||
|
"duping",
|
||
|
"fooling",
|
||
|
"gulling",
|
||
|
"hoaxing",
|
||
|
"hoodwinking",
|
||
|
"humbugging",
|
||
|
"misguiding",
|
||
|
"misleading",
|
||
|
"snowing",
|
||
|
"stringing along",
|
||
|
"taking in",
|
||
|
"tricking"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"assuring",
|
||
|
"reassuring",
|
||
|
"satisfying",
|
||
|
"enlightening",
|
||
|
"informing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodied":{
|
||
|
"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blemished",
|
||
|
"broke",
|
||
|
"compromised",
|
||
|
"crabbed",
|
||
|
"crippled",
|
||
|
"crossed (up)",
|
||
|
"damaged",
|
||
|
"defaced",
|
||
|
"disfigured",
|
||
|
"endamaged",
|
||
|
"flawed",
|
||
|
"harmed",
|
||
|
"hurt",
|
||
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
"injured",
|
||
|
"marred",
|
||
|
"spoiled",
|
||
|
"spoilt",
|
||
|
"vitiated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"deteriorated",
|
||
|
"enervated",
|
||
|
"enfeebled",
|
||
|
"undermined",
|
||
|
"weakened",
|
||
|
"eroded",
|
||
|
"scoured",
|
||
|
"washed out",
|
||
|
"wore (away)",
|
||
|
"blighted",
|
||
|
"tarnished",
|
||
|
"dented",
|
||
|
"dinged",
|
||
|
"dinted",
|
||
|
"botched",
|
||
|
"gummed (up)",
|
||
|
"queered",
|
||
|
"lacerated",
|
||
|
"wounded",
|
||
|
"disabled",
|
||
|
"hamstrung",
|
||
|
"lamed",
|
||
|
"maimed",
|
||
|
"mangled",
|
||
|
"mutilated",
|
||
|
"tormented",
|
||
|
"tortured",
|
||
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
"banged up",
|
||
|
"bashed",
|
||
|
"battered",
|
||
|
"clobbered",
|
||
|
"crushed",
|
||
|
"dashed",
|
||
|
"decimated",
|
||
|
"demolished",
|
||
|
"desolated",
|
||
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
"devastated",
|
||
|
"did in",
|
||
|
"pulverized",
|
||
|
"razed",
|
||
|
"ruined",
|
||
|
"scourged",
|
||
|
"shattered",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"tore down",
|
||
|
"totaled",
|
||
|
"totalled",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wiped out",
|
||
|
"wrecked"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"cured",
|
||
|
"healed",
|
||
|
"helped",
|
||
|
"rectified",
|
||
|
"rehabilitated",
|
||
|
"remedied",
|
||
|
"edited",
|
||
|
"remodeled",
|
||
|
"revised",
|
||
|
"ameliorated",
|
||
|
"bettered",
|
||
|
"enhanced",
|
||
|
"enriched",
|
||
|
"improved",
|
||
|
"meliorated",
|
||
|
"perfected",
|
||
|
"refined"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"doctored",
|
||
|
"fixed",
|
||
|
"mended",
|
||
|
"patched",
|
||
|
"rebuilt",
|
||
|
"reconditioned",
|
||
|
"reconstructed",
|
||
|
"renovated",
|
||
|
"repaired",
|
||
|
"revamped"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing one's cool":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew his cool when the tailgater rear-ended him."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
"flaring (up)",
|
||
|
"flipping (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angering",
|
||
|
"fulminating",
|
||
|
"raging",
|
||
|
"ranting",
|
||
|
"raving",
|
||
|
"snapping",
|
||
|
"snarling",
|
||
|
"sputtering",
|
||
|
"storming",
|
||
|
"teeing off",
|
||
|
"venting",
|
||
|
"vituperating",
|
||
|
"bristling",
|
||
|
"burning",
|
||
|
"foaming",
|
||
|
"fuming",
|
||
|
"glaring",
|
||
|
"glowering",
|
||
|
"seething",
|
||
|
"sizzling",
|
||
|
"smoldering",
|
||
|
"smouldering",
|
||
|
"steaming",
|
||
|
"warming",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"flaring (out)",
|
||
|
"flashing",
|
||
|
"inflaming",
|
||
|
"enflaming",
|
||
|
"maddening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chilling out",
|
||
|
"cooling (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxing",
|
||
|
"hushing",
|
||
|
"quieting (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calming (down)",
|
||
|
"simmering down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The movie star tolerated the constant attention of the paparazzi, but finally blew her cool when one asked about her recent divorce."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breaking down",
|
||
|
"breaking up",
|
||
|
"cracking",
|
||
|
"flipping (out)",
|
||
|
"freaking (out)",
|
||
|
"melting down",
|
||
|
"wigging (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choking"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blokes":{
|
||
|
"an adult male human being":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a couple of friendly blokes offered to show us the sights of London"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bastards",
|
||
|
"bucks",
|
||
|
"cats",
|
||
|
"chappies",
|
||
|
"chaps",
|
||
|
"dudes",
|
||
|
"fellas",
|
||
|
"fellers",
|
||
|
"fellows",
|
||
|
"galoots",
|
||
|
"gentlemen",
|
||
|
"gents",
|
||
|
"guys",
|
||
|
"hombres",
|
||
|
"jacks",
|
||
|
"joes",
|
||
|
"jokers",
|
||
|
"lads",
|
||
|
"males",
|
||
|
"men"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"masters",
|
||
|
"misters",
|
||
|
"sirs",
|
||
|
"buddies",
|
||
|
"busters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blown away":{
|
||
|
"to defeat by a large margin":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"buried",
|
||
|
"clobbered",
|
||
|
"creamed",
|
||
|
"drubbed",
|
||
|
"dusted",
|
||
|
"flattened",
|
||
|
"pasted",
|
||
|
"routed",
|
||
|
"shellacked",
|
||
|
"skinned",
|
||
|
"skunked",
|
||
|
"smoked",
|
||
|
"smothered",
|
||
|
"snowed under",
|
||
|
"thrashed",
|
||
|
"trimmed",
|
||
|
"tromped",
|
||
|
"trounced",
|
||
|
"walloped",
|
||
|
"waxed",
|
||
|
"whipped",
|
||
|
"whomped",
|
||
|
"whopped",
|
||
|
"whapped",
|
||
|
"whupped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"swept",
|
||
|
"upset",
|
||
|
"beaten",
|
||
|
"beat",
|
||
|
"bested",
|
||
|
"conquered",
|
||
|
"dispatched",
|
||
|
"hurdled",
|
||
|
"licked",
|
||
|
"mastered",
|
||
|
"overborne",
|
||
|
"overborn",
|
||
|
"overcome",
|
||
|
"overmatched",
|
||
|
"prevailed (over)",
|
||
|
"subdued",
|
||
|
"surmounted",
|
||
|
"taken",
|
||
|
"thrown",
|
||
|
"triumphed (over)",
|
||
|
"won (against)",
|
||
|
"worsted",
|
||
|
"crushed",
|
||
|
"knocked off",
|
||
|
"knocked over",
|
||
|
"overpowered",
|
||
|
"overthrown",
|
||
|
"overwhelmed",
|
||
|
"subjugated",
|
||
|
"upended",
|
||
|
"vanquished",
|
||
|
"aced (out)",
|
||
|
"bettered",
|
||
|
"eclipsed",
|
||
|
"exceeded",
|
||
|
"outdistanced",
|
||
|
"outdone",
|
||
|
"outfought",
|
||
|
"outshone",
|
||
|
"outshined",
|
||
|
"outstripped",
|
||
|
"overtopped",
|
||
|
"surpassed",
|
||
|
"topped",
|
||
|
"transcended",
|
||
|
"edged (out)",
|
||
|
"nosed out",
|
||
|
"pipped",
|
||
|
"capped",
|
||
|
"excelled",
|
||
|
"flourished",
|
||
|
"scored",
|
||
|
"succeeded",
|
||
|
"broken",
|
||
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
"done in",
|
||
|
"finished",
|
||
|
"slaughtered",
|
||
|
"sunk"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blood-and-guts":{
|
||
|
"marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a hockey team known for its blood-and-guts play"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bang-bang",
|
||
|
"convulsive",
|
||
|
"cyclonic",
|
||
|
"explosive",
|
||
|
"ferocious",
|
||
|
"fierce",
|
||
|
"furious",
|
||
|
"hammer-and-tongs",
|
||
|
"hot",
|
||
|
"knock-down, drag-out",
|
||
|
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
|
||
|
"paroxysmal",
|
||
|
"rabid",
|
||
|
"rough",
|
||
|
"stormy",
|
||
|
"tempestuous",
|
||
|
"tumultuous",
|
||
|
"turbulent",
|
||
|
"violent",
|
||
|
"volcanic"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barbarous",
|
||
|
"brutal",
|
||
|
"savage",
|
||
|
"vicious",
|
||
|
"antagonistic",
|
||
|
"hostile",
|
||
|
"aggressive",
|
||
|
"assertive",
|
||
|
"bellicose",
|
||
|
"belligerent",
|
||
|
"combative",
|
||
|
"contentious",
|
||
|
"gladiatorial",
|
||
|
"pugnacious",
|
||
|
"quarrelsome",
|
||
|
"truculent",
|
||
|
"combustible",
|
||
|
"volatile",
|
||
|
"agitated",
|
||
|
"frantic",
|
||
|
"frenzied",
|
||
|
"mad",
|
||
|
"cataclysmal",
|
||
|
"cataclysmic",
|
||
|
"destructive",
|
||
|
"ruinous"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calm",
|
||
|
"halcyon",
|
||
|
"pacific",
|
||
|
"serene",
|
||
|
"tranquil",
|
||
|
"nonbelligerent",
|
||
|
"unaggressive"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"nonviolent",
|
||
|
"peaceable",
|
||
|
"peaceful"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowbacks":{
|
||
|
"as in fallouts , ripples":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"by-products",
|
||
|
"byproducts",
|
||
|
"fallouts",
|
||
|
"offshoots",
|
||
|
"ripples",
|
||
|
"side effects",
|
||
|
"side reactions",
|
||
|
"spin-offs",
|
||
|
"afterclaps",
|
||
|
"afterglows",
|
||
|
"aftershocks",
|
||
|
"denouements",
|
||
|
"d\u00e9nouements",
|
||
|
"echoes",
|
||
|
"echos",
|
||
|
"implications",
|
||
|
"repercussions",
|
||
|
"ramifications",
|
||
|
"aftereffects",
|
||
|
"aftermaths",
|
||
|
"backwashes",
|
||
|
"children",
|
||
|
"conclusions",
|
||
|
"consequences",
|
||
|
"corollaries",
|
||
|
"developments",
|
||
|
"effects",
|
||
|
"fates",
|
||
|
"fruits",
|
||
|
"issues",
|
||
|
"outcomes",
|
||
|
"outgrowths",
|
||
|
"precipitates",
|
||
|
"products",
|
||
|
"resultants",
|
||
|
"results",
|
||
|
"sequels",
|
||
|
"sequences",
|
||
|
"upshots"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"antecedents",
|
||
|
"causations",
|
||
|
"causes",
|
||
|
"occasions",
|
||
|
"reasons",
|
||
|
"considerations",
|
||
|
"determinants",
|
||
|
"factors",
|
||
|
"bases",
|
||
|
"foundations",
|
||
|
"grounds",
|
||
|
"groundworks",
|
||
|
"impetuses",
|
||
|
"incentives",
|
||
|
"inspirations",
|
||
|
"instigations",
|
||
|
"stimuli",
|
||
|
"mothers",
|
||
|
"origins",
|
||
|
"roots",
|
||
|
"sources",
|
||
|
"springs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotting":{
|
||
|
"as in staining , dyeing":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dyeing",
|
||
|
"staining",
|
||
|
"blotching",
|
||
|
"dappling",
|
||
|
"dotting",
|
||
|
"flecking",
|
||
|
"freckling",
|
||
|
"marbling",
|
||
|
"mottling",
|
||
|
"peppering",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"specking",
|
||
|
"speckling",
|
||
|
"splotching",
|
||
|
"spotting",
|
||
|
"sprinkling",
|
||
|
"stippling",
|
||
|
"banding",
|
||
|
"barring",
|
||
|
"streaking",
|
||
|
"striping",
|
||
|
"interspersing",
|
||
|
"setting",
|
||
|
"studding",
|
||
|
"bespattering",
|
||
|
"spattering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockaded":{
|
||
|
"as in barricaded":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricaded",
|
||
|
"blocked",
|
||
|
"choked",
|
||
|
"clogged",
|
||
|
"closed",
|
||
|
"congested",
|
||
|
"dammed",
|
||
|
"jammed",
|
||
|
"obstructed",
|
||
|
"plugged (up)",
|
||
|
"stopped (up)",
|
||
|
"stuffed",
|
||
|
"impassable",
|
||
|
"impassible",
|
||
|
"unnegotiable",
|
||
|
"unpassable"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"navigable",
|
||
|
"negotiable",
|
||
|
"passable",
|
||
|
"clear",
|
||
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
"free",
|
||
|
"open",
|
||
|
"unclogged",
|
||
|
"unclosed",
|
||
|
"unobstructed",
|
||
|
"unstopped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the militant protestors blockaded the whole area around city hall"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barred",
|
||
|
"barricaded",
|
||
|
"blocked (off)",
|
||
|
"closed (off)",
|
||
|
"guarded",
|
||
|
"walled (off)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"curtained (off)",
|
||
|
"screened (off)",
|
||
|
"diked",
|
||
|
"fenced",
|
||
|
"gated",
|
||
|
"hedged",
|
||
|
"bolted",
|
||
|
"locked",
|
||
|
"obstructed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"reopened",
|
||
|
"unblocked",
|
||
|
"unbolted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"opened",
|
||
|
"unbarred"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blockaded the city until it surrendered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beleaguered",
|
||
|
"besieged",
|
||
|
"invested",
|
||
|
"leaguered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricaded",
|
||
|
"blocked",
|
||
|
"cut off",
|
||
|
"dammed",
|
||
|
"encircled",
|
||
|
"assailed",
|
||
|
"assaulted",
|
||
|
"attacked",
|
||
|
"beset",
|
||
|
"confined",
|
||
|
"insulated",
|
||
|
"isolated",
|
||
|
"quarantined"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"emancipated",
|
||
|
"freed",
|
||
|
"liberated",
|
||
|
"released",
|
||
|
"rescued"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloated":{
|
||
|
"extended beyond normal or realistic bounds":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a bloated sense of his own importance"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"exaggerated",
|
||
|
"hyperbolized",
|
||
|
"inflated",
|
||
|
"outsize",
|
||
|
"outsized",
|
||
|
"overblown",
|
||
|
"overdrawn",
|
||
|
"overweening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"elaborated",
|
||
|
"embellished",
|
||
|
"embroidered",
|
||
|
"enlarged",
|
||
|
"hyped-up",
|
||
|
"magnified",
|
||
|
"overdone",
|
||
|
"overemphasized",
|
||
|
"overplayed",
|
||
|
"overstated",
|
||
|
"padded",
|
||
|
"stretched",
|
||
|
"grandiose",
|
||
|
"preposterous",
|
||
|
"unreal",
|
||
|
"unrealistic",
|
||
|
"unreasonable"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"realistic",
|
||
|
"reasonable"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"enlarged beyond normal from internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a bloated stomach"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blown",
|
||
|
"distended",
|
||
|
"overinflated",
|
||
|
"puffed",
|
||
|
"swollen",
|
||
|
"tumescent",
|
||
|
"tumid",
|
||
|
"turgid",
|
||
|
"varicose",
|
||
|
"varicosed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
"blown up",
|
||
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
"bulging",
|
||
|
"dilated",
|
||
|
"protuberant",
|
||
|
"ventricose",
|
||
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
"dilating",
|
||
|
"turgescent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"deflated",
|
||
|
"detumescent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in bulked":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bulked",
|
||
|
"drenched",
|
||
|
"flooded",
|
||
|
"glutted",
|
||
|
"swamped",
|
||
|
"crowded",
|
||
|
"crushed",
|
||
|
"matted",
|
||
|
"pressed",
|
||
|
"rammed",
|
||
|
"shoved",
|
||
|
"squashed",
|
||
|
"squeezed",
|
||
|
"brimmed",
|
||
|
"charged",
|
||
|
"crammed",
|
||
|
"filled",
|
||
|
"heaped",
|
||
|
"jammed",
|
||
|
"jam-packed",
|
||
|
"loaded",
|
||
|
"packed",
|
||
|
"stuffed",
|
||
|
"refilled",
|
||
|
"refreshed",
|
||
|
"reloaded",
|
||
|
"repacked",
|
||
|
"replenished",
|
||
|
"overcharged",
|
||
|
"overfilled",
|
||
|
"overflowed",
|
||
|
"saturated",
|
||
|
"honeycombed",
|
||
|
"penetrated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
"emptied",
|
||
|
"evacuated",
|
||
|
"vacated",
|
||
|
"voided",
|
||
|
"lightened",
|
||
|
"depleted",
|
||
|
"drained",
|
||
|
"eliminated",
|
||
|
"exhausted",
|
||
|
"bled",
|
||
|
"drew (off)",
|
||
|
"cleaned",
|
||
|
"flushed",
|
||
|
"purged",
|
||
|
"scoured",
|
||
|
"swept"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blocked":{
|
||
|
"as in hindered , impeded":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"hindered",
|
||
|
"impeded",
|
||
|
"obstructed",
|
||
|
"excluded",
|
||
|
"ruled out",
|
||
|
"shut out",
|
||
|
"precluded",
|
||
|
"prevented",
|
||
|
"stopped",
|
||
|
"repressed",
|
||
|
"suppressed",
|
||
|
"refused",
|
||
|
"rejected",
|
||
|
"revoked",
|
||
|
"unsanctioned",
|
||
|
"vetoed",
|
||
|
"disallowed",
|
||
|
"disapproved",
|
||
|
"discouraged",
|
||
|
"objectionable",
|
||
|
"unseemly",
|
||
|
"unsuitable",
|
||
|
"ineffable",
|
||
|
"unmentionable"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"allowable",
|
||
|
"permissible",
|
||
|
"permissive",
|
||
|
"sufferable",
|
||
|
"acceptable",
|
||
|
"bearable",
|
||
|
"endurable",
|
||
|
"tolerable",
|
||
|
"accepted",
|
||
|
"accredited",
|
||
|
"allowed",
|
||
|
"appropriate",
|
||
|
"approved",
|
||
|
"authorized",
|
||
|
"certified",
|
||
|
"endorsed",
|
||
|
"indorsed",
|
||
|
"lawful",
|
||
|
"legal",
|
||
|
"legitimate",
|
||
|
"licensed",
|
||
|
"OK",
|
||
|
"okay",
|
||
|
"permitted",
|
||
|
"warranted",
|
||
|
"accorded",
|
||
|
"granted",
|
||
|
"sanctioned",
|
||
|
"vouchsafed",
|
||
|
"brooked",
|
||
|
"condoned",
|
||
|
"countenanced",
|
||
|
"encouraged",
|
||
|
"promoted",
|
||
|
"supported",
|
||
|
"commanded",
|
||
|
"mandatory",
|
||
|
"ordered",
|
||
|
"required",
|
||
|
"proper",
|
||
|
"seemly",
|
||
|
"suitable",
|
||
|
"tolerated",
|
||
|
"unobjectionable"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"block up the opening in the wall where a window once was"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bunged",
|
||
|
"dammed",
|
||
|
"filled",
|
||
|
"packed",
|
||
|
"plugged",
|
||
|
"stopped",
|
||
|
"stuffed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choked",
|
||
|
"clogged",
|
||
|
"closed (off)",
|
||
|
"clotted",
|
||
|
"congested",
|
||
|
"jammed",
|
||
|
"obstructed",
|
||
|
"occluded",
|
||
|
"caulked",
|
||
|
"calked",
|
||
|
"chinked",
|
||
|
"sealed",
|
||
|
"repacked",
|
||
|
"restuffed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"excavated",
|
||
|
"hollowed (out)",
|
||
|
"scooped (out)",
|
||
|
"shoveled",
|
||
|
"shovelled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one of the patient's arteries was so blocked with fatty deposits that blood flow had been reduced to a trickle"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choked",
|
||
|
"clogged",
|
||
|
"clotted",
|
||
|
"congested",
|
||
|
"dammed",
|
||
|
"gummed (up)",
|
||
|
"jammed",
|
||
|
"obstructed",
|
||
|
"occluded",
|
||
|
"plugged (up)",
|
||
|
"stopped (up)",
|
||
|
"stuffed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bunged",
|
||
|
"corked",
|
||
|
"spiled",
|
||
|
"stoppered",
|
||
|
"stoppled",
|
||
|
"filled",
|
||
|
"gridlocked",
|
||
|
"packed",
|
||
|
"furred",
|
||
|
"silted",
|
||
|
"flooded",
|
||
|
"glutted",
|
||
|
"inundated",
|
||
|
"overwhelmed",
|
||
|
"swamped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"excavated",
|
||
|
"hollowed (out)",
|
||
|
"scooped (out)",
|
||
|
"emptied",
|
||
|
"lightened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
"freed",
|
||
|
"opened (up)",
|
||
|
"unblocked",
|
||
|
"unclogged",
|
||
|
"unplugged",
|
||
|
"unstopped"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a thug suddenly stepped out of a doorway and blocked his escape down the alley"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"intercepted",
|
||
|
"interdicted",
|
||
|
"picked off"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"captured",
|
||
|
"caught",
|
||
|
"collared",
|
||
|
"corralled",
|
||
|
"grabbed",
|
||
|
"seized",
|
||
|
"snared",
|
||
|
"snatched",
|
||
|
"trapped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing out":{
|
||
|
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breathing (out)",
|
||
|
"exhaling",
|
||
|
"expelling",
|
||
|
"expiring"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"expectorating"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inbreathing",
|
||
|
"inhaling",
|
||
|
"inspiring"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows one's cool":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew his cool when the tailgater rear-ended him."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blows up",
|
||
|
"flares (up)",
|
||
|
"flips (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angers",
|
||
|
"fulminates",
|
||
|
"rages",
|
||
|
"rants",
|
||
|
"raves",
|
||
|
"snaps",
|
||
|
"snarls",
|
||
|
"sputters",
|
||
|
"storms",
|
||
|
"tees off",
|
||
|
"vents",
|
||
|
"vituperates",
|
||
|
"bristles",
|
||
|
"burns",
|
||
|
"foams",
|
||
|
"fumes",
|
||
|
"glares",
|
||
|
"glowers",
|
||
|
"seethes",
|
||
|
"sizzles",
|
||
|
"smolders",
|
||
|
"smoulders",
|
||
|
"steams",
|
||
|
"warms",
|
||
|
"bursts",
|
||
|
"explodes",
|
||
|
"flares (out)",
|
||
|
"flashes",
|
||
|
"inflames",
|
||
|
"enflames",
|
||
|
"maddens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chills out",
|
||
|
"cools (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxes",
|
||
|
"hushes",
|
||
|
"quiets (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calms (down)",
|
||
|
"simmers down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The movie star tolerated the constant attention of the paparazzi, but finally blew her cool when one asked about her recent divorce."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breaks down",
|
||
|
"breaks up",
|
||
|
"cracks",
|
||
|
"flips (out)",
|
||
|
"freaks (out)",
|
||
|
"melts down",
|
||
|
"wigs (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"chokes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow off":{
|
||
|
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"break off (with)",
|
||
|
"ditch",
|
||
|
"dump",
|
||
|
"jilt",
|
||
|
"kiss off",
|
||
|
"leave"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"brush (aside or off)",
|
||
|
"cold-shoulder",
|
||
|
"cut",
|
||
|
"high-hat",
|
||
|
"slight",
|
||
|
"snub",
|
||
|
"abandon",
|
||
|
"desert",
|
||
|
"forsake",
|
||
|
"maroon",
|
||
|
"quit"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"hook up (with)",
|
||
|
"take",
|
||
|
"befriend",
|
||
|
"latch (on or onto)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to fail to attend":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"cut",
|
||
|
"miss",
|
||
|
"skip"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ignore",
|
||
|
"neglect",
|
||
|
"pass over"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"attend",
|
||
|
"show up (for)"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
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},
|
||
|
"blows one's mind":{
|
||
|
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The disappearing trick completely blew my mind ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"addles",
|
||
|
"baffles",
|
||
|
"bamboozles",
|
||
|
"beats",
|
||
|
"befogs",
|
||
|
"befuddles",
|
||
|
"bemuses",
|
||
|
"bewilders",
|
||
|
"buffaloes",
|
||
|
"confounds",
|
||
|
"confuses",
|
||
|
"discombobulates",
|
||
|
"disorients",
|
||
|
"flummoxes",
|
||
|
"foxes",
|
||
|
"fuddles",
|
||
|
"gets",
|
||
|
"gravels",
|
||
|
"mazes",
|
||
|
"muddies",
|
||
|
"muddles",
|
||
|
"mystifies",
|
||
|
"perplexes",
|
||
|
"poses",
|
||
|
"puzzles",
|
||
|
"vexes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"sticks",
|
||
|
"stumps",
|
||
|
"weirds out",
|
||
|
"abashes",
|
||
|
"discomfits",
|
||
|
"disconcerts",
|
||
|
"discountenances",
|
||
|
"embarrasses",
|
||
|
"fazes",
|
||
|
"flusters",
|
||
|
"mortifies",
|
||
|
"nonpluses",
|
||
|
"nonplusses",
|
||
|
"rattles",
|
||
|
"agitates",
|
||
|
"bothers",
|
||
|
"chagrins",
|
||
|
"discomforts",
|
||
|
"discomposes",
|
||
|
"dismays",
|
||
|
"disquiets",
|
||
|
"distresses",
|
||
|
"disturbs",
|
||
|
"perturbs",
|
||
|
"stuns",
|
||
|
"unhinges",
|
||
|
"unsettles",
|
||
|
"upsets",
|
||
|
"beguiles",
|
||
|
"cozens",
|
||
|
"deceives",
|
||
|
"deludes",
|
||
|
"dupes",
|
||
|
"fools",
|
||
|
"gulls",
|
||
|
"hoaxes",
|
||
|
"hoodwinks",
|
||
|
"humbugs",
|
||
|
"misguides",
|
||
|
"misleads",
|
||
|
"snows",
|
||
|
"strings along",
|
||
|
"takes in",
|
||
|
"tricks"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"assures",
|
||
|
"reassures",
|
||
|
"satisfies",
|
||
|
"enlightens",
|
||
|
"informs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blossoms":{
|
||
|
"a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"in the full blossom of her career as a writer"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooms",
|
||
|
"florescences",
|
||
|
"floruits",
|
||
|
"flowers",
|
||
|
"flushes",
|
||
|
"heydays",
|
||
|
"high noons",
|
||
|
"primes",
|
||
|
"salad days",
|
||
|
"springtimes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"autumns",
|
||
|
"Indian summers",
|
||
|
"efflorescences",
|
||
|
"flowerings",
|
||
|
"acmes",
|
||
|
"apexes",
|
||
|
"apices",
|
||
|
"climaxes",
|
||
|
"meridians",
|
||
|
"peaks",
|
||
|
"pinnacles",
|
||
|
"summits",
|
||
|
"zeniths",
|
||
|
"glories",
|
||
|
"grandeurs",
|
||
|
"splendors",
|
||
|
"belle epoques",
|
||
|
"belles \u00e9poques",
|
||
|
"golden ages",
|
||
|
"silver ages",
|
||
|
"comebacks",
|
||
|
"recoveries",
|
||
|
"revivals"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"decays",
|
||
|
"declines",
|
||
|
"downfalls",
|
||
|
"bottoms",
|
||
|
"nadirs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the usually showy plant part that produces seeds":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the marigolds are finally showing blossoms"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooms",
|
||
|
"flowers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"buds",
|
||
|
"florets",
|
||
|
"flowerets",
|
||
|
"flowerettes",
|
||
|
"bouquets",
|
||
|
"nosegays",
|
||
|
"posies",
|
||
|
"arrangements",
|
||
|
"boutonnieres",
|
||
|
"corsages",
|
||
|
"garlands",
|
||
|
"leis",
|
||
|
"sprays",
|
||
|
"wreaths"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooms",
|
||
|
"blows",
|
||
|
"burgeons",
|
||
|
"bourgeons",
|
||
|
"effloresces",
|
||
|
"flowers",
|
||
|
"unfolds"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafs",
|
||
|
"leaves",
|
||
|
"buds",
|
||
|
"opens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dries up",
|
||
|
"fades",
|
||
|
"shrivels",
|
||
|
"wilts",
|
||
|
"withers",
|
||
|
"dies",
|
||
|
"drops",
|
||
|
"expires",
|
||
|
"perishes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blown":{
|
||
|
"enlarged beyond normal from internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"if the tin can is blown , throw it away\u2014the food inside is spoiled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloated",
|
||
|
"distended",
|
||
|
"overinflated",
|
||
|
"puffed",
|
||
|
"swollen",
|
||
|
"tumescent",
|
||
|
"tumid",
|
||
|
"turgid",
|
||
|
"varicose",
|
||
|
"varicosed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
"blown up",
|
||
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
"bulging",
|
||
|
"dilated",
|
||
|
"protuberant",
|
||
|
"ventricose",
|
||
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
"dilating",
|
||
|
"turgescent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"deflated",
|
||
|
"detumescent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that horse was really blowing after the race"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gasped",
|
||
|
"heaved",
|
||
|
"hove",
|
||
|
"hyperventilated",
|
||
|
"panted",
|
||
|
"puffed",
|
||
|
"wheezed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"choked",
|
||
|
"gagged",
|
||
|
"gulped",
|
||
|
"huffed",
|
||
|
"asphyxiated",
|
||
|
"smothered",
|
||
|
"stifled",
|
||
|
"strangled",
|
||
|
"snored",
|
||
|
"snuffled",
|
||
|
"exhaled",
|
||
|
"expired"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to use up carelessly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"each year he blows his holiday bonus on a trip to Las Vegas"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dissipated",
|
||
|
"fiddled away",
|
||
|
"frittered (away)",
|
||
|
"lavished",
|
||
|
"lost",
|
||
|
"misspent",
|
||
|
"run through",
|
||
|
"spent",
|
||
|
"squandered",
|
||
|
"thrown away",
|
||
|
"trifled (away)",
|
||
|
"wasted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"splurged",
|
||
|
"consumed",
|
||
|
"depleted",
|
||
|
"exhausted",
|
||
|
"impoverished",
|
||
|
"overspent",
|
||
|
"shot",
|
||
|
"indulged",
|
||
|
"overindulged",
|
||
|
"disbursed",
|
||
|
"expended",
|
||
|
"laid out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"economized",
|
||
|
"scrimped",
|
||
|
"skimped",
|
||
|
"preserved",
|
||
|
"protected",
|
||
|
"saved",
|
||
|
"hoarded",
|
||
|
"laid up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserved"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a huge crater was formed when the volcano last blew"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blown up",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursted",
|
||
|
"crumped",
|
||
|
"detonated",
|
||
|
"exploded",
|
||
|
"gone off",
|
||
|
"popped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fragmented",
|
||
|
"shattered",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"splintered",
|
||
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
"fired",
|
||
|
"shot",
|
||
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
"burgeoned",
|
||
|
"bourgeoned",
|
||
|
"mushroomed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"fizzled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"imploded"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"one false move and we would be blown to bits"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blown up",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursted",
|
||
|
"demolished",
|
||
|
"exploded",
|
||
|
"popped",
|
||
|
"shattered",
|
||
|
"smashed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamited",
|
||
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
"decimated",
|
||
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
"ruined",
|
||
|
"wrecked",
|
||
|
"detonated",
|
||
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
"fragmented",
|
||
|
"splintered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
"imploded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to proceed or move quickly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"that car blew past us as if we were standing still"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barreled",
|
||
|
"barrelled",
|
||
|
"belted",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blazed",
|
||
|
"bolted",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"bowled",
|
||
|
"breezed",
|
||
|
"bundled",
|
||
|
"bustled",
|
||
|
"buzzed",
|
||
|
"cannonballed",
|
||
|
"careened",
|
||
|
"careered",
|
||
|
"chased",
|
||
|
"coursed",
|
||
|
"cracked (on)",
|
||
|
"dashed",
|
||
|
"driven",
|
||
|
"flown",
|
||
|
"hared",
|
||
|
"hastened",
|
||
|
"hied",
|
||
|
"highballed",
|
||
|
"hotfooted (it)",
|
||
|
"humped",
|
||
|
"hurled",
|
||
|
"hurried",
|
||
|
"hurtled",
|
||
|
"hustled",
|
||
|
"jetted",
|
||
|
"jumped",
|
||
|
"motored",
|
||
|
"nipped",
|
||
|
"pelted",
|
||
|
"raced",
|
||
|
"rammed",
|
||
|
"ripped",
|
||
|
"rocketed",
|
||
|
"run",
|
||
|
"rushed",
|
||
|
"rustled",
|
||
|
"scooted",
|
||
|
"scurried",
|
||
|
"scuttled",
|
||
|
"shot",
|
||
|
"sped",
|
||
|
"speeded",
|
||
|
"stepped",
|
||
|
"torn",
|
||
|
"traveled",
|
||
|
"travelled",
|
||
|
"trotted",
|
||
|
"whirled",
|
||
|
"whisked",
|
||
|
"zipped",
|
||
|
"zoomed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beetled",
|
||
|
"darted",
|
||
|
"flitted",
|
||
|
"scampered",
|
||
|
"scudded",
|
||
|
"scuffled",
|
||
|
"stampeded",
|
||
|
"streaked",
|
||
|
"whizzed",
|
||
|
"galloped",
|
||
|
"jogged",
|
||
|
"sprinted",
|
||
|
"accelerated",
|
||
|
"quickened",
|
||
|
"stepped out",
|
||
|
"caught up",
|
||
|
"fast-forwarded",
|
||
|
"outpaced",
|
||
|
"outrun",
|
||
|
"outstripped",
|
||
|
"overtaken",
|
||
|
"arrowed",
|
||
|
"beelined"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dallied",
|
||
|
"dawdled",
|
||
|
"dillydallied",
|
||
|
"dragged",
|
||
|
"hung (around or out)",
|
||
|
"hanged (around or out)",
|
||
|
"lagged",
|
||
|
"lingered",
|
||
|
"loitered",
|
||
|
"poked",
|
||
|
"tarried",
|
||
|
"ambled",
|
||
|
"lumbered",
|
||
|
"plodded",
|
||
|
"sauntered",
|
||
|
"shuffled",
|
||
|
"strolled",
|
||
|
"decelerated",
|
||
|
"slowed (down or up)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"crawled",
|
||
|
"crept",
|
||
|
"poked"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he keeps blowing every job interview that comes his way"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bobbled",
|
||
|
"boggled",
|
||
|
"bollixed (up)",
|
||
|
"booted",
|
||
|
"botched",
|
||
|
"buggered (up)",
|
||
|
"bumbled",
|
||
|
"bungled",
|
||
|
"butchered",
|
||
|
"dubbed",
|
||
|
"flubbed",
|
||
|
"fluffed",
|
||
|
"foozled",
|
||
|
"fouled up",
|
||
|
"fumbled",
|
||
|
"goofed (up)",
|
||
|
"loused up",
|
||
|
"mangled",
|
||
|
"messed (up)",
|
||
|
"mucked up",
|
||
|
"muffed",
|
||
|
"murdered",
|
||
|
"screwed up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blundered",
|
||
|
"gummed (up)",
|
||
|
"muddled",
|
||
|
"piffled",
|
||
|
"blemished",
|
||
|
"blighted",
|
||
|
"damaged",
|
||
|
"flawed",
|
||
|
"harmed",
|
||
|
"hurt",
|
||
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
"injured",
|
||
|
"marred",
|
||
|
"mutilated",
|
||
|
"ruined",
|
||
|
"spoiled",
|
||
|
"spoilt",
|
||
|
"vitiated",
|
||
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
"wrecked",
|
||
|
"mishandled",
|
||
|
"mismanaged"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ameliorated",
|
||
|
"bettered",
|
||
|
"enhanced",
|
||
|
"helped",
|
||
|
"improved",
|
||
|
"meliorated",
|
||
|
"rectified",
|
||
|
"refined",
|
||
|
"reformed",
|
||
|
"remedied",
|
||
|
"doctored",
|
||
|
"fixed",
|
||
|
"patched",
|
||
|
"reconditioned",
|
||
|
"renovated",
|
||
|
"repaired",
|
||
|
"revamped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"another self-made millionaire blowing about how much he'd achieved"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"boasted",
|
||
|
"bragged",
|
||
|
"bulled",
|
||
|
"crowed",
|
||
|
"gasconaded",
|
||
|
"swaggered",
|
||
|
"vapored",
|
||
|
"vaunted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blustered",
|
||
|
"harangued",
|
||
|
"puffed",
|
||
|
"prided",
|
||
|
"gushed",
|
||
|
"exulted",
|
||
|
"gloried",
|
||
|
"rejoiced",
|
||
|
"brandished",
|
||
|
"displayed",
|
||
|
"exhibited",
|
||
|
"exposed",
|
||
|
"flaunted",
|
||
|
"glorified",
|
||
|
"paraded",
|
||
|
"shown off",
|
||
|
"showed off",
|
||
|
"magnified",
|
||
|
"maximized"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"belittled",
|
||
|
"deprecated",
|
||
|
"diminished",
|
||
|
"discounted",
|
||
|
"laughed off",
|
||
|
"minimized",
|
||
|
"played down",
|
||
|
"pooh-poohed",
|
||
|
"poohed",
|
||
|
"shrugged off",
|
||
|
"underrated",
|
||
|
"undervalued",
|
||
|
"bemoaned",
|
||
|
"lamented",
|
||
|
"mourned",
|
||
|
"regretted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"longing for a grassy field in some far-off land where the wildflowers blow"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloomed",
|
||
|
"blossomed",
|
||
|
"burgeoned",
|
||
|
"bourgeoned",
|
||
|
"effloresced",
|
||
|
"flowered",
|
||
|
"unfolded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafed",
|
||
|
"leaved",
|
||
|
"budded",
|
||
|
"opened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dried up",
|
||
|
"faded",
|
||
|
"shriveled",
|
||
|
"shrivelled",
|
||
|
"wilted",
|
||
|
"withered",
|
||
|
"died",
|
||
|
"dropped",
|
||
|
"expired",
|
||
|
"perished"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows a gasket":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew a gasket when he saw that his younger brother had borrowed his car without asking."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blows up",
|
||
|
"flares (up)",
|
||
|
"flips (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angers",
|
||
|
"fulminates",
|
||
|
"rages",
|
||
|
"rants",
|
||
|
"raves",
|
||
|
"snaps",
|
||
|
"snarls",
|
||
|
"sputters",
|
||
|
"storms",
|
||
|
"tees off",
|
||
|
"vents",
|
||
|
"vituperates",
|
||
|
"bristles",
|
||
|
"burns",
|
||
|
"foams",
|
||
|
"fumes",
|
||
|
"glares",
|
||
|
"glowers",
|
||
|
"seethes",
|
||
|
"sizzles",
|
||
|
"smolders",
|
||
|
"smoulders",
|
||
|
"steams",
|
||
|
"warms",
|
||
|
"bursts",
|
||
|
"explodes",
|
||
|
"flares (out)",
|
||
|
"flashes",
|
||
|
"inflames",
|
||
|
"enflames",
|
||
|
"maddens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chills out",
|
||
|
"cools (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxes",
|
||
|
"hushes",
|
||
|
"quiets (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calms (down)",
|
||
|
"simmers down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blossomy":{
|
||
|
"as in floriferous , abloom":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abloom",
|
||
|
"floriferous",
|
||
|
"florid",
|
||
|
"floral",
|
||
|
"flowered",
|
||
|
"flowery"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing (out)":{
|
||
|
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breathing (out)",
|
||
|
"exhaling",
|
||
|
"expelling",
|
||
|
"expiring"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"expectorating"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inbreathing",
|
||
|
"inhaling",
|
||
|
"inspiring"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing away":{
|
||
|
"to defeat by a large margin":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
"bombing",
|
||
|
"burying",
|
||
|
"clobbering",
|
||
|
"creaming",
|
||
|
"drubbing",
|
||
|
"dusting",
|
||
|
"flattening",
|
||
|
"pasting",
|
||
|
"routing",
|
||
|
"shellacking",
|
||
|
"skinning",
|
||
|
"skunking",
|
||
|
"smoking",
|
||
|
"smothering",
|
||
|
"snowing under",
|
||
|
"thrashing",
|
||
|
"trimming",
|
||
|
"tromping",
|
||
|
"trouncing",
|
||
|
"walloping",
|
||
|
"waxing",
|
||
|
"whipping",
|
||
|
"whomping",
|
||
|
"whopping",
|
||
|
"whapping",
|
||
|
"whupping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"sweeping",
|
||
|
"upsetting",
|
||
|
"beating",
|
||
|
"besting",
|
||
|
"conquering",
|
||
|
"dispatching",
|
||
|
"hurdling",
|
||
|
"licking",
|
||
|
"mastering",
|
||
|
"overbearing",
|
||
|
"overcoming",
|
||
|
"overmatching",
|
||
|
"prevailing (over)",
|
||
|
"subduing",
|
||
|
"surmounting",
|
||
|
"taking",
|
||
|
"throwing",
|
||
|
"triumphing (over)",
|
||
|
"winning (against)",
|
||
|
"worsting",
|
||
|
"crushing",
|
||
|
"knocking off",
|
||
|
"knocking over",
|
||
|
"overpowering",
|
||
|
"overthrowing",
|
||
|
"overwhelming",
|
||
|
"subjugating",
|
||
|
"upending",
|
||
|
"vanquishing",
|
||
|
"acing (out)",
|
||
|
"bettering",
|
||
|
"eclipsing",
|
||
|
"exceeding",
|
||
|
"outdistancing",
|
||
|
"outdoing",
|
||
|
"outfighting",
|
||
|
"outshining",
|
||
|
"outstripping",
|
||
|
"overtopping",
|
||
|
"surpassing",
|
||
|
"topping",
|
||
|
"transcending",
|
||
|
"edging (out)",
|
||
|
"nosing out",
|
||
|
"pipping",
|
||
|
"capping",
|
||
|
"excelling",
|
||
|
"flourishing",
|
||
|
"scoring",
|
||
|
"succeeding",
|
||
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
"doing in",
|
||
|
"finishing",
|
||
|
"sinking",
|
||
|
"slaughtering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blonde":{
|
||
|
"of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the little boy's blond hair darkened to brown as he grew older"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fair",
|
||
|
"flaxen",
|
||
|
"golden",
|
||
|
"sandy",
|
||
|
"straw",
|
||
|
"tawny"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ocherous",
|
||
|
"ochreous",
|
||
|
"ash-blond",
|
||
|
"ash-blonde",
|
||
|
"blondish",
|
||
|
"strawberry blonde",
|
||
|
"strawberry blond",
|
||
|
"towheaded",
|
||
|
"gold",
|
||
|
"light",
|
||
|
"white"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"black-a-vised",
|
||
|
"brown",
|
||
|
"brunet",
|
||
|
"brunette",
|
||
|
"dark",
|
||
|
"olive",
|
||
|
"swart",
|
||
|
"swarthy",
|
||
|
"black",
|
||
|
"ebony",
|
||
|
"raven"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowhards":{
|
||
|
"a person who talks constantly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"babblers",
|
||
|
"blabbermouths",
|
||
|
"blabbers",
|
||
|
"cacklers",
|
||
|
"chatterboxes",
|
||
|
"chatterers",
|
||
|
"conversationalists",
|
||
|
"gabblers",
|
||
|
"gasbags",
|
||
|
"jabberers",
|
||
|
"jays",
|
||
|
"magpies",
|
||
|
"motormouths",
|
||
|
"prattlers",
|
||
|
"talkers",
|
||
|
"windbags"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gossipers",
|
||
|
"gossips",
|
||
|
"talebearers",
|
||
|
"tattlers",
|
||
|
"tattletales",
|
||
|
"blatherers",
|
||
|
"blatherskites",
|
||
|
"conversers",
|
||
|
"discoursers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"someone who boasts":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowers",
|
||
|
"boasters",
|
||
|
"braggadocios",
|
||
|
"braggarts",
|
||
|
"braggers",
|
||
|
"brags",
|
||
|
"cockalorums",
|
||
|
"crackers",
|
||
|
"gasconaders",
|
||
|
"gascons",
|
||
|
"swaggerers",
|
||
|
"vaunters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blusterers",
|
||
|
"cocks",
|
||
|
"self-advertisers",
|
||
|
"self-dramatizers",
|
||
|
"self-promoters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blob":{
|
||
|
"a small uneven mass":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"chunk",
|
||
|
"clod",
|
||
|
"clot",
|
||
|
"clump",
|
||
|
"dollop",
|
||
|
"glob",
|
||
|
"gob",
|
||
|
"gobbet",
|
||
|
"hunk",
|
||
|
"knob",
|
||
|
"lump",
|
||
|
"nub",
|
||
|
"nubble",
|
||
|
"nugget",
|
||
|
"wad"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bead",
|
||
|
"drop",
|
||
|
"globule",
|
||
|
"block",
|
||
|
"body",
|
||
|
"bulk",
|
||
|
"particle",
|
||
|
"piece",
|
||
|
"portion",
|
||
|
"bit",
|
||
|
"chip",
|
||
|
"crumb",
|
||
|
"granule",
|
||
|
"morsel",
|
||
|
"nubbin",
|
||
|
"patch",
|
||
|
"scrap"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"got a blob of honey on his sweater"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bead",
|
||
|
"driblet",
|
||
|
"drip",
|
||
|
"drop",
|
||
|
"droplet",
|
||
|
"glob",
|
||
|
"globule"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gobbet",
|
||
|
"dewdrop",
|
||
|
"raindrop",
|
||
|
"tear",
|
||
|
"teardrop",
|
||
|
"spatter",
|
||
|
"dribble",
|
||
|
"trickle"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blocking (off)":{
|
||
|
"to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the square is temporarily blocked off for the street fair"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricading",
|
||
|
"barring",
|
||
|
"blockading",
|
||
|
"closing (off)",
|
||
|
"guarding",
|
||
|
"walling (off)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"curtaining (off)",
|
||
|
"screening (off)",
|
||
|
"diking",
|
||
|
"fencing",
|
||
|
"gating",
|
||
|
"hedging",
|
||
|
"bolting",
|
||
|
"locking",
|
||
|
"obstructing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"reopening",
|
||
|
"unblocking",
|
||
|
"unbolting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"opening",
|
||
|
"unbarring"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockading":{
|
||
|
"to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the militant protestors blockaded the whole area around city hall"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricading",
|
||
|
"barring",
|
||
|
"blocking (off)",
|
||
|
"closing (off)",
|
||
|
"guarding",
|
||
|
"walling (off)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"curtaining (off)",
|
||
|
"screening (off)",
|
||
|
"diking",
|
||
|
"fencing",
|
||
|
"gating",
|
||
|
"hedging",
|
||
|
"bolting",
|
||
|
"locking",
|
||
|
"obstructing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"reopening",
|
||
|
"unblocking",
|
||
|
"unbolting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"opening",
|
||
|
"unbarring"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blockaded the city until it surrendered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beleaguering",
|
||
|
"besieging",
|
||
|
"investing",
|
||
|
"leaguering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricading",
|
||
|
"blocking",
|
||
|
"cutting off",
|
||
|
"damming",
|
||
|
"encircling",
|
||
|
"assailing",
|
||
|
"assaulting",
|
||
|
"attacking",
|
||
|
"besetting",
|
||
|
"confining",
|
||
|
"insulating",
|
||
|
"isolating",
|
||
|
"quarantining"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"emancipating",
|
||
|
"freeing",
|
||
|
"liberating",
|
||
|
"releasing",
|
||
|
"rescuing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blogger":{
|
||
|
"as in reporter , journalist":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"columnist",
|
||
|
"journalist",
|
||
|
"newspaperman",
|
||
|
"paragrapher",
|
||
|
"reporter",
|
||
|
"sportswriter",
|
||
|
"author",
|
||
|
"litterateur",
|
||
|
"litt\u00e9rateur",
|
||
|
"pen",
|
||
|
"penman",
|
||
|
"scribe",
|
||
|
"scrivener",
|
||
|
"writer",
|
||
|
"auteur",
|
||
|
"belletrist",
|
||
|
"belle-lettrist",
|
||
|
"stylist",
|
||
|
"wordsmith",
|
||
|
"coauthor",
|
||
|
"coscenarist",
|
||
|
"cowriter",
|
||
|
"ghostwriter",
|
||
|
"hack",
|
||
|
"hatchet man",
|
||
|
"scribbler",
|
||
|
"wordmonger",
|
||
|
"biographer",
|
||
|
"hagiographer",
|
||
|
"autobiographer",
|
||
|
"memoirist",
|
||
|
"memorialist",
|
||
|
"fabulist",
|
||
|
"fictioneer",
|
||
|
"fictionist",
|
||
|
"novelist",
|
||
|
"romancer",
|
||
|
"storyteller",
|
||
|
"essayist",
|
||
|
"pamphleteer",
|
||
|
"satirist"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"nonauthor",
|
||
|
"nonwriter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing a gasket":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew a gasket when he saw that his younger brother had borrowed his car without asking."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
"flaring (up)",
|
||
|
"flipping (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angering",
|
||
|
"fulminating",
|
||
|
"raging",
|
||
|
"ranting",
|
||
|
"raving",
|
||
|
"snapping",
|
||
|
"snarling",
|
||
|
"sputtering",
|
||
|
"storming",
|
||
|
"teeing off",
|
||
|
"venting",
|
||
|
"vituperating",
|
||
|
"bristling",
|
||
|
"burning",
|
||
|
"foaming",
|
||
|
"fuming",
|
||
|
"glaring",
|
||
|
"glowering",
|
||
|
"seething",
|
||
|
"sizzling",
|
||
|
"smoldering",
|
||
|
"smouldering",
|
||
|
"steaming",
|
||
|
"warming",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"flaring (out)",
|
||
|
"flashing",
|
||
|
"inflaming",
|
||
|
"enflaming",
|
||
|
"maddening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chilling out",
|
||
|
"cooling (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxing",
|
||
|
"hushing",
|
||
|
"quieting (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calming (down)",
|
||
|
"simmering down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow out":{
|
||
|
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breathe (out)",
|
||
|
"exhale",
|
||
|
"expel",
|
||
|
"expire"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"expectorate"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inbreathe",
|
||
|
"inhale",
|
||
|
"inspire"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a social gathering":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"staged a huge blowout for Halloween"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"affair",
|
||
|
"bash",
|
||
|
"binge",
|
||
|
"blast",
|
||
|
"do",
|
||
|
"event",
|
||
|
"fete",
|
||
|
"f\u00eate",
|
||
|
"function",
|
||
|
"get-together",
|
||
|
"party",
|
||
|
"reception",
|
||
|
"shindig"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"benefit",
|
||
|
"fund-raiser",
|
||
|
"ball",
|
||
|
"dance",
|
||
|
"formal",
|
||
|
"prom",
|
||
|
"celebration",
|
||
|
"gala",
|
||
|
"occasion",
|
||
|
"bacchanal",
|
||
|
"bacchanalia",
|
||
|
"orgy",
|
||
|
"saturnalia",
|
||
|
"bake",
|
||
|
"clambake",
|
||
|
"cocktail party",
|
||
|
"hen party",
|
||
|
"house party",
|
||
|
"housewarming",
|
||
|
"icebreaker",
|
||
|
"kaffeeklatsch",
|
||
|
"kegger",
|
||
|
"keg party",
|
||
|
"klatch",
|
||
|
"klatsch",
|
||
|
"masquerade",
|
||
|
"meet and greet",
|
||
|
"mixer",
|
||
|
"salon",
|
||
|
"shower",
|
||
|
"social",
|
||
|
"soiree",
|
||
|
"soir\u00e9e",
|
||
|
"stag",
|
||
|
"supper",
|
||
|
"symposium",
|
||
|
"tea",
|
||
|
"tea party"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow the whistle (on)":{
|
||
|
"to reveal the true nature of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"debunk",
|
||
|
"expose",
|
||
|
"nail",
|
||
|
"show up",
|
||
|
"uncloak",
|
||
|
"uncover",
|
||
|
"undress",
|
||
|
"unmask"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"demolish",
|
||
|
"discredit",
|
||
|
"disprove",
|
||
|
"disclose",
|
||
|
"divulge",
|
||
|
"tell",
|
||
|
"unveil"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conceal",
|
||
|
"hide",
|
||
|
"secrete",
|
||
|
"veil"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"camouflage",
|
||
|
"cloak",
|
||
|
"disguise",
|
||
|
"mask"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodletting":{
|
||
|
"as in murder , bloodshed":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodshed",
|
||
|
"foul play",
|
||
|
"homicide",
|
||
|
"killing",
|
||
|
"manslaughter",
|
||
|
"murder",
|
||
|
"slaying",
|
||
|
"bloodbath",
|
||
|
"butchery",
|
||
|
"carnage",
|
||
|
"death",
|
||
|
"holocaust",
|
||
|
"massacre",
|
||
|
"slaughter",
|
||
|
"mortality",
|
||
|
"annihilation",
|
||
|
"decimation",
|
||
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
"devastation",
|
||
|
"eradication",
|
||
|
"extermination",
|
||
|
"genocide",
|
||
|
"pogrom",
|
||
|
"assassination",
|
||
|
"execution"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodlust":{
|
||
|
"the desire to kill or to see people killed":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"warriors inflamed by bloodlust"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodthirstiness",
|
||
|
"murderousness",
|
||
|
"sanguineness",
|
||
|
"sanguinity",
|
||
|
"atrociousness",
|
||
|
"atrocity",
|
||
|
"barbarity",
|
||
|
"barbarousness",
|
||
|
"brutality",
|
||
|
"cruelness",
|
||
|
"cruelty",
|
||
|
"fiendishness",
|
||
|
"heartlessness",
|
||
|
"inhumanity",
|
||
|
"inhumanness",
|
||
|
"sadism",
|
||
|
"savageness",
|
||
|
"savagery",
|
||
|
"truculence",
|
||
|
"viciousness",
|
||
|
"wantonness",
|
||
|
"hard-heartedness",
|
||
|
"mercilessness",
|
||
|
"pitilessness",
|
||
|
"ruthlessness",
|
||
|
"unfeelingness",
|
||
|
"fellness",
|
||
|
"ferociousness",
|
||
|
"ferocity",
|
||
|
"fierceness",
|
||
|
"grimness",
|
||
|
"cattiness",
|
||
|
"despitefulness",
|
||
|
"hatefulness",
|
||
|
"malevolence",
|
||
|
"maliciousness",
|
||
|
"malignity",
|
||
|
"meanness",
|
||
|
"nastiness",
|
||
|
"spitefulness",
|
||
|
"hardhandedness",
|
||
|
"harshness",
|
||
|
"heavy-handedness",
|
||
|
"oppressiveness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"tenderness",
|
||
|
"warmheartedness",
|
||
|
"warmness",
|
||
|
"warmth",
|
||
|
"charitableness",
|
||
|
"clemency",
|
||
|
"leniency",
|
||
|
"mercifulness",
|
||
|
"mercy",
|
||
|
"pity",
|
||
|
"benignity",
|
||
|
"compassion",
|
||
|
"good-heartedness",
|
||
|
"humaneness",
|
||
|
"humanity",
|
||
|
"kindheartedness",
|
||
|
"kindness",
|
||
|
"sympathy",
|
||
|
"tenderheartedness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloke":{
|
||
|
"an adult male human being":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a couple of friendly blokes offered to show us the sights of London"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bastard",
|
||
|
"buck",
|
||
|
"cat",
|
||
|
"chap",
|
||
|
"chappie",
|
||
|
"dude",
|
||
|
"fella",
|
||
|
"fellow",
|
||
|
"galoot",
|
||
|
"gent",
|
||
|
"gentleman",
|
||
|
"guy",
|
||
|
"hombre",
|
||
|
"jack",
|
||
|
"joe",
|
||
|
"joker",
|
||
|
"lad",
|
||
|
"male",
|
||
|
"man"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"master",
|
||
|
"mister",
|
||
|
"sir",
|
||
|
"buddy",
|
||
|
"buster"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodred":{
|
||
|
"as in red , crimson":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"carmine",
|
||
|
"crimson",
|
||
|
"incarnadine",
|
||
|
"red",
|
||
|
"reddish",
|
||
|
"ruby",
|
||
|
"sanguine",
|
||
|
"sanguineous",
|
||
|
"bloodstained",
|
||
|
"bloody",
|
||
|
"gory",
|
||
|
"sanguinary"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blogs":{
|
||
|
"a website on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities, and experiences":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She writes a blog about travel.",
|
||
|
"I enjoy reading her blog ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"annals",
|
||
|
"diaries",
|
||
|
"journals",
|
||
|
"logbooks",
|
||
|
"logs",
|
||
|
"memoirs",
|
||
|
"accounts",
|
||
|
"chronicles",
|
||
|
"chronologies",
|
||
|
"commentaries",
|
||
|
"histories",
|
||
|
"narrations",
|
||
|
"narratives",
|
||
|
"records",
|
||
|
"reports",
|
||
|
"stories",
|
||
|
"versions",
|
||
|
"depositions",
|
||
|
"documentations",
|
||
|
"testaments",
|
||
|
"testimonials",
|
||
|
"testimonies",
|
||
|
"witnesses",
|
||
|
"minutes",
|
||
|
"proc\u00e8s-verbaux",
|
||
|
"anecdotes",
|
||
|
"anecdota",
|
||
|
"tales",
|
||
|
"yarns",
|
||
|
"epics",
|
||
|
"sagas",
|
||
|
"gests",
|
||
|
"gestes",
|
||
|
"romances",
|
||
|
"recitals",
|
||
|
"recitations",
|
||
|
"case histories",
|
||
|
"case studies"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows in":{
|
||
|
"as in barges (in) , breezes (in)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barges (in)",
|
||
|
"breezes (in)",
|
||
|
"bursts (in or into)",
|
||
|
"waltzes (in)",
|
||
|
"debarks",
|
||
|
"disembarks",
|
||
|
"checks in",
|
||
|
"clocks (in)",
|
||
|
"pulls in",
|
||
|
"touches down",
|
||
|
"fetches",
|
||
|
"hits",
|
||
|
"makes",
|
||
|
"reaches",
|
||
|
"appears",
|
||
|
"arrives",
|
||
|
"comes",
|
||
|
"gets in",
|
||
|
"gets through",
|
||
|
"lands",
|
||
|
"shows up",
|
||
|
"turns up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"goes",
|
||
|
"leaves",
|
||
|
"checks out",
|
||
|
"clocks (out)",
|
||
|
"flees",
|
||
|
"vamooses"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blossomed":{
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blew",
|
||
|
"bloomed",
|
||
|
"burgeoned",
|
||
|
"bourgeoned",
|
||
|
"effloresced",
|
||
|
"flowered",
|
||
|
"unfolded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafed",
|
||
|
"leaved",
|
||
|
"budded",
|
||
|
"opened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dried up",
|
||
|
"faded",
|
||
|
"shriveled",
|
||
|
"shrivelled",
|
||
|
"wilted",
|
||
|
"withered",
|
||
|
"died",
|
||
|
"dropped",
|
||
|
"expired",
|
||
|
"perished"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow (out)":{
|
||
|
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breathe (out)",
|
||
|
"exhale",
|
||
|
"expel",
|
||
|
"expire"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"expectorate"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inbreathe",
|
||
|
"inhale",
|
||
|
"inspire"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a social gathering":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"staged a huge blowout for Halloween"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"affair",
|
||
|
"bash",
|
||
|
"binge",
|
||
|
"blast",
|
||
|
"do",
|
||
|
"event",
|
||
|
"fete",
|
||
|
"f\u00eate",
|
||
|
"function",
|
||
|
"get-together",
|
||
|
"party",
|
||
|
"reception",
|
||
|
"shindig"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"benefit",
|
||
|
"fund-raiser",
|
||
|
"ball",
|
||
|
"dance",
|
||
|
"formal",
|
||
|
"prom",
|
||
|
"celebration",
|
||
|
"gala",
|
||
|
"occasion",
|
||
|
"bacchanal",
|
||
|
"bacchanalia",
|
||
|
"orgy",
|
||
|
"saturnalia",
|
||
|
"bake",
|
||
|
"clambake",
|
||
|
"cocktail party",
|
||
|
"hen party",
|
||
|
"house party",
|
||
|
"housewarming",
|
||
|
"icebreaker",
|
||
|
"kaffeeklatsch",
|
||
|
"kegger",
|
||
|
"keg party",
|
||
|
"klatch",
|
||
|
"klatsch",
|
||
|
"masquerade",
|
||
|
"meet and greet",
|
||
|
"mixer",
|
||
|
"salon",
|
||
|
"shower",
|
||
|
"social",
|
||
|
"soiree",
|
||
|
"soir\u00e9e",
|
||
|
"stag",
|
||
|
"supper",
|
||
|
"symposium",
|
||
|
"tea",
|
||
|
"tea party"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blown a gasket":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He blew a gasket when he saw that his younger brother had borrowed his car without asking."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blown up",
|
||
|
"flared (up)",
|
||
|
"flipped (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angered",
|
||
|
"fulminated",
|
||
|
"raged",
|
||
|
"ranted",
|
||
|
"raved",
|
||
|
"snapped",
|
||
|
"snarled",
|
||
|
"sputtered",
|
||
|
"stormed",
|
||
|
"teed off",
|
||
|
"vented",
|
||
|
"vituperated",
|
||
|
"bristled",
|
||
|
"burned",
|
||
|
"burnt",
|
||
|
"foamed",
|
||
|
"fumed",
|
||
|
"glared",
|
||
|
"glowered",
|
||
|
"seethed",
|
||
|
"sizzled",
|
||
|
"smoldered",
|
||
|
"smouldered",
|
||
|
"steamed",
|
||
|
"warmed",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"bursted",
|
||
|
"exploded",
|
||
|
"flared (out)",
|
||
|
"flashed",
|
||
|
"inflamed",
|
||
|
"enflamed",
|
||
|
"maddened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chilled out",
|
||
|
"cooled (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxed",
|
||
|
"hushed",
|
||
|
"quieted (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calmed (down)",
|
||
|
"simmered down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotting out":{
|
||
|
"to destroy all traces of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abolishing",
|
||
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
"blacking out",
|
||
|
"canceling",
|
||
|
"cancelling",
|
||
|
"cleaning (up)",
|
||
|
"effacing",
|
||
|
"eradicating",
|
||
|
"erasing",
|
||
|
"expunging",
|
||
|
"exterminating",
|
||
|
"extirpating",
|
||
|
"liquidating",
|
||
|
"obliterating",
|
||
|
"rooting (out)",
|
||
|
"rubbing out",
|
||
|
"snuffing (out)",
|
||
|
"stamping (out)",
|
||
|
"sweeping (away)",
|
||
|
"wiping out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"decimating",
|
||
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
"devastating",
|
||
|
"ravaging",
|
||
|
"dismantling",
|
||
|
"flattening",
|
||
|
"mowing (down)",
|
||
|
"razing",
|
||
|
"tearing down",
|
||
|
"ruining",
|
||
|
"totaling",
|
||
|
"totalling",
|
||
|
"wasting",
|
||
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
"blasting",
|
||
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
"dashing",
|
||
|
"dynamiting",
|
||
|
"smashing",
|
||
|
"atomizing",
|
||
|
"consuming",
|
||
|
"devouring",
|
||
|
"dissolving",
|
||
|
"fragmenting",
|
||
|
"powdering",
|
||
|
"pulverizing",
|
||
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
"splintering",
|
||
|
"dooming",
|
||
|
"finishing",
|
||
|
"killing",
|
||
|
"killing off",
|
||
|
"terminating",
|
||
|
"zapping",
|
||
|
"cutting",
|
||
|
"discarding",
|
||
|
"ditching",
|
||
|
"ejecting",
|
||
|
"excising",
|
||
|
"expelling",
|
||
|
"jettisoning",
|
||
|
"ousting",
|
||
|
"throwing out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserving",
|
||
|
"preserving",
|
||
|
"protecting",
|
||
|
"saving",
|
||
|
"building",
|
||
|
"constructing",
|
||
|
"creating",
|
||
|
"fabricating",
|
||
|
"fashioning",
|
||
|
"forging",
|
||
|
"forming",
|
||
|
"framing",
|
||
|
"making",
|
||
|
"manufacturing",
|
||
|
"shaping",
|
||
|
"fixing",
|
||
|
"mending",
|
||
|
"patching",
|
||
|
"rebuilding",
|
||
|
"reconditioning",
|
||
|
"reconstructing",
|
||
|
"renewing",
|
||
|
"renovating",
|
||
|
"repairing",
|
||
|
"restoring",
|
||
|
"revamping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"belying",
|
||
|
"blanketing",
|
||
|
"cloaking",
|
||
|
"concealing",
|
||
|
"covering",
|
||
|
"curtaining",
|
||
|
"disguising",
|
||
|
"enshrouding",
|
||
|
"hiding",
|
||
|
"masking",
|
||
|
"obscuring",
|
||
|
"occulting",
|
||
|
"papering over",
|
||
|
"screening",
|
||
|
"shrouding",
|
||
|
"suppressing",
|
||
|
"veiling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"burying",
|
||
|
"camouflaging",
|
||
|
"covering (up)",
|
||
|
"smothering",
|
||
|
"gilding",
|
||
|
"glossing (over)",
|
||
|
"varnishing",
|
||
|
"whitewashing",
|
||
|
"beclouding",
|
||
|
"bedimming",
|
||
|
"befogging",
|
||
|
"blocking",
|
||
|
"clouding",
|
||
|
"darkening",
|
||
|
"eclipsing",
|
||
|
"obstructing",
|
||
|
"occluding",
|
||
|
"overcasting",
|
||
|
"overshadowing",
|
||
|
"shading"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bringing out",
|
||
|
"presenting",
|
||
|
"clarifying",
|
||
|
"illuminating",
|
||
|
"advertising",
|
||
|
"airing",
|
||
|
"broadcasting",
|
||
|
"getting out",
|
||
|
"proclaiming",
|
||
|
"publicizing",
|
||
|
"publishing",
|
||
|
"spreading"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"baring",
|
||
|
"disclosing",
|
||
|
"displaying",
|
||
|
"divulging",
|
||
|
"exposing",
|
||
|
"revealing",
|
||
|
"showing",
|
||
|
"uncloaking",
|
||
|
"uncovering",
|
||
|
"unmasking",
|
||
|
"unveiling"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloviates":{
|
||
|
"as in declaims , pontificates":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blows",
|
||
|
"declaims",
|
||
|
"harangues",
|
||
|
"mouths (off)",
|
||
|
"orates",
|
||
|
"pontificates",
|
||
|
"blusters",
|
||
|
"fulminates",
|
||
|
"huffs",
|
||
|
"rants",
|
||
|
"raves",
|
||
|
"spouts",
|
||
|
"sounds off",
|
||
|
"speaks out",
|
||
|
"speaks up",
|
||
|
"blares",
|
||
|
"blurts (out)",
|
||
|
"bolts",
|
||
|
"carries on",
|
||
|
"rages",
|
||
|
"storms",
|
||
|
"takes on"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blooms":{
|
||
|
"a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a handsome young man in the full bloom of youth"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blossoms",
|
||
|
"florescences",
|
||
|
"floruits",
|
||
|
"flowers",
|
||
|
"flushes",
|
||
|
"heydays",
|
||
|
"high noons",
|
||
|
"primes",
|
||
|
"salad days",
|
||
|
"springtimes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"autumns",
|
||
|
"Indian summers",
|
||
|
"efflorescences",
|
||
|
"flowerings",
|
||
|
"acmes",
|
||
|
"apexes",
|
||
|
"apices",
|
||
|
"climaxes",
|
||
|
"meridians",
|
||
|
"peaks",
|
||
|
"pinnacles",
|
||
|
"summits",
|
||
|
"zeniths",
|
||
|
"glories",
|
||
|
"grandeurs",
|
||
|
"splendors",
|
||
|
"belle epoques",
|
||
|
"belles \u00e9poques",
|
||
|
"golden ages",
|
||
|
"silver ages",
|
||
|
"comebacks",
|
||
|
"recoveries",
|
||
|
"revivals"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"decays",
|
||
|
"declines",
|
||
|
"downfalls",
|
||
|
"bottoms",
|
||
|
"nadirs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the usually showy plant part that produces seeds":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the rosebush produces blooms only in midsummer"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blossoms",
|
||
|
"flowers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"buds",
|
||
|
"florets",
|
||
|
"flowerets",
|
||
|
"flowerettes",
|
||
|
"bouquets",
|
||
|
"nosegays",
|
||
|
"posies",
|
||
|
"arrangements",
|
||
|
"boutonnieres",
|
||
|
"corsages",
|
||
|
"garlands",
|
||
|
"leis",
|
||
|
"sprays",
|
||
|
"wreaths"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"forsythias only bloom at the beginning of spring"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blossoms",
|
||
|
"blows",
|
||
|
"burgeons",
|
||
|
"bourgeons",
|
||
|
"effloresces",
|
||
|
"flowers",
|
||
|
"unfolds"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leafs",
|
||
|
"leaves",
|
||
|
"buds",
|
||
|
"opens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dries up",
|
||
|
"fades",
|
||
|
"shrivels",
|
||
|
"wilts",
|
||
|
"withers",
|
||
|
"dies",
|
||
|
"drops",
|
||
|
"expires",
|
||
|
"perishes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she arrived at the house, blooming from her vigorous walk"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blushes",
|
||
|
"colors",
|
||
|
"crimsons",
|
||
|
"flushes",
|
||
|
"glows",
|
||
|
"reddens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"incarnadines",
|
||
|
"rouges",
|
||
|
"ruddles",
|
||
|
"abashes",
|
||
|
"chagrins",
|
||
|
"discomfits",
|
||
|
"disconcerts",
|
||
|
"embarrasses",
|
||
|
"fazes",
|
||
|
"humiliates",
|
||
|
"mortifies"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodthirsty":{
|
||
|
"eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloody",
|
||
|
"bloody-minded",
|
||
|
"homicidal",
|
||
|
"murdering",
|
||
|
"murderous",
|
||
|
"sanguinary",
|
||
|
"sanguine",
|
||
|
"sanguineous"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barbaric",
|
||
|
"barbarous",
|
||
|
"brutal",
|
||
|
"cold-blooded",
|
||
|
"cruel",
|
||
|
"heartless",
|
||
|
"inhumane",
|
||
|
"sadistic",
|
||
|
"savage",
|
||
|
"vicious",
|
||
|
"wanton",
|
||
|
"antagonistic",
|
||
|
"ferocious",
|
||
|
"fierce",
|
||
|
"gladiatorial",
|
||
|
"hostile",
|
||
|
"aggressive",
|
||
|
"assertive",
|
||
|
"bellicose",
|
||
|
"belligerent",
|
||
|
"combative",
|
||
|
"contentious",
|
||
|
"discordant",
|
||
|
"pugnacious",
|
||
|
"quarrelsome",
|
||
|
"scrappy",
|
||
|
"truculent",
|
||
|
"violent",
|
||
|
"merciless",
|
||
|
"pitiless",
|
||
|
"ruthless",
|
||
|
"bloodstained",
|
||
|
"fell",
|
||
|
"gory",
|
||
|
"grim",
|
||
|
"despiteful",
|
||
|
"hateful",
|
||
|
"malevolent",
|
||
|
"malicious",
|
||
|
"malign",
|
||
|
"malignant",
|
||
|
"mean",
|
||
|
"nasty",
|
||
|
"spiteful"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"appeasing",
|
||
|
"conciliatory",
|
||
|
"disarming",
|
||
|
"dovish",
|
||
|
"mollifying",
|
||
|
"pacific",
|
||
|
"pacifying",
|
||
|
"peaceable",
|
||
|
"peaceful",
|
||
|
"peacemaking",
|
||
|
"placating",
|
||
|
"placative",
|
||
|
"placatory",
|
||
|
"propitiatory",
|
||
|
"unaggressive",
|
||
|
"unassertive",
|
||
|
"benign",
|
||
|
"benignant",
|
||
|
"compassionate",
|
||
|
"good-hearted",
|
||
|
"humane",
|
||
|
"kind",
|
||
|
"kindhearted",
|
||
|
"sympathetic",
|
||
|
"tenderhearted",
|
||
|
"tender",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"warmhearted",
|
||
|
"clement",
|
||
|
"lenient",
|
||
|
"merciful",
|
||
|
"affable",
|
||
|
"amiable",
|
||
|
"amicable",
|
||
|
"benevolent",
|
||
|
"gentle",
|
||
|
"kindly",
|
||
|
"submissive",
|
||
|
"surrendering",
|
||
|
"yielding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodline":{
|
||
|
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ancestry",
|
||
|
"birth",
|
||
|
"blood",
|
||
|
"breeding",
|
||
|
"descent",
|
||
|
"extraction",
|
||
|
"family tree",
|
||
|
"genealogy",
|
||
|
"line",
|
||
|
"lineage",
|
||
|
"origin",
|
||
|
"parentage",
|
||
|
"pedigree",
|
||
|
"stock",
|
||
|
"strain"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"heredity",
|
||
|
"succession",
|
||
|
"family",
|
||
|
"house",
|
||
|
"kin",
|
||
|
"kindred",
|
||
|
"relations",
|
||
|
"relatives",
|
||
|
"race"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"offspring",
|
||
|
"child",
|
||
|
"heir",
|
||
|
"inheritor",
|
||
|
"son",
|
||
|
"successor"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"issue",
|
||
|
"posterity",
|
||
|
"progeny",
|
||
|
"seed"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockhouse":{
|
||
|
"as in garrison house":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"garrison house",
|
||
|
"bunker",
|
||
|
"dugout",
|
||
|
"alcazar",
|
||
|
"casbah",
|
||
|
"kasbah",
|
||
|
"battlement",
|
||
|
"breastwork",
|
||
|
"bulwark",
|
||
|
"earthwork",
|
||
|
"embattlement",
|
||
|
"parapet",
|
||
|
"rampart",
|
||
|
"bastion",
|
||
|
"castle",
|
||
|
"citadel",
|
||
|
"fastness",
|
||
|
"fort",
|
||
|
"fortification",
|
||
|
"fortress",
|
||
|
"hold",
|
||
|
"redoubt",
|
||
|
"stronghold"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blossom":{
|
||
|
"a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"in the full blossom of her career as a writer"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloom",
|
||
|
"florescence",
|
||
|
"floruit",
|
||
|
"flower",
|
||
|
"flush",
|
||
|
"heyday",
|
||
|
"high noon",
|
||
|
"prime",
|
||
|
"salad days",
|
||
|
"springtime"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"autumn",
|
||
|
"Indian summer",
|
||
|
"blooming",
|
||
|
"blossoming",
|
||
|
"efflorescence",
|
||
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
"acme",
|
||
|
"apex",
|
||
|
"climax",
|
||
|
"meridian",
|
||
|
"peak",
|
||
|
"pinnacle",
|
||
|
"summit",
|
||
|
"zenith",
|
||
|
"glory",
|
||
|
"grandeur",
|
||
|
"splendor",
|
||
|
"belle epoque",
|
||
|
"belle \u00e9poque",
|
||
|
"golden age",
|
||
|
"silver age",
|
||
|
"comeback",
|
||
|
"recovery",
|
||
|
"revival"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"decay",
|
||
|
"decline",
|
||
|
"downfall",
|
||
|
"bottom",
|
||
|
"nadir",
|
||
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
"withering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the usually showy plant part that produces seeds":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the marigolds are finally showing blossoms"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloom",
|
||
|
"flower"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bud",
|
||
|
"floret",
|
||
|
"floweret",
|
||
|
"flowerette",
|
||
|
"bouquet",
|
||
|
"nosegay",
|
||
|
"posy",
|
||
|
"arrangement",
|
||
|
"boutonniere",
|
||
|
"corsage",
|
||
|
"garland",
|
||
|
"lei",
|
||
|
"spray",
|
||
|
"wreath"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to produce flowers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloom",
|
||
|
"blow",
|
||
|
"burgeon",
|
||
|
"bourgeon",
|
||
|
"effloresce",
|
||
|
"flower",
|
||
|
"unfold"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"leaf",
|
||
|
"leave",
|
||
|
"bud",
|
||
|
"open"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dry up",
|
||
|
"fade",
|
||
|
"shrivel",
|
||
|
"wilt",
|
||
|
"wither",
|
||
|
"die",
|
||
|
"drop",
|
||
|
"expire",
|
||
|
"perish"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloviation":{
|
||
|
"as in verbosity , windiness":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"verbosity",
|
||
|
"windiness",
|
||
|
"pomposity",
|
||
|
"turgidity",
|
||
|
"wind",
|
||
|
"babble",
|
||
|
"blab",
|
||
|
"chatter",
|
||
|
"drivel",
|
||
|
"gabble",
|
||
|
"gibber",
|
||
|
"gibberish",
|
||
|
"jabber",
|
||
|
"prattle",
|
||
|
"oratory",
|
||
|
"rhapsody",
|
||
|
"rhetoric",
|
||
|
"jawing",
|
||
|
"patter",
|
||
|
"prating",
|
||
|
"yammering",
|
||
|
"bluster",
|
||
|
"bombast",
|
||
|
"brag",
|
||
|
"braggadocio",
|
||
|
"bull",
|
||
|
"cockalorum",
|
||
|
"fanfaronade",
|
||
|
"gas",
|
||
|
"gasconade",
|
||
|
"grandiloquence",
|
||
|
"hot air",
|
||
|
"magniloquence",
|
||
|
"rant",
|
||
|
"rodomontade",
|
||
|
"rhodomontade",
|
||
|
"egotism",
|
||
|
"self-conceit",
|
||
|
"self-importance",
|
||
|
"swagger",
|
||
|
"vaunt"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing up":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"flaring (up)",
|
||
|
"flipping (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angering",
|
||
|
"fulminating",
|
||
|
"raging",
|
||
|
"ranting",
|
||
|
"raving",
|
||
|
"snapping",
|
||
|
"snarling",
|
||
|
"sputtering",
|
||
|
"storming",
|
||
|
"teeing off",
|
||
|
"venting",
|
||
|
"vituperating",
|
||
|
"bristling",
|
||
|
"burning",
|
||
|
"foaming",
|
||
|
"fuming",
|
||
|
"glaring",
|
||
|
"glowering",
|
||
|
"seething",
|
||
|
"sizzling",
|
||
|
"smoldering",
|
||
|
"smouldering",
|
||
|
"steaming",
|
||
|
"warming",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"flaring (out)",
|
||
|
"flashing",
|
||
|
"inflaming",
|
||
|
"enflaming",
|
||
|
"maddening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chilling out",
|
||
|
"cooling (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxing",
|
||
|
"hushing",
|
||
|
"quieting (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calming (down)",
|
||
|
"simmering down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the building blew up because of a gas leak"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"crumping",
|
||
|
"detonating",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"going off",
|
||
|
"popping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fragmenting",
|
||
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
"smashing",
|
||
|
"splintering",
|
||
|
"discharging",
|
||
|
"firing",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
"bourgeoning",
|
||
|
"mushrooming"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
"fizzling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"imploding"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasting",
|
||
|
"blowing",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"popping",
|
||
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
"smashing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamiting",
|
||
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
"decimating",
|
||
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
"ruining",
|
||
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
"detonating",
|
||
|
"discharging",
|
||
|
"fragmenting",
|
||
|
"splintering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
"imploding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ballyhooing",
|
||
|
"cracking up",
|
||
|
"crying up",
|
||
|
"glorifying",
|
||
|
"touting",
|
||
|
"trumpeting",
|
||
|
"tub-thumping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acclaiming",
|
||
|
"applauding",
|
||
|
"extolling",
|
||
|
"lauding",
|
||
|
"magnifying",
|
||
|
"commending",
|
||
|
"complimenting",
|
||
|
"eulogizing",
|
||
|
"advancing",
|
||
|
"advertising",
|
||
|
"announcing",
|
||
|
"blaring",
|
||
|
"blazing",
|
||
|
"blazoning",
|
||
|
"boosting",
|
||
|
"heralding",
|
||
|
"offering",
|
||
|
"plugging",
|
||
|
"promoting",
|
||
|
"publicizing",
|
||
|
"asserting",
|
||
|
"averring",
|
||
|
"claiming",
|
||
|
"declaring",
|
||
|
"laying down",
|
||
|
"making out",
|
||
|
"proclaiming",
|
||
|
"pronouncing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blondish":{
|
||
|
"as in strawberry blonde , ash-blond":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ash-blond",
|
||
|
"ash-blonde",
|
||
|
"strawberry blonde",
|
||
|
"strawberry blond",
|
||
|
"towheaded",
|
||
|
"ocherous",
|
||
|
"ochreous",
|
||
|
"gold",
|
||
|
"light",
|
||
|
"white",
|
||
|
"blond",
|
||
|
"blonde",
|
||
|
"fair",
|
||
|
"flaxen",
|
||
|
"golden",
|
||
|
"sandy",
|
||
|
"straw",
|
||
|
"tawny"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"black-a-vised",
|
||
|
"brown",
|
||
|
"brunet",
|
||
|
"brunette",
|
||
|
"dark",
|
||
|
"olive",
|
||
|
"swart",
|
||
|
"swarthy",
|
||
|
"black",
|
||
|
"ebony",
|
||
|
"raven"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockades":{
|
||
|
"the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"it was the blockade of all the enemy's major ports that finally won the war"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beleaguerments",
|
||
|
"investments",
|
||
|
"leaguers",
|
||
|
"sieges"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"counterblockades",
|
||
|
"counter-blockades",
|
||
|
"containments",
|
||
|
"encirclements",
|
||
|
"encompassments",
|
||
|
"confinements",
|
||
|
"insulations",
|
||
|
"isolations",
|
||
|
"quarantines",
|
||
|
"seclusions",
|
||
|
"segregations",
|
||
|
"sequestrations",
|
||
|
"incarcerations",
|
||
|
"internments"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the militant protestors blockaded the whole area around city hall"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricades",
|
||
|
"bars",
|
||
|
"blocks (off)",
|
||
|
"closes (off)",
|
||
|
"guards",
|
||
|
"walls (off)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"curtains (off)",
|
||
|
"screens (off)",
|
||
|
"dikes",
|
||
|
"fences",
|
||
|
"gates",
|
||
|
"hedges",
|
||
|
"bolts",
|
||
|
"locks",
|
||
|
"obstructs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"reopens",
|
||
|
"unblocks",
|
||
|
"unbolts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"opens",
|
||
|
"unbars"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blockaded the city until it surrendered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beleaguers",
|
||
|
"besieges",
|
||
|
"invests",
|
||
|
"leaguers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barricades",
|
||
|
"blocks",
|
||
|
"cuts off",
|
||
|
"dams",
|
||
|
"encircles",
|
||
|
"assails",
|
||
|
"assaults",
|
||
|
"attacks",
|
||
|
"besets",
|
||
|
"confines",
|
||
|
"insulates",
|
||
|
"isolates",
|
||
|
"quarantines"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"emancipates",
|
||
|
"frees",
|
||
|
"liberates",
|
||
|
"releases",
|
||
|
"rescues"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows smoke":{
|
||
|
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He's been blowing smoke about his accomplishments all afternoon."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blows",
|
||
|
"boasts",
|
||
|
"brags",
|
||
|
"bulls",
|
||
|
"crows",
|
||
|
"gasconades",
|
||
|
"swaggers",
|
||
|
"vapors",
|
||
|
"vaunts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blusters",
|
||
|
"harangues",
|
||
|
"puffs",
|
||
|
"prides",
|
||
|
"gushes",
|
||
|
"exults",
|
||
|
"glories",
|
||
|
"rejoices",
|
||
|
"brandishes",
|
||
|
"displays",
|
||
|
"exhibits",
|
||
|
"exposes",
|
||
|
"flaunts",
|
||
|
"glorifies",
|
||
|
"parades",
|
||
|
"shows off",
|
||
|
"magnifies",
|
||
|
"maximizes"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"belittles",
|
||
|
"deprecates",
|
||
|
"diminishes",
|
||
|
"discounts",
|
||
|
"laughs off",
|
||
|
"minimizes",
|
||
|
"plays down",
|
||
|
"pooh-poohs",
|
||
|
"poohs",
|
||
|
"shrugs off",
|
||
|
"underrates",
|
||
|
"undervalues",
|
||
|
"bemoans",
|
||
|
"laments",
|
||
|
"mourns",
|
||
|
"regrets"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She has a habit of blowing smoke when she gets nervous."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"babbles",
|
||
|
"blabs",
|
||
|
"cackles",
|
||
|
"chaffers",
|
||
|
"chats",
|
||
|
"chatters",
|
||
|
"chins",
|
||
|
"converses",
|
||
|
"gabbles",
|
||
|
"gabs",
|
||
|
"gases",
|
||
|
"gasses",
|
||
|
"jabbers",
|
||
|
"jaws",
|
||
|
"kibitzes",
|
||
|
"kibbitzes",
|
||
|
"natters",
|
||
|
"palavers",
|
||
|
"patters",
|
||
|
"prates",
|
||
|
"prattles",
|
||
|
"raps",
|
||
|
"rattles",
|
||
|
"runs on",
|
||
|
"schmoozes",
|
||
|
"shmoozes",
|
||
|
"talks",
|
||
|
"twitters",
|
||
|
"visits"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gossips",
|
||
|
"tattles",
|
||
|
"descants",
|
||
|
"discusses",
|
||
|
"expatiates",
|
||
|
"yaks",
|
||
|
"yacks",
|
||
|
"yammers",
|
||
|
"yaps"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockheads":{
|
||
|
"a stupid person":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"only a real blockhead would think that she had literally said it a million times"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"airheads",
|
||
|
"birdbrains",
|
||
|
"boneheads",
|
||
|
"bubbleheads",
|
||
|
"chowderheads",
|
||
|
"chuckleheads",
|
||
|
"clodpolls",
|
||
|
"clodpoles",
|
||
|
"clots",
|
||
|
"clucks",
|
||
|
"clunks",
|
||
|
"cretins",
|
||
|
"cuddies",
|
||
|
"deadheads",
|
||
|
"dim bulbs",
|
||
|
"dimwits",
|
||
|
"dips",
|
||
|
"dodoes",
|
||
|
"dodos",
|
||
|
"dolts",
|
||
|
"donkeys",
|
||
|
"doofuses",
|
||
|
"dufuses",
|
||
|
"dopes",
|
||
|
"dorks",
|
||
|
"dullards",
|
||
|
"dumbbells",
|
||
|
"dumbheads",
|
||
|
"dum-dums",
|
||
|
"dummies",
|
||
|
"dummkopfs",
|
||
|
"dunces",
|
||
|
"dunderheads",
|
||
|
"fatheads",
|
||
|
"ganders",
|
||
|
"golems",
|
||
|
"goofs",
|
||
|
"goons",
|
||
|
"half-wits",
|
||
|
"hammerheads",
|
||
|
"hardheads",
|
||
|
"idiots",
|
||
|
"ignoramuses",
|
||
|
"ignorami",
|
||
|
"imbeciles",
|
||
|
"jackasses",
|
||
|
"know-nothings",
|
||
|
"knuckleheads",
|
||
|
"lamebrains",
|
||
|
"loggerheads",
|
||
|
"loons",
|
||
|
"lumps",
|
||
|
"lunkheads",
|
||
|
"meatheads",
|
||
|
"momes",
|
||
|
"morons",
|
||
|
"mugs",
|
||
|
"mutts",
|
||
|
"naturals",
|
||
|
"nimrods",
|
||
|
"nincompoops",
|
||
|
"ninnies",
|
||
|
"ninnyhammers",
|
||
|
"nits",
|
||
|
"nitwits",
|
||
|
"noddies",
|
||
|
"noodles",
|
||
|
"numskulls",
|
||
|
"numbskulls",
|
||
|
"oafs",
|
||
|
"pinheads",
|
||
|
"prats",
|
||
|
"ratbags",
|
||
|
"sapheads",
|
||
|
"schlubs",
|
||
|
"shlubs",
|
||
|
"schnooks",
|
||
|
"simpletons",
|
||
|
"stocks",
|
||
|
"stupes",
|
||
|
"stupids",
|
||
|
"thickheads",
|
||
|
"turkeys",
|
||
|
"woodenheads",
|
||
|
"yahoos",
|
||
|
"yo-yos"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"boobies",
|
||
|
"buffoons",
|
||
|
"fools",
|
||
|
"geese",
|
||
|
"loonies",
|
||
|
"lunatics",
|
||
|
"madmen",
|
||
|
"nuts",
|
||
|
"zanies",
|
||
|
"losers",
|
||
|
"gawks",
|
||
|
"featherbrains",
|
||
|
"scatterbrains",
|
||
|
"beasts",
|
||
|
"boors",
|
||
|
"cads",
|
||
|
"churls",
|
||
|
"clowns",
|
||
|
"creeps",
|
||
|
"curs",
|
||
|
"heels",
|
||
|
"jerks",
|
||
|
"skunks",
|
||
|
"skunk",
|
||
|
"snakes",
|
||
|
"stinkers",
|
||
|
"villains"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"intellects",
|
||
|
"intellectuals",
|
||
|
"sages",
|
||
|
"thinkers",
|
||
|
"whizzes",
|
||
|
"wizards",
|
||
|
"polymaths",
|
||
|
"Renaissance men",
|
||
|
"sharpies"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"brains",
|
||
|
"geniuses",
|
||
|
"genii"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing smoke":{
|
||
|
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He's been blowing smoke about his accomplishments all afternoon."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing",
|
||
|
"boasting",
|
||
|
"bragging",
|
||
|
"bulling",
|
||
|
"crowing",
|
||
|
"gasconading",
|
||
|
"swaggering",
|
||
|
"vaporing",
|
||
|
"vaunting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blustering",
|
||
|
"haranguing",
|
||
|
"puffing",
|
||
|
"priding",
|
||
|
"gushing",
|
||
|
"exulting",
|
||
|
"glorying",
|
||
|
"rejoicing",
|
||
|
"brandishing",
|
||
|
"displaying",
|
||
|
"exhibiting",
|
||
|
"exposing",
|
||
|
"flaunting",
|
||
|
"glorifying",
|
||
|
"parading",
|
||
|
"showing off",
|
||
|
"magnifying",
|
||
|
"maximizing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"belittling",
|
||
|
"deprecating",
|
||
|
"diminishing",
|
||
|
"discounting",
|
||
|
"laughing off",
|
||
|
"minimizing",
|
||
|
"playing down",
|
||
|
"pooh-poohing",
|
||
|
"poohing",
|
||
|
"shrugging off",
|
||
|
"underrating",
|
||
|
"undervaluing",
|
||
|
"bemoaning",
|
||
|
"lamenting",
|
||
|
"mourning",
|
||
|
"regretting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She has a habit of blowing smoke when she gets nervous."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"babbling",
|
||
|
"blabbing",
|
||
|
"cackling",
|
||
|
"chaffering",
|
||
|
"chattering",
|
||
|
"chatting",
|
||
|
"chinning",
|
||
|
"conversing",
|
||
|
"gabbing",
|
||
|
"gabbling",
|
||
|
"gassing",
|
||
|
"jabbering",
|
||
|
"jawing",
|
||
|
"kibitzing",
|
||
|
"kibbitzing",
|
||
|
"nattering",
|
||
|
"palavering",
|
||
|
"pattering",
|
||
|
"prating",
|
||
|
"prattling",
|
||
|
"rapping",
|
||
|
"rattling",
|
||
|
"running on",
|
||
|
"schmoozing",
|
||
|
"shmoozing",
|
||
|
"talking",
|
||
|
"twittering",
|
||
|
"visiting"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gossiping",
|
||
|
"tattling",
|
||
|
"descanting",
|
||
|
"discussing",
|
||
|
"expatiating",
|
||
|
"yakking",
|
||
|
"yacking",
|
||
|
"yammering",
|
||
|
"yapping"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloviating":{
|
||
|
"as in declaiming , pontificating":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing",
|
||
|
"declaiming",
|
||
|
"haranguing",
|
||
|
"mouthing (off)",
|
||
|
"orating",
|
||
|
"pontificating",
|
||
|
"blustering",
|
||
|
"fulminating",
|
||
|
"huffing",
|
||
|
"ranting",
|
||
|
"raving",
|
||
|
"spouting",
|
||
|
"sounding off",
|
||
|
"speaking out",
|
||
|
"speaking up",
|
||
|
"blaring",
|
||
|
"blurting (out)",
|
||
|
"bolting",
|
||
|
"carrying on",
|
||
|
"raging",
|
||
|
"storming",
|
||
|
"taking on"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing one's top":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"When her flight was cancelled she blew her top ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
"flaring (up)",
|
||
|
"flipping (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angering",
|
||
|
"fulminating",
|
||
|
"raging",
|
||
|
"ranting",
|
||
|
"raving",
|
||
|
"snapping",
|
||
|
"snarling",
|
||
|
"sputtering",
|
||
|
"storming",
|
||
|
"teeing off",
|
||
|
"venting",
|
||
|
"vituperating",
|
||
|
"bristling",
|
||
|
"burning",
|
||
|
"foaming",
|
||
|
"fuming",
|
||
|
"glaring",
|
||
|
"glowering",
|
||
|
"seething",
|
||
|
"sizzling",
|
||
|
"smoldering",
|
||
|
"smouldering",
|
||
|
"steaming",
|
||
|
"warming",
|
||
|
"bursting",
|
||
|
"exploding",
|
||
|
"flaring (out)",
|
||
|
"flashing",
|
||
|
"inflaming",
|
||
|
"enflaming",
|
||
|
"maddening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chilling out",
|
||
|
"cooling (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxing",
|
||
|
"hushing",
|
||
|
"quieting (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calming (down)",
|
||
|
"simmering down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodlessly":{
|
||
|
"as in lazily , listlessly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"halfheartedly",
|
||
|
"languidly",
|
||
|
"lazily",
|
||
|
"listlessly",
|
||
|
"spiritlessly",
|
||
|
"delicately",
|
||
|
"faintly",
|
||
|
"frailly",
|
||
|
"shakily",
|
||
|
"impotently",
|
||
|
"ineffectively",
|
||
|
"ineffectually",
|
||
|
"lamely",
|
||
|
"nervelessly",
|
||
|
"spinelessly",
|
||
|
"uncertainly",
|
||
|
"feebly",
|
||
|
"gently",
|
||
|
"softly",
|
||
|
"weakly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dynamically",
|
||
|
"energetically",
|
||
|
"explosively",
|
||
|
"firmly",
|
||
|
"forcefully",
|
||
|
"forcibly",
|
||
|
"hard",
|
||
|
"mightily",
|
||
|
"muscularly",
|
||
|
"powerfully",
|
||
|
"roundly",
|
||
|
"stiffly",
|
||
|
"stoutly",
|
||
|
"strenuously",
|
||
|
"strongly",
|
||
|
"sturdily",
|
||
|
"vigorously",
|
||
|
"fiercely",
|
||
|
"hammer and tongs",
|
||
|
"robustly",
|
||
|
"roughshod",
|
||
|
"sharply",
|
||
|
"vehemently",
|
||
|
"violently",
|
||
|
"actively",
|
||
|
"animatedly",
|
||
|
"briskly",
|
||
|
"crisply",
|
||
|
"eagerly",
|
||
|
"gamely",
|
||
|
"heartily",
|
||
|
"lustily",
|
||
|
"snappily",
|
||
|
"spiritedly",
|
||
|
"spunkily",
|
||
|
"vivaciously"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adverb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowout":{
|
||
|
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breathe (out)",
|
||
|
"exhale",
|
||
|
"expel",
|
||
|
"expire"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"expectorate"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inbreathe",
|
||
|
"inhale",
|
||
|
"inspire"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a social gathering":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"staged a huge blowout for Halloween"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"affair",
|
||
|
"bash",
|
||
|
"binge",
|
||
|
"blast",
|
||
|
"do",
|
||
|
"event",
|
||
|
"fete",
|
||
|
"f\u00eate",
|
||
|
"function",
|
||
|
"get-together",
|
||
|
"party",
|
||
|
"reception",
|
||
|
"shindig"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"benefit",
|
||
|
"fund-raiser",
|
||
|
"ball",
|
||
|
"dance",
|
||
|
"formal",
|
||
|
"prom",
|
||
|
"celebration",
|
||
|
"gala",
|
||
|
"occasion",
|
||
|
"bacchanal",
|
||
|
"bacchanalia",
|
||
|
"orgy",
|
||
|
"saturnalia",
|
||
|
"bake",
|
||
|
"clambake",
|
||
|
"cocktail party",
|
||
|
"hen party",
|
||
|
"house party",
|
||
|
"housewarming",
|
||
|
"icebreaker",
|
||
|
"kaffeeklatsch",
|
||
|
"kegger",
|
||
|
"keg party",
|
||
|
"klatch",
|
||
|
"klatsch",
|
||
|
"masquerade",
|
||
|
"meet and greet",
|
||
|
"mixer",
|
||
|
"salon",
|
||
|
"shower",
|
||
|
"social",
|
||
|
"soiree",
|
||
|
"soir\u00e9e",
|
||
|
"stag",
|
||
|
"supper",
|
||
|
"symposium",
|
||
|
"tea",
|
||
|
"tea party"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodlessness":{
|
||
|
"as in obduracy , halfheartedness":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"callosity",
|
||
|
"callousness",
|
||
|
"coldness",
|
||
|
"coolness",
|
||
|
"halfheartedness",
|
||
|
"hard-heartedness",
|
||
|
"hardness",
|
||
|
"heartlessness",
|
||
|
"imperturbability",
|
||
|
"insensitivity",
|
||
|
"obduracy",
|
||
|
"affectlessness",
|
||
|
"apathy",
|
||
|
"emotionlessness",
|
||
|
"impassiveness",
|
||
|
"impassivity",
|
||
|
"insensibility",
|
||
|
"numbness",
|
||
|
"phlegm",
|
||
|
"blankness",
|
||
|
"deadness",
|
||
|
"emptiness",
|
||
|
"vacancy",
|
||
|
"aloofness",
|
||
|
"detachment",
|
||
|
"indifference",
|
||
|
"unconcern",
|
||
|
"stiffness",
|
||
|
"woodenness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"emotion",
|
||
|
"feeling",
|
||
|
"sensibility",
|
||
|
"compassion",
|
||
|
"empathy",
|
||
|
"pity",
|
||
|
"sympathy",
|
||
|
"receptiveness",
|
||
|
"receptivity",
|
||
|
"responsiveness",
|
||
|
"sensitivity",
|
||
|
"solicitude",
|
||
|
"tenderness",
|
||
|
"understanding",
|
||
|
"warmth",
|
||
|
"hand-wringing",
|
||
|
"histrionics",
|
||
|
"hysteria",
|
||
|
"hysterics",
|
||
|
"melodrama",
|
||
|
"vehemence"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockish":{
|
||
|
"as in blocky , dense":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blocky",
|
||
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
"dense",
|
||
|
"hefty",
|
||
|
"thickish",
|
||
|
"chunky",
|
||
|
"fat",
|
||
|
"thick",
|
||
|
"broad",
|
||
|
"deep",
|
||
|
"wide"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"skinny",
|
||
|
"slender",
|
||
|
"slim",
|
||
|
"thin",
|
||
|
"narrow",
|
||
|
"shallow"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blockhouses":{
|
||
|
"as in garrison houses":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"garrison houses",
|
||
|
"bunkers",
|
||
|
"dugouts",
|
||
|
"alcazars",
|
||
|
"casbahs",
|
||
|
"kasbahs",
|
||
|
"battlements",
|
||
|
"breastworks",
|
||
|
"bulwarks",
|
||
|
"earthworks",
|
||
|
"embattlements",
|
||
|
"parapets",
|
||
|
"ramparts",
|
||
|
"bastions",
|
||
|
"castles",
|
||
|
"citadels",
|
||
|
"fortifications",
|
||
|
"fortresses",
|
||
|
"forts",
|
||
|
"holds",
|
||
|
"redoubts",
|
||
|
"strongholds"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows out":{
|
||
|
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"breathes (out)",
|
||
|
"exhales",
|
||
|
"expels",
|
||
|
"expires"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"expectorates"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inbreathes",
|
||
|
"inhales",
|
||
|
"inspires"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blown one's mind":{
|
||
|
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The disappearing trick completely blew my mind ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"addled",
|
||
|
"baffled",
|
||
|
"bamboozled",
|
||
|
"beaten",
|
||
|
"beat",
|
||
|
"befogged",
|
||
|
"befuddled",
|
||
|
"bemused",
|
||
|
"bewildered",
|
||
|
"buffaloed",
|
||
|
"confounded",
|
||
|
"confused",
|
||
|
"discombobulated",
|
||
|
"disoriented",
|
||
|
"flummoxed",
|
||
|
"foxed",
|
||
|
"fuddled",
|
||
|
"got",
|
||
|
"gotten",
|
||
|
"graveled",
|
||
|
"gravelled",
|
||
|
"mazed",
|
||
|
"muddied",
|
||
|
"muddled",
|
||
|
"mystified",
|
||
|
"perplexed",
|
||
|
"posed",
|
||
|
"puzzled",
|
||
|
"vexed",
|
||
|
"vext"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"stuck",
|
||
|
"stumped",
|
||
|
"weirded out",
|
||
|
"abashed",
|
||
|
"discomfited",
|
||
|
"disconcerted",
|
||
|
"discountenanced",
|
||
|
"embarrassed",
|
||
|
"fazed",
|
||
|
"flustered",
|
||
|
"mortified",
|
||
|
"nonplussed",
|
||
|
"nonplused",
|
||
|
"rattled",
|
||
|
"agitated",
|
||
|
"bothered",
|
||
|
"chagrined",
|
||
|
"discomforted",
|
||
|
"discomposed",
|
||
|
"dismayed",
|
||
|
"disquieted",
|
||
|
"distressed",
|
||
|
"disturbed",
|
||
|
"perturbed",
|
||
|
"stunned",
|
||
|
"unhinged",
|
||
|
"unsettled",
|
||
|
"upset",
|
||
|
"beguiled",
|
||
|
"cozened",
|
||
|
"deceived",
|
||
|
"deluded",
|
||
|
"duped",
|
||
|
"fooled",
|
||
|
"gulled",
|
||
|
"hoaxed",
|
||
|
"hoodwinked",
|
||
|
"humbugged",
|
||
|
"misguided",
|
||
|
"misled",
|
||
|
"snowed",
|
||
|
"strung along",
|
||
|
"taken in",
|
||
|
"tricked"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"assured",
|
||
|
"reassured",
|
||
|
"satisfied",
|
||
|
"enlightened",
|
||
|
"informed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloomers":{
|
||
|
"as in pratfalls , bloopers":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloopers",
|
||
|
"boners",
|
||
|
"howlers",
|
||
|
"pratfalls",
|
||
|
"blunders",
|
||
|
"bobbles",
|
||
|
"boo-boos",
|
||
|
"boobs",
|
||
|
"bricks",
|
||
|
"clangers",
|
||
|
"clinkers",
|
||
|
"errors",
|
||
|
"faults",
|
||
|
"flubs",
|
||
|
"fluffs",
|
||
|
"fumbles",
|
||
|
"gaffes",
|
||
|
"gaffs",
|
||
|
"goofs",
|
||
|
"inaccuracies",
|
||
|
"lapses",
|
||
|
"miscues",
|
||
|
"missteps",
|
||
|
"mistakes",
|
||
|
"oversights",
|
||
|
"screwups",
|
||
|
"slips",
|
||
|
"slipups",
|
||
|
"stumbles",
|
||
|
"trips",
|
||
|
"foul-ups",
|
||
|
"snafus",
|
||
|
"misapprehensions",
|
||
|
"miscalculations",
|
||
|
"miscomprehensions",
|
||
|
"misconceptions",
|
||
|
"misconstructions",
|
||
|
"misdescriptions",
|
||
|
"misimpressions",
|
||
|
"misinterpretations",
|
||
|
"misjudgments",
|
||
|
"misreadings",
|
||
|
"misstatements",
|
||
|
"misunderstandings"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"accuracies",
|
||
|
"exactitudes",
|
||
|
"precisions",
|
||
|
"inerrancies",
|
||
|
"infallibilities",
|
||
|
"perfections"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in knickerbockers , knee breeches":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"knee breeches",
|
||
|
"knickerbockers",
|
||
|
"pants suit",
|
||
|
"pantsuit",
|
||
|
"hose",
|
||
|
"legging",
|
||
|
"leggin",
|
||
|
"sweatpants",
|
||
|
"baggies",
|
||
|
"bell-bottoms",
|
||
|
"blue jeans",
|
||
|
"cargo pants",
|
||
|
"cords",
|
||
|
"corduroys",
|
||
|
"denims",
|
||
|
"jeans",
|
||
|
"breech",
|
||
|
"britches",
|
||
|
"pantaloons",
|
||
|
"pants",
|
||
|
"slacks",
|
||
|
"trousers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blocked (off)":{
|
||
|
"to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the square is temporarily blocked off for the street fair"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barred",
|
||
|
"barricaded",
|
||
|
"blockaded",
|
||
|
"closed (off)",
|
||
|
"guarded",
|
||
|
"walled (off)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"curtained (off)",
|
||
|
"screened (off)",
|
||
|
"diked",
|
||
|
"fenced",
|
||
|
"gated",
|
||
|
"hedged",
|
||
|
"bolted",
|
||
|
"locked",
|
||
|
"obstructed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"reopened",
|
||
|
"unblocked",
|
||
|
"unbolted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"opened",
|
||
|
"unbarred"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow one's stack":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The customer blew his stack when the server spilled a drink on him."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blow up",
|
||
|
"flare (up)",
|
||
|
"flip (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"anger",
|
||
|
"fulminate",
|
||
|
"rage",
|
||
|
"rant",
|
||
|
"rave",
|
||
|
"snap",
|
||
|
"snarl",
|
||
|
"sputter",
|
||
|
"storm",
|
||
|
"tee off",
|
||
|
"vent",
|
||
|
"vituperate",
|
||
|
"bristle",
|
||
|
"burn",
|
||
|
"foam",
|
||
|
"fume",
|
||
|
"glare",
|
||
|
"glower",
|
||
|
"seethe",
|
||
|
"sizzle",
|
||
|
"smolder",
|
||
|
"smoulder",
|
||
|
"steam",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"burst",
|
||
|
"explode",
|
||
|
"flare (out)",
|
||
|
"flash",
|
||
|
"inflame",
|
||
|
"enflame",
|
||
|
"madden"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chill out",
|
||
|
"cool (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relax",
|
||
|
"hush",
|
||
|
"quiet (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calm (down)",
|
||
|
"simmer down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows the whistle (on)":{
|
||
|
"to reveal the true nature of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"debunks",
|
||
|
"exposes",
|
||
|
"nails",
|
||
|
"shows up",
|
||
|
"uncloaks",
|
||
|
"uncovers",
|
||
|
"undresses",
|
||
|
"unmasks"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"demolishes",
|
||
|
"discredits",
|
||
|
"disproves",
|
||
|
"discloses",
|
||
|
"divulges",
|
||
|
"tells",
|
||
|
"unveils"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conceals",
|
||
|
"hides",
|
||
|
"secretes",
|
||
|
"veils"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"camouflages",
|
||
|
"cloaks",
|
||
|
"disguises",
|
||
|
"masks"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowing the whistle on":{
|
||
|
"to reveal the true nature of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"debunking",
|
||
|
"exposing",
|
||
|
"nailing",
|
||
|
"showing up",
|
||
|
"uncloaking",
|
||
|
"uncovering",
|
||
|
"undressing",
|
||
|
"unmasking"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
"discrediting",
|
||
|
"disproving",
|
||
|
"disclosing",
|
||
|
"divulging",
|
||
|
"telling",
|
||
|
"unveiling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"concealing",
|
||
|
"hiding",
|
||
|
"secreting",
|
||
|
"veiling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"camouflaging",
|
||
|
"cloaking",
|
||
|
"disguising",
|
||
|
"masking"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blooded":{
|
||
|
"of unmixed ancestry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the expansive farm on which blooded Arabian horses are raised"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"full-blood",
|
||
|
"full-blooded",
|
||
|
"pedigreed",
|
||
|
"pedigree",
|
||
|
"pure-blooded",
|
||
|
"pure-blood",
|
||
|
"purebred",
|
||
|
"thoroughbred"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"well-bred",
|
||
|
"inbred"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"crossbred",
|
||
|
"crossed",
|
||
|
"half-blood",
|
||
|
"half-blooded",
|
||
|
"half-bred",
|
||
|
"hybridized",
|
||
|
"interbred",
|
||
|
"outcrossed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"hybrid",
|
||
|
"mixed",
|
||
|
"mongrel"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blows one's top":{
|
||
|
"to become very angry":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"When her flight was cancelled she blew her top ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blows up",
|
||
|
"flares (up)",
|
||
|
"flips (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"angers",
|
||
|
"fulminates",
|
||
|
"rages",
|
||
|
"rants",
|
||
|
"raves",
|
||
|
"snaps",
|
||
|
"snarls",
|
||
|
"sputters",
|
||
|
"storms",
|
||
|
"tees off",
|
||
|
"vents",
|
||
|
"vituperates",
|
||
|
"bristles",
|
||
|
"burns",
|
||
|
"foams",
|
||
|
"fumes",
|
||
|
"glares",
|
||
|
"glowers",
|
||
|
"seethes",
|
||
|
"sizzles",
|
||
|
"smolders",
|
||
|
"smoulders",
|
||
|
"steams",
|
||
|
"warms",
|
||
|
"bursts",
|
||
|
"explodes",
|
||
|
"flares (out)",
|
||
|
"flashes",
|
||
|
"inflames",
|
||
|
"enflames",
|
||
|
"maddens"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chills out",
|
||
|
"cools (off or down)",
|
||
|
"relaxes",
|
||
|
"hushes",
|
||
|
"quiets (down)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"calms (down)",
|
||
|
"simmers down"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blousy":{
|
||
|
"as in baggy , saggy":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"baggy",
|
||
|
"saggy",
|
||
|
"detached",
|
||
|
"free",
|
||
|
"unattached",
|
||
|
"unbound",
|
||
|
"undone",
|
||
|
"unfastened",
|
||
|
"untied",
|
||
|
"insecure",
|
||
|
"lax",
|
||
|
"loose",
|
||
|
"loosened",
|
||
|
"relaxed",
|
||
|
"slack",
|
||
|
"slackened",
|
||
|
"unsecured"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"taut",
|
||
|
"tense",
|
||
|
"tight",
|
||
|
"constrained",
|
||
|
"restrained",
|
||
|
"attached",
|
||
|
"bound",
|
||
|
"fastened",
|
||
|
"tied",
|
||
|
"fast",
|
||
|
"firm",
|
||
|
"jammed",
|
||
|
"snug",
|
||
|
"stuck",
|
||
|
"wedged"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blood brother":{
|
||
|
"as in brother , sister":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"brother",
|
||
|
"main man",
|
||
|
"sister",
|
||
|
"associate",
|
||
|
"cohort",
|
||
|
"colleague",
|
||
|
"companion",
|
||
|
"fellow",
|
||
|
"hearty",
|
||
|
"hobnobber",
|
||
|
"partner",
|
||
|
"peer",
|
||
|
"sport",
|
||
|
"abettor",
|
||
|
"abetter",
|
||
|
"accomplice",
|
||
|
"ally",
|
||
|
"collaborator",
|
||
|
"confederate",
|
||
|
"acquaintance",
|
||
|
"pen pal",
|
||
|
"alter ego",
|
||
|
"amigo",
|
||
|
"buddy",
|
||
|
"chum",
|
||
|
"compadre",
|
||
|
"comrade",
|
||
|
"confidant",
|
||
|
"confidante",
|
||
|
"crony",
|
||
|
"familiar",
|
||
|
"friend",
|
||
|
"intimate",
|
||
|
"mate",
|
||
|
"musketeer",
|
||
|
"pal",
|
||
|
"benefactor",
|
||
|
"supporter",
|
||
|
"sympathizer",
|
||
|
"well-wisher",
|
||
|
"friendly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"enemy",
|
||
|
"foe",
|
||
|
"adversary",
|
||
|
"antagonist",
|
||
|
"competitor",
|
||
|
"opponent",
|
||
|
"rival",
|
||
|
"archenemy",
|
||
|
"nemesis"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodguilt":{
|
||
|
"as in bloodguiltiness":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodguiltiness",
|
||
|
"anguish",
|
||
|
"distress",
|
||
|
"grief",
|
||
|
"ruth",
|
||
|
"sadness",
|
||
|
"sorrow",
|
||
|
"apology",
|
||
|
"excuses",
|
||
|
"hand-wringing",
|
||
|
"mea culpa",
|
||
|
"chagrin",
|
||
|
"embarrassment",
|
||
|
"liability",
|
||
|
"rap",
|
||
|
"responsibility",
|
||
|
"blame",
|
||
|
"culpability",
|
||
|
"fault",
|
||
|
"compunction",
|
||
|
"misgiving",
|
||
|
"prick",
|
||
|
"qualm",
|
||
|
"scruple",
|
||
|
"contriteness",
|
||
|
"contrition",
|
||
|
"guilt",
|
||
|
"penitence",
|
||
|
"regret",
|
||
|
"remorse",
|
||
|
"remorsefulness",
|
||
|
"repentance",
|
||
|
"rue",
|
||
|
"self-reproach",
|
||
|
"shame"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"impenitence",
|
||
|
"remorselessness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloomer":{
|
||
|
"as in pratfall , blooper":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blooper",
|
||
|
"boner",
|
||
|
"howler",
|
||
|
"pratfall",
|
||
|
"blunder",
|
||
|
"bobble",
|
||
|
"boob",
|
||
|
"boo-boo",
|
||
|
"brick",
|
||
|
"clanger",
|
||
|
"clinker",
|
||
|
"error",
|
||
|
"fault",
|
||
|
"flub",
|
||
|
"fluff",
|
||
|
"fumble",
|
||
|
"gaff",
|
||
|
"gaffe",
|
||
|
"goof",
|
||
|
"inaccuracy",
|
||
|
"lapse",
|
||
|
"miscue",
|
||
|
"misstep",
|
||
|
"mistake",
|
||
|
"oversight",
|
||
|
"screwup",
|
||
|
"slip",
|
||
|
"slipup",
|
||
|
"stumble",
|
||
|
"trip",
|
||
|
"foul-up",
|
||
|
"snafu",
|
||
|
"misapprehension",
|
||
|
"miscalculation",
|
||
|
"miscomprehension",
|
||
|
"misconception",
|
||
|
"misconstruction",
|
||
|
"misdescription",
|
||
|
"misimpression",
|
||
|
"misinterpretation",
|
||
|
"misjudgment",
|
||
|
"misreading",
|
||
|
"misstatement",
|
||
|
"misunderstanding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"accuracy",
|
||
|
"correctness",
|
||
|
"exactitude",
|
||
|
"exactness",
|
||
|
"preciseness",
|
||
|
"precision",
|
||
|
"strictness",
|
||
|
"inerrancy",
|
||
|
"infallibility",
|
||
|
"perfection"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blower":{
|
||
|
"someone who boasts":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"although he's not the first person to blow his own horn, he's about the most obnoxious blower I've ever met"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blowhard",
|
||
|
"boaster",
|
||
|
"brag",
|
||
|
"braggadocio",
|
||
|
"braggart",
|
||
|
"bragger",
|
||
|
"cockalorum",
|
||
|
"cracker",
|
||
|
"gascon",
|
||
|
"gasconader",
|
||
|
"swaggerer",
|
||
|
"vaunter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blusterer",
|
||
|
"cock",
|
||
|
"self-advertiser",
|
||
|
"self-dramatizer",
|
||
|
"self-promoter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotto":{
|
||
|
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"someone call for a taxi; the guy's blotto and in no condition to drive"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"besotted",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blind",
|
||
|
"blitzed",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"boozy",
|
||
|
"canned",
|
||
|
"cockeyed",
|
||
|
"crocked",
|
||
|
"drunk",
|
||
|
"drunken",
|
||
|
"fried",
|
||
|
"gassed",
|
||
|
"hammered",
|
||
|
"high",
|
||
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
"inebriate",
|
||
|
"inebriated",
|
||
|
"intoxicated",
|
||
|
"juiced",
|
||
|
"lit",
|
||
|
"lit up",
|
||
|
"loaded",
|
||
|
"looped",
|
||
|
"oiled",
|
||
|
"pickled",
|
||
|
"pie-eyed",
|
||
|
"plastered",
|
||
|
"potted",
|
||
|
"ripped",
|
||
|
"sloshed",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"sottish",
|
||
|
"soused",
|
||
|
"sozzled",
|
||
|
"squiffed",
|
||
|
"squiffy",
|
||
|
"stewed",
|
||
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
"stinking",
|
||
|
"stoned",
|
||
|
"tanked",
|
||
|
"tiddly",
|
||
|
"tight",
|
||
|
"tipsy",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wet",
|
||
|
"wiped out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"maudlin",
|
||
|
"beery",
|
||
|
"befuddled",
|
||
|
"bleary-eyed",
|
||
|
"crapulous",
|
||
|
"dopey",
|
||
|
"dopy",
|
||
|
"rocky",
|
||
|
"strung out",
|
||
|
"stupefied",
|
||
|
"debauched",
|
||
|
"dissipated",
|
||
|
"dissolute",
|
||
|
"alcoholic",
|
||
|
"bibulous",
|
||
|
"dipsomaniacal"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"abstemious",
|
||
|
"abstinent",
|
||
|
"dry",
|
||
|
"temperate",
|
||
|
"teetotal",
|
||
|
"clearheaded",
|
||
|
"cool",
|
||
|
"level",
|
||
|
"steady"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"sober",
|
||
|
"straight"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blobs":{
|
||
|
"a small uneven mass":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"chunks",
|
||
|
"clods",
|
||
|
"clots",
|
||
|
"clumps",
|
||
|
"dollops",
|
||
|
"globs",
|
||
|
"gobbets",
|
||
|
"gobs",
|
||
|
"hunks",
|
||
|
"knobs",
|
||
|
"lumps",
|
||
|
"nubbles",
|
||
|
"nubs",
|
||
|
"nuggets",
|
||
|
"wads"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beads",
|
||
|
"drops",
|
||
|
"globules",
|
||
|
"blocks",
|
||
|
"bodies",
|
||
|
"bulks",
|
||
|
"particles",
|
||
|
"pieces",
|
||
|
"portions",
|
||
|
"bits",
|
||
|
"chips",
|
||
|
"crumbs",
|
||
|
"granules",
|
||
|
"morsels",
|
||
|
"nubbins",
|
||
|
"patches",
|
||
|
"scraps"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"got a blob of honey on his sweater"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beads",
|
||
|
"driblets",
|
||
|
"drips",
|
||
|
"droplets",
|
||
|
"drops",
|
||
|
"globs",
|
||
|
"globules"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gobbets",
|
||
|
"dewdrops",
|
||
|
"raindrops",
|
||
|
"teardrops",
|
||
|
"tears",
|
||
|
"spatters",
|
||
|
"dribbles",
|
||
|
"trickles"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloody":{
|
||
|
"smeared or stained with blood":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"after the fight, her shirt was all bloody"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodstained",
|
||
|
"gory"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodred",
|
||
|
"carmine",
|
||
|
"crimson",
|
||
|
"incarnadine",
|
||
|
"red",
|
||
|
"reddish",
|
||
|
"ruby",
|
||
|
"sanguine",
|
||
|
"sanguineous",
|
||
|
"sanguinary"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a bloody battle",
|
||
|
"a bloody movie that is unsuitable for children"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodthirsty",
|
||
|
"bloody-minded",
|
||
|
"homicidal",
|
||
|
"murdering",
|
||
|
"murderous",
|
||
|
"sanguinary",
|
||
|
"sanguine",
|
||
|
"sanguineous"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"barbaric",
|
||
|
"barbarous",
|
||
|
"brutal",
|
||
|
"cold-blooded",
|
||
|
"cruel",
|
||
|
"heartless",
|
||
|
"inhumane",
|
||
|
"sadistic",
|
||
|
"savage",
|
||
|
"vicious",
|
||
|
"wanton",
|
||
|
"antagonistic",
|
||
|
"ferocious",
|
||
|
"fierce",
|
||
|
"gladiatorial",
|
||
|
"hostile",
|
||
|
"aggressive",
|
||
|
"assertive",
|
||
|
"bellicose",
|
||
|
"belligerent",
|
||
|
"combative",
|
||
|
"contentious",
|
||
|
"discordant",
|
||
|
"pugnacious",
|
||
|
"quarrelsome",
|
||
|
"scrappy",
|
||
|
"truculent",
|
||
|
"violent",
|
||
|
"merciless",
|
||
|
"pitiless",
|
||
|
"ruthless",
|
||
|
"bloodstained",
|
||
|
"fell",
|
||
|
"gory",
|
||
|
"grim",
|
||
|
"despiteful",
|
||
|
"hateful",
|
||
|
"malevolent",
|
||
|
"malicious",
|
||
|
"malign",
|
||
|
"malignant",
|
||
|
"mean",
|
||
|
"nasty",
|
||
|
"spiteful"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"appeasing",
|
||
|
"conciliatory",
|
||
|
"disarming",
|
||
|
"dovish",
|
||
|
"mollifying",
|
||
|
"pacific",
|
||
|
"pacifying",
|
||
|
"peaceable",
|
||
|
"peaceful",
|
||
|
"peacemaking",
|
||
|
"placating",
|
||
|
"placative",
|
||
|
"placatory",
|
||
|
"propitiatory",
|
||
|
"unaggressive",
|
||
|
"unassertive",
|
||
|
"benign",
|
||
|
"benignant",
|
||
|
"compassionate",
|
||
|
"good-hearted",
|
||
|
"humane",
|
||
|
"kind",
|
||
|
"kindhearted",
|
||
|
"sympathetic",
|
||
|
"tenderhearted",
|
||
|
"tender",
|
||
|
"warm",
|
||
|
"warmhearted",
|
||
|
"clement",
|
||
|
"lenient",
|
||
|
"merciful",
|
||
|
"affable",
|
||
|
"amiable",
|
||
|
"amicable",
|
||
|
"benevolent",
|
||
|
"gentle",
|
||
|
"kindly",
|
||
|
"submissive",
|
||
|
"surrendering",
|
||
|
"yielding"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blemish",
|
||
|
"break",
|
||
|
"compromise",
|
||
|
"crab",
|
||
|
"cripple",
|
||
|
"cross (up)",
|
||
|
"damage",
|
||
|
"deface",
|
||
|
"disfigure",
|
||
|
"endamage",
|
||
|
"flaw",
|
||
|
"harm",
|
||
|
"hurt",
|
||
|
"impair",
|
||
|
"injure",
|
||
|
"mar",
|
||
|
"spoil",
|
||
|
"vitiate"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"deteriorate",
|
||
|
"enervate",
|
||
|
"enfeeble",
|
||
|
"undermine",
|
||
|
"weaken",
|
||
|
"erode",
|
||
|
"scour",
|
||
|
"wash out",
|
||
|
"wear (away)",
|
||
|
"blight",
|
||
|
"tarnish",
|
||
|
"dent",
|
||
|
"ding",
|
||
|
"dint",
|
||
|
"botch",
|
||
|
"gum (up)",
|
||
|
"queer",
|
||
|
"lacerate",
|
||
|
"wound",
|
||
|
"disable",
|
||
|
"hamstring",
|
||
|
"lame",
|
||
|
"maim",
|
||
|
"mangle",
|
||
|
"mutilate",
|
||
|
"torment",
|
||
|
"torture",
|
||
|
"annihilate",
|
||
|
"bang up",
|
||
|
"bash",
|
||
|
"batter",
|
||
|
"clobber",
|
||
|
"crush",
|
||
|
"dash",
|
||
|
"decimate",
|
||
|
"demolish",
|
||
|
"desolate",
|
||
|
"destroy",
|
||
|
"devastate",
|
||
|
"do in",
|
||
|
"pulverize",
|
||
|
"raze",
|
||
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
"scourge",
|
||
|
"shatter",
|
||
|
"smash",
|
||
|
"tear down",
|
||
|
"total",
|
||
|
"waste",
|
||
|
"wipe out",
|
||
|
"wreck"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"cure",
|
||
|
"heal",
|
||
|
"help",
|
||
|
"rectify",
|
||
|
"rehabilitate",
|
||
|
"remedy",
|
||
|
"edit",
|
||
|
"remodel",
|
||
|
"revise",
|
||
|
"ameliorate",
|
||
|
"better",
|
||
|
"enhance",
|
||
|
"enrich",
|
||
|
"improve",
|
||
|
"meliorate",
|
||
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
"refine"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"doctor",
|
||
|
"fix",
|
||
|
"mend",
|
||
|
"patch",
|
||
|
"rebuild",
|
||
|
"recondition",
|
||
|
"reconstruct",
|
||
|
"renovate",
|
||
|
"repair",
|
||
|
"revamp"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloviated":{
|
||
|
"as in declaimed , pontificated":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blew",
|
||
|
"declaimed",
|
||
|
"harangued",
|
||
|
"mouthed (off)",
|
||
|
"orated",
|
||
|
"pontificated",
|
||
|
"blustered",
|
||
|
"fulminated",
|
||
|
"huffed",
|
||
|
"ranted",
|
||
|
"raved",
|
||
|
"spouted",
|
||
|
"sounded off",
|
||
|
"spoke out",
|
||
|
"spoke up",
|
||
|
"blared",
|
||
|
"blurted (out)",
|
||
|
"bolted",
|
||
|
"carried on",
|
||
|
"raged",
|
||
|
"stormed",
|
||
|
"took on"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"block grants":{
|
||
|
"as in aids , assistances":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"aids",
|
||
|
"assistances",
|
||
|
"grants-in-aid",
|
||
|
"set-asides",
|
||
|
"allocations",
|
||
|
"allotments",
|
||
|
"annuities",
|
||
|
"appropriations",
|
||
|
"entitlements",
|
||
|
"grants",
|
||
|
"subsidies",
|
||
|
"subventions",
|
||
|
"foreign aids",
|
||
|
"reliefs",
|
||
|
"state aids",
|
||
|
"advances",
|
||
|
"allowances",
|
||
|
"benefits",
|
||
|
"bequests",
|
||
|
"endowments",
|
||
|
"funds",
|
||
|
"legacies",
|
||
|
"stipends",
|
||
|
"trust funds",
|
||
|
"trusts"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blowouts":{
|
||
|
"a social gathering":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"staged a huge blowout for Halloween"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"affairs",
|
||
|
"bashes",
|
||
|
"binges",
|
||
|
"blasts",
|
||
|
"dos",
|
||
|
"do's",
|
||
|
"events",
|
||
|
"fetes",
|
||
|
"f\u00eates",
|
||
|
"functions",
|
||
|
"get-togethers",
|
||
|
"parties",
|
||
|
"receptions",
|
||
|
"shindigs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"benefits",
|
||
|
"fund-raisers",
|
||
|
"balls",
|
||
|
"dances",
|
||
|
"formals",
|
||
|
"proms",
|
||
|
"celebrations",
|
||
|
"galas",
|
||
|
"occasions",
|
||
|
"bacchanalia",
|
||
|
"bacchanals",
|
||
|
"orgies",
|
||
|
"saturnalias",
|
||
|
"bakes",
|
||
|
"clambakes",
|
||
|
"cocktail parties",
|
||
|
"hen parties",
|
||
|
"house parties",
|
||
|
"housewarmings",
|
||
|
"icebreakers",
|
||
|
"kaffeeklatsches",
|
||
|
"keggers",
|
||
|
"keg parties",
|
||
|
"klatches",
|
||
|
"klatsches",
|
||
|
"masquerades",
|
||
|
"meet and greets",
|
||
|
"mixers",
|
||
|
"salons",
|
||
|
"showers",
|
||
|
"socials",
|
||
|
"soirees",
|
||
|
"soir\u00e9es",
|
||
|
"stags",
|
||
|
"suppers",
|
||
|
"symposia",
|
||
|
"symposiums",
|
||
|
"tea parties",
|
||
|
"teas"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blow one's mind":{
|
||
|
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The disappearing trick completely blew my mind ."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"addle",
|
||
|
"baffle",
|
||
|
"bamboozle",
|
||
|
"beat",
|
||
|
"befog",
|
||
|
"befuddle",
|
||
|
"bemuse",
|
||
|
"bewilder",
|
||
|
"buffalo",
|
||
|
"confound",
|
||
|
"confuse",
|
||
|
"discombobulate",
|
||
|
"disorient",
|
||
|
"flummox",
|
||
|
"fox",
|
||
|
"fuddle",
|
||
|
"get",
|
||
|
"gravel",
|
||
|
"maze",
|
||
|
"muddle",
|
||
|
"muddy",
|
||
|
"mystify",
|
||
|
"perplex",
|
||
|
"pose",
|
||
|
"puzzle",
|
||
|
"vex"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"stick",
|
||
|
"stump",
|
||
|
"weird out",
|
||
|
"abash",
|
||
|
"discomfit",
|
||
|
"disconcert",
|
||
|
"discountenance",
|
||
|
"embarrass",
|
||
|
"faze",
|
||
|
"fluster",
|
||
|
"mortify",
|
||
|
"nonplus",
|
||
|
"rattle",
|
||
|
"agitate",
|
||
|
"bother",
|
||
|
"chagrin",
|
||
|
"discomfort",
|
||
|
"discompose",
|
||
|
"dismay",
|
||
|
"disquiet",
|
||
|
"distress",
|
||
|
"disturb",
|
||
|
"perturb",
|
||
|
"stun",
|
||
|
"unhinge",
|
||
|
"unsettle",
|
||
|
"upset",
|
||
|
"beguile",
|
||
|
"cozen",
|
||
|
"deceive",
|
||
|
"delude",
|
||
|
"dupe",
|
||
|
"fool",
|
||
|
"gull",
|
||
|
"hoax",
|
||
|
"hoodwink",
|
||
|
"humbug",
|
||
|
"misguide",
|
||
|
"mislead",
|
||
|
"snow",
|
||
|
"string along",
|
||
|
"take in",
|
||
|
"trick"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"assure",
|
||
|
"reassure",
|
||
|
"satisfy",
|
||
|
"enlighten",
|
||
|
"inform"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotching":{
|
||
|
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dappling",
|
||
|
"dotting",
|
||
|
"flecking",
|
||
|
"freckling",
|
||
|
"marbling",
|
||
|
"mottling",
|
||
|
"peppering",
|
||
|
"shooting",
|
||
|
"specking",
|
||
|
"speckling",
|
||
|
"splotching",
|
||
|
"spotting",
|
||
|
"sprinkling",
|
||
|
"stippling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"blotting",
|
||
|
"dyeing",
|
||
|
"staining",
|
||
|
"banding",
|
||
|
"barring",
|
||
|
"streaking",
|
||
|
"striping",
|
||
|
"interspersing",
|
||
|
"setting",
|
||
|
"studding",
|
||
|
"bespattering",
|
||
|
"spattering"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"bloodsheds":{
|
||
|
"as in murders , killings":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bloodlettings",
|
||
|
"foul play",
|
||
|
"homicides",
|
||
|
"killings",
|
||
|
"manslaughters",
|
||
|
"murders",
|
||
|
"slayings",
|
||
|
"bloodbaths",
|
||
|
"butcheries",
|
||
|
"carnages",
|
||
|
"deaths",
|
||
|
"holocausts",
|
||
|
"massacres",
|
||
|
"slaughters",
|
||
|
"mortalities",
|
||
|
"annihilations",
|
||
|
"decimations",
|
||
|
"destructions",
|
||
|
"devastations",
|
||
|
"eradications",
|
||
|
"exterminations",
|
||
|
"genocides",
|
||
|
"pogroms",
|
||
|
"assassinations",
|
||
|
"executions"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"blotted out":{
|
||
|
"to destroy all traces of":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abolished",
|
||
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
"blacked out",
|
||
|
"canceled",
|
||
|
"cancelled",
|
||
|
"cleaned (up)",
|
||
|
"effaced",
|
||
|
"eradicated",
|
||
|
"erased",
|
||
|
"expunged",
|
||
|
"exterminated",
|
||
|
"extirpated",
|
||
|
"liquidated",
|
||
|
"obliterated",
|
||
|
"rooted (out)",
|
||
|
"rubbed out",
|
||
|
"snuffed (out)",
|
||
|
"stamped (out)",
|
||
|
"swept (away)",
|
||
|
"wiped out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"decimated",
|
||
|
"demolished",
|
||
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
"devastated",
|
||
|
"ravaged",
|
||
|
"dismantled",
|
||
|
"flattened",
|
||
|
"mowed (down)",
|
||
|
"razed",
|
||
|
"tore down",
|
||
|
"ruined",
|
||
|
"totaled",
|
||
|
"totalled",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wrecked",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blew up",
|
||
|
"dashed",
|
||
|
"dynamited",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"atomized",
|
||
|
"consumed",
|
||
|
"devoured",
|
||
|
"dissolved",
|
||
|
"fragmented",
|
||
|
"powdered",
|
||
|
"pulverized",
|
||
|
"shattered",
|
||
|
"splintered",
|
||
|
"doomed",
|
||
|
"finished",
|
||
|
"killed",
|
||
|
"killed off",
|
||
|
"terminated",
|
||
|
"zapped",
|
||
|
"cut",
|
||
|
"discarded",
|
||
|
"ditched",
|
||
|
"ejected",
|
||
|
"excised",
|
||
|
"expelled",
|
||
|
"jettisoned",
|
||
|
"ousted",
|
||
|
"threw out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"conserved",
|
||
|
"preserved",
|
||
|
"protected",
|
||
|
"saved",
|
||
|
"built",
|
||
|
"constructed",
|
||
|
"created",
|
||
|
"fabricated",
|
||
|
"fashioned",
|
||
|
"forged",
|
||
|
"formed",
|
||
|
"framed",
|
||
|
"made",
|
||
|
"manufactured",
|
||
|
"shaped",
|
||
|
"fixed",
|
||
|
"mended",
|
||
|
"patched",
|
||
|
"rebuilt",
|
||
|
"reconditioned",
|
||
|
"reconstructed",
|
||
|
"renewed",
|
||
|
"renovated",
|
||
|
"repaired",
|
||
|
"restored",
|
||
|
"revamped"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"belied",
|
||
|
"blanketed",
|
||
|
"cloaked",
|
||
|
"concealed",
|
||
|
"covered",
|
||
|
"curtained",
|
||
|
"disguised",
|
||
|
"enshrouded",
|
||
|
"hid",
|
||
|
"masked",
|
||
|
"obscured",
|
||
|
"occulted",
|
||
|
"papered over",
|
||
|
"screened",
|
||
|
"shrouded",
|
||
|
"suppressed",
|
||
|
"veiled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"buried",
|
||
|
"camouflaged",
|
||
|
"covered (up)",
|
||
|
"smothered",
|
||
|
"gilded",
|
||
|
"gilt",
|
||
|
"glossed (over)",
|
||
|
"varnished",
|
||
|
"whitewashed",
|
||
|
"beclouded",
|
||
|
"bedimmed",
|
||
|
"befogged",
|
||
|
"blocked",
|
||
|
"clouded",
|
||
|
"darkened",
|
||
|
"eclipsed",
|
||
|
"obstructed",
|
||
|
"occluded",
|
||
|
"overcast",
|
||
|
"overshadowed",
|
||
|
"shaded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"brought out",
|
||
|
"presented",
|
||
|
"clarified",
|
||
|
"illuminated",
|
||
|
"advertised",
|
||
|
"aired",
|
||
|
"broadcast",
|
||
|
"broadcasted",
|
||
|
"got out",
|
||
|
"proclaimed",
|
||
|
"publicized",
|
||
|
"published",
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"spread"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"bared",
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"disclosed",
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"displayed",
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"divulged",
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"exposed",
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"revealed",
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"showed",
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"uncloaked",
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"uncovered",
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"unmasked",
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"unveiled"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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}
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}
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