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{
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"stability":{
"the ability to withstand force or stress without being distorted, dislodged, or damaged":{
"antonyms":[
"insecurity",
"instability",
"precariousness",
"shakiness",
"unstableness",
"unsteadiness"
],
"examples":[
"the bridge was designed with such great stability that it supposedly will not collapse even under the harshest weather conditions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insubstantiality",
"unsoundness",
"unsubstantiality",
"weakness"
],
"related":[
"dependability",
"durability",
"reliability",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"cohesion",
"toughness"
],
"synonyms":[
"firmness",
"soundness",
"strength",
"sturdiness"
]
},
"the state of continuing without change":{
"antonyms":[
"capriciousness",
"changeability",
"changeableness",
"fickleness",
"instability",
"mutability",
"unpredictability",
"unsteadiness",
"variability",
"variableness",
"volatileness",
"volatility"
],
"examples":[
"the stability of the regime is in jeopardy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aperiodicity",
"inconsistence",
"inconsistency",
"irregularity",
"unevenness",
"caducity",
"evanescence",
"impermanence"
],
"related":[
"consistency",
"regularity",
"sameness",
"uniformity",
"durability",
"enduringness",
"lastingness",
"permanence"
],
"synonyms":[
"changelessness",
"constancy",
"fixedness",
"immutability",
"immutableness",
"invariability",
"steadiness",
"unchangeableness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"stabilize":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stabled":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stack":{
"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":[
"earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay"
],
"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",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a stack of playing cards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bank",
"bar",
"drift",
"embankment",
"bed",
"layer",
"mow",
"pyramid",
"rick",
"barrow",
"cairn",
"pyre",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"array",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"conglomeration",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"hoard",
"huddle",
"jumble",
"knot",
"pileup"
],
"synonyms":[
"cock",
"heap",
"hill",
"mound",
"mountain",
"pile"
]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stacked the split logs by the house"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bank",
"layer",
"pyramid",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"mass",
"bunch",
"clump",
"lump"
],
"synonyms":[
"heap",
"mound",
"pile"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"stacking (up)":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"related":[
"agglutinating",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"banking",
"drifting",
"ridging"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreting",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"building up",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"gathering",
"massing",
"piling (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"staffer":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"stage-managed":{
"as in micromanaged":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"staggeringly":{
"to a large extent or degree":{
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
],
"examples":[
"a staggeringly inappropriate comment to make at a funeral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modestly",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"infinitesimally",
"insignificantly",
"invisibly",
"microscopically",
"minutely",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"related":[
"appreciably",
"noticeably",
"significantly",
"abundantly",
"amply",
"copiously",
"healthily",
"plentifully"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomically",
"big-time",
"broadly",
"colossally",
"considerably",
"enormously",
"extensively",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"largely",
"massively",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"much",
"sizably",
"stupendously",
"tremendously",
"utterly",
"vastly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"stain":{
"a mark of guilt or disgrace":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the stain of this cowardly act would haunt him for the rest of his career"
],
"near antonyms":[
"award",
"credit",
"honor",
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"modesty",
"purity",
"stainlessness",
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"related":[
"black eye",
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"guilt",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"licentiousness",
"sin",
"unscrupulousness",
"vice"
],
"synonyms":[
"blot",
"brand",
"onus",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stigma",
"taint"
]
},
"a substance used to color other materials":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"applied several coats of stain to the wood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"tint",
"toner",
"cast",
"hue",
"shade",
"tinge"
],
"synonyms":[
"color",
"colorant",
"coloring",
"dye",
"dyestuff",
"pigment"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanse",
"purify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"glorify",
"hallow",
"magnify",
"uplift"
],
"related":[
"begrime",
"besmear",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"blur",
"cloud",
"dirty",
"discolor",
"pollute",
"smear",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"smut",
"soil",
"sully",
"tar",
"abase",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"lower",
"shame",
"sink",
"bastardize",
"corrupt",
"debauch",
"demoralize",
"deprave",
"pervert",
"subvert",
"color",
"distort",
"twist"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"darken",
"mar",
"poison",
"spoil",
"taint",
"tarnish",
"touch",
"vitiate"
]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorize"
],
"examples":[
"stained the table to look like cherry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanch",
"bleach",
"whiten"
],
"related":[
"brighten",
"lighten",
"darken",
"embrown",
"tone (down)",
"checker",
"dapple",
"daub",
"fleck",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pattern",
"polychrome",
"speck",
"speckle",
"streak",
"striate",
"stripe",
"variegate"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepaint",
"color",
"dye",
"paint",
"pigment",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanse"
],
"examples":[
"oil stained his work pants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminate",
"purge",
"purify",
"disinfect",
"sanitize",
"brush",
"dry-clean",
"dust",
"launder",
"mop",
"rinse",
"scour",
"scrub",
"sweep",
"wash",
"wipe",
"brighten",
"deodorize",
"freshen",
"renew",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"discolor",
"confuse",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"draggle",
"jumble",
"mess",
"muddle",
"colly",
"crock"
],
"synonyms":[
"befoul",
"begrime",
"bemire",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"daub",
"dirty",
"distain",
"foul",
"gaum",
"grime",
"mire",
"muck",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"sully"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"stained":{
"not clean":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"ultraclean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"examples":[
"always seen wearing stained clothes, which he apparently hoped would mark him as an antibourgeois bohemian"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"pure",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"bleached",
"purified",
"whitened",
"bright",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"shiny",
"sparkling",
"unspotted",
"untouched",
"taintless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"virgin",
"wholesome"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"germy",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"insanitary",
"uncleaned",
"unsanitary",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"unwashed",
"greasy",
"gunky",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"scruffy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"raunchy",
"scuzzy",
"shabby",
"skanky",
"sleazy",
"squalid",
"collied",
"crocked",
"fuliginous",
"sooty"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"black",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"dusty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"smutty",
"soiled",
"sordid",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"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",
"poisoned",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"touched",
"vitiated"
]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorized"
],
"examples":[
"stained the table to look like cherry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanched",
"bleached",
"whitened"
],
"related":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"darkened",
"embrowned",
"toned (down)",
"checkered",
"dappled",
"daubed",
"flecked",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"patterned",
"polychromed",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"striated",
"striped",
"variegated"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepainted",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"pigmented",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"cleaned",
"cleansed"
],
"examples":[
"oil stained his work pants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminated",
"purged",
"purified",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"brushed",
"dry-cleaned",
"dusted",
"laundered",
"mopped",
"rinsed",
"scoured",
"scrubbed",
"swept",
"washed",
"wiped",
"brightened",
"deodorized",
"freshened",
"renewed",
"spruced (up)",
"straightened (up)",
"tidied (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"discolored",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"draggled",
"jumbled",
"messed",
"muddled",
"collied",
"crocked"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"daubed",
"dirtied",
"distained",
"fouled",
"gaumed",
"grimed",
"mired",
"mucked",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"sullied"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"stainlessness":{
"as in purity , modesty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stains":{
"a mark of guilt or disgrace":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"the stain of this cowardly act would haunt him for the rest of his career"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"awards",
"credits",
"honors",
"chastities",
"modesties",
"purities",
"goods",
"rights",
"honesties",
"integrities",
"legitimacies",
"probities",
"rectitudes",
"fames",
"glories",
"renowns",
"reputes"
],
"related":[
"black eyes",
"discredit",
"disesteems",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"guilts",
"ignominies",
"infamies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches",
"shames",
"corruptions",
"debaucheries",
"depravities",
"immoralities",
"iniquities",
"sins",
"vices"
],
"synonyms":[
"blots",
"brands",
"onuses",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"spots",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"taints"
]
},
"a substance used to color other materials":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"applied several coats of stain to the wood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"tints",
"toners",
"casts",
"hues",
"shades",
"tinges"
],
"synonyms":[
"colorants",
"colorings",
"colors",
"dyes",
"dyestuffs",
"pigments"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"dignifies",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"glorifies",
"hallows",
"magnifies",
"uplifts"
],
"related":[
"begrimes",
"besmears",
"besmirches",
"blackens",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"dirties",
"discolors",
"pollutes",
"smears",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"smuts",
"soils",
"sullies",
"tars",
"tarres",
"abases",
"cheapens",
"debases",
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"stare daggers":{
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},
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"the palace guards are required to maintain a rigid station"
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"the historic house was once a station on the Underground Railroad, the network that helped slaves reach freedom in the North"
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},
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"staunches":{
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},
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},
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},
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},
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"staved off":{
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"to drive back":{
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"prolongation"
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"let's stay inside this pavilion until it stops raining"
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"beams being used to stay the bridge while it is undergoing repairs"
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"we'll stay for a while longer and see if anyone shows up"
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},
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"stay clear of":{
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"He adroitly changed the subject to stay clear of having to admit what he'd done."
],
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"catch",
"contract",
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"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
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"shake",
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"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
]
},
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]
},
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"steadies":{
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},
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"verb"
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"little wonder that the store went out of business, as its employees had been stealing from it for years"
],
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"rifle",
"despoil",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
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"sack",
"spoil",
"strip",
"bleed",
"break in",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"exploit",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"pluck",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle",
"hold up",
"mug",
"roll",
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"misappropriation",
"peculation",
"petit larceny",
"petty larceny",
"filching",
"pilferage",
"pilfering",
"purloining",
"shoplifting",
"abduction",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"pillage",
"plundering",
"rapine",
"spoliation",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"black marketeering",
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"edging",
"inching",
"worming",
"ghosting",
"padding",
"tiptoeing"
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"mooching",
"mousing",
"pussyfooting",
"shirking",
"skulking",
"sliding",
"slinking",
"slipping",
"snaking",
"sneaking"
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"the guy who tried to steal my car was sentenced to a year in jail"
],
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"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
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"seizing",
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"taking",
"mooching",
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"abducting",
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"kidnaping",
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"pinching",
"pocketing",
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"verb"
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"delighted",
"pleased"
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"I'm really steamed up over his latest outrageous behavior"
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"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
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"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
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"piqued",
"rancorous",
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"virulent",
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"cold",
"cool",
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"disapproving",
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"frigid",
"icy",
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"unfriendly",
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"bearish",
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"cantankerous",
"churlish",
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"fretful",
"fussy",
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"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
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"hopping",
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"hot",
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"gratified",
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"finding yet another mistaken charge on his hospital bill really steamed him up"
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"relieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"soothed",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
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"calmed",
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"roiled",
"ticked off"
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"verb"
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},
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"steamer":{
"as in steamship , barge":{
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"steaming up":{
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"to make angry":{
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing"
],
"examples":[
"finding yet another mistaken charge on his hospital bill really steamed him up"
],
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"assuaging",
"relieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"soothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"calming",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"settling",
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"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
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"enchanting"
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"envenoming"
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"maddening",
"madding",
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"rankling",
"riling",
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},
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"daunting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"examples":[
"hoped that his inspirational talk would steel the youths in the pursuit of their dreams"
],
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"demoralizing",
"depressing",
"saddening",
"debilitating",
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"hamstringing",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"intimidating",
"psyching (out)"
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"invigorating",
"enforcing",
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"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"boosting",
"energizing",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"provoking",
"quickening",
"rallying",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
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"cheering (up)",
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"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
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]
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"to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure":{
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"softening"
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"years of running a farm had steeled the hard-bitten woman"
],
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"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"sapping",
"weakening",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"hamstringing",
"incapacitating",
"sensitizing"
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"vitalizing",
"immunizing",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"enforcing",
"forearming",
"propping (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"supporting",
"breaking in",
"limbering (up)",
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"conditioning",
"habituating",
"naturalizing"
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"inuring",
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"toughening"
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"he had spent the previous night steeling himself for the moment when he would demand a raise"
],
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"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"psyching (out)",
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"enfeebling",
"prostrating",
"sapping",
"softening",
"tiring",
"undercutting",
"undermining",
"weakening"
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"arming",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buoying (up)",
"buttressing",
"enforcing",
"propping (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"cheering (up)",
"comforting",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
"rallying",
"rousing",
"stirring"
],
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"fortifying",
"nerving",
"poising",
"psyching (up)",
"readying",
"strengthening"
]
},
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"verb"
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},
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"first needed to learn how to steer her personal watercraft before going out on the crowded lake"
],
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"related":[
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"hijack",
"highjack"
],
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"conn",
"con",
"helm",
"navigate",
"pilot"
]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
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"trail"
],
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"the man in the train station was able to steer us in the right direction"
],
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"hound",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tailgate"
],
"related":[
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"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"control",
"manage"
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"examples":[
"grew up in the sticks and is used to traveling miles just to get a loaf of bread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conurbation",
"megalopolis",
"urban sprawl"
],
"related":[
"exurbia",
"backcountry",
"backwater",
"backwoods",
"bush",
"frontier",
"hinterland",
"outback",
"up-country",
"wild",
"wilderness"
],
"synonyms":[
"boondocks",
"boonies",
"country",
"countryside",
"nowhere"
]
},
"to arrange something in a certain spot or position":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you can stick that box in the corner until I figure out where to put everything"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relocates",
"removes",
"takes",
"banishes",
"dislodges",
"displaces",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"supplants"
],
"related":[
"moves",
"rearranges",
"reorders",
"shifts",
"orients",
"establishes",
"locates",
"plants",
"settles",
"claps",
"flops",
"planks",
"plops",
"plumps",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"plunks down",
"slaps",
"ensconces",
"niches",
"assembles",
"collects",
"carries",
"berths",
"parks",
"affixes",
"anchors",
"locks",
"lodges",
"wedges",
"arrays",
"lays out",
"lines up",
"queues",
"ranks",
"sets down"
],
"synonyms":[
"deposes",
"deposits",
"disposes",
"emplaces",
"fixes",
"lays",
"places",
"positions",
"puts",
"sets",
"sets up",
"situates"
]
},
"to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"those magnets are strong enough to stick to the refrigerator without any problems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loosens",
"drops",
"falls"
],
"related":[
"binds",
"coheres",
"fastens",
"fuses",
"glues",
"unites"
],
"synonyms":[
"adheres",
"cleaves",
"clings",
"hews"
]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"could hardly feel the needle when the nurse stuck my arm with it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"synonyms":[
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she got stuck by an unscrupulous seller while using the online auction site"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"stiff":{
"a dead body":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"to the mortician, a stiff was a stiff and they were all pretty much alike"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
"mummy",
"carnage",
"carrion",
"ashes",
"deceased",
"decedent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bones",
"cadaver",
"carcass",
"corpse",
"corpus",
"corse",
"relics",
"remains"
]
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},
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"a member of the human race":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"one lucky stiff will get the biggest jackpot in the lottery's history"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
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],
"related":[
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"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"thing",
"wight"
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]
},
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"being under the influence of alcohol":{
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"antonyms":[
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"sober",
"straight"
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],
"examples":[
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"seeing that the customer was more than a little stiff , the bartender offered to call a cab for him"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
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],
"related":[
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"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"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",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
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]
},
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"difficult to endure":{
"antonyms":[
"easy",
"light",
"soft"
],
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"examples":[
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"stiff winds"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"comfortable",
"cozy",
"luxurious",
"snug",
"agreeable",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"peaceful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"painless",
"tolerable",
"balmy",
"calm",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate"
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],
"related":[
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"austere",
"bleak",
"comfortless",
"discomforting",
"forbidding",
"inhospitable",
"spartan",
"uncomfortable",
"biting",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"wild",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"agonizing",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"painful",
"wretched",
"crushing",
"grinding",
"overwhelming",
"wearing",
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"harrowing",
"tortuous",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"hostile",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bitter",
"brutal",
"burdensome",
"cruel",
"excruciating",
"grievous",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy",
"inhuman",
"murderous",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rugged",
"searing",
"severe",
"tough",
"trying"
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]
},
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"going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount":{
"antonyms":[
"middling",
"moderate",
"modest",
"reasonable",
"temperate"
],
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"examples":[
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"don't you think that's a pretty stiff fine for such a minor infraction?"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"minimal",
"minimum"
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],
"related":[
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"boundless",
"endless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"unbearable",
"unjustifiable",
"unwarranted",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"thick",
"unseemly",
"unrestrained"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"baroque",
"devilish",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"fancy",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"insane",
"intolerable",
"lavish",
"overdue",
"overextravagant",
"overmuch",
"overweening",
"plethoric",
"steep",
"towering",
"unconscionable",
"undue",
"unmerciful"
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]
},
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"having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure":{
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"antonyms":[
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"flabby",
"soft",
"spongy",
"squashy",
"squishy"
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],
"examples":[
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"stir two cups of flour with the remaining ingredients to make a stiff dough"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"loose",
"scattered",
"thin",
"bendable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"malleable",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"limp",
"slack",
"airy",
"light",
"permeable",
"porous",
"ultrasoft"
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],
"related":[
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"case-hardened",
"compacted",
"compressed",
"hardened",
"indurated",
"stiffened",
"tempered",
"close",
"dense",
"heavy",
"thick",
"thickset",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"ramrod",
"unbending",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"adamantine",
"rocklike",
"sturdy",
"substantial",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"nonporous"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"compact",
"firm",
"hard",
"rigid",
"solid",
"unyielding"
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]
},
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"incapable of or highly resistant to bending":{
"antonyms":[
"flexible",
"floppy",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"yielding"
],
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"examples":[
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"use a stiff piece of paper for the project"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"elastic",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"workable",
"malleable",
"plastic",
"semiflexible",
"droopy",
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"mushy",
"semisoft",
"soft",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"lank",
"limber",
"limp",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"willowy"
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],
"related":[
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"inelastic",
"firm",
"hard",
"solid",
"sound",
"strong",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"compact",
"dense",
"substantial",
"arthritic",
"rheumatic",
"nonelastic",
"nonmalleable"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiffened",
"unyielding"
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]
},
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"lacking social grace and assurance":{
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"antonyms":[
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"graceful",
"suave",
"urbane"
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],
"examples":[
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"felt stiff and ill-at-ease whenever she was introduced to her parents' friends"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
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],
"related":[
"angular",
"gawky",
"lubberly",
"ungainly",
"boorish",
"clownish",
"uncouth",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"meek",
"modest",
"self-doubting",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"rustic",
"rustical",
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"stilted",
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"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden"
]
},
"marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details":{
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"unceremonious"
],
"examples":[
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"the stiff politeness with which I was greeted suggested that they weren't truly happy to see me"
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],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"indecorous",
"unmannerly",
"discourteous",
"impolite",
"rude"
],
"related":[
"sober",
"solemn",
"stately",
"chivalrous",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"civil",
"courteous",
"polite",
"red-carpet"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"correct",
"decorous",
"formal",
"nice",
"proper",
"punctilious",
"starchy",
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"stiff-necked",
"stilted"
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]
},
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"requiring considerable physical or mental effort":{
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"light",
"mindless",
"simple",
"soft",
"undemanding"
],
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"examples":[
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"we'll have a stiff climb to actually reach the summit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievable",
"clear",
"doable",
"elementary",
"manageable",
"uncomplicated",
"comforting",
"gentle",
"painless",
"relaxed",
"smooth",
"soothing",
"accessible",
"friendly",
"idiotproof",
"user-friendly"
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],
"related":[
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"abstract",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"elusive",
"hairy",
"insoluble",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"opaque",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite",
"serious",
"spiny",
"stubborn",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"tricky",
"bruising",
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"labored",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"tight",
"trying",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"distressing",
"irksome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"grievous",
"grim",
"strict",
"stringent",
"brutal",
"cruel",
"inhuman",
"painful"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"arduous",
"Augean",
"backbreaking",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"effortful",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"moiling",
"murderous",
"pick-and-shovel",
"rigorous",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"strenuous",
"sweaty",
"tall",
"testing",
"toilsome",
"tough",
"uphill"
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]
},
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"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"the actress has a reputation for stiffing the press at red-carpet events"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"ostracize",
"brush (aside or off)",
"disdain",
"rebuff",
"reject",
"repel",
"repulse",
"scorn",
"spurn",
"disregard",
"forget",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"shrug off"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"cold-shoulder",
"cut",
"high-hat",
"slight",
"snub",
"stiff-arm"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"customers who were too embarrassed to admit that they had been stiffed by an Internet company claiming to sell designer handbags"
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],
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"related":[
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"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
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],
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"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
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]
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"adjective",
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"noun",
"verb"
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]
},
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"stiff-arming":{
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"isolating",
"ostracizing",
"brushing (aside or off)",
"disdaining",
"rebuffing",
"rejecting",
"repelling",
"repulsing",
"scorning",
"spurning",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"shrugging off"
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],
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"cold-shouldering",
"cutting",
"high-hatting",
"slighting",
"snubbing",
"stiffing"
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]
},
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"verb"
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]
},
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"stiff-arms":{
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"isolates",
"ostracizes",
"brushes (aside or off)",
"disdains",
"rebuffs",
"rejects",
"repels",
"repulses",
"scorns",
"spurns",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"shrugs off"
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],
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"cold-shoulders",
"cuts",
"high-hats",
"slights",
"snubs",
"stiffs"
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]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
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"noun"
]
},
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"to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"unfortunately, the robbers were stifled when they got trapped in the airless bank vault"
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],
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"breathe",
"exhale",
"expire",
"inhale",
"inspire",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
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],
"related":[
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"garrote",
"garotte",
"throttle",
"asphyxiate",
"drown",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"slay"
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],
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"choke",
"smother",
"strangle",
"suffocate"
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]
},
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"to deaden the sound of":{
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"antonyms":[
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"unmuffle"
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],
"examples":[
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"he stifled a cough with his hand"
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],
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"amplify",
"boost",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"increase",
"magnify",
"step up",
"strengthen"
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],
"related":[
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"insulate",
"soundproof",
"pad",
"dampen",
"mellow",
"soften",
"subdue",
"tone (down)",
"baffle",
"smother"
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],
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"muffle",
"mute"
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]
},
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"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"stifled a yawn"
],
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"loose",
"release",
"take out",
"unleash",
"vent"
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],
"related":[
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"control",
"govern",
"manage",
"bridle",
"check",
"curb",
"quash",
"quell",
"bottle up",
"contain",
"muffle",
"squelch"
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],
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"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"pocket",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"strangle",
"submerge",
"suppress",
"swallow"
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]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"stifling":{
"lacking fresh air":{
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"airy",
"breezy",
"unstuffy"
],
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"examples":[
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"the lecture hall was stifling until we opened several windows"
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],
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"bracing",
"brisk",
"invigorating",
"refreshed",
"refreshing",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"sweet",
"ventilated"
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],
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"airless",
"unventilated",
"fuggy",
"heavy",
"oppressive",
"thick"
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],
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"breathless",
"close",
"stuffy",
"suffocating"
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]
},
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"to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"unfortunately, the robbers were stifled when they got trapped in the airless bank vault"
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],
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"breathing",
"exhaling",
"expiring",
"inhaling",
"inspiring",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
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],
"related":[
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"garroting",
"garotting",
"throttling",
"asphyxiating",
"drowning",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"felling",
"slaying"
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],
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"choking",
"smothering",
"strangling",
"suffocating"
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]
},
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"to deaden the sound of":{
"antonyms":[
"unmuffling"
],
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"examples":[
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"he stifled a cough with his hand"
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],
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"amplifying",
"boosting",
"deepening",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"magnifying",
"stepping up",
"strengthening"
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],
"related":[
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"insulating",
"soundproofing",
"padding",
"dampening",
"mellowing",
"softening",
"subduing",
"toning (down)",
"baffling",
"smothering"
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],
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"muffling",
"muting"
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]
},
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"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"stifled a yawn"
],
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"loosing",
"releasing",
"taking out",
"unleashing",
"venting"
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],
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"controlling",
"governing",
"managing",
"bridling",
"checking",
"curbing",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"bottling up",
"containing",
"muffling",
"squelching"
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],
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"choking (back)",
"holding back",
"pocketing",
"repressing",
"sinking",
"smothering",
"strangling",
"submerging",
"suppressing",
"swallowing"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
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"in \"The Scarlet Letter,\" Hester Prynne bore the stigma of adultery"
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],
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"award",
"credit",
"honor",
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"modesty",
"purity",
"stainlessness",
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
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"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"guilt",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"licentiousness",
"sin",
"unscrupulousness",
"vice"
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],
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"blot",
"brand",
"onus",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stain",
"taint"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
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"in \"The Scarlet Letter,\" Hester Prynne bore the stigma of adultery"
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],
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"awards",
"credits",
"honors",
"chastities",
"modesties",
"purities",
"goods",
"rights",
"honesties",
"integrities",
"legitimacies",
"probities",
"rectitudes",
"fames",
"glories",
"renowns",
"reputes"
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],
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"black eyes",
"discredit",
"disesteems",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"guilts",
"ignominies",
"infamies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches",
"shames",
"corruptions",
"debaucheries",
"depravities",
"immoralities",
"iniquities",
"sins",
"vices"
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],
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"blots",
"brands",
"onuses",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"spots",
"stains",
"taints"
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]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"stillness":{
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
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"examples":[
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"dozing in the warm stillness of a summer afternoon"
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],
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"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
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],
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"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
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"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
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"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
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]
},
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"incapacity for or restraint from speaking":{
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"from the couple's tense stillness I sensed that they had been quarreling just before I arrived"
],
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"synonyms":[
"dumbness",
"muteness",
"silence",
"speechlessness"
],
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"inarticulacy",
"inarticulateness",
"voicelessness",
"reserve",
"reticence",
"reticency",
"taciturnity"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"communication",
"speaking",
"talking",
"eloquence",
"fluency",
"volubility",
"chattiness",
"garrulousness",
"loquaciousness",
"loquacity",
"talkativeness",
"talkiness",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordiness"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
"the near or complete absence of sound":{
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"examples":[
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"the only thing that broke the stillness of the garden was the droning of a bee"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"quiet",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"silence",
"still"
],
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"calm",
"lull",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
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"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"din",
"hubbub",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
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"antonyms":[
"noise",
"sound",
"unquietness"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun"
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]
},
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"stilted":{
"lacking social grace and assurance":{
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"antonyms":[
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"graceful",
"suave",
"urbane"
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],
"examples":[
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"the conversation was somewhat stilted as we didn't seem to share any interests"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
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],
"related":[
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"angular",
"gawky",
"lubberly",
"ungainly",
"boorish",
"clownish",
"uncouth",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"meek",
"modest",
"self-doubting",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"stiff",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden"
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]
},
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"marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details":{
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"unceremonious"
],
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"examples":[
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"a stilted letter of apology that was written and accepted with equal measures of insincerity"
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],
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"improper",
"indecorous",
"unmannerly",
"discourteous",
"impolite",
"rude"
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],
"related":[
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"sober",
"solemn",
"stately",
"chivalrous",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"civil",
"courteous",
"polite",
"red-carpet"
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],
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"ceremonious",
"correct",
"decorous",
"formal",
"nice",
"proper",
"punctilious",
"starchy",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked"
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]
},
"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
},
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"stimulant":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"I always take a bottle of stimulant along on trips, for emergencies like plane crashes or earthquakes"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"aperitif",
"bracer",
"chaser",
"digestif",
"nightcap",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"liqueur",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"Dutch courage"
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],
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"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"bottle",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"liquor",
"lush",
"moonshine",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
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]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
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"something that arouses action or activity":{
"antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
],
"examples":[
"the relaxed zoning regulations should serve as a stimulant for development in the area"
],
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"related":[
"inducement",
"invitation",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"grounds",
"motive",
"occasion",
"reason",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"fuel",
"spark"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
]
},
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
]
},
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"stimulate":{
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
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"antonyms":[
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"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill"
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],
"examples":[
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"research into alternative energy sources has been stimulated by this funding increase"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"burn out",
"debilitate",
"do in",
"drain",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"harass",
"kayo",
"knock out",
"sap",
"tucker (out)",
"undermine",
"wash out",
"weaken",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary",
"check",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"jade",
"quell",
"quench",
"repress",
"restrain",
"slow",
"still",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
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],
"related":[
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"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"raise",
"rouse",
"stir",
"wake (up)",
"activate",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"motivate",
"motive",
"move",
"propel",
"charge",
"electrify",
"galvanize",
"enkindle",
"excite",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"instigate",
"kindle",
"provoke",
"set off",
"spark",
"trigger",
"turn on",
"whip (up)",
"abet",
"boost",
"buoy",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"fortify",
"hearten",
"infuse",
"inspire",
"lift",
"rally",
"steel",
"strengthen",
"reactivate",
"reanimate",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"recharge",
"recreate",
"reenergize",
"refresh",
"refreshen",
"regenerate",
"reinvigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"rekindle",
"renew",
"restimulate",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revitalize",
"revive"
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],
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"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
]
},
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"the government crackdown has only stimulated the citizenry to more acts of violence"
],
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"calm",
"soothe",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
],
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"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"trigger",
"activate",
"animate",
"drive",
"energize",
"galvanize",
"induce",
"inspire",
"key (up)",
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"motive",
"pump up",
"quicken",
"set off",
"vitalize",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"raise",
"whip (up)",
"anger",
"enrage",
"madden",
"upset",
"jeer",
"taunt",
"tease",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irritate",
"vex"
],
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"arouse",
"encourage",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"impassion",
"incite",
"instigate",
"move",
"pique",
"provoke",
"rev (up)",
"spark",
"stir"
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]
},
"type":[
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"verb"
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]
},
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"stimuli":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
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"antonyms":[
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"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives"
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],
"examples":[
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"seeing a Broadway play for the first time was the stimulus for her career in the theater"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"inducements",
"invitations",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"grounds",
"motives",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"fuels",
"sparks"
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],
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"boosts",
"encouragements",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"impulses",
"incentives",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"momenta",
"momentums",
"motivations",
"provocations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"yeasts"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stinginess":{
"the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"refusing to tip poorly paid restaurant servers is a particularly petty form of stinginess"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"bountifulness",
"bounty",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"liberality",
"openhandedness",
"openheartedness",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness",
"extravagance",
"lavishness",
"dissipation",
"improvidence",
"prodigality",
"squandering",
"wastefulness"
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],
"related":[
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"conserving",
"economizing",
"economy",
"frugality",
"husbandry",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift",
"conservation",
"saving",
"husbanding",
"managing"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"cheapness",
"cheeseparing",
"closeness",
"miserliness",
"niggardliness",
"parsimony",
"penny-pinching",
"penuriousness",
"pinching",
"tightfistedness",
"tightness"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun"
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]
},
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"stinkers":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"some stinker nearly crashed his SUV into me because he was yakking on his cell phone"
],
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"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
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],
"related":[
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"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bastards",
"beasts",
"bleeders",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buggers",
"buzzards",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stinking":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
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"examples":[
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"warned her husband not to come home stinking \u2014or he'd be sleeping on the couch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
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],
"related":[
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"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"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",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
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]
},
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"having an unpleasant smell":{
"antonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"aromatic",
"fragrant",
"perfumed",
"redolent",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scented",
"sweet"
],
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"examples":[
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"came home from their trip to find stinking garbage that had been left in the kitchen"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"flowery",
"fruity",
"spicy",
"woodsy"
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],
"related":[
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"putrid",
"rancid",
"skunky",
"stale",
"bad",
"disgusting",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"vile",
"decayed",
"decaying",
"decomposed",
"decomposing",
"rotted",
"rotten",
"rotting",
"spoiled",
"spoiling",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"nasty",
"noxious",
"odiferous",
"odoriferous",
"odorous"
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],
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"fetid",
"foul",
"frowsty",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"funky",
"fusty",
"malodorous",
"musty",
"noisome",
"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"ripe",
"smelly",
"stenchy",
"stinky",
"strong"
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]
},
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"to a great degree":{
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"antonyms":[
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"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
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],
"examples":[
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"a huge, showy house that screams, \"We're stinking rich!\""
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
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],
"related":[
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"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
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]
},
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"to be objectionable or unsatisfactory":{
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"antonyms":[
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"rocking",
"ruling"
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],
"examples":[
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"their team really stinks this year"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"smelling",
"sucking"
]
},
"to give off an extremely unpleasant smell":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the dog stinks because she tangled with a skunk again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"exhaling",
"savoring",
"savouring",
"smelling",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"rotting",
"spoiling",
"disgusting",
"offending",
"repulsing",
"revolting"
],
"synonyms":[
"reeking"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"verb"
]
},
"stinky":{
"having an unpleasant smell":{
"antonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"aromatic",
"fragrant",
"perfumed",
"redolent",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scented",
"sweet"
],
"examples":[
"a stinky plant that attracts certain insects and then devours them"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"flowery",
"fruity",
"spicy",
"woodsy"
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],
"related":[
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"putrid",
"rancid",
"skunky",
"stale",
"bad",
"disgusting",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"vile",
"decayed",
"decaying",
"decomposed",
"decomposing",
"rotted",
"rotten",
"rotting",
"spoiled",
"spoiling",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"nasty",
"noxious",
"odiferous",
"odoriferous",
"odorous"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"fetid",
"foul",
"frowsty",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"funky",
"fusty",
"malodorous",
"musty",
"noisome",
"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"ripe",
"smelly",
"stenchy",
"stinking",
"strong"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stipend":{
"the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the stipend you'll receive as an intern will just barely cover your housing costs"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"living wage",
"minimum wage",
"nominal wages",
"take-home pay",
"double time",
"overtime",
"time and a half",
"compensation",
"recompense",
"remittance",
"remuneration",
"requital",
"return",
"recoupment",
"redress",
"reparation",
"restitution",
"reimbursement",
"repayment",
"earnings",
"profit",
"takings",
"yield"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"emolument",
"hire",
"packet",
"pay",
"pay envelope",
"paycheck",
"payment",
"salary",
"wage"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stipends":{
"the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the stipend you'll receive as an intern will just barely cover your housing costs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"living wages",
"minimum wages",
"nominal wages",
"take-home pays",
"double times",
"overtimes",
"time and a halfs",
"compensations",
"recompenses",
"remittances",
"remunerations",
"requitals",
"returns",
"recoupments",
"redresses",
"reparations",
"restitutions",
"reimbursements",
"repayments",
"earnings",
"profits",
"takings",
"yields"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"emoluments",
"hires",
"packets",
"paychecks",
"pay envelopes",
"payments",
"pays",
"salaries",
"wages"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stipulated":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stipulated (for)":{
"to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the contract stipulates for a renegotiation of the terms after two years"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"gave up",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
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],
"related":[
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"asked",
"pleaded (for)",
"pled (for)",
"plead (for)",
"requested",
"wanted",
"cried (for)",
"necessitated",
"needed",
"required",
"took",
"warranted",
"requisitioned",
"imposed",
"badgered",
"dunned",
"harassed",
"hounded"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"called (for)",
"claimed",
"clamored (for)",
"commanded",
"demanded",
"enjoined",
"exacted",
"insisted (on)",
"pressed (for)",
"quested"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"stirs":{
"a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the mule had just got out of stir and was being followed by the feds, who had their sights set on the kingpin of the operation"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"outsides"
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],
"related":[
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"bull pens",
"cages",
"cells",
"holes",
"tanks",
"blocks",
"wards",
"glasshouses",
"guardhouses",
"hulks",
"concentration camps",
"gulags",
"labor camps",
"prison camps",
"stalags",
"work camps",
"dungeons",
"keeps",
"oubliettes",
"reformatories",
"reform schools",
"training schools"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bastilles",
"big houses",
"bridewells",
"brigs",
"calabooses",
"cans",
"clinks",
"coolers",
"coops",
"guardrooms",
"hocks",
"holds",
"hoosegows",
"jailhouses",
"jails",
"joints",
"jugs",
"lockups",
"nicks",
"penitentiaries",
"pens",
"pokeys",
"prisons",
"quods",
"slammers",
"slams",
"stockades",
"tolbooths"
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]
},
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"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the plane's first jolt caused a stir among the passengers, and by the third one they were in a panic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
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],
"related":[
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"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"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"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",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
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]
},
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"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"we were warned that the slightest stir would scare the mother bird so we hardly dared to breathe"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
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],
"related":[
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"dislocations",
"migrations",
"relocations",
"locomotions",
"mobilities",
"motilities",
"motivities",
"fiddlings",
"squirms"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"motions",
"movements",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirrings"
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]
},
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"to cause (as a liquid) to move about in a circle especially repeatedly":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the recipe says to stir the mixture carefully until it's properly blended"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"beats",
"paddles",
"whips",
"whisks",
"reels",
"shakes",
"wheels"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"agitates",
"churns",
"swirls",
"washes",
"whirls"
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]
},
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"to change one's position":{
"antonyms":[
"freezes",
"stills"
],
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"examples":[
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"the cat stirred , then opened its eyes and slowly got to its feet"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"hangs around",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"stabilizes"
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],
"related":[
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"fiddles",
"fidgets",
"jiggles",
"squiggles",
"squirms",
"tosses",
"twitches",
"wiggles",
"wriggles",
"writhes",
"rouses"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"budges",
"locomotes",
"moves",
"shifts"
]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"news coverage of the fire stirred many to send donations to a fund for the families who had lost their homes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"soothes",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"related":[
"fans",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"triggers",
"activates",
"animates",
"drives",
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"induces",
"inspires",
"keys (up)",
"motivates",
"motives",
"pumps up",
"quickens",
"sets off",
"vitalizes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"raises",
"whips (up)",
"angers",
"enrages",
"maddens",
"upsets",
"jeers",
"taunts",
"teases",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irritates",
"vexes"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouses",
"encourages",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"impassions",
"incites",
"instigates",
"moves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"revs (up)",
"sparks",
"stimulates"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
]
},
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"stitch":{
"a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"had to drop out of the race when the stitch in his side became too painful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"ease",
"easiness"
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],
"related":[
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"discomfort",
"distress",
"soreness",
"tenderness",
"affliction",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"sufferance",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"inflammation",
"sore",
"swelling",
"damage",
"detriment",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injury",
"backache",
"bellyache",
"charley horse",
"colic",
"complaint",
"earache",
"gripe",
"headache",
"stomachache",
"toothache"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"shoot",
"smart",
"sting",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
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]
},
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"to close up with a series of interlacing stitches":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the doctor stitched the wound so adroitly that the scar was barely visible after the stitches were removed"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"mend",
"patch",
"repair",
"baste",
"ease",
"fell",
"finish",
"overcast",
"cross-stitch",
"embroider",
"crochet",
"knit",
"quilt"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"darn",
"sew",
"suture"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stock cars":{
"as in muscle cars , turbocars":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stockrooms":{
"as in caches , storerooms":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stocks":{
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the bride comes from good stock"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"ancestries",
"births",
"descents",
"extractions",
"origins",
"pedigrees"
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],
"related":[
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"blended families",
"nuclear families",
"extended families",
"households",
"kiths",
"broods",
"descendants",
"descendents",
"issues",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"progenies",
"scions",
"seed",
"seeds",
"clansmen",
"kinsmen",
"kinswomen",
"relatives",
"dynasties"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"blood",
"clans",
"families",
"folks",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kinfolks",
"kins",
"kinsfolk",
"lineages",
"lines",
"people",
"races",
"tribes"
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]
},
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"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
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"examples":[
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"just sat there like a stock , staring at me blankly whenever I asked him a question"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
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],
"related":[
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"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
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]
},
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"as in ranges":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in stores":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"antonyms":[
"issues",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds"
],
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"examples":[
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"his family is of mixed northern European stock"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"offspring",
"offsprings",
"children",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"sons",
"successors"
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],
"related":[
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"heredities",
"successions",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lineages",
"lines",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"strains"
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]
},
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"the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the new study adds to the general stock of knowledge about genetic disorders"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"reserves",
"resources",
"caches",
"hoards",
"stockpiles",
"refills",
"renewals",
"replacements",
"kitties",
"nest eggs",
"pots",
"purses",
"fountains",
"mines",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"budgets",
"forces",
"funds",
"inventories",
"pools",
"repertoires",
"reservoirs",
"supplies"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stockyard":{
"as in yard , feedlot":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stoked":{
"showing urgent desire or interest":{
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
],
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"examples":[
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"we're pretty stoked about the upcoming benefit concert featuring a galaxy of rock stars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"incurious",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"impassive",
"stolid",
"halfhearted",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"lukewarm",
"spiritless",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"hesitant",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling"
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],
"related":[
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"engaged",
"interested",
"happy",
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"ambitious",
"appetent",
"covetous",
"craving",
"hankering",
"longing",
"pining",
"breathless",
"restive",
"restless",
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"ready",
"unreluctant",
"willing"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
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]
},
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"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)"
],
"examples":[
"hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"related":[
"boomed",
"jumped",
"skyrocketed",
"spiked",
"bumped (up)",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"followed up",
"parlayed"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"built up",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stole (from)":{
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"little wonder that the store went out of business, as its employees had been stealing from it for years"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravished",
"sacked",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stripped",
"stript",
"bled",
"broke in",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"exploited",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"plucked",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled",
"held up",
"mugged",
"rolled",
"stuck up"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"burglarized",
"burgled",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"ripped off",
"robbed",
"took off"
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]
},
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stolen":{
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the teenagers were able to steal past a security guard and enter the fairgrounds without paying admission"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"edged",
"inched",
"wormed",
"ghosted",
"padded",
"tiptoed"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurked",
"mooched",
"moused",
"pussyfooted",
"shirked",
"skulked",
"slid",
"slipped",
"slunk",
"slinked",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the guy who tried to steal my car was sentenced to a year in jail"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"bought",
"purchased",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"given",
"handed over",
"presented"
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],
"related":[
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"burglarized",
"knocked over",
"robbed",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"sacked",
"carjacked",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"picked",
"rifled",
"poached",
"rustled",
"shoplifted",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"nailed",
"seized",
"snatched",
"taken",
"mooched",
"sponged",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"shanghaied",
"spirited"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"appropriated",
"boosted",
"filched",
"heisted",
"hooked",
"lifted",
"misappropriated",
"nicked",
"nipped",
"pilfered",
"pinched",
"pocketed",
"purloined",
"ripped off",
"snitched",
"swiped",
"thieved"
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]
},
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stomach":{
"a need or desire for food":{
"antonyms":[
"inappetence"
],
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"examples":[
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"the cake looks delicious, but I'm afraid that I have no stomach for sweets right now"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"fill",
"fullness",
"glut",
"repleteness",
"repletion",
"satiation",
"satiety",
"satisfaction",
"surfeit"
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],
"related":[
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"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"ravenousness",
"voraciousness",
"voracity",
"malnutrition",
"starvation",
"undernourishment",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"famine",
"fast",
"hunger strike",
"gluttony",
"gourmandism",
"greed",
"hoggishness"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"appetite",
"belly",
"emptiness",
"famishment",
"hunger",
"munchies"
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]
},
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"the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"please don't lean on my stomach \u2014I just had a big meal"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"middle",
"midriff",
"waist",
"paunch",
"potbelly",
"thorax"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"abdomen",
"belly",
"breadbasket",
"gut",
"solar plexus",
"tummy"
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]
},
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"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"I could no longer stomach working for such a petty tyrant"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"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)"
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],
"related":[
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"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"go",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"pocket",
"stand",
"stick out",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate",
"wear"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
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]
},
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"stomped":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
],
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"examples":[
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"came stomping up the stairs and tossed her backpack on the bed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
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],
"related":[
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"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stumbled",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
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]
},
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"to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"stomping the burning leaves in a vain attempt to put out the fire"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"overrode",
"ran down",
"ran over",
"stepped (on)",
"mashed",
"pulped",
"smashed",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"booted",
"hoofed",
"kicked"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"champed",
"stamped",
"tramped",
"trampled",
"tromped"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"stone":{
"a shaped stone laid over or erected near a grave and usually bearing an inscription to identify and preserve the memory of the deceased":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"an engraved stone identified the grave as that of a man who had died in the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"cross",
"marker",
"plaque",
"table",
"tablet",
"monolith",
"obelisk",
"pillar",
"memorial",
"shrine",
"burial",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"gravestone",
"headstone",
"monument",
"tombstone"
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]
},
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"as in absolutely , plain":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
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"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the stone stupidity of the senator's statements embarrassed even her staffers"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
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],
"related":[
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"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
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]
},
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"to make sharp or sharper":{
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull"
],
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"examples":[
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"the diorama showed a villager stoning a scythe"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"buff",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"round",
"smooth"
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],
"related":[
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"file"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"edge",
"grind",
"hone",
"sharpen",
"strop",
"whet"
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]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
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"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stoney":{
"having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings":{
"antonyms":[
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
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"examples":[
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"the judge's stony demeanor didn't raise the defendant's hopes for a more lenient sentence"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"benevolent",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"kind",
"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"affectionate",
"fond",
"loving"
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],
"related":[
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"boorish",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ironfisted",
"ironhanded",
"jackbooted",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
"austere",
"cold",
"frosty"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
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]
},
"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
},
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"stoniness":{
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"stony":{
"having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings":{
"antonyms":[
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
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],
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"examples":[
"the judge's stony demeanor didn't raise the defendant's hopes for a more lenient sentence"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"gentle",
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"kind",
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"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"affectionate",
"fond",
"loving"
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],
"related":[
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"boorish",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ironfisted",
"ironhanded",
"jackbooted",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
"austere",
"cold",
"frosty"
],
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"synonyms":[
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"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stood out":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the relief figures stand out from the wall quite strikingly"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
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],
"related":[
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"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stoolies":{
"a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"told the mule that if he ever turned stoolie , he'd end up spilling his guts in more ways than one"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"collaborators",
"blabbermouths",
"blabbers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"leakers",
"snoopers",
"snoops",
"spies",
"notifiers"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"betrayers",
"canaries",
"deep throats",
"finks",
"informants",
"informers",
"narks",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"snitchers",
"snitches",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"talebearers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"telltales",
"whistle-blowers"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stooping":{
"bending downward or forward":{
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"antonyms":[
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"unbending",
"upright"
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],
"examples":[
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"rested under the stooping branches of the willow tree"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"erect",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upraised"
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],
"related":[
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"floppy",
"limp",
"dangling",
"falling",
"pendent",
"pendant",
"suspended",
"dipping",
"sinking",
"slumping"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bowed",
"bowing",
"declined",
"declining",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"descending",
"drooping",
"droopy",
"hanging",
"hung",
"inclining",
"nodding",
"pendulous",
"sagging",
"weeping"
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]
},
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"to descend to a level that is beneath one's dignity":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the debate would be more enlightening if both sides didn't stoop to name-calling"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"rising"
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],
"related":[
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"abasing",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering",
"shaming"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"condescending",
"deigning"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stoops":{
"a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"the stoop at the front entrance is just big enough to shield a resident from the elements as he fumbles for his keys"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"galilees",
"porticoes",
"porticos",
"sleeping porches",
"solaria",
"solariums",
"sunporches",
"sunrooms",
"sun parlors",
"porte cocheres"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"galleries",
"lanais",
"piazzas",
"piazze",
"porches",
"verandas",
"verandahs"
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]
},
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"to descend to a level that is beneath one's dignity":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the debate would be more enlightening if both sides didn't stoop to name-calling"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"rises"
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],
"related":[
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"abases",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers",
"shames"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"condescends",
"deigns"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stop":{
"a brief halt in a journey":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"our guide called for a stop at the trail hut so we could eat and rest a bit"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"break",
"pause",
"rest"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"layover",
"stopover"
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]
},
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"stop by on your way to the game so we can go there together"
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],
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"barging (in)",
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"seeing",
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"happening (by)",
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"calling",
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"our guide called for a stop at the trail hut so we could eat and rest a bit"
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],
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"depots",
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],
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"stations",
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"bits",
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"brakes",
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"licks",
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"masters",
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]
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"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"the manufacturer will stop selling the toy and will immediately recall all the units that have already been sold"
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],
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"completes",
"concludes",
"finishes",
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"turns back",
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"destroys",
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"kills",
"ruins",
"scuttles",
"snuffs"
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],
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"breaks",
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"occludes",
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"chinks",
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]
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"he served store-bought biscuits and airily pretended he had baked them himself"
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"homemade"
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"ready-made",
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},
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]
},
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"storeroom":{
"as in cache , stockroom":{
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},
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"noun"
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]
},
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"storing":{
"to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"we decided to store the lawn mower in the shed instead of the garage"
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],
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"cellaring",
"garaging",
"hangaring",
"housing",
"warehousing",
"filing",
"packing",
"shelving"
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],
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"keeping",
"putting up",
"repositing",
"stowing"
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]
},
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"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"squirrels commonly store nuts in the hollows of trees and other places to prepare for the winter"
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],
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"casting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"unloading",
"consuming",
"squandering",
"using up",
"wasting",
"handing out",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"blowing",
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"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"impoverishing",
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
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],
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"accumulating",
"acquiring",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"picking up",
"rounding up",
"scraping (together)",
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"piling",
"stacking",
"conserving",
"husbanding",
"preserving",
"banking",
"coffering",
"depositing",
"holding",
"keeping",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"saving",
"setting by",
"stocking",
"withholding",
"burying",
"concealing",
"ensconcing",
"secreting"
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],
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"caching",
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"laying by",
"laying in",
"laying up",
"putting by",
"salting away",
"squirreling (away)",
"squirrelling (away)",
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"stockpiling",
"stowing",
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]
},
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"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
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"a winter storm bringing about six inches of snow"
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],
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"related":[
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"blizzard",
"ice storm",
"snowstorm",
"cloudburst",
"hailstorm",
"rainsquall",
"rainstorm",
"thundershower",
"thunderstorm",
"weather",
"windstorm",
"northeaster",
"nor'easter",
"norther",
"southeaster",
"southwester",
"cyclone",
"hurricane",
"typhoon",
"sandstorm"
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],
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"squall",
"tempest"
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]
},
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"a heavy fall of objects":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"police had to endure a storm of rocks and bricks hurled by the rioters"
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],
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"related":[
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"barrage",
"bombardment",
"broadside",
"cannonade",
"fusillade",
"salvo",
"volley",
"flood",
"gush",
"rush",
"spate",
"torrent",
"eruption",
"outbreak",
"outburst"
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],
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"hail",
"rain",
"shower"
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]
},
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"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the army's spokesperson faced a storm of questions from reporters"
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],
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"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
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],
"related":[
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"broadside",
"earful",
"avalanche",
"burst",
"cataclysm",
"cataract",
"deluge",
"discharge",
"engulfment",
"flood",
"flood tide",
"flush",
"gush",
"inundation",
"outburst",
"outflow",
"outpouring",
"overflow",
"rash",
"spate",
"surge",
"torrent",
"current",
"river",
"stream",
"tide",
"excess",
"glut",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
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],
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"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"cannonade",
"drumbeat",
"drumfire",
"flurry",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"volley"
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]
},
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"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"a few minutes of calm before the storm , when the store would open its doors on the busiest day of the year"
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],
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"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
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],
"related":[
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"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
add MWThesaurus
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]
},
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"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the storm caused major damage to our barn"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"drizzle",
"mist",
"mizzle",
"scud",
"spit",
"sprinkle"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"related":[
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"precipitation",
"shower",
"thundershower",
"thunderstorm",
"weather"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"cloudburst",
"deluge",
"downfall",
"downpour",
"rain",
"rainfall",
"rainstorm",
"wet"
add MWThesaurus
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]
},
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"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"a storm of indignation and demands for his resignation arose when the mayor's dishonesty was exposed"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"blowup",
"grouch",
"rage",
"tantrum",
"ecstasy",
"rapture",
"transport",
"delirium",
"firestorm",
"frenzy",
"furor"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"agony",
"blaze",
"burst",
"ebullition",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"fit",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flush",
"gale",
"gush",
"gust",
"outburst",
"paroxysm",
"spasm"
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]
},
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"a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order)":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"civil wars and other storms of unrest swept through the African continent"
add MWThesaurus
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"insurgency",
"insurrection",
"mutiny",
"overthrow",
"overturn",
"rebellion",
"revolt",
"revolution",
"subversion",
"unrest",
"uprising",
"upset",
"fit",
"seizure",
"spasm",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bustle",
"coil",
"commotion",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"rout",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"to-do",
"turmoil",
"welter",
"williwaw",
"quaking",
"rocking",
"shaking",
"trembling"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bouleversement",
"cataclysm",
"convulsion",
"earthquake",
"paroxysm",
"tempest",
"tumult",
"upheaval",
"uproar"
add MWThesaurus
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]
},
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"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"by the time we arrived, our hostess was storming because dinner was ruined"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"fulminate",
"rant",
"rave",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"bristle",
"flare (up)",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew",
"agitate",
"convulse",
"roil",
"shake"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"boil",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"rage",
"rankle",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"steam"
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]
},
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"to express one's anger usually violently":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the chef spent the morning storming at his staff about the ruined sauces"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"allay",
"appease",
"pacify",
"soothe",
"check",
"choke (back)",
"collect",
"compose",
"contain",
"curb",
"pocket",
"rein",
"repress",
"restrain",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"moderate",
"temper",
"tone (down)",
"ease",
"let up",
"relax",
"calm",
"cool",
"hush",
"quell",
"quiet",
"settle",
"still"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"related":[
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"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)",
"bluster",
"carry on",
"fulminate",
"rampage",
"rant",
"rave",
"take on",
"burn",
"foam",
"seethe",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bristle",
"fume",
"rage"
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]
},
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"to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"it storms so frequently up in the mountains that the peaks are rarely visible from the valley below"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"drizzle",
"mist",
"mizzle",
"spit",
"sprinkle"
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],
"related":[
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"shower",
"spit",
"hail",
"squall",
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"swamp"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"pour",
"precipitate",
"rain"
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]
},
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"to take sudden, violent action against":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the pirates stormed the ship, easily taking the whole crew as their prisoners"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
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],
"related":[
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"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"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
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]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"storms":{
"a disturbance of the atmosphere accompanied by wind and often by precipitation (as rain or snow)":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"a winter storm bringing about six inches of snow"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
add MWThesaurus
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"related":[
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"blizzards",
"ice storms",
"snowstorms",
"cloudbursts",
"hailstorms",
"rainsqualls",
"rainstorms",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers",
"windstorms",
"northeasters",
"nor'easters",
"northers",
"southeasters",
"southwesters",
"cyclones",
"hurricanes",
"typhoons",
"sandstorms"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"squalls",
"tempests"
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]
},
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"a heavy fall of objects":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"police had to endure a storm of rocks and bricks hurled by the rioters"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
"barrages",
"bombardments",
"broadsides",
"cannonades",
"fusillades",
"salvos",
"salvoes",
"volleys",
"floods",
"gushes",
"rushes",
"spates",
"torrents",
"eruptions",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts"
add MWThesaurus
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],
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"synonyms":[
"hails",
"rains",
"showers"
]
},
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"the army's spokesperson faced a storm of questions from reporters"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"dribbles",
"drips",
"trickles"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"related":[
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"broadsides",
"earfuls",
"avalanches",
"bursts",
"cataclysms",
"cataracts",
"deluges",
"discharges",
"engulfments",
"floods",
"flood tides",
"flushes",
"gushes",
"inundations",
"outbursts",
"outflows",
"outpourings",
"overflows",
"rashes",
"spates",
"surges",
"torrents",
"currents",
"rivers",
"streams",
"tides",
"excesses",
"gluts",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"barrages",
"blitzes",
"blitzkriegs",
"bombardments",
"cannonades",
"drumbeats",
"drumfires",
"flurries",
"fusillades",
"hails",
"salvos",
"salvoes",
"showers",
"volleys"
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]
},
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"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"a few minutes of calm before the storm , when the store would open its doors on the busiest day of the year"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"related":[
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"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"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"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",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
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]
},
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"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"the storm caused major damage to our barn"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"related":[
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"precipitations",
"showers",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downfalls",
"downpours",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"wets"
add MWThesaurus
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]
},
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"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"a storm of indignation and demands for his resignation arose when the mayor's dishonesty was exposed"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"blowups",
"grouches",
"rages",
"tantrums",
"ecstasies",
"raptures",
"transports",
"deliriums",
"firestorms",
"frenzies",
"furors"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"synonyms":[
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"agonies",
"blazes",
"bursts",
"ebullitions",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"fits",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flushes",
"gales",
"gushes",
"gusts",
"outbursts",
"paroxysms",
"spasms"
add MWThesaurus
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]
},
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"a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order)":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"civil wars and other storms of unrest swept through the African continent"
add MWThesaurus
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"insurgencies",
"insurrections",
"mutinies",
"overthrows",
"overturns",
"rebellions",
"revolts",
"revolutions",
"subversions",
"uprisings",
"upsets",
"fits",
"seizures",
"spasms",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bustles",
"coils",
"commotions",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurly-burlies",
"pandemoniums",
"routs",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"to-dos",
"turmoils",
"welters",
"williwaws"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bouleversements",
"cataclysms",
"convulsions",
"earthquakes",
"paroxysms",
"tempests",
"tumults",
"upheavals",
"uproars"
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]
},
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"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"by the time we arrived, our hostess was storming because dinner was ruined"
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],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"fulminates",
"rants",
"raves",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"bristles",
"flares (up)",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews",
"agitates",
"convulses",
"roils",
"shakes"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"boils",
"burns",
"foams",
"fumes",
"rages",
"rankles",
"seethes",
"sizzles",
"steams"
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]
},
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"to express one's anger usually violently":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the chef spent the morning storming at his staff about the ruined sauces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"appeases",
"pacifies",
"soothes",
"checks",
"chokes (back)",
"collects",
"composes",
"contains",
"curbs",
"pockets",
"reins",
"represses",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"moderates",
"tempers",
"tones (down)",
"eases",
"lets up",
"relaxes",
"calms",
"cools",
"hushes",
"quells",
"quiets",
"settles",
"stills"
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],
"related":[
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"blows up",
"flares (up)",
"flips (out)",
"blusters",
"carries on",
"fulminates",
"rampages",
"rants",
"raves",
"takes on",
"burns",
"foams",
"seethes",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"steams",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bristles",
"fumes",
"rages"
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]
},
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"to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"it storms so frequently up in the mountains that the peaks are rarely visible from the valley below"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
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],
"related":[
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"showers",
"spits",
"hails",
"squalls",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"swamps"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"pours",
"precipitates",
"rains"
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]
},
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"to take sudden, violent action against":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"the pirates stormed the ship, easily taking the whole crew as their prisoners"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
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],
"related":[
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"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
]
},
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"stoutly":{
"in a vigorous and forceful manner":{
"antonyms":[
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly"
],
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"examples":[
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"a settler stoutly defending his right to be on the land"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"shakily",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
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],
"related":[
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"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"robustly",
"roughshod",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"eagerly",
"gamely",
"heartily",
"lustily",
"snappily",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"vivaciously",
"decidedly",
"determinedly",
"directly",
"emphatically",
"fast",
"fixedly",
"intensively",
"intently",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"rigidly",
"smartly",
"solidly",
"soundly",
"squarely",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"surely",
"aggressively",
"assertively",
"manfully",
"potently"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"stoutness":{
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
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"examples":[
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"even in the face of insurmountable odds, the troops displayed a stoutness of heart that was inspiring"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
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],
"related":[
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"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"valor",
"virtue"
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]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stow":{
"to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"stow the extra life jackets in the chest"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"cellar",
"garage",
"hangar",
"house",
"warehouse",
"file",
"pack",
"shelve"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"keep",
"put up",
"reposit",
"store"
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]
},
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"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"stowed candy bars, which were forbidden at the summer camp, under a board in the cabin's floor"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"cast",
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"unload",
"consume",
"squander",
"use up",
"waste",
"hand out",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"deplete",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"impoverish",
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
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],
"related":[
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"accumulate",
"acquire",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"garner",
"gather",
"pick up",
"round up",
"scrape (together)",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"conserve",
"husband",
"preserve",
"bank",
"coffer",
"deposit",
"hold",
"keep",
"reserve",
"retain",
"save",
"set by",
"stock",
"withhold",
"bury",
"conceal",
"ensconce",
"secrete"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"cache",
"hoard",
"lay away",
"lay by",
"lay in",
"lay up",
"put by",
"salt away",
"squirrel (away)",
"stash",
"stockpile",
"store",
"treasure"
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]
},
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"straddle the fence":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"I'd straddle the fence long enough and it was time to make a decision."
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"flip-flop",
"yo-yo",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"eschew",
"evade",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"sidestep",
"skirt",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"straddle"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"equivocate",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"tergiversate",
"waffle",
"weasel"
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]
},
"type":[
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"phrase"
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]
},
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"straggle":{
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"straggler":{
"someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others":{
"antonyms":[
"speedster"
],
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"examples":[
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"by three o'clock, only a few stragglers were still making their painful way to the marathon's finish"
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],
"near antonyms":[
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"go-getter",
"hustler",
"scrambler",
"hurrier",
"rusher",
"speeder"
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],
"related":[
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"latecomer",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard",
"delayer",
"procrastinator"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"crawler",
"dallier",
"dawdler",
"dragger",
"laggard",
"lagger",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"plodder",
"slowpoke",
"snail"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"straight":{
"conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue":{
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"evil",
"evil-minded",
"immoral",
"indecent",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unrighteous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
],
"examples":[
"a store owner known and trusted for his straight dealings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"villainous",
"base",
"low",
"mean",
"vicious",
"vile",
"blameworthy",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen"
],
"related":[
"correct",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"high-minded",
"noble",
"principled",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"exemplary",
"legitimate",
"esteemed",
"law-abiding",
"menschy",
"reputable",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy",
"blameless",
"clean",
"guiltless",
"immaculate",
"incorrupt",
"incorrupted",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"unobjectionable",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"lily-white",
"pure",
"scrupulous",
"spotless",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"goody-goody",
"moralistic",
"pharisaical",
"rectitudinous",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"nice",
"right",
"right-minded",
"righteous",
"true",
"upright",
"virtuous"
]
},
"following one after another without others coming in between":{
"antonyms":[
"inconsecutive",
"inconsequent",
"nonconsecutive",
"nonsequential"
],
"examples":[
"I was awake for two straight days"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"serial",
"constant",
"continuous",
"uninterrupted",
"ensuing",
"following",
"later",
"next",
"posterior",
"subsequent"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutive",
"sequent",
"sequential",
"succeeding",
"successional",
"successive"
]
},
"free from added matter":{
"antonyms":[
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"diluted",
"impure",
"mixed"
],
"examples":[
"would you like that whiskey straight or with soda?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befouled",
"besmirched",
"contaminated",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"unclarified",
"amalgamated",
"blended",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"commingled",
"compounded",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"conjoined",
"fused",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"cheapened",
"doctored",
"watered-down"
],
"related":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"clean",
"fresh",
"taintless",
"uncontaminated",
"uncorrupted",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"rendered",
"tried",
"concentrated",
"full-bodied",
"strong",
"uncombined"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"fine",
"neat",
"plain",
"pure",
"purified",
"refined",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"undiluted",
"unmixed"
]
},
"free from irregularities or digressions in course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in the wide, open spaces of the West some rural roads are incredibly straight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowed",
"rounded",
"entwined",
"kinked",
"swirled",
"turned",
"turning",
"twined",
"twining",
"twisted",
"twisting",
"veering",
"warped",
"bending",
"coiled",
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"curled",
"curling",
"curved",
"curving",
"looped",
"looping",
"spiral",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"wavy",
"winding",
"meandering",
"weaving",
"devious",
"serpentine",
"sinuous",
"crooked",
"zigzag",
"zigzagging"
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"uncurled",
"untwisted",
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"unswerving"
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"linear",
"right",
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"uncandid",
"unforthcoming"
],
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],
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"reserved",
"restrained",
"close-mouthed",
"laconic",
"quiet",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"tight-lipped",
"uncommunicative",
"ambiguous",
"circuitous",
"equivocal",
"evasive",
"diplomatic",
"politic",
"tactful",
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"polite"
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"earnest",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"natural",
"real",
"sincere",
"unaffected",
"undesigning",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"unrestrained",
"vocal",
"vociferous",
"abrupt",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"crusty",
"curt",
"gruff",
"sharp",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"rude",
"tactless",
"thoughtless",
"uncivil",
"undiplomatic",
"ungracious",
"unmannerly",
"unsubtle"
],
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"direct",
"forthcoming",
"forthright",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"free-spoken",
"freehearted",
"honest",
"open",
"openhearted",
"out-front",
"outspoken",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"straightforward",
"unguarded",
"unreserved",
"up-front"
]
},
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"circuitous",
"indirect",
"roundabout"
],
"examples":[
"a politician who can never give a straight answer to questions about his positions"
],
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"circumlocutory",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"verbose",
"wordy",
"inhibited",
"reserved",
"restrained",
"civil",
"courteous",
"polite",
"tactful",
"deceitful",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful",
"erroneous",
"fallacious",
"false",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal",
"evasive",
"misleading",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"two-faced"
],
"related":[
"aboveboard",
"candid",
"frank",
"free-spoken",
"honest",
"open",
"openhearted",
"outspoken",
"plainspoken",
"unguarded",
"unreserved",
"artless",
"earnest",
"sincere",
"uninhibited",
"unrestrained",
"abrupt",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"curt",
"gruff",
"point-blank",
"sharp",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"rude",
"tactless",
"undiplomatic",
"true",
"truthful",
"veracious"
],
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"forthright",
"foursquare",
"plain",
"straightforward"
]
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"indirectly"
],
"examples":[
"when we got to the airport, we went straight to the baggage claim area"
],
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"circuitously",
"deviously",
"veeringly"
],
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"dead",
"direct",
"directly",
"due",
"plumb",
"plump",
"right",
"straightway"
]
},
"in an honest and direct manner":{
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"examples":[
"we gave it to him straight : his performance would have to improve\u2014or he was out"
],
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"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"diplomatically",
"politely",
"tactfully",
"deceitfully",
"mendaciously",
"untruthfully",
"erroneously",
"fallaciously",
"falsely",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"ambiguously",
"circuitously",
"equivocally",
"evasively",
"indirectly"
],
"related":[
"baldly",
"bluffly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"honestly",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"unguardedly",
"unreservedly",
"artlessly",
"earnestly",
"simply",
"sincerely",
"abruptly",
"bluntly",
"brusquely",
"curtly",
"gruffly",
"point-blank",
"sharply",
"impolitely",
"inconsiderately",
"rudely",
"tactlessly",
"truthfully",
"veraciously"
],
"synonyms":[
"directly",
"forthrightly",
"foursquare",
"plain",
"plainly",
"straightforward",
"straightforwards",
"straightforwardly"
]
},
"not having one's mind affected by alcohol":{
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"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wiped out"
],
"examples":[
"I'll drive the car, since I seem to be the only one of us who is straight at the moment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"crapulous",
"dipsomaniacal",
"maudlin",
"tiddly",
"befuddled",
"besotted",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute"
],
"related":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"teetotal",
"temperate",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearheaded",
"sober"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"straight arrow":{
"as in prude , fuddy-duddy":{
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"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in square shooters":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"straightaway":{
"done or occurring without any noticeable lapse in time":{
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"examples":[
"her first novel was a straightaway success"
],
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"dilatory",
"tardy",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"deferred",
"delayed"
],
"related":[
"summary",
"fast",
"hit-and-run",
"prompt",
"quick",
"rapid",
"speedy",
"swift"
],
"synonyms":[
"immediate",
"instant",
"instantaneous",
"split-second"
]
},
"free from irregularities or digressions in course":{
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"examples":[
"the doomed ship was headed on a straightaway course in the path of the iceberg"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowed",
"rounded",
"entwined",
"kinked",
"swirled",
"turned",
"turning",
"twined",
"twining",
"twisted",
"twisting",
"veering",
"warped",
"bending",
"coiled",
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"curled",
"curling",
"curved",
"curving",
"looped",
"looping",
"spiral",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"wavy",
"winding",
"meandering",
"weaving",
"devious",
"serpentine",
"sinuous",
"crooked",
"zigzag",
"zigzagging"
],
"related":[
"unbent",
"uncurled",
"untwisted",
"undeviating",
"unswerving"
],
"synonyms":[
"direct",
"linear",
"right",
"straight",
"straightforward"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"without delay":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he got to the hospital, and straightaway he was admitted and given intravenous fluids"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slowly",
"late",
"tardily"
],
"related":[
"away",
"freely",
"anon",
"momentarily",
"shortly",
"soon",
"apace",
"briskly",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"posthaste",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"readily",
"snappily",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly",
"abruptly",
"presto",
"suddenly",
"unexpectedly",
"hastily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"exactly",
"opportunely",
"punctually",
"seasonably"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"directly",
"forthwith",
"headlong",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instanter",
"instantly",
"now",
"PDQ",
"plumb",
"presently",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"right",
"right away",
"right now",
"right off",
"straight off",
"straightway"
]
}
},
"straighten":{
"to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls":{
"antonyms":[
"bend",
"crook",
"curl",
"curve"
],
"examples":[
"straighten that extension cord\u2014it should be just long enough to reach the wall outlet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arc",
"bend",
"bow",
"hook",
"round",
"entwine",
"kink",
"swirl",
"turn",
"twine",
"twist",
"coil",
"loop",
"spiral",
"wind"
],
"related":[
"uncoil",
"unroll",
"unwind",
"disentangle",
"untangle",
"untwine",
"untwist"
],
"synonyms":[
"unbend",
"uncurl",
"unkink"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"straightened":{
"as in straight , uncurled":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls":{
"antonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"curled",
"curved"
],
"examples":[
"straighten that extension cord\u2014it should be just long enough to reach the wall outlet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arced",
"bent",
"bowed",
"hooked",
"rounded",
"entwined",
"kinked",
"swirled",
"turned",
"twined",
"twisted",
"coiled",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"wound",
"winded"
],
"related":[
"uncoiled",
"unrolled",
"unwound",
"disentangled",
"untangled",
"untwined",
"untwisted"
],
"synonyms":[
"unbent",
"uncurled",
"unkinked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"straightjacket":{
"a jacket that has long arms which can be tied together behind someone's back and that is used to control the movement (as of a violent prisoner or patient)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The magician struggled to free his arms from the straitjacket and escape from the tank of water he was submerged in."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"straightness":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"strain":{
"a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"writes mystery novels of a more sophisticated strain"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"model",
"sample",
"specimen",
"bracket",
"bunch",
"category",
"division",
"family",
"grade",
"group",
"grouping",
"lot",
"persuasion",
"rank(s)",
"set",
"suite"
],
"synonyms":[
"breed",
"class",
"description",
"feather",
"genre",
"ilk",
"kidney",
"kind",
"like",
"manner",
"nature",
"order",
"sort",
"species",
"stripe",
"type",
"variety"
]
},
"a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the strain of an old Irish ballad rose up from the revelers downstairs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"descant",
"discant",
"cadence",
"measure",
"meter",
"rhythm",
"ballad",
"ditty",
"hymn",
"lyric",
"madrigal"
],
"synonyms":[
"air",
"lay",
"melody",
"song",
"tune",
"warble"
]
},
"a very small amount":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"detected a strain of panic in her voice when she asked if the substance was poisonous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"related":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"the burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the family's constant moving is putting a real strain on the children"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"consolation"
],
"related":[
"load",
"weight",
"anxiety",
"concern",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"aggravation",
"anger",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"persecution",
"trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"pressure",
"stress",
"tension"
]
},
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"antonyms":[
"issue",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed"
],
"examples":[
"descended from a strain of Irish seafarers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"child",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"son",
"successor"
],
"related":[
"heredity",
"succession",
"family",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relations",
"relatives",
"race"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestry",
"birth",
"blood",
"bloodline",
"breeding",
"descent",
"extraction",
"family tree",
"genealogy",
"line",
"lineage",
"origin",
"parentage",
"pedigree",
"stock"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the whole department is straining to complete the project before the deadline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
]
},
"to draw tight":{
"antonyms":[
"loosen",
"slack",
"slacken"
],
"examples":[
"the dog strained its leash trying to get to the cat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ease",
"relax"
],
"related":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"cinch",
"constrict"
],
"synonyms":[
"stretch",
"tauten",
"tense",
"tighten"
]
},
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"put the cooked fruit in a cheesecloth bag and let the juice strain into a pan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flood",
"gush",
"pour",
"stream",
"surge"
],
"related":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle",
"discharge",
"emit",
"give off",
"vent",
"emanate",
"flow",
"spring"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"exude",
"ooze",
"percolate",
"seep",
"sweat",
"transude",
"weep"
]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in order to lift something heavy, squat down and lift with your legs, or you'll strain your back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fray",
"tax",
"weaken",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"wound",
"batter",
"bruise",
"tear",
"cripple",
"lame",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"pull",
"rack",
"stretch",
"wrench"
]
},
"to pass through a filter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"better strain that coffee thoroughly to get all the grounds out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"leach",
"percolate"
],
"synonyms":[
"filter",
"screen"
]
},
"to put one's arms around and press tightly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the woman tenderly strained to her breast the child that she had long ago given up for dead"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"clamp",
"cling",
"cradle",
"grab",
"grip",
"hold",
"bosom",
"embosom",
"encircle",
"entwine",
"envelop",
"enwind",
"fold",
"lock",
"twine",
"wrap",
"cuddle",
"fondle",
"nestle",
"nuzzle",
"pat",
"pet",
"snuggle",
"stroke"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear-hug",
"clasp",
"crush",
"embrace",
"enclasp",
"enfold",
"grasp",
"hug"
]
},
"to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"strained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"demand",
"exact",
"importune",
"press",
"pressure",
"push",
"aggravate",
"agitate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get (to)",
"gnaw (at)",
"grate",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"pain",
"peeve",
"pester",
"rile",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"synonyms":[
"stretch",
"tax",
"test",
"try"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"strands":{
"the usually sandy or gravelly land bordering a body of water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the wishful dream of living an indolent, idyllic existence on some far-off strand"
],
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"submerged",
"suppressed",
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"expiring",
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"inspiring",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
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"garotting",
"throttling",
"asphyxiating",
"drowning",
"croaking",
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"smothering",
"stifling",
"suffocating"
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],
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"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
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"smothering",
"stifling",
"scragging"
],
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"garroting",
"garotting",
"suffocating",
"throttling"
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"taking out",
"unleashing",
"venting"
],
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"conspiracies",
"plots",
"contrivances",
"devices",
"gambits",
"maneuvers",
"ruses",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"tricks",
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"fashions",
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"hows",
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"tactics",
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"device",
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"tactic",
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"intent",
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"purpose",
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"layout",
"map",
"pattern",
"platform",
"policy",
"recipe",
"setup"
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"how",
"manner",
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"recipe",
"style",
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"chancy",
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"flukey",
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"lucky",
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"shotgun",
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"sporadic",
"spot",
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"objectless",
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"undirected",
"disorderly",
"disorganized",
"undiscriminating",
"unselective"
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"pardon",
"regret",
"repent",
"rue"
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"break",
"infringe",
"violate",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"mess up"
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"offend",
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"verb"
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"exit",
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},
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"lashins",
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"quantities",
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"reams",
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"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
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"excesses",
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"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
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"related":[
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"jots",
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"minimums",
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"atoms",
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"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
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"patches",
"scraps",
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"drops",
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"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
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"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
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"synonyms":[
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"drams",
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"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
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"smidgeons",
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"smidges",
"snaps",
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"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"suspicions",
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"verb"
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"shakily",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
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"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
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"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
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"violently",
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"lustily",
"snappily",
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"fixedly",
"intensively",
"intently",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"rigidly",
"smartly",
"solidly",
"soundly",
"squarely",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"surely",
"aggressively",
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"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously"
]
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],
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"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
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"wearily"
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"spiritedly",
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"vigorously",
"zealously",
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"steadfastly",
"steadily",
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"unrelentingly",
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"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully"
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"intensively",
"intently",
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"nonelastic",
"rigid",
"stiff"
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"brittle",
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"flakey",
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"plastic",
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"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"willowy"
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"flexible",
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"springy",
"stretchable",
"stretchy",
"supple",
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"season",
"span",
"day",
"epoch",
"era",
"beat",
"eyeblink",
"flash",
"heartbeat",
"instant",
"jiff",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"nanosecond",
"New York minute",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"spurt",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink",
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"eternity",
"infinity",
"perpetuity",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interval"
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"space",
"spell",
"while"
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"pitch",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"compass",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"reach",
"realm",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width"
],
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"gamut",
"range",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"spread"
]
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"examples":[
"the longest stretch of the drive without any place to get gas"
],
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"related":[
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"area",
"breadth",
"depth",
"height",
"rise",
"space",
"volume",
"width",
"extension",
"extent",
"cast",
"range",
"reach",
"scope",
"shot",
"sweep",
"throw",
"drop",
"fall",
"flight",
"haul",
"berth",
"clearance"
],
"synonyms":[
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"lead",
"length",
"remove",
"spacing",
"spread",
"way"
]
},
"to add to the interest of by including made-up details":{
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"it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version"
],
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"belittle",
"minimize",
"play down",
"understate"
],
"related":[
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"gussy up",
"amplify",
"enhance",
"enlarge (on or upon)",
"expand",
"flesh (out)",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"overdo",
"overdraw",
"overemphasize",
"overplay",
"overstate",
"emphasize",
"play up",
"stress",
"caricature",
"satirize"
],
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"elaborate (on)",
"embellish",
"embroider",
"exaggerate",
"hyperbolize",
"magnify",
"pad"
]
},
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"loosen",
"slack",
"slacken"
],
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],
"near antonyms":[
"ease",
"relax"
],
"related":[
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"extend",
"lengthen",
"cinch",
"constrict"
],
"synonyms":[
"strain",
"tauten",
"tense",
"tighten"
]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
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"examples":[
"I stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me"
],
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"related":[
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"tax",
"weaken",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"wound",
"batter",
"bruise",
"tear",
"cripple",
"lame",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"pull",
"rack",
"strain",
"wrench"
]
},
"to make longer":{
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"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
],
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"the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"related":[
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"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag (out)",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"outstretch",
"prolong",
"protract"
]
},
"to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress":{
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"examples":[
"your whining is stretching my patience to the limit"
],
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"related":[
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"exact",
"importune",
"press",
"pressure",
"push",
"aggravate",
"agitate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get (to)",
"gnaw (at)",
"grate",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"pain",
"peeve",
"pester",
"rile",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"synonyms":[
"strain",
"tax",
"test",
"try"
]
},
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"close",
"contract",
"fold"
],
"examples":[
"you can't stretch out your legs to the point where you're blocking the aisle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compact",
"compress",
"condense",
"reduce"
],
"related":[
"overspread"
],
"synonyms":[
"expand",
"extend",
"fan (out)",
"flare (out)",
"open",
"outspread",
"outstretch",
"spread (out)",
"unfold",
"unfurl"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stretching":{
"the act of making longer":{
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"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
],
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],
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"synonyms":[
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolongation",
"prolonging"
]
},
"the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts":{
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"meiosis",
"understatement"
],
"examples":[
"your constant stretching of the truth is going to get you in trouble someday"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittlement",
"disparagement",
"minimizing",
"poor-mouthing"
],
"related":[
"amplification",
"enhancement",
"fabrication",
"misrepresentation",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"hype",
"puffery",
"superlative"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricature",
"coloring",
"elaboration",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"embroidery",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"magnification",
"overstatement",
"padding"
]
},
"to add to the interest of by including made-up details":{
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"examples":[
"it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"understating"
],
"related":[
"dressing up",
"gussying up",
"amplifying",
"enhancing",
"enlarging (on or upon)",
"expanding",
"fleshing (out)",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"overdoing",
"overdrawing",
"overemphasizing",
"overplaying",
"overstating",
"emphasizing",
"playing up",
"stressing",
"caricaturing",
"satirizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"coloring",
"elaborating (on)",
"embellishing",
"embroidering",
"exaggerating",
"hyperbolizing",
"magnifying",
"padding"
]
},
"to draw tight":{
"antonyms":[
"loosening",
"slackening",
"slacking"
],
"examples":[
"if the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easing",
"relaxing"
],
"related":[
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"extending",
"lengthening",
"cinching",
"constricting"
],
"synonyms":[
"straining",
"tautening",
"tensing",
"tightening"
]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
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"examples":[
"I stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me"
],
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"related":[
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"taxing",
"weakening",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"wounding",
"battering",
"bruising",
"tearing",
"crippling",
"laming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"synonyms":[
"pulling",
"racking",
"straining",
"wrenching"
]
},
"to make longer":{
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"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"shortening"
],
"examples":[
"the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"thickening"
],
"related":[
"amplifying",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"attenuating",
"thinning"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragging (out)",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"outstretching",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
]
},
"to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress":{
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"examples":[
"your whining is stretching my patience to the limit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"demanding",
"exacting",
"importuning",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing",
"aggravating",
"agitating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting (to)",
"gnawing (at)",
"grating",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"hassling",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"paining",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"riling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"synonyms":[
"straining",
"taxing",
"testing",
"trying"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stretching (out)":{
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"antonyms":[
"closing",
"contracting",
"folding"
],
"examples":[
"you can't stretch out your legs to the point where you're blocking the aisle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacting",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"reducing"
],
"related":[
"overspreading"
],
"synonyms":[
"expanding",
"extending",
"fanning (out)",
"flaring (out)",
"opening",
"outspreading",
"outstretching",
"spreading (out)",
"unfolding",
"unfurling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stridency":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"strike":{
"a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success":{
"antonyms":[
"advantage",
"asset",
"edge",
"plus"
],
"examples":[
"kids born into poverty already have a strike against them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"vantage",
"head start",
"jump",
"lead",
"margin",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"better",
"command",
"control",
"drop",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"upper hand",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"break",
"opportunity",
"aid",
"assistance",
"help"
],
"related":[
"albatross",
"millstone",
"stranglehold",
"disability",
"impairment",
"failing",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel"
],
"synonyms":[
"debit",
"disadvantage",
"disbenefit",
"downside",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"incommodity",
"liability",
"minus",
"negative"
]
},
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
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"examples":[
"the strike of a hammer against a nail always has a satisfying sound when you're building something yourself"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch"
],
"synonyms":[
"bump",
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"smash",
"wallop"
]
},
"a work stoppage by a body of workers intended to force an employer to meet their demands":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the nurses will go on strike tomorrow unless they're finally given a pay raise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"sympathetic strike",
"sympathy strike",
"go-slow",
"job action",
"sick-out",
"sit-down",
"sit-in",
"slowdown",
"lockout"
],
"synonyms":[
"walkout"
]
},
"an unexpected benefit or advantage resulting from the uncertain course of events":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's made one strike after another since she began speculating in real estate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accident",
"chance",
"circumstance",
"hap",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"hazard",
"luck"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"fluke"
]
},
"the act or action of setting upon with force or violence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the first strike was directed at a munitions warehouse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defense",
"defensive",
"guard",
"shield",
"opposition",
"resistance",
"protection",
"security",
"shelter"
],
"related":[
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"counteraggression",
"counterassault",
"counterattack",
"counteroffensive",
"counterstrike",
"sally",
"sortie",
"envelopment",
"flanking",
"breakthrough",
"foray",
"incursion",
"invasion",
"pillage",
"ravage",
"sack",
"air raid",
"bombardment",
"bombing",
"siege",
"storm",
"barrage",
"cannonade",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"volley",
"whammy"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"assault",
"attack",
"attempt",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"charge",
"coup de main",
"descent",
"offense",
"offence",
"offensive",
"onset",
"onslaught",
"raid",
"rush"
]
},
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we were struck by the willingness of total strangers to go out of their way to help us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"pall",
"tire",
"weary",
"underwhelm"
],
"related":[
"carry away",
"dazzle",
"enrapture",
"entrance",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"ravish",
"transport",
"bias",
"color",
"inspire",
"stir",
"engage",
"interest",
"involve",
"penetrate",
"pierce",
"afflict",
"agitate",
"bother",
"concern",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fluster",
"harass",
"harry",
"perturb",
"pester",
"plague",
"smite",
"strain",
"stress",
"trouble",
"try",
"upset",
"worry",
"wring",
"allure",
"attract",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"fascinate"
],
"synonyms":[
"affect",
"impact",
"impress",
"influence",
"move",
"reach",
"sway",
"tell (on)",
"touch"
]
},
"to cast a spell on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the only way that she's going to get a man is if she strikes one"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bless"
],
"related":[
"curse",
"jinx",
"possess",
"voodoo",
"attract",
"beguile",
"captivate",
"fascinate",
"mesmerize",
"spellbind",
"entice",
"lure",
"seduce",
"tempt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bewitch",
"charm",
"enchant",
"ensorcell",
"ensorcel",
"hex",
"overlook",
"spell"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the thump of hailstones striking the cars in the parking lot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"related":[
"bounce",
"carom",
"clunk",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skim",
"skip",
"contact",
"land",
"touch",
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"scrape",
"shave",
"sweep",
"bulldoze",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bump",
"collide",
"crash",
"hit",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"ram",
"slam",
"smash",
"swipe",
"thud"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the driver of the car behind me applied his brakes too late and struck my car from the rear"
],
"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",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
]
},
"to enter the mind of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it struck her later that no one at the bank had asked for identification"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forget",
"unlearn",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"related":[
"recall",
"recollect",
"remember",
"reminisce",
"con",
"learn",
"memorize",
"appear",
"arrive",
"emerge",
"materialize"
],
"synonyms":[
"come (to)",
"cross",
"dawn (on)",
"occur (to)"
]
},
"to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the union is calling for its members to strike until the mining company agrees to meet safety standards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"sit in",
"lock out"
],
"synonyms":[
"walk",
"walk out"
]
},
"to take apart":{
"antonyms":[
"assemble",
"construct"
],
"examples":[
"the stagehands struck the sets the morning after the play closed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"build",
"erect",
"pitch",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"related":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"break up",
"disaggregate",
"disarticulate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"dismount",
"knock down",
"take down"
]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a rattlesnake strikes its prey with lightning speed"
],
"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)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"strikes (out)":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
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"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
],
"examples":[
"their joint venture in Las Vegas struck out , and they hurriedly dissolved the partnership"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"related":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"tanks",
"washes out"
]
},
"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
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"examples":[
"struck out all references to indecent matters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"wipes out",
"bleeps",
"blips",
"clips",
"cuts",
"excises",
"removes",
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"cleans (up)",
"expurgates",
"launders",
"redacts",
"red-pencils",
"abbreviates",
"crops",
"shortens",
"blacks out",
"represses",
"silences",
"suppresses"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue-pencils",
"cancels",
"crosses (out)",
"deles",
"deletes",
"edits (out)",
"elides",
"kills",
"scratches (out)",
"strokes (out)",
"x's (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"strikes out":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
],
"examples":[
"their joint venture in Las Vegas struck out , and they hurriedly dissolved the partnership"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"related":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"tanks",
"washes out"
]
},
"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
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"examples":[
"struck out all references to indecent matters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"wipes out",
"bleeps",
"blips",
"clips",
"cuts",
"excises",
"removes",
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"cleans (up)",
"expurgates",
"launders",
"redacts",
"red-pencils",
"abbreviates",
"crops",
"shortens",
"blacks out",
"represses",
"silences",
"suppresses"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue-pencils",
"cancels",
"crosses (out)",
"deles",
"deletes",
"edits (out)",
"elides",
"kills",
"scratches (out)",
"strokes (out)",
"x's (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"striking (out)":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"examples":[
"their joint venture in Las Vegas struck out , and they hurriedly dissolved the partnership"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"related":[
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"failing",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"tanking",
"washing out"
]
},
"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"struck out all references to indecent matters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"wiping out",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"clipping",
"cutting",
"excising",
"removing",
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering",
"redacting",
"red-penciling",
"abbreviating",
"cropping",
"shortening",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue-penciling",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crossing (out)",
"deleing",
"deleting",
"editing (out)",
"eliding",
"killing",
"scratching (out)",
"stroking (out)",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"striking down":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
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"examples":[
"a law that was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"instituting",
"formalizing",
"legalizing",
"legitimating",
"legitimizing",
"validating",
"passing",
"ratifying",
"allowing",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"commanding",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescribing"
],
"related":[
"countermanding",
"overriding",
"overruling",
"overturning",
"vetoing",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"retracting",
"reversing",
"revoking",
"suspending",
"withdrawing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"disallowing",
"dismissing",
"rejecting",
"annihilating",
"breaking down",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"throwing out",
"writing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"avoiding",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"disannulling",
"dissolving",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"nulling",
"quashing",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"rolling back",
"vacating",
"voiding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stringent":{
"not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards":{
"antonyms":[
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"relaxed",
"slack"
],
"examples":[
"stringent rules against unauthorized persons being in the building"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"compromising",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"kindly",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"mild",
"pampering",
"soft",
"spoiling",
"tolerant",
"neglectful",
"negligent",
"remiss",
"slipshod",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unfussy"
],
"related":[
"close",
"conscientious",
"exact",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"undeviating",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"determined",
"dogged",
"firm",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"unappeasable",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"austere",
"demanding",
"flinty",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"harsh",
"ironbound",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough"
],
"synonyms":[
"brassbound",
"cast-iron",
"exacting",
"hard-line",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"uncompromising"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stringy":{
"resembling or having the texture of a mass of strings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stringy hair that clearly needs a good washing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"knotty",
"ropy",
"ropey",
"thready",
"sinewy",
"wiry"
],
"synonyms":[
"fibrous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"strip":{
"a long narrow piece of material":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"now tear the paper into strips and fold them up carefully"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"slat",
"band",
"bandage",
"belt",
"binding",
"girth",
"strap",
"swatch",
"swath",
"swathe",
"tape"
],
"synonyms":[
"list",
"ribbon",
"slip"
]
},
"a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a cartoonist who uses his daily strip to make his political points"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"comic book",
"funny paper(s)",
"graphic novel",
"animated cartoon",
"animation",
"caricature"
],
"synonyms":[
"cartoon",
"comic",
"comic strip",
"funny"
]
},
"to remove clothing from":{
"antonyms":[
"dress",
"gown",
"robe"
],
"examples":[
"the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"cover",
"deck",
"dress",
"feather",
"garb",
"garment",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"vest",
"cloak",
"mantle",
"drape",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"equip",
"furnish",
"outfit"
],
"related":[
"bare",
"denude",
"divest",
"expose",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil",
"bark",
"flay",
"peel",
"skin"
],
"synonyms":[
"disrobe",
"unclothe",
"undress"
]
},
"to take something away from":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an indiscretion that resulted in her being stripped of her authority"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"denude",
"cheat",
"clean (out)",
"defraud",
"shortchange",
"bankrupt",
"disfurnish",
"impoverish"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"bereave",
"deprive",
"divest"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"striped":{
"having stripes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the zebra is a black-and-white striped animal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"corded",
"tabby"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded",
"barred",
"streaked"
]
},
"to make stripes on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the children carefully striped the paper with red and blue paint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blazed"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded",
"barred",
"streaked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stripping":{
"as in ejection , dispossession":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to remove clothing from":{
"antonyms":[
"dressing",
"gowning",
"robing"
],
"examples":[
"the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"covering",
"decking",
"dressing",
"feathering",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"vesting",
"cloaking",
"mantling",
"draping",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"outfitting"
],
"related":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling",
"barking",
"flaying",
"peeling",
"skinning"
],
"synonyms":[
"disrobing",
"unclothing",
"undressing"
]
},
"to take something away from":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an indiscretion that resulted in her being stripped of her authority"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"denuding",
"cheating",
"cleaning (out)",
"defrauding",
"shortchanging",
"bankrupting",
"disfurnishing",
"impoverishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"bereaving",
"depriving",
"divesting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"strolled":{
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"people who like to stroll along the beach would seem to be well-represented among the clientele for dating services"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"roamed",
"roved",
"wandered",
"peregrinated",
"traipsed",
"traversed",
"trekked",
"walked",
"marched",
"promenaded",
"power walked"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambled",
"hiked",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"sauntered",
"tramped",
"tromped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"strong suits":{
"something for which a person shows a special talent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"languages are definitely the diplomat's strong suit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"areas",
"arenas",
"bailiwicks",
"businesses",
"circles",
"demesnes",
"departments",
"disciplines",
"domains",
"fiefdoms",
"fiefs",
"fields",
"lines",
"precincts",
"provinces",
"realms",
"spheres",
"terrains",
"elements",
"aptitudes",
"bents",
"faculties",
"flairs",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"gifts",
"knacks",
"talents",
"pursuits",
"rackets",
"vocations",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies"
],
"synonyms":[
"fortes",
"long suits",
"m\u00e9tiers",
"metiers",
"specialities",
"specialties",
"things"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"strong-arms":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"developers trying to strong-arm homeowners into selling their houses at below-market prices"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"related":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"struggles":{
"a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a performer's long struggle to achieve success"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"efforts",
"exertions",
"labors",
"pains",
"troubles",
"works",
"drudgeries",
"grinds",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"combats",
"conflicts",
"contests",
"strifes",
"tussles",
"warfares",
"wars",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"tries"
],
"synonyms":[
"battles",
"fights",
"frays",
"scrabbles",
"throes"
]
},
"a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groups":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there was a struggle between the armed robber and the shopkeeper, and the gun went off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"truces"
],
"related":[
"pitched battles",
"rough-and-tumbles",
"affrays",
"battles royal",
"battle royals",
"battles royale",
"battle royales",
"brawls",
"broils",
"donnybrooks",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"mix-ups",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"blows",
"fistfights",
"fisticuffs",
"grapples",
"handgrips",
"punch-outs",
"punch-ups",
"slugfests",
"confrontations",
"duels",
"face-offs",
"jousts",
"altercations",
"argle-bargles",
"arguments",
"argy-bargies",
"contretemps",
"controversies",
"cross fires",
"disagreements",
"disputes",
"fallings-out",
"falling-outs",
"kickups",
"misunderstandings",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tangles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles",
"catfights"
],
"synonyms":[
"battles",
"clashes",
"combats",
"conflicts",
"contests",
"dustups",
"fights",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"scraps",
"scrimmages",
"scrums",
"scuffles",
"skirmishes",
"tussles"
]
},
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her staunchest supporters in her struggle for the office"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concords",
"harmonies",
"peaces"
],
"related":[
"horse races",
"nail-biters",
"showdowns",
"clashes",
"collisions",
"discords",
"frictions",
"arguments",
"controversies",
"debates",
"disagreements",
"disputations",
"disputes",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"wrangles"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball games",
"battles",
"combats",
"competitions",
"conflicts",
"confrontations",
"contentions",
"contests",
"dogfights",
"duels",
"face-offs",
"grapples",
"matches",
"rivalries",
"strifes",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tugs-of-war",
"warfares",
"wars"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"related":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"each week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better"
],
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"flies",
"glides",
"kilts",
"sails",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"related":[
"jogs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"wallows",
"welters",
"falters",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"fumbles",
"muddles"
],
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"bumbles",
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"flounders",
"limps",
"lumbers",
"plods",
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"verb"
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"the financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet"
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"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goldbricking",
"goofing (off)",
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"lazing",
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"lolling",
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"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging",
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"messing around",
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"playing",
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"pitching in",
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"driving",
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"trying",
"exercising",
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"eking out",
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"scrabbling",
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"trudging",
"wading"
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"endeavoring",
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"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
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"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"sweating",
"toiling",
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"travailing",
"tugging",
"working"
]
},
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"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
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"each week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better"
],
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"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
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"jogging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"wallowing",
"weltering",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling"
],
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"blundering",
"bumbling",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"stumbling",
"trudging"
]
},
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"verb"
]
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"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
],
"examples":[
"he's just being stubborn , refusing even to try the new toothpaste"
],
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"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"related":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
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"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
]
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"adjective"
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"she promised her friend that the blind date would be a real stud"
],
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"dog",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"monster",
"nerd"
],
"related":[
"babe",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"eye candy",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"knockout",
"stunner",
"lady-killer",
"sheik",
"womanizer"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"pretty boy",
"superstud"
]
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"as in set , intersperse":{
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"verb"
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},
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"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
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"got up",
"rose",
"stood (up)",
"uprose"
],
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"the bride stumbled on the altar steps and landed smack in the arms of the minister"
],
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"related":[
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"crumpled",
"dropped",
"flumped",
"keeled",
"plopped",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"slumped (over)",
"crashed",
"free-fell",
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"plunged",
"precipitated",
"wiped out",
"skidded",
"slid"
],
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"fell",
"slipped",
"toppled",
"tripped",
"tumbled"
]
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"to make a mistake":{
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"examples":[
"that network announcer rarely stumbles when he's on the air"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"nodded",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"foozled",
"mangled",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"miscalculated",
"misconceived",
"miscounted",
"miscued",
"misdeemed",
"misgauged",
"misgaged",
"misjudged",
"mistook",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misunderstood"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"boobed",
"erred",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"screwed up",
"slipped up",
"tripped"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
],
"examples":[
"the tipsy revelers left the path and wearily stumbled through the tangled undergrowth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"related":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stumbled twice while she was reciting the \"Gettysburg Address\""
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasted",
"flew",
"glided",
"kilted",
"sailed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"related":[
"jogged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"wallowed",
"weltered",
"faltered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"fumbled",
"muddled"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bumbled",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"struggled",
"trudged"
]
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"verb"
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"stumbles":{
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
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"examples":[
"was his hurtful remark a regrettable stumble , or was it made with artful intention?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracies",
"exactitudes",
"precisions",
"inerrancies",
"infallibilities",
"perfections"
],
"related":[
"bloomers",
"bloopers",
"boners",
"howlers",
"pratfalls",
"foul-ups",
"snafus",
"misapprehensions",
"miscalculations",
"miscomprehensions",
"misconceptions",
"misconstructions",
"misdescriptions",
"misimpressions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misreadings",
"misstatements",
"misunderstandings"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bobbles",
"boo-boos",
"boobs",
"bricks",
"clangers",
"clinkers",
"errors",
"faults",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fumbles",
"gaffes",
"gaffs",
"goofs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"screwups",
"slips",
"slipups",
"trips"
]
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"the act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"has bones so brittle that a minor stumble could result in a serious break"
],
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"related":[
"headers",
"pratfalls",
"missteps",
"trips",
"descents",
"dives",
"plunges",
"skids",
"slides",
"free-falls"
],
"synonyms":[
"falls",
"slips",
"spills",
"tumbles"
]
},
"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"antonyms":[
"gets up",
"rises",
"stands (up)",
"uprises"
],
"examples":[
"the bride stumbled on the altar steps and landed smack in the arms of the minister"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"collapses",
"crumples",
"drops",
"flumps",
"keels",
"plops",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"slumps (over)",
"crashes",
"free-falls",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"precipitates",
"wipes out",
"skids",
"slides"
],
"synonyms":[
"falls",
"slips",
"topples",
"trips",
"tumbles"
]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that network announcer rarely stumbles when he's on the air"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"nods",
"bobbles",
"botches",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"foozles",
"mangles",
"mishandles",
"muffs",
"murders",
"miscalculates",
"misconceives",
"miscounts",
"miscues",
"misdeems",
"misgauges",
"misjudges",
"mistakes",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misunderstands"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"boobs",
"errs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"messes (up)",
"screws up",
"slips up",
"trips"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezes",
"coasts",
"glides",
"slides",
"waltzes",
"whisks"
],
"examples":[
"the tipsy revelers left the path and wearily stumbled through the tangled undergrowth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifts",
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"poises",
"wafts"
],
"related":[
"drags",
"flops",
"hauls",
"blunders",
"careens",
"dodders",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"waddles",
"weaves",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"synonyms":[
"barges",
"clumps",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"galumphs",
"lumbers",
"lumps",
"plods",
"pounds",
"scuffles",
"scuffs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"slogs",
"sloughs",
"stamps",
"stomps",
"stumps",
"tramps",
"tromps",
"trudges"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stumbled twice while she was reciting the \"Gettysburg Address\""
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasts",
"flies",
"glides",
"kilts",
"sails",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"related":[
"jogs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"wallows",
"welters",
"falters",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"fumbles",
"muddles"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bumbles",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"limps",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"struggles",
"trudges"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"stumped":{
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"when my grandfather was a kid, he and his friends would stump one another to dive into the local swimming hole"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"faced",
"outbraved",
"outfaced"
],
"synonyms":[
"challenged",
"dared",
"defied"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
],
"examples":[
"the seemingly endless parade finally ended, and the drummers and tuba players stumped wearily to their buses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"related":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stunned":{
"affected with sudden and great wonder or surprise":{
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"examples":[
"realizing that they had been left out of the will, the billionaire's relatives just sat there, stunned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"casual",
"nonchalant",
"unruffled"
],
"related":[
"blindsided",
"startled",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"aghast",
"appalled",
"dismayed",
"horrified",
"bewildered",
"confused",
"dazed",
"overwhelmed",
"agape",
"awed",
"awesome",
"openmouthed",
"wide-eyed",
"widemouthed"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"awestruck",
"awestricken",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"dumbstruck",
"flabbergasted",
"shocked",
"stupefied",
"thunderstruck"
]
},
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
],
"examples":[
"the loud noise left her momentarily stunned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"related":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the news of their boss's termination stunned the staff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"befuddled",
"bewildered",
"blew away",
"blindsided",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"dismayed",
"jarred",
"muddled",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perplexed",
"shook up"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"floored",
"rocked",
"shocked",
"startled",
"stupefied",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"thunderstruck"
]
},
"to make senseless or dizzy by a blow":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a powerful uppercut to the jaw stunned the boxer and sent him crashing to the canvas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deadened",
"knocked out",
"paralyzed",
"benumbed",
"numbed",
"stupefied",
"bowled over",
"knocked down",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"hammered",
"hit",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"pummeled",
"pummelled"
],
"synonyms":[
"dazed",
"rocked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stunt":{
"an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"performs mental stunts , such as pronouncing words backwards as soon as you say them"
],
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"related":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"coup",
"success",
"triumph",
"adventure",
"performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"deed",
"exploit",
"feat",
"number",
"tour de force",
"trick"
]
},
"to hold back the normal growth of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"unfortunately, an unusually dry summer seems to have permanently stunted the tree"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"boost",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote"
],
"related":[
"arrest",
"catch",
"check",
"halt",
"hold up",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop",
"balk",
"block",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"stem",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"shrink"
],
"synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"suppress"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stupefy":{
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stupefied by the ruling that he could not compete because he missed the qualifying age by two days"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"befuddle",
"bewilder",
"blindside",
"blow away",
"confound",
"confuse",
"daze",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"dismay",
"jar",
"muddle",
"nonplus",
"perplex",
"shake up"
],
"synonyms":[
"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"shock",
"startle",
"stun",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"thunderstrike"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sturdiness":{
"the ability to withstand force or stress without being distorted, dislodged, or damaged":{
"antonyms":[
"insecurity",
"instability",
"precariousness",
"shakiness",
"unstableness",
"unsteadiness"
],
"examples":[
"demonstrated the suitcase's sturdiness by dropping it from a third-floor window"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insubstantiality",
"unsoundness",
"unsubstantiality",
"weakness"
],
"related":[
"dependability",
"durability",
"reliability",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"cohesion",
"toughness"
],
"synonyms":[
"firmness",
"soundness",
"stability",
"strength"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stygian":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[
"lost in the stygian reaches of the deep forest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"related":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"style":{
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I correctly identified the quotation because I recognized Mark Twain's inimitable style"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"address",
"delivery",
"elocution",
"archaism",
"colloquialism",
"regionalism",
"acceptation",
"connotation",
"denotation",
"expression",
"idiom"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashion",
"locution",
"manner",
"mode",
"phraseology",
"tone",
"vein"
]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"parents who were very relieved when the style for having one's nose pierced faded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"standard"
],
"related":[
"nine days' wonder",
"nine day wonder",
"new wave",
"crush",
"infatuation",
"fervor",
"passion",
"furor",
"fuss",
"hullabaloo",
"to-do",
"uproar",
"bandwagon",
"crusade",
"cult",
"movement",
"novelty",
"wrinkle",
"caprice",
"fancy",
"whim"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fad",
"fashion",
"flavor",
"go",
"hot ticket",
"last word",
"latest",
"mode",
"rage",
"sensation",
"ton",
"trend",
"vogue"
]
},
"the means or procedure for doing something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"unfortunately, the club president's usual style is to make decisions without asking anyone's advice or approval"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"mode",
"modus operandi",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"intrigue",
"layout",
"line",
"model",
"plan",
"plot",
"program",
"route",
"scheme",
"expedient",
"move",
"shift",
"step",
"practice",
"practise",
"process",
"routine",
"policy"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"fashion",
"form",
"how",
"manner",
"method",
"methodology",
"recipe",
"strategy",
"system",
"tack",
"tactics",
"technique",
"way"
]
},
"to give a name to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"although nowadays he's often styled a biologist, he's probably better thought of as a classic 19th-century naturalist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"brand",
"stigmatize",
"tag",
"denote",
"specify",
"miscall",
"misname",
"mistitle",
"code-name",
"nickname",
"rechristen",
"relabel",
"rename",
"surname"
],
"synonyms":[
"baptize",
"call",
"christen",
"clepe",
"denominate",
"designate",
"dub",
"entitle",
"label",
"name",
"nominate",
"term",
"title"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stymie":{
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
],
"examples":[
"the raging blizzard stymied the rescuers' attempts to find the stranded mountain climbers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"make way",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"related":[
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie",
"arrest",
"brake",
"delay",
"retain",
"retard",
"barricade",
"block",
"blockade",
"roadblock",
"bog (down)",
"mire",
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suffocate",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"stump",
"thwart",
"derail",
"disrupt",
"sabotage",
"muzzle",
"repress",
"suppress",
"confine",
"hedge (in)",
"hem (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"tie up",
"trammel"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stainless":{
"free from dirt or stain":{
"examples":[
"nothing less than a perfectly stainless sheet of parchment would do for a diploma"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"chaste",
"clean",
"fair",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"related":[
"pure",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome",
"cleanly",
"germfree",
"hygienic",
"sanitary",
"sterile",
"abluted",
"bleached",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"scrubbed",
"washed",
"whitened",
"milky",
"snowy",
"white",
"flawless",
"unblemished",
"bright",
"shiny",
"sparkling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dingy",
"greasy",
"grimy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"unwashed",
"defiled",
"germy",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"blackened",
"discolored"
],
"antonyms":[
"besmirched",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grubby",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleaned"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stands by":{
"to give steadfast support to":{
"examples":[
"no matter how much people object, I will stand by my decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"adheres (to)",
"clings (to)",
"hews (to)",
"keeps (to)",
"sticks (to or with)"
],
"related":[
"cleaves (to)",
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"confirms",
"defends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"espouses",
"supports",
"upholds",
"accepts",
"adopts",
"cherishes",
"cultivates",
"embraces",
"follows",
"fosters",
"heeds",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"enforces",
"reinforces",
"reenforces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"abnegates",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"gives up",
"relinquishes",
"spurns",
"surrenders",
"abjures",
"recalls",
"recants",
"reconsiders",
"reneges",
"renounces",
"retracts",
"revokes",
"takes back",
"unsays",
"withdraws",
"controverts",
"disagrees (with)",
"disproves",
"disputes",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"contradicts",
"denies",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"negatives",
"repudiates",
"backs down",
"backs off",
"backtracks"
],
"antonyms":[
"defects (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"streamlet":{
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"the raging brook of last spring is a mere streamlet now that it's July"
],
"synonyms":[
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel"
],
"related":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"runoff",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"star":{
"a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light":{
"examples":[
"it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights"
],
"synonyms":[
"luminary",
"sphere",
"sun"
],
"related":[
"cluster",
"constellation",
"galaxy",
"binary star",
"brown dwarf",
"dwarf",
"fixed star",
"gasser",
"giant star",
"lodestar",
"loadstar",
"neutron star",
"nova",
"pulsar",
"quasar",
"red dwarf",
"red giant",
"red star",
"subdwarf",
"supercluster",
"supergiant",
"supernova",
"variable",
"variable star",
"white dwarf"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show":{
"examples":[
"when the star of the school play came down with the flu on opening night, her understudy got to go on"
],
"synonyms":[
"headliner",
"lead",
"principal"
],
"related":[
"leading lady",
"leading man",
"superstar",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"starlet",
"star turn",
"coprincipal",
"costar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extra",
"supernumerary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"the public's endless fascination with stars"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"light",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personage",
"personality",
"somebody",
"standout",
"superstar",
"VIP"
],
"related":[
"favorite",
"heartthrob",
"hero",
"idol",
"demigod",
"dignitary",
"eminence",
"immortal",
"monument",
"pillar",
"worthy",
"baron",
"big shot",
"bigwig",
"kahuna",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"nabob",
"panjandrum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"mediocrity",
"has-been"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
]
},
"of or relating to the stars":{
"examples":[
"star observations"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"starry",
"stellar"
],
"related":[
"celestial",
"empyrean",
"heavenly",
"intergalactic",
"interstellar",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"astrophysical",
"astronautic",
"astronautical",
"starlike",
"star-spangled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement":{
"examples":[
"the teacher's star pupil"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"bright",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"luminous",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"redoubtable",
"signal",
"superior"
],
"related":[
"celebrated",
"exalted",
"famed",
"famous",
"glorious",
"honored",
"renowned",
"reputable",
"infamous",
"notorious",
"dominant",
"paramount",
"predominant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificant",
"minor",
"unimportant",
"average",
"inferior",
"mediocre",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unsung"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"widely known":{
"examples":[
"looking for star actors to play the leads"
],
"synonyms":[
"big-name",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"visible",
"well-known"
],
"related":[
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"infamous",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"exceptional",
"great",
"illustrious",
"leading",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"remarkable",
"supereminent",
"superior",
"important",
"significant",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"respected",
"favorite",
"popular",
"preferred",
"estimable",
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"formidable",
"redoubtable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"inconspicuous",
"undistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"unpopular"
],
"antonyms":[
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unfamous",
"unknown",
"unsung"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"stimulation":{
"as in stimulus , incentive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"state aids":{
"as in reliefs , foreign aids":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sterilizing":{
"as in spaying , castrating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"streaking":{
"to make stripes on":{
"examples":[
"light from the setting sun streaked the clouds in brilliant bands of pink and orange"
],
"synonyms":[
"banding",
"barring",
"striping"
],
"related":[
"blazing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stupes":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"with stupes like that, no wonder city hall is a mess"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"related":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"started (up)":{
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"jumped",
"startled"
],
"related":[
"jerked",
"jolted",
"twitched",
"blenched",
"cringed",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"spooked",
"squinched",
"winced",
"bounded",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"reacted",
"responded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"started the impressionist movement in art"
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"constituted",
"established",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"planted",
"set up"
],
"related":[
"authored",
"fathered",
"originated",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"created",
"devised",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"thought (up)",
"constructed",
"put up",
"developed",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"subsidized",
"arranged",
"organized",
"systematized",
"systemized",
"refounded",
"reinitiated",
"reinstituted",
"relaunched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"annulled",
"nullified",
"ended",
"finished",
"halted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"rounded (off or out)",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closed (down)",
"phased out",
"shut (up)"
]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"trying to start the car on a frigid morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"activated",
"actuated",
"cranked (up)",
"drove",
"moved",
"ran",
"run",
"set off",
"sparked",
"touched off",
"triggered",
"turned on"
],
"related":[
"kicked over",
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"speeded (up)",
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"turned off"
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"examples":[
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"the fight started when one child tripped the other"
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],
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"sprang",
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"breathed",
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"emerged",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"shaped (up)",
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"lasted",
"persisted",
"survived"
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],
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"discontinued",
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"died",
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"passed away",
"perished"
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"ceased",
"ended",
"stopped"
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]
},
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"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
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"examples":[
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"frightened horses with starting eyes"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"beetled",
"bellied",
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"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
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],
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"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
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"examples":[
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"we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment"
],
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"commenced",
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"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"struck (into)"
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],
"related":[
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"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
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"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
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]
},
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"the point at which something begins":{
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"examples":[
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"knew from the start of the game that he would win easily"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"threshold"
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],
"related":[
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"drawing board",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one",
"creation",
"founding",
"inauguration",
"initiation",
"institution",
"origination",
"cradle",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"germ",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring",
"dawning",
"opening",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence",
"childhood",
"infancy",
"youth"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"cessation",
"closing",
"closure",
"completion",
"finale",
"finish",
"period",
"stop",
"termination",
"windup"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
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]
},
"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
]
},
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"sty":{
"a dirty or messy place":{
"examples":[
"\"That house is such a sty that I'm never setting foot in there again,\" she said with a shudder"
],
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"dump",
"hellhole",
"hole",
"pigpen",
"pigsty",
"shambles"
],
"related":[
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorganization",
"mess",
"muddle",
"muss",
"havoc",
"hell",
"mare's nest",
"snake pit",
"clutter",
"jumble",
"litter",
"mishmash",
"welter"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"strings along":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
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"examples":[
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"the student succeeded in stringing even his teachers along with his tales of family hardships"
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],
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"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"suckers",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
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],
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"related":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
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],
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"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
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],
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"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
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]
},
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"streetwalkers":{
"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
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"examples":[
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"the streetwalkers and adult movie theaters that once populated the tenderloin have been replaced by upscale shoppers and expensive restaurants and boutiques"
],
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"bawds",
"call girls",
"cocottes",
"courtesans",
"drabs",
"hookers",
"hustlers",
"prostitutes",
"sex workers",
"tarts",
"whores"
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],
"related":[
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"madames",
"mesdames",
"madams",
"chippies",
"doxies",
"floozies",
"tramps",
"hussies",
"jades",
"minxes",
"coquettes",
"flirts",
"libertines",
"sirens",
"tempters",
"temptresses",
"vamps",
"wenches"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"having lines, bands, or grooves":{
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"examples":[
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"striated muscle tissue"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"as in striped , speckled":{
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"straps":{
"a narrow and usually flat piece of a material that is used for fastening, holding together, or wrapping something":{
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"examples":[
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"She had the nervous habit of fiddling with the strap of her watch."
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],
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"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"as in wires , ropes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stone-blind":{
"lacking the power of sight":{
"examples":[
"he's so oblivious to everything around him that you'd think he was stone-blind"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"blind",
"eyeless",
"sightless",
"visionless"
],
"related":[
"blinded",
"blindfold",
"blindfolded",
"unsighted",
"gravel-blind",
"purblind"
],
"near antonyms":[
"observant",
"observing",
"seeing",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"gimlet-eyed",
"lynx-eyed",
"sharp-eyed",
"sharp-sighted"
],
"antonyms":[
"sighted"
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]
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stumbled (on or onto)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
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"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"found",
"happened (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"lit (on or upon)",
"lighted (on or upon)",
"met",
"pitched (upon)",
"tumbled (upon)"
],
"related":[
"lucked (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronted",
"faced",
"discovered",
"struck",
"turned up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"stands on":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
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"examples":[
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"She plans to be standing on her own by this time next month."
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],
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"synonyms":[
"calculates",
"counts",
"depends",
"leans",
"reckons",
"relies"
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],
"related":[
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"commits",
"confides",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"trusts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stoking":{
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company"
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],
"synonyms":[
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"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"building up",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"related":[
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"fleshing (out)",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching",
"developing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"beefing (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"following up",
"parlaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"antonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"standing off":{
"as in fighting , resisting":{
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"stokes":{
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
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"examples":[
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"hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"builds up",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups"
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],
"related":[
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"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"fleshes (out)",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches",
"develops",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"beefs (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"follows up",
"parlays"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)"
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]
},
"type":[
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"verb"
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]
},
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"storages":{
"a building for storing goods":{
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"examples":[
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"in colonial times the granary was one of the community's most important storages"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"depositories",
"depots",
"magazines",
"repositories",
"storehouses",
"warehouses"
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],
"related":[
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"caches",
"stockrooms",
"storerooms",
"banks",
"bins",
"containers",
"lockers",
"safe-deposit boxes",
"strongboxes",
"arsenals",
"dumps",
"stowages"
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"I was so tired last night that I just staggered upstairs to bed without eating dinner"
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"waddled"
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"weaved",
"wobbled",
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"clomped",
"clumped",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"tramped",
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"a daunting problem that would make even the most decisive person stagger just a bit"
],
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"halted",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"scrupled",
"shilly-shallied",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
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"hemmed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
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"lingered",
"paused",
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"backed down",
"chickened (out)",
"considered",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"waffled"
],
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"budged",
"stirred",
"advanced",
"continued"
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"plunged (in)"
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"verb"
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"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
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"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
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"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
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"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
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"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
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"creep",
"poke"
]
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"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moribund",
"mossy",
"moth-eaten",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"superannuated"
],
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"ageing",
"obsolescent",
"discarded",
"disused",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"useless",
"dead",
"defunct",
"expired",
"extinct",
"vanished",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"fusty",
"musty",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"retro",
"vintage",
"aged",
"age-old",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"atavistic",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"historic",
"historical",
"late",
"old-world",
"past"
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"current",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"recent",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute",
"fresh",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"functional",
"operable",
"operational",
"workable",
"active",
"alive",
"busy",
"employed",
"functioning",
"operating",
"operative"
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"adjective"
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"a steamy scene that earned the movie an R rating"
],
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"amatory",
"amorous",
"aphrodisiac",
"aphrodisiacal",
"erogenous",
"erotic",
"erotical",
"erotogenic",
"sexy"
],
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"autoerotic",
"carnal",
"fleshly",
"sensual",
"sensuous",
"bawdy",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"lustful",
"obscene",
"prurient",
"racy",
"spicy",
"suggestive",
"titillating",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"indecent",
"nasty",
"pornographic",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"fetishistic",
"perversive"
],
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"clean",
"decent",
"decorous",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
],
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"nonerotic",
"unerotic",
"unsexy"
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"adjective"
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"following a set method, arrangement, or pattern":{
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"The course is arranged in a series of structured lessons that allow the subject material to be easily learned."
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"verb"
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"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
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"struck out all references to indecent matters"
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"blue-penciling",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crossing (out)",
"deleing",
"deleting",
"editing (out)",
"eliding",
"killing",
"scratching (out)",
"stroking (out)",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)"
],
"related":[
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"wiping out",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"clipping",
"cutting",
"excising",
"removing",
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering",
"redacting",
"red-penciling",
"abbreviating",
"cropping",
"shortening",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"their joint venture in Las Vegas struck out , and they hurriedly dissolved the partnership"
],
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"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"failing",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"tanking",
"washing out"
],
"related":[
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"stitched":{
"to close up with a series of interlacing stitches":{
"examples":[
"the doctor stitched the wound so adroitly that the scar was barely visible after the stitches were removed"
],
"synonyms":[
"darned",
"sewed",
"sutured"
],
"related":[
"mended",
"patched",
"repaired",
"basted",
"eased",
"felled",
"finished",
"overcast",
"cross-stitched",
"embroidered",
"crocheted",
"knit",
"knitted",
"quilted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"strolls":{
"a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"we arrived early and took a stroll through the park before dinner"
],
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"ambles",
"constitutionals",
"perambulations",
"rambles",
"ranges",
"saunters",
"turns",
"walks",
"wanders"
],
"related":[
"parades",
"paseos",
"promenades",
"expeditions",
"hikes",
"marches",
"peregrinations",
"traipses",
"tramps",
"travels",
"traversals",
"traverses",
"treks",
"trips",
"walkabouts",
"excursions",
"jaunts",
"junkets",
"outings",
"sallies",
"sashays",
"spins",
"tours",
"pilgrimages",
"progresses",
"safaris"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"people who like to stroll along the beach would seem to be well-represented among the clientele for dating services"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambles",
"hikes",
"perambulates",
"rambles",
"saunters",
"tramps",
"tromps"
],
"related":[
"roams",
"roves",
"wanders",
"peregrinates",
"traipses",
"traverses",
"treks",
"walks",
"marches",
"promenades",
"power walks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"step-down":{
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"took a huge step-down in income when she switched from a law career to one in social work"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage"
],
"related":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
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"noun"
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"as in smooth":{
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"verb"
]
},
"stead":{
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"a summer internship will stand you in good stead when applying to college"
],
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"advantage",
"better",
"bulge",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"edge",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"upper hand",
"vantage",
"whip hand"
],
"related":[
"allowance",
"head start",
"lead",
"leg up",
"margin",
"odds",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"command",
"dominance",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"transcendency",
"precedence",
"preference",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"seniority",
"break",
"foothold",
"opportunity",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detriment",
"stranglehold",
"disparity",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"unevenness",
"disability",
"failing",
"impairment",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
]
},
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"noun"
]
},
"stabling":{
"as in securing , shedding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standings":{
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"a tradition of long standing"
],
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"continuances",
"dates",
"durations",
"life spans",
"lifetimes",
"lives",
"runs",
"times"
],
"related":[
"spells",
"stretches",
"spans",
"tenures",
"terms",
"hitches",
"tours",
"turns",
"half-lifes",
"half-lives",
"ages",
"longevities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"my standing in the class at the time of graduation"
],
"synonyms":[
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"rungs",
"situations",
"stations",
"statuses",
"strata"
],
"related":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"noun"
]
},
"stacks (up)":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"builds up",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"gathers",
"masses",
"piles (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinates",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"banks",
"drifts",
"ridges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stalwart":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"the stalwart soldiers in the army of Alexander the Great, who willingly followed him to the ends of the known world"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"having muscles capable of exerting great physical force":{
"examples":[
"a stalwart yet lithe athlete"
],
"synonyms":[
"brawny",
"muscular",
"rugged",
"sinewy",
"stout",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forceful",
"forcible",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"fit",
"trim",
"beefy",
"burly",
"husky",
"strapping",
"masculine",
"virile",
"hard",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"paralyzed",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"puny",
"slight",
"small",
"unathletic",
"unfit",
"unhealthy"
],
"antonyms":[
"delicate",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"weakling",
"wimpy"
]
},
"marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortion":{
"examples":[
"the stalwart walls of the castle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombproof",
"fast",
"firm",
"sound",
"stable",
"strong",
"sturdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"durable",
"reliable",
"infrangible",
"irrefragable",
"unbreakable",
"beefy",
"solid",
"cohesive",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infirm",
"insecure",
"weak",
"shaky",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"unbalanced",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"unsubstantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"rickety",
"unsound",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
]
},
"as in supporter , activist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activist",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"supporter",
"crusader",
"fanatic",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"red hot",
"true believer",
"zealot",
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"protester",
"protestor",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"nonmilitant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"stingers":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"in the eighth round he delivered a stinger that knocked his opponent flat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stared":{
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gawped",
"gazed",
"goggled",
"peered",
"rubbernecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glared",
"gloated",
"glowered",
"considered",
"eyed",
"fixated",
"observed",
"regarded",
"watched",
"leered",
"ogled",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"studied",
"outfaced",
"outstared",
"stared down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glanced",
"glimpsed",
"peeked",
"peeped",
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"scanned",
"winked (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stroke of luck":{
"an unexpected benefit or advantage resulting from the uncertain course of events":{
"examples":[
"It was a complete stroke of luck that he ended up moving to the same city as his long lost twin."
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"fluke",
"strike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accident",
"chance",
"circumstance",
"hap",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"hazard",
"luck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stage-manage":{
"as in micromanage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"micromanage",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"codirect",
"comanage",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"care (for)",
"mind",
"watch",
"administer",
"administrate",
"carry on",
"conduct",
"control",
"direct",
"govern",
"guide",
"handle",
"keep",
"manage",
"operate",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"preside (over)",
"regulate",
"run",
"steward",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"tend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"striping":{
"to make stripes on":{
"examples":[
"the children carefully striped the paper with red and blue paint"
],
"synonyms":[
"banding",
"barring",
"streaking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stolid":{
"not expressing any emotion":{
"examples":[
"the butler responded to the duchess's constant demands with stolid indifference"
],
"synonyms":[
"blank",
"catatonic",
"deadpan",
"empty",
"expressionless",
"impassive",
"inexpressive",
"numb",
"vacant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dull",
"vacuous",
"vague",
"vapid",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"impenetrable",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious",
"motionless",
"static",
"still",
"wooden",
"reserved",
"restrained",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"aloof",
"apathetic",
"cold",
"cool",
"detached",
"indifferent",
"phlegmatic",
"unresponsive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engaged",
"interested",
"responsive",
"active",
"alive",
"animated",
"bright",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"effervescent",
"energetic",
"expansive",
"exuberant",
"lively",
"vivacious",
"eloquent",
"revealing",
"revelatory",
"gestic",
"gesticulant",
"gesticulative",
"gesticulatory",
"gestural",
"emotional",
"melodramatic",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"demonstrative",
"expressive"
]
},
"not feeling or showing emotion":{
"examples":[
"the actor's turn as a stolid , impersonal bureaucrat was an interesting departure from his more impassioned roles"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"apathetic",
"cold-blooded",
"emotionless",
"impassible",
"impassive",
"numb",
"passionless",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"undemonstrative",
"unemotional"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"unmoved",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"imperturbable",
"unflappable",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"bland",
"blank",
"deadpan",
"dry",
"empty",
"expressionless",
"inexpressive",
"stone-faced",
"straight-faced",
"vacant",
"wooden",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"impenetrable",
"inscrutable",
"aloof",
"bloodless",
"detached",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"unconcerned",
"unsentimental",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"unresponsive",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"red-hot",
"ardent",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"warm-blooded",
"zealous",
"gushing",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"sentimental",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overemotional",
"overheated",
"perfervid",
"compassionate",
"responsive",
"sympathetic",
"reactive",
"sensitive"
],
"antonyms":[
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"passional",
"passionate",
"vehement"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stringing along":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"the student succeeded in stringing even his teachers along with his tales of family hardships"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sticks up for":{
"to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections":{
"examples":[
"She is known for always sticking up for what is right."
],
"synonyms":[
"defends",
"justifies",
"maintains",
"supports",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocates",
"champions",
"espouses",
"confirms",
"vindicates",
"warrants",
"affirms",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"claims",
"contends",
"insists",
"pleads",
"proclaims",
"professes",
"protests",
"states",
"argues",
"debates",
"discusses",
"emphasizes",
"stresses",
"underlines",
"underscores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"abjures",
"forsakes",
"recants",
"retracts",
"takes back",
"withdraws",
"reverses",
"switches",
"controverts",
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He stuck up for his colleague during the debate."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"seconds",
"sides (with)",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advances",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"plugs",
"preaches",
"talks up",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"studs":{
"a physically attractive man":{
"examples":[
"she promised her friend that the blind date would be a real stud"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefcakes",
"hunks",
"pretty boys",
"superstuds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babes",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"dreamboats",
"eye candies",
"eyefuls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"knockouts",
"stunners",
"lady-killers",
"sheiks",
"womanizers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogs",
"grotesqueries",
"monsters",
"nerds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sets , intersperses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"intersperses",
"sets",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes",
"bespatters",
"spatters",
"blots",
"dyes",
"stains",
"blotches",
"dapples",
"dots",
"flecks",
"freckles",
"marbles",
"mottles",
"peppers",
"shoots",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"stipples"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stood off":{
"as in fought , resisted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defied",
"fought",
"held off",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"beat off",
"fended (off)",
"rebutted",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"staved off",
"turned away",
"turned back",
"deflected",
"warded (off)",
"rebuffed",
"snubbed",
"spurned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embraced",
"hailed",
"welcomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sternness":{
"the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)":{
"examples":[
"the company's new president has a reputation for granitelike sternness and monkish austerity"
],
"synonyms":[
"exactingness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"inflexibility",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"severity",
"strictness",
"stringency"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callousness",
"hard-heartedness",
"implacability",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"pitilessness",
"dourness",
"gruffness",
"asceticism",
"austereness",
"austerity",
"monasticism",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"obstinacy",
"stubbornness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"lenience",
"patience",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"tolerance",
"responsiveness",
"willingness",
"compliance",
"pliability",
"pliancy"
],
"antonyms":[
"flexibility",
"gentleness",
"laxness",
"mildness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stiffens":{
"to make more harsh, uncompromising, or severe":{
"examples":[
"plans to further stiffen the already onerous requirements for admission to the elite military unit"
],
"synonyms":[
"hardens",
"harshens",
"strengthens",
"toughens"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lessens",
"moderates",
"softens"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"eases"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stick-in-the-muds":{
"a person with old-fashioned ideas":{
"examples":[
"the committee is dominated by old stick-in-the-muds who have little interest in bringing new ideas to the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"fuds",
"mossbacks",
"reactionaries",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"Tories",
"mandarins",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"old maids"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberals",
"progressives",
"radicals"
],
"antonyms":[
"hipsters",
"moderns",
"trendies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stare":{
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gawp",
"gaze",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gloat",
"glower",
"consider",
"eye",
"fixate",
"observe",
"regard",
"watch",
"leer",
"ogle",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"study",
"outface",
"outstare",
"stare down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"wink (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a fixed intent look":{
"examples":[
"caught the child's wide-eyed stare on film"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspect",
"eye",
"gape",
"gaze",
"regard",
"scrutiny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"glower",
"contemplation",
"fixation",
"attention",
"observance",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"examination",
"inspection",
"perusal",
"study",
"survey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blink",
"flash",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"sight",
"stime",
"oeillade",
"ogle",
"browse",
"scan"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stubbing":{
"as in stamping (out) , blowing out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing out",
"rubbing out",
"snubbing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"blanketing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firing",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"lighting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stickup":{
"as in hold up , rob":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hold up",
"loot",
"plunder",
"rip off",
"rob",
"invade",
"trespass",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"break in",
"burglarize",
"burgle",
"despoil",
"devastate",
"maraud",
"pillage",
"ravage",
"sack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in burglary , holdup":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"break-in",
"burglary",
"holdup",
"mugging",
"grab",
"heist",
"pinch",
"rip-off",
"snatching",
"swiping",
"theft"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stuck (to)":{
"as in hugged , clung (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaved (to)",
"clung (to)",
"hugged",
"carried",
"kept",
"maintained",
"preserved",
"remembered",
"retained",
"treasured",
"brooded (about or over)",
"fixated (on or upon)",
"obsessed (about or over)",
"cultivated",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"supported",
"sustained",
"bore",
"cherished",
"entertained",
"had",
"harbored",
"held",
"nursed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"dropped",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"abjured",
"declined",
"denied",
"disdained",
"refused",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"scorned",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"discarded",
"forsook",
"gave up",
"parted (with)",
"quit",
"quitted",
"renounced",
"threw out",
"erased",
"expunged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Sturm und Drang":{
"a disturbed or uneasy state":{
"examples":[
"in a year filled with corporate Sturm und Drang , the company was headed by no fewer than three different CEOs"
],
"synonyms":[
"disquiet",
"ferment",
"fermentation",
"restiveness",
"restlessness",
"turmoil",
"uneasiness",
"unquietness",
"unrest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fidgets",
"agitation",
"commotion",
"confusion",
"excitement",
"hubbub",
"moil",
"stir",
"storm",
"trouble",
"tumult",
"tumultuousness",
"turbulence",
"upheaval",
"uproar",
"unsettlement",
"disruption",
"perturbation",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"disquietude",
"inquietude",
"queasiness",
"tension",
"unease",
"anarchy",
"chaos",
"disorder",
"welter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"ease",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stone's throws":{
"a very small distance or degree":{
"examples":[
"the cottage is a stone's throw from the beach"
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"hairbreadths",
"hairsbreadths",
"hairlines",
"hairs",
"inches",
"necks",
"steps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minims",
"mites",
"particles",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"traces",
"trifles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infinities",
"light-years"
],
"antonyms":[
"country miles",
"long hauls",
"miles"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stoical":{
"accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint":{
"examples":[
"after waiting six years for permission to immigrate to the U.S., the family is stoic about a six-month postponement"
],
"synonyms":[
"forbearing",
"long-suffering",
"patient",
"tolerant",
"uncomplaining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lenient",
"acquiescent",
"passive",
"resigned",
"unresistant",
"yielding",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"conformist",
"docile",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"subordinate",
"tractable",
"willing",
"slavish",
"subservient",
"amiable",
"obliging",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"contained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"disciplined",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"apathetic",
"uncaring",
"unresponsive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"tired",
"weary",
"defiant",
"resistant",
"contrary",
"disobedient",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly"
],
"antonyms":[
"complaining",
"fed up",
"impatient",
"kvetching",
"kvetchy",
"protesting"
]
},
"not feeling or showing emotion":{
"examples":[
"at her husband's funeral she remained stoic , and only a few imagined the depth of her grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"apathetic",
"cold-blooded",
"emotionless",
"impassible",
"impassive",
"numb",
"passionless",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"undemonstrative",
"unemotional"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"unmoved",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"imperturbable",
"unflappable",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"bland",
"blank",
"deadpan",
"dry",
"empty",
"expressionless",
"inexpressive",
"stone-faced",
"straight-faced",
"vacant",
"wooden",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"impenetrable",
"inscrutable",
"aloof",
"bloodless",
"detached",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"unconcerned",
"unsentimental",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"unresponsive",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"red-hot",
"ardent",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"warm-blooded",
"zealous",
"gushing",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"sentimental",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overemotional",
"overheated",
"perfervid",
"compassionate",
"responsive",
"sympathetic",
"reactive",
"sensitive"
],
"antonyms":[
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"passional",
"passionate",
"vehement"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stakes":{
"a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something":{
"examples":[
"if I invest in your business, I expect a stake in it in return"
],
"synonyms":[
"claims",
"interests",
"shares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-ownerships",
"ownerships",
"partnerships",
"parts",
"possessions",
"titles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the money or thing risked on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"lost his entire stake with a single roll of the dice"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"wagers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collaterals",
"handles",
"jackpots",
"kitties",
"pools",
"pots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide money for":{
"examples":[
"the actor staked the entire production of the film with his own money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrolls",
"capitalizes",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"subsidizes",
"underwrites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grubstakes",
"cofinances",
"refinances",
"advocates",
"aids",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"sponsors",
"supports",
"maintains",
"nourishes",
"provides (for)",
"clears",
"defrays",
"discharges",
"foots",
"liquidates",
"pays",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"quits",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)",
"stands",
"refunds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"defunds"
]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"I'd stake a year's salary that she'll win the general election"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"gambles",
"goes",
"lays",
"plays",
"puts",
"wagers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bids",
"offers",
"adventures",
"chances",
"hazards",
"speculates",
"ventures",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"straightening (up)":{
"as in making up , tidying (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"grooming",
"making up",
"sprucing (up)",
"tidying (up)",
"arranging",
"arraying",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"laying out",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"systematizing",
"unscrambling",
"aligning",
"alining",
"cuing",
"cueing",
"lining",
"lining up",
"queuing",
"queueing",
"alphabetizing",
"filing",
"hierarchizing",
"prioritizing",
"sequencing",
"emplacing",
"placing",
"setting",
"displaying",
"mapping (out)",
"setting out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deranging",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"disordering",
"messing (up)",
"mussing (up)",
"rumpling",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stockings":{
"a close-fitting covering for the foot and leg":{
"examples":[
"thick wool stockings designed to be worn with hiking boots"
],
"synonyms":[
"hose",
"hoses",
"socks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hosieries",
"support hoses",
"anklets",
"bobby socks",
"bootees",
"kneesocks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stenography":{
"as in shorthand , steno":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"phonography",
"shorthand",
"steno",
"lettering",
"calligraphy",
"handwriting",
"longhand",
"manuscript",
"penmanship",
"script"
],
"near antonyms":[
"print",
"type",
"typewriting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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}
}
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