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{
"reacting":{
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"it was my first touchdown, and I didn't know how to react to the cheers of the crowd"
],
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"as in renewal , recovery":{
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},
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"The officer read the riot act to her for speeding in a school zone."
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"this advanced course should ready him for college"
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"the basketball players sat quietly in the locker room, readying themselves for the final game of the season"
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"reading%20the%20riot%20act%20%28to%29":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
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"The officer read the riot act to her for speeding in a school zone."
],
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"scolding",
"scoring",
"tongue-lashing",
"upbraiding"
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"a very bizarre reading of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies by an alternative theater company"
],
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"make sure you do the assigned reading for tonight"
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"drills",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"\u00e9tudes",
"studies"
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"to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function":{
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"habituating",
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"enabling",
"educating",
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"teaching",
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"training"
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"we can ready the desserts for the party a day in advance"
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"the basketball players sat quietly in the locker room, readying themselves for the final game of the season"
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"disheartening",
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"reaffirms":{
"to formally state (something) again in order to emphasize that it is true":{
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"The President reaffirmed his commitment to cutting taxes.",
"She reaffirmed her stance on the issue."
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},
"realistic":{
"closely resembling the object imitated":{
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"unnatural",
"unrealistic"
],
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"those special effects look really realistic \u2014I'd never guess they were all computer-generated"
],
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"off",
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"unlike",
"incomparable",
"unmatched",
"contrasted",
"contrasting",
"different",
"disparate",
"fake",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
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"close",
"faithful",
"true",
"compelling",
"convincing",
"expressive",
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"gritty",
"vivid"
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"near",
"photo-realistic",
"three-dimensional"
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],
"willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly":{
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"impractical",
"unrealistic",
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"visionary"
],
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"high schoolers who need to be more realistic in their career choices, as so few people end up as rock stars"
],
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"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginative",
"romantic",
"sentimental",
"cheerful",
"optimistic",
"rose-colored",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"unsuspicious",
"half-baked",
"illogical",
"insane",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
],
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"philistine",
"utilitarian",
"commonsensical",
"grounded",
"levelheaded",
"logical",
"no-nonsense",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"sound",
"bottom-line",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-edged",
"tough-minded",
"unromantic",
"unsentimental",
"cynical",
"disillusioned",
"misanthropic",
"pessimistic",
"distrustful",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious"
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"hardheaded",
"matter-of-fact",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical"
]
}
},
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"the state of being actual or complete":{
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"nought",
"nonfulfillment"
],
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"this research paper is the realization of an entire year's work"
],
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"failure",
"fizzle",
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],
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"triumph"
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"achievement",
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"actualization",
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"consummation",
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"fulfilment",
"pass"
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"to come to an awareness of":{
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"I just realized that I can't go out to dinner tonight because I'm supposed to babysit for our neighbor"
],
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"disregard",
"ignore",
"forget",
"unlearn",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"occult",
"screen",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
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"tumble (to)",
"descry",
"detect",
"encounter",
"espy",
"spot",
"calculate",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"find",
"puzzle (out)",
"discern",
"mind",
"note",
"observe",
"perceive",
"divine"
],
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"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"get on (to)",
"hear",
"learn",
"see",
"wise (up)"
]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
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"forfeit",
"lose"
],
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"if you deposit your paycheck in a savings account, you'll realize a little interest on it"
],
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"accord",
"give",
"grant",
"pay",
"give up",
"hand over",
"part (with)",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
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"gross",
"net",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"notch (up)",
"score",
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"amass",
"rack up",
"catch",
"pick up",
"annex",
"occupy",
"take over",
"reacquire",
"reattain",
"recapture",
"regain",
"remake"
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"attain",
"bag",
"bring in",
"capture",
"carry",
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"draw",
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"gain",
"garner",
"get",
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"procure",
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"reap",
"secure",
"win"
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},
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"realizing":{
"to come to an awareness of":{
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"I just realized that I can't go out to dinner tonight because I'm supposed to babysit for our neighbor"
],
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"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"forgetting",
"unlearning",
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"occulting",
"screening",
"shrouding",
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"doping (out)",
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"finding",
"puzzling (out)",
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"noting",
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"divining"
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"finding out",
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"hearing",
"learning",
"seeing",
"wising (up)"
]
},
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"if you deposit your paycheck in a savings account, you'll realize a little interest on it"
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"yielding"
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"regaining",
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"reallocate":{
"to move or direct (something) so that it can be used for a different purpose":{
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"After the class trip was canceled, the money was reallocated to cover the cost of the dance.",
"We need to reallocate our resources."
],
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},
"reaped":{
"to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use":{
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"my great-grandfather had to reap the wheat on his family farm with a hand scythe"
],
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"seeded",
"sowed"
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"sealed",
"shrimped",
"whaled",
"accumulated",
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"garnered",
"gleaned",
"cut",
"hayed",
"mowed",
"bagged",
"captured",
"hunted",
"netted",
"snared",
"trapped",
"cropped",
"grew",
"raised"
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"lost"
],
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"if you continue to work hard at musicianship, you will reap the rewards of being a concert pianist"
],
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"paid",
"gave up",
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"parted (with)",
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"accomplished",
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"secured",
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},
"reapproved":{
"as in recertified , reaccredited":{
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"verb"
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},
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"reassign":{
"as in reallocate , redistribute":{
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"ruly",
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],
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"yielding",
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"well-bred",
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"obsequious",
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"insurgent",
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"mulish",
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"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"pertinacious",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"fractious",
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"wild",
"perverse",
"resistant",
"wrongheaded",
"bad",
"disorderly",
"errant",
"misbehaving",
"mischievous",
"monkeying",
"monkeyish",
"naughty",
"undisciplined",
"dissident",
"nonconformist",
"discourteous",
"disrespectful",
"ill-bred",
"ill-mannered",
"ill-natured",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"impudent",
"inconsiderate",
"insolent",
"ornery",
"rude",
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"uncouth",
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"unmannerly"
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"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"recalcitrant",
"recusant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
]
},
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"the rebellious troops fought a pitched battle with divisions still loyal to the government"
],
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"devoted",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"true",
"true-blue",
"compliant",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
"related":[
"seditious",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"treasonous",
"agitating",
"demagogic",
"rabble-rousing",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"ungovernable",
"unruly"
],
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"insurgent",
"insurrectionary",
"mutinous",
"revolutionary"
]
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"adjective"
]
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"verb"
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"examples":[
"It took a long time to rebuild the ruined house after the hurricane."
],
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},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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"citation",
"commendation",
"endorsement",
"indorsement"
],
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"delivered a stinging rebuke to the Congress, calling for an end to backstabbing and arguing"
],
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"acclamation",
"honor",
"tribute",
"encomium",
"eulogy",
"panegyric",
"plaudit(s)",
"praise",
"approval",
"blessing",
"sanction"
],
"related":[
"admonishment",
"admonition",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"damnation",
"punishment",
"remonstrance",
"business",
"devil",
"dressing-down",
"lash",
"lecture",
"lesson",
"rap",
"scolding",
"talking-to",
"tongue-lashing",
"belittlement",
"criticism",
"deprecation",
"depreciation",
"disparagement",
"pan"
],
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"censure",
"commination",
"condemnation",
"denunciation",
"excoriation",
"objurgation",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reproof",
"riot act",
"stricture"
]
},
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
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"examples":[
"strongly rebuked the girl for playing with matches"
],
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"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise"
],
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"chide",
"remonstrate (with)",
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"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bad-mouth",
"blame",
"blast",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"crucify",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"excoriate",
"fault",
"harangue",
"knock",
"lace (into)",
"lash",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"revile",
"scourge",
"slam",
"vituperate",
"belittle",
"disparage",
"mock",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"scoff",
"scorn"
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"baste",
"bawl out",
"berate",
"call down",
"castigate",
"chastise",
"chew out",
"dress down",
"flay",
"hammer",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lecture",
"rag",
"rail (at or against)",
"rant (at)",
"rate",
"ream (out)",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"scold",
"score",
"tongue-lash",
"upbraid"
]
},
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"the father was forced to rebuke his son for the spendthrift ways he had adopted since arriving at college"
],
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"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"OK",
"okay",
"sanction",
"applaud",
"extol",
"extoll",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout"
],
"related":[
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"castigate",
"chew out",
"dress down",
"flay",
"harangue",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lecture",
"rail (at or against)",
"rate",
"scold",
"score",
"upbraid",
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bad-mouth",
"blame",
"blast",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"crucify",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"excoriate",
"fault",
"knock",
"lash",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"slam",
"belittle",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"mock",
"put down",
"deride",
"ridicule",
"scoff",
"scorn"
],
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"admonish",
"chide",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"tick off"
]
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"to express public or formal disapproval of":{
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"cite",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse"
],
"examples":[
"in a rare move, the state's supreme court rebuked the governor for trying to circumvent one of its recent rulings"
],
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"acclaim",
"applaud",
"hail",
"honor",
"eulogize",
"laud",
"praise",
"approve",
"bless",
"sanction"
],
"related":[
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"chastise",
"castigate",
"punish",
"bawl out",
"berate",
"chew out",
"cut up",
"dress down",
"flay",
"gibbet",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lecture",
"rag",
"rail (at or against)",
"rate",
"scold",
"score",
"tell off",
"upbraid",
"belittle",
"criticize",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"disparage"
],
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"censure",
"condemn",
"denounce",
"objurgate",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
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"examples":[
"strongly rebuked the girl for playing with matches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"related":[
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"chiding",
"remonstrating (with)",
"reproving",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"haranguing",
"knocking",
"lacing (into)",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"reviling",
"scourging",
"slamming",
"vituperating",
"belittling",
"disparaging",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
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"basting",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"calling down",
"castigating",
"chastising",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"hammering",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"ranting (at)",
"rating",
"reaming (out)",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"tongue-lashing",
"upbraiding"
]
},
"to criticize (someone) so as to correct a fault":{
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"examples":[
"the father was forced to rebuke his son for the spendthrift ways he had adopted since arriving at college"
],
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"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"applauding",
"extolling",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting"
],
"related":[
"berating",
"castigating",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"haranguing",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"upbraiding",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"knocking",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"slamming",
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"deriding",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
"synonyms":[
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving",
"ticking off"
]
},
"to express public or formal disapproval of":{
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"citing",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing"
],
"examples":[
"in a rare move, the state's supreme court rebuked the governor for trying to circumvent one of its recent rulings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"eulogizing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"approving",
"blessing",
"sanctioning"
],
"related":[
"admonishing",
"chastising",
"castigating",
"punishing",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"chewing out",
"cutting up",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"gibbeting",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"telling off",
"upbraiding",
"belittling",
"criticizing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging"
],
"synonyms":[
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"objurgating",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rebuts":{
"to drive back":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Stalingrad's defenders were finally able to rebut the besiegers, but only after a horrendous loss of life"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embraces",
"hails",
"welcomes"
],
"related":[
"defies",
"fights",
"holds off",
"opposes",
"resists",
"stands off",
"withstands",
"deflects",
"wards (off)",
"rebuffs",
"snubs",
"spurns"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats off",
"fends (off)",
"repels",
"repulses",
"staves off",
"turns away",
"turns back"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"validates",
"verifies"
],
"examples":[
"Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe effectively rebutted any lingering notions that the earth is flat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documents",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"shows",
"supports",
"witnesses",
"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"substantiates",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
"certifies",
"identifies",
"demonstrates",
"displays",
"illustrates",
"manifests"
],
"related":[
"overthrows",
"overturns",
"challenges",
"contests",
"queries",
"questions",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"debates",
"discusses",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"talks over"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"confounds",
"confutes",
"debunks",
"disconfirms",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"falsifies",
"refutes",
"shoots down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rebuying":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"recasting":{
"to make different in some way":{
"antonyms":[
"fixing",
"freezing",
"setting",
"stabilizing"
],
"examples":[
"once he recast the question in different terms, I understood what he was asking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deforming",
"metamorphosing",
"mutating",
"regenerating",
"revolutionizing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"commuting",
"converting",
"exchanging",
"rejiggering",
"retooling"
],
"synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"making over",
"modifying",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"receive":{
"to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to":{
"antonyms":[
"ban",
"bar"
],
"examples":[
"a top law-school grad who was received by the firm with open arms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"blackball",
"blacklist",
"ostracize",
"banish",
"deport",
"exile",
"expel",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"related":[
"entertain",
"welcome",
"fellowship",
"confirm",
"ratify"
],
"synonyms":[
"admit",
"enter",
"take"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"receptivity":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"recharges":{
"to bring back to a former condition or vigor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that extended vacation completely recharged my interest in my job"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"makes over",
"overhauls",
"reclaims",
"reconditions",
"reconstitutes",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refurbishes",
"rehabilitates",
"rehabs",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"refills",
"replenishes",
"resupplies",
"modernizes",
"updates"
],
"synonyms":[
"freshens",
"recreates",
"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"rejuvenates",
"renews",
"repairs",
"restores",
"resuscitates",
"revitalizes",
"revives",
"revivifies"
]
},
"to bring back to life, practice, or activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the collision has recharged efforts to make the warning mechanisms at railroad crossings idiotproof"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extinguishes",
"kills",
"quenches",
"suppresses"
],
"related":[
"jump-starts",
"kick-starts",
"reactivates",
"restarts",
"reinvents",
"refreshens",
"refreshes"
],
"synonyms":[
"reanimates",
"regenerates",
"rejuvenates",
"rekindles",
"renews",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revitalizes",
"revives",
"revivifies",
"rewakens",
"rewakes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reckless":{
"foolishly adventurous or bold":{
"antonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"circumspect",
"guarded",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"safe",
"wary"
],
"examples":[
"the calamitous accident was caused by a reckless driver who cut off the semitrailer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unadventurous",
"unambitious",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"timorous",
"calm",
"cool",
"levelheaded",
"sensible",
"alert",
"intelligent",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"lily-livered",
"pusillanimous",
"recreant",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow"
],
"related":[
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"adventurous",
"bold",
"daring",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"rash",
"brainless",
"foolish",
"harebrained",
"scatterbrained",
"careless",
"heedless",
"thoughtless",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate"
],
"synonyms":[
"audacious",
"brash",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"temerarious"
]
},
"having or showing a lack of concern for the consequences of one's actions":{
"antonyms":[
"responsible"
],
"examples":[
"the reckless skiers were making everyone nervous by schussing down the mountainside at lightning speed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"circumspect",
"heedful",
"overcareful",
"overcautious",
"timid"
],
"related":[
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"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"venturesome",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"precipitate",
"rash",
"wild",
"blithe",
"carefree",
"happy-go-lucky",
"madcap",
"slaphappy",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"unworried",
"careless",
"freewheeling",
"heedless",
"inattentive",
"incautious",
"mindless",
"regardless",
"unheeding",
"unmindful",
"feckless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking"
],
"synonyms":[
"daredevil",
"devil-may-care",
"foolhardy",
"harum-scarum",
"hell-for-leather",
"irresponsible",
"kamikaze"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"recklessness":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reckon":{
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"tried to reckon the size of the crowd at the stadium"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrate",
"measure",
"scale",
"compute",
"work out"
],
"related":[
"conclude",
"deduce",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"reason",
"understand"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculate",
"call",
"conjecture",
"estimate",
"figure",
"gauge",
"gage",
"guess",
"judge",
"make",
"place",
"put",
"suppose"
]
},
"to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"reckoned the runner's pace by dividing her finishing time by the race distance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"add up",
"average",
"sum",
"tally",
"total",
"totalize",
"add",
"divide",
"multiply",
"subtract",
"allow (for)",
"deduct",
"factor (in or into or out)",
"figure in",
"figure out",
"solve (for)",
"count",
"itemize",
"number",
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"valuation"
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"deeming",
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"verb"
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"cankered",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"degraded",
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"demoralized",
"depraved",
"lowered",
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"warped"
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"refined",
"cleansed",
"purified",
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"regenerated",
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"processed",
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"verb"
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"mislaying",
"misplacing"
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"redeeming",
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"regaining",
"repossessing",
"retaking",
"retrieving"
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"cankering",
"corrupting",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"lowering",
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"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"warping"
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"improving",
"refining",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
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"rehabilitating"
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"processing",
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"mislays",
"misplaces"
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"redeems",
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"retrieves"
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"corrupts",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"lowers",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"warps"
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"processes",
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"noun"
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"to have a clear idea of":{
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"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
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"related":[
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"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
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"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"register",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
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"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"shame",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"boo",
"hiss",
"hoot",
"jeer",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"reprobate",
"mock",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"slight"
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"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"credit",
"thank",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"praise",
"tout",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"hail",
"laureate",
"salute",
"celebrate",
"commemorate",
"memorialize",
"observe",
"congratulate",
"felicitate"
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"f\u00eate",
"honor"
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"verb"
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"as in renewal , resumption":{
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"noun"
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"asked my neighbor to help me recondition the old tractor for use on the family farm"
],
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"blemish",
"break",
"damage",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vandalize",
"wreck",
"cripple",
"disable",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
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"related":[
"fix up",
"furbish",
"overhaul",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"refurbish",
"aid",
"cure",
"heal",
"help",
"condition",
"prepare",
"ready",
"care (for)",
"maintain",
"service",
"freshen",
"refresh",
"refreshen",
"regenerate",
"rejuvenate",
"renew",
"restore",
"revitalize",
"revive",
"adjust",
"correct",
"modify",
"rectify",
"redress",
"reform",
"right",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate"
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"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
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"type":[
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"type":[
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"as in reassembled , regathered":{
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"type":[
"verb"
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"recorded":{
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"to make a written note of":{
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"examples":[
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"minuted",
"transcribed",
"enregistered",
"entered",
"inscribed",
"chalked (up)",
"notched",
"scored"
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"logged",
"marked",
"noted",
"put down",
"registered",
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"set down",
"took down",
"wrote down"
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},
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"examples":[
"he was recorded as having been a passenger on that ill-fated ship, but his body was never recovered"
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"deleted"
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"related":[
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"carded",
"filed",
"noted",
"classified",
"compiled",
"tabulated",
"tallied",
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"enrolled",
"entered",
"indexed",
"inscribed",
"listed",
"put down",
"registered",
"scheduled",
"slated"
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},
"type":[
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"verb"
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"recount":{
"as in count , tally":{
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"examples":[],
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"to give an oral or written account of in some detail":{
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"a novel that recounted an American soldier's adventures among the samurai warriors of 19th-century Japan"
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"give",
"reel off",
"state",
"utter",
"voice",
"detail",
"enumerate",
"itemize",
"particularize",
"bare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"expose",
"let on (about)",
"reveal",
"delineate",
"depict",
"express",
"render",
"sketch"
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"chronicle",
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report",
"tell"
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"type":[
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"verb"
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"giving",
"reeling off",
"stating",
"uttering",
"voicing",
"detailing",
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"itemizing",
"particularizing",
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"divulging",
"exposing",
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"expressing",
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"sketching"
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"describing",
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"relating",
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"telling"
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"to give an oral or written account of in some detail":{
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"states",
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"voices",
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"divulges",
"exposes",
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"delineates",
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"sketches"
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"recites",
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"relates",
"reports",
"tells"
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"type":[
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"verb"
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"recreated":{
"made or become fresh in spirits or vigor":{
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"enervate",
"enervated",
"exhausted",
"knackered",
"weakened"
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"examples":[
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"weary",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"emasculated",
"unmanned",
"demoralized",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
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"related":[
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"enlivened",
"exhilarated",
"jazzed (up)",
"resurrected",
"rested",
"untired",
"unwearied"
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"freshened",
"invigorated",
"new",
"newborn",
"reanimated",
"reborn",
"reenergized",
"refreshed",
"regenerated",
"reinvigorated",
"renewed",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
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},
"to bring back to a former condition or vigor":{
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"examples":[
"supporters of preservation hope to recreate the architectural splendor that the old movie theater had when it first opened"
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"related":[
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"overhauled",
"reclaimed",
"reconditioned",
"reconstituted",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refurbished",
"rehabbed",
"rehabilitated",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"refilled",
"replenished",
"resupplied",
"modernized",
"updated"
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"recharged",
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"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"rejuvenated",
"renewed",
"repaired",
"restored",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived",
"revivified"
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},
"to engage in activity for amusement":{
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"examples":[
"an old summer resort where families have been recreating for over a century"
],
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"labored",
"plodded",
"plugged (away)",
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"strained",
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"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"worked",
"wrought"
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"frisked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"dabbled",
"trifled",
"amused",
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"entertained",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"dabbled",
"fiddled (around)",
"messed around",
"puttered (around)",
"bummed (around)",
"dawdled",
"goldbricked",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lounged (around or about)",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"screwed around",
"slacked (off)",
"jested",
"joked",
"teased"
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"frolicked",
"played",
"rollicked",
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"The performers re-create famous Civil War battles."
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"adjective",
"verb"
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"noun"
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"let me get the store manager, and he'll rectify the invoice for your order"
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"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"aggravated",
"worsened"
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"redrew",
"restyled",
"revised",
"reworked",
"rewrote",
"blue-penciled",
"cut",
"shortened",
"redressed",
"righted",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"fixed",
"mended",
"repaired",
"adjusted",
"modulated",
"regulated",
"altered",
"changed",
"modified"
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"corrected",
"debugged",
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"verb"
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"half the office was out today, many employees being sick or recuperating from the flu"
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"collapse",
"come down",
"sicken",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"fade",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen",
"regress",
"relapse"
],
"related":[
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"come round",
"come to",
"improve",
"pick up",
"revive",
"cheer (up)",
"perk (up)",
"pull through",
"survive",
"recruit"
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"convalesce",
"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
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"rally",
"recoup",
"recover",
"snap back"
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"verb"
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"the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength":{
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"the older you get, the longer recuperation takes"
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"decline",
"degeneration",
"deterioration",
"fading",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"regression",
"relapse"
],
"related":[
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"revival",
"survival"
],
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"convalescence",
"healing",
"mending",
"rally",
"recovery",
"rehab",
"rehabilitation",
"snapback"
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},
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"noun"
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"the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength":{
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"the older you get, the longer recuperation takes"
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"degeneration",
"deterioration",
"fading",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"regression",
"relapse"
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"resuscitation",
"revival",
"survival"
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"convalescence",
"healing",
"mending",
"rally",
"recovery",
"rehab",
"rehabilitation",
"snapback"
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"half the office was out today, many employees being sick or recuperating from the flu"
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"collapse",
"come down",
"sicken",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"fade",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen",
"regress",
"relapse"
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"come round",
"come to",
"improve",
"pick up",
"revive",
"cheer (up)",
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"recruit"
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"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
"pull round",
"rally",
"recoup",
"recover",
"snap back"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"We hope to prevent a recurrence of the disease."
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
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"a red-blooded rugby player who always plays to win"
],
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"effete",
"enervated",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"wan",
"weak",
"weakened",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"tired",
"indolent",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"lazy",
"invertebrate",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"wimpy",
"ill",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell",
"broken-down",
"debilitated",
"decrepit",
"disabled",
"wasted",
"worn-out"
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"related":[
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"brisk",
"dashing",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"punchy",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"vitalized",
"firm",
"fortified",
"mettlesome",
"mighty",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"strong",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"revitalized",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"burly",
"fit",
"hardy",
"husky",
"muscular",
"robustious",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"virile",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vital"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
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"examples":[
"his face reddened when she flashed him a dazzling smile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"incarnadining",
"rouging",
"ruddling",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blushing",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"flushing",
"glowing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"as in":{
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"type":[
"verb"
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"to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal":{
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"examples":[
"learning that he had been adopted forced him to completely redefine his identity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserted",
"defended",
"maintained",
"upheld"
],
"related":[
"reheard",
"reconceptualized",
"reenvisioned",
"re-envisioned",
"reimagined",
"reappraised",
"reassessed",
"reinvestigated",
"restudied",
"amended",
"corrected",
"emended",
"rectified",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"revised"
],
"synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reanalyzed",
"reconceived",
"reconsidered",
"reevaluated",
"re-evaluated",
"reexamined",
"re-examined",
"reexplored",
"re-explored",
"rethought",
"reviewed",
"revisited",
"reweighed"
]
},
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"verb"
]
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"as in recommits , retransmits":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redemption":{
"freedom from guilt or blame for having done something wrong":{
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"examples":[
"Redemption for your actions will only come after a lot of apologizing."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the act of releasing (someone) from servitude to another":{
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"examples":[
"The redemption of slaves was a major issue in the Civil War."
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"moderated"
],
"examples":[
"rescuers redoubled their efforts to reach the people buried in the rubble after unexpectedly hearing someone call for help"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"let up (on)",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"weakened",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"subsided",
"tapered (off)",
"waned",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened"
],
"related":[
"broadened",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"emphasized",
"pointed (up)",
"sharpened",
"stressed",
"augmented",
"enforced",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"restrengthened",
"supplemented",
"maximized",
"enlivened",
"jazzed (up)",
"aggravated",
"exacerbated"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"amped (up)",
"amplified",
"beefed (up)",
"boosted",
"consolidated",
"deepened",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"stepped up",
"strengthened"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if we redouble the recipe, we'll have enough cookies for everyone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"compounded",
"multiplied",
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built (up)",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"synonyms":[
"doubled",
"duplicated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redraws":{
"as in revises , rewrites":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redresses":{
"payment to another for a loss or injury":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"punitive damages",
"solatia",
"amends",
"atonements",
"expiations",
"refunds",
"reimbursements",
"repayments",
"adjustments",
"settlements",
"punishments",
"retaliations"
],
"synonyms":[
"compensations",
"damages",
"indemnifications",
"indemnities",
"quittances",
"recompenses",
"recoupments",
"remunerations",
"reparations",
"reprisals",
"requitals",
"restitutions",
"satisfactions"
]
},
"to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolves",
"condones",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"pardons",
"remits"
],
"related":[
"castigates",
"fixes",
"gets",
"penalizes",
"punishes",
"scourges",
"chastens",
"chastises",
"corrects",
"disciplines",
"rights",
"compensates",
"pays (back)",
"recompenses",
"repays"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenges",
"requites",
"retaliates",
"revenges",
"venges"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"reduce":{
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"elevate",
"promote",
"raise"
],
"examples":[
"was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hire"
],
"related":[
"can",
"cashier",
"dismiss",
"downsize",
"fire",
"lay off",
"sack",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"degrade",
"demote",
"disrate",
"downgrade"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"antonyms":[
"appreciate",
"enhance",
"mark up",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloat",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"overestimate",
"overprice",
"overrate",
"overvalue",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"compound",
"dilate",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"multiply",
"raise",
"swell",
"up"
],
"related":[
"debase",
"demonetize",
"underestimate",
"underprice",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"abridge",
"compress",
"contract",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"moderate",
"shrink"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuate",
"break",
"cheapen",
"depreciate",
"depress",
"devaluate",
"devalue",
"downgrade",
"lower",
"mark down",
"sink",
"write down",
"write off"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"raise"
],
"examples":[
"you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement"
],
"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",
"lower"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reduplication":{
"something that is made to look exactly like something else":{
"antonyms":[
"archetype",
"original",
"prototype"
],
"examples":[
"that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"knockoff",
"phony",
"phoney",
"rip-off",
"rubber stamp",
"sham",
"miniature",
"mock-up",
"simulation",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"image",
"likeness",
"semblance",
"shadow",
"impression",
"imprint",
"print",
"approximation",
"reincarnation",
"version",
"extra",
"reserve",
"spare"
],
"synonyms":[
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dummy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
"mock",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction"
]
},
"the act of saying or doing over again":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's \"save\" button"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rebroadcast",
"rerun",
"recitation",
"rehearsal"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplication",
"iteration",
"redo",
"reiteration",
"renewal",
"repeat",
"repetition",
"replay",
"replication",
"reprise"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reemployments":{
"as in rehires , recalls":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reenforce":{
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"letters of recommendation that reinforced the committee's opinion of the candidate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermine",
"weaken"
],
"related":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"verify",
"affirm",
"avouch",
"validate"
],
"synonyms":[
"back",
"bolster",
"buttress",
"corroborate",
"shore (up)",
"substantiate",
"support"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reenforced":{
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"letters of recommendation that reinforced the committee's opinion of the candidate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"related":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"verified",
"affirmed",
"avouched",
"validated"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed",
"bolstered",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"shored (up)",
"substantiated",
"supported"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"refereed":{
"to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"their father usually ends up refereeing any disputes concerning use of the big TV"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"skirted"
],
"related":[
"considered",
"deemed",
"deliberated",
"heard",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"sized up",
"mediated",
"moderated",
"negotiated",
"prosecuted",
"tried",
"found (for or against)",
"concluded",
"resolved",
"redetermined",
"rejudged"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjudged",
"adjudicated",
"arbitrated",
"decided",
"determined",
"judged",
"ruled (on)",
"settled",
"umpired"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"referred":{
"to have a relation or connection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I don't think that rule of play refers to this particular situation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affected",
"concerned",
"interested",
"involved",
"touched",
"associated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"interrelated",
"linked",
"tied in",
"dealt (with)",
"treated"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertained",
"applied",
"bore",
"pertained",
"related"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"refilled":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"refills":{
"a second or later filling of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The restaurant advertised free refills of soda.",
"prescription refills"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"refinance":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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],
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"provincialism",
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"boorishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"vulgarity"
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"urbanity",
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"genteelness",
"gentility",
"manners",
"class",
"elegance",
"grace",
"taste",
"civility",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"politeness"
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"civilization",
"couth",
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"culture",
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"the recent refinements in this area of medical technology"
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"collapse",
"crash",
"hindrance",
"impediment",
"stumbling block",
"decadence",
"decay",
"declension",
"decline",
"decrease",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"diminishment",
"downgrade",
"ebbing",
"failing",
"flagging",
"languishment",
"lapse",
"lessening",
"reduction",
"sinking",
"slowing",
"weakening",
"worsening",
"detriment",
"disablement",
"drawback",
"glitch",
"impairment",
"shortcoming"
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"boost",
"heightening",
"increase",
"melioration",
"strengthening",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"betterment",
"development",
"elaboration",
"evolution",
"expansion",
"gestation",
"growth",
"maturation",
"perfection",
"ripening",
"civilization",
"edification",
"education",
"enlightenment",
"renaissance",
"renascence",
"revival",
"discovery",
"find",
"windfall",
"innovation",
"invention"
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"advancement",
"breakthrough",
"enhancement",
"improvement"
]
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"inelegance"
],
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],
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"crudeness",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"grotesqueness",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"kitsch",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness",
"vulgarity"
],
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"brilliance",
"gloriousness",
"glory",
"grandeur",
"grandness",
"lavishness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"luxury",
"magnificence",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"opulence",
"ornateness",
"plushiness",
"plushness",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"richness",
"splendor",
"sumptuousness",
"artfulness",
"chic",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness",
"choiceness",
"classicism",
"dignity",
"exquisiteness",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"affectedness",
"grandiosity",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness"
],
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"class",
"classiness",
"courtliness",
"elegance",
"elegancy",
"fineness",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"handsomeness",
"majesty",
"stateliness"
]
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"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"does anyone want to share their reflections on the passage we just read?"
],
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"analyses",
"commentaries",
"expositions",
"asides",
"obiter dicta",
"annotations",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"notions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"verdicts",
"views",
"advice",
"inputs"
],
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"comments",
"notes",
"remarks"
]
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"examples":[
"after reflection , they decided to refuse the offer on the house"
],
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"contemplations",
"meditations",
"ruminations",
"introspections",
"hesitations",
"indecisions",
"premeditations"
],
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"accounts",
"advisements",
"considerations",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"studies",
"thoughts"
]
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"credits",
"honors"
],
"examples":[
"your constant lying is a serious reflection on your character"
],
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"boasts",
"glories",
"jewels",
"prides",
"treasures"
],
"related":[
"blots",
"brands",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"spots",
"stains",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"taints"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches",
"scandals"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reformative":{
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"examples":[
"took reformative measures to curb abuses in the state's system of justice"
],
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"related":[
"curative",
"medicinal",
"therapeutic",
"reparative",
"restorative",
"beneficial",
"helpful",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"antidotal",
"counteractive",
"counterbalancing"
],
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"amendatory",
"corrective",
"rectifying",
"reformatory",
"remedial",
"remedying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a man who's been trying to reform ever since he got fired for missing too many days of work"
],
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"backsliding",
"regressing"
],
"related":[
"behaving",
"regenerating",
"bettering",
"improving"
],
"synonyms":[
"amending",
"mending",
"shaping up",
"straightening (up or out)"
]
},
"to make better in behavior or character":{
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"examples":[
"volunteers at a sanctuary that tries to reform dogs with behavior problems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abasing",
"cankering",
"corrupting",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"lowering",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"warping"
],
"related":[
"reeducating",
"amending",
"improving",
"refining",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"restoring"
],
"synonyms":[
"habilitating",
"reclaiming",
"redeeming",
"regenerating",
"rehabilitating"
]
},
"to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from":{
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"examples":[
"he had better reform his ways if he wants any of us to trust him"
],
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"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"spoiling",
"aggravating",
"worsening"
],
"related":[
"redrafting",
"redrawing",
"restyling",
"revising",
"reworking",
"rewriting",
"blue-penciling",
"cutting",
"shortening",
"redressing",
"righting",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"perfecting",
"polishing",
"touching up",
"fixing",
"mending",
"repairing",
"adjusting",
"modulating",
"regulating",
"altering",
"changing",
"modifying"
],
"synonyms":[
"amending",
"correcting",
"debugging",
"emending",
"rectifying",
"red-penciling",
"remedying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"refreshed":{
"made or become fresh in spirits or vigor":{
"antonyms":[
"drained",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"exhausted",
"knackered",
"weakened"
],
"examples":[
"woke the next morning refreshed and ready for the day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tired",
"weary",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"emasculated",
"unmanned",
"demoralized",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"related":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"exhilarated",
"jazzed (up)",
"resurrected",
"rested",
"untired",
"unwearied"
],
"synonyms":[
"energized",
"freshened",
"invigorated",
"new",
"newborn",
"reanimated",
"reborn",
"recreated",
"reenergized",
"regenerated",
"reinvigorated",
"renewed",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
]
},
"to bring back to a former condition or vigor":{
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"examples":[
"brought out some iced tea to refresh the spirits of the folks working out in the sun"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"made over",
"overhauled",
"reclaimed",
"reconditioned",
"reconstituted",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refurbished",
"rehabbed",
"rehabilitated",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"refilled",
"replenished",
"resupplied",
"modernized",
"updated"
],
"synonyms":[
"freshened",
"recharged",
"recreated",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"rejuvenated",
"renewed",
"repaired",
"restored",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived",
"revivified"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
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"examples":[
"we were looking for a family-friendly restaurant where we could sit down and refresh before continuing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieted",
"fasted"
],
"related":[
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"repasted",
"chowed (down)",
"dug in",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"gormandized",
"overate",
"overfed",
"pigged out",
"grazed",
"nibbled",
"noshed",
"picked",
"snacked",
"boarded",
"dined out",
"messed",
"breakfasted",
"lunched",
"supped",
"picnicked"
],
"synonyms":[
"ate",
"dined",
"fared",
"fed",
"partook",
"victualed",
"victualled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"to bring back to a former condition or vigor":{
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"examples":[
"refreshened the wilting flowers by cutting the stems again and putting them in a vase with water"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"making over",
"overhauling",
"reclaiming",
"reconditioning",
"reconstituting",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refurbishing",
"rehabbing",
"rehabilitating",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"refilling",
"replenishing",
"resupplying",
"modernizing",
"updating"
],
"synonyms":[
"freshening",
"recharging",
"recreating",
"refreshing",
"regenerating",
"rejuvenating",
"renewing",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"resuscitating",
"revitalizing",
"revivifying",
"reviving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"refreshens":{
"to bring back to a former condition or vigor":{
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"examples":[
"refreshened the wilting flowers by cutting the stems again and putting them in a vase with water"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"overhauls",
"reclaims",
"reconditions",
"reconstitutes",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refurbishes",
"rehabilitates",
"rehabs",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"refills",
"replenishes",
"resupplies",
"modernizes",
"updates"
],
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"freshens",
"recharges",
"recreates",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"rejuvenates",
"renews",
"repairs",
"restores",
"resuscitates",
"revitalizes",
"revives",
"revivifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"refuges":{
"something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger":{
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"examples":[
"hunting is strictly forbidden in the wildlife refuge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"oases",
"anchorages",
"moorings",
"ports",
"covers",
"screens",
"abodes",
"diggings",
"domiciles",
"dwellings",
"habitations",
"houses",
"housings",
"lodgings",
"lodgments",
"lodgements",
"pads",
"places",
"quarters",
"residences",
"rests",
"roofs",
"cloisters",
"closets",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"lairs",
"castles",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"redoubts",
"strongholds",
"lean-tos",
"lees",
"sheds",
"windbreaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"asylums",
"bolt-holes",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"havens",
"retreats",
"sanctuaries",
"sanctums",
"sancta",
"shelters"
]
},
"to be or provide a shelter for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a nation with a long, honorable history of refuging political asylum seekers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes"
],
"related":[
"covers",
"defends",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards",
"domiciles",
"houses",
"places",
"quarters",
"shades",
"shadows"
],
"synonyms":[
"harbors",
"shelters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"refulgent":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
],
"examples":[
"refulgent sunlight broke through the clouds, creating huge swaths of light in the valley below us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"related":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"refunding":{
"to make a return payment to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"will refund you your money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"giving back",
"reciprocating",
"rendering (to)",
"compensating",
"recompensing",
"remunerating",
"liquidating",
"paying down",
"paying off",
"paying up",
"quitting",
"satisfying",
"settling"
],
"synonyms":[
"reimbursing",
"repaying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"refused":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to be unwilling to grant":{
"antonyms":[
"allowed",
"conceded",
"granted",
"let",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"permitted"
],
"examples":[
"the reclusive movie star usually refuses requests for interviews"
],
"near antonyms":[
"afforded",
"furnished",
"gave",
"provided",
"supplied",
"authorized",
"commissioned",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"consented (to)",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed"
],
"related":[
"banned",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"vetoed",
"rebuffed",
"repelled",
"spurned",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"held",
"kept",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"restricted",
"balked (at)",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed"
],
"synonyms":[
"declined",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"nixed",
"rejected",
"reprobated",
"withheld"
]
},
"to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to":{
"antonyms":[
"accepted",
"agreed (to)",
"approved"
],
"examples":[
"she refused the award, citing the hard work of others who deserved the recognition more than she did"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"swallowed",
"tolerated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"received",
"took",
"welcomed",
"acceded",
"acquiesced",
"agreed",
"assented",
"consented",
"chose",
"handpicked",
"selected",
"espoused",
"supported"
],
"related":[
"blew off",
"disdained",
"rebuffed",
"scorned",
"scouted",
"shot down",
"overruled",
"vetoed",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"dismissed",
"ignored",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"refrained (from)",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"stuck",
"abjured",
"forswore",
"foreswore",
"recanted",
"renounced",
"retracted",
"took back",
"unsaid",
"withdrew",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"detoured",
"contradicted",
"denied",
"disowned",
"negated",
"controverted",
"disagreed (with)",
"disproved",
"disputed",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"backed down",
"backed off",
"backtracked",
"disallowed",
"recalled",
"reneged",
"revoked"
],
"synonyms":[
"balked (at)",
"declined",
"deselected",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"nixed",
"passed",
"passed up",
"rejected",
"reprobated",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"threw out",
"threw over",
"turned down"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"refuted":{
"to declare not to be true":{
"antonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"allowed",
"avowed",
"conceded",
"confirmed",
"owned"
],
"examples":[
"while he was publicly refuting rumors of a merger, behind the scenes the CEO was working to effect that very outcome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"affirmed",
"announced",
"asserted",
"averred",
"claimed",
"declared",
"maintained",
"professed",
"submitted",
"authenticated",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"related":[
"traversed",
"challenged",
"confuted",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"disagreed (with)",
"disputed"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradicted",
"denied",
"disaffirmed",
"disallowed",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disconfirmed",
"disowned",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"negatived",
"rejected",
"repudiated"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"examples":[
"the victories of African-American athlete Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics effectively refuted the racial views of the Nazis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documented",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"showed",
"supported",
"witnessed",
"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"illustrated",
"manifested"
],
"related":[
"overthrew",
"overturned",
"challenged",
"contested",
"queried",
"questioned",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"debated",
"discussed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"talked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"confounded",
"confuted",
"debunked",
"disconfirmed",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"falsified",
"rebutted",
"shot down"
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"verb"
]
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"as in":{
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"related":[],
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"acknowledging",
"admitting",
"allowing",
"avowing",
"conceding",
"confirming",
"owning"
],
"examples":[
"while he was publicly refuting rumors of a merger, behind the scenes the CEO was working to effect that very outcome"
],
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"accepting",
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"affirming",
"announcing",
"asserting",
"averring",
"claiming",
"declaring",
"maintaining",
"professing",
"submitting",
"authenticating",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"related":[
"traversing",
"challenging",
"confuting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"disagreeing (with)",
"disputing"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradicting",
"denying",
"disaffirming",
"disallowing",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disconfirming",
"disowning",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"examples":[
"the victories of African-American athlete Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics effectively refuted the racial views of the Nazis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"showing",
"supporting",
"witnessing",
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"illustrating",
"manifesting"
],
"related":[
"overthrowing",
"overturning",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"querying",
"questioning",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"talking over"
],
"synonyms":[
"belying",
"confounding",
"confuting",
"debunking",
"disconfirming",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"falsifying",
"rebutting",
"shooting down"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"regard":{
"a feeling of great approval and liking":{
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"disfavor"
],
"examples":[
"I have a deep regard for humanitarian aid workers who risk everything to help the poor"
],
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"condemnation",
"disapproval",
"disdain",
"opprobrium",
"scorn",
"disappointment",
"discontent",
"disenchantment",
"disgruntlement",
"disillusionment",
"displeasure",
"indignation",
"unhappiness",
"aversion",
"contempt",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disregard",
"distaste",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"abomination",
"antipathy",
"detestation",
"deprecation",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction"
],
"related":[
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"love",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use",
"acclamation",
"adoration",
"adulation",
"approbation",
"deference",
"hero worship",
"homage",
"honor",
"idolatry",
"infatuation",
"lionization",
"praise",
"props",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"amazement",
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment",
"enthusiasm",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"affection",
"attachment",
"devotion",
"passion"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"esteem",
"estimation",
"favor",
"respect"
]
},
"a fixed intent look":{
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"examples":[
"fixed the same magisterial regard on all the miscreants who appeared before her in court"
],
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"blink",
"flash",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"sight",
"stime",
"oeillade",
"ogle",
"browse",
"scan"
],
"related":[
"glare",
"glower",
"contemplation",
"fixation",
"attention",
"observance",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"examination",
"inspection",
"perusal",
"study",
"survey"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspect",
"eye",
"gape",
"gaze",
"scrutiny",
"stare"
]
},
"an instance of looking especially briefly":{
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"examples":[
"flashed the young man an imperial regard that clearly indicated such behavior was out of line"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gape",
"gaze",
"glare",
"leer",
"ogle",
"stare",
"side-glance",
"squinny",
"squint",
"coup d'oeil"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"eye",
"gander",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"look",
"peek",
"peep",
"sight",
"view"
]
},
"best wishes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"give your parents my regards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"related":[
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"well-wishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliment",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"respects"
]
},
"relation to or concern with something specified":{
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"examples":[
"with regard to your request for time off, go ahead and take the whole week for vacation"
],
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"synonyms":[
"reference",
"respect"
]
},
"the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality":{
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"examples":[
"Lord Warwick's noble regard and gallant demeanor set the innocent maid's heart aflutter"
],
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"related":[
"air",
"attitude",
"bearing",
"behavior",
"comportment",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"manner",
"poise",
"pose",
"carriage",
"posture",
"stance",
"cast",
"mold",
"shape",
"turn",
"color",
"coloring",
"complexion",
"countenance",
"face",
"features",
"habit",
"habitus",
"person",
"physiognomy",
"superficies",
"visage"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearance",
"aspect",
"dress",
"figure",
"garb",
"look",
"mien",
"outside",
"presence"
]
},
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"antonyms":[
"discount",
"disregard"
],
"examples":[
"the judges regard the amount of effort and energy you put into the project in evaluating it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factor (out)"
],
"related":[
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"anticipate",
"contemplate",
"envisage",
"expect",
"foresee",
"assume",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"plan",
"calculate",
"face"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow (for)",
"consider",
"factor (in or into)",
"provide (for)"
]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she regarded him with astonishment when he announced he had gotten engaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"miss",
"overlook"
],
"related":[
"identify",
"make out",
"pick out",
"pick up",
"attend (to)",
"consider",
"heed",
"mark",
"mind",
"study",
"watch",
"examine",
"inspect",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"glance (at)",
"glimpse",
"peer (at)"
],
"synonyms":[
"behold",
"catch",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"perceive",
"remark",
"see",
"sight",
"spot",
"spy",
"view",
"witness"
]
},
"to take notice of and be guided by":{
"antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"tune out"
],
"examples":[
"as a traveler, you should regard the laws and customs of whatever country you are visiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"gloss (over)",
"gloze (over)",
"neglect",
"pass over",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"scorn",
"shrug off",
"defy",
"flout",
"slight",
"snub"
],
"related":[
"consider",
"contemplate",
"mull",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"comply (with)",
"conform (to)",
"keep",
"obey",
"respect",
"attend (to)",
"hark (to)",
"hear",
"hearken (to)",
"mark",
"notice",
"see"
],
"synonyms":[
"follow",
"heed",
"listen (to)",
"mind",
"note",
"observe",
"watch"
]
},
"to think of in a particular way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I wouldn't regard that offhand comment as a serious threat to your personal safety"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"believe",
"deem",
"feel",
"sense",
"think",
"conceive",
"fancy",
"imagine"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"call",
"consider",
"count",
"esteem",
"hold",
"look (on or upon)",
"rate",
"reckon",
"set down",
"view"
]
},
"to think very highly or favorably of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an astronomer who is highly regarded by his peers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe",
"condemn",
"decry",
"deplore",
"disapprove",
"discount",
"discountenance",
"disdain",
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"dismiss",
"disregard",
"frown (on or upon)",
"kiss off",
"scorn",
"vilify"
],
"related":[
"acclaim",
"accredit",
"applaud",
"approve",
"commend",
"compliment",
"credit",
"praise",
"delight (in)",
"drink (in)",
"enjoy",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"savor",
"savour",
"dig",
"fancy",
"favor",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"adore",
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"dote (on)",
"hallow",
"idolize",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"worship",
"cherish",
"love",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"synonyms":[
"admire",
"appreciate",
"consider",
"esteem",
"respect"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"regenerating":{
"to bring back to a former condition or vigor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the neighborhood was regenerated thanks to a government grant for restoring all the old buildings and creating studio spaces for artists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"making over",
"overhauling",
"reclaiming",
"reconditioning",
"reconstituting",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refurbishing",
"rehabbing",
"rehabilitating",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"refilling",
"replenishing",
"resupplying",
"modernizing",
"updating"
],
"synonyms":[
"freshening",
"recharging",
"recreating",
"refreshening",
"refreshing",
"rejuvenating",
"renewing",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"resuscitating",
"revitalizing",
"revivifying",
"reviving"
]
},
"to bring back to life, practice, or activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dairy farming in the area was regenerated when new arrivals bought the old creamery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extinguishing",
"killing",
"quenching",
"suppressing"
],
"related":[
"jump-starting",
"kick-starting",
"reactivating",
"restarting",
"reinventing",
"refreshening",
"refreshing"
],
"synonyms":[
"reanimating",
"recharging",
"rejuvenating",
"rekindling",
"renewing",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"revitalizing",
"revivifying",
"reviving",
"rewakening",
"rewaking"
]
},
"to make better in behavior or character":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the ex-convict credits his newfound faith with regenerating him beyond anything that he could have imagined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abasing",
"cankering",
"corrupting",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"lowering",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"warping"
],
"related":[
"reeducating",
"amending",
"improving",
"refining",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"restoring"
],
"synonyms":[
"habilitating",
"reclaiming",
"redeeming",
"reforming",
"rehabilitating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"regimen":{
"lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"with the start of the new year, a new party will have regimen over the nation and, hopefully, bring some much-needed change"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"reign",
"dominion",
"power",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"sway",
"command",
"leadership",
"direction",
"management",
"regulation",
"superintendence",
"supervision",
"autocracy",
"dictatorship",
"domination",
"hegemony",
"mastery",
"oppression",
"subjugation",
"tyranny"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"authority",
"governance",
"government",
"jurisdiction",
"regime",
"r\u00e9gime",
"rule"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"register":{
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"check the voter register to see if it has my current party affiliation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"agenda",
"bibliography",
"catalogue raisonn\u00e9",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"directory",
"docket",
"enumeration",
"glossary",
"index",
"inventory",
"manifest",
"payroll",
"calendar",
"chronology",
"timetable"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"checklist",
"list",
"listing",
"menu",
"registry",
"roll",
"roll call",
"roster",
"schedule",
"table"
]
},
"an official whose job is to keep records":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"ask the county register for a copy of your birth certificate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"archivist",
"bookkeeper",
"recorder",
"reporter",
"transcriptionist",
"annalist",
"chronicler",
"documenter",
"historian"
],
"synonyms":[
"clerk",
"registrar",
"scribe",
"secretary"
]
},
"to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member":{
"antonyms":[
"delist"
],
"examples":[
"please register me for the yoga class"
],
"near antonyms":[
"check off",
"exclude",
"expel",
"expunge",
"reject",
"omit",
"overlook"
],
"related":[
"enlist",
"impanel",
"induct",
"conscript",
"draft",
"muster",
"wait-list",
"book",
"schedule",
"check in"
],
"synonyms":[
"enroll",
"enrol",
"inscribe",
"list",
"matriculate"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"antonyms":[
"miss"
],
"examples":[
"I'm not registering what you're saying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"related":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"recognize",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
]
},
"to make a written note of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the management registered her complaint in their log and promised to get back to her in a week"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chronicle",
"minute",
"transcribe",
"enregister",
"enter",
"inscribe",
"chalk (up)",
"notch",
"score"
],
"synonyms":[
"jot (down)",
"log",
"mark",
"note",
"put down",
"record",
"report",
"set down",
"take down",
"write down"
]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I have to register my new car when I renew my driver's license"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delete"
],
"related":[
"book",
"card",
"file",
"note",
"classify",
"compile",
"tabulate",
"tally",
"reschedule"
],
"synonyms":[
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"enter",
"index",
"inscribe",
"list",
"put down",
"record",
"schedule",
"slate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"regretting":{
"to feel sorry or dissatisfied about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we regret any inconvenience that we may have caused you"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighting (in)",
"enjoying",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
"related":[
"aching (for)",
"bewailing",
"grieving (for)",
"mourning",
"sorrowing (for)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoaning",
"deploring",
"lamenting",
"repenting",
"ruing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"regularity":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reheated":{
"as in heated , warmed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in rewarmed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rehydrate":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rehydrated":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reimburse":{
"to make a return payment to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"make sure you keep your receipts so we can reimburse you for your expenses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"give back",
"reciprocate",
"render (to)",
"compensate",
"recompense",
"remunerate",
"liquidate",
"pay down",
"pay off",
"pay up",
"quit",
"satisfy",
"settle"
],
"synonyms":[
"refund",
"repay"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reined":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reinitiate":{
"as in reinstitute , relaunch":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reinitiating":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reintroduce":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reinventing":{
"to bring (something) into use again in a new way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Later in her career, she reinvented herself as a singer/songwriter."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make significant changes or improvements to (something)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"We are striving to reinvent our business model."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reinvigorated":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"made or become fresh in spirits or vigor":{
"antonyms":[
"drained",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"exhausted",
"knackered",
"weakened"
],
"examples":[
"a reinvigorated political campaign that eventually made it all the way to the statehouse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tired",
"weary",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"emasculated",
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"bum",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
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"vegetate",
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"calm",
"compose",
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"tension",
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"hump",
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"quitclaims",
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]
},
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"examples":[
"because they had legally declared bankruptcy, they received release from their debt"
],
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"related":[
"dispensations",
"exemptions",
"immunities",
"waivers"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliveries",
"discharges",
"quietuses",
"quittances"
]
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"examples":[
"a press release announcing that the governor would not run for a second term"
],
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"related":[
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"synonyms":[
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings"
]
},
"reduction of or freedom from pain":{
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"examples":[
"only sleep offered any release from the agony of the migraine"
],
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"discomforts",
"agonies",
"anguishes",
"miseries",
"sufferings",
"torments",
"tortures",
"aches",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"smarts",
"stings",
"stitches",
"throes",
"tingles",
"twinges"
],
"related":[
"appeasements",
"assuagements",
"decreases",
"diminishments",
"mitigations",
"moderations",
"mollifications"
],
"synonyms":[
"alleviations",
"comforts",
"eases",
"reliefs"
]
},
"to find emotional release for":{
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"bottles (up)",
"represses",
"suppresses"
],
"examples":[
"tried to find other ways of releasing tension than by chewing her fingernails"
],
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"controls",
"governs",
"handles",
"manages",
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"curbs",
"holds back",
"pulls in",
"quells",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"tames",
"allays",
"lulls",
"quiets",
"soothes",
"stills",
"chokes",
"inhibits",
"muffles",
"pockets",
"represses",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"swallows"
],
"related":[
"acts out",
"airs",
"expresses",
"states",
"ventilates",
"voices"
],
"synonyms":[
"looses",
"takes out",
"unleashes",
"vents"
]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
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"employs",
"engages",
"hires",
"retains",
"signs (up or on)",
"takes on"
],
"examples":[
"they released the workers who couldn't handle the new technology"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keeps",
"reemploys",
"rehires",
"contracts",
"subcontracts",
"recruits"
],
"related":[
"downsizes",
"excesses",
"furloughs",
"lays off",
"trims",
"boots (out)",
"chucks (out)",
"drums (out)",
"kicks out",
"throws out",
"unseats",
"separates"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bounces",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"musters out",
"pink-slips",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates",
"turns off"
]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the panel of nutritionists released their findings on the safety and effectiveness of various diets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"related":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
]
},
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"antonyms":[
"binds",
"confines",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"restrains"
],
"examples":[
"release the prisoners immediately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"commits",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"locks (up)",
"conquers",
"enslaves",
"subdues",
"subjugates"
],
"related":[
"bails (out)",
"delivers",
"paroles",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves",
"disembarrasses",
"disencumbers",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"unshackles"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharges",
"disenthralls",
"disenthrals",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"enlarges",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"manumits",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
]
},
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"governs",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"tames"
],
"examples":[
"the losing player released his anger with a great yell of frustration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"binds",
"confines",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"halters",
"hampers"
],
"related":[
"discharges",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"manumits",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters",
"unmoors",
"unshackles",
"airs",
"expresses",
"takes out",
"vents"
],
"synonyms":[
"loosens",
"looses",
"uncorks",
"unleashes",
"unlocks",
"unloosens",
"unlooses"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"antonyms":[
"embroils",
"entangles"
],
"examples":[
"the new governor finally managed to release himself from his rash campaign promise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocks",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"loads",
"weighs"
],
"related":[
"delivers",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves",
"disburdens",
"disencumbers",
"unburdens",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"unties",
"untwines"
],
"synonyms":[
"clears",
"disembarrasses",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"untangles"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an air freshener that releases a pleasing scent into the room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbs",
"inhales",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"sucks (up)",
"takes up"
],
"related":[
"eliminates",
"evacuates",
"excretes",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"secretes",
"ejects",
"erupts",
"gushes",
"jets",
"outpours",
"pours",
"spews",
"spouts",
"sprays",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"discharges",
"emanates",
"emits",
"evolves",
"exhales",
"expels",
"expires",
"gives out",
"irradiates",
"issues",
"radiates",
"sends (out)",
"shoots",
"throws out",
"vents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"relents":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"antonyms":[
"resists"
],
"examples":[
"the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contends",
"fights",
"holds off",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands"
],
"related":[
"acquiesces",
"defers"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"bows",
"budges",
"capitulates",
"concedes",
"gives in",
"knuckles under",
"quits",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders",
"yields"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"examples":[
"the fury of the storm relented , and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"related":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relevance":{
"the fact or state of being pertinent":{
"antonyms":[
"extraneousness",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy"
],
"examples":[
"I appreciate that you did the dishes tonight, but that has no relevance to my enforcement of the punishment you got earlier this week"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unsuitability",
"insignificance",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness",
"uselessness"
],
"related":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"importance",
"significance",
"usefulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevancy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reliable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"worthy of one's trust":{
"antonyms":[
"dodgy",
"uncertain",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"unsafe",
"untrustworthy"
],
"examples":[
"I need a reliable car that's not going to break down constantly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"uncertain",
"unsound",
"hazardous",
"risky",
"unconfirmed",
"untried"
],
"related":[
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"true-blue",
"honest",
"sincere",
"single-minded",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"bedrock",
"firm",
"sound",
"strong",
"effective",
"telling",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"proven",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"blameless",
"faultless",
"guiltless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable",
"unquestionable"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculable",
"dependable",
"good",
"responsible",
"safe",
"secure",
"solid",
"steady",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
]
}
},
"reliableness":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence":{
"antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
],
"examples":[
"the proven reliableness of that brand of household appliances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"related":[
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliability",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness"
]
}
},
"relief":{
"a feeling of ease from grief or trouble":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my coworkers' kind words gave me some relief from the grief that I was feeling upon the death of my partner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anguish",
"distress",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"related":[
"encouragement",
"inspiration",
"uplift",
"assurance",
"reassurance",
"alleviation",
"assuagement",
"mitigation",
"contentment",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"commiseration",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"aid",
"assistance",
"help",
"succor"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace"
]
},
"a person or thing that takes the place of another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I can't go home from my nursing shift until my relief shows up to take over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"alternate",
"understudy",
"apology",
"makeshift",
"stopgap",
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative",
"surrogate",
"assistant",
"reliever",
"second",
"successor",
"superseder"
],
"synonyms":[
"backup",
"cover",
"designated hitter",
"fill-in",
"locum tenens",
"pinch hitter",
"replacement",
"reserve",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute"
]
},
"reduction of or freedom from pain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the aspirin gave him some relief from the headache"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discomfort",
"unrest",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
],
"related":[
"appeasement",
"assuagement",
"decrease",
"diminishment",
"mitigation",
"moderation",
"mollification",
"calming",
"salving",
"soothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alleviation",
"comfort",
"ease",
"release"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reliever":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relieving":{
"as in easing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make more bearable or less severe":{
"antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"exacerbating"
],
"examples":[
"an ice pack will relieve the swelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"sharpening"
],
"related":[
"abating",
"lightening",
"moderating",
"softening",
"tempering",
"curing",
"healing",
"remedying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"emending",
"fixing",
"mending",
"rectifying",
"reforming",
"repairing",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"refining"
],
"synonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"helping",
"mitigating",
"mollifying",
"palliating",
"soothing"
]
},
"to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers":{
"antonyms":[
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"saddling"
],
"examples":[
"the bellhop relieved him of his luggage and led him to the elevator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bogging (down)",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"subjecting",
"weighing down",
"weighting (down)"
],
"related":[
"discharging",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering",
"bailing (out)",
"delivering",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"extricating"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearing",
"disburdening",
"disencumbering",
"divesting",
"freeing",
"ridding",
"unburdening"
]
},
"to take the place of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"at daybreak a soldier arrived to relieve the one who had spent the night on guard duty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"preempting",
"usurping"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting out",
"displacing",
"displanting",
"replacing",
"substituting",
"superseding",
"supplanting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"relishable":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"reluctance":{
"a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something":{
"antonyms":[
"inclination",
"willingness"
],
"examples":[
"the mice showed an odd reluctance to eat the cheese we had put out for them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurance",
"assuredness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"conviction",
"positiveness",
"sureness",
"surety"
],
"related":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"shilly-shallying",
"staggering",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"misdoubt",
"misgiving",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty"
],
"synonyms":[
"disinclination",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"reticence",
"unwillingness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"remainder":{
"a remaining group or portion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the remainder of the pills were saved in case they were needed later"
],
"near antonyms":[
"body",
"bulk",
"main",
"mass",
"most",
"weight"
],
"related":[
"fragment",
"scrap",
"vestige",
"butt",
"oddment",
"scraping(s)",
"stub",
"stump",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"leavings",
"leftovers",
"odds and ends",
"remains",
"remnant",
"residue",
"residuum",
"rest"
]
},
"an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the remainder of the dough can be used to make a tartlet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"whole"
],
"related":[
"leavings",
"odds and ends",
"pickings",
"refuse",
"remains",
"residual",
"residue",
"scraping(s)",
"stump",
"vestige",
"balance",
"rest",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"piece",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"ribbon(s)",
"shred",
"tatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"end",
"fag end",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remnant",
"scrap",
"stub"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"remarkable":{
"different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one participant in the race had a remarkable walk that was half-run, half-skip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"related":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"addlepated",
"flaky",
"extraordinary",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
]
},
"likely to attract attention":{
"antonyms":[
"inconspicuous",
"unemphatic",
"unflamboyant",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"unremarkable",
"unshowy"
],
"examples":[
"there's a remarkable fixation with vanity of earthly pleasures in this author's poetry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subtle",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"shrouded",
"dim",
"faint",
"obscure",
"insignificant",
"undistinguished",
"unimportant",
"modest",
"unaffected",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"conservative",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple",
"understated",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"subtle",
"toned-down",
"unflashy"
],
"related":[
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"visible",
"outstanding",
"salient",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"impressive",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"howling",
"screaming",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"jazzy",
"loud",
"meretricious",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"extravagant",
"fancy",
"florid",
"glittery",
"spectacular",
"opulent",
"ornate",
"overdone",
"overwrought",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting",
"riveting"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bodacious",
"bold",
"brilliant",
"catchy",
"commanding",
"conspicuous",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"grabby",
"kenspeckle",
"marked",
"noisy",
"noticeable",
"prominent",
"pronounced",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"worth remembering or mentioning":{
"antonyms":[
"forgettable",
"unmemorable",
"unremarkable"
],
"examples":[
"just your average suburban ranch house, with nothing remarkable about it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"unexceptional"
],
"related":[
"quotable",
"repeatable",
"indelible",
"unforgettable",
"newsworthy"
],
"synonyms":[
"citable",
"memorable",
"mentionable",
"nameable",
"namable",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"observable"
]
}
},
"remember":{
"to bring back to mind":{
"antonyms":[
"disremember",
"forget",
"unlearn"
],
"examples":[
"I remember very clearly the fun we had that long-ago summer, but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misremember",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"lose",
"miss",
"blank (out)"
],
"related":[
"recapture",
"recur",
"educe",
"elicit",
"evoke",
"extract",
"raise",
"remind",
"relive",
"represent"
],
"synonyms":[
"flash back (to)",
"hark back (to)",
"harken back (to)",
"hearken back (to)",
"mind",
"recall",
"recollect",
"reminisce (about)",
"reproduce",
"think (of)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reminisce":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"remonstrate (with)":{
"to present an opposing opinion or argument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"discouraged her from remonstrating with her father, whose mind was obviously made up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"sanction",
"accept",
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"adhere",
"comply",
"conform",
"follow",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe",
"advocate",
"champion",
"defend",
"maintain",
"support",
"sustain",
"uphold",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend"
],
"related":[
"cavil",
"quibble",
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"fight",
"conflict",
"debate",
"dispute",
"hassle",
"quarrel",
"squabble",
"wrangle",
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"keen",
"maunder",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"balk",
"gag",
"stick",
"censure",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"disobey",
"rebel",
"withstand",
"demonstrate"
],
"synonyms":[
"demur",
"except",
"expostulate",
"kick",
"object",
"protest"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"remove":{
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"their farm is just a remove of two miles from the town center"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"altitude",
"area",
"breadth",
"depth",
"height",
"rise",
"space",
"volume",
"width",
"extension",
"extent",
"cast",
"range",
"reach",
"scope",
"shot",
"sweep",
"throw",
"drop",
"fall",
"flight",
"haul",
"berth",
"clearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"distance",
"lead",
"length",
"spacing",
"spread",
"stretch",
"way"
]
},
"to change the place or position of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"please remove that chair to the other room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchor",
"fix",
"freeze",
"moor",
"secure",
"set",
"stabilize",
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
"related":[
"bear",
"carry",
"cart",
"convey",
"drive",
"haul",
"lug",
"tote",
"transmit",
"transplant",
"transport",
"replace",
"supersede",
"supplant",
"alter",
"make over",
"modify",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"synonyms":[
"budge",
"dislocate",
"displace",
"disturb",
"move",
"relocate",
"reposition",
"shift",
"transfer",
"transpose"
]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"antonyms":[
"employ",
"engage",
"hire",
"retain",
"sign (up or on)",
"take on"
],
"examples":[
"voters removed the racist selectman from office the first chance they got"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keep",
"reemploy",
"rehire",
"contract",
"subcontract",
"recruit"
],
"related":[
"downsize",
"excess",
"furlough",
"lay off",
"trim",
"boot (out)",
"chuck (out)",
"drum (out)",
"kick out",
"throw out",
"unseat",
"separate"
],
"synonyms":[
"ax",
"axe",
"bounce",
"can",
"cashier",
"discharge",
"dismiss",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate",
"turn off"
]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"antonyms":[
"don",
"put on",
"slip (into)",
"throw (on)"
],
"examples":[
"I removed my coat as soon as I got inside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wear",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit"
],
"related":[
"husk",
"shed",
"kick (off)",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"synonyms":[
"doff",
"douse",
"peel (off)",
"put off",
"shrug off",
"take off"
]
},
"to take away from a place or position":{
"antonyms":[
"place",
"position",
"put"
],
"examples":[
"he carefully removed the old manuscript from the shelf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mount",
"anchor",
"clamp",
"fix",
"hitch",
"moor",
"secure",
"set",
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root",
"set up",
"site",
"situate",
"stick"
],
"related":[
"demount",
"dislodge",
"abstract",
"cut",
"draw off",
"draw out",
"extract",
"pull",
"budge",
"dislocate",
"displace",
"disturb",
"move",
"shift",
"transfer",
"transpose"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear",
"draw",
"take out",
"withdraw"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"removed":{
"not close in time or space":{
"antonyms":[
"close",
"near",
"nearby",
"nigh"
],
"examples":[
"an island far removed from the mainland"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"contiguous"
],
"related":[
"apart",
"devious",
"isolated",
"lonesome",
"nowhere",
"obscure",
"odd",
"outlying",
"out-of-the-way",
"retired",
"secluded",
"secret",
"sequestered"
],
"synonyms":[
"away",
"deep",
"distant",
"far",
"far-flung",
"far-off",
"faraway",
"remote"
]
},
"to change the place or position of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"please remove that chair to the other room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchored",
"fixed",
"froze",
"moored",
"secured",
"set",
"stabilized",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted"
],
"related":[
"bore",
"carried",
"carted",
"conveyed",
"drove",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"toted",
"transmitted",
"transplanted",
"transported",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"supplanted",
"altered",
"made over",
"modified",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
],
"synonyms":[
"budged",
"dislocated",
"displaced",
"disturbed",
"moved",
"relocated",
"repositioned",
"shifted",
"transferred",
"transposed"
]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"antonyms":[
"employed",
"engaged",
"hired",
"retained",
"signed (up or on)",
"took on"
],
"examples":[
"voters removed the racist selectman from office the first chance they got"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kept",
"reemployed",
"re-employed",
"rehired",
"contracted",
"subcontracted",
"recruited"
],
"related":[
"downsized",
"excessed",
"furloughed",
"laid off",
"trimmed",
"booted (out)",
"chucked (out)",
"drummed (out)",
"kicked out",
"threw out",
"unseated",
"separated"
],
"synonyms":[
"axed",
"bounced",
"canned",
"cashiered",
"discharged",
"dismissed",
"fired",
"mustered out",
"pink-slipped",
"released",
"retired",
"sacked",
"terminated",
"turned off"
]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"antonyms":[
"donned",
"put on",
"slipped (into)",
"threw (on)"
],
"examples":[
"I removed my coat as soon as I got inside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wore",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"rigged",
"robed",
"suited"
],
"related":[
"husked",
"shed",
"kicked (off)",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"undressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffed",
"doused",
"peeled (off)",
"put off",
"shrugged off",
"took off"
]
},
"to take away from a place or position":{
"antonyms":[
"placed",
"positioned",
"put"
],
"examples":[
"he carefully removed the old manuscript from the shelf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mounted",
"anchored",
"clamped",
"fixed",
"hitched",
"moored",
"secured",
"set",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted",
"set up",
"sited",
"situated",
"stuck"
],
"related":[
"demounted",
"dislodged",
"abstracted",
"cut",
"drew off",
"drew out",
"extracted",
"pulled",
"budged",
"dislocated",
"displaced",
"disturbed",
"moved",
"shifted",
"transferred",
"transposed"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleared",
"drew",
"took out",
"withdrew"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"renaissance":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"antonyms":[
"dark age"
],
"examples":[
"the 19th-century literary renaissance that prompted people to refer to Boston as the Athens of America"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"silver age",
"millennium",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flower",
"flush",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"salad days",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"synonyms":[
"belle epoque",
"belle \u00e9poque",
"golden age"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rendered":{
"as in tried":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a gentleman bandit who graciously asked his victims to render their wallets to his safe possession"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kept",
"retained",
"withheld"
],
"related":[
"committed",
"consigned",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"transferred",
"forfeited",
"released",
"waived",
"abnegated",
"renounced",
"resigned",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"discarded",
"forsook",
"parted (with)",
"shed"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceded",
"coughed up",
"delivered",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"laid down",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"turned in",
"turned over",
"yielded"
]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the witness convincingly rendered her version of events in just a few words"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colored",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"misdescribed",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped"
],
"related":[
"characterized",
"defined",
"labeled",
"labelled",
"qualified",
"represented",
"demonstrated",
"illustrated",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported",
"told",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"showed",
"hinted",
"suggested",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"traced",
"vignetted",
"summarized",
"summed up",
"touched off",
"redescribed",
"reimaged"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"depicted",
"described",
"drew",
"imaged",
"limned",
"painted",
"pictured",
"portrayed",
"set out",
"sketched"
]
},
"to make an exact likeness of":{
"antonyms":[
"originated"
],
"examples":[
"rendered Thomas Jefferson's signature for use on an array of gift items"
],
"near antonyms":[
"created",
"imagined",
"initiated",
"invented"
],
"related":[
"counterfeited",
"faked",
"forged",
"knocked off",
"ripped off",
"mimicked",
"simulated",
"reconstructed",
"re-created",
"recreated"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"renderings":{
"a vivid representation in words of someone or something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a poet's rendering of the euphoria experienced by lovers in the first blush of romance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accounts",
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"chronicles",
"narratives",
"reports",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns",
"demonstrations",
"exemplifications",
"illustrations",
"clarifications",
"elucidations",
"explanations",
"explications",
"expositions"
],
"synonyms":[
"definitions",
"delineations",
"depictions",
"descriptions",
"pictures",
"portraits",
"portraitures",
"portrayals",
"sketches",
"vignettes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rendezvous":{
"a place for spending time or for socializing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the arcade was the rendezvous of choice for most of the teenagers in town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"camp",
"canteen",
"club",
"clubhouse",
"country club",
"key club",
"service club",
"union",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haven",
"nest",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"sanctuary"
],
"synonyms":[
"hangout",
"haunt",
"purlieu",
"resort",
"stamping ground",
"stomping ground"
]
},
"an agreement to be present at a specified time and place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I have a rendezvous with him at lunchtime"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"arrangement",
"invitation",
"interview",
"get-together",
"meeting",
"call",
"visit",
"schedule"
],
"synonyms":[
"appointment",
"assignation",
"date",
"engagement",
"tryst"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)"
],
"examples":[
"we'll rendezvous at the entrance to the park at 6:00 p.m."
],
"near antonyms":[
"depart",
"leave",
"take off",
"disjoin",
"dissociate",
"disunite"
],
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"conclude",
"consummate",
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"finalize",
"finish",
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"can",
"cease",
"check",
"cut",
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"redo",
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"verb"
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"unimportant",
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"unpopular"
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"fabulous",
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"type":[
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"clangor",
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"rap",
"tap",
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"a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened":{
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"geste",
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"rumbling",
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"dish",
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"talk",
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"dishonor",
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"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
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"image",
"persona",
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"reverence"
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"state",
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"voice",
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"enumerate",
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"expose",
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"mark",
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"as in republish , reissue":{
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"jewel",
"pride",
"treasure"
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"eulogy",
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"plaudit(s)",
"praise",
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"lash",
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"lesson",
"rap",
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"talking-to",
"tongue-lashing",
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"reprimand",
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"awe",
"fear",
"reverence",
"fame",
"glory",
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"despite",
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"disfavor",
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"debasement",
"debasing",
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"humbling",
"humiliation",
"blot",
"brand",
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"slur",
"smirch",
"spot",
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"hammer",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
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"lecture",
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"rail (at or against)",
"rant (at)",
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"ream (out)",
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"okay",
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"extoll",
"hail",
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"salute",
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"commend",
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"indorse"
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"hail",
"honor",
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"praise",
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"condemn",
"denounce",
"objurgate",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reprove"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"reproaching":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"our neighbor loudly reproached us for tromping through his yard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"related":[
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"remonstrating (with)",
"reproving",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"haranguing",
"knocking",
"lacing (into)",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"reviling",
"scourging",
"slamming",
"vituperating",
"belittling",
"disparaging",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
"synonyms":[
"basting",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"calling down",
"castigating",
"chastising",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"hammering",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"ranting (at)",
"rating",
"reaming (out)",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"tongue-lashing",
"upbraiding"
]
},
"to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault":{
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"examples":[
"she cleared her throat as a way of reproaching us for having our elbows on the table"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"applauding",
"extolling",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting"
],
"related":[
"berating",
"castigating",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"haranguing",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"upbraiding",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"knocking",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"slamming",
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"deriding",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
"synonyms":[
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproving",
"ticking off"
]
},
"to express public or formal disapproval of":{
"antonyms":[
"citing",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing"
],
"examples":[
"the governor reproached the legislature for failing to pass the budget on time and once again throwing the state into fiscal chaos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"eulogizing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"approving",
"blessing",
"sanctioning"
],
"related":[
"admonishing",
"chastising",
"castigating",
"punishing",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"chewing out",
"cutting up",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"gibbeting",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"telling off",
"upbraiding",
"belittling",
"criticizing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging"
],
"synonyms":[
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"objurgating",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reprobated":{
"to be unwilling to grant":{
"antonyms":[
"allowed",
"conceded",
"granted",
"let",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"permitted"
],
"examples":[
"the board will most likely reprobate the request for parole"
],
"near antonyms":[
"afforded",
"furnished",
"gave",
"provided",
"supplied",
"authorized",
"commissioned",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"consented (to)",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed"
],
"related":[
"banned",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"vetoed",
"rebuffed",
"repelled",
"spurned",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"held",
"kept",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"restricted",
"balked (at)",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed"
],
"synonyms":[
"declined",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"nixed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"withheld"
]
},
"to declare to be morally wrong or evil":{
"antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest"
],
"examples":[
"spent much of her talk reprobating the callous indifference of a materialistic society to the suffering of people in the third world"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"eulogized",
"exalted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"lauded",
"praised",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"hailed",
"saluted",
"touted",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sanctified",
"honored",
"revered",
"venerated"
],
"related":[
"attacked",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"criticized",
"dispraised",
"dissed",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"doomed",
"sentenced",
"convicted",
"blacklisted",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"reproved",
"berated",
"lambasted",
"raked",
"scolded",
"upbraided",
"vituperated",
"cursed",
"imprecated",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"reviled"
],
"synonyms":[
"anathematized",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"decried",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended"
]
},
"to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to":{
"antonyms":[
"accepted",
"agreed (to)",
"approved"
],
"examples":[
"without hesitation she reprobated such an indecent idea"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"swallowed",
"tolerated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"received",
"took",
"welcomed",
"acceded",
"acquiesced",
"agreed",
"assented",
"consented",
"chose",
"handpicked",
"selected",
"espoused",
"supported"
],
"related":[
"blew off",
"disdained",
"rebuffed",
"scorned",
"scouted",
"shot down",
"overruled",
"vetoed",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"dismissed",
"ignored",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"refrained (from)",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"stuck",
"abjured",
"forswore",
"foreswore",
"recanted",
"renounced",
"retracted",
"took back",
"unsaid",
"withdrew",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"detoured",
"contradicted",
"denied",
"disowned",
"negated",
"controverted",
"disagreed (with)",
"disproved",
"disputed",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"backed down",
"backed off",
"backtracked",
"disallowed",
"recalled",
"reneged",
"revoked"
],
"synonyms":[
"balked (at)",
"declined",
"deselected",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"nixed",
"passed",
"passed up",
"refused",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"threw out",
"threw over",
"turned down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reprobations":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reproving":{
"to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my piano teacher often reproves me for slouching while playing, observing that good posture helps one play better"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"applauding",
"extolling",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting"
],
"related":[
"berating",
"castigating",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"haranguing",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"upbraiding",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"knocking",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"slamming",
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"deriding",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
"synonyms":[
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"ticking off"
]
},
"to express public or formal disapproval of":{
"antonyms":[
"citing",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing"
],
"examples":[
"the principal reproved the hockey team for their display of poor sportsmanship on the ice and ordered that a letter of apology be sent to the other school"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"eulogizing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"approving",
"blessing",
"sanctioning"
],
"related":[
"admonishing",
"chastising",
"castigating",
"punishing",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"chewing out",
"cutting up",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"gibbeting",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"telling off",
"upbraiding",
"belittling",
"criticizing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging"
],
"synonyms":[
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"objurgating",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching"
]
},
"to hold an unfavorable opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"approving",
"favoring",
"liking"
],
"examples":[
"the older generation has always reproved the younger generation's taste in music"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"supporting",
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)"
],
"related":[
"disrelishing",
"objecting (to)",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"rejecting",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"scorning",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"discommending",
"chiding",
"rebuking",
"reproaching",
"scolding"
],
"synonyms":[
"deprecating",
"disapproving (of)",
"discountenancing",
"disesteeming",
"disfavoring",
"disliking",
"frowning (on or upon)",
"misliking",
"tsk-tsking",
"tutting (over or about)",
"tut-tutting (over or about)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"repugnance":{
"a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"could barely contain her repugnance of frogs and nearly threw up when she found out we'd have to dissect one in science class"
],
"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",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repulsion",
"revulsion"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reputation":{
"overall quality as seen or judged by people in general":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the college's athletic department has a good reputation , but the school's science facilities are a bit lacking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame"
],
"related":[
"credit",
"honor",
"celebrity",
"notoriety",
"renown",
"image",
"persona",
"admiration",
"regard",
"reverence"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"fame",
"mark",
"name",
"note",
"odor",
"rep",
"report",
"repute"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"request":{
"an act or instance of asking for information":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the medical columnist is unable to answer individual requests for specific information on various disorders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answer",
"reply",
"response"
],
"related":[
"interrogatory",
"poll",
"questionnaire",
"survey",
"inquisition",
"interrogating",
"interrogation",
"questioning",
"examination",
"exploration",
"inquest",
"investigation",
"probe",
"probing",
"research",
"study"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"inquiry",
"query",
"question"
]
},
"the state of being sought after especially for purchase":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"reliable babysitters are much in request , especially on weekends"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bear market",
"bull market",
"buyer's market",
"seller's market"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"demand",
"market"
]
},
"to give a request or demand for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a notice requesting that I report for jury duty on Monday morning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commission",
"solicit",
"charter",
"hire",
"license",
"licence"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask (for)",
"order",
"put in (for)",
"requisition"
]
},
"to make a request for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"request extra ketchup for my fries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"apply (for)",
"beg (for)",
"claim",
"clamor (for)",
"importune",
"urge",
"wish (for)",
"demand",
"enjoin",
"exact",
"insist (on)",
"petition (for)",
"press (for)",
"require",
"requisition",
"invite",
"invoke"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask (for)",
"bespeak",
"call (for)",
"desire",
"plead (for)",
"quest",
"seek",
"solicit",
"speak (for)",
"sue (for)"
]
},
"to make a request of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a letter from the First Lady graciously requesting the chorus to perform at the White House"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"force",
"oblige",
"require"
],
"related":[
"appeal (to)",
"beg",
"beseech",
"conjure",
"entreat",
"implore",
"importune",
"invite",
"invoke",
"petition",
"plead (to)",
"pray",
"supplicate",
"demand",
"enjoin",
"exact",
"press",
"require"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask",
"hit (up)",
"solicit"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rereview":{
"as in reinspect , resurvey":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rescinding":{
"to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)":{
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"keeping"
],
"examples":[
"the library refused to rescind its decision to include the controversial book in its collection"
],
"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",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"repealing",
"revoking",
"scrapping",
"scrubbing"
]
},
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the new mayor vowed not to seek to rescind existing laws prohibiting smoking in the city's public places"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"instituting",
"formalizing",
"legalizing",
"legitimating",
"legitimizing",
"validating",
"passing",
"ratifying",
"allowing",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"commanding",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescribing"
],
"related":[
"countermanding",
"overriding",
"overruling",
"overturning",
"vetoing",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"retracting",
"reversing",
"revoking",
"suspending",
"withdrawing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"disallowing",
"dismissing",
"rejecting",
"annihilating",
"breaking down",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"throwing out",
"writing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"avoiding",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"disannulling",
"dissolving",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"nulling",
"quashing",
"repealing",
"rolling back",
"striking down",
"vacating",
"voiding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rescued":{
"as in saved , recovered":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to remove from danger or harm":{
"antonyms":[
"adventured",
"compromised",
"endangered",
"gambled (with)",
"hazarded",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeopardized",
"periled",
"perilled",
"risked",
"ventured"
],
"examples":[
"an all-out effort to rescue a beached whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"salvaged",
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"manumitted",
"released",
"disentangled",
"extricated",
"recovered"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed out",
"brought off",
"delivered",
"saved"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"resemblance":{
"a point which two or more things share in common":{
"antonyms":[
"dissimilarity"
],
"examples":[
"I see a family resemblance between you and your brother"
],
"near antonyms":[
"difference",
"discrepancy",
"deviance",
"divergence",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"change",
"modification",
"variation"
],
"related":[
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogy",
"homology"
],
"synonyms":[
"common denominator",
"commonality",
"congruity",
"correspondence",
"parallel",
"similarity",
"similitude"
]
},
"the quality or state of having many qualities in common":{
"antonyms":[
"difference",
"disagreement",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"dissimilitude",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"unlikeness"
],
"examples":[
"the look of the director's latest film bears a strong resemblance to the look of his last film"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inequality",
"conflict",
"polarity",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"nonconformity",
"differentiability",
"discriminability",
"distinguishability",
"anomalousness",
"dichotomy",
"disproportion",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"nonequivalence"
],
"related":[
"semblance",
"affinity",
"analogousness",
"equation",
"equivalence",
"equivalency",
"par",
"parity",
"identicalness",
"identity",
"sameness",
"correlation",
"relationship",
"exchangeability",
"interchangeability",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"compatibility",
"conformity",
"congruity"
],
"synonyms":[
"alikeness",
"community",
"comparability",
"correspondence",
"likeness",
"parallelism",
"similarity",
"similitude"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"resisted":{
"to refuse to give in to":{
"antonyms":[
"bowed (to)",
"capitulated (to)",
"gave in (to)",
"knuckled under (to)",
"stooped (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"succumbed (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)"
],
"examples":[
"it is important to resist the temptation to run away from your problems"
],
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"related":[
"battled",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contended (with)",
"challenged",
"contested",
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"baffled",
"balked",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"thwarted",
"checked",
"countered",
"hindered",
"obstructed",
"stemmed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bucked",
"defied",
"fought",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"withstood"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"resolution":{
"a position arrived at after consideration":{
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"examples":[
"her resolution to become a vegetarian is based on what she recently learned about modern farming practices"
],
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"deadlock",
"draw",
"halt",
"stalemate",
"standoff",
"tie"
],
"related":[
"behest",
"charge",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"directive",
"edict",
"instruction",
"mandate",
"order",
"word",
"last word",
"say-so",
"adjudication",
"disposition",
"doom",
"finding",
"ruling",
"sentence",
"choice",
"option",
"selection",
"consensus",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"mind",
"notion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"view"
],
"synonyms":[
"award",
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"verdict"
]
},
"firm or unwavering adherence to one's purpose":{
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"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresoluteness",
"irresolution",
"vacillation"
],
"examples":[
"that athlete's resolution to win is amazing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indetermination",
"uncertainty",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness"
],
"related":[
"doggedness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"stubbornness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"gameness",
"readiness",
"backbone",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"iron",
"pluck",
"sand"
],
"synonyms":[
"decidedness",
"decision",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"determinedness",
"firmness",
"granite",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolve",
"stick-to-itiveness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"resolves":{
"to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration":{
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"examples":[
"I resolved to eat more healthily and to exercise regularly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstains",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"turns down",
"delays",
"halts",
"hesitates",
"stalls",
"temporizes",
"shilly-shallies",
"vacillates",
"waffles",
"wavers"
],
"related":[
"decrees",
"rules",
"culls",
"elects",
"handpicks",
"picks",
"prefers",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"adjudges",
"adjudicates",
"arbitrates",
"finds",
"judges",
"referees",
"rules (on)",
"umpires",
"chews over",
"cogitates",
"considers",
"contemplates",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"entertains",
"meditates",
"mulls (over)",
"ponders",
"questions",
"ruminates",
"studies",
"thinks (about or over)",
"weighs"
],
"synonyms":[
"chooses",
"concludes",
"decides",
"determines",
"figures",
"names",
"opts",
"settles (on or upon)"
]
},
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"resolve the apparent contradictions in the collected data"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"clears (up)",
"irons out",
"straightens (out)",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"unties",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"divines",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"deciphers",
"decodes"
],
"synonyms":[
"answers",
"breaks",
"cracks",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"puzzles (out)",
"riddles (out)",
"solves",
"unravels",
"unriddles",
"works",
"works out"
]
},
"to set or force apart":{
"antonyms":[
"joins",
"links",
"unifies",
"unites"
],
"examples":[
"a prism will resolve a beam of light into an array of colors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assembles",
"associates",
"blends",
"combines",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"connects",
"couples",
"accumulates",
"agglutinates",
"attaches",
"binds",
"cements",
"closes",
"fastens",
"fuses",
"knits",
"sticks",
"welds"
],
"related":[
"breaks down",
"decomposes",
"disassembles",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"bifurcates",
"bisects",
"cleaves",
"dichotomizes",
"dissects",
"fractionalizes",
"fractionates",
"halves",
"partitions",
"quarters",
"segments",
"subdivides",
"trisects",
"fragmentates",
"fragmentizes",
"fragments",
"breaks",
"fractures",
"pulls",
"rends",
"rifts",
"rips",
"rives",
"ruptures",
"tears",
"cuts off",
"insulates",
"isolates",
"secludes",
"segregates",
"sequesters",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"unravels",
"unties"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks up",
"decouples",
"disassociates",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disjoints",
"dissevers",
"dissociates",
"disunites",
"divides",
"divorces",
"parts",
"ramifies",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders",
"uncouples",
"unlinks",
"unyokes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"resonated":{
"to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the deep sounds of the bassoon resonated through the concert hall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"quieted"
],
"related":[
"rang",
"rolled"
],
"synonyms":[
"echoed",
"reechoed",
"resounded",
"reverberated",
"sounded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"respectable":{
"following the accepted rules of moral conduct":{
"antonyms":[
"base",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"ignoble",
"low",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unworthy"
],
"examples":[
"cheating is not a respectable thing to do under any circumstances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"blackguardly",
"corrupt",
"criminal",
"crooked",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"knavish",
"mean",
"nefarious",
"rascally",
"reprehensible",
"roguish",
"rotten",
"scoundrelly",
"sinful",
"unfair",
"unscrupulous",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wretched",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"disgraceful",
"disreputable",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"profligate",
"reprobate",
"shameful",
"venal"
],
"related":[
"blameless",
"guiltless",
"irreproachable",
"unassailable",
"unimpeachable",
"chivalrous",
"classy",
"high-minded",
"menschy",
"right-minded",
"conscientious",
"fair",
"good",
"incorruptible",
"moral",
"reputable",
"respected",
"scrupulous",
"uncorrupted",
"virtuous",
"decorous",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
],
"synonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"stand-up",
"upright",
"upstanding"
]
},
"following the established traditions of refined society and good taste":{
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"unbecoming",
"ungenteel",
"unseemly"
],
"examples":[
"has the respectable manners of someone who was well brought up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"casual",
"grungy",
"informal",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"banned",
"barred",
"disallowed",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"awkward",
"gauche",
"ungraceful"
],
"related":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"dress",
"dressy",
"formal",
"dignified",
"elegant",
"gracious",
"priggish",
"prim",
"stiff",
"stuffy",
"apt",
"material",
"relevant",
"compatible",
"congenial",
"harmonious",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"kosher",
"permitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitting",
"correct",
"de rigueur",
"decent",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
]
},
"having a good reputation especially in a field of knowledge":{
"antonyms":[
"disreputable"
],
"examples":[
"no respectable dietician would advise people to eat just one kind of food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"seedy",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"no-name",
"obscure",
"undistinguished",
"unknown"
],
"related":[
"honorable",
"venerable",
"worthy",
"creditable",
"good",
"praiseworthy",
"celebrated",
"distinguished",
"famed",
"famous",
"honored",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent",
"redoubtable",
"renowned",
"well-known"
],
"synonyms":[
"esteemed",
"estimable",
"name",
"prestigious",
"recognized",
"reputable",
"reputed",
"respected"
]
},
"of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards":{
"antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"examples":[
"the artwork that we commissioned from the muralist turned out to be respectable but was not quite what we had hoped for"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"disreputable",
"improper",
"indecent",
"objectionable",
"unfit",
"unsuitable",
"unworthy",
"useless",
"wrong",
"bad",
"cheap",
"defective",
"faulty",
"imperfect",
"incomplete",
"lamentable",
"pitiful",
"shoddy",
"dissatisfying",
"insufficient",
"meager",
"meagre",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scanty",
"shabby",
"short",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"stingy",
"insufferable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"extreme",
"fancy",
"first-class",
"high-grade",
"matchless",
"maximized",
"maximum",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"premium",
"special",
"supreme",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"boss",
"capital",
"classic",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"divine",
"fabulous",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"par excellence",
"prime",
"sensational",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wonderful"
],
"related":[
"agreeable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"sufferable",
"average",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"minimal",
"common",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"second-rate",
"so-so",
"standard",
"unexceptional",
"appropriate",
"correct",
"due",
"fitting",
"meet",
"proper",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"useful",
"worthy",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fairish",
"fine",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable"
]
},
"sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention":{
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"insubstantial",
"negligible",
"nominal"
],
"examples":[
"got paid a respectable sum for speaking at our graduation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"measly",
"minute",
"paltry",
"petty",
"picayune",
"picayunish",
"piddling",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"marginal",
"meager",
"meagre",
"slight",
"little",
"small",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"miniature",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"smallish"
],
"related":[
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"voluminous",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"gigantic",
"great",
"herculean",
"huge",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"whopping"
],
"synonyms":[
"biggish",
"considerable",
"good",
"goodly",
"handsome",
"healthy",
"largish",
"major",
"significant",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"substantive",
"tidy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"respective":{
"not the same or shared":{
"antonyms":[
"same"
],
"examples":[
"it was late when the concert let out, so we all went our respective ways"
],
"near antonyms":[
"identical",
"selfsame",
"very"
],
"related":[
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"distinguishable",
"divergent",
"diverse",
"unalike",
"varied",
"various"
],
"synonyms":[
"different",
"individual",
"separate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"respite":{
"a short period of time when you are able to stop doing something that is difficult or unpleasant or when something difficult or unpleasant stops or is delayed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The weekend provided a nice respite from the pressures of her job.",
"a temporary respite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"resplendent":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"very bright and attractive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She looked resplendent in her green evening gown."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
}
},
"restarted":{
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after being shut down for three years, the power plant will restart operations this week"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completed",
"concluded",
"consummated",
"ended",
"finalized",
"finished",
"belayed",
"broke",
"canned",
"ceased",
"checked",
"cut",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"left off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"scuttled",
"shut off",
"stayed",
"stopped",
"terminated"
],
"related":[
"resuscitated",
"revived",
"recrudesced"
],
"synonyms":[
"continued",
"picked up",
"proceeded (with)",
"renewed",
"reopened",
"resumed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"restarts":{
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after being shut down for three years, the power plant will restart operations this week"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completes",
"concludes",
"consummates",
"ends",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"belays",
"breaks",
"cans",
"ceases",
"checks",
"cuts",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"leaves off",
"quits",
"scuttles",
"shuts off",
"stays",
"stops",
"terminates"
],
"related":[
"resuscitates",
"revives",
"recrudesces"
],
"synonyms":[
"continues",
"picks up",
"proceeds (with)",
"renews",
"reopens",
"resumes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"restated":{
"to express something (as a text or statement) in different words":{
"antonyms":[
"quoted"
],
"examples":[
"though I couldn't remember the exact words he used, I restated his message as accurately as I could"
],
"near antonyms":[
"echoed",
"repeated",
"copied",
"reproduced",
"transcribed"
],
"related":[
"boiled down",
"recapitulated",
"reiterated",
"summarized",
"summed up"
],
"synonyms":[
"paraphrased",
"rephrased",
"reworded",
"translated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"resting":{
"a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself":{
"antonyms":[
"consciousness",
"wake",
"wakefulness"
],
"examples":[
"the hyena is ready to scavenge again after its brief resting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insomnia",
"sleeplessness"
],
"related":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"drowse",
"forty winks",
"nap",
"siesta",
"snooze",
"wink",
"oversleeping",
"dreaming",
"rapid eye movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"shut-eye",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
]
},
"being in a state of suspended consciousness":{
"antonyms":[
"awake",
"sleepless",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
],
"examples":[
"the resting cat was curled up in my favorite chair"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aware",
"conscious",
"sleepless",
"aroused",
"astir",
"awakened",
"roused",
"up",
"wakened",
"reawakened",
"revived"
],
"related":[
"drowsy",
"nodding",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent",
"dreaming",
"reposing",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"comatose",
"semiconscious",
"sleepwalking",
"somnambulant"
],
"synonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"napping",
"sleeping",
"slumbering"
]
},
"to be in a state of sleep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the patient is currently resting , but as soon as he awakes, I'll tell him you called"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arising",
"arousing",
"awaking",
"rising",
"waking"
],
"related":[
"dropping off",
"drowsing (off)",
"nodding off",
"oversleeping",
"sleeping in",
"dreaming",
"hibernating"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"napping",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing"
]
},
"to find a basis":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you're resting your argument on a faulty premise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"establishing",
"founding",
"assuming",
"postulating",
"premising",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"supposing"
],
"synonyms":[
"basing",
"grounding",
"hanging",
"predicating"
]
},
"to refrain from labor or exertion":{
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"examples":[
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"fruits",
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"finalize",
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"cease",
"check",
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"quit",
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"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
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"recapitulation",
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"rundown",
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"sum-up",
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"finalize",
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"cease",
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"quenched",
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"verb"
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"hawk",
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"supply",
"carry",
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"relinquish",
"surrender",
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"cherish",
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"hand over",
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"renounce",
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"lay off",
"lock out"
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"rehire",
"apprentice",
"contract",
"job",
"partner",
"subcontract",
"enlist",
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"promote",
"upgrade",
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"handing over",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
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"dropping",
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"donating",
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"discarding",
"dumping",
"declining",
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"repudiating",
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"losing"
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"protecting",
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"having",
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"possessing",
"commanding",
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"detaining",
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"cherishing",
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"ceding",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"renouncing",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"discarding",
"dumping",
"declining",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"needing",
"requiring"
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"withholding",
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"canning",
"discharging",
"dismissing",
"firing",
"sacking"
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"furloughing",
"laying off",
"locking out"
],
"related":[
"reemploying",
"re-employing",
"reengaging",
"re-engaging",
"rehiring",
"apprenticing",
"contracting",
"jobbing",
"partnering",
"subcontracting",
"enlisting",
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"promoting",
"upgrading",
"keeping (on)",
"headhunting",
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"verb"
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"extraverted",
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"outgoing"
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"clubbable",
"clubable",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social",
"bold",
"dashing",
"forceful",
"brash",
"forward",
"overbold",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"related":[
"antisocial",
"lone",
"lone-wolf",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"awkward",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"unadventurous",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising",
"inhibited",
"reserved",
"uneasy",
"uptight"
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"backward",
"bashful",
"coy",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"modest",
"recessive",
"self-effacing",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"withdrawn"
]
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"getting up",
"rising",
"uprising"
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"I'm exhausted, so I think I'll retire for the evening"
],
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"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"rousing",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bestirring",
"stirring",
"reawakening",
"reawaking",
"shifting",
"stirring"
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"related":[
"bunking",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling",
"dozing",
"dropping off",
"napping",
"nodding",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"couching",
"lying (down)",
"reclining"
],
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"crashing",
"dossing (down)",
"turning in"
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"engaging",
"hiring",
"retaining",
"signing (up or on)",
"taking on"
],
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],
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"reemploying",
"re-employing",
"rehiring",
"contracting",
"subcontracting",
"recruiting"
],
"related":[
"downsizing",
"excessing",
"furloughing",
"laying off",
"trimming",
"booting (out)",
"chucking (out)",
"drumming (out)",
"kicking out",
"throwing out",
"unseating",
"separating"
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"synonyms":[
"axing",
"bouncing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"discharging",
"dismissing",
"firing",
"mustering out",
"pink-slipping",
"releasing",
"removing",
"sacking",
"terminating",
"turning off"
]
},
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"advancing"
],
"examples":[
"the insurgents have retired to the outskirts of the city, but appear to be readying themselves for another offensive"
],
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"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving"
],
"related":[
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"flying",
"flinching",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"chickening (out)",
"bowing out",
"backing down",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"climbing down",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"pulling away",
"abandoning",
"departing",
"evacuating",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"vacating"
],
"synonyms":[
"backing away",
"dropping back",
"falling back",
"pulling out",
"receding",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"retrain":{
"as in":{
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"type":[
"verb"
]
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"type":[
"verb"
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"an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable":{
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"advance",
"advancement"
],
"examples":[
"we made a strategic retreat when we realized that we were outnumbered"
],
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"related":[
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"flinch",
"recoil",
"revulsion",
"shrinking",
"disengagement",
"disentanglement"
],
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"pullback",
"pullout",
"recession",
"retirement",
"withdrawal"
]
},
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"examples":[
"her bedroom served as a retreat from the frequent arguing between her parents",
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"related":[
"oasis",
"anchorage",
"mooring",
"port",
"cover",
"screen",
"abode",
"diggings",
"domicile",
"dwelling",
"habitation",
"house",
"housing",
"lodging",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"rest",
"roof",
"cloister",
"closet",
"covert",
"den",
"hermitage",
"hideaway",
"hideout",
"lair",
"castle",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"redoubt",
"stronghold",
"lean-to",
"lee",
"shed",
"windbreak"
],
"synonyms":[
"asylum",
"bolt-hole",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haven",
"refuge",
"sanctuary",
"sanctum",
"shelter"
]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
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"examples":[
"the untried soldiers retreated in humiliating disarray almost as soon as the enemy's onslaught began"
],
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"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"related":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"run",
"run away",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
]
},
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"antonyms":[
"advance"
],
"examples":[
"we retreated to the safety of the cellar at the first sign of the tornado"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave"
],
"related":[
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"fly",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"chicken (out)",
"bow out",
"back down",
"backpedal",
"backtrack",
"climb down",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"pull away",
"abandon",
"depart",
"evacuate",
"go",
"leave",
"quit",
"vacate"
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"synonyms":[
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"drop back",
"fall back",
"pull out",
"recede",
"retire",
"withdraw"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"retreating":{
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the untried soldiers retreated in humiliating disarray almost as soon as the enemy's onslaught began"
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"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
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"related":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"running",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
]
},
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"antonyms":[
"advancing"
],
"examples":[
"we retreated to the safety of the cellar at the first sign of the tornado"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving"
],
"related":[
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"flying",
"flinching",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"chickening (out)",
"bowing out",
"backing down",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"climbing down",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"pulling away",
"abandoning",
"departing",
"evacuating",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"vacating"
],
"synonyms":[
"backing away",
"dropping back",
"falling back",
"pulling out",
"receding",
"retiring",
"withdrawing"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"retrenching":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"to change the way things are done in order to spend less money":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"When the economy slowed, the company was forced to retrench ."
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"reuniting":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"revalidate":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"verb"
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"revalue":{
"as in reevaluate , reassess":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"joyful or festive activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the reveling was too much for her, so she went to bed early even though the party was still going strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"darkness",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"heartsickness",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mournfulness",
"mourning",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness"
],
"related":[
"carousal",
"carouse",
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"mischief",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"riot",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"carnival",
"celebration",
"festival",
"party",
"revel",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"enjoyment",
"happiness",
"joy",
"binge",
"fling",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"funning",
"jesting",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"zaniness"
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"synonyms":[
"conviviality",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"revelry",
"whoopee"
]
},
"to take part in drunken revelry":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"reveling all night is not conducive to a productive next day at work"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"boozing",
"drinking",
"guzzling",
"liquoring (up)",
"soaking",
"tippling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bingeing",
"binging",
"birling",
"carousing",
"roistering",
"wassailing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"revelling":{
"joyful or festive activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the reveling was too much for her, so she went to bed early even though the party was still going strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"darkness",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"heartsickness",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mournfulness",
"mourning",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness"
],
"related":[
"carousal",
"carouse",
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"mischief",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"riot",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"carnival",
"celebration",
"festival",
"party",
"revel",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"enjoyment",
"happiness",
"joy",
"binge",
"fling",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"funning",
"jesting",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"zaniness"
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"synonyms":[
"conviviality",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"revelry",
"whoopee"
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},
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"examples":[
"reveling all night is not conducive to a productive next day at work"
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"related":[
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"drinking",
"guzzling",
"liquoring (up)",
"soaking",
"tippling"
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"binging",
"birling",
"carousing",
"roistering",
"wassailing"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"reverberate":{
"to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sound of thunder reverberated from one end of the mountain pass to the other"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"quiet"
],
"related":[
"ring",
"roll"
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"synonyms":[
"echo",
"reecho",
"resonate",
"resound",
"sound"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
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"reverenced":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power":{
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"examples":[
"devotees coming to reverence their god"
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"near antonyms":[
"blasphemed",
"desecrated",
"profaned",
"violated",
"affronted",
"dishonored",
"disrespected",
"insulted",
"offended",
"outraged",
"piqued",
"ridiculed",
"scorned",
"slighted",
"displeased",
"defamed",
"disparaged",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"slurred",
"smeared"
],
"related":[
"admired",
"honored",
"loved",
"regarded",
"respected",
"apotheosized",
"canonized",
"dignified",
"exalted",
"lionized",
"magnified",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied"
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"deified",
"glorified",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"reviews":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"took the car to her mechanic for a complete mechanical review before she decided to sell it"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"analyses",
"assays",
"close-ups",
"deconstructions",
"dissections",
"explorations",
"investigations",
"probes",
"researches",
"studies",
"inquisitions",
"interrogations",
"once-overs",
"perusals",
"rechecks",
"reinspections",
"resurveys",
"observations",
"surveillances",
"watches",
"checkouts",
"test-drives",
"trial runs"
],
"synonyms":[
"audits",
"checks",
"checkups",
"examinations",
"goings-over",
"inspections",
"look-sees",
"scans",
"scrutinies",
"surveys",
"views"
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},
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had his poetry published in a literary review"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"weeklies",
"yearbooks",
"digests",
"little magazines",
"fanzines",
"pictorials",
"slicks",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies"
],
"synonyms":[
"books",
"bulletins",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"serials",
"zines"
]
},
"a usually critical look at a past event":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a review of yesterday's football game gave us a lot of good ideas on how to improve for the next one"
],
"near antonyms":[
"previews"
],
"related":[
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"rehashes"
],
"synonyms":[
"reappraisals",
"reconsiderations",
"reexaminations",
"re-examinations",
"retrospections",
"retrospects"
]
},
"an essay evaluating or analyzing something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a harsh movie review of an expected summer blockbuster"
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"related":[
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"commentaries",
"editorials",
"punditries",
"appraisals",
"assessments",
"evaluations",
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"deformations",
"distortions",
"metamorphoses",
"mutations",
"transfigurations",
"transformations",
"fluctuations",
"oscillations",
"shifts",
"displacements",
"replacements",
"substitutions",
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"maintains",
"upholds"
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"reweighs"
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"misses"
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"oversees",
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"surveys",
"views"
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"verb"
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],
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"extinction"
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"a new cream that claims to revitalize sun-damaged skin"
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"redesigned",
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"redid",
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"resupplied",
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"updated"
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"refreshened",
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"the bowling alley, eager to revitalize interest in the sport for a younger crowd, started offering \"disco bowling\" every Friday night with disco music and free soda"
],
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"killed",
"quenched",
"suppressed"
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"kick-started",
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"rewoke",
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"verb"
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"reconstitute",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
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"remodel",
"renovate",
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"update"
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"refresh",
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"regenerate",
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"an effort to revive the once-common custom of celebrating May 1 as a springtime festival of games and dances"
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"quench",
"suppress"
],
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"rekindle",
"renew",
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"revivify",
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]
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"the patient eventually revived and was able to give us her name and address"
],
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"faint",
"pass out"
],
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"rally",
"recover",
"awake",
"awaken",
"wake up"
],
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"come round",
"come to"
]
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"expirations",
"extinctions"
],
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"reinventions",
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"rallies",
"recoveries",
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]
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"noun"
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"a new director hoping to revivify the region's oldest repertory company"
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"reconditioned",
"reconstituted",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
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"rehabilitated",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"refilled",
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"resupplied",
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"updated"
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"refreshened",
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"rejuvenated",
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"the new director hopes to revivify interest in the sports programs offered at the youth center"
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"killed",
"quenched",
"suppressed"
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"renewed",
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"resuscitated",
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"rewoke",
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"took a reviving vacation in the Caribbean"
],
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"debilitating",
"draining",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"numbing",
"sapping",
"weakening",
"wearying",
"deleterious",
"injurious",
"pernicious",
"insalubrious",
"noxious",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome"
],
"related":[
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"strengthening",
"animating",
"exhilarating",
"exhilarative",
"quickening",
"sharp",
"corrective",
"curative",
"curing",
"medicinal",
"rectifying",
"recuperative",
"reformative",
"reformatory",
"rehabilitative",
"remedial",
"remedying",
"reparative",
"therapeutic",
"beneficial",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome"
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"cordial",
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"refreshing",
"rejuvenating",
"restorative",
"stimulating",
"stimulative",
"tonic",
"vital",
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"reconditioning",
"reconstituting",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refurbishing",
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"rehabilitating",
"remaking",
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"renovating",
"refilling",
"replenishing",
"resupplying",
"modernizing",
"updating"
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"refreshening",
"refreshing",
"regenerating",
"rejuvenating",
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"restoring",
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"revitalizing",
"revivifying"
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"an effort to revive the once-common custom of celebrating May 1 as a springtime festival of games and dances"
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"killing",
"quenching",
"suppressing"
],
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"kick-starting",
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"restarting",
"reinventing",
"refreshening",
"refreshing"
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"rekindling",
"renewing",
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"revitalizing",
"revivifying",
"rewakening",
"rewaking"
]
},
"to gain consciousness again":{
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"examples":[
"the patient eventually revived and was able to give us her name and address"
],
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"blacking out",
"fainting",
"passing out"
],
"related":[
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"rallying",
"recovering",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"waking up"
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"coming round",
"coming to"
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"verb"
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"examples":[
"threatened the revocation of his son's driving privileges"
],
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"commencement",
"initiation",
"engagement",
"undertaking"
],
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"annulment",
"invalidation",
"neutralization",
"nullification",
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"abolishment",
"abolition",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
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"giving up",
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"cancellation",
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"recision",
"repeal",
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"noun"
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"keep"
],
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"the judge revoked the jail sentence when the defendant promised to do community service instead"
],
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"pledge",
"promise",
"begin",
"commence",
"initiate",
"start",
"take on",
"take up",
"undertake"
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"annul",
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"nullify",
"void",
"write off",
"recant",
"retract",
"take back",
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"countermand",
"reverse",
"roll back",
"break off",
"discontinue",
"end",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
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"interrupt",
"suspend",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"surrender"
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"abandon",
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"call",
"call off",
"cancel",
"cry off",
"drop",
"recall",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"scrap",
"scrub"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"filled with disgust":{
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"examples":[
"we were revolted when we learned about the prevalence of child labor in the Third World"
],
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"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"thrilled",
"tickled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"fascinated",
"mesmerized",
"spellbound"
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"related":[
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"weary",
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"cheesed off",
"displeased",
"enraged",
"fuming",
"furious",
"horn-mad",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"upset",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"shocked",
"sick",
"sickened"
]
},
"to cause to feel disgust":{
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"examples":[
"the jury appeared to be revolted by the grisly details of the murder"
],
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"allured",
"attracted",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"disarmed",
"drew",
"enchanted",
"enticed",
"fascinated",
"lured",
"pulled",
"seduced",
"tempted",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"rejoiced",
"tickled",
"enraptured",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"appealed (to)",
"interested",
"intrigued"
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"related":[
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"distressed",
"appalled",
"disquieted",
"horrified",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"offended",
"outraged",
"shocked"
],
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"disgusted",
"grossed out",
"nauseated",
"put off",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"sickened",
"turned off"
]
},
"to rise up against established authority":{
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"examples":[
"the students practically revolted when the school cancelled the championship football game"
],
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"complied (with)",
"followed",
"minded",
"obeyed",
"submitted",
"attended",
"served"
],
"related":[
"defied",
"disobeyed",
"mocked",
"revolutionized",
"bucked",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood"
],
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"rebelled"
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"revolting %28against%29":{
"as in mutinying (against)":{
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"type":[
"verb"
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"to give serious and careful thought to":{
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"examples":[
"for the next several hours he kept revolving the cryptic message in his mind, trying to make sense of it"
],
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"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"rejected"
],
"related":[
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"reflected (on or upon)",
"reminisced",
"analyzed",
"explored",
"reviewed",
"concluded",
"reasoned",
"second-guessed",
"speculated (about)",
"brooded (about or over)",
"dwelled (on or upon)",
"dwelt (on or upon)",
"fixated (on or upon)",
"fretted (about or over)",
"obsessed (about or over)",
"believed",
"conceived",
"opined",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)"
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"synonyms":[
"chewed over",
"cogitated",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"entertained",
"eyed",
"kicked around",
"meditated",
"mulled (over)",
"perpended",
"pondered",
"pored (over)",
"questioned",
"ruminated",
"studied",
"thought (about or over)",
"turned",
"weighed",
"wrestled (with)"
]
},
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
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"examples":[
"the salesclerk revolved the glass display case so I could see the watchbands on the reverse side"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"unscrewed",
"twiddled",
"coiled",
"cranked",
"reeled",
"wound",
"winded",
"circulated"
],
"synonyms":[
"pivoted",
"rolled",
"rotated",
"spun",
"swirled",
"swiveled",
"swivelled",
"swung",
"turned",
"twirled",
"twisted",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
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"examples":[
"the sidereal day measures the time it takes the Earth to revolve completely about its axis with respect to the fixed stars"
],
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"related":[
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"curled",
"curved",
"rounded",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"swirled",
"twined",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"circled",
"circulated",
"encircled",
"orbited",
"ringed",
"pivoted",
"swiveled",
"swivelled"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrated",
"pinwheeled",
"pirouetted",
"rolled",
"rotated",
"spun",
"turned",
"twirled",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"revving":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
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"examples":[
"the team was revved up by the coach's do-or-die locker room speech"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"soothe",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
],
"related":[
"fan",
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"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"trigger",
"activate",
"animate",
"drive",
"energize",
"galvanize",
"induce",
"inspire",
"key (up)",
"motivate",
"motive",
"pump up",
"quicken",
"set off",
"vitalize",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"raise",
"whip (up)",
"anger",
"enrage",
"madden",
"upset",
"jeer",
"taunt",
"tease",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irritate",
"vex"
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"synonyms":[
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"encourage",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"impassion",
"incite",
"instigate",
"move",
"pique",
"provoke",
"spark",
"stimulate",
"stir"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rewet":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rewoke":{
"to bring back to life, practice, or activity":{
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"examples":[
"the media coverage of the dramatic escape has rewaked concerns about security at the prison"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extinguished",
"killed",
"quenched",
"suppressed"
],
"related":[
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"kick-started",
"reactivated",
"restarted",
"reinvented",
"refreshed",
"refreshened"
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"recharged",
"regenerated",
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"rekindled",
"renewed",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived",
"revivified",
"rewakened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reworked":{
"to make different in some way":{
"antonyms":[
"fixed",
"froze",
"set",
"stabilized"
],
"examples":[
"the sculptor reworked the clay into another shape"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deformed",
"metamorphosed",
"mutated",
"regenerated",
"revolutionized",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted",
"commuted",
"converted",
"exchanged",
"rejiggered",
"retooled"
],
"synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"varied"
]
},
"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the magazine will publish your poem if you rework it so that it's a little shorter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"copyedited",
"read",
"subbed",
"subedited",
"reedited",
"amended",
"annotated",
"corrected",
"emended",
"rectified",
"fact-checked",
"anthologized",
"collected",
"compiled",
"got out",
"issued",
"printed",
"published",
"abridged",
"blue-penciled",
"redacted",
"red-penciled",
"engrossed",
"recopied"
],
"synonyms":[
"edited",
"redrafted",
"revamped",
"revised"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}