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{
"Lord":{
"a man of high birth or social position":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"lords and ladies arriving at the palace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boor",
"churl",
"cottar",
"cotter",
"fellah",
"peasant",
"peon",
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"proletarian",
"toiler"
],
"related":[
"country gentleman",
"squire",
"cavalier",
"chevalier",
"knight",
"don",
"hidalgo",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"seigneur",
"seignior",
"sheikh",
"sheik",
"baron",
"baronet",
"count",
"duke",
"earl",
"esquire",
"marchese",
"margrave",
"marquess",
"marquis",
"master",
"prince",
"princelet",
"princeling",
"raja",
"viscount",
"lordship",
"sire"
],
"synonyms":[
"gentleman",
"grandee",
"milord",
"nobleman",
"peer"
]
},
"a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"as lords of the local real estate scene, they own nearly all of the city's prime pieces of property"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pint",
"lightweight",
"small-timer",
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"nobody",
"nothing",
"zero"
],
"related":[
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"big gun",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"figure",
"heavy",
"heavyweight",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"main man",
"mover and shaker",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"notable",
"personage",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"supremo",
"VIP",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"star",
"superstar",
"deity",
"demigod",
"god"
],
"synonyms":[
"baron",
"captain",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lion",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"monarch",
"Napoleon",
"prince",
"tycoon"
]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"at this point all that we can do is put our fate in the hands of the Lord"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"load":{
"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":[
"there's no rush, since we've got loads of time left"
],
"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",
"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",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
]
},
"a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"hoisted a load of grain on the truck going to Florida"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"consignment",
"boatload",
"carload",
"shipload",
"trainload",
"truckload",
"wagonload",
"ballast",
"deadweight",
"overload",
"surcharge",
"bale",
"bundle",
"pack",
"package",
"packet",
"parcel",
"shipment",
"manifest",
"body",
"bulk",
"mass"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"cargo",
"draft",
"freight",
"haul",
"lading",
"loading",
"payload",
"weight"
]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"antonyms":[
"disburden",
"discharge",
"disencumber",
"unburden",
"unlade",
"unload"
],
"examples":[
"students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten",
"relieve"
],
"related":[
"clog",
"clutter",
"fill",
"pack",
"heap",
"mound",
"pile",
"stack",
"press",
"weigh",
"strain",
"tax",
"overburden",
"overload",
"overtax",
"surcharge",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"afflict",
"oppress"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"encumber",
"freight",
"lade",
"laden",
"lumber",
"saddle",
"weight"
]
},
"to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"empty",
"evacuate",
"vacate",
"void"
],
"examples":[
"she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lighten",
"deplete",
"drain",
"eliminate",
"exhaust",
"bleed",
"draw (off)",
"clean",
"flush",
"purge",
"scour",
"sweep"
],
"related":[
"drench",
"flood",
"glut",
"swamp",
"bloat",
"bulk",
"crowd",
"crush",
"mat",
"press",
"ram",
"shove",
"squash",
"squeeze",
"refill",
"refresh",
"reload",
"repack",
"replenish",
"overcharge",
"overfill",
"overflow",
"saturate",
"honeycomb",
"penetrate"
],
"synonyms":[
"brim",
"charge",
"cram",
"fill",
"heap",
"jam",
"jam-pack",
"pack",
"stuff"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"load%20up%20on":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He was loading up on shrimp at the party."
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibble",
"peck",
"pick",
"taste"
],
"related":[
"devour",
"glut",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit",
"wolf",
"banquet",
"feast",
"regale",
"bolt",
"cram",
"gulp",
"guzzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorge",
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"pig out",
"swill"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"loaded":{
"being under the influence of a recreational drug":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"wasted his life getting loaded and watching TV all day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"clean",
"temperate",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"addicted",
"hooked"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blitzed",
"bombed",
"high",
"hopped-up",
"ripped",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"stoned",
"strung out",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"the departing party guest was loaded , so we held his car keys until he had sobered up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
]
},
"containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible":{
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void"
],
"examples":[
"the department stores were loaded with goods for the holiday shopping season"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short",
"shortish",
"shy",
"wanting",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted"
],
"related":[
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"abounding",
"flush",
"fraught",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"synonyms":[
"brimful",
"brimming",
"bursting",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"chockablock",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"fat",
"filled",
"full",
"jam-packed",
"jammed",
"packed",
"stuffed"
]
},
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
],
"examples":[
"the guy in the fancy foreign sports car obviously was loaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"related":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"antonyms":[
"disburdened",
"discharged",
"disencumbered",
"unburdened",
"unladed",
"unloaded"
],
"examples":[
"students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"relieved"
],
"related":[
"clogged",
"cluttered",
"filled",
"packed",
"heaped",
"mounded",
"piled",
"stacked",
"pressed",
"weighed",
"strained",
"taxed",
"overburdened",
"overloaded",
"overtaxed",
"surcharged",
"hampered",
"handicapped",
"afflicted",
"oppressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdened",
"encumbered",
"freighted",
"laded",
"ladened",
"lumbered",
"saddled",
"weighted"
]
},
"to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained":{
"antonyms":[
"cleared",
"emptied",
"evacuated",
"vacated",
"voided"
],
"examples":[
"she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightened",
"depleted",
"drained",
"eliminated",
"exhausted",
"bled",
"drew (off)",
"cleaned",
"flushed",
"purged",
"scoured",
"swept"
],
"related":[
"drenched",
"flooded",
"glutted",
"swamped",
"bloated",
"bulked",
"crowded",
"crushed",
"matted",
"pressed",
"rammed",
"shoved",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"refilled",
"refreshed",
"reloaded",
"repacked",
"replenished",
"overcharged",
"overfilled",
"overflowed",
"saturated",
"honeycombed",
"penetrated"
],
"synonyms":[
"brimmed",
"charged",
"crammed",
"filled",
"heaped",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
"stuffed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"loafed":{
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the kind of sultry August afternoon that makes you just want to loaf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"ground",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"worked",
"wrought",
"applied",
"buckled (down)",
"exerted",
"put out"
],
"related":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled",
"messed",
"monkeyed",
"mucked",
"piddled",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"dozed",
"estivated",
"aestivated",
"hibernated",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"moseyed",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"swanned",
"furloughed",
"goldbricked",
"malingered",
"truanted"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"droned",
"footled",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung about",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"kicked around",
"kicked back",
"lazed",
"lazied",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"vegged out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"loafing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the kind of sultry August afternoon that makes you just want to loaf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grinding",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"applying",
"buckling (down)",
"exerting",
"putting out"
],
"related":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"messing",
"monkeying",
"mucking",
"piddling",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"dozing",
"estivating",
"aestivating",
"hibernating",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"moseying",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"swanning",
"furloughing",
"goldbricking",
"malingering",
"truanting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"droning",
"footling",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging about",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"kicking around",
"kicking back",
"lazing",
"lazying",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"vegging out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"loathing":{
"a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sight of his mortal enemy getting that undeserved promotion filled him with loathing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appetite",
"bent",
"fancy",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"love",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"preference",
"propensity",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use"
],
"related":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"antipathy",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"allergy",
"averseness",
"disapproval",
"disfavor",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"displeasure"
],
"synonyms":[
"aversion",
"disgust",
"distaste",
"horror",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion"
]
},
"a very strong dislike":{
"antonyms":[
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love"
],
"examples":[
"I have an uncompromising loathing for anyone who would deliberately harm an animal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appetite",
"inclination",
"liking",
"admiration",
"adoration",
"veneration",
"worship",
"acceptance",
"tolerance",
"passion",
"relish",
"taste"
],
"related":[
"cattiness",
"despite",
"despitefulness",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"aversion",
"disgust",
"distaste",
"horror",
"odium",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"contempt",
"disdain",
"enmity",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"scorn",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"spleen",
"venom",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to dislike strongly":{
"antonyms":[
"loving"
],
"examples":[
"I simply loathe tapioca pudding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"desiring",
"fancying",
"favoring",
"liking",
"preferring",
"enjoying",
"relishing",
"admiring",
"adoring",
"approving (of)",
"esteeming",
"hallowing",
"idolizing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring"
],
"related":[
"deploring",
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"noun",
"verb"
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"hook",
"pass",
"roll",
"shoot",
"buck",
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"peg",
"pelt",
"pitch",
"sling",
"throw",
"toss"
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"door",
"doorway",
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"nub",
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"deep",
"thick",
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"eye",
"focus",
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"hub",
"mecca",
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"seat"
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"region",
"section",
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"here",
"there"
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"location",
"place",
"point",
"position",
"site",
"spot",
"venue",
"where"
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"noun"
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"the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups"
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"outside"
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"cell",
"hole",
"tank",
"block",
"ward",
"glasshouse",
"guardhouse",
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"gulag",
"labor camp",
"prison camp",
"stalag",
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"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
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"to put in or as if in prison":{
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"free",
"liberate",
"release"
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"if they catch you, they're going to lock you up and throw away the key!"
],
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"enfranchise",
"manumit",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
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"limit",
"restrain",
"restrict",
"shut",
"bar",
"gate",
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"arrest",
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"catch",
"detain",
"nab",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"seize",
"impress",
"shanghai",
"hold",
"impound",
"keep",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel"
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"commit",
"confine",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"the enlisted man usually stored his uniform in his locker at the foot of his bed"
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"crate",
"footlocker",
"sea chest",
"coffer",
"lockbox",
"safe",
"safe-deposit box",
"strongbox",
"coffin",
"compartment",
"vault",
"canteen",
"caisson",
"hope chest",
"minaudi\u00e8re",
"bandbox",
"hatbox",
"jewel box",
"snuffbox",
"tinderbox"
],
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"box",
"caddy",
"case",
"casket",
"chest",
"trunk"
]
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"a down-at-the heels health club where most of the lockers look to be unusable"
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"breakfront",
"chest",
"china closet",
"credence",
"credenza",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8re",
"etagere",
"secretary",
"showcase",
"taboret",
"tabouret",
"vitrine",
"cuddy",
"dresser",
"pie safe",
"armoire",
"clothespress",
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"cabinetry",
"shelving"
],
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"cabinet",
"closet",
"console",
"cupboard",
"hutch",
"press",
"sideboard"
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"noun"
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"one that is certain to succeed":{
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"the governor is regarded as a lock for his party's presidential nomination"
],
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"dark horses",
"long shots"
],
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"certainties",
"inevitabilities",
"eventualities",
"foregone conclusions"
],
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"cinches",
"shoo-ins",
"slam dunks",
"sure things"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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"loco":{
"having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind":{
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"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy"
],
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"that dog's plumb loco , just running around in circles all day long"
],
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"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
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"fey",
"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"depressed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"fixated",
"monomaniac",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed"
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"barmy",
"bats",
"batty",
"bedlam",
"bonkers",
"brainsick",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackers",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"demented",
"deranged",
"fruity",
"gaga",
"haywire",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"loony tunes",
"looney tunes",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"moonstruck",
"non compos mentis",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"unsound",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"wud"
]
},
"to cause to go insane or as if insane":{
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"years of living alone had clearly locoed the old rancher"
],
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"calm",
"quiet",
"relax",
"settle",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
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"agitate",
"bother",
"confuse",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distract",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"annoy",
"irritate",
"vex"
],
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"craze",
"derange",
"frenzy",
"madden",
"unbalance",
"unhinge",
"unstring"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"a place to sleep and related amenities for the temporary use of a tourist or traveler":{
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"examples":[
"lodging was whatever budget motel we could find for each leg of our trip"
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"crash pad"
],
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"accommodation",
"lodgment",
"lodgement"
]
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"a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place":{
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"examples":[
"I've rented lodgings in the old boardinghouse downtown"
],
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"bedsit",
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"cohousing",
"condo",
"condominium",
"duplex",
"duplex apartment",
"efficiency",
"efficiency apartment",
"flatlet",
"floor-through",
"garden apartment",
"granny flat",
"maisonette",
"penthouse",
"railroad flat",
"salon",
"saloon",
"studio",
"studio apartment",
"triplex",
"walk-up",
"gallery",
"wing",
"apartment building",
"apartment house",
"tenement house"
],
"synonyms":[
"apartment",
"diggings",
"digs",
"flat",
"suite",
"tenement"
]
},
"the place where one lives":{
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"examples":[
"food and lodging are two of the largest expenses of living in the city"
],
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"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"bungalow",
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"double-wide",
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty"
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"abode",
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"domicile",
"dwelling",
"fireside",
"habitation",
"hearth",
"hearthstone",
"home",
"house",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"roof"
]
},
"to establish or place comfortably or snugly":{
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"examples":[
"our pet guinea pig lodged himself in the far corner of his cage and simply refused to come out"
],
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"related":[
"deploying",
"emplacing",
"fixing",
"locating",
"parking",
"planting",
"positioning",
"setting",
"situating",
"stationing",
"anchoring",
"bivouacking",
"camping",
"camping (out)",
"burrowing",
"curling up",
"digging in",
"harboring",
"housing"
],
"synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"installing",
"nestling",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
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"examples":[
"the landlord can legally lodge up to 20 people in his apartment building at one time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"related":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"rooming",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
]
},
"to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter":{
"antonyms":[
"dislodging",
"rooting (out)",
"uprooting"
],
"examples":[
"the gunman had managed to lodge a bullet in my back, just inches from my spine"
],
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"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"detaching",
"disconnecting",
"disengaging",
"removing"
],
"related":[
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"instilling",
"beating (into)",
"driving (into)",
"establishing",
"placing",
"putting",
"settling",
"sticking"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedding",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"enrooting",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"fixing",
"impacting",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"rooting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"loftiness":{
"an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims":{
"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
],
"examples":[
"we were offended by the new club member's air of loftiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"related":[
"authoritativeness",
"bossiness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"high-handedness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"log":{
"as in journal , blog":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make a written note of":{
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"examples":[
"the station captain logged the arrest and then left for home"
],
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"related":[
"chronicle",
"minute",
"transcribe",
"enregister",
"enter",
"inscribe",
"chalk (up)",
"notch",
"score"
],
"synonyms":[
"jot (down)",
"mark",
"note",
"put down",
"record",
"register",
"report",
"set down",
"take down",
"write down"
]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an actor who has logged a record number of Academy Award nominations in the course of her career"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fall short (of)",
"miss",
"fail (at)",
"lose"
],
"related":[
"acquire",
"capture",
"carry",
"draw",
"garner",
"get",
"land",
"obtain",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"amount (to)",
"approach",
"equal",
"match",
"measure up (to)",
"meet",
"rival",
"tie",
"touch",
"beat",
"excel",
"outdo",
"surpass",
"top"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieve",
"attain",
"bag",
"chalk up",
"clock (up)",
"gain",
"hit",
"make",
"notch (up)",
"rack up",
"ring up",
"score",
"win"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"logged":{
"containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water":{
"antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless"
],
"examples":[
"usually the driftwood is so logged with water that it needs an extended drying period before it can be used by the artist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"related":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"synonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
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"soaked",
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"soggy",
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"soppy",
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"missed",
"failed (at)",
"lost"
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"equalled",
"matched",
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"excelled",
"outdid",
"surpassed",
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"chalked up",
"clocked (up)",
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"notched (up)",
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"rang up",
"scored",
"won"
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"verb"
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"sophistical",
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"absurd",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"fatuous",
"half-baked",
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"harebrained",
"insane",
"loony",
"looney",
"mad",
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"nutty",
"preposterous",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"senseless",
"thoughtless",
"uncompelling",
"unconvincing"
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"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tenable"
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"rational",
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"invalid",
"irrational",
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"unwarranted",
"flimsy",
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"weak",
"fallacious",
"false",
"misguided",
"misled"
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"true",
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"sure",
"certified",
"validated",
"verified",
"confirmed",
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"substantiated",
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"colorable",
"credible",
"plausible"
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"reasonable",
"reasoned",
"sensible",
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"valid",
"well-founded"
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"adjective"
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"morass",
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"plight",
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"quagmire",
"quandary",
"spot",
"difficulty",
"problem"
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"gridlock",
"halt",
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"standoff",
"standstill"
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"noun"
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"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
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"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
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"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
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"debilitated",
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"enervated",
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"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
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"sleepy",
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"bushed",
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"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
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"pooped",
"prostrate",
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"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
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"adjective"
]
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"rise",
"straighten",
"unbend",
"uncurl"
],
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"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"crumple",
"drop",
"fall",
"sink",
"subside",
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"sag",
"swag",
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"farmhands lolling about in the shade and taking a break from the midday sun"
],
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"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"exercise",
"work out"
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"related":[
"bum",
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"hang about",
"hang around",
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"slack (off)",
"veg out"
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"lounge",
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"rest"
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"some members of the decorating committee were hard at work, and others were just lolling about"
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"hustle",
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"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
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"put out"
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"related":[
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"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"piddle",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"doze",
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"aestivate",
"hibernate",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"tarry",
"amble",
"mosey",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"swan",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
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"bum",
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"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
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"footle",
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"kick around",
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"loaf",
"lounge",
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"verb"
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"the heads of the flowers lolled on their stems in the blistering heat"
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"stiffening",
"rising",
"straightening",
"unbending",
"uncurling"
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"related":[
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"slumping",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"dropping",
"falling",
"sinking",
"subsiding",
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"hanging",
"sagging",
"swagging",
"wilting"
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"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
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"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
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"working out"
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"hanging",
"hanging about",
"hanging around",
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"loafing",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out"
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"relaxing",
"reposing",
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"some members of the decorating committee were hard at work, and others were just lolling about"
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"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
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"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"applying",
"buckling (down)",
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"putting out"
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"messing",
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"mucking",
"piddling",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
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"dozing",
"estivating",
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"hibernating",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
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"sauntering",
"strolling",
"swanning",
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"goldbricking",
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"dillydallying",
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"footling",
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"kicking around",
"kicking back",
"lazing",
"lazying",
"loafing",
"lounging",
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"noun",
"verb"
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"to move or act slowly":{
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"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
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"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
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"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
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"examples":[
"accused the government of lollygagging while survivors of the earthquake continued to live in the most wretched conditions"
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"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
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"fast-forward",
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"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
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"related":[
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"putter (around)",
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"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
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"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
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"stroll",
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"stall",
"temporize"
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"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"to move or act slowly":{
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"barrels",
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"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
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"whisks",
"whizzes",
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"scrambles",
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"jogs",
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"outstrips",
"overtakes"
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"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
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"crawls",
"creeps",
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"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
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"verb"
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],
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"follower",
"supporter",
"sheep"
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"character",
"codger",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"freak",
"kook",
"nut",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"eight ball",
"misfit",
"outsider",
"aberrant",
"anomaly"
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"boho",
"counterculturist",
"deviant",
"enfant terrible",
"free spirit",
"heretic",
"iconoclast",
"individualist",
"lone wolf",
"loner",
"maverick",
"nonconformer",
"nonconformist"
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"noun"
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"a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs":{
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"conformer",
"conformist"
],
"examples":[
"a lone wolf in the art world, he has his own style and paints only to please himself"
],
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"follower",
"supporter",
"sheep"
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"character",
"codger",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
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"freak",
"kook",
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"screwball",
"weirdo",
"eight ball",
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"boho",
"counterculturist",
"deviant",
"enfant terrible",
"free spirit",
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"iconoclast",
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"lone ranger",
"loner",
"maverick",
"nonconformer",
"nonconformist"
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"noun"
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},
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"a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs":{
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"conformer",
"conformist"
],
"examples":[
"that guy in tech support is a loner , and never wants to hang out with the rest of us"
],
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"follower",
"supporter",
"sheep"
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"codger",
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"crackpot",
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"freak",
"kook",
"nut",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"eight ball",
"misfit",
"outsider",
"aberrant",
"anomaly"
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"boho",
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"deviant",
"enfant terrible",
"free spirit",
"heretic",
"iconoclast",
"individualist",
"lone ranger",
"lone wolf",
"maverick",
"nonconformer",
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"noun"
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"something for which a person shows a special talent":{
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"one-on-one politicking is her long suit"
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"department",
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"domain",
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"fiefdom",
"field",
"line",
"precinct",
"province",
"realm",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"element",
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"bent",
"faculty",
"flair",
"genius",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"pursuit",
"racket",
"vocation",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
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"propensity",
"tendency"
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"thing"
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},
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"a strong wish for something":{
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"examples":[
"by four o'clock in the afternoon, I usually experience a strong longing for chocolate"
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"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
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"love",
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"impatience",
"want",
"wish",
"necessity",
"need",
"requirement",
"obsession",
"acquisitiveness",
"avarice",
"avariciousness",
"avidity",
"covetousness",
"cupidity",
"greed",
"greediness",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"caco\u00ebthes",
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"desire",
"drive",
"hankering",
"hunger",
"itch",
"jones",
"letch",
"lust",
"passion",
"pining",
"thirst",
"thirstiness",
"urge",
"yearning",
"yen"
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"verb"
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"he tried to take a proactive approach to dealing with the problems that loomed ahead"
],
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"de-escalates",
"dies down",
"diminishes",
"disappears",
"dwindles",
"ebbs",
"fades",
"falls",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"vanishes",
"wanes",
"falls back",
"passes",
"recedes",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
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"advances",
"approaches",
"closes in",
"draws on",
"gathers",
"nears",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"lowers",
"lours",
"menaces",
"overhangs",
"threatens"
],
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"brews",
"impends"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"loon":{
"a stupid person":{
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"brain",
"genius"
],
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"the loons at the grocery store had put the potato chips at the bottom of the bag"
],
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"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
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"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
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"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
]
},
"one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind":{
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"examples":[
"giggled like a loon at his own jokes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"madman",
"abnormal",
"deviant",
"monomaniac",
"mythomaniac",
"neurotic",
"obsessive",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoid",
"psychotic",
"schizo",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopath",
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"fantastic",
"flake",
"kook",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"tyke",
"tike",
"weirdo",
"zany",
"case",
"patient"
],
"synonyms":[
"bug",
"crackbrain",
"crazy",
"fool",
"fruitcake",
"head case",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"maniac",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"psycho",
"psychopath",
"sickie",
"sicko",
"wacko",
"whacko"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to free from obstruction or difficulty":{
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"complicated"
],
"examples":[
"hoped that adding a second lane would loosen up traffic on that street"
],
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"hindered",
"impeded",
"retarded",
"aggravated",
"worsened",
"perplexed",
"sophisticated"
],
"related":[
"accelerated",
"expedited",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"sped",
"speeded",
"advanced",
"forwarded",
"furthered",
"promoted",
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"helped",
"improved",
"disentangled",
"straightened (out)",
"untangled",
"simplified",
"streamlined"
],
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"eased",
"facilitated",
"greased",
"smoothed",
"unclogged"
]
},
"to get rid of nervous tension or anxiety":{
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"tensed (up)"
],
"examples":[
"a high-pressure job that makes it hard for him to loosen up even on weekends"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"unbent",
"basked",
"kicked back",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"reposed",
"rested",
"bummed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"droned",
"footled",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"vegetated",
"vegged out",
"zoned out",
"alleviated",
"comforted",
"eased",
"relieved",
"calmed",
"composed",
"cooled",
"quieted",
"settled"
],
"synonyms":[
"chilled",
"chilled out",
"decompressed",
"de-stressed",
"mellowed (out)",
"relaxed",
"unwound",
"wound down",
"winded down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"looted":{
"to search through with the intent of committing robbery":{
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"examples":[
"the bandits looted the archaeological dig before riding off into the night"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"broke in",
"burglarized",
"ripped off",
"stole (from)",
"combed",
"hunted",
"raked",
"rifled",
"rummaged",
"harried",
"raided",
"ravished"
],
"synonyms":[
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"marauded",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ransacked",
"sacked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"loots":{
"to search through with the intent of committing robbery":{
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"examples":[
"the bandits looted the archaeological dig before riding off into the night"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"burglarizes",
"rips off",
"steals (from)",
"combs",
"hunts",
"rakes",
"rifles",
"rummages",
"harries",
"raids",
"ravishes"
],
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"marauds",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ransacks",
"sacks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"valuables stolen or taken by force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the burglar was caught when he foolishly stopped to examine the loot from the robbery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"prizes",
"catches",
"hauls",
"takes",
"treasures",
"pilferages",
"windfalls"
],
"synonyms":[
"booties",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"spoils",
"swags"
]
}
},
"lop %28off%29":{
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hair stylist started by lopping off several inches from her long tresses, before beginning to shape what was left"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen"
],
"related":[
"skive",
"whittle",
"manicure",
"mow",
"pinch",
"stump",
"curtail",
"shorten"
],
"synonyms":[
"bob",
"clip",
"crop",
"cut",
"cut back",
"dock",
"nip",
"pare",
"poll",
"prune",
"shave",
"shear",
"snip",
"trim"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lordliness":{
"an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims":{
"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
],
"examples":[
"the lordliness of his manner really got on his colleagues' nerves, as he had no real authority over them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"related":[
"authoritativeness",
"bossiness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"high-handedness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lordship":{
"as in":{
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lose%20one%27s%20heart%20%28to%29":{
"to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for":{
"antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe"
],
"examples":[
"I was a salesman before I lost my heart to woodworking."
],
"near antonyms":[
"antagonize",
"displease",
"disapprove (of)",
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"disgust",
"nauseate",
"repel",
"repulse",
"revolt",
"sicken",
"turn off"
],
"related":[
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"idealize",
"idolize",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"delight (in)",
"dote (on)"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"cherish",
"love",
"worship"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"loser":{
"something that has failed":{
"antonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
],
"examples":[
"the first movie in the series was good, but all the sequels have been losers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"related":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"lemon",
"miss",
"shipwreck",
"turkey",
"washout"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"losing":{
"to be unable to find or have at hand":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I always lose my keys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enjoying",
"having",
"holding",
"keeping",
"occupying",
"owning",
"possessing",
"retaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"finding",
"locating",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)"
],
"related":[
"forgetting",
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
],
"synonyms":[
"mislaying",
"misplacing"
]
},
"to fail to win, gain, or obtain":{
"antonyms":[
"nailing (down)",
"winning"
],
"examples":[
"if the team loses this game, they're out of the play-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conquering",
"prevailing (over)",
"triumphing (over)"
],
"related":[
"forfeiting"
],
"synonyms":[
"dropping"
]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we told the recent grad to lose the flashy shirts and dress conservatively for the job interview"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"taking on",
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"holding",
"holding back",
"keeping",
"retaining"
],
"related":[
"abandoning",
"abdicating",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"dismissing",
"kicking out",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiering",
"casting (off)",
"chucking",
"deep-sixing",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"eighty-sixing",
"86ing",
"exorcising",
"exorcizing",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"laying by",
"pitching",
"rejecting",
"scrapping",
"shedding",
"shucking (off)",
"sloughing (off)",
"sluffing (off)",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"tossing",
"unloading"
]
},
"to undergo defeat":{
"antonyms":[
"conquering",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"examples":[
"she really hates to lose at anything, and inevitably throws tantrums when it happens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"faltering",
"tanking",
"throwing",
"forfeiting",
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cracking (up)",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowing out",
"falling"
]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"antonyms":[
"conserving"
],
"examples":[
"we lost a good hour while he tried to find his keys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizing",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"hoarding",
"laying up"
],
"related":[
"splurging",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"overspending",
"shooting",
"indulging",
"overindulging",
"disbursing",
"expending",
"laying out"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"fiddling away",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"trifling (away)",
"wasting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lost%20%28to%29":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
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]
},
"lost%20ground":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
],
"examples":[
"We need a new strategy because we keep losing ground to the other team."
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved"
],
"related":[
"fled",
"flew",
"flinched",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"chickened (out)",
"bowed out",
"backed down",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"climbed down",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"pulled away",
"abandoned",
"departed",
"evacuated",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated",
"went"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed away",
"dropped back",
"fell back",
"pulled out",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lost%20one%27s%20cool":{
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"simmered down"
],
"examples":[
"He lost his cool when he couldn't beat the game."
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilled out",
"cooled (off or down)",
"relaxed",
"hushed",
"quieted (down)"
],
"related":[
"angered",
"fulminated",
"raged",
"ranted",
"raved",
"snapped",
"snarled",
"sputtered",
"stormed",
"teed off",
"vented",
"vituperated",
"bristled",
"burned",
"burnt",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"glared",
"glowered",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"steamed",
"warmed",
"burst",
"bursted",
"exploded",
"flared (out)",
"flashed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"maddened"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew up",
"flared (up)",
"flipped (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lounges":{
"a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the kids were stretched out on the lounge watching TV"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"loungers",
"love seats",
"recamiers",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates",
"daybeds",
"sofa beds",
"studio couches",
"banquettes",
"benches",
"ottomans"
],
"synonyms":[
"chesterfields",
"couches",
"davenports",
"divans",
"settees",
"sofas",
"squabs"
]
},
"to refrain from labor or exertion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the construction workers spent their break lounging in the shade behind the building"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"exercises",
"works out"
],
"related":[
"bums",
"goldbricks",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"hangs around",
"idles",
"loafs",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out"
],
"synonyms":[
"basks",
"kicks back",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests"
]
},
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after putting in tons of overtime at the office, all we wanted to do on vacation was lounge around"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grinds",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"applies",
"buckles (down)",
"exerts",
"puts out"
],
"related":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"messes",
"monkeys",
"mucks",
"piddles",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"dozes",
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"prices of the new type of televisions lowered considerably as competition and sales increased"
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"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
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"expand",
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"increase",
"intensify",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax"
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"de-escalate",
"die (down)",
"diminish",
"droop",
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"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"taper off",
"wane",
"recede",
"retreat"
],
"synonyms":[
"crash",
"crater",
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"dive",
"drop",
"fall",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"sink",
"skid",
"tumble"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
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"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
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"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"examples":[
"the noise of the jet engine lowered as the plane disappeared in the distance"
],
"near antonyms":[
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"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"related":[
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"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
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"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
]
},
"to look with anger or disapproval":{
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"beam",
"grin",
"smile"
],
"examples":[
"the motorist lowered at the jerk who had cut in front of her"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gape",
"gaze",
"ogle",
"stare",
"grimace",
"pout",
"sulk",
"growl",
"snarl",
"sneer",
"snigger"
],
"synonyms":[
"frown",
"glare",
"gloom",
"glower",
"scowl"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
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"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"raise"
],
"examples":[
"decided to lower his career ambitions to something more achievable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"add (to)",
"complement",
"supplement",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble"
],
"related":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"clip",
"crop",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"dock",
"nick",
"pare",
"prune",
"retrench",
"shorten",
"slash",
"trim",
"truncate",
"whittle",
"deflate",
"shrink",
"minimize",
"moderate",
"modify",
"modulate",
"qualify"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decrease",
"dent",
"deplete",
"diminish",
"downscale",
"downsize",
"drop",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"knock down",
"lessen",
"reduce"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
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"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt"
],
"examples":[
"how could you lower yourself by passing off someone else's work as your own?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
"related":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate"
],
"synonyms":[
"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"shame",
"sink",
"smirch",
"take down"
]
},
"to take on a gloomy or forbidding look":{
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"brighten",
"cheer (up)",
"lighten",
"perk (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the sky lowered overhead, threatening a fierce thunderstorm"
],
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"related":[
"frown",
"scowl",
"glare",
"stare",
"brood",
"mope",
"pet",
"pout",
"sulk",
"anger",
"bristle",
"fume",
"rage",
"steam",
"storm",
"intimidate",
"menace",
"threaten"
],
"synonyms":[
"darken",
"gloom",
"glower"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank":{
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"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"high",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"lofty",
"noble",
"patrician",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
],
"examples":[
"they were finally earning enough to get out of the lower-class tax bracket"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent"
],
"related":[
"bourgeois",
"middle-class",
"plain",
"poor",
"simple",
"working-class",
"d\u00e9class\u00e9",
"down-market",
"downscale"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"inferior",
"low",
"low-life",
"lowborn",
"lowly",
"lumpen",
"mean",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"unwashed",
"vulgar"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lowering":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"covered over by clouds":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless"
],
"examples":[
"the lowering sky made us think twice about going to the park"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightened",
"radiant",
"shiny"
],
"related":[
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"dusky",
"misty",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"overshadowed",
"sunless",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"dark",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"hazed",
"hazy",
"heavy",
"overcast",
"overclouded"
]
},
"harsh and threatening in manner or appearance":{
"antonyms":[
"benign",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"mild",
"nonintimidating",
"tender"
],
"examples":[
"we chose our next words carefully, mindful of the lowering expression on his face"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bland",
"meek",
"mellow",
"soft",
"soothing",
"easy",
"quiet",
"tranquil",
"agreeable",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"sweet",
"glad",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"playful",
"scatterbrained",
"silly"
],
"related":[
"bleak",
"cold",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"adamant",
"bound",
"determined",
"firm",
"intent",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"fixed",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"ironhanded",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"set",
"stiff",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"immutable",
"unchangeable",
"black",
"cheerless",
"dark",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"joyless",
"melancholic",
"moody",
"morose",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly",
"brooding",
"grave",
"humorless",
"melancholy",
"serious",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty"
],
"synonyms":[
"austere",
"dour",
"fierce",
"flinty",
"forbidding",
"grim",
"gruff",
"intimidating",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stark",
"steely",
"stern",
"ungentle"
]
},
"to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally":{
"antonyms":[
"lifting",
"picking up",
"raising"
],
"examples":[
"workmen slowly lowered the heavy statue into place"
],
"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",
"dropping",
"throwing",
"throwing down"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"enhancing",
"marking up",
"upgrading"
],
"examples":[
"over time, inflation lowers incomes and savings in terms of actual buying power"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloating",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"overestimating",
"overpricing",
"overrating",
"overvaluing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"dilating",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"related":[
"debasing",
"demonetizing",
"underestimating",
"underpricing",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"abridging",
"compressing",
"contracting",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"moderating",
"shrinking"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuating",
"breaking",
"cheapening",
"depreciating",
"depressing",
"devaluating",
"devaluing",
"downgrading",
"marking down",
"reducing",
"sinking",
"writing down",
"writing off"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"lifting",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"spiking",
"upping"
],
"examples":[
"prices of the new type of televisions lowered considerably as competition and sales increased"
],
"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",
"dropping",
"falling",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"tumbling"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"examples":[
"the noise of the jet engine lowered as the plane disappeared in the distance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"related":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
]
},
"to look with anger or disapproval":{
"antonyms":[
"beaming",
"grinning",
"smiling"
],
"examples":[
"the motorist lowered at the jerk who had cut in front of her"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gaping",
"gazing",
"ogling",
"staring",
"grimacing",
"pouting",
"sulking",
"growling",
"snarling",
"sneering",
"sniggering"
],
"synonyms":[
"frowning",
"glaring",
"glooming",
"glowering",
"scowling"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
],
"examples":[
"decided to lower his career ambitions to something more achievable"
],
"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",
"dropping",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lessening",
"reducing"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"elevating",
"exalting"
],
"examples":[
"how could you lower yourself by passing off someone else's work as your own?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"boasting",
"celebrating",
"cheering",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"acknowledging",
"recognizing",
"highlighting",
"playing up",
"spotlighting",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enskying",
"enthroning",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"advancing",
"boosting",
"lifting",
"promoting",
"raising",
"upgrading",
"uplifting",
"idealizing",
"romanticizing"
],
"related":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"belittling",
"castigating",
"criticizing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"detracting",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"writing off",
"bad-mouthing",
"defaming",
"defiling",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"execrating",
"reprehending",
"reprobating"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"chastening",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"shaming",
"sinking",
"smirching",
"taking down"
]
},
"to take on a gloomy or forbidding look":{
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"cheering (up)",
"lightening",
"perking (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the sky lowered overhead, threatening a fierce thunderstorm"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"frowning",
"scowling",
"glaring",
"staring",
"brooding",
"moping",
"petting",
"pouting",
"sulking",
"angering",
"bristling",
"fuming",
"raging",
"steaming",
"storming",
"intimidating",
"menacing",
"threatening"
],
"synonyms":[
"darkening",
"glooming",
"glowering"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lowest":{
"being the least in amount, number, or size possible":{
"antonyms":[
"biggest",
"full",
"greatest",
"hugest",
"largest",
"maximum",
"most",
"top",
"topmost",
"utmost"
],
"examples":[
"I play my radio at the lowest volume, but the neighbors still complain about the noise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest"
],
"related":[
"fewer",
"lesser",
"low",
"minor",
"modest",
"slight",
"small",
"smaller",
"infinitesimal",
"micro",
"subminimal",
"ultramicro",
"irreducible"
],
"synonyms":[
"fewest",
"littlest",
"minimal",
"minimum",
"minutest",
"slightest",
"smallest",
"tiniest"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lowlife":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank":{
"antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"high",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"lofty",
"noble",
"patrician",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
],
"examples":[
"photographs of the low-life residents of postwar Paris"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent"
],
"related":[
"bourgeois",
"middle-class",
"plain",
"poor",
"simple",
"working-class",
"d\u00e9class\u00e9",
"down-market",
"downscale"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"inferior",
"low",
"lowborn",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"lumpen",
"mean",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"unwashed",
"vulgar"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
}
}
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