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{
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"to a degree":{
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"to some degree or extent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I agree with her argument to a degree ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"awfully",
"beastly",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extremely",
"frightfully",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"mightily",
"mortally",
"particularly",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"very",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially"
],
"related":[
"acceptably",
"decently",
"passably",
"tolerably",
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"vaguely",
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"partway"
],
"synonyms":[
"enough",
"fairly",
"kindly",
"kind of",
"like",
"moderately",
"more or less",
"pretty",
"quite",
"rather",
"relatively",
"something",
"somewhat",
"sort of"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
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"to the hilt":{
"to a full extent or degree":{
"antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
],
"examples":[
"The car's engine was souped up to the hilt ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"related":[
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"downright",
"hands down",
"plain",
"stone",
"stone-cold",
"unqualifiedly",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
"synonyms":[
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
],
"with all power or resources being used":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He played to the hilt during his farewell performance."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"completely",
"comprehensively",
"detailedly",
"exhaustively",
"fully",
"minutely",
"roundly",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"extremely",
"utterly"
],
"synonyms":[
"all out",
"full blast",
"full tilt",
"tooth and nail"
]
}
},
"toadied":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a satirical novel about an amoral go-getter who toadies his way to the top of the corporate ladder"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"scoffed",
"braved",
"challenged",
"defied"
],
"related":[
"drooled",
"gushed",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"courted",
"wooed",
"adulated",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"cowered",
"cringed",
"groveled",
"grovelled",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"deferred",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polished",
"bootlicked",
"fawned",
"fussed",
"kowtowed",
"sucked (up)",
"truckled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"toddle":{
"as in stumble , lurch":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"toeholds":{
"as in footholds , footings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tog (up or out)":{
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"antonyms":[
"disarray",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"unclothe",
"undress",
"untruss"
],
"examples":[
"togged out in obviously brand-new hiking garb, she was quite a sight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denude",
"divest",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil"
],
"related":[
"cloak",
"frock",
"jacket",
"mantle",
"vest",
"drape",
"enswathe",
"hap",
"huddle",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"bedight",
"equip",
"furnish",
"habilitate",
"outfit",
"tailor",
"uniform",
"dress down",
"underdress"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck (out)",
"do up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"enrobe",
"garb",
"garment",
"get up",
"gown",
"habit",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"robe",
"suit",
"toilet",
"vesture"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"togetherness":{
"a state or feeling of closeness and happiness among people who are together as friends, family members, etc.":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"family togetherness",
"They try to encourage a sense of togetherness among the people in the community."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"toil":{
"something that catches and holds":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"cat's cradle",
"labyrinth",
"maze",
"cobweb",
"spiderweb"
],
"synonyms":[
"entanglement",
"mesh(es)",
"morass",
"net",
"noose",
"quagmire",
"quicksand",
"snare",
"tanglement",
"trap",
"web"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
],
"examples":[
"after years of toil in a sweatshop, Kim was finally able to start her own dressmaking business"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"related":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeywork",
"drudge",
"drudgery",
"fatigue",
"grind",
"labor",
"moil",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"travail"
]
}
},
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"toilers":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"on Labor Day we should give a thought to those toilers who work long hours at low-paying jobs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs"
],
"related":[
"workhorses",
"serfs"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbodies",
"drones",
"drudgers",
"drudges",
"fags",
"foot soldiers",
"grubbers",
"grubs",
"grunts",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"pluggers",
"slaves",
"sloggers",
"workers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"tolbooths":{
"a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Deacon Brodie, thought to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , was publicly hung at the site of the old tolbooth of Edinburgh"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outsides"
],
"related":[
"bull pens",
"cages",
"cells",
"holes",
"tanks",
"blocks",
"wards",
"glasshouses",
"guardhouses",
"hulks",
"concentration camps",
"gulags",
"labor camps",
"prison camps",
"stalags",
"work camps",
"dungeons",
"keeps",
"oubliettes",
"reformatories",
"reform schools",
"training schools"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastilles",
"big houses",
"bridewells",
"brigs",
"calabooses",
"cans",
"clinks",
"coolers",
"coops",
"guardrooms",
"hocks",
"holds",
"hoosegows",
"jailhouses",
"jails",
"joints",
"jugs",
"lockups",
"nicks",
"penitentiaries",
"pens",
"pokeys",
"prisons",
"quods",
"slammers",
"slams",
"stirs",
"stockades"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tolerance":{
"the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining":{
"antonyms":[
"impatience"
],
"examples":[
"showed great tolerance in dealing with the child's tantrums"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defiance",
"contrariness",
"disobedience",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"recalcitrance",
"resistance",
"willfulness"
],
"related":[
"acquiescence",
"resignation",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"amenability",
"compliance",
"conformism",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordination",
"tractability",
"willingness",
"discipline",
"self-control",
"submission",
"submissiveness"
],
"synonyms":[
"forbearance",
"long-suffering",
"patience",
"sufferance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tomb":{
"a final resting place for a dead person":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"catacomb",
"charnel",
"charnel house",
"columbarium",
"crypt",
"mausoleum",
"vault",
"cemetery",
"churchyard",
"graveyard",
"potter's field",
"barrow",
"mound",
"tumulus"
],
"synonyms":[
"burial",
"grave",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture"
]
},
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"antonyms":[
"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burn",
"cremate",
"bare",
"disclose",
"discover",
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncoffin"
],
"related":[
"immure",
"inurn",
"enshrine",
"conceal",
"cover",
"ensconce",
"hide",
"obscure",
"shade",
"shield",
"cloak",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"shroud",
"rebury",
"reinter",
"coffin"
],
"synonyms":[
"bury",
"entomb",
"hearse",
"inhume",
"inter",
"lay",
"put away"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"tommy-gunned":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"tommyrot":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no genuinely intelligent and educated person would believe such tommyrot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"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",
"fiddlesticks",
"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",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"tongue-lash":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the drill sergeant tongue-lashed the recruits with a colorful litany of foulmouthed invectives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"related":[
"admonish",
"chide",
"remonstrate (with)",
"reprove",
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bad-mouth",
"blame",
"blast",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"crucify",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"excoriate",
"fault",
"harangue",
"knock",
"lace (into)",
"lash",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"revile",
"scourge",
"slam",
"vituperate",
"belittle",
"disparage",
"mock",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"scoff",
"scorn"
],
"synonyms":[
"baste",
"bawl out",
"berate",
"call down",
"castigate",
"chastise",
"chew out",
"dress down",
"flay",
"hammer",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lecture",
"rag",
"rail (at or against)",
"rant (at)",
"rate",
"ream (out)",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"scold",
"score",
"upbraid"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"took":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"antonyms":[
"lost (to)"
],
"examples":[
"I know we can take that team"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fell",
"gave up",
"went down",
"went under",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out"
],
"related":[
"swept",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"blew out",
"bombed",
"broke",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"crushed",
"drubbed",
"finished",
"flattened",
"overwhelmed",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"slaughtered",
"smoked",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trounced",
"upset",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"subjugated",
"unseated",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"did down",
"dispatched",
"got",
"got around",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"skunked",
"stopped",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"upended",
"won (against)",
"worsted"
]
},
"to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly":{
"antonyms":[
"declined",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"refused",
"rejected",
"spurned",
"turned down",
"vetoed"
],
"examples":[
"will you take that call?",
"took a cut in pay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dissented (to)",
"objected (to)",
"opposed",
"protested",
"held off",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"fought"
],
"related":[
"acceded (to)",
"assented (to)",
"conceded (to)",
"confirmed",
"consented (to)",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"ratified",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"acquiesced (to)",
"bowed (to)",
"capitulated (to)",
"gave in (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"succumbed (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)",
"abided",
"abode",
"bore",
"brooked",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"shouldered",
"stomached",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"supported",
"sustained",
"swallowed",
"sweat out",
"sweated out",
"tolerated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"welcomed"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"had"
]
},
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you don't cover your head in this weather, you'll take cold and be stuck inside all weekend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shook (off)"
],
"related":[
"broke out (with)",
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"a fellow passenger on the cruise completely took me in when he claimed to be the owner of a major software company"
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"diddled",
"euchred",
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"fleeced",
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"flimflammed",
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"squeezed",
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"stung",
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"swindled"
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"excluded",
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"this report takes in all the latest information on the subject"
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"barracked",
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"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
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],
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"I can only stay for a few minutes, and then I'll need to take off again"
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],
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"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
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],
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"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
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"lit",
"lighted out",
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"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
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],
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"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
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"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
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"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
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]
},
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"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"a gangbanger who decided to take off some fast-food joint"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravished",
"sacked",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stripped",
"stript",
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"bled",
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"broke in",
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"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
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"cozened",
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"defrauded",
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"exploited",
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"fleeced",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
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"plucked",
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"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
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"swindled",
"held up",
"mugged",
"rolled",
"stuck up"
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],
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"burglarized",
"burgled",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"ripped off",
"robbed",
"stole (from)"
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]
},
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"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
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"donned",
"put on",
"slipped (into)",
"threw (on)"
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],
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"take off your coat and stay awhile"
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],
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"wore",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"rigged",
"robed",
"suited"
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],
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"husked",
"shed",
"kicked (off)",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"undressed"
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],
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"doffed",
"doused",
"peeled (off)",
"put off",
"removed",
"shrugged off"
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]
},
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"to take away (an amount or number) from a total":{
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"added",
"tacked (on)"
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],
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"the store will take an additional 20% off if you bring in this coupon"
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"knocked down",
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"lowered",
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"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
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"pruned",
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"shortened",
"slashed",
"trimmed",
"truncated",
"whittled"
],
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]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"took off (from)":{
"as in withdrew (from) , escaped":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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},
"type":[
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"verb"
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]
},
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"took to task":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"He took the landscaper to task for once again letting the bushes get overgrown."
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],
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"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
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],
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"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"remonstrated (with)",
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"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bad-mouthed",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"censured",
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"panned",
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"reviled",
"scourged",
"slammed",
"vituperated",
"belittled",
"disparaged",
"mocked",
"put down",
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"scoffed",
"scorned"
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],
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"basted",
"bawled out",
"berated",
"called down",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"chewed out",
"dressed down",
"flayed",
"hammered",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lectured",
"ragged",
"railed (at or against)",
"ranted (at)",
"rated",
"reamed (out)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"scolded",
"scored",
"tongue-lashed",
"upbraided"
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]
},
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"to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of":{
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"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
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],
"examples":[
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"He took his rival to task during the TV interview."
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],
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"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"recommended",
"sanctioned"
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],
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"skewered",
"tweaked",
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"clobbered",
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"slashed",
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"muttered",
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"Since Aimee took up with Jared, the two have been virtually inseparable."
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"bonded",
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"connected",
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"coupled",
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"run",
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},
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},
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"adjective"
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"atrocious",
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"wretched"
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"a top-notch violinist who had no trouble getting a position with the symphony"
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"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
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"okay",
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"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
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"fancy",
"high-grade",
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"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
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"cracking",
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"fabulous",
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"fantastic",
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"topflight",
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},
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]
},
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"topflight":{
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"atrocious",
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"second-rate"
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},
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"those toplofty history professors who sneeringly use the term \"popularizer\" to describe any historian whose works are read with pleasure"
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],
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"cringing",
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"diffident",
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"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
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"shrinking",
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"reserved",
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"bragging",
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"swaggering",
"vain",
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"egotistical",
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"prideful",
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"brash",
"forward",
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"emblem",
"ensign",
"hallmark",
"impresa",
"logo",
"symbol",
"trademark"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun"
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]
},
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"toting":{
"to support and take from one place to another":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"toted his dog from the muddy backyard to the bathtub for a thorough washing"
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],
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"related":[
"delivering",
"handing over",
"transferring",
"forwarding",
"sending",
"shipping",
"transmitting",
"bringing",
"fetching",
"taking",
"moving",
"removing",
"shifting"
],
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"synonyms":[
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"bearing",
"carrying",
"carting",
"conveying",
"ferrying",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"packing",
"transporting"
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]
},
"type":[
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"verb"
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]
},
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"totter":{
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
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"examples":[
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"tottered around the house as she practiced walking in high heels"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"roll",
"seesaw",
"swag",
"sway",
"waver",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"barge",
"blunder",
"clomp",
"clump",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"tramp",
"tromp"
],
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"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"waddle"
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"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
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"the figurine tottered precariously for a moment before falling off the shelf"
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"near antonyms":[],
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"flounder",
"lurch",
"stumble",
"toddle",
"quake",
"quaver",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"vibrate",
"careen",
"reel",
"stagger",
"weave"
],
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"teeter",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
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"verb"
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"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
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"seesawed",
"swagged",
"swayed",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"barged",
"blundered",
"clomped",
"clumped",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"tramped",
"tromped"
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],
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"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"teetered",
"waddled"
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]
},
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"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"the figurine tottered precariously for a moment before falling off the shelf"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"floundered",
"lurched",
"stumbled",
"toddled",
"quaked",
"quavered",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"vibrated",
"careened",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"weaved"
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],
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"faltered",
"rocked",
"teetered",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
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]
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"verb"
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]
},
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"tottering":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"after the accident, she was only able to take a few tottering steps at a time"
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],
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"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
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],
"related":[
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"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
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],
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"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
]
},
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
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"tottered around the house as she practiced walking in high heels"
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"rocking",
"rolling",
"seesawing",
"swagging",
"swaying",
"wavering",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"barging",
"blundering",
"clomping",
"clumping",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"tramping",
"tromping"
],
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"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"waddling"
]
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"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
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"examples":[
"the figurine tottered precariously for a moment before falling off the shelf"
],
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"lurching",
"stumbling",
"toddling",
"quaking",
"quavering",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"vibrating",
"careening",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"weaving"
],
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"faltering",
"rocking",
"teetering",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"touchable":{
"capable of being perceived by the sense of touch":{
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"antonyms":[
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"impalpable",
"intangible"
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],
"examples":[
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"not very comfortable with abstractions, I usually relate better to touchable things"
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],
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"bodiless",
"formless",
"immaterial",
"incorporeal",
"insubstantial",
"nonmaterial",
"nonphysical",
"unbodied",
"unsubstantial",
"abstract",
"ethereal",
"spiritual",
"unreal",
"virtual",
"imperceptible",
"insensible"
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],
"related":[
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"tactile",
"corporeal",
"physical",
"actual",
"concrete",
"embodied",
"existent",
"material",
"real",
"substantial",
"appreciable",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"seeable",
"sensible",
"visible"
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],
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"palpable",
"tangible"
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]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"touched off":{
"to cause to function":{
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivated",
"killed",
"shut off",
"turned off"
],
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"examples":[
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"his obscene comment touched off a heated debate about the need for censorship on live broadcasts"
],
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"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"cut off",
"drew up",
"halted",
"jammed",
"stalled",
"stopped",
"stuck",
"decelerated",
"repressed",
"slowed",
"stunted",
"suppressed"
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],
"related":[
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"kicked over",
"turned over",
"charged",
"electrified",
"energized",
"fired",
"fueled",
"fuelled",
"generated",
"powered",
"pushed",
"discharged",
"launched",
"released",
"switched",
"tripped",
"reactivated",
"recharged",
"aroused",
"excited",
"jump-started",
"kick-started",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"ignited",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"stirred up",
"accelerated",
"catalyzed",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"stepped up"
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"activated",
"actuated",
"cranked (up)",
"drove",
"moved",
"ran",
"run",
"set off",
"sparked",
"started",
"triggered",
"turned on"
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"verb"
]
},
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"touching up":{
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},
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"verb"
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"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"after numerous suspensions, the school toughies were finally expelled for gang activities on campus"
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],
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"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
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"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"yob",
"yobbo"
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},
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"an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness":{
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"her performance as a woman impaired by a stroke was a theatrical tour de force"
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"synonyms":[
"deed",
"exploit",
"feat",
"number",
"stunt",
"trick"
],
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"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"coup",
"success",
"triumph",
"adventure",
"performance"
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"near antonyms":[],
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in vortices , whirls":{
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},
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"noun"
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},
"tours":{
"a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"asked the soldiers to consider signing up for a second tour of duty"
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],
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"related":[
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"shifts",
"watches",
"goes",
"turns",
"durations",
"standings",
"times",
"cycles",
"spans",
"spells",
"stretches",
"life spans",
"lifetimes",
"lives",
"runs"
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],
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"hitches",
"stints",
"tenures",
"terms"
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]
},
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"to take a trip especially of some distance":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"thought it would be lots of fun to tour all over Europe this summer"
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],
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"gallivants",
"galavants",
"hops",
"jaunts",
"knocks (about)",
"perambulates",
"rambles",
"roams",
"roves",
"traipses",
"wanders",
"migrates",
"road-trips",
"buses",
"busses",
"cabs",
"coaches",
"cruises",
"drives",
"flies",
"gigs",
"jets",
"motors",
"navigates",
"rides",
"rolls",
"sails",
"trundles",
"barnstorms"
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],
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"journeys",
"peregrinates",
"pilgrimages",
"travels",
"treks",
"trips",
"voyages"
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]
},
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"noun",
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"verb"
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"tousle":{
"to undo the proper order or arrangement of":{
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"arrange",
"array",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
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"range",
"regulate",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy"
],
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"examples":[
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"his grandfather would always tousle the boy's neatly combed hair"
],
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"align",
"aline",
"line",
"line up",
"queue",
"classify",
"codify",
"methodize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"adjust",
"fix",
"groom",
"make up",
"spruce (up)",
"unscramble"
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],
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"embroil",
"entangle",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"agitate",
"perturb",
"stir (up)",
"unsettle",
"clutter"
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"confuse",
"derange",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disjoint",
"dislocate",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"hash",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"rumple",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"tumble",
"upset"
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]
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]
},
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"tout":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
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"pan",
"slam"
],
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"statements from several former patients touting the doctor's alleged cancer cure"
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"belittle",
"discommend",
"disparage",
"put down",
"blame",
"censure",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"admonish",
"chide",
"criticize",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"castigate",
"excoriate",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"skewer",
"slag",
"vilify"
],
"related":[
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"clap",
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"commend",
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"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"root (for)",
"support",
"celebrate",
"emblazon",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"sing",
"adulate",
"belaud",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"deify",
"idolize"
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"synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accredit",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"crack up",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute"
]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"a new cleaning agent touted as the only product a homeowner needs for all his or her cleaning chores"
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],
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"acclaim",
"applaud",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"magnify",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize",
"advance",
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"announce",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"boost",
"herald",
"offer",
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"publicize",
"assert",
"aver",
"claim",
"declare",
"lay down",
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"grains",
"sorts",
"temperaments",
"tempers",
"compositions",
"makeups",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"interiorities",
"interiors",
"souls",
"spirits",
"metals",
"stuff",
"substances",
"habits",
"ways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"took hold (of)":{
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"The baby took hold of the toy, upsetting her two-year-old sister."
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"captured",
"caught",
"collared",
"copped",
"corralled",
"glommed",
"got",
"grabbed",
"grappled",
"hooked",
"landed",
"nabbed",
"nailed",
"netted",
"nobbled",
"rapped",
"seized",
"snagged",
"snapped (up)",
"snared",
"snatched",
"trapped"
],
"related":[
"gloved",
"haltered",
"lassoed",
"roped",
"apprehended",
"arrested",
"detained",
"bayed",
"cornered",
"clasped",
"clutched",
"fastened (on)",
"fisted",
"grasped",
"gripped",
"held",
"latched (on or onto)",
"secured",
"rent",
"rended",
"wrested",
"enmeshed",
"immeshed",
"ensnared",
"entangled",
"entrapped",
"meshed",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"spirited (away or off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharged",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"dropped",
"loosened",
"unhanded"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"townee":{
"as in local , localite":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"toploftical":{
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"those toplofty history professors who sneeringly use the term \"popularizer\" to describe any historian whose works are read with pleasure"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"related":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"toileted":{
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"the princess required at least a dozen maids to toilet her for formal occasions"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked (out)",
"did up",
"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"got up",
"gowned",
"habited",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"robed",
"suited",
"togged (up or out)",
"vestured"
],
"related":[
"cloaked",
"frocked",
"jacketed",
"mantled",
"vested",
"draped",
"enswathed",
"happed",
"huddled",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"bedighted",
"bedight",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"habilitated",
"outfitted",
"tailored",
"uniformed",
"dressed down",
"underdressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuded",
"divested",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarrayed",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"untrussed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"told (on)":{
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"examples":[
"the pressure of final exams is beginning to tell on the students in the dorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"impacted",
"impressed",
"influenced",
"moved",
"reached",
"struck",
"swayed",
"touched"
],
"related":[
"carried away",
"dazzled",
"enraptured",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"ravished",
"transported",
"biased",
"biassed",
"colored",
"inspired",
"stirred",
"engaged",
"interested",
"involved",
"penetrated",
"pierced",
"afflicted",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"harassed",
"harried",
"perturbed",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"smote",
"strained",
"stressed",
"tried",
"troubled",
"upset",
"worried",
"wrung",
"allured",
"attracted",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied",
"underwhelmed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"detectives convinced the perpetrators in custody to tell on their associates"
],
"synonyms":[
"finked",
"grassed (on)",
"informed",
"ratted (on)",
"sang",
"sung",
"snitched",
"split (on)",
"squeaked",
"squealed",
"talked"
],
"related":[
"betrayed",
"gave away",
"turned in",
"backstabbed",
"crossed",
"double-crossed",
"sold (out)",
"two-timed",
"blabbed",
"tattled",
"tipped (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"totality":{
"a complete amount of something":{
"examples":[
"the totality of the stars in the universe can only be loosely guessed at"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggregate",
"full",
"sum",
"sum total",
"summation",
"total",
"whole"
],
"related":[
"gross",
"completeness",
"comprehensiveness",
"cumulativeness",
"entirety",
"bulk",
"lion's share",
"mass",
"enchilada",
"schmear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"net"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"took account of":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"examples":[
"She decided to offer her services on a sliding scale, taking account of local income disparities."
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed (for)",
"considered",
"factored (in or into)",
"provided (for)",
"regarded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"anticipated",
"contemplated",
"envisaged",
"expected",
"foresaw",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"planned",
"calculated",
"faced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factored (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"discounted",
"disregarded"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"torpedo boat":{
"as in PT boat , assault boat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assault boat",
"PT boat",
"hydrofoil",
"hydroplane",
"airboat",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"hovercraft",
"cockleshell",
"tub",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tons":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"I received a ton of advice on the problem\u2014all of it unsolicited"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"granite countertops became all the ton in kitchen decor"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzzes",
"chics",
"crazes",
"dernier cris",
"enthusiasms",
"fads",
"fashions",
"flavors",
"hot tickets",
"last words",
"modes",
"rages",
"sensations",
"styles",
"trends",
"vogues"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonders",
"nine day wonders",
"new waves",
"crushes",
"infatuations",
"fervors",
"passions",
"furors",
"fusses",
"hullabaloos",
"to-dos",
"uproars",
"bandwagons",
"crusades",
"cults",
"movements",
"novelties",
"wrinkles",
"caprices",
"fancies",
"whims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classics",
"standards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"toehold":{
"as in foothold , footing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foothold",
"footing",
"grab",
"seizure",
"clinch",
"embrace",
"hug",
"anchorage",
"leverage",
"purchase",
"clasp",
"clench",
"grapple",
"grasp",
"grip",
"handgrip",
"handhold",
"hold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"release",
"relinquishment"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tombed":{
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"examples":[
"Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity"
],
"synonyms":[
"buried",
"entombed",
"hearsed",
"inhumed",
"interred",
"laid",
"put away"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immured",
"inurned",
"enshrined",
"concealed",
"covered",
"ensconced",
"hid",
"obscured",
"shaded",
"shielded",
"cloaked",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"shrouded",
"reburied",
"reinterred",
"coffined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burned",
"burnt",
"cremated",
"bared",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncoffined"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinterred",
"exhumed",
"unearthed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"toddlers":{
"a young child who is just learning to walk":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babes",
"babies",
"bantlings",
"infants",
"neonates",
"nestlings",
"newborn",
"newborns",
"tots",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"weanlings",
"bairns",
"bambinos",
"bambini",
"buds",
"chaps",
"chicks",
"children",
"cubs",
"juveniles",
"kiddies",
"kiddos",
"kids",
"moppets",
"sprats",
"sprat",
"sprouts",
"squirts",
"whelps",
"younglings",
"youngsters",
"youths",
"adolescents",
"minors",
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"preschoolers",
"rug rats",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"schoolkids",
"imps",
"jackanapeses",
"mischiefs",
"monkeys",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"urchins",
"whippersnappers",
"cherubs",
"cherubim",
"preteen-agers",
"preteens",
"subteens",
"teenagers",
"teeners",
"teens",
"teenyboppers",
"tweens",
"lads",
"nippers",
"shavers",
"striplings",
"tads",
"bobby-soxers",
"hoydens",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"middle-agers",
"ancients",
"elders",
"golden-agers",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors",
"adults",
"grown-ups"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"torn (out)":{
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"you'll never tear that secret out of me"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrewed",
"extracted",
"pried",
"prized",
"pulled",
"rooted (out)",
"uprooted",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"yanked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mined",
"plucked",
"removed",
"taken (out)",
"withdrawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implanted",
"inserted",
"installed",
"instilled",
"crammed",
"jammed",
"rammed",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"totalitarianism":{
"a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power":{
"examples":[
"in times of crisis, when a nation's people are frightened, there are often calls for totalitarianism"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolutism",
"autarchy",
"authoritarianism",
"autocracy",
"Caesarism",
"czarism",
"tsarism",
"tzarism",
"despotism",
"dictatorship",
"totalism",
"tyranny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monarchism",
"monarchy",
"monocracy",
"Big Brother",
"Big Brotherism",
"Communism",
"fascism",
"Nazism",
"domination",
"oppression"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democracy",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"self-rule",
"freedom",
"self-determination",
"autonomy",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"toy (with)":{
"to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously":{
"examples":[
"that microscope is a delicate instrument, not something to be toyed with"
],
"synonyms":[
"diddle (with)",
"fiddle (with)",
"fool (with)",
"mess (with)",
"monkey (with)",
"play (with)",
"tamper (with)",
"tinker (with)",
"twiddle (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abuse",
"alter",
"doctor",
"manhandle",
"manipulate",
"mistreat",
"misuse",
"butt in",
"interfere",
"intrude",
"meddle",
"muck (about or around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"to come":{
"being soon to appear or take place":{
"examples":[
"The best is yet to come ."
],
"synonyms":[
"approaching",
"coming",
"forthcoming",
"imminent",
"impending",
"nearing",
"oncoming",
"pending",
"proximate",
"upcoming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"future",
"anticipated",
"awaited",
"expected",
"foreseen",
"predicted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"foregone",
"former",
"old",
"onetime",
"other",
"past",
"quondam",
"sometime",
"whilom"
],
"antonyms":[
"late",
"recent"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
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}
}
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