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{
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"fianc\u00e9s":{
"the person to whom one is engaged to be married":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"couldn't wait to show off her fianc\u00e9 to all of her relatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"admirers",
"beaux",
"beaus",
"beloveds",
"boyfriends",
"darlings",
"dears",
"favorites",
"fellows",
"flames",
"girlfriends",
"honeys",
"lovers",
"loves",
"steadies",
"swains",
"sweethearts",
"sweetie pies",
"sweeties",
"sweets",
"valentines",
"brides",
"grooms"
],
"synonyms":[
"betrotheds",
"fianc\u00e9es",
"intendeds"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiat":{
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the school principal issued a fiat that caps were not to be worn inside the school, and that was that"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"resolution",
"verdict",
"announcement",
"declaration",
"dictum",
"manifesto",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"canon",
"encyclical"
],
"synonyms":[
"bull",
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"edict",
"rescript",
"ruling",
"ukase"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fibbing":{
"as in lying , dishonest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserting",
"swearing",
"testifying",
"authenticating",
"confirming",
"substantiating",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"related":[
"forswearing",
"foreswearing",
"perjuring",
"equivocating",
"fudging",
"paltering",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"kidding",
"snowing",
"taking in",
"tricking",
"defaming",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"slandering",
"traducing",
"falsifying",
"misreporting",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"distorting",
"garbling",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricating",
"lying",
"prevaricating"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"fibs":{
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"antonyms":[
"truths"
],
"examples":[
"the claim that everyday living would be impossible without at least a few innocent fibs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications"
],
"related":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"perjuries",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers"
]
},
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserts",
"swears",
"testifies",
"authenticates",
"confirms",
"substantiates",
"validates",
"verifies"
],
"related":[
"forswears",
"foreswears",
"perjures",
"equivocates",
"fudges",
"palters",
"beguiles",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"kids",
"snows",
"takes in",
"tricks",
"defames",
"libels",
"slanders",
"traduces",
"falsifies",
"misreports",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"distorts",
"garbles",
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"lies",
"prevaricates"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fictionalized":{
"as in fictional , fictitious":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fiddles":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the e-mail was another one of those fiddles from some supposed Nigerian millionaire seeking to transfer funds out of his country"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crosses",
"fixes",
"Ponzi schemes",
"pyramid schemes",
"rackets",
"rip-offs",
"thimblerigs",
"three-card montes",
"devices",
"dodges",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"ploys",
"schemes",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"synonyms":[
"buncos",
"bunkos",
"cons",
"flimflams",
"frauds",
"hustles",
"scams",
"shell games",
"stings",
"swindles"
]
},
"to make jerky or restless movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"calms (down)",
"stills"
],
"related":[
"flits",
"flutters",
"twitters",
"quakes",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"shivers",
"shudders",
"trembles",
"paces"
],
"synonyms":[
"fidgets",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"jigs",
"squiggles",
"squirms",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"tosses",
"twists",
"twitches",
"wiggles",
"wriggles",
"writhes"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"conscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fiddling":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"lacking importance":{
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"significant",
"substantial",
"unfrivolous",
"weighty"
],
"examples":[
"you should delegate these fiddling matters to your staff so that you can focus on more important issues"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"chief",
"dominant",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"principal",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"basic",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"key"
],
"related":[
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"nickel-and-dime",
"paltry",
"petty",
"small-time",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"synonyms":[
"foolish",
"frivolous",
"incidental",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minor",
"minute",
"negligible",
"nugatory",
"slight",
"small",
"small-fry",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
]
},
"to make jerky or restless movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"calming (down)",
"stilling"
],
"related":[
"flitting",
"fluttering",
"twittering",
"quaking",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shivering",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"pacing"
],
"synonyms":[
"fidgeting",
"jerking",
"jigging",
"jiggling",
"squiggling",
"squirming",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"tossing",
"twisting",
"twitching",
"wiggling",
"wriggling",
"writhing"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"conscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"fiddling (with)":{
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"to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I could tell that someone had been fiddling with the carefully set controls on my entertainment system"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"abusing",
"altering",
"doctoring",
"manhandling",
"manipulating",
"mistreating",
"misusing",
"butting in",
"interfering",
"intruding",
"meddling",
"mucking (about or around)"
],
"synonyms":[
"diddling (with)",
"fooling (with)",
"messing (with)",
"monkeying (with)",
"playing (with)",
"tampering (with)",
"tinkering (with)",
"toying (with)",
"twiddling (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"field":{
"a part or portion having no fixed boundaries":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you set your camera lens to small aperture, the field of sharp focus will be quite large"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"corner",
"section",
"locale",
"locality",
"location",
"locus",
"place",
"point",
"position",
"site",
"space",
"spot"
],
"synonyms":[
"area",
"demesne",
"region",
"zone"
]
},
"a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Worsham Field in Corpus Christi used to be home to a sizable crop dusting operation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"air base",
"air park",
"helipad",
"heliport",
"jetport",
"airstrip",
"landing field",
"landing strip",
"runway",
"launchpad",
"pad"
],
"synonyms":[
"aerodrome",
"airdrome",
"airfield",
"airport"
]
},
"a place where a battle takes place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the field where two mighty armies met and changed the course of history"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battle line",
"front",
"front line",
"ground",
"beachhead",
"bridgehead",
"foothold",
"killing field"
],
"synonyms":[
"battlefield",
"battleground"
]
},
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the first woman to enter the field of medicine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"frontier",
"study",
"subject",
"territory",
"turf",
"occupation",
"profession",
"pursuit",
"racket",
"vocation",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confine",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"ken",
"reach",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width",
"subfield",
"subspecialty"
],
"synonyms":[
"area",
"arena",
"bailiwick",
"barony",
"business",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"firmament",
"front",
"game",
"kingdom",
"line",
"precinct",
"province",
"realm",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"walk"
]
},
"a small area of usually open land":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a field that is the frequent site of neighborhood softball games"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"common(s)",
"croft",
"grass",
"green",
"greensward",
"lawn",
"glade",
"grassland",
"heath",
"heathland",
"lea",
"ley",
"meadow",
"moor",
"pasture",
"pastureland"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearing",
"ground",
"lot",
"parcel",
"plat",
"plot",
"tract"
]
},
"a wide space or area":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cemetery's field of crosses for the war's fallen seemed to stretch to infinity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadth",
"distance",
"expanse",
"expansion",
"extent",
"length",
"plain",
"reach",
"sheet",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
]
},
"active fighting during the course of a war":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in the classroom the general had been a brilliant theoretician, but in the field he proved to be a wholly incompetent tactician"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"attack",
"fire",
"firefight",
"pitched battle",
"single combat",
"hostilities",
"operations",
"warfare",
"duty",
"service"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"battle",
"combat"
]
},
"to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"gave the waitress a large tip because she kept smiling as she fielded their many requests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"botch",
"bungle",
"foozle",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"mishandle",
"muff",
"scamp"
],
"related":[
"engineer",
"finesse",
"jockey",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"get off",
"pull",
"command",
"direct",
"guide",
"steer",
"control",
"micromanage",
"regulate",
"run",
"react (to)",
"respond (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"address",
"contend (with)",
"cope (with)",
"grapple (with)",
"hack",
"handle",
"manage",
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"head",
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"maven",
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"the legend that a fiend continues to haunt what was once the castle's torture chamber"
],
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"angel"
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"djinni",
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"shadow",
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"brownie",
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"elf",
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"faery",
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"gremlin",
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"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll",
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"ogre"
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]
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"he swore that not even the fiend could tempt him to eat that dessert"
],
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],
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]
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},
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"fight":{
"a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective":{
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"examples":[
"the mayoral candidate pledged to lead a successful fight to improve the city's schools"
],
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"related":[
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]
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},
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"everyone on that street seems to be fighting to see who can create the gaudiest holiday lighting display"
],
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"challenge",
"engage",
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"jostle",
"maneuver",
"go out",
"try out",
"train",
"work"
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],
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"battle",
"compete",
"contend",
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"vie"
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]
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"if you kids continue to fight , I'm turning this car around and we're heading back home!"
],
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"coexist",
"get along",
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"agree",
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"a proud people who have fiercely fought all invaders of their homeland"
],
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],
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],
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"submit (to)",
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"I tried to fight the temptation to eat another cookie\u2014and lost"
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"everyone on that street seems to be fighting to see who can create the gaudiest holiday lighting display"
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"getting along",
"accepting",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"concurring",
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"consenting"
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"kicking",
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"swatting",
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},
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"submitting (to)",
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"noun"
]
},
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"fingerprints":{
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"regards a sense of permanence as one of the fingerprints of a civilized society"
],
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"indications",
"signs",
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"symbols",
"tokens",
"charms",
"graces",
"excellences",
"merits",
"virtues",
"eccentricities",
"idiosyncrasies",
"oddities",
"quirks",
"individualities",
"singularities"
],
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"affections",
"attributes",
"attributions",
"characteristics",
"characters",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"diagnostics",
"differentiae",
"features",
"hallmarks",
"markers",
"marks",
"notes",
"particularities",
"peculiarities",
"points",
"properties",
"qualities",
"specifics",
"stamps",
"touches",
"traits"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"finical":{
"hard to please":{
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"undemanding",
"unfastidious",
"unfussy"
],
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"a newspaper who's old-fashionedly finical about proper grammar"
],
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"affable",
"breezy",
"carefree",
"devil-may-care",
"happy-go-lucky",
"lackadaisical",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"lenient",
"permissive",
"uncritical",
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"undiscriminating"
],
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"insightful",
"knowledgeable",
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"cavilling",
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"faultfinding",
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"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"touchy",
"niminy-piminy",
"prim",
"prissy"
],
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"choosy",
"choosey",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"fastidious",
"finicking",
"finicky",
"fussbudgety",
"fussy",
"nice",
"old-maidish",
"particular",
"pernickety",
"persnickety",
"picky"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"his own brother turned out to be the fink who ratted them out to the police"
],
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"related":[
"collaborator",
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"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"leaker",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"notifier"
],
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"betrayer",
"canary",
"deep throat",
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"informer",
"nark",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"stoolie",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"whistle-blower"
]
},
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"that fink would sell out every one of us to save her own behind"
],
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"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"related":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
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"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
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"bounder",
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"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"dog",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint",
"vermin"
]
},
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"examples":[
"we never would have been caught if he hadn't finked on us"
],
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"betray",
"give away",
"turn in",
"backstab",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time",
"blab",
"tattle",
"tip (off)"
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"grass (on)",
"inform",
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"squeak",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tell (on)"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"fired (up)":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
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"examples":[
"the dynamic speaker fired up the audience as no one had previously done"
],
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"calmed",
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"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
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"pacified",
"placated"
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"jeered",
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"teased",
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"bothered",
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},
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"as in musket , shotgun":{
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"firewater":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
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"examples":[
"the bartender recommended a drink made with the local firewater , a potent gin"
],
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"chaser",
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"nightcap",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"liqueur",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"Dutch courage"
],
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"grog",
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"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
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"liquor",
"lush",
"moonshine",
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"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
]
},
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"noun"
]
},
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"firm (up)":{
"to become physically firm or solid":{
"antonyms":[
"liquefy",
"liquify",
"soften"
],
"examples":[
"wait for the modeling clay to firm up before handling the finished pot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliquesce",
"dissolve",
"flux",
"fuse",
"melt",
"smelt",
"thaw",
"unfreeze"
],
"related":[
"cake",
"callus",
"encrust",
"incrust",
"clot",
"coagulate",
"gel",
"gelate",
"gelatinize",
"jell",
"jelly",
"stiffen",
"thicken",
"calcify",
"crystallize",
"crystalize",
"ossify",
"petrify",
"rigidify",
"anneal",
"case-harden",
"temper"
],
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"freeze",
"harden",
"indurate",
"set",
"solidify"
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},
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]
},
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"as in now , first":{
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},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"first-rate":{
"of the very best kind":{
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
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"rotten",
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"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"wanted a first-rate bike and not the cheap model she had been using"
],
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"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
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"high-test",
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"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
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"bonnie",
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"bully",
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"cool",
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"cracking",
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"divine",
"dope",
"down",
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"fabulous",
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"great",
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"hype",
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"lovely",
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"peachy keen",
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"primo",
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"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
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"sterling",
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"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
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"topping",
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"wizard",
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},
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"touristy restaurants generally are not known for the first-rateness of their cuisine"
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"inferiority",
"mediocrity",
"ordinariness",
"worthlessness"
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"related":[
"faultlessness",
"flawlessness",
"impeccability",
"perfectness",
"goodness",
"value",
"worth",
"consequence",
"importance",
"notability"
],
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"choiceness",
"distinction",
"excellence",
"excellency",
"greatness",
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"preeminence",
"primeness",
"superbness",
"superiority",
"supremacy"
]
},
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"noun"
]
},
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"of the very best kind":{
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
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"pathetic",
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"rotten",
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"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"a first-string rendition of the musical piece"
],
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"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"related":[
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"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
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"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
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"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
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"nifty",
"noble",
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"No. 1",
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"out-of-sight",
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"peachy keen",
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"primo",
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"prizewinning",
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"splendid",
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"sterling",
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"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
]
},
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]
},
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"fit the bill":{
"to be fitting or proper":{
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"examples":[
"We finally found an apartment that filled the bill ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"function",
"work"
],
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"befit",
"beseem",
"do",
"fit",
"go",
"serve",
"suit"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
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"fit to be tied":{
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"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"examples":[
"She was fit to be tied when her insurance refused to cover her needed prescriptions."
],
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"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
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"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
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"virulent",
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"cold",
"cool",
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"icy",
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"soreheaded",
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"unpleasant",
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"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
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"ballistic",
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"horn-mad",
"hot",
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"teed off",
"ticked",
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]
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},
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"without her medication, she'd have an epileptic fit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"reliefs",
"remissions"
],
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"recurrences",
"relapses",
"brainstorms",
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"eclampsias",
"pangs",
"paroxysms",
"spasms",
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"frenzies",
"breakdowns",
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"prostrations"
],
"synonyms":[
"accesses",
"attacks",
"bouts",
"cases",
"seizures",
"sieges",
"spells",
"turns"
]
},
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"helpless fits of laughter from the audience"
],
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"blowups",
"grouches",
"rages",
"tantrums",
"ecstasies",
"raptures",
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"deliriums",
"firestorms",
"frenzies",
"furors"
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"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flushes",
"gales",
"gushes",
"gusts",
"outbursts",
"paroxysms",
"spasms",
"storms"
]
},
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"examples":[
"found out what his wife had spent on clothes and threw a fit"
],
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"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
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],
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],
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"now that you've explained your absence to me, my records and the office's fit"
],
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"squares",
"tallies"
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"I can undo the hem on these old culottes and fit them into a skirt"
],
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"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
]
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"that final computer course should fit him for a career in programming"
],
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"shapes",
"tailors",
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"empowers",
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"schools",
"teaches",
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],
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"readies",
"seasons",
"trains"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we can fit you in the booth if the rest of us squeeze closer together"
],
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"harbors",
"houses"
],
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"holds",
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"I won't have time to fit the spare room for the guests"
],
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]
},
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"fittingly":{
"in a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose":{
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"he was dressed fittingly for the prom\u2014all decked out in a spiffy tux"
],
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"unsatisfactorily",
"inopportunely",
"unfortunately",
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"rightly",
"suitably"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"unseemliness",
"unsuitability",
"wrongness"
],
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"trusted their judgment and didn't have to worry about the fittingness of their choice for a school play"
],
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"incongruousness",
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"inexpediency",
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"pointlessness"
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"noun"
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},
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"vile",
"wretched"
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"at those prices the restaurant's food should be nothing but five-star"
],
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"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
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"middling",
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"satisfactory",
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"sterling",
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"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
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"top-shelf",
"topflight",
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"wizard",
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},
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"fix up":{
"as in rebuild , overhaul":{
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},
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"verb"
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},
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"don't worry, that mistake in scheduling is fixable"
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"unrecoverable",
"irreplaceable",
"irreversible",
"irrevocable"
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"to look at or think about something constantly; to give all of your attention to something \u2014 usually + on or upon":{
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"The cat was fixated on a small hole in the wall.",
"Why do journalists fixate on scandals?"
],
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"as in":{
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},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"fixate (on)":{
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"as in":{
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"their weight is an unfortunate fixation for many teenagers"
],
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"parting",
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"unyoking",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unbinding",
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"tieing",
"yoking",
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"reattaching",
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],
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"calling off",
"dropping",
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"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking",
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"disagreeing (with)",
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"shaping",
"squaring away",
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"determining",
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"opting",
"resolving",
"affirming",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
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"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"closing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finalizing",
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"rounding (off or out)",
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"wrapping up",
"bargaining",
"chaffering",
"dealing",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse-trading",
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"to decide upon (the time or date for an event) usually from a position of authority":{
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"examples":[
"have we fixed a day for the party yet?"
],
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"choosing",
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"singling (out)",
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"coordinating",
"orchestrating",
"advertising",
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"naming",
"setting"
]
},
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"examples":[
"would you mind fixing dinner tonight?"
],
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"fortifying",
"girding",
"steeling",
"battening",
"gathering",
"gearing up",
"mounting",
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"indoctrinating",
"instructing",
"schooling",
"training",
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"booting (up)",
"priming",
"arranging",
"setting",
"spreading",
"arming",
"equipping",
"forearming",
"furnishing",
"outfitting",
"providing",
"supplying",
"inclining",
"predisposing",
"drafting",
"drawing up",
"framing",
"warming (up)"
],
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"preparing",
"prepping",
"readying"
]
},
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"have to fix the car before we can go"
],
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"breaking",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vandalizing",
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"disabling",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
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"conditioning",
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"readying",
"caring (for)",
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"servicing",
"freshening",
"refreshening",
"refreshing",
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"rejuvenating",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"revitalizing",
"reviving",
"adjusting",
"correcting",
"modifying",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"reforming",
"righting",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
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"improving",
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"revamping"
]
},
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"loosening",
"loosing",
"unfastening",
"unfixing",
"unloosening",
"unloosing"
],
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"fixed the mittens to the child's snowsuit"
],
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"extracting",
"prizing",
"prying",
"pulling",
"rooting (out)",
"tearing (out)",
"uprooting",
"wresting",
"yanking"
],
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"embedding",
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"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
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"catching",
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"fastening",
"hitching",
"mooring",
"securing",
"setting"
]
},
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"the animal shelter requires a pledge from the adoptive owner that they will have their new pet fixed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"castrating",
"emasculating",
"gelding",
"spaying",
"sterilizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"altering",
"desexing",
"neutering"
]
},
"to restore to a healthy condition":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it took surgery and months of physical therapy to completely fix her bum knee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crippling",
"damaging",
"disabling",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"lacerating",
"laming",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating",
"wounding",
"afflicting",
"ailing",
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"laying up",
"sapping",
"sickening",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"related":[
"attending (to)",
"caring (for)",
"doctoring",
"medicating",
"ministering (to)",
"nursing",
"physicking",
"treating",
"fortifying",
"rejuvenating",
"renewing",
"resuscitating",
"revitalizing",
"reviving",
"alleviating",
"relieving",
"remedying",
"repairing"
],
"synonyms":[
"curing",
"healing",
"mending",
"rehabbing",
"rehabilitating",
"setting up"
]
},
"to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter":{
"antonyms":[
"dislodging",
"rooting (out)",
"uprooting"
],
"examples":[
"the image of what Santa Claus looks like is solidly fixed in our minds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"detaching",
"disconnecting",
"disengaging",
"removing"
],
"related":[
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"instilling",
"beating (into)",
"driving (into)",
"establishing",
"placing",
"putting",
"settling",
"sticking"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedding",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"enrooting",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"impacting",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"rooting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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},
"fiddle-footed":{
"easily excited by nature":{
"examples":[
"although fiddle-footed now, the kitten should settle down once it adjusts to its new home"
],
"synonyms":[
"excitable",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hyper",
"hyperactive",
"hyperexcitable",
"hyperkinetic",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittery",
"skittish",
"spasmodic",
"spooky"
],
"related":[
"hot-blooded",
"mercurial",
"temperamental",
"unstable",
"volatile",
"volcanic",
"anxious",
"edgy",
"flibbertigibbety",
"nervy",
"tense",
"uptight",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"hypersensitive",
"intense",
"sensitive",
"soulful",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"perturbable",
"prickly",
"testy",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unexcitable",
"unflappable",
"unshakable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"filled (up)":{
"as in diffused (through) , percolated (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fizzles":{
"a falling short of one's goals":{
"examples":[
"the home team's unexpected fizzle in that last game cost them the championship"
],
"synonyms":[
"collapses",
"crashes",
"croppers",
"defeats",
"failures",
"nonachievements",
"nonsuccesses"
],
"related":[
"futilities",
"ineffectualities",
"inefficacies",
"deficiencies",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"disappointments",
"letdowns",
"setbacks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"victories",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"successes"
]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"the play was a fizzle , opening and closing the same night"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"flops",
"frosts",
"lemons",
"losers",
"misses",
"shipwrecks",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"related":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \\s\\":{
"examples":[
"oozing gobs of grease, a pair of fatty burgers fizzled on the grill"
],
"synonyms":[
"fizzes",
"hisses",
"sizzles",
"swishes",
"whishes",
"whizzes"
],
"related":[
"swooshes",
"wheezes",
"whistles",
"whooshes",
"zips",
"bubbles",
"effervesces",
"buzzes",
"drones",
"hums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"find fault (with)":{
"to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of":{
"examples":[
"She could always find fault with someone after only one date."
],
"synonyms":[
"blame",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"dispraise",
"fault",
"knock",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"slag"
],
"related":[
"skewer",
"tweak",
"assail",
"attack",
"blast",
"clobber",
"slam",
"slash",
"nick (at)",
"snipe (at)",
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"carp",
"cavil",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"niggle",
"quibble",
"whine",
"admonish",
"chide",
"drub",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"berate",
"castigate",
"crucify",
"excoriate",
"flay",
"gibbet",
"hammer",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"pillory",
"scold",
"upbraid",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"deride",
"discommend",
"disparage",
"put down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"recommend",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"finessed":{
"to plan out usually with subtle skill or care":{
"examples":[
"had to finesse the schedule a bit to fit in another patient that afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"contrived",
"engineered",
"finagled",
"framed",
"machinated",
"maneuvered",
"manipulated",
"masterminded",
"negotiated",
"wangled"
],
"related":[
"arranged",
"concerted",
"concluded",
"hammered out",
"worked out",
"angled (for)",
"compassed",
"intrigued",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"connived",
"brewed",
"concocted",
"cooked (up)",
"hatched",
"captained",
"commanded",
"conducted",
"directed",
"handled",
"managed",
"quarterbacked",
"ran",
"run",
"gerrymandered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"flubbed",
"fumbled",
"gummed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mishandled",
"muffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"tried to finesse the blame for the foreign policy fiasco, even though he was secretary of state at the time"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"related":[
"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"
]
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},
"fill the bill":{
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"We finally found an apartment that filled the bill ."
],
"synonyms":[
"befit",
"beseem",
"do",
"fit",
"go",
"serve",
"suit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfy",
"suffice",
"function",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"finagler":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"financial finaglers who were suspected of insider trading"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"related":[
"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"
]
},
"firestorm":{
"variance of opinion on a matter":{
"examples":[
"a seemingly endless firestorm was ignited by that U.S. Supreme Court decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"contestation",
"controversy",
"debate",
"difference",
"difficulty",
"disagreement",
"disputation",
"dispute",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissensus",
"nonconcurrence"
],
"related":[
"clash",
"collision",
"conflict",
"confliction",
"disaccord",
"discord",
"dissonance",
"apartness",
"divarication",
"division",
"combat",
"contention",
"strife",
"struggle",
"altercation",
"argument",
"bicker",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"set-to"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptance",
"compliance",
"concord",
"peace"
],
"antonyms":[
"accord",
"agreement",
"consensus",
"harmony",
"unanimity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"finis":{
"the last part of a process or action":{
"examples":[
"if the two countries keep up their arms race, the inevitable finis to their rivalry will be their mutual destruction"
],
"synonyms":[
"capper",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"consummation",
"end",
"endgame",
"ending",
"finale",
"finish",
"grand finale",
"homestretch",
"mop-up",
"windup",
"wrap-up"
],
"related":[
"acme",
"apex",
"capstone",
"climax",
"copestone",
"coup de gr\u00e2ce",
"coup de grace",
"crescendo",
"crown",
"culmination",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith",
"aftermath",
"anticlimax",
"coda",
"epilogue",
"epilog",
"postscript",
"shank",
"tag end",
"tail end"
],
"near antonyms":[
"foreword",
"introduction",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseline",
"beginning",
"dawn",
"day one",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"opening",
"start"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fissures":{
"an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure":{
"examples":[
"lava flows up through a fissure in the earth's crust"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks",
"chinks",
"clefts",
"cracks",
"crannies",
"crevices",
"rifts",
"splits"
],
"related":[
"crevasses",
"crazes",
"hairlines",
"fractures",
"ruptures",
"breaches",
"gaps",
"openings",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incisions",
"slits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"filthy":{
"depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society":{
"examples":[
"you cannot use such filthy language on the public airwaves"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"foul",
"gross",
"gutter",
"impure",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"profane",
"raunchy",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"stag",
"trashy",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"X-rated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broad",
"coarse-grained",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salacious",
"salty",
"suggestive",
"barnyard",
"earthy",
"scatological",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"low",
"unbecoming",
"depraved",
"kinky",
"louche",
"naughty",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"wicked",
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"unacceptable",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"abhorrent",
"debasing",
"disgusting",
"loathsome",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"unpleasant",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"abusive",
"scurrilous",
"hard-core",
"soft",
"soft-core"
],
"near antonyms":[
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"acceptable",
"agreeable",
"desirable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"welcome",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"meet",
"suitable",
"immaculate",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"virginal",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"wholesome"
]
},
"not clean":{
"examples":[
"you can't go to the concert unless you clean this filthy room first"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"black",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"dusty",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"smutty",
"soiled",
"sordid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"germy",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"insanitary",
"uncleaned",
"unsanitary",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"unwashed",
"greasy",
"gunky",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"scruffy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"raunchy",
"scuzzy",
"shabby",
"skanky",
"sleazy",
"squalid",
"collied",
"crocked",
"fuliginous",
"sooty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"pure",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"bleached",
"purified",
"whitened",
"bright",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"shiny",
"sparkling",
"unspotted",
"untouched",
"taintless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"virgin",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"ultraclean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
]
},
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"the invention made him filthy rich"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"fiddlesticks":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"some people have one word for the game of golf: fiddlesticks !"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"fish":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"he's rather an odd fish"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to search for something blindly or uncertainly":{
"examples":[
"take a minute to fish for some change to drop in the donation box"
],
"synonyms":[
"feel",
"fumble",
"grope",
"scrabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grabble",
"cast about",
"hunt",
"look",
"reach",
"seek (out)",
"capture",
"clutch",
"corral",
"get",
"grab",
"nab",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"comb",
"dig (through)",
"dredge",
"rake",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"rummage",
"scour"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"firing":{
"a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece":{
"examples":[
"found a flaw in the gun's firing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"discharge",
"shot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potshot",
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"broadside",
"burst",
"cannonade",
"drumfire",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force":{
"examples":[
"police officers firing rubber bullets"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"discharging",
"loosing",
"shooting",
"squeezing off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"launching",
"projecting",
"blazing (at)",
"sniping (at)",
"casting",
"catapulting",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"hurtling",
"lobbing",
"pelting",
"pitching",
"slinging",
"throwing",
"tossing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force":{
"examples":[
"soldiers fired at the enemy in panic-stricken disorder"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"discharging",
"shooting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"peppering",
"plinking",
"potshotting",
"sniping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"a school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist"
],
"synonyms":[
"amping (up)",
"animating",
"bracing",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"filliping",
"gingering (up)",
"invigorating",
"jazzing (up)",
"juicing up",
"jump-starting",
"livening (up)",
"pepping (up)",
"quickening",
"spiking",
"stimulating",
"vitalizing",
"vivifying",
"zipping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"raising",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"waking (up)",
"activating",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"motivating",
"motiving",
"moving",
"propelling",
"charging",
"electrifying",
"galvanizing",
"enkindling",
"exciting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"instigating",
"kindling",
"provoking",
"setting off",
"sparking",
"triggering",
"turning on",
"whipping (up)",
"abetting",
"boosting",
"buoying",
"cheering",
"emboldening",
"fortifying",
"heartening",
"infusing",
"inspiring",
"lifting",
"rallying",
"steeling",
"strengthening",
"reactivating",
"reanimating",
"reawakening",
"reawaking",
"recharging",
"recreating",
"reenergizing",
"re-energizing",
"refreshening",
"refreshing",
"regenerating",
"reinvigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"rekindling",
"renewing",
"restimulating",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"revitalizing",
"reviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burning out",
"debilitating",
"doing in",
"draining",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"harassing",
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"sapping",
"tuckering (out)",
"undermining",
"washing out",
"weakening",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying",
"checking",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"jading",
"quelling",
"quenching",
"repressing",
"restraining",
"slowing",
"stilling",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[
"dampening",
"damping",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"killing"
]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"fired the secretary for incompetence"
],
"synonyms":[
"axing",
"bouncing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"discharging",
"dismissing",
"mustering out",
"pink-slipping",
"releasing",
"removing",
"retiring",
"sacking",
"terminating",
"turning off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsizing",
"excessing",
"furloughing",
"laying off",
"trimming",
"booting (out)",
"chucking (out)",
"drumming (out)",
"kicking out",
"throwing out",
"unseating",
"separating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keeping",
"reemploying",
"re-employing",
"rehiring",
"contracting",
"subcontracting",
"recruiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"employing",
"engaging",
"hiring",
"retaining",
"signing (up or on)",
"taking on"
]
},
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"fired a pass to the running back"
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"catapulting",
"chucking",
"dashing",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"hurtling",
"launching",
"lobbing",
"lofting",
"pegging",
"pelting",
"pitching",
"slinging",
"throwing",
"tossing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowling",
"darting",
"flipping",
"gunning",
"hooking",
"passing",
"rolling",
"shooting",
"bucking",
"ejecting",
"impelling",
"precipitating",
"projecting",
"propelling",
"rifling",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"lit some kindling before attempting to fire the logs"
],
"synonyms":[
"burning",
"enkindling",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"lighting",
"torching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolating",
"deflagrating",
"charring",
"frizzling",
"scorching",
"baking",
"broiling",
"cooking",
"ashing",
"cremating",
"incinerating",
"kilning",
"setting off",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"radiating",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"searing",
"reigniting",
"rekindling",
"relighting",
"banking",
"stoking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"stamping (out)",
"blackening",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"field-worker":{
"as in investigator , researcher":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"experimenter",
"investigator",
"researcher",
"empiric",
"empiricist",
"fact finder",
"examiner",
"inspector",
"monitor",
"observer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fixations":{
"something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned":{
"examples":[
"their weight is an unfortunate fixation for many teenagers"
],
"synonyms":[
"fetishes",
"fetiches",
"id\u00e9es fixes",
"manias",
"obsessions",
"preoccupations",
"prepossessions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monomanias",
"complexes",
"hang-ups",
"problems",
"trips",
"appetites",
"caco\u00ebtheses",
"compulsions",
"cravings",
"desires",
"drives",
"enthusiasms",
"fascinations",
"hungers",
"infatuations",
"itches",
"longings",
"lusts",
"passions",
"thirsts",
"urges",
"yearnings",
"yens",
"idiosyncrasies",
"quirks",
"bents",
"dispositions",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disregards",
"indifferences",
"insouciances",
"nonchalances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"firefight":{
"as in attack , fire":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attack",
"fire",
"pitched battle",
"single combat",
"action",
"battle",
"combat",
"field",
"hostilities",
"operations",
"warfare",
"duty",
"service"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fire-sale":{
"as in clearance , closeout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clearance",
"closeout",
"purchase",
"fair",
"bargain",
"buy",
"steal",
"garage sale",
"jumble sale",
"rummage sale",
"tag sale",
"yard sale",
"haggle",
"horse-trading",
"negotiation",
"auction",
"silent auction",
"deal",
"sale",
"trade",
"transaction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reduced , discounted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discount",
"discounted",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"cheapish",
"moderate",
"wholesale",
"affordable",
"bargain-basement",
"budget",
"cheap",
"cheapie",
"cheapo",
"chintzy",
"cut-price",
"cut-rate",
"dime-store",
"dirt cheap",
"el cheapo",
"inexpensive",
"low",
"low-end",
"popular",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"costly",
"dear",
"deluxe",
"expensive",
"high",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"valuable",
"increased",
"inflated",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"prohibitory",
"steep",
"stiff",
"superexpensive",
"ultraexpensive",
"unreasonable",
"invaluable",
"priceless",
"luxurious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fiefdom":{
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to ask that guy\u2014the project is his fiefdom"
],
"synonyms":[
"area",
"arena",
"bailiwick",
"barony",
"business",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"field",
"firmament",
"front",
"game",
"kingdom",
"line",
"precinct",
"province",
"realm",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"walk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frontier",
"study",
"subject",
"territory",
"turf",
"occupation",
"profession",
"pursuit",
"racket",
"vocation",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confine",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"ken",
"reach",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width",
"subfield",
"subspecialty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiddle (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"we spent the snow day just fiddling around"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang about",
"kick around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"clown (around)",
"horse around",
"diddle (with)",
"tinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckle (down)",
"knuckle down",
"set (to)",
"settle (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"fielded":{
"to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently":{
"examples":[
"gave the waitress a large tip because she kept smiling as she fielded their many requests"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"contended (with)",
"coped (with)",
"grappled (with)",
"hacked",
"handled",
"managed",
"maneuvered",
"manipulated",
"negotiated",
"played",
"swung",
"took",
"treated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engineered",
"finessed",
"jockeyed",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"got off",
"pulled",
"commanded",
"directed",
"guided",
"steered",
"controlled",
"micromanaged",
"ran",
"run",
"regulated",
"reacted (to)",
"responded (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"botched",
"bungled",
"foozled",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"scamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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}
}
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