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{
"drag":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the main drag in town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
]
},
"a person who spoils the pleasure of others":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the teenager was mortified to be seen in public with such drags \u2014her parents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutup",
"jester",
"live wire",
"carouser",
"celebrant",
"celebrator",
"merrymaker",
"rejoicer",
"reveler",
"reveller",
"roisterer",
"libertine",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"rake"
],
"related":[
"fuddy-duddy",
"goody-goody",
"Goody Two-shoes",
"old maid",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"defeatist",
"Jeremiah",
"knocker",
"pessimist",
"complainer",
"crab",
"cynic",
"grouch",
"grump",
"sorehead",
"sourpuss",
"whiner",
"bore",
"downer",
"drip"
],
"synonyms":[
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket"
]
},
"clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they attended the Renaissance fair in medieval drag"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clothes",
"duds",
"habiliment(s)",
"raiment",
"fashion",
"mode",
"style",
"array",
"caparison",
"vestments"
],
"synonyms":[
"costume",
"dress",
"garb",
"getup",
"guise",
"outfit",
"togs"
]
},
"someone or something boring":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that lecture was such a drag that half of the audience fell asleep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blast",
"gas",
"kick",
"rush",
"upper"
],
"related":[
"bummer",
"downer",
"bromide",
"pill"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drip",
"droner",
"dullsville",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"snooze",
"snoozer",
"yawn",
"yawner"
]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the drag of stagnating wages on bringing the economy out of the recession"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"related":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"took a deep drag of tequila before speaking his piece"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dram",
"drop"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt",
"draft",
"drink",
"gulp",
"nip",
"quaff",
"shot",
"sip",
"slug",
"snort",
"sup",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
]
},
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"push"
],
"examples":[
"the deliveryman dragged the barrels over against the wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"related":[
"attract",
"heave",
"jerk",
"yank",
"carry",
"convey",
"ferry",
"move",
"transport"
],
"synonyms":[
"draw",
"hale",
"haul",
"lug",
"pull",
"tow",
"tug"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
],
"examples":[
"one of the climbers was beginning to drag"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"related":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
]
},
"to move slowly":{
"antonyms":[
"fly",
"race",
"speed",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
],
"examples":[
"the play dragged and seemed to take forever to get to its predictable conclusion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"float",
"glide",
"sail",
"hurry",
"tear"
],
"related":[
"lumber",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"tramp",
"trudge"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creak (along)",
"creep",
"inch",
"limp",
"nose",
"ooze",
"plod",
"poke",
"slouch",
"snail"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drag one's feet":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
],
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"related":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drag%20one%27s%20heels":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
],
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"related":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"draggled":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"not clean":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"ultraclean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"examples":[
"the poor draggled teddy bear had clearly seen better days"
],
"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",
"dusty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"smutty",
"soiled",
"sordid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drained%20%28away%29":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"examples":[
"as the city lost population, its political influence drained away"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"related":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dram":{
"a very small amount":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"allow me to offer a dram of advice"
],
"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",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramaturgical":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"draped":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"examples":[
"the town hall was draped in bunting for the annual Fourth of July festivities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"related":[
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redid"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drawing%20%28off%29":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"antonyms":[
"filling"
],
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"soaking",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"wetting",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping"
],
"related":[
"milking",
"sucking",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"exhausting",
"vacating",
"vacuating",
"voiding",
"decanting",
"effusing",
"depleting",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"drafting",
"draining",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreams":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his invention is only a dream right now, but someday it might be a reality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"facts",
"realities"
],
"related":[
"ignes fatui",
"mirages",
"will-o'-the-wisps",
"brainchildren",
"ideas",
"concoctions",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
],
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"chimeras",
"conceits",
"daydreams",
"delusions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"figments",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"nonentities",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"pipe dreams",
"unrealities",
"visions"
]
},
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"examples":[
"my dream is to open my own restaurant"
],
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"means",
"methods",
"ways"
],
"related":[
"grails",
"holy grails",
"plots",
"projects",
"schemes",
"desires",
"hopes",
"minds",
"wishes",
"nirvanas",
"destinations",
"termini",
"terminuses"
],
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"aims",
"ambitions",
"aspirations",
"bournes",
"bourns",
"designs",
"ends",
"goals",
"ideals",
"ideas",
"intentions",
"intents",
"marks",
"meanings",
"objectives",
"objects",
"plans",
"points",
"pretensions",
"purposes",
"targets",
"things"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the Alaskan cruise exceeded their wildest expectations\u2014it was a dream of a vacation"
],
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"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"related":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"doozies",
"doozers",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"pips",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
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"examples":[
"I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific"
],
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"related":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
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"examples":[
"I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name"
],
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"hide",
"abandon",
"lose",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"related":[
"frisk",
"pat down",
"shake down",
"audit",
"check (out)",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"discover",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"learn",
"locate",
"run down",
"scare up",
"track (down)",
"grub (about)",
"poke (around)",
"explore",
"probe",
"prospect",
"skirmish",
"snoop",
"browse",
"glance (over)",
"look over",
"peruse",
"study"
],
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"comb",
"dig (through)",
"hunt (through)",
"rake",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"rummage",
"scour",
"search",
"sort (through)",
"troll"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dregs":{
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"examples":[
"poured the dregs into the sink"
],
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"related":[
"lees",
"ooze",
"silt",
"sludge",
"dross",
"slag",
"waste"
],
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"deposit",
"deposition",
"grounds",
"precipitate",
"sediment",
"settlings"
]
},
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"plural noun"
]
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"drek":{
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"he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain"
],
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"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"related":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
]
},
"that which is of low quality or worth":{
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"examples":[
"can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck \"art\"?"
],
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"related":[
"camp",
"kitsch",
"claptrap",
"humbug",
"nonsense",
"bomb",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"dud",
"lemon",
"stinker",
"turkey",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheese",
"crapola",
"junk",
"muck",
"rubbish",
"sleaze",
"slop",
"slush",
"trash",
"tripe"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dressed down":{
"as in casual , everyday":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
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"examples":[
"dressed down for boorish behavior at the dance"
],
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"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"related":[
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"remonstrated (with)",
"reproved",
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bad-mouthed",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"crucified",
"denounced",
"dissed",
"excoriated",
"faulted",
"harangued",
"knocked",
"laced (into)",
"lashed",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"reviled",
"scourged",
"slammed",
"vituperated",
"belittled",
"disparaged",
"mocked",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"scoffed",
"scorned"
],
"synonyms":[
"basted",
"bawled out",
"berated",
"called down",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"chewed out",
"flayed",
"hammered",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lectured",
"ragged",
"railed (at or against)",
"ranted (at)",
"rated",
"reamed (out)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"scolded",
"scored",
"tongue-lashed",
"upbraided"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dressing-downs":{
"as in tongue-lashings , scoldings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drew%20on":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
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"examples":[
"the general's imprudent remarks drew on a public rebuke by the secretary of defense"
],
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"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"related":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"began",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"did",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"produced",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
]
},
"to come near or nearer":{
"antonyms":[
"backed (up or away)",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"examples":[
"night draws on , so we should hurry home"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared out",
"departed",
"exited",
"left",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"pulled out",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran away",
"removed",
"shoved (off)",
"took off",
"walked out",
"went"
],
"related":[
"arrived",
"attained",
"came",
"gained",
"hit",
"landed",
"made",
"reached",
"showed up",
"turned up",
"waltzed (up)",
"crept up",
"sneaked up",
"snuck up",
"adjoined",
"bordered",
"touched",
"verged"
],
"synonyms":[
"approached",
"bellied up",
"came up",
"closed",
"closed in",
"neared",
"nighed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dribbles":{
"a very small piece":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"news about the remote earthquake was coming in dribbles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunks",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs",
"abundances",
"barrels",
"buckets",
"bushels",
"deals",
"heaps",
"loads",
"masses",
"mountains",
"pecks",
"piles",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"scads",
"stacks",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths"
],
"related":[
"aces",
"dabs",
"dashes",
"driblets",
"drops",
"fractions",
"haets",
"halfpence",
"halfpennies",
"ha'pennies",
"iotas",
"jots",
"kennings",
"licks",
"minims",
"mites",
"modicums",
"nutshells",
"ounces",
"pinches",
"shreds",
"smatters",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"spots",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces",
"whispers",
"whits",
"bites",
"mouthfuls",
"nibbles",
"tidbits",
"titbits",
"fragments",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"chips",
"flakes",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings",
"smithereens"
],
"synonyms":[
"atoms",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"nuggets",
"particles",
"patches",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"snippets",
"snips",
"specks",
"tittles"
]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"water dribbling over the lip of the fountain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts"
],
"related":[
"drizzles",
"sprinkles",
"flows",
"pours",
"rolls",
"runs",
"streams",
"cascades",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"bleeds",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"seeps",
"weeps",
"discharges"
],
"synonyms":[
"distills",
"distils",
"drips",
"drops",
"trickles"
]
},
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"antonyms":[
"pours",
"rolls",
"streams"
],
"examples":[
"rainwater dribbling along the partially clogged gutter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"runs"
],
"related":[
"eddies",
"purls",
"swirls",
"swashes",
"swishes",
"swooshes",
"whishes",
"drips",
"drops",
"gushes",
"jets",
"rushes",
"spews",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"synonyms":[
"bubbles",
"guggles",
"gurgles",
"laps",
"plashes",
"ripples",
"splashes",
"trickles",
"washes"
]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"picnickers dribbling in eager anticipation of the hamburgers on the grill"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"waters",
"expectorates",
"spits",
"foams",
"froths",
"splutters",
"sputters"
],
"synonyms":[
"drivels",
"drools",
"salivates",
"slavers",
"slobbers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drift":{
"a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"deep drifts of snow blocked our driveway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"snowbank",
"snowdrift",
"embankment",
"sandbar",
"heap",
"hill",
"mass",
"mountain",
"stack",
"tuft"
],
"synonyms":[
"bank",
"bar",
"mound"
]
},
"a prevailing or general movement or inclination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the steady drift of the population away from large cities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"curve",
"downside",
"shift",
"swing",
"turn",
"turnabout",
"upside",
"custom",
"habit",
"propensity",
"tenor",
"way",
"countercurrent",
"countertrend",
"undercurrent",
"undertow"
],
"synonyms":[
"current",
"direction",
"leaning",
"run",
"tendency",
"tide",
"trend",
"wind"
]
},
"the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you should expect a visit from the stork, if you get my drift"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"connotation",
"clue",
"cue",
"hint",
"implication",
"indication",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"suggestion",
"message",
"tenor",
"theme",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"nature",
"soul",
"spirit",
"stuff",
"acceptance",
"acceptation",
"definition",
"burden",
"crux",
"gist",
"core",
"heart",
"kernel",
"marrow",
"nub",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"point",
"quick",
"matter",
"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"subject",
"topic"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"denotation",
"import",
"intent",
"intention",
"meaning",
"purport",
"sense",
"significance",
"signification"
]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"spent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"amble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"dawdle",
"mope",
"gypsy",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"mill (about or around)",
"straggle",
"stray"
],
"synonyms":[
"bat",
"cruise",
"float",
"gad (about)",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"meander",
"mooch",
"ramble",
"range",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"examples":[
"casual conversation drifting from one topic to another"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"stumble",
"trudge",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stump",
"tramp",
"labor",
"toil"
],
"related":[
"fly",
"race",
"rush",
"speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"brush",
"coast",
"cruise",
"flow",
"glide",
"roll",
"sail",
"skim",
"slide",
"slip",
"stream",
"sweep",
"whisk"
]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"antonyms":[
"settle",
"sink"
],
"examples":[
"the boat drifted along on the current"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dive",
"lunge",
"plunge",
"dip",
"immerse",
"submerge",
"submerse"
],
"related":[
"bob",
"dangle",
"suspend",
"buoy",
"balloon",
"raft"
],
"synonyms":[
"float",
"glide",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"ride",
"sail",
"swim",
"waft"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drifting":{
"as in hanging , hovering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in rambling , meandering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"spent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"dawdling",
"moping",
"gypsying",
"hoboing",
"tramping",
"vagabonding",
"milling (about or around)",
"straggling",
"straying"
],
"synonyms":[
"batting",
"cruising",
"floating",
"gadding (about)",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"kicking around",
"knocking (about)",
"maundering",
"meandering",
"mooching",
"rambling",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"traipsing",
"wandering"
]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"examples":[
"casual conversation drifting from one topic to another"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"stumbling",
"trudging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"laboring",
"toiling"
],
"related":[
"flying",
"racing",
"rushing",
"speeding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"brushing",
"coasting",
"cruising",
"flowing",
"gliding",
"rolling",
"sailing",
"skimming",
"sliding",
"slipping",
"streaming",
"sweeping",
"whisking"
]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"antonyms":[
"settling",
"sinking"
],
"examples":[
"the boat drifted along on the current"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving",
"lunging",
"plunging",
"dipping",
"immersing",
"submerging",
"submersing"
],
"related":[
"bobbing",
"dangling",
"suspending",
"buoying",
"ballooning",
"rafting"
],
"synonyms":[
"floating",
"gliding",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"riding",
"sailing",
"swimming",
"wafting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drill":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
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"wretched"
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},
"not stiff in structure":{
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"inflexible",
"resilient",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"sturdy",
"tense"
],
"examples":[
"a droopy stalk of celery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"hard",
"indurated",
"solid",
"sound",
"strong",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"compact",
"dense",
"substantial"
],
"related":[
"flabby",
"mushy",
"semisoft",
"soft",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"insubstantial",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"pliant",
"relaxed",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"supple"
],
"synonyms":[
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"limp",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drop out of sight":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"antonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize"
],
"examples":[
"The city dropped out of sight as we rounded the highway."
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrive",
"break out",
"come out",
"emerge",
"issue",
"loom",
"show up"
],
"related":[
"blank (out)",
"clear",
"die (away or down or out)",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"dissolve",
"dry up",
"blur",
"dim"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialize",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"flee",
"fly",
"melt",
"sink",
"vanish"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drop the ball":{
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"examples":[
"I'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"nod",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"foozle",
"mangle",
"mishandle",
"muff",
"murder",
"miscalculate",
"misconceive",
"miscount",
"miscue",
"misdeem",
"misgauge",
"misjudge",
"mistake",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misunderstand"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"boob",
"err",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"screw up",
"slip up",
"stumble",
"trip"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dropped%20out%20of%20sight":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"antonyms":[
"appeared",
"materialized"
],
"examples":[
"The city dropped out of sight as we rounded the highway."
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrived",
"broke out",
"came out",
"emerged",
"issued",
"loomed",
"showed up"
],
"related":[
"blanked (out)",
"cleared",
"died (away or down or out)",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"dissolved",
"dried up",
"blurred",
"dimmed"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialized",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"fled",
"flew",
"melted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"vanished"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"dropping":{
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"examples":[
"the only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"night soil",
"stool",
"dunghill",
"guano",
"manure",
"midden",
"muck",
"spoor",
"sewage",
"sewerage",
"coprolite"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirt",
"doo-doo",
"dung",
"excrement",
"excreta",
"feces",
"ordure",
"poop",
"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
]
},
"the act of putting an end to something planned or previously agreed to":{
"antonyms":[
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"the dropping of an act from the talent show should bring it in on time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"initiation",
"engagement",
"undertaking"
],
"related":[
"annulment",
"invalidation",
"neutralization",
"nullification",
"voidance",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
"termination",
"giving up",
"relinquishment",
"surrender",
"reversal",
"rollback"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"abortion",
"calling",
"calling off",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"recall",
"recision",
"repeal",
"rescission",
"revocation"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
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"examples":[
"drop what you're doing and come here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping up",
"running on",
"advancing",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"stirring"
],
"related":[
"completing",
"concluding",
"finishing",
"closing (down)",
"deactivating",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"damming",
"delaying",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"kiboshing",
"obstructing",
"stemming",
"calling",
"suspending",
"arresting",
"braking",
"checking",
"clamping down",
"reining (in)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stamping",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abolishing",
"aborting",
"annulling",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"dissolving",
"killing",
"ruining",
"scuttling",
"snuffing"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"canning",
"ceasing",
"cutting off",
"cutting out",
"desisting (from)",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"giving over",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"laying off",
"leaving off",
"packing (up or in)",
"quitting",
"shutting off",
"stopping"
]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
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"examples":[
"the cow dropped her calf early this morning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"losing",
"miscarrying"
],
"related":[
"laboring",
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"begetting",
"fathering",
"generating",
"getting",
"siring",
"calving",
"kidding",
"kindling",
"kittening",
"littering",
"pupping",
"whelping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"birthing",
"delivering",
"having",
"mothering",
"producing"
]
},
"to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally":{
"antonyms":[
"lifting",
"picking up",
"raising"
],
"examples":[
"I dropped the fly ball",
"drop the anchor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"flattening",
"flooring",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"striking down",
"toppling",
"plopping",
"plunking down",
"plonking down",
"bobbling",
"bungling",
"foozling",
"fumbling",
"immersing",
"sinking",
"submerging"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressing",
"lowering",
"throwing",
"throwing down"
]
},
"to fail to win, gain, or obtain":{
"antonyms":[
"nailing (down)",
"winning"
],
"examples":[
"the local hockey team has dropped two out of the last three contests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conquering",
"prevailing (over)",
"triumphing (over)"
],
"related":[
"forfeiting"
],
"synonyms":[
"losing"
]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cold glass dropped condensation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting"
],
"related":[
"drizzling",
"sprinkling",
"flowing",
"pouring",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming",
"cascading",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"seeping",
"weeping",
"discharging"
],
"synonyms":[
"distilling",
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"trickling"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"lifting",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"spiking",
"upping"
],
"examples":[
"although they start out high, prices for home electronics eventually drop"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"related":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"drooping",
"dwindling",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"tapering off",
"waning",
"receding",
"retreating"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashing",
"cratering",
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"diving",
"falling",
"lowering",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"tumbling"
]
},
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I dropped $50 on these shoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caching",
"hoarding",
"laying up",
"saving",
"acquiring",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"making",
"procuring",
"realizing",
"securing",
"winning"
],
"related":[
"lavishing",
"raining",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbursing",
"expending",
"forking (over, out, or up)",
"giving",
"laying out",
"outlaying",
"paying",
"shelling out",
"spending"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"mounting",
"rising",
"uprising",
"upsweeping",
"upturning"
],
"examples":[
"the cable car tracks can drop suddenly, so be sure to hang onto something"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"planing",
"smoothing",
"straightening"
],
"related":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"falling",
"plunging",
"sinking"
]
},
"to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he would ever so \"casually\" drop the names of celebrities he knew personally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"related":[
"alluding (to)",
"hinting (at)",
"implying",
"indicating",
"inferring",
"intending",
"intimating",
"suggesting",
"pointing (out)",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"signifying",
"denominating",
"designating",
"indicating",
"bringing up",
"broaching",
"interjecting",
"interpolating",
"interposing",
"introducing",
"infiltrating",
"insinuating",
"worming",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"sounding",
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"explicating",
"spelling out"
],
"synonyms":[
"adverting (to)",
"citing",
"instancing",
"mentioning",
"naming",
"noticing",
"noting",
"quoting",
"referring (to)",
"specifying",
"touching (on or upon)"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
],
"examples":[
"with these icy road conditions, drivers should be dropping their speed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling"
],
"related":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"docking",
"nicking",
"paring",
"pruning",
"retrenching",
"shortening",
"slashing",
"trimming",
"truncating",
"whittling",
"deflating",
"shrinking",
"minimizing",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"modulating",
"qualifying"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"denting",
"depleting",
"diminishing",
"downscaling",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing"
]
},
"to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)":{
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"keeping"
],
"examples":[
"drop that plan in favor of another"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engaging",
"pledging",
"promising",
"beginning",
"commencing",
"initiating",
"starting",
"taking on",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"related":[
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"invalidating",
"nullifying",
"voiding",
"writing off",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"withdrawing",
"countermanding",
"reversing",
"rolling back",
"breaking off",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"holding back",
"interrupting",
"suspending",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crying off",
"recalling",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking",
"scrapping",
"scrubbing"
]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"keeping",
"keeping up",
"maintaining"
],
"examples":[
"isn't it time you dropped that smoking habit and spent your money on better things?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"going",
"running on",
"hanging in",
"hanging on",
"holding on",
"persevering",
"persisting",
"following through (with)",
"renewing",
"reopening",
"restarting",
"resuming",
"preserving",
"staying",
"beginning",
"commencing",
"starting"
],
"related":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"halting",
"leaving off",
"shutting off",
"pausing",
"tapering off",
"throwing up",
"rounding (off or out)",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"wrapping up"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"discontinuing",
"giving up",
"knocking off",
"laying off (of)",
"packing (up or in)",
"quitting"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
],
"examples":[
"during the Black Death people all over Asia and Europe were dropping like flies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dropped the would-be mugger in his tracks with a single well-aimed blow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"downing",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"mowing (down)",
"prostrating"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drowned":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cover with a flood":{
"antonyms":[
"drained"
],
"examples":[
"whole villages drowned by the rampaging river"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"dried",
"parched"
],
"related":[
"avalanched",
"smothered",
"overcame",
"overran",
"flowed",
"flushed",
"gushed",
"poured",
"sluiced",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"streamed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"soaked",
"wet",
"wetted"
],
"synonyms":[
"deluged",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"gulfed",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged",
"submersed",
"swamped"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
],
"examples":[
"cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatered",
"evaporated",
"freeze-dried",
"drip-dried",
"wrung",
"dehumidified"
],
"related":[
"aspersed",
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened",
"drizzled",
"humidified",
"hydrated",
"misted",
"moistened",
"moisturized",
"showered",
"sprinkled",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"hosed (down)",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"splashed",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sloshed",
"sluiced",
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"rehydrated",
"rewashed",
"rewet",
"rewetted"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"wet",
"wetted",
"wet down",
"wetted down"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"antonyms":[
"wrung (out)"
],
"examples":[
"drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"seared",
"drained",
"emptied",
"voided",
"dehumidified"
],
"related":[
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"marinated",
"seethed",
"presoaked",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"inundated",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"hydrated",
"swilled",
"washed",
"watered",
"infiltrated",
"penetrated",
"permeated",
"damped",
"dampened",
"humidified",
"moistened"
],
"synonyms":[
"drenched",
"impregnated",
"macerated",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"steeped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drowsed":{
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"picnickers drowsing in the shade of an oak tree"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"got up",
"rose",
"roused",
"uprose",
"wakened",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)"
],
"related":[
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"couched",
"laid",
"lay",
"roosted",
"lulled"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapped",
"dozed",
"kipped",
"napped",
"slumbered",
"snoozed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drubbing":{
"failure to win a contest":{
"antonyms":[
"success",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win"
],
"examples":[
"took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"blowout",
"cakewalk",
"landslide",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover"
],
"related":[
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"setback",
"upset",
"lurch",
"shutout",
"washout",
"whitewash"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"licking",
"loss",
"lump",
"overthrow",
"plastering",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drumfire":{
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a rising drumfire of criticism for the president's latest nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"cannonade",
"drumbeat",
"flurry",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dry-cleaned":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dry-cleans":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}
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