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{
"shabby":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"examples":[
"shabby wallpaper that was peeling from the walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"worn or torn into or as if into rags":{
"examples":[
"shabby , stained clothes that are barely better than rags"
],
"synonyms":[
"frayed",
"ragged",
"raggedy",
"ratty",
"seedy",
"tattered",
"threadbare",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dowdy",
"scruffy",
"tatterdemalion",
"dingy",
"faded",
"lacerate",
"lacerated",
"shredded",
"holey",
"patchy",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"moth-eaten",
"run-down",
"scuzzy",
"tacky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"unused"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shackling":{
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"binding",
"chaining",
"enchaining",
"enfettering",
"fettering",
"gyving",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"pinioning",
"trammeling",
"trammelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"ironing",
"lashing",
"securing",
"trussing",
"tying",
"tieing",
"attaching",
"fastening",
"joining",
"linking",
"confining",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"entangling",
"tangling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"detaching",
"disengaging"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinding",
"unfettering",
"unshackling"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogging",
"cramping",
"embarrassing",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"handicapping",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"short-circuiting",
"stymieing",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"reining",
"restraining",
"binding",
"chaining",
"haltering",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"tying",
"tieing",
"arresting",
"braking",
"delaying",
"retaining",
"retarding",
"barricading",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"roadblocking",
"bogging (down)",
"miring",
"choking",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suffocating",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"stumping",
"thwarting",
"derailing",
"disrupting",
"sabotaging",
"muzzling",
"repressing",
"suppressing",
"confining",
"hedging (in)",
"hemming (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"making way",
"opening",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"loosening",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"furthering",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[
"aiding",
"assisting",
"facilitating",
"helping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shade":{
"partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays":{
"examples":[
"it was hard to see in the shade after being in the brilliant sunlight",
"the trees cast shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"dusk",
"penumbra",
"shadiness",
"shadow",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackness",
"dimness",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"murkiness",
"obscurity",
"semidarkness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"lightness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"enjoying the cool shade of the evening"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shadows",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished":{
"examples":[
"a lovely shade of blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"color",
"hue",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint",
"tone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overtone",
"undertone",
"primary color",
"secondary color",
"tertiary color",
"brightness",
"chroma",
"chromaticity",
"contrast",
"lightness",
"saturation",
"value",
"coloration",
"coloring",
"colorway",
"pigmentation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"just a shade taller than his dance partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"spirits and shades haunting the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"canopy",
"cover",
"protect",
"screen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminate",
"light",
"lighten",
"expose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaded":{
"protected from the sun's rays":{
"examples":[
"walking along the park's shaded pathway"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadowed",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"umbrageous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"inky",
"moonless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"penumbral",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"exposed",
"shadeless",
"sunny"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouded",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"canopied",
"covered",
"protected",
"screened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminated",
"lightened",
"lit",
"lighted",
"exposed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shading":{
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"canopying",
"covering",
"protecting",
"screening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"exposing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadowiness":{
"as in darkness , vagueness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"darkness",
"murkiness",
"vagueness",
"deepness",
"profundity",
"ambiguity",
"equivocality",
"equivocalness",
"impenetrability",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"mysteriousness",
"numinousness",
"obscurity",
"uncanniness",
"incomprehensibility",
"unintelligibility",
"unintelligibleness",
"inexplicability",
"inexplicableness",
"unanswerability",
"unknowability",
"abstruseness",
"abstrusity",
"esotericism",
"hermetism",
"reconditeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intelligibility",
"understandability",
"clarity",
"obviousness",
"plainness",
"self-evidence",
"straightforwardness",
"transparency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shags":{
"as in Mohawk , trims":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shingles",
"trims",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skips , leaps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounds",
"canters",
"leaps",
"lopes",
"skips",
"springs",
"dashes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"scampers",
"sprints",
"trips",
"trots",
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"courses",
"foots (it)",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"hoofs (it)",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"legs (it)",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms",
"nips",
"patters",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"steps (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambles",
"saunters",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"trudges",
"hobbles",
"limps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shake (off)":{
"as in recover (from) , rally":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shake down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in couch , bunk bed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dry run":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry run",
"trial and error",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"tryout",
"workout",
"essay",
"experiment",
"experimentation",
"test",
"trial",
"crucible",
"ordeal",
"attempt",
"effort",
"try"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pursuit , reconnaissance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recon",
"reconnaissance",
"scout",
"hunt",
"quest",
"search",
"chase",
"pursuit",
"exploration",
"probe",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"survey",
"sweep",
"forage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaken":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bucketed",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shuddered",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"waved",
"beaten",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"gotten around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken up":{
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalled",
"floored",
"jolted",
"shocked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonished",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"freaked (out)",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"dismayed",
"frighted",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"scared",
"scarified",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"revolted",
"sickened",
"turned off",
"displeased",
"offended",
"outraged",
"scandalized",
"amazed",
"astounded",
"awed",
"chilled",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"dispirited",
"emasculated",
"undone",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"shaken",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"crushed",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffered",
"cushioned",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"rejoiced",
"tickled",
"charmed",
"enticed",
"tempted",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"reassured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakily":{
"as in delicately , faintly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
],
"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"
]
},
"shakiness":{
"the quality or state of not being firmly fixed in position":{
"examples":[
"we added a couple more ropes to help reduce the shakiness of the footbridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"insecurity",
"instability",
"precariousness",
"unstableness",
"unsteadiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"insubstantiality",
"unsoundness",
"changeability",
"inconstancy",
"mutability",
"laxness",
"looseness",
"slackness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firmness",
"soundness",
"substantiality"
],
"antonyms":[
"fastness",
"fixedness",
"security",
"stability",
"steadiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaking out":{
"to come to be":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"developing",
"emerging",
"evolving",
"germinating",
"playing out",
"unfolding",
"working out"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming out",
"falling out",
"panning out",
"proving",
"turning out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaky":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"the old man's hands were so shaky that I was afraid he'd drop the glass"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"results that were arrived at using some shaky experimental procedures"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shamble":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shambled":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
],
"examples":[
"disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"related":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shambling":{
"as in wobbly , lumbering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
],
"examples":[
"disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"related":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shame":{
"a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing":{
"antonyms":[
"impenitence",
"remorselessness"
],
"examples":[
"racked with shame over her actions of the previous week"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"compunction",
"misgiving",
"prick",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"blame",
"culpability",
"fault",
"liability",
"rap",
"responsibility",
"chagrin",
"embarrassment",
"anguish",
"distress",
"grief",
"ruth",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"bloodguilt",
"bloodguiltiness",
"apology",
"excuses",
"hand-wringing",
"mea culpa"
],
"synonyms":[
"contriteness",
"contrition",
"guilt",
"penitence",
"regret",
"remorse",
"remorsefulness",
"repentance",
"rue",
"self-reproach"
]
},
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it's a shame you won't be able to come to the party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"outrage",
"scandal"
],
"synonyms":[
"crime",
"disgrace",
"pity",
"sin"
]
},
"the state of having lost the esteem of others":{
"antonyms":[
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect"
],
"examples":[
"left the room in shame after his angry outburst"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"estimation",
"regard",
"awe",
"fear",
"reverence",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"related":[
"scandal",
"contempt",
"despite",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"deprecation",
"disapprobation",
"disapproval",
"disfavor",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"debasing",
"degradation",
"dust",
"humbling",
"humiliation",
"blot",
"brand",
"shadow",
"slur",
"smirch",
"spot",
"stain",
"stigma",
"taint"
],
"synonyms":[
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt"
],
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
"related":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate"
],
"synonyms":[
"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower",
"sink",
"smirch",
"take down"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shanghaied":{
"as in seized , captured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"captured",
"crimped",
"impressed",
"seized",
"waylaid",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"absconded (with)",
"snatched",
"spirited",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"caught",
"copped",
"stole",
"took"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivered",
"ransomed",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"restored",
"returned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in took in , fooled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"kidded",
"snowed",
"took in",
"tricked",
"engineered",
"finagled",
"jockeyed",
"maneuvered",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"exploited",
"manipulated",
"played (upon)",
"arranged",
"contrived",
"devised",
"finessed",
"masterminded",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"conned",
"defrauded",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shank":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"slashed at the prison guard with a shank he had secretly made from a scrap of metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"blade",
"cutter",
"knife",
"shiv"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaver",
"hack",
"bayonet",
"bodkin",
"bolo",
"bowie knife",
"cutlass",
"dagger",
"dirk",
"jackknife",
"machete",
"pocketknife",
"poniard",
"sheath knife",
"stiletto",
"stylet",
"switchblade",
"switch knife",
"yataghan",
"rapier",
"saber",
"sabre",
"steel",
"sword",
"scalpel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanty":{
"a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling":{
"examples":[
"lived just off the beach in a crude shanty"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lean-to",
"shed",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaped (up)":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallized",
"crystalized",
"formed",
"jelled",
"solidified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"fused",
"combined",
"conjoined",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"joined",
"linked (up)",
"unified",
"united"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke down",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amended",
"mended",
"reformed",
"straightened (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaved",
"regenerated",
"bettered",
"improved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslid",
"regressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shapes":{
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"examples":[
"that part of the state is known as the panhandle because of its shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"configurations",
"conformations",
"fashions",
"figures",
"forms",
"geometries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contours",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"silhouettes",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"arrangements",
"designs",
"formats",
"layouts",
"makeups",
"organizations",
"patterns",
"plans",
"setups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compositions",
"materials",
"matters",
"raw materials",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the type of body that a person has":{
"examples":[
"some specialty clothing stores sell clothing that suits people that have a particular shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"builds",
"constitutions",
"figures",
"forms",
"frames",
"habits",
"physiques"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anatomies",
"structures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"suits",
"tailors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranges",
"blueprints",
"budgets",
"calculates",
"charts",
"choreographs",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps (out)",
"organizes",
"plans",
"prepares",
"projects",
"schemes (out)",
"strategizes (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspires",
"contrives",
"devises",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"concerts",
"gets up",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"sketches",
"aims",
"figures",
"has on",
"intends",
"means",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"premeditates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shard":{
"a small sharp piece of something (such as glass or pottery)":{
"examples":[
"Watch out for the shards of glass on the floor."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"shred",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"share (out)":{
"as in hand out , dole out":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shares":{
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"partakes",
"participates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endures",
"experiences",
"feels",
"knows",
"sees",
"tastes",
"undergoes",
"encounters",
"meets",
"accepts",
"receives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group":{
"examples":[
"my share of the lottery winnings is over a million dollars",
"her share of the bill comes to $13.44"
],
"synonyms":[
"allotments",
"allowances",
"cuts",
"ends",
"parts",
"pieces",
"portions",
"proportions",
"quotas",
"slices",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lots",
"rations",
"commissions",
"percentages",
"members",
"partitions",
"sections",
"segments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregates",
"composites",
"compounds",
"pools",
"sums",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something":{
"examples":[
"she sold her share in the business to her partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"claims",
"interests",
"stakes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-ownerships",
"ownerships",
"partnerships",
"parts",
"possessions",
"titles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharp-eyed":{
"having unusually keen vision":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a very sharp-eyed child found the last Easter egg, which was hidden in the flower arrangement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blind",
"eyeless",
"sightless",
"stone-blind",
"visionless",
"astigmatic",
"myopic",
"nearsighted",
"shortsighted",
"purblind"
],
"related":[
"sighted",
"alert",
"attentive",
"aware",
"observant",
"observing",
"vigilant",
"watchful"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear-sighted",
"eagle-eyed",
"hawkeyed",
"lynx-eyed",
"sharp-sighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sharpen":{
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"you need to sharpen your penknife's blade frequently in order to be able to whittle properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"edge",
"grind",
"hone",
"stone",
"strop",
"whet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"file"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"round",
"smooth"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharpened":{
"having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
"examples":[
"the sharpened blade of a lawn mower"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharp",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
]
},
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"you need to sharpen your penknife's blade frequently in order to be able to whittle properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"edged",
"ground",
"honed",
"stoned",
"stropped",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glossed",
"polished",
"rounded",
"smoothed"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunted",
"dulled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sharper":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"carnival sharpers eager to relieve the yokels of their money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharpies":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"those poolroom sharpies cleaned them out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"bluffers",
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams",
"adventurers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"gamesmen",
"knaves",
"pranksters",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"fast-talkers",
"slickers",
"slicks",
"slicksters",
"slyboots",
"smoothies",
"wheeler-dealers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"blacklegs",
"cardsharps",
"cardsharpers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilkers",
"bilks",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fakirs",
"finaglers",
"fraudsters",
"hoaxers",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"skinners",
"swindlers",
"trickers",
"tricksters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shattered":{
"forcibly separated into many pieces":{
"examples":[
"the glass mirror lay shattered on the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"busted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blasted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"cracked",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"collapsed",
"imploded",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"pulverized",
"ruinate",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disintegrated",
"dynamited",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"obliterated",
"wiped out",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"frangible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"repaired",
"infrangible",
"unbreakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbroken"
]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blew",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"demolished",
"exploded",
"popped",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamited",
"annihilated",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"detonated",
"discharged",
"fragmented",
"splintered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"imploded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"crashed",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busted",
"bust",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"annihilated",
"bashed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"nuked",
"pulverized",
"ruined",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked",
"shivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crunched",
"crushed",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shaved":{
"as in shaven , beardless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beardless",
"shaven",
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bristly",
"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"hirsute",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly",
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"stubbled",
"stubbly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"he always shaves most of his hair off when the weather starts getting warmer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"cut",
"cut back",
"docked",
"lopped (off)",
"nipped",
"pared",
"polled",
"pruned",
"sheared",
"snipped",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skived",
"whittled",
"manicured",
"mowed",
"pinched",
"stumped",
"curtailed",
"shortened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing":{
"examples":[
"just shaved the concrete post as the car turned the corner"
],
"synonyms":[
"brushed",
"grazed",
"kissed",
"nudged",
"skimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumped",
"contacted",
"scraped",
"sideswiped",
"struck",
"swept",
"swiped",
"touched",
"bounced",
"caromed",
"glanced",
"rebounded",
"ricocheted",
"ricochetted",
"skipped",
"caressed",
"cuddled",
"fondled",
"loved",
"patted",
"petted",
"stroked",
"missed",
"skirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"bumped",
"clashed",
"collided",
"crashed",
"hit",
"impacted",
"impinged",
"knocked",
"punched",
"rammed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"swiped",
"thudded",
"thwacked",
"whacked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shake":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"chatter",
"quaver",
"shiver",
"thrill",
"tremble",
"twitch",
"dodder",
"waver",
"flicker",
"fluctuate",
"flutter",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small space of time":{
"examples":[
"I'll be there in two shakes"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"eyeblink",
"flash",
"heartbeat",
"instant",
"jiff",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"nanosecond",
"New York minute",
"second",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"microsecond",
"snatch",
"spurt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"eternity",
"forever",
"infinity",
"lifetime"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"I get the shakes every time I hear her voice"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shivers",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a shaking of the earth":{
"examples":[
"the shake was a modest 3.1 on the Richter scale"
],
"synonyms":[
"earthquake",
"quake",
"temblor",
"tremor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aftershock",
"foreshock",
"shock",
"cataclysm",
"convulsion",
"upheaval",
"microearthquake",
"microseism",
"seaquake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharing":{
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"partaking",
"participating"
],
"related":[
"enduring",
"experiencing",
"feeling",
"knowing",
"seeing",
"tasting",
"undergoing",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shack":{
"a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling":{
"examples":[
"a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shanty"
],
"related":[
"lean-to",
"shed",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaitan":{
"an evil spirit":{
"examples":[
"her fate was sealed once she let the shaitan out of the bottle"
],
"synonyms":[
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghost",
"ghoul",
"ghoulie",
"imp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hag",
"lamia",
"vampire",
"incubus",
"nightmare",
"succubus",
"afreet",
"afrit",
"genie",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"apparition",
"banshee",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugbear",
"familiar",
"familiar spirit",
"genius",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"vision",
"wraith",
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll",
"monster",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shapely":{
"having a well-proportioned feminine figure":{
"examples":[
"a shapely blonde who had a lead role in numerous Hollywood movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"curvaceous",
"curvacious",
"curvy",
"pneumatic"
],
"related":[
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"plump",
"round",
"Rubenesque",
"voluptuous",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"bosomy",
"built",
"busty",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"stacked",
"well-endowed",
"callipygian",
"callipygous",
"well-turned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapeless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shares (out)":{
"as in hands out , doles out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharer":{
"one who takes part in something":{
"examples":[
"all pilots are sharers of the same air space"
],
"synonyms":[
"actor",
"partaker",
"participant",
"participator",
"party",
"player"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessory",
"accessary",
"aide",
"assistant",
"helper",
"colleague",
"partner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bystander",
"looker-on",
"observer",
"onlooker",
"spectator",
"watcher",
"wallflower"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonparticipant"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shadeless":{
"as in sunny , exposed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"exposed",
"sunny",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shaded",
"shadowed",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"umbrageous",
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shameful":{
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shady",
"shoddy",
"shy",
"unrespectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sharkskins":{
"as in snakeskins , deerskins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"buckskins",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"moroccos",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes",
"hides",
"leathers",
"skins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharing (out)":{
"as in handing out , doling out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasuring",
"administering",
"dealing",
"dispensing",
"dividing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"measuring",
"metering",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"parting",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"splitting",
"allocating",
"allotting",
"allowing",
"apportioning",
"assigning",
"distributing",
"lotting",
"rationing",
"according",
"awarding",
"giving",
"granting",
"earmarking",
"reserving",
"chipping in",
"contributing",
"donating",
"reallocating",
"reapportioning",
"reassigning",
"redistributing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudging",
"denying",
"depriving (of)",
"keeping",
"retaining",
"stinting",
"withholding",
"appropriating",
"arrogating",
"confiscating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaped":{
"as in formed , structured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formed",
"shapen",
"structured",
"coherent",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"clear",
"decided",
"definite",
"distinct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amorphous",
"formless",
"shapeless",
"unformed",
"unshaped",
"unstructured",
"characterless",
"featureless",
"nondescript",
"chaotic",
"disorganized",
"incoherent",
"systemless",
"unordered",
"unorganized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"suited",
"tailored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"patterned",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed",
"accustomed",
"habilitated",
"habituated",
"naturalized",
"readied",
"trained",
"bent",
"fiddled (with)",
"fine-tuned",
"phased",
"registered",
"regulated",
"rigged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranged",
"blueprinted",
"budgeted",
"calculated",
"charted",
"choreographed",
"designed",
"framed",
"laid out",
"mapped (out)",
"organized",
"planned",
"prepared",
"projected",
"schemed (out)",
"strategized (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspired",
"contrived",
"devised",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"plotted",
"put up",
"concerted",
"got up",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"sketched",
"aimed",
"figured",
"had on",
"intended",
"meant",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"premeditated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shapes up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallizes",
"crystalizes",
"forms",
"jells",
"solidifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"fuses",
"combines",
"conjoins",
"conjugates",
"connects",
"couples",
"joins",
"links (up)",
"unifies",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks down",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amends",
"mends",
"reforms",
"straightens (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaves",
"regenerates",
"betters",
"improves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslides",
"regresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakes a leg":{
"to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music":{
"examples":[
"The DJ played music that was sure to make every party guest get up and shake a leg ."
],
"synonyms":[
"dances",
"foots (it)",
"hoofs (it)",
"steps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prances",
"struts",
"trips",
"boogies",
"boogeys",
"bops",
"fox-trots",
"gavottes",
"jigs",
"jitterbugs",
"jives",
"mambos",
"polkas",
"shags",
"shimmies",
"shuffles",
"tangos",
"tap-dances",
"twists",
"waltzes",
"treads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"We'd better shake a leg if we want to make the movie!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shawls":{
"a piece of cloth that is used especially by women as a covering for the head or shoulders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"serapes",
"sarapes",
"stoles",
"wraps",
"capes",
"capotes",
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"manteaus",
"mantles",
"burnooses",
"burnouses",
"capelets",
"capuchins",
"cowls",
"dominoes",
"dominos",
"josephs",
"mantas",
"mantelets",
"mantillas",
"palatines",
"pelerines",
"pelisses",
"ponchos",
"roquelaures",
"tippets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in wraps , shrouds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"encloses",
"incloses",
"enrobes",
"enshrouds",
"enswathes",
"envelops",
"enwraps",
"mantles",
"shrouds",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"blankets",
"carpets",
"coats",
"covers",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"overspreads",
"sheets",
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"curtains",
"veils",
"circles",
"encircles",
"encompasses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Shangri-la":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"a dreamer who spent much of his life roaming the world in search of his personal Shangri-la"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadia",
"dreamland",
"dreamworld",
"fairyland",
"wonderland",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"euphoria",
"gladness",
"joy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradise"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shakes down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaper":{
"as in operator , mechanic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mechanic",
"operator",
"smith",
"wright",
"consultant",
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"pro",
"professional",
"specialist",
"technician",
"adviser",
"advisor",
"consigliere",
"counsel",
"counselor",
"counsellor",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"craftsperson",
"craftswoman",
"journeyman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert",
"layman",
"nonprofessional",
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharpshooter":{
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"the police stationed sharpshooters on rooftops all along the route of the presidential motorcade"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksman",
"shooter",
"shot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sniper",
"rifleman",
"trapshooter",
"gun",
"gunman",
"gunner",
"markswoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shallop":{
"as in yacht , square-rigger":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantine",
"bugeye",
"ca\u00efque",
"caravel",
"catamaran",
"catboat",
"cat rig",
"clipper",
"corvette",
"cutter",
"frigate",
"galleon",
"galley",
"junk",
"keelboat",
"ketch",
"knockabout",
"lugger",
"outrigger",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"sailer",
"schooner",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"sloop",
"square-rigger",
"xebec",
"yacht",
"yawl",
"bark",
"dinghy",
"sailboat",
"windjammer",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shampooing":{
"as in washing , rinsing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing",
"combing",
"dry-cleaning",
"dusting",
"laundering",
"mopping",
"mucking (out)",
"rinsing",
"scouring",
"scrubbing",
"sponging",
"swabbing",
"sweeping",
"vacuuming",
"washing",
"wiping",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"deterging",
"GI'ing",
"turning out",
"decontaminating",
"purging",
"purifying",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"brightening",
"deodorizing",
"freshening",
"sprucing (up)",
"sweetening",
"picking up",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying",
"uncluttering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begriming",
"muddying",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"blackening",
"discoloring",
"besmirching",
"dirtying",
"fouling",
"soiling",
"spotting",
"staining",
"sullying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakes (off)":{
"as in recovers (from) , rallies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers (from)",
"comes back",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catches",
"comes down (with)",
"contracts",
"gets",
"goes down (with)",
"sickens (with)",
"takes",
"breaks out (with)",
"dies (from)",
"succumbs (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shamming":{
"as in fakery , duplicity":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"fraudulentness",
"affectation",
"affectedness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"sanctimoniousness",
"self-righteousness",
"self-satisfaction",
"artificiality",
"glibness",
"oiliness",
"smoothness",
"unctuousness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"double-dealing",
"falsity",
"perfidy",
"two-facedness",
"cant",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"piousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"genuineness",
"sincereness",
"sincerity",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"honesty",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"probity",
"straightforwardness",
"truthfulness",
"artlessness",
"guilelessness",
"naturalness",
"unaffectedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"bluffing",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"professing",
"putting on",
"simulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shafts":{
"a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object":{
"examples":[
"shafts of late-afternoon sunlight pierced the blinds and streaked the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"beams",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moonbeams",
"sunbeams",
"sunbursts",
"lasers",
"spotlights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade":{
"examples":[
"the footmen set their shafts so as to form a bank of steel against the enemy's charging cavalry"
],
"synonyms":[
"javelins",
"lances",
"pike",
"pikes",
"pikestaffs",
"spears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"darts",
"spikes",
"gaffs",
"halberds",
"halberts",
"harpoons",
"leisters",
"tridents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"disservices",
"inequities",
"injuries",
"injustices",
"raw deals",
"wrongs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronts",
"indignities",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"outrages",
"put-downs",
"slights",
"slurs",
"beefs",
"complaints",
"grievances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crickets"
],
"antonyms":[
"equities",
"justices"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"share":{
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"partake",
"participate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"know",
"see",
"taste",
"undergo",
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group":{
"examples":[
"my share of the lottery winnings is over a million dollars",
"her share of the bill comes to $13.44"
],
"synonyms":[
"allotment",
"allowance",
"cut",
"end",
"part",
"piece",
"portion",
"proportion",
"quota",
"slice",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lot",
"ration",
"commission",
"percentage",
"member",
"partition",
"section",
"segment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregate",
"composite",
"compound",
"pool",
"sum",
"total",
"totality",
"whole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something":{
"examples":[
"she sold her share in the business to her partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"claim",
"interest",
"stake"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-ownership",
"ownership",
"part",
"partnership",
"possession",
"title"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shape":{
"a state of being or fitness":{
"examples":[
"she was in good shape after having worked outdoors all summer long"
],
"synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"fettle",
"form",
"health",
"keeping",
"kilter",
"nick",
"order",
"repair",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"practice",
"practise",
"pass",
"phase",
"stage",
"footing",
"picture",
"posture",
"scene",
"situation",
"status",
"rank",
"standing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disorder",
"disrepair"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"examples":[
"that part of the state is known as the panhandle because of its shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"configuration",
"conformation",
"fashion",
"figure",
"form",
"geometry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contour",
"outline",
"profile",
"silhouette",
"frame",
"framework",
"shell",
"skeleton",
"arrangement",
"design",
"format",
"layout",
"makeup",
"organization",
"pattern",
"plan",
"setup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"composition",
"material",
"matter",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the type of body that a person has":{
"examples":[
"some specialty clothing stores sell clothing that suits people that have a particular shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"build",
"constitution",
"figure",
"form",
"frame",
"habit",
"physique"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anatomy",
"structure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"suit",
"tailor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"train",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrange",
"blueprint",
"budget",
"calculate",
"chart",
"choreograph",
"design",
"frame",
"lay out",
"map (out)",
"organize",
"plan",
"prepare",
"project",
"scheme (out)",
"strategize (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspire",
"contrive",
"devise",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"put up",
"concert",
"get up",
"draft",
"outline",
"sketch",
"aim",
"figure",
"have on",
"intend",
"mean",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"premeditate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shape (up)":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallize",
"crystalize",
"form",
"jell",
"solidify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associate",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"fuse",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"join",
"link (up)",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break down",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amend",
"mend",
"reform",
"straighten (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behave",
"regenerate",
"better",
"improve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslide",
"regress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharped":{
"as in hummed , crooned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belted",
"crooned",
"harmonized",
"hummed",
"lilted",
"quavered",
"scatted",
"slurred",
"trilled",
"trolled",
"warbled",
"yodeled",
"yodelled",
"caroled",
"carolled",
"chanted",
"descanted",
"sang",
"sung",
"vocalized",
"serenaded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadowing":{
"the act of going after or in the tracks of another":{
"examples":[
"the submarine's relentless shadowing of the destroyer"
],
"synonyms":[
"chase",
"chasing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"pursuit",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hot pursuit",
"tagging along",
"path",
"track",
"trail",
"search",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogging",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"running",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"chaperoning",
"escorting",
"hunting",
"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heading"
],
"antonyms":[
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"thickening clouds shadowed the countryside"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blackening",
"blearing",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dislimning",
"fogging",
"fuzzing (up)",
"hazing",
"misting",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overclouding",
"overshadowing",
"shrouding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrating",
"blotting out",
"concealing",
"eclipsing",
"hiding",
"obliterating",
"screening",
"shading",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"masking",
"veiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposing",
"revealing",
"uncovering",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"lightening",
"lighting (up)"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches"
],
"synonyms":[
"shading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"canopying",
"covering",
"protecting",
"screening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"exposing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharkskin":{
"as in snakeskin , deerskin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shadowlike":{
"as in dim , faint":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"muddy",
"obfuscatory",
"obnubilated",
"obscurant",
"obscurantic",
"shaded",
"shadowy",
"sphinxlike",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"indefinite",
"inexact",
"inexplicit",
"noncommittal",
"questionable",
"uncertain",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague",
"abstruse",
"esoteric",
"recondite",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"inexplicable",
"ambiguous",
"arcane",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"deep",
"Delphic",
"double-edged",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"fuliginous",
"inscrutable",
"murky",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"occult",
"opaque",
"eerie",
"eery",
"uncanny",
"weird",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"unanswerable",
"unknowable",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"unfathomable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessible",
"clear",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"plain",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"comprehensible",
"fathomable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"legible",
"pellucid",
"understandable",
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure",
"defined",
"determined",
"direct",
"straightforward",
"definite",
"exact",
"explicit",
"appreciable",
"palpable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"blatant",
"patent",
"unmistakable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shacks":{
"a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling":{
"examples":[
"a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabins",
"camps",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"hutments",
"huts",
"shanties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lean-tos",
"sheds",
"cots",
"cottages",
"lodges",
"cabanas",
"bungalows",
"chalets",
"hogans",
"wickiups",
"wigwams",
"tents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shah":{
"as in king , sultan":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Caesar",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"czarina",
"tsarina",
"tzarina",
"emir",
"amir",
"ameer",
"emperor",
"empress",
"kaiser",
"khan",
"khedive",
"king",
"lady",
"lord",
"mikado",
"mogul",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"satrap",
"sultan",
"sultana",
"suzerain",
"autocrat",
"monarch",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"coruler",
"authoritarian",
"Big Brother",
"despot",
"dictator",
"f\u00fchrer",
"fuehrer",
"monocrat",
"overlord",
"paramount",
"tyrant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Shangri-las":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"a dreamer who spent much of his life roaming the world in search of his personal Shangri-la"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Edens",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"promised lands",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadias",
"dreamlands",
"dreamworlds",
"fairylands",
"wonderlands",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaking (off)":{
"as in recovering (from) , rallying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering (from)",
"coming back",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting",
"getting",
"going down (with)",
"sickening (with)",
"taking",
"breaking out (with)",
"dying (from)",
"succumbing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shanghais":{
"as in seizes , captures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"crimps",
"impresses",
"seizes",
"waylays",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"absconds (with)",
"snatches",
"spirits",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"catches",
"cops",
"steals",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivers",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"restores",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in takes in , fools":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"kids",
"snows",
"takes in",
"tricks",
"engineers",
"finagles",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"schemes",
"exploits",
"manipulates",
"plays (upon)",
"arranges",
"contrives",
"devises",
"finesses",
"masterminds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"cons",
"defrauds",
"fleeces",
"hustles",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shantytowns":{
"a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"favelas",
"Hoovervilles",
"jungles",
"bivouacs",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"campsites",
"encampments",
"hutments",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"tentages",
"colonies",
"plantations",
"settlements",
"barracks",
"cantonments",
"installations",
"laagers",
"leaguers",
"posts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanghai":{
"as in seize , capture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"crimp",
"impress",
"seize",
"waylay",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"abscond (with)",
"snatch",
"spirit",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"catch",
"cop",
"steal",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliver",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"restore",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in take in , fool":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguile",
"bluff",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick",
"engineer",
"finagle",
"jockey",
"maneuver",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"scheme",
"exploit",
"manipulate",
"play (upon)",
"arrange",
"contrive",
"devise",
"finesse",
"mastermind",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"con",
"defraud",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken a leg":{
"to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music":{
"examples":[
"The DJ played music that was sure to make every party guest get up and shake a leg ."
],
"synonyms":[
"danced",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"stepped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pranced",
"strutted",
"tripped",
"boogied",
"boogeyed",
"bopped",
"fox-trotted",
"gavotted",
"jigged",
"jitterbugged",
"jived",
"mamboed",
"polkaed",
"shagged",
"shimmied",
"shuffled",
"tangoed",
"tap-danced",
"twisted",
"waltzed",
"trodden",
"trod"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"We'd better shake a leg if we want to make the movie!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blown",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shapes (up)":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallizes",
"crystalizes",
"forms",
"jells",
"solidifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"fuses",
"combines",
"conjoins",
"conjugates",
"connects",
"couples",
"joins",
"links (up)",
"unifies",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks down",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amends",
"mends",
"reforms",
"straightens (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaves",
"regenerates",
"betters",
"improves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslides",
"regresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaped up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallized",
"crystalized",
"formed",
"jelled",
"solidified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"fused",
"combined",
"conjoined",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"joined",
"linked (up)",
"unified",
"united"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke down",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amended",
"mended",
"reformed",
"straightened (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaved",
"regenerated",
"bettered",
"improved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslid",
"regressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shades":{
"a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished":{
"examples":[
"a lovely shade of blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"colors",
"hues",
"tinctures",
"tinges",
"tints",
"tones"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overtones",
"undertones",
"primary colors",
"secondary colors",
"tertiary colors",
"chromas",
"chromaticities",
"contrasts",
"saturations",
"values",
"colorations",
"colorings",
"colorways",
"pigmentations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatisms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"just a shade taller than his dance partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"spirits and shades haunting the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"familiar spirits",
"ghosts",
"hants",
"haunts",
"materializations",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shadows",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"sprites",
"visions",
"visitants",
"wraiths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"daimones",
"daimons",
"familiars",
"genies",
"genii",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"jinn",
"jinns",
"djinn",
"djinns",
"shaitans",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"fetches",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"lamiae",
"lamias",
"succubi",
"vampires",
"zombies",
"cacodemons",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"canopies",
"covers",
"protects",
"screens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"exposes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shagged":{
"as in skipped , leaped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounded",
"cantered",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"loped",
"skipped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"dashed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"scampered",
"sprinted",
"tripped",
"trotted",
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"coursed",
"footed (it)",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"hoofed (it)",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"legged (it)",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed",
"nipped",
"pattered",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"stepped (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambled",
"sauntered",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"trudged",
"hobbled",
"limped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken (off)":{
"as in recovered (from) , rallied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"come back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caught",
"come down (with)",
"contracted",
"gone down (with)",
"got",
"gotten",
"sickened (with)",
"taken",
"broken out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shamus":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"a hard-bitten L.A. shamus who, when he's not battling crooks, is locking horns with his superiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobby",
"bull",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"police officer",
"policeman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolman",
"policewoman",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"sheriff",
"trooper",
"peace officer",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons":{
"examples":[
"he's a shamus who mostly finds evidence to use in divorce cases"
],
"synonyms":[
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"investigator",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shadow",
"tail",
"tracer",
"tracker",
"fed",
"Federal",
"G-man",
"narc",
"nark",
"plainclothesman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shadowy":{
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"examples":[
"the shadowy area between tough interrogation and torture"
],
"synonyms":[
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
]
},
"protected from the sun's rays":{
"examples":[
"a shadowy lane that is a mosaic of colors during the autumn foliage season"
],
"synonyms":[
"shaded",
"shadowed",
"shady",
"umbrageous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"inky",
"moonless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"penumbral",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"exposed",
"shadeless",
"sunny"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shakeouts":{
"as in shake-ups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shake-ups",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"pink slips",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shake out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"fall out",
"pan out",
"prove",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"emerge",
"evolve",
"germinate",
"play out",
"unfold",
"work out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shake-up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shake-up",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaking":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"suffered a shaking chill during his bout with the flu"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"gave the bottle of salad dressing a good shaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"quivering",
"shivering",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"vibration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"juddering",
"quaking",
"rocking",
"jiggle",
"palpitation",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"tremor",
"twitch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable":{
"examples":[
"condemned the government's shaking of its overseas responsibilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoidance",
"cop-out",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"elusion",
"escape",
"eschewal",
"eschewing",
"evasion",
"out",
"shunning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypassing",
"circumvention",
"runaround",
"sidestepping",
"skirting",
"averting",
"deflection",
"obviation",
"precluding",
"prevention"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abidance",
"endurance",
"submission",
"toleration"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bucketing",
"convulsing",
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"joggling",
"jolting",
"jouncing",
"juddering",
"quaking",
"quivering",
"shuddering",
"vibrating",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"chattering",
"quavering",
"shivering",
"thrilling",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"doddering",
"wavering",
"flickering",
"fluctuating",
"fluttering",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"waving",
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shirking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"shunning",
"weaseling (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shared":{
"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
"examples":[
"shared resources"
],
"synonyms":[
"collaborative",
"collective",
"combined",
"common",
"communal",
"concerted",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bilateral",
"consensual",
"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"personal",
"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
],
"antonyms":[
"exclusive",
"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
]
},
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"participated",
"partook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endured",
"experienced",
"felt",
"knew",
"saw",
"tasted",
"underwent",
"encountered",
"met",
"accepted",
"received"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shaken down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaten",
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"done",
"done in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shark":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"a card shark"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"a shark at calculus"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"mistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
]
},
"a person who habitually preys upon others":{
"examples":[
"being a new arrival in Hollywood, she was easy prey for the sharks in the movie business"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsucker",
"buzzard",
"harpy",
"kite",
"predator",
"vampire",
"vulture",
"wolf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exploiter",
"user",
"leech",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"destroyer",
"devourer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"prey"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shackled":{
"as in tied , anchored":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchored",
"bolted",
"fastened",
"fettered",
"manacled",
"tied",
"caged",
"chained",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"immured",
"imprisoned",
"leashed",
"penned",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"caught",
"bound",
"confined",
"restrained",
"unfree"
],
"near antonyms":[
"footloose",
"free",
"loose",
"unbound",
"unconfined",
"unrestrained",
"escaped",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered",
"unleashed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"chained",
"enchained",
"enfettered",
"fettered",
"gyved",
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"pinioned",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"ironed",
"lashed",
"secured",
"tied",
"trussed",
"attached",
"fastened",
"joined",
"linked",
"confined",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"entangled",
"tangled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"released",
"rescued",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"untangled",
"untied",
"detached",
"disengaged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbound",
"unfettered",
"unshackled"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
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"clogged",
"cramped",
"embarrassed",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"held up",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"short-circuited",
"stymied",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"reined",
"restrained",
"bound",
"chained",
"haltered",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"tied",
"arrested",
"braked",
"delayed",
"retained",
"retarded",
"barricaded",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"roadblocked",
"bogged (down)",
"mired",
"choked",
"smothered",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suffocated",
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"stumped",
"thwarted",
"derailed",
"disrupted",
"sabotaged",
"muzzled",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"confined",
"hedged (in)",
"hemmed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared",
"made way",
"opened",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"untied",
"loosened",
"smoothed",
"encouraged",
"furthered",
"promoted"
],
"antonyms":[
"aided",
"assisted",
"facilitated",
"helped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sharpening":{
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"you need to sharpen your penknife's blade frequently in order to be able to whittle properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"edging",
"grinding",
"honing",
"stoning",
"stropping",
"whetting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffing",
"burnishing",
"glossing",
"polishing",
"rounding",
"smoothing"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunting",
"dulling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakes out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"comes out",
"falls out",
"pans out",
"proves",
"turns out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develops",
"emerges",
"evolves",
"germinates",
"plays out",
"unfolds",
"works out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shattering":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"demolishing",
"exploding",
"popping",
"smashing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"crashing",
"smashing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busting",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"annihilating",
"bashing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"nuking",
"pulverizing",
"ruining",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking",
"shivering",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crunching",
"crushing",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakoes":{
"as in kepis , berets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shako":{
"as in kepi , beret":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball cap",
"beret",
"billycock",
"biretta",
"boater",
"bonnet",
"bowler",
"calotte",
"capuche",
"casque",
"castor",
"cloche",
"cocked hat",
"cowboy hat",
"cowl",
"derby",
"fedora",
"fez",
"garrison cap",
"hard hat",
"helm",
"helmet",
"high hat",
"homburg",
"hood",
"kepi",
"k\u00e9pi",
"kufi",
"leghorn",
"miter",
"mitre",
"nightcap",
"opera hat",
"overseas cap",
"panama",
"picture hat",
"pillbox",
"plug hat",
"porkpie hat",
"service cap",
"silk hat",
"skimmer",
"skullcap",
"sombrero",
"sou'wester",
"Stetson",
"stocking cap",
"stovepipe",
"sunbonnet",
"tam",
"tam-o'-shanter",
"ten-gallon hat",
"top hat",
"topper",
"toque",
"tricorne",
"tricorn",
"turban",
"zucchetto",
"cap",
"chapeau",
"hat",
"headdress",
"headgear",
"headpiece",
"lid",
"warbonnet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shake-ups":{
"as in shakeouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shakeouts",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"pink slips",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanghaiing":{
"as in seizure , impressment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impressment",
"seizure",
"abduction",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"rape",
"snatch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in seizing , capturing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"crimping",
"impressing",
"seizing",
"waylaying",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"absconding (with)",
"snatching",
"spiriting",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"catching",
"copping",
"stealing",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivering",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"restoring",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in taking in , fooling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"kidding",
"snowing",
"taking in",
"tricking",
"engineering",
"finagling",
"jockeying",
"maneuvering",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"exploiting",
"manipulating",
"playing (upon)",
"arranging",
"contriving",
"devising",
"finessing",
"masterminding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"conning",
"defrauding",
"fleecing",
"hustling",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharp":{
"having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
"examples":[
"be careful, as that knife is sharp enough to slice off a finger"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
]
},
"having a powerfully stimulating odor or flavor":{
"examples":[
"that cheese is so sharp that its rank aroma can practically clear a room"
],
"synonyms":[
"nippy",
"pungent",
"strong",
"tangy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acid",
"acidic",
"acrid",
"bitter",
"harsh",
"gingery",
"hot",
"peppery",
"piquant",
"spicy",
"tart",
"zesty",
"zingy",
"putrid",
"rancid",
"rank",
"skunky",
"acute",
"keen",
"animating",
"energizing",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"provocative",
"appetizing",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"palatable",
"toothsome",
"flavorful",
"savory",
"savoury",
"tasty",
"aromatic",
"redolent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"mellow",
"ripe",
"gentle",
"soft",
"flat",
"flavorless",
"insipid",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"zestless",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"bland",
"mild",
"smooth"
]
},
"tapering to a thin tip":{
"examples":[
"tipped with a sharp arrowhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"peaked",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spired",
"tipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"needlelike",
"spiny",
"barbed",
"jagged",
"pronged",
"spiked",
"spikelike",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"bladelike",
"knifelike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dull",
"rounded"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt"
]
},
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"examples":[
"wore a sharp suit to his first big job interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
]
},
"being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance":{
"examples":[
"a television personality who's known as a sharp dresser"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapper",
"natty",
"smart",
"snappy",
"spruce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dolled up",
"dressy",
"elegant",
"formal",
"spiffed-up",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"stylish",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean"
],
"near antonyms":[
"messy",
"mussed",
"rumpled",
"uncombed",
"untidy",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grubby",
"nasty",
"scroungy",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"scuzzy",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"dowdy",
"inelegant",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt"
]
},
"causing intense discomfort to one's skin":{
"examples":[
"I got chapped lips from sailing all day in that sharp wind"
],
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"raw",
"shrewd",
"smarting",
"stinging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"invigorating",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"needlelike",
"prickly",
"tingling",
"caustic",
"corrosive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"sharp business practices that are being investigated by the state's consumer protection agency"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment":{
"examples":[
"a sharp customer who wasn't about to be taken in by that smooth-tongued salesman"
],
"synonyms":[
"astute",
"canny",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"hard-boiled",
"hardheaded",
"heady",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sharp-witted",
"shrewd",
"smart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"pawky",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise",
"experienced",
"veteran",
"discriminating",
"discriminative",
"agile",
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp-eyed",
"sharp-sighted",
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"calculating",
"scheming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"unperceptive",
"unwise",
"dense",
"dull",
"obtuse",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"dim-witted",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dumb",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unintelligent",
"weak-minded",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"ignorant",
"uninformed"
],
"antonyms":[
"unknowing"
]
},
"having or showing quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"any sharp student would have noticed the error immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"an unnecessarily sharp retort to a perfectly civil question"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"you have sharp eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"delicate",
"fine",
"keen",
"perceptive",
"quick",
"sensitive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accurate",
"clear",
"discerning",
"good",
"piercing",
"precise",
"receptive",
"sensible",
"subtle",
"hair-trigger",
"hyperacute",
"hypersensitive",
"oversensitive",
"supersensitive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"deadened",
"dimmed",
"dull",
"dulled",
"fading",
"dead",
"imperceptive",
"insensible",
"insensitive",
"numb",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"uncomfortably cool":{
"examples":[
"a spell of unusually sharp weather for this time of year"
],
"synonyms":[
"bitter",
"bleak",
"chill",
"chilling",
"chilly",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"raw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bracing",
"brisk",
"crisp",
"invigorating",
"rigorous",
"snappy",
"arctic",
"cold",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"numbing",
"polar",
"shivery",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"frore",
"frosted",
"frozen",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"unheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"warm",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"heated",
"warmed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as stated or indicated without the slightest difference":{
"examples":[
"be there at four o'clock sharp"
],
"synonyms":[
"due",
"exactly",
"full",
"just",
"precisely",
"right",
"smack-dab",
"squarely"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"the computer sharp that the rest of the staff turns to whenever their PCs act up"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"mistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
]
},
"as in hum , croon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belt",
"croon",
"harmonize",
"hum",
"lilt",
"quaver",
"scat",
"slur",
"trill",
"troll",
"warble",
"yodel",
"carol",
"chant",
"descant",
"sing",
"vocalize",
"serenade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shackle(s)":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"chains",
"enchains",
"enfetters",
"fetters",
"gyves",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"pinions",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bits",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"irons",
"lashes",
"secures",
"ties",
"trusses",
"attaches",
"fastens",
"joins",
"links",
"confines",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"entangles",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"looses",
"releases",
"rescues",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"untangles",
"unties",
"detaches",
"disengages"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unfetters",
"unshackles"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaping up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallizing",
"crystalizing",
"forming",
"jelling",
"solidifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associating",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"fusing",
"combining",
"conjoining",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"joining",
"linking (up)",
"unifying",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking down",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amending",
"mending",
"reforming",
"straightening (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaving",
"regenerating",
"bettering",
"improving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backsliding",
"regressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaveling":{
"a male person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"examples":[
"ever since he was a shaveling , he's wanted to be an airline pilot, just like his dad"
],
"synonyms":[
"boy",
"boychick",
"boychik",
"boyo",
"callant",
"lad",
"laddie",
"nipper",
"shaver",
"sonny",
"stripling",
"tad",
"youth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"minor",
"moppet",
"teenager",
"tween",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"gamin",
"guttersnipe",
"hobbledehoy",
"imp",
"squirt",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"schoolboy",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"mama's boy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shakos":{
"as in kepis , berets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shallowness":{
"as in superficiality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"superficiality",
"brainlessness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness",
"profundity",
"discernment",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"sense",
"sensibility",
"wisdom",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in height , elevation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altitude",
"elevation",
"height",
"stature"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth",
"drop",
"lowness",
"draft",
"sounding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shakeout":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"fall out",
"pan out",
"prove",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"emerge",
"evolve",
"germinate",
"play out",
"unfold",
"work out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shake-up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shake-up",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaken out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"fallen out",
"panned out",
"proved",
"proven",
"turned out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"emerged",
"evolved",
"germinated",
"played out",
"unfolded",
"worked out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharpers":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"carnival sharpers eager to relieve the yokels of their money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilkers",
"bilks",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fakirs",
"finaglers",
"fraudsters",
"hoaxers",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharks",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers",
"trickers",
"tricksters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"bluffers",
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams",
"adventurers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"gamesmen",
"knaves",
"pranksters",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"fast-talkers",
"slickers",
"slicks",
"slicksters",
"slyboots",
"smoothies",
"wheeler-dealers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"blacklegs",
"cardsharps",
"cardsharpers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shawled":{
"as in wrapped , shrouded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"enrobed",
"enshrouded",
"enswathed",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"mantled",
"shrouded",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"blanketed",
"carpeted",
"coated",
"covered",
"overlaid",
"overlay",
"overspread",
"sheeted",
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"curtained",
"veiled",
"circled",
"encircled",
"encompassed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharecrops":{
"as in plants , harvests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivates",
"farms",
"tends",
"tills",
"crops",
"plants",
"harvests",
"reaps",
"harrows",
"hoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharping":{
"as in humming , crooning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belting",
"crooning",
"harmonizing",
"humming",
"lilting",
"quavering",
"scatting",
"slurring",
"trilling",
"trolling",
"warbling",
"yodeling",
"yodelling",
"caroling",
"carolling",
"chanting",
"descanting",
"singing",
"vocalizing",
"serenading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadow":{
"partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays":{
"examples":[
"the valley was in shadow"
],
"synonyms":[
"dusk",
"penumbra",
"shade",
"shadiness",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackness",
"dimness",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"murkiness",
"obscurity",
"semidarkness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"lightness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"lurking in the shadows"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished":{
"examples":[
"a run-down mansion that is only a shadow of its former glory"
],
"synonyms":[
"echo",
"ghost",
"relic",
"trace",
"vestige"
],
"near synonyms":[
"memento",
"remembrance",
"reminder",
"artifact",
"afterimage",
"aftertaste",
"balance",
"corpse",
"hangover",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"scrap",
"dreg(s)",
"leavings",
"remain(s)",
"residual",
"residue",
"rest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"not even a shadow of a doubt about the defendant's guilt"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"rumors of a shadow haunting the castle"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom":{
"examples":[
"the husband's adulterous affair had cast over their marriage a shadow from which there was no escape"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloud",
"darkness",
"pall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fog",
"haze",
"mist",
"murk",
"penumbra",
"umbra",
"midnight",
"night",
"mantle",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dog",
"chase",
"course",
"dog",
"follow",
"hound",
"pursue",
"run",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"escort",
"hunt",
"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"head"
],
"antonyms":[
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"thickening clouds shadowed the countryside"
],
"synonyms":[
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"blacken",
"blear",
"blur",
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dislimn",
"fog",
"fuzz (up)",
"haze",
"mist",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overcloud",
"overshadow",
"shroud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrate",
"blot out",
"conceal",
"eclipse",
"hide",
"obliterate",
"screen",
"shade",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"mask",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expose",
"reveal",
"uncover",
"unveil"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"light (up)",
"lighten"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches"
],
"synonyms":[
"shade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"canopy",
"cover",
"protect",
"screen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminate",
"light",
"lighten",
"expose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaver":{
"a male person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"examples":[
"back in the old days when my dad was just a little shaver"
],
"synonyms":[
"boy",
"boychick",
"boychik",
"boyo",
"callant",
"lad",
"laddie",
"nipper",
"shaveling",
"sonny",
"stripling",
"tad",
"youth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"minor",
"moppet",
"teenager",
"tween",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"gamin",
"guttersnipe",
"hobbledehoy",
"imp",
"squirt",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"schoolboy",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"mama's boy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharecropper":{
"a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops":{
"examples":[
"grew up the child of a poor sharecropper"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crofter",
"cropper",
"gentleman farmer",
"subsistence farmer",
"tenant farmer",
"yeoman",
"agriculturist",
"agriculturalist",
"agronomist",
"cultivator",
"grower",
"planter",
"tiller",
"farmhand",
"field hand",
"gleaner",
"harvester",
"plowman",
"reaper",
"workfolk",
"workfolks",
"homesteader",
"nester",
"granger",
"rancher",
"ranchero",
"ranchman",
"campesino"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shackle":{
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"examples":[
"placed shackles on the legs of the prisoners"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"bind",
"bond",
"bracelet",
"chain",
"cuff(s)",
"fetter",
"handcuff(s)",
"irons",
"ligature",
"manacle(s)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"constraint",
"curb",
"enchainment",
"enslavement",
"hindrance",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"restriction",
"entanglement",
"net",
"trammel",
"trap",
"collar",
"straitjacket",
"straightjacket",
"fastener",
"hobble",
"hold",
"hold-down",
"holding",
"tie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"chain",
"enchain",
"enfetter",
"fetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"pinion",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bit",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"iron",
"lash",
"secure",
"tie",
"truss",
"attach",
"fasten",
"join",
"link",
"confine",
"constrain",
"curb",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"entangle",
"tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"release",
"rescue",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"untangle",
"untie",
"detach",
"disengage"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbind",
"unfetter",
"unshackle"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie",
"arrest",
"brake",
"delay",
"retain",
"retard",
"barricade",
"block",
"blockade",
"roadblock",
"bog (down)",
"mire",
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suffocate",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"stump",
"thwart",
"derail",
"disrupt",
"sabotage",
"muzzle",
"repress",
"suppress",
"confine",
"hedge (in)",
"hem (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"make way",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharpy":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"those poolroom sharpies cleaned them out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharper",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shards":{
"a small sharp piece of something (such as glass or pottery)":{
"examples":[
"Watch out for the shards of glass on the floor."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"shreds",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shady":{
"protected from the sun's rays":{
"examples":[
"a lovely shady spot in the park that was pleasantly cool"
],
"synonyms":[
"shaded",
"shadowed",
"shadowy",
"umbrageous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"inky",
"moonless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"penumbral",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"exposed",
"shadeless",
"sunny"
]
},
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"a shady business deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"cited some shady statistics to back up his argument"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions":{
"examples":[
"shady characters hanging out in the park after nightfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"furtive",
"shifty",
"slippery",
"sly",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealthy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"slick",
"wily",
"close",
"closemouthed",
"reticent",
"secretive",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"dark",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"duplicitous",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"cheating",
"crooked",
"defrauding",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"double-dealing",
"knavish",
"two-faced",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untrustworthy",
"untruthful",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"serpentine",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"forthright",
"plainspoken",
"straightforward",
"candid",
"direct",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"open",
"plain",
"honest",
"trustworthy",
"truthful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"a courtesan who lived on the shady fringe of society"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shameful",
"shoddy",
"shy",
"unrespectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shakedowns":{
"as in couches , bunk beds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk beds",
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"feather beds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"Murphy beds",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bunks",
"dosses",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks",
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dry runs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry runs",
"trial and errors",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"rehearsals",
"tryouts",
"workouts",
"essays",
"experimentations",
"experiments",
"tests",
"trials",
"crucibles",
"ordeals",
"attempts",
"efforts",
"tries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pursuits , reconnaissances":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnaissances",
"recons",
"scouts",
"hunts",
"quests",
"searches",
"chases",
"pursuits",
"explorations",
"probes",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"surveys",
"sweeps",
"forages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shammed":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"affected",
"assumed",
"bluffed",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"feigned",
"passed (for)",
"pretended",
"professed",
"put on",
"simulated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulated",
"impersonated",
"let on",
"masqueraded",
"playacted",
"played",
"posed",
"forged",
"imitated",
"camouflaged",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"feinted",
"malingered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shatter":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"blow up",
"burst",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"smash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamite",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"crash",
"smash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bust",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"annihilate",
"bash",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"pulverize",
"ruin",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck",
"shiver",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crunch",
"crush",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chip , shard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chip",
"flake",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"portion",
"section",
"segment",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving",
"end",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"stub",
"atom",
"crumb",
"dribble",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"nugget",
"particle",
"patch",
"scruple",
"snip",
"snippet",
"speck",
"tittle",
"cantle",
"shred",
"tatter",
"bit",
"fraction",
"fragment",
"piece",
"scrap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharecropping":{
"as in farming , agriculture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivation",
"culture",
"farmwork",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"tillage",
"agriculture",
"farming",
"husbandry",
"agribusiness",
"agroecology",
"agronomy",
"animal husbandry",
"mixed farming",
"monoculture",
"pastoralism",
"agroforestry",
"arboriculture",
"pomology",
"aquaculture",
"aquiculture",
"hydroponics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in planting , harvesting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivating",
"farming",
"tending",
"tilling",
"cropping",
"planting",
"harvesting",
"reaping",
"harrowing",
"hoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaking down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shake-up":{
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up"
],
"synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shock"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonish",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"freak (out)",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"dismay",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize",
"disgust",
"nauseate",
"repel",
"revolt",
"sicken",
"turn off",
"displease",
"offend",
"outrage",
"scandalize",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"shake",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out",
"crush",
"overpower",
"overwhelm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffer",
"cushion",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"rejoice",
"tickle",
"charm",
"entice",
"tempt",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"reassure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shakeout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shakeout",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharecropped":{
"as in planted , harvested":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivated",
"farmed",
"tended",
"tilled",
"cropped",
"planted",
"harvested",
"reaped",
"harrowed",
"hoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadily":{
"as in shadowily , cloudily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cloudily",
"shadowily",
"darkly",
"duskily",
"gloomily",
"murkily",
"obscurely",
"somberly",
"dimly",
"dully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"dazzlingly",
"fulgently",
"glowingly",
"incandescently",
"lambently",
"luminously",
"lustrously",
"radiantly",
"splendidly",
"blazingly",
"burningly",
"flamingly",
"blindingly",
"flaringly",
"flickeringly",
"glaringly",
"glitteringly",
"opalescently"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shapeliness":{
"as in sexiness , desirability":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"foxiness",
"lusciousness",
"nubility",
"pulchritude",
"seductiveness",
"sex appeal",
"sexiness",
"aesthetics",
"esthetics",
"attractiveness",
"beauteousness",
"beautifulness",
"beauty",
"comeliness",
"cuteness",
"fairness",
"gorgeousness",
"handsomeness",
"looks",
"loveliness",
"prettiness",
"sightliness",
"allure",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"fascination",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"charm",
"delightfulness",
"elegance",
"exquisiteness",
"gloriousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"splendidness",
"splendiferousness",
"sublimeness",
"sublimity",
"superbness",
"flawlessness",
"perfection",
"daintiness",
"delicacy",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"glossiness",
"showiness",
"slickness",
"splashiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"dreadfulness",
"foulness",
"ghastliness",
"horribleness",
"loathsomeness",
"nastiness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repulsiveness",
"terribleness",
"vileness",
"blemish",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"grotesqueness",
"hideousness",
"homeliness",
"plainness",
"ugliness",
"unattractiveness",
"unbecomingness",
"unloveliness",
"unsightliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Shaktis":{
"as in lives , lifebloods":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lifebloods",
"lives",
"world souls",
"inner lights",
"lights",
"natures",
"orgones",
"souls",
"spirits",
"karmas",
"manas",
"auras",
"chis",
"ch'is",
"qis",
"energies",
"kis",
"vibes",
"vibrations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharpshooters":{
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"the police stationed sharpshooters on rooftops all along the route of the presidential motorcade"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksmen",
"shooters",
"shots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snipers",
"riflemen",
"trapshooters",
"gunmen",
"gunners",
"guns",
"markswomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shavings":{
"as in slivers , clippings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clippings",
"parings",
"slivers",
"snippets",
"splinters",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"lengths",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"segments",
"chops",
"cutlets",
"cuts",
"cuttings",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shamed":{
"suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing":{
"examples":[
"the shamed look of someone who knows that he is being given credit he doesn't deserve"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashamed",
"guilty",
"shamefaced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apologetic",
"contrite",
"penitent",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"sorry",
"compunctious",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"penitential",
"blushing",
"chagrined",
"embarrassed",
"hangdog",
"sheepish",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"culpable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unapologetic",
"unrepentant",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"impudent",
"blameless",
"guiltless",
"innocent"
],
"antonyms":[
"shameless",
"unashamed"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"chastened",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"smirched",
"took down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"belittled",
"castigated",
"cried down",
"criticized",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"detracted",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"wrote off",
"bad-mouthed",
"defamed",
"defiled",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"boasted",
"celebrated",
"cheered",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"decorated",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"feted",
"f\u00eated",
"hailed",
"honored",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"highlighted",
"played up",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"dignified",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"enskied",
"enthroned",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"advanced",
"boosted",
"lifted",
"promoted",
"raised",
"upgraded",
"uplifted",
"idealized",
"romanticized"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"canonized",
"deified",
"elevated",
"exalted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sharecroppers":{
"a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops":{
"examples":[
"grew up the child of a poor sharecropper"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crofters",
"croppers",
"gentlemen farmers",
"subsistence farmers",
"tenant farmers",
"yeomen",
"agriculturists",
"agriculturalists",
"agronomists",
"cultivators",
"growers",
"planters",
"tillers",
"farmhands",
"field hands",
"gleaners",
"harvesters",
"plowmen",
"reapers",
"workfolks",
"homesteaders",
"nesters",
"grangers",
"rancheros",
"ranchers",
"ranchmen",
"campesinos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaft":{
"a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object":{
"examples":[
"shafts of late-afternoon sunlight pierced the blinds and streaked the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"beam",
"ray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moonbeam",
"sunbeam",
"sunburst",
"laser",
"spotlight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade":{
"examples":[
"the footmen set their shafts so as to form a bank of steel against the enemy's charging cavalry"
],
"synonyms":[
"javelin",
"lance",
"pike",
"pikestaff",
"spear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dart",
"spike",
"gaff",
"halberd",
"halbert",
"harpoon",
"leister",
"trident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"disservice",
"inequity",
"injury",
"injustice",
"raw deal",
"unfairness",
"unjustness",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affront",
"indignity",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"put-down",
"slight",
"slur",
"beef",
"complaint",
"grievance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cricket"
],
"antonyms":[
"equitableness",
"equity",
"fairness",
"justice"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shagging":{
"as in skipping , leaping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"cantering",
"leaping",
"loping",
"skipping",
"springing",
"dashing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"scampering",
"sprinting",
"tripping",
"trotting",
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"coursing",
"footing (it)",
"haring",
"hastening",
"hoofing (it)",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"legging (it)",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming",
"nipping",
"pattering",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"stepping (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"trudging",
"hobbling",
"limping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shamuses":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"a hard-bitten L.A. shamus who, when he's not battling crooks, is locking horns with his superiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbies",
"bulls",
"constables",
"coppers",
"cops",
"flatfeet",
"fuzzes",
"gendarmes",
"lawmen",
"officers",
"policemen",
"police officers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolmen",
"policewomen",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"inspectors",
"investigators",
"plainclothesmen",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"sheriffs",
"troopers",
"peace officers",
"captains",
"lieutenants",
"sergeants",
"constabularies",
"heat",
"men",
"police",
"police forces",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons":{
"examples":[
"he's a shamus who mostly finds evidence to use in divorce cases"
],
"synonyms":[
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"investigators",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shadows",
"tails",
"tracers",
"trackers",
"Federals",
"feds",
"G-men",
"narcs",
"narks",
"plainclothesmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaming":{
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"chastening",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering",
"sinking",
"smirching",
"taking down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"belittling",
"castigating",
"criticizing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"detracting",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"writing off",
"bad-mouthing",
"defaming",
"defiling",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"execrating",
"reprehending",
"reprobating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"boasting",
"celebrating",
"cheering",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"acknowledging",
"recognizing",
"highlighting",
"playing up",
"spotlighting",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enskying",
"enthroning",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"advancing",
"boosting",
"lifting",
"promoting",
"raising",
"upgrading",
"uplifting",
"idealizing",
"romanticizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"elevating",
"exalting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shapers":{
"as in operators , mechanics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mechanics",
"operators",
"smiths",
"wrights",
"consultants",
"aces",
"adepts",
"artists",
"authorities",
"cognoscenti",
"connoisseurs",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dab hands",
"dabs",
"experts",
"fiends",
"geeks",
"gurus",
"hands",
"hotshots",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"meisters",
"past masters",
"proficients",
"scholars",
"sharks",
"sharps",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"professionals",
"pros",
"specialists",
"technicians",
"advisers",
"advisors",
"consiglieri",
"consiglieres",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"counsels",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"craftsmen",
"craftspeople",
"craftswomen",
"journeymen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentices",
"beginners",
"neophytes",
"novices",
"amateurs",
"inexperts",
"nonexperts",
"laymen",
"nonprofessionals",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaman":{
"someone who is believed in some cultures to be able to use magic to cure people who are sick, to control future events, etc.":{
"examples":[
"went to the shaman for a remedy"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"medicine man",
"shamanist",
"witch doctor",
"charmer",
"conjurer",
"conjuror",
"enchanter",
"mage",
"Magian",
"magus",
"necromancer",
"magician",
"sorcerer",
"voodoo",
"voodooist",
"witch",
"wizard",
"enchantress",
"hag",
"hex",
"sorceress",
"warlock",
"occultist",
"thaumaturge",
"thaumaturgist",
"theurgist",
"wonder-worker",
"crystal gazer",
"diviner",
"foreseer",
"fortune-teller",
"prognosticator",
"prophesier",
"prophet",
"seer",
"soothsayer",
"medium",
"exorciser",
"exorcist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shavies":{
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"some shavie he is alleged to have been involved in while a student at Saint Andrews"
],
"synonyms":[
"antics",
"capers",
"capriccios",
"didoes",
"didos",
"escapades",
"frolics",
"gags",
"jests",
"knaveries",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"rags",
"rogueries",
"shines",
"tricks",
"waggeries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adventures",
"experiences",
"games",
"larks",
"times",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplays",
"plays",
"rowdyisms",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"gambits",
"hoaxes",
"maneuvers",
"ploys",
"deeds",
"feats",
"missions",
"performances",
"stunts",
"caprices",
"conceits",
"fancies",
"vagaries",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"delusions",
"frauds",
"hanky-pankies",
"ruses",
"shams",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"wiles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shape up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallize",
"crystalize",
"form",
"jell",
"solidify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associate",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"fuse",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"join",
"link (up)",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break down",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amend",
"mend",
"reform",
"straighten (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behave",
"regenerate",
"better",
"improve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslide",
"regress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharers":{
"one who takes part in something":{
"examples":[
"all pilots are sharers of the same air space"
],
"synonyms":[
"actors",
"partakers",
"participants",
"participators",
"parties",
"players"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessories",
"accessaries",
"aides",
"assistants",
"helpers",
"colleagues",
"partners"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bystanders",
"lookers-on",
"observers",
"onlookers",
"spectators",
"watchers",
"wallflowers"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonparticipants"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shatters":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"demolishes",
"explodes",
"pops",
"smashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamites",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks",
"detonates",
"discharges",
"fragments",
"splinters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"implodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"crashes",
"smashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busts",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"annihilates",
"bashes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"nukes",
"pulverizes",
"ruins",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks",
"shivers",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crunches",
"crushes",
"snaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chips , shards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chips",
"flakes",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"portions",
"sections",
"segments",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings",
"ends",
"leftovers",
"oddments",
"remainders",
"remnants",
"stubs",
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dribbles",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"nuggets",
"particles",
"patches",
"scruples",
"snippets",
"snips",
"specks",
"tittles",
"cantles",
"shreds",
"tatters",
"bits",
"fractions",
"fragments",
"pieces",
"scraps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharecrop":{
"as in plant , harvest":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivate",
"farm",
"tend",
"till",
"crop",
"plant",
"harvest",
"reap",
"harrow",
"hoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shackles":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"chains",
"enchains",
"enfetters",
"fetters",
"gyves",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"pinions",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bits",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"irons",
"lashes",
"secures",
"ties",
"trusses",
"attaches",
"fastens",
"joins",
"links",
"confines",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"entangles",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"looses",
"releases",
"rescues",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"untangles",
"unties",
"detaches",
"disengages"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unfetters",
"unshackles"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shadows":{
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"lurking in the shadows"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogs",
"chases",
"courses",
"dogs",
"follows",
"hounds",
"pursues",
"runs",
"tags",
"tails",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"escorts",
"hunts",
"searches (for)",
"seeks",
"eyes",
"observes",
"watches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heads"
],
"antonyms":[
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"thickening clouds shadowed the countryside"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blackens",
"blears",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dislimns",
"fogs",
"fuzzes (up)",
"hazes",
"mists",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overclouds",
"overshadows",
"shrouds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrates",
"blots out",
"conceals",
"eclipses",
"hides",
"obliterates",
"screens",
"shades",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"masks",
"veils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes",
"reveals",
"uncovers",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"lightens",
"lights (up)"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches"
],
"synonyms":[
"shades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"canopies",
"covers",
"protects",
"screens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"exposes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharpness":{
"a harsh or sharp quality":{
"examples":[
"he found that the bland crackers helped cut the sharpness of the cheese"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerbity",
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"poignancy",
"pungency",
"roughness",
"tartness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"shrillness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"mildness",
"softness"
]
},
"an uncomfortable degree of coolness":{
"examples":[
"dress warmly; there's a bit of sharpness in the air today"
],
"synonyms":[
"bite",
"bitterness",
"bleakness",
"chill",
"chilliness",
"nip",
"nippiness",
"rawness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"briskness",
"crispness",
"coldness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness",
"frostiness",
"gelidity",
"iciness",
"wintriness",
"cold",
"freeze",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balminess",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"heat",
"hotness",
"sultriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters":{
"examples":[
"possesses a political sharpness that most campaign managers would envy"
],
"synonyms":[
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"canniness",
"clear-sightedness",
"foxiness",
"hardheadedness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"knowingness",
"shrewdness",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"artfulness",
"artifice",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"guile",
"slickness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"subtleness",
"subtlety",
"wiliness",
"brain(s)",
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"reason",
"sense"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"greenness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"innocence",
"naiveness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"unworldliness",
"brainlessness",
"density",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"witlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or quality of being able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"possesses the proverbial sharpness of an eagle's eye"
],
"synonyms":[
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"delicacy",
"keenness",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hyperacuity",
"hypersensitiveness",
"hypersensitivity",
"oversensitiveness",
"oversensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"accuracy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shamanist":{
"as in shaman , medicine man":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"medicine man",
"shaman",
"witch doctor",
"charmer",
"conjurer",
"conjuror",
"enchanter",
"mage",
"Magian",
"magician",
"magus",
"necromancer",
"sorcerer",
"voodoo",
"voodooist",
"witch",
"wizard",
"enchantress",
"hag",
"hex",
"sorceress",
"warlock",
"occultist",
"thaumaturge",
"thaumaturgist",
"theurgist",
"wonder-worker",
"crystal gazer",
"diviner",
"foreseer",
"fortune-teller",
"prognosticator",
"prophesier",
"prophet",
"seer",
"soothsayer",
"medium",
"exorciser",
"exorcist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanks":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"slashed at the prison guard with a shank he had secretly made from a scrap of metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"blades",
"cutters",
"knives",
"shivs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleavers",
"hacks",
"bayonets",
"bodkins",
"bolos",
"bowie knifes",
"bowie knives",
"cutlasses",
"daggers",
"dirks",
"jackknives",
"machetes",
"pocketknives",
"poniards",
"sheath knives",
"stilettos",
"stilettoes",
"stylets",
"switchblades",
"switch knives",
"yataghans",
"rapiers",
"sabers",
"sabres",
"steels",
"swords",
"scalpels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaping":{
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"suiting",
"tailoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming",
"accustoming",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"readying",
"training",
"bending",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"regulating",
"rigging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranging",
"blueprinting",
"budgeting",
"calculating",
"charting",
"choreographing",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping (out)",
"organizing",
"planning",
"preparing",
"projecting",
"scheming (out)",
"strategizing (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspiring",
"contriving",
"devising",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"putting up",
"concerting",
"getting up",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"sketching",
"aiming",
"figuring",
"having on",
"intending",
"meaning",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"premeditating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakedown":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
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"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in couch , bunk bed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dry run":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry run",
"trial and error",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"tryout",
"workout",
"essay",
"experiment",
"experimentation",
"test",
"trial",
"crucible",
"ordeal",
"attempt",
"effort",
"try"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pursuit , reconnaissance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recon",
"reconnaissance",
"scout",
"hunt",
"quest",
"search",
"chase",
"pursuit",
"exploration",
"probe",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"survey",
"sweep",
"forage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shave":{
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"he always shaves most of his hair off when the weather starts getting warmer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bob",
"clip",
"crop",
"cut",
"cut back",
"dock",
"lop (off)",
"nip",
"pare",
"poll",
"prune",
"shear",
"snip",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skive",
"whittle",
"manicure",
"mow",
"pinch",
"stump",
"curtail",
"shorten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing":{
"examples":[
"just shaved the concrete post as the car turned the corner"
],
"synonyms":[
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"skim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bump",
"contact",
"scrape",
"sideswipe",
"strike",
"sweep",
"swipe",
"touch",
"bounce",
"carom",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skip",
"caress",
"cuddle",
"fondle",
"love",
"pat",
"pet",
"stroke",
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bump",
"clash",
"collide",
"crash",
"hit",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"punch",
"ram",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"swipe",
"thud",
"thwack",
"whack"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shaving , clipping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving",
"snippet",
"shred",
"tatter",
"leaf",
"sheet",
"slice",
"flinders",
"shiver",
"smithereens",
"bit",
"disk",
"disc",
"fragment",
"part",
"particle",
"portion",
"scrap",
"section",
"shard",
"chip",
"flake",
"sliver",
"spall",
"splint",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharp-sighted":{
"having unusually keen vision":{
"examples":[
"the sharp-sighted hunter spotted the deer and motioned to his companions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear-sighted",
"eagle-eyed",
"hawkeyed",
"lynx-eyed",
"sharp-eyed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighted",
"alert",
"attentive",
"aware",
"observant",
"observing",
"vigilant",
"watchful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blind",
"eyeless",
"sightless",
"stone-blind",
"visionless",
"astigmatic",
"myopic",
"nearsighted",
"shortsighted",
"purblind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shameless":{
"not embarrassed or ashamed":{
"examples":[
"she's truly shameless in the seemingly endless self-promotion of herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"unabashed",
"unashamed",
"unblushing",
"unembarrassed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prideful",
"proud",
"bold",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"saucy",
"unapologetic",
"undaunted",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unblinking",
"unflinching",
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unrepentant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"apologetic",
"contrite",
"penitent",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"sorry"
],
"antonyms":[
"abashed",
"ashamed",
"embarrassed",
"hangdog",
"shamed",
"shamefaced",
"sheepish"
]
},
"not sorry for having done wrong":{
"examples":[
"a shameless exploiter of impoverished workers in overseas sweatshops"
],
"synonyms":[
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unashamed",
"unrepentant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compassionless",
"cruel",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"unmerciful",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"reprobate",
"unregenerate",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"obdurate",
"soulless",
"unfeeling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hangdog",
"shamefaced",
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"apologetic",
"ashamed",
"compunctious",
"contrite",
"guilty",
"penitent",
"regretful",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"rueful",
"shamed",
"sorry"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sharp-tongued":{
"as in sour , spiky":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shambolic":{
"as in chaotic , disorderly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chaotic",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"unordered",
"disorganized",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"immethodical",
"irregular",
"nonsystematic",
"patternless",
"planless",
"systemless",
"unsystematic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"neat",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"ordered",
"regularized",
"standardized",
"structured",
"accurate",
"clocklike",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shames":{
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"examples":[
"it's a shame you won't be able to come to the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"crimes",
"disgraces",
"pities",
"sins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outrages",
"scandals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of having lost the esteem of others":{
"examples":[
"left the room in shame after his angry outburst"
],
"synonyms":[
"discredit",
"disesteems",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"ignominies",
"infamies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scandals",
"contempts",
"despites",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"deprecations",
"disapprobations",
"disapprovals",
"disfavors",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"degradations",
"dust",
"humiliations",
"blots",
"brands",
"shadows",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"spots",
"stains",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"taints"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admirations",
"appreciations",
"estimations",
"regards",
"awes",
"fears",
"reverences",
"fames",
"glories",
"renowns",
"reputes"
],
"antonyms":[
"esteems",
"honors",
"respects"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"chastens",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers",
"sinks",
"smirches",
"takes down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"belittles",
"castigates",
"cries down",
"criticizes",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"detracts",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"writes off",
"bad-mouths",
"defames",
"defiles",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"affronts",
"insults",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"execrates",
"reprehends",
"reprobates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"boasts",
"celebrates",
"cheers",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"decorates",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"hails",
"honors",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts",
"acknowledges",
"recognizes",
"highlights",
"plays up",
"spotlights",
"dignifies",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"enskies",
"enthrones",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"advances",
"boosts",
"lifts",
"promotes",
"raises",
"upgrades",
"uplifts",
"idealizes",
"romanticizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"elevates",
"exalts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}