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{
"Pollyanna":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"Potemkin village":{
"as in Trojan horse , fig leaf":{
"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fig leaf",
"Trojan horse",
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover",
"covering",
"coverture",
"cover-up",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pocket":{
"available money":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the fancy sports car I wanted to buy for myself was beyond my pocket"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debts",
"liabilities",
"indebtedness"
],
"related":[
"shirt",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum",
"assets",
"capital",
"deep pockets",
"fortune",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"roll",
"substance",
"wealth",
"purse",
"treasury",
"cash flow",
"financing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankroll",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"fund",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
]
},
"of a size that is less than average":{
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"examples":[
"a pocket dictionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"related":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"of or relating to money, banking, or investments":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his pocket involvement in the company was minimal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"capitalist",
"capitalistic",
"commercial",
"economic"
],
"synonyms":[
"dollars-and-cents",
"financial",
"fiscal",
"monetary",
"pecuniary"
]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pocketed his wife's messy habits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"combat",
"contest",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"miss",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)"
],
"related":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"go",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"stand",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate",
"wear"
]
},
"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pocketed my anger and just let the insult pass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"express",
"loose",
"release",
"take out",
"unleash",
"vent"
],
"related":[
"control",
"govern",
"manage",
"bridle",
"check",
"curb",
"quash",
"quell",
"bottle up",
"contain",
"muffle",
"squelch"
],
"synonyms":[
"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"submerge",
"suppress",
"swallow"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she casually pocketed the note from his desk to read later"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"related":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"pocket book":{
"a container for carrying money and small personal items":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she pulled some lip balm out of her pocketbook"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"clutch",
"clutch bag",
"minaudi\u00e8re",
"billfold",
"wallet",
"compact",
"vanity",
"poke",
"pouch",
"sack",
"shoulder bag"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"handbag",
"purse"
]
},
"as in paper , pocket edition":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"pocket editions":{
"as in dwarfs , minis":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in papers , trade editions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pocketing":{
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pocketed his wife's messy habits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"dodging",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"missing",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)"
],
"related":[
"allowing",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"swallowing",
"reconciling (to)",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing (with or to)",
"assenting (to)",
"capitulating",
"consenting (to)",
"respecting",
"submitting (to)",
"yielding (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"absorbing",
"accepting",
"bearing",
"biding",
"brooking",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"going",
"hacking",
"handling",
"meeting",
"standing",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"sweating out",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"wearing"
]
},
"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pocketed my anger and just let the insult pass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expressing",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"taking out",
"unleashing",
"venting"
],
"related":[
"controlling",
"governing",
"managing",
"bridling",
"checking",
"curbing",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"bottling up",
"containing",
"muffling",
"squelching"
],
"synonyms":[
"choking (back)",
"holding back",
"repressing",
"sinking",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"submerging",
"suppressing",
"swallowing"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she casually pocketed the note from his desk to read later"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"related":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pocketknife":{
"as in machete , dagger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"pockmark":{
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the explosion left little pockmarks all over the face of the adjacent building"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adornment",
"decoration",
"embellishment",
"enhancement",
"ornament"
],
"related":[
"abnormality",
"distortion",
"irregularity",
"malformation",
"misshape",
"bug",
"glitch",
"kink",
"blot",
"blur",
"spot",
"stain",
"taint",
"damage",
"defacement",
"impairment",
"injury",
"failing",
"weakness"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"blight",
"blotch",
"defect",
"deformity",
"disfigurement",
"excrescence",
"excrescency",
"fault",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"mar",
"mark",
"scar"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"pococurante":{
"having or showing a lack of interest or concern":{
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"antonyms":[
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"concerned",
"interested"
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],
"examples":[
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"she has put up a strangely pococurante front throughout this whole ordeal"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"attentive",
"aware",
"conscientious",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"caring",
"sensitive",
"warmhearted",
"ardent",
"fervent",
"keen",
"passionate",
"warm",
"zealous"
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],
"related":[
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"halfhearted",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"aloof",
"cold",
"numb",
"remote",
"unemotional",
"callous",
"hard-hearted",
"insensitive",
"unfeeling",
"calm",
"cool",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"careless",
"heedless",
"mindless",
"impassive",
"impervious",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"unimpressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"perfunctory",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pods":{
"something that encloses another thing especially to protect it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a fuel pod"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cartridges",
"cassettes",
"casettes",
"barks",
"crusts",
"carapaces",
"houses",
"mails",
"panoplies",
"plates",
"platings",
"shields",
"cuticles",
"hides",
"skins",
"envelopes",
"packages",
"wrappers",
"backings",
"coatings",
"covertures",
"facings"
],
"synonyms":[
"armors",
"capsules",
"cases",
"casings",
"cocoons",
"coverings",
"covers",
"encasements",
"housings",
"hulls",
"husks",
"jackets",
"sheaths",
"shells"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pointers":{
"a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the instructor gave me a few pointers but otherwise let me do the cooking by myself"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advice",
"advisements",
"assistances",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"cautions",
"signals",
"signs",
"telltales",
"tip-offs",
"warnings",
"briefs",
"directions",
"feedback",
"instructions",
"observations",
"prompts",
"reminders",
"urgings",
"answers",
"clues",
"solutions"
],
"synonyms":[
"hints",
"leads",
"tips"
]
},
"an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the pointer on my bathroom scale must be stuck\u2014I know I lost weight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dials",
"faces",
"gauges",
"gages"
],
"synonyms":[
"hands",
"indexes",
"indices",
"indicators",
"needles"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"poisoned":{
"containing or contaminated with a substance capable of injuring or killing a living thing":{
"antonyms":[
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"nonvenomous"
],
"examples":[
"leaving poisoned food to try to kill the roaches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficial",
"curative",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"palliative",
"remedial",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"benign",
"harmless",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal"
],
"related":[
"contagious",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pathogenic",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"injurious",
"malignant",
"nocuous",
"noxious",
"virulent",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome",
"calamitous",
"deadly",
"fatal",
"fell",
"lethal",
"murderous"
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],
"synonyms":[
"envenomed",
"poison",
"poisonous",
"toxic",
"venomous"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"poisoning the minds of impressionable children with ethnic hatred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleansed",
"purified",
"dignified",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"hallowed",
"magnified",
"uplifted"
],
"related":[
"begrimed",
"besmeared",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"dirtied",
"discolored",
"polluted",
"smeared",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"smutted",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tarred",
"abased",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"bastardized",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"subverted",
"colored",
"distorted",
"twisted"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemished",
"darkened",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"touched",
"vitiated"
]
},
"to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"malicious rumors had poisoned many church members against the new pastor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"disposed",
"inclined",
"predisposed",
"influenced",
"prepossessed",
"convinced",
"persuaded",
"suggested"
],
"synonyms":[
"biased",
"biassed",
"prejudiced",
"turned"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"antonyms":[
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted"
],
"examples":[
"this party partisanship poisons the national debate we should be having about this urgent problem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignified",
"exalted",
"honored",
"ameliorated",
"amended",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"refined",
"restored",
"respected"
],
"related":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"diluted",
"dirtied",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"watered down",
"weakened",
"descended",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"shamed",
"took down",
"blemished",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"destroyed",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"marred",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tarnished",
"wrecked",
"depreciated",
"downgraded"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"bastardized",
"cankered",
"cheapened",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"deteriorated",
"lessened",
"perverted",
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"data gathered by nationwide pollers showed the Republicans in the lead"
],
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},
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"a polychromatic tropical bird"
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],
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"related":[
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"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",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pommels":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy"
],
"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",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pompous":{
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
],
"examples":[
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor"
],
"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"
],
"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"
],
"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",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
]
},
"having too high an opinion of oneself":{
"antonyms":[
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"uncomplacent"
],
"examples":[
"a pompous piano teacher who thought that the music world was lucky to have her"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"self-critical",
"self-distrustful",
"self-doubting",
"self-reproachful",
"self-reproving",
"meek",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"down-to-earth",
"unarrogant",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"demure",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy"
],
"related":[
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"disdainful",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"peremptory",
"pontifical",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"holier-than-thou",
"pretentious",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-adulatory",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-gratulatory",
"self-applauding",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-engrossed",
"selfish",
"condescending",
"patronizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"consequential",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"overweening",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-opinionated",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swellheaded",
"vain",
"vainglorious"
]
},
"self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance":{
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unpretentious"
],
"examples":[
"a pompous gambling casino decorated to look like a palace in ancient Rome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"related":[
"airy",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"high-toned",
"sententious",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"grandiose",
"high-minded",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"la-di-da",
"la-de-da",
"lah-de-dah",
"lah-dee-dah",
"lah-di-dah",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"snippy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ponder":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm pondering whether or not I should join another committee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
"related":[
"muse (upon)",
"reflect (on or upon)",
"reminisce",
"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
"study",
"think (about or over)",
"turn",
"weigh",
"wrestle (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"ponderous":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
"examples":[
"fell asleep during the ponderous speech"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"related":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
]
},
"difficult to use or operate especially because of size, weight, or design":{
"antonyms":[
"handy"
],
"examples":[
"lugged a ponderous movie camera all over China"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional",
"practicable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"useful"
],
"related":[
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"bulky",
"dinosaurian",
"dinosauric",
"elephantine",
"heavy",
"hulking",
"massive",
"impracticable",
"impractical"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"bunglesome",
"clumsy",
"clunky",
"cranky",
"cumbersome",
"cumbrous",
"ungainly",
"unhandy",
"unwieldy"
]
},
"having great weight":{
"antonyms":[
"light",
"weightless"
],
"examples":[
"those ponderous pachyderms more commonly known as elephants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"airy",
"ethereal",
"feathery",
"fluffy",
"gossamer",
"gossamery",
"flimsy",
"insubstantial",
"slight",
"lightweight",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"underweight",
"ultralight",
"ultralightweight"
],
"related":[
"burdensome",
"leaden",
"lumpish",
"bulky",
"elephantine",
"massy",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"voluminous",
"overweight",
"top-heavy",
"solid",
"substantial",
"ultraheavy"
],
"synonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"massive",
"weighty"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ponders":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm pondering whether or not I should join another committee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"dismisses",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"rejects"
],
"related":[
"muses (upon)",
"reflects (on or upon)",
"reminisces",
"analyzes",
"explores",
"reviews",
"concludes",
"reasons",
"second-guesses",
"speculates (about)",
"broods (about or over)",
"dwells (on or upon)",
"fixates (on or upon)",
"frets (about or over)",
"obsesses (about or over)",
"believes",
"conceives",
"opines",
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"digests",
"drinks (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chews over",
"cogitates",
"considers",
"contemplates",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"entertains",
"eyes",
"kicks around",
"meditates",
"mulls (over)",
"perpends",
"pores (over)",
"questions",
"revolves",
"ruminates",
"studies",
"thinks (about or over)",
"turns",
"weighs",
"wrestles (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pooch":{
"a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"walking down the street with several pooches on leashes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cur",
"mongrel",
"mutt",
"bitch",
"lapdog",
"pup",
"puppy",
"puppy dog",
"whelp",
"bandog",
"bird dog",
"coonhound",
"courser",
"gundog",
"hunter",
"sheepdog",
"sled dog",
"watchdog",
"wolf dog",
"wolfhound",
"guide dog",
"police dog",
"working dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"canine",
"dog",
"doggy",
"doggie",
"hound",
"tyke",
"tike"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his lower lip pooched out in disappointment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"related":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pooched":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his lower lip pooched out in disappointment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"related":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pooh-poohed":{
"to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They pooh-poohed my suggestion.",
"He pooh-poohed the idea that the house was haunted."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poohed":{
"to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They pooh-poohed my suggestion.",
"He pooh-poohed the idea that the house was haunted."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pooled":{
"as in joined , connected":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
"antonyms":[
"exclusive",
"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
],
"examples":[
"pooled coverage of the congressional hearings by the major broadcast networks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"personal",
"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
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}
},
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"aw, the poor kitten hurt its paw"
],
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"sham"
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"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"punk",
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],
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"prosperous"
],
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"busted",
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"fine",
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],
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"dry",
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"sear",
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"sunbaked"
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]
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},
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},
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"magnifying",
"praising"
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"regardless of whatever is nominated, there'll be those who will poor-mouth the Oscar nominees"
],
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"eulogizing"
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"criticizing",
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"reprehending",
"reprobating",
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"defaming",
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"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
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],
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"denigrating",
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"dismissing",
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"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
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"talking down",
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"vilipending",
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]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"popping off":{
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"to stop living":{
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"living"
],
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"he didn't pop off until the ripe old age of 102"
],
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"being",
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"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
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"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
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"perishing",
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"populous":{
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"a populous seaport",
"the most populous state in the U.S."
],
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"to give serious and careful thought to":{
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"the committee will probably pore over the results of the study for a long time before making their decision"
],
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"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
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"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
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"opine",
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"assimilate",
"digest",
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],
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},
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"he pored over the textbook for hours in preparation for the test"
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"dip (into)",
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"skim",
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"turn over",
"devour",
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"wade (through)",
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"proofread",
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"review",
"study",
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"comprehend",
"get",
"grasp",
"make",
"make out",
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"see",
"tumble (to)",
"understand"
],
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"peruse",
"read"
]
},
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]
},
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"clean",
"G-rated"
],
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"a collection of porny postcards of the type that American servicemen once brought back from Europe"
],
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"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
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"decorous",
"genteel",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
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"suggestive",
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"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
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"lewd",
"lustful",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"ribald",
"salacious",
"smutty",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"immodest",
"kinky",
"prurient",
"earthy",
"racy",
"salty",
"indecorous",
"unbecoming",
"debasing",
"perverted",
"profane",
"naughty",
"wicked"
],
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]
},
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"nonobscene",
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],
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"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"welcome",
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"fit",
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"perfect",
"pure",
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"indelicate",
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"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"
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"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"gutter",
"impure",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"profane",
"raunchy",
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"smutty",
"stag",
"trashy",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"X-rated"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"portly":{
"having an excess of body fat":{
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"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
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"a portly gentleman who loved to cook for his family and friends"
],
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"boney",
"gaunt",
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"rawboned",
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"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
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"rangy",
"reedy",
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"spindly",
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"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
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"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
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"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
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"fleshy",
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"obese",
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"podgy",
"pudgy",
"replete",
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"rotund",
"round",
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},
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"flighty",
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"silly",
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"walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was"
],
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"coarse",
"crass",
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"uncouth",
"unseemly",
"vulgar"
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"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"grave",
"grim",
"po-faced",
"sober",
"somber",
"sombre",
"aristocratic",
"elegant",
"elevated",
"handsome",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"majestic",
"noble"
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},
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},
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"poshness":{
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"related":[],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
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"positively":{
"in an approving manner":{
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"adversely",
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],
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"for the most part audiences have responded positively to his avant-garde music"
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"nonconfidence",
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]
},
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},
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"rules",
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]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"potent":{
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]
},
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"potful":{
"a considerable amount":{
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"examples":[
"visitors to the theme park will have a potful of fun"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"related":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pothers":{
"a state of nervous or irritated concern":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"always in a pother over the state of her garden"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bothers",
"dudgeons",
"piques",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"hand-wringings",
"panics",
"ados",
"agitations",
"deliriums",
"distractions",
"furors",
"hysterias",
"uproars",
"nervous breakdowns"
],
"synonyms":[
"dithers",
"flusters",
"frets",
"fusses",
"huffs",
"lathers",
"stews",
"sweats",
"swelters",
"swivets",
"tizzies",
"twitters"
]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the pother of city traffic that commuters face every day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"related":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"potion":{
"a drink that is meant to have a special or magical effect on someone":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a potion that is supposed to improve health",
"The hero in the play is given a magic potion so that he will fall in love with the princess.",
"medical potions",
"sleeping potions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"potted":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"work was so awful that I'm just going to go out and get potted tonight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"potterer":{
"a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession":{
"antonyms":[
"authority",
"expert",
"pro",
"professional",
"specialist"
],
"examples":[
"a camera designed for people who don't pretend to be anything more than potterers at photography"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"all-rounder",
"generalist",
"general practitioner",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan"
],
"synonyms":[
"amateur",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"hobbyist",
"layman",
"nonexpert",
"nonprofessional",
"putterer",
"tinkerer"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"potters (around)":{
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"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pottering around indoors on a rainy day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckles (down)",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)"
],
"related":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"clowns (around)",
"horses around",
"diddles (with)",
"tinkers"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodles",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs about",
"kicks around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"potty":{
"a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the little girl announced loudly that she needed to go to the potty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commode",
"pan",
"pot",
"garderobe",
"jakes",
"outhouse",
"privy",
"half bath",
"powder room",
"ladies",
"ladies' room",
"men's room"
],
"synonyms":[
"bath",
"bathroom",
"bog",
"can",
"cloakroom",
"comfort station",
"convenience",
"head",
"john",
"latrine",
"lavatory",
"loo",
"restroom",
"toilet",
"washroom",
"water closet"
]
},
"being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a ridiculous woman with pretentious airs and potty pronunciations for everyday words"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democratic",
"egalitarian",
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"unpretentious",
"antielitist"
],
"related":[
"aloof",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-handed",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppity",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"prideful",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"swellheaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"elitist",
"high-hat",
"persnickety",
"ritzy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"snotty",
"toffee-nosed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pounce (on":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pounce (on or upon)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the muggers pounced on the unsuspecting tourists as soon as they rounded the corner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"related":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"pound":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"give the nail a final pound with the hammer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
]
},
"an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stray dogs wearing tags are kept in that pound until their owners can be notified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"kennel",
"run",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"cote",
"dovecote",
"dovecot",
"henhouse",
"fold",
"sheepfold",
"pigpen",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"live-box",
"fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"cage",
"coop",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pounding nails into boards all day long"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"pounding down the road as fast as he could run"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"grate",
"kibble",
"crumble",
"crunch",
"break",
"bust",
"dash",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"micronize"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomize",
"beat",
"bray",
"comminute",
"crush",
"disintegrate",
"grind",
"mill",
"mull",
"powder",
"pulverize"
]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pounding out a depression in the metal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chase",
"planish",
"fashion",
"form",
"knead",
"model",
"mold",
"pat",
"work",
"coin",
"mint",
"stamp",
"abate",
"boast",
"carve",
"chisel",
"cut",
"grave",
"hew",
"knap",
"sculpt",
"sculpture"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"draw",
"forge",
"hammer"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pound (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lap",
"lick",
"suck",
"consume",
"down",
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]
},
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"pounded (out)":{
"as in hammered out , forged":{
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"antonyms":[],
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},
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"verb"
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]
},
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"pourparlers":{
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},
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"noun"
]
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"given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"stayed in a pouting mood until her boyfriend apologized, though he didn't have the vaguest idea what he was apologizing for"
],
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"gladsome",
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"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"perky",
"sunny",
"carefree",
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"gloomy",
"morose",
"choleric",
"crabby",
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"cross",
"crotchety",
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"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
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"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"testy",
"waspish",
"brooding",
"moping",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"huffy",
"sensitive",
"temperamental",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy"
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"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
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"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
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"billowing",
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"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"projecting",
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"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
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"pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning"
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"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"poverty":{
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"abundance",
"adequacy",
"amplitude",
"opulence",
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"sufficiency",
"wealth"
],
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"a poverty of information about the new policies"
],
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"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"oversupply",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
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"absence",
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"poorness",
"skimpiness",
"necessity",
"need",
"privation"
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"deficiency",
"deficit",
"drought",
"drouth",
"failure",
"famine",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"pinch",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
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"want"
]
},
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"opulence",
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"he dreamed of finding a good job and working his way out of poverty and debt"
],
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"luxury",
"prosperity"
],
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"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"exigency",
"emergency",
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"deprivation",
"privation",
"bankruptcy",
"insolvency",
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"neediness",
"pauperism",
"penuriousness",
"penury",
"poorness",
"want"
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"noun"
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},
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"to reduce to fine particles":{
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"you have to powder the antibiotic tablet and mix it with food"
],
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"crumbled",
"crunched",
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"dashed",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
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"atomized",
"beat",
"brayed",
"comminuted",
"crushed",
"disintegrated",
"ground",
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"mulled",
"pounded",
"pulverized"
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},
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"verb"
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"pox":{
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},
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"noun"
]
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},
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"as in diatribe , tirade":{
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},
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"noun"
]
},
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"the kind of powdery snow that is perfect for skiing"
],
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],
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"pulverized",
"refined",
"superfine",
"ultrafine"
],
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"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"gravelly",
"gritty",
"sandy",
"pebbly",
"rocky",
"stony",
"stoney",
"lumpy",
"mealy"
],
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"adjective"
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"his account created in the jurors' heads a detailed portrait of a lonely old man"
],
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"definitions",
"delineations",
"depictions",
"descriptions",
"pictures",
"portraitures",
"portrayals",
"renderings",
"sketches",
"vignettes"
],
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"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"chronicles",
"narratives",
"reports",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns",
"demonstrations",
"exemplifications",
"illustrations",
"clarifications",
"elucidations",
"explanations",
"explications",
"expositions"
],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
"poppycock":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock"
],
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"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",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
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"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"
],
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"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
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"noun"
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],
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"unifying",
"uniting"
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"related":[
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"integrating",
"orchestrating",
"blending",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"fusing",
"incorporating",
"merging",
"reducing",
"conjoining",
"joining",
"linking",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"colligating",
"gathering",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
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"segregating",
"separating"
],
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"decentralizing",
"deconcentrating",
"spreading (out)"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
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"reported the crime to the nearest policeman"
],
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"bobby",
"bull",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"police officer",
"shamus"
],
"related":[
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"policewoman",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"sheriff",
"trooper",
"peace officer",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
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},
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"noun"
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},
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},
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"noun"
]
},
"poll":{
"the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth":{
"examples":[
"a jaunty cap was perched on his poll"
],
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"bean",
"block",
"dome",
"head",
"mazard",
"mazzard",
"nob",
"noddle",
"noggin",
"noodle",
"nut",
"pate"
],
"related":[
"cranium",
"crown",
"scalp",
"skull",
"occiput"
],
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},
"to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information":{
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"assigned to poll residents on their views about a program for recycling"
],
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"canvas",
"interview",
"solicit",
"survey"
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"interrogate",
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"sound (out)"
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"report"
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},
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"examples":[
"time to poll the sheep's wool"
],
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"bob",
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"crop",
"cut",
"cut back",
"dock",
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"nip",
"pare",
"prune",
"shave",
"shear",
"snip",
"trim"
],
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"skive",
"whittle",
"manicure",
"mow",
"pinch",
"stump",
"curtail",
"shorten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen"
],
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},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"powders":{
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"you have to powder the antibiotic tablet and mix it with food"
],
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"beats",
"brays",
"comminutes",
"crushes",
"disintegrates",
"grinds",
"mills",
"mulls",
"pounds",
"pulverizes"
],
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"grates",
"kibbles",
"crumbles",
"crunches",
"breaks",
"busts",
"dashes",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"micronizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"as in oils , creams":{
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"pouncing (on)":{
"as in jumping , tackling":{
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"verb"
]
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},
"pontificate":{
"to speak or express your opinion about something in a way that shows that you think you are always right":{
"examples":[
"We had to listen to her pontificate about the best way to raise children."
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"point men":{
"a person who speaks for another or for a group":{
"examples":[
"the point man for the automaker announced a recall of several models with defective parts"
],
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"mouthpieces",
"mouths",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople"
],
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"spokesmodels",
"spokeswomen",
"fronts",
"promoters",
"shills",
"communicators",
"sayers",
"talkers",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
"potter's field":{
"a piece of land used for burying the dead":{
"examples":[
"criminals and unidentified people are sometimes buried in a potter's field"
],
"synonyms":[
"boneyard",
"cemetery",
"God's acre",
"graveyard",
"memorial park",
"necropolis"
],
"related":[
"catacombs",
"churchyard",
"crypt",
"grave",
"mausoleum",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb",
"vault"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
"pointed (to)":{
"to serve as a sign or symptom of":{
"examples":[
"the reduced production points to declining efficiency within the plant"
],
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"bespoke",
"betokened",
"denoted",
"indicated",
"meant",
"signified",
"told (of)"
],
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"foreshowed",
"foretold",
"presaged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
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"verb"
]
},
"poltroon":{
"having or showing a shameful lack of courage":{
"examples":[
"a military commander who was so poltroon that he surrendered without having fired so much as a single shot"
],
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"chicken",
"chicken-livered",
"chickenhearted",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"pusillanimous",
"recreant",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow"
],
"related":[
"diffident",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"timid",
"timorous",
"afraid",
"frightened",
"scared",
"careful",
"cautious",
"wary",
"bashful",
"coy",
"shy",
"feeble",
"soft",
"unmanly",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"audacious",
"bold",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"nervy",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"determined",
"resolute"
],
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"brave",
"courageous",
"daring",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
]
},
"a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger":{
"examples":[
"those poltroons in the state legislature who have caved in to bigotry on this important issue of basic civil rights"
],
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"chicken",
"coward",
"craven",
"cur",
"dastard",
"funk",
"recreant",
"sissy"
],
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"defeatist",
"quitter",
"cream puff",
"milquetoast",
"pushover",
"pussy",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"caitiff",
"snake",
"sneak",
"ostrich",
"scaramouch",
"scaramouche"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daredevil"
],
"antonyms":[
"hero",
"stalwart",
"valiant"
]
},
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"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"a harsh or sharp quality":{
"examples":[
"there was a poignancy to his wit that often left his targets smarting"
],
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"acerbity",
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"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"pungency",
"roughness",
"sharpness",
"tartness"
],
"related":[
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"shrillness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
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"mildness",
"softness"
]
},
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"noun"
]
},
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"lacking money or material possessions":{
"examples":[
"poverty-stricken immigrants struggling to make ends meet"
],
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"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"skint",
"threadbare"
],
"related":[
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"unaffluent",
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"bankrupted",
"bust",
"busted",
"insolvent",
"possessionless",
"ruined",
"depressed",
"distressed",
"hand-to-mouth",
"hardscrabble",
"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"powerful":{
"having great power or influence":{
"examples":[
"a powerful producer in the music business who is considered responsible for the careers of several superstars"
],
"synonyms":[
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"important",
"influential",
"mighty",
"potent",
"puissant",
"significant",
"strong"
],
"related":[
"high-level",
"senior",
"top",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"effective",
"efficient",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"magisterial",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"celebrated",
"distinguished",
"dominant",
"eminent",
"famed",
"famous",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"notorious",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"forceful",
"high-powered",
"robust",
"vigorous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"flimsy",
"frail",
"infirm",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"ineffective",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unfit",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"insignificant",
"little",
"powerless",
"unimportant",
"weak"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"portions":{
"a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand":{
"examples":[
"he had always just assumed that lifelong bachelorhood would be his portion"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumstances",
"destinies",
"dooms",
"fates",
"fortunes",
"kismets",
"lots"
],
"related":[
"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck",
"predestinations",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled":{
"examples":[
"equal portions of the students' day are devoted to study, recreation, and sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"members",
"partitions",
"parts",
"sections",
"segments"
],
"related":[
"components",
"constituents",
"elements",
"factors",
"ingredients",
"moieties",
"parcels",
"cuts",
"lengths",
"bits",
"fragments",
"particles",
"scraps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wholes",
"aggregates",
"composites",
"compounds",
"sums",
"totalities",
"totals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group":{
"examples":[
"each camper gets an equal portion of the food"
],
"synonyms":[
"allotments",
"allowances",
"cuts",
"ends",
"parts",
"pieces",
"proportions",
"quotas",
"shares",
"slices",
"takes"
],
"related":[
"lots",
"rations",
"commissions",
"percentages",
"members",
"partitions",
"sections",
"segments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregates",
"composites",
"compounds",
"pools",
"sums",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"portioned out the medical supplies equally"
],
"synonyms":[
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"prorates"
],
"related":[
"admeasures",
"allots",
"allows",
"appropriates",
"assigns",
"dishes out",
"divides",
"divvies (up)",
"dollops (out)",
"lots",
"measures (out)",
"parts",
"proportions",
"rations",
"redistributes",
"sets",
"shares (out)",
"splits",
"bestows",
"disburses",
"furnishes",
"issues",
"provides",
"shares",
"supplies",
"circulates",
"disperses",
"disseminates",
"scatters",
"spreads",
"chips in",
"contributes",
"donates",
"pledges",
"reallocates",
"reapportions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudges",
"declines",
"denies",
"deprives (of)",
"disallows",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"withholds",
"niggles (out)",
"pinches",
"skimps",
"stints"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"postmortem examination":{
"examination of a dead body especially to find out the cause of death":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"autopsy",
"necropsy",
"postmortem"
],
"related":[
"dissection"
],
"near antonyms":[
"biopsy",
"vivisection"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"Pollyannish":{
"as in optimistic , hopeful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pottered (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"pottering around indoors on a rainy day"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodled",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung about",
"kicked around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"related":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"clowned (around)",
"horsed around",
"diddled (with)",
"tinkered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckled (down)",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poach":{
"to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam":{
"examples":[
"poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"coddle",
"parboil",
"simmer",
"stew"
],
"related":[
"scald",
"braise",
"fricassee",
"pressure-cook",
"smother",
"steam",
"reboil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pointing (up)":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"pointed up his warning by furiously wagging his finger at them"
],
"synonyms":[
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"featuring",
"foregrounding",
"highlighting",
"illuminating",
"playing up",
"pressing",
"punctuating",
"stressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focusing",
"focussing",
"identifying",
"pinpointing",
"spotlighting",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"overplaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toning (down)",
"underemphasizing",
"understating",
"belittling",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizing",
"playing down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poaching":{
"as in rustling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rustling",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"pillage",
"plundering",
"rapine",
"spoliation",
"black marketeering",
"smuggling",
"abduction",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"banditry",
"piracy",
"filching",
"pilferage",
"pilfering",
"purloining",
"shoplifting",
"petit larceny",
"petty larceny",
"embezzlement",
"embezzling",
"graft",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"peculation",
"burglary",
"housebreaking",
"larceny",
"robbery",
"stealing",
"theft",
"thievery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam":{
"examples":[
"poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"coddling",
"parboiling",
"simmering",
"stewing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scalding",
"braising",
"fricasseeing",
"pressure-cooking",
"smothering",
"steaming",
"reboiling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"positive":{
"expressing approval":{
"examples":[
"hoped for a positive reaction from the audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"admiring",
"applauding",
"appreciative",
"approbatory",
"approving",
"commendatory",
"complimentary",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"good"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accepting",
"warm",
"encomiastic",
"eulogistic",
"flattering",
"hagiographic",
"hagiographical",
"laudative",
"laudatory",
"panegyrical",
"praiseful",
"respectful",
"supportive",
"sympathetic",
"adoring",
"adulatory",
"idolizing",
"worshipful",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"advisory",
"recommendatory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captious",
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"censuring",
"critical",
"faultfinding",
"hypercritical",
"overcritical",
"belittling",
"contemptuous",
"disdainful",
"disparaging",
"scornful",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"adverse",
"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derogatory",
"disapproving",
"inappreciative",
"negative",
"unappreciative",
"uncomplimentary",
"unfavorable",
"unflattering",
"unfriendly"
]
},
"having or showing a mind free from doubt":{
"examples":[
"I'm positive that this is the right direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"certain",
"clear",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"doubtless",
"implicit",
"sanguine",
"sure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"self-assured",
"self-conceited",
"self-confident",
"decisive",
"resolute",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unquestioning",
"unwavering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"diffident",
"unassuming"
],
"antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"unsure"
]
},
"not capable of being challenged or proved wrong":{
"examples":[
"seeks positive proof that UFO's exist"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"certain",
"inarguable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefragable",
"irrefutable",
"sure",
"unanswerable",
"unarguable",
"unchallengeable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"absolute",
"clear",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"definite",
"hands-down",
"uncontested",
"uncontradicted",
"undisputed",
"unquestioned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controversial",
"debated",
"disputed",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"iffy",
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"uncertain",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal",
"academic",
"academical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
],
"antonyms":[
"answerable",
"arguable",
"contradictable",
"controvertible",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"moot",
"negotiable",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"refutable"
]
},
"as in yes , yea":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"yea",
"yes",
"pro",
"acceptance",
"approval",
"grace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nay",
"negative",
"no",
"non placet",
"con",
"blackball",
"veto"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"post":{
"communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system":{
"examples":[
"the post always comes at tea time"
],
"synonyms":[
"correspondence",
"mail",
"matter",
"parcel post",
"snail mail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airmail",
"airpost",
"certified mail",
"registered mail",
"rural delivery",
"rural free delivery",
"special delivery",
"special handling",
"direct mail",
"junk mail",
"mailer",
"card",
"dispatch",
"epistle",
"letter",
"message",
"missive",
"note",
"postal card",
"postcard",
"printed matter",
"bundle",
"package",
"shipment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a specific task with which a person or group is charged":{
"examples":[
"selling lemonade was my post at the church fair"
],
"synonyms":[
"assignment",
"brief",
"business",
"charge",
"detail",
"job",
"mission",
"operation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burden",
"chore",
"duty",
"need",
"obligation",
"office",
"requirement",
"responsibility",
"errand",
"labor",
"work",
"commitment",
"pledge",
"promise",
"appointment",
"commission",
"designation",
"nomination",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"restraint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the place where someone is assigned to stand or remain":{
"examples":[
"he wisely stayed at his post during the emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"position",
"quarter",
"station"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assignment",
"brief",
"business",
"charge",
"detail",
"job",
"operation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an assignment at which one regularly works for pay":{
"examples":[
"she's held a number of teaching posts at local colleges"
],
"synonyms":[
"appointment",
"berth",
"billet",
"capacity",
"connection",
"function",
"job",
"place",
"position",
"situation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"business",
"employ",
"employment",
"occupation",
"profession",
"work",
"office",
"spot",
"calling",
"pursuit",
"trade",
"vocation",
"line",
"racket",
"engagement",
"gig",
"livelihood",
"living",
"career",
"lifework",
"practice",
"practise",
"duty",
"mission",
"posting",
"service",
"task"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocation",
"joblessness",
"unemployment"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"hung the hammock between a tree and a post in the fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"column",
"pier",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"stanchion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatid",
"pedestal",
"buttress",
"flying buttress",
"needle",
"obelisk",
"pile",
"piling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to affix (as a notice) to or on a suitable place":{
"examples":[
"the student organizations generally post their announcements on the campus bulletin board"
],
"synonyms":[
"placard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nail",
"plaster",
"tack (up)",
"advertise",
"announce",
"bill",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"call",
"declare",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"remove",
"take down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"posted the students' grades"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to assign to a place or position":{
"examples":[
"the police are planning to post an officer outside the hospital room of the witness"
],
"synonyms":[
"detail",
"station"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set",
"appoint",
"place",
"position"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to send through the postal system":{
"examples":[
"be sure to post the letter this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"mail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airmail",
"frank",
"address",
"consign",
"direct",
"dispatch",
"forward",
"remit",
"route",
"ship",
"transmit",
"transport",
"register"
],
"near antonyms":[
"get",
"receive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ponds":{
"as in lakes , lagoons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lagoons",
"lakes",
"lochs",
"loughs",
"reservoirs",
"tarns",
"water holes",
"billabongs",
"meres",
"pools",
"puddles",
"stanks",
"wells",
"basins",
"holes",
"potholes",
"sinkholes",
"swimming pools"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"polluted":{
"containing foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"called in to clean up the polluted stream"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulterate",
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"contaminated",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"impure",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"weakened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unclarified",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"maculate",
"maculated",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"blended",
"commingled",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"compounded",
"cheapened",
"doctored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"purified",
"refined",
"ultrarefined",
"neat",
"plain",
"straight",
"concentrated",
"strong",
"uncombined",
"pasteurized",
"sterile",
"sterilized",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied"
],
"antonyms":[
"fine",
"pure",
"ultrapure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"uncontaminated",
"uncut",
"undiluted",
"unmixed",
"unpolluted",
"untainted"
]
},
"to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"outmoded factories polluting the air"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouled",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"poisoned",
"tainted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infected",
"begrimed",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"dirtied",
"fouled up",
"grimed",
"mired",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"stained",
"sullied",
"corrupted",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"adulterated",
"doctored",
"diluted",
"watered down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"cleared",
"distilled",
"purged",
"filtered",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"sterilized"
],
"antonyms":[
"decontaminated",
"purified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"poeticize":{
"as in soften , sweeten":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"euphemize",
"soften",
"sweeten",
"heroicize",
"heroize",
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"idolize",
"glamorize",
"glamourize",
"glamour (up)",
"glorify",
"idealize",
"romanticize",
"aggrandize",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"enthrone",
"magnify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deglamorize",
"belittle",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poachers":{
"as in smugglers , rustlers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rustlers",
"smugglers",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"bandits",
"footpads",
"highwaymen",
"pirates",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"muggers",
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"pilferers",
"shoplifters",
"sneak thiefs",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"burglars",
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"picklocks",
"safecrackers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hunters , trappers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birders",
"falconers",
"fowlers",
"hawkers",
"hunters",
"huntsmen",
"nimrods",
"huntresses",
"sportsmen",
"sportswomen",
"hunter-gatherers",
"trappers",
"archers",
"gunners"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pointing (to)":{
"to serve as a sign or symptom of":{
"examples":[
"the reduced production points to declining efficiency within the plant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespeaking",
"betokening",
"denoting",
"indicating",
"meaning",
"signifying",
"telling (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boding",
"foreshowing",
"foretelling",
"presaging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"popped off":{
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"he didn't pop off until the ripe old age of 102"
],
"synonyms":[
"checked out",
"conked (out)",
"croaked",
"deceased",
"demised",
"departed",
"died",
"dropped",
"ended",
"exited",
"expired",
"fell",
"flatlined",
"kicked in",
"kicked off",
"parted",
"passed away",
"passed (on)",
"pegged out",
"perished",
"stepped out",
"succumbed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceased",
"consumed",
"disappeared",
"dried up",
"faded",
"failed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came to",
"revived",
"lingered",
"existed",
"subsisted",
"was",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathed",
"lived"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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}
}
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