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{
"expatiates":{
"to give a formal often extended talk on a subject":{
"examples":[
"the naturalist is known for her willingness to expatiate on any number of issues relating to wildlife and the environment"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaims",
"descants",
"discourses",
"harangues",
"lectures",
"orates",
"speaks",
"talks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recites",
"soliloquizes",
"disserts",
"expounds",
"pontificates",
"sermonizes",
"mouths",
"spouts",
"filibusters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expatiating":{
"as in speaking out , speaking up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"blabby",
"chatty",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"gabby",
"garrulous",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"talky",
"vocal",
"articulating",
"speaking",
"talking",
"articulate",
"eloquent",
"fluent",
"voluble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inarticulate",
"mute",
"speechless",
"voiceless",
"tongue-tied",
"incoherent",
"incomprehensible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a formal often extended talk on a subject":{
"examples":[
"the naturalist is known for her willingness to expatiate on any number of issues relating to wildlife and the environment"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaiming",
"descanting",
"discoursing",
"haranguing",
"lecturing",
"orating",
"speaking",
"talking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reciting",
"soliloquizing",
"disserting",
"expounding",
"pontificating",
"sermonizing",
"mouthing",
"spouting",
"filibustering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"expend":{
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cache",
"hoard",
"lay up",
"save",
"acquire",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"make",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"win"
],
"related":[
"lavish",
"rain",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"synonyms":[
"disburse",
"drop",
"fork (over, out, or up)",
"give",
"lay out",
"outlay",
"pay",
"shell out",
"spend"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"antonyms":[
"renew",
"replace"
],
"examples":[
"settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augment",
"enlarge",
"increase",
"bolster",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"rebuild",
"repair",
"restore",
"revive",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"related":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"eat",
"use",
"bankrupt",
"clean (out)",
"impoverish",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"dry up",
"empty",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"guzzle",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"burn",
"consume",
"deplete",
"devour",
"drain",
"draw down",
"exhaust",
"play out",
"spend",
"use up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expended":{
"as in spent , reduced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupted",
"consumed",
"debilitated",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"drained",
"dried-up",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"spent",
"used up",
"uncultivable",
"untillable",
"arid",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dry",
"rainless",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless",
"bleak",
"inhospitable",
"lifeless",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked",
"barren",
"bony",
"boney",
"dead",
"desolate",
"hardscrabble",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"poor",
"stark",
"unfertile",
"unproductive",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich",
"arable",
"tillable",
"green",
"sylvan",
"verdant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"examples":[
"redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbursed",
"dropped",
"forked (over, out, or up)",
"gave",
"laid out",
"outlaid",
"paid",
"shelled out",
"spent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavished",
"rained",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cached",
"hoarded",
"laid up",
"saved",
"acquired",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"made",
"procured",
"realized",
"secured",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"devoured",
"drained",
"drew down",
"exhausted",
"played out",
"spent",
"used up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"ate",
"used",
"bankrupted",
"cleaned (out)",
"impoverished",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"dried up",
"emptied",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"guzzled",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmented",
"enlarged",
"increased",
"bolstered",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"rebuilt",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revived",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewed",
"replaced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"expense":{
"a payment made in the course of achieving a result":{
"examples":[
"they spared no expense in building the house of their dreams"
],
"synonyms":[
"charge",
"cost",
"disbursement",
"expenditure",
"outgo",
"outlay"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overhead",
"outflow",
"pocket money",
"spending money",
"price",
"rate",
"tab",
"tariff",
"toll"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expert":{
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"experts at the crime lab were able to tell the sex, race, and approximate age of the murderer"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"mistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
]
},
"accomplished with trained ability":{
"examples":[
"to a serious collector, the expert carving on the duck decoy justifies its high price"
],
"synonyms":[
"adroit",
"artful",
"bravura",
"deft",
"delicate",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"skillful",
"virtuoso",
"workmanlike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facile",
"smooth",
"artistic",
"creative",
"fancy",
"ingenious",
"neat",
"adept",
"clever",
"cunning",
"able",
"adequate",
"capable",
"competent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"klutzy",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"incompetent",
"inept"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"artless",
"rude",
"unprofessional",
"unskillful"
]
},
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"people interested in laser eye surgery are advised to seek out an expert practitioner"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"gifted",
"talented",
"polished",
"refined",
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficient",
"workmanlike",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"employable",
"fit",
"fitted",
"habile",
"qualified",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"well-rounded",
"long-term",
"old",
"multiskilled",
"multitalented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak",
"artless",
"crude",
"rude",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"ignorant",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untrained",
"untutored",
"beginning",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"new",
"raw",
"unseasoned",
"untested",
"untried",
"would-be",
"primitive",
"rough",
"unpolished",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"heavy-handed"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"expiation":{
"as in reparation , atonement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expiry":{
"the act of ceasing to exist":{
"examples":[
"the expiry of a great empire is always a cataclysmic event"
],
"synonyms":[
"death",
"demise",
"expiration",
"termination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispersion",
"dissolution",
"cessation",
"close",
"conclusion",
"decease",
"discontinuance",
"doom",
"end",
"ending",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"passing",
"quietus",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"suicide",
"annihilation",
"destruction",
"ruin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existence",
"persistence",
"prolongation",
"inauguration",
"initiation",
"institution",
"origination"
],
"antonyms":[
"alpha",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"creation",
"dawn",
"genesis",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"launch",
"morning",
"onset",
"outset",
"start"
]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"once upon expiry , her soul entered the abode of the blessed dead"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dissolution",
"doom",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"fate",
"grave",
"great divide",
"passage",
"passing",
"quietus",
"sleep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualty",
"fatality",
"martyrdom",
"self-destruction",
"self-murder",
"self-slaughter",
"suicide",
"annihilation",
"destruction",
"ending",
"extermination",
"ruin",
"assassination",
"execution",
"killing",
"massacre",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existence",
"life",
"creation",
"genesis",
"origination",
"rise"
],
"antonyms":[
"birth",
"nativity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explained away":{
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"after the surprise attack, military leaders struggled to explain away the nation's unpreparedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounted (for)",
"attributed",
"explained",
"rationalized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condoned",
"excused",
"forgave",
"justified",
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"exculpated",
"exonerated",
"vindicated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses":{
"examples":[
"tried to explain away his adulterous affairs by saying that men are promiscuous by nature"
],
"synonyms":[
"deodorized",
"excused",
"extenuated",
"glossed (over)",
"glozed (over)",
"palliated",
"whitewashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sugarcoated",
"varnished",
"apologized",
"atoned",
"confessed",
"accounted (for)",
"explained",
"justified",
"rationalized",
"minimized",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lessened",
"lightened",
"mitigated",
"moderated",
"softened",
"tempered",
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"cleared",
"exculpated",
"exonerated",
"vindicated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explicates":{
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"construes",
"demonstrates",
"demystifies",
"elucidates",
"explains",
"expounds",
"gets across",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"simplifies",
"spells out",
"unriddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"analyzes",
"breaks down",
"disentangles",
"undoes",
"unravels",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"resolves",
"solves",
"defines",
"specifies",
"annotates",
"commentates",
"glosses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogs",
"clouds",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"obfuscates"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscures"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explicit":{
"so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning":{
"examples":[
"explicit instructions about what to do in an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear-cut",
"definite",
"definitive",
"express",
"specific",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"univocal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avowed",
"declared",
"specified",
"stated",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"exhaustive",
"full",
"certain",
"sure",
"unmistakable",
"clear",
"distinct",
"lucid",
"well-defined",
"exact",
"precise",
"direct",
"literal",
"plain",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"comprehensible",
"intelligible",
"understandable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"obscure",
"unclear",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"incomprehensible",
"unintelligible"
],
"antonyms":[
"implicit",
"implied",
"inferred",
"ambiguous",
"circuitous",
"equivocal",
"indefinite",
"inexplicit",
"unspecific",
"vague"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"exploded":{
"as in blasted , detonated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blasted",
"detonated",
"broken",
"busted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"cracked",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"collapsed",
"imploded",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"pulverized",
"ruinate",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disintegrated",
"dynamited",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"obliterated",
"wiped out",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"frangible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbroken",
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"repaired",
"infrangible",
"unbreakable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"the building was wrecked when a powerful bomb exploded"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"crumped",
"detonated",
"popped",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"discharged",
"fired",
"shot",
"ballooned",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"mushroomed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"fizzled"
],
"antonyms":[
"imploded"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"the bomb was so powerful that it exploded windows in several neighboring buildings"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blew",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"demolished",
"popped",
"shattered",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamited",
"annihilated",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"detonated",
"discharged",
"fragmented",
"splintered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"imploded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"the mayor's latest unpopular decision caused long-suppressed resentment to explode into open anger"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazed (up)",
"broke out",
"burst (forth)",
"bursted (forth)",
"erupted",
"flamed",
"flared (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"ballooned",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed",
"blew up",
"detonated",
"touched off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"exploits":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"the type of person who exploits a friend's good nature by constantly sponging off of him"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"capitalizes (on)",
"cashes in (on)",
"imposes (on or upon)",
"leverages",
"milks",
"pimps",
"plays (on or upon)",
"uses",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerks around",
"manipulates",
"mistreats",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"fleeces",
"overcharges",
"skins",
"soaks",
"sticks",
"commercializes",
"commodifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means":{
"examples":[
"a politician more than willing to exploit any national tragedy for political gain"
],
"synonyms":[
"manipulates",
"plays (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engineers",
"finagles",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"kids",
"shanghais",
"snows",
"takes in",
"tricks",
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"vicious",
"violent"
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"savage",
"vicious",
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"aggressive",
"assertive",
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"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"gladiatorial",
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"quarrelsome",
"truculent",
"combustible",
"volatile",
"agitated",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"mad",
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"serene",
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"claymore mine",
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"web",
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"lazily",
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"uncertainly"
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"performances",
"presentations",
"productions",
"extravaganzas",
"pageants",
"spectacles",
"auctions",
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"presentments",
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"commentaries",
"comments",
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"explications",
"descants",
"discants",
"notes",
"observations",
"remarks",
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"interpretations",
"road maps"
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"translations",
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"commentaries",
"comments",
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"glosses",
"disentanglements",
"analyses",
"edifications",
"enlightenments",
"definitions",
"meanings",
"demonstrations",
"enactments",
"justifications",
"rationales",
"rationalizations",
"reasonings",
"cautions",
"caveats",
"warnings"
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"noun"
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"kicking",
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"cavilling",
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"hassling",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
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"bitching",
"bleating",
"carping",
"caterwauling",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grizzling",
"grouching",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"grumping",
"hollering",
"keening",
"maundering",
"moaning",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"nagging",
"repining",
"screaming",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whinging",
"whingeing",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"balking",
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"criticizing",
"denouncing",
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"rebelling",
"withstanding",
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"sanctioning",
"accepting",
"acceding",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"adhering",
"complying",
"conforming",
"following",
"minding",
"obeying",
"observing",
"advocating",
"championing",
"defending",
"maintaining",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending"
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"demurrer",
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"fuss",
"kick",
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"protest",
"question",
"remonstrance",
"stink"
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"doubt",
"misgiving",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"misunderstanding",
"cavil",
"niggle",
"quibble",
"argument",
"conflict",
"debate",
"dispute",
"dissent",
"hassle",
"quarrel",
"squabble",
"static",
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"criticism",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"rebellion",
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"dubiety",
"dubitation",
"incertitude",
"indetermination",
"misdoubt",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"reservation",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainty",
"qualmishness",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness"
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"approval",
"sanction",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"compliance",
"obedience"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
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],
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"liability",
"openness",
"vulnerability"
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"near synonyms":[
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"susceptibility",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"weakness",
"danger",
"jeopardy",
"peril",
"risk"
],
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"protection",
"safeguarding",
"sheltering",
"shielding"
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"the state or fact of facing a particular direction":{
"examples":[
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"frontage",
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"the act or an instance of making known something previously unknown or concealed":{
"examples":[
"the exposure by the local newspaper of a kickback scheme in the public works department"
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"disclosure",
"divulgence",
"revelation"
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"bombshell",
"kick",
"kicker",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"admission",
"avowal",
"concession",
"confession"
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"near antonyms":[
"concealment",
"cover-up"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"frontages",
"orientations"
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"near synonyms":[
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"alinements",
"arrangements"
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"the act or an instance of making known something previously unknown or concealed":{
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"revelations"
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"kickers",
"kicks",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"acknowledgments",
"acknowledgements",
"admissions",
"avowals",
"concessions",
"confessions"
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"cover-ups"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"expressed":{
"as in spoken , stated":{
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"to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of":{
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"examples":[
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"related":[
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"pulped",
"pureed",
"pur\u00e9ed",
"extracted",
"extruded"
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"synonyms":[
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"mashed",
"pressed",
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"to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind":{
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"examples":[
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"implied",
"suggested",
"added up (to)",
"amounted (to)",
"hinted",
"inferred",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"embodied",
"epitomized",
"personified",
"represented",
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"symbolled",
"symbolized",
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"alluded (to)",
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"instanced",
"mentioned",
"referred (to)",
"specified",
"touched (on or upon)",
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"pointed (to)",
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"signalled",
"announced",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
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"explained"
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"examples":[
"could you express your opinion of the book in words a little more precise than \"lousy\"?"
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"hinted",
"implied",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"suggested",
"paraphrased",
"rephrased",
"restated",
"reworded",
"summarized",
"translated",
"communicated",
"disclosed",
"spoke",
"talked",
"told",
"uttered",
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"vocalized",
"described",
"rendered",
"wrote up"
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"synonyms":[
"articulated",
"clothed",
"clad",
"couched",
"formulated",
"phrased",
"put",
"said",
"stated",
"worded"
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"antonyms":[
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"suppressed"
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"examples":[
"in a true democracy, a person can freely express his or her views"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censored",
"restrained",
"restricted"
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"related":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"declared",
"enounced",
"enunciated",
"proclaimed",
"said",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"circulated",
"disseminated",
"published",
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"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"chimed in",
"communicated",
"conveyed",
"put across",
"put over",
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"submitted"
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"synonyms":[
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"expounded",
"gave",
"looked",
"raised",
"sounded",
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"vented",
"ventilated",
"voiced"
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"to represent in visible form":{
"antonyms":[
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"examples":[
"towering spires express in glass and steel the optimism of the age"
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"related":[
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"concretized",
"realized",
"exemplified",
"illustrated",
"imaged",
"objectified",
"symbolized",
"typified"
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"synonyms":[
"bodied",
"embodied",
"epitomized",
"externalized",
"incarnated",
"incorporated",
"instantiated",
"manifested",
"materialized",
"personalized",
"personified",
"substantiated"
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
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"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
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"expounding",
"giving",
"looking",
"raising",
"sounding",
"stating",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing"
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"announcing",
"declaring",
"enouncing",
"enunciating",
"proclaiming",
"saying",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"disseminating",
"publishing",
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"writing",
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"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"chiming in",
"communicating",
"conveying",
"putting across",
"putting over",
"offering",
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"the newspaper had to expurgate the expletive-laden speech that the criminal made upon being sentenced to life imprisonment"
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"authorized",
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"directed that upon her expiration her splendid Italian-style villa be given to the public as a museum"
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"dispersion",
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"quietus",
"sleep"
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"suicide",
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"life",
"creation",
"genesis",
"origination",
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"defalcations",
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"shooting",
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"flare-up",
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"boom",
"pop",
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"gust",
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"the ruthless expulsion of the French-speaking Acadians from Nova Scotia by the British"
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"migrations",
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"ethnic cleansings",
"transportations",
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"noun"
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"an experimental procedure for patients suffering from leukemia"
],
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"tested",
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"tried",
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"indisputable",
"undeniable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"verifiable"
],
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"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"unproven",
"unsubstantiated",
"metaphysical",
"transcendentalist",
"visionary"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonempirical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unempirical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"examples":[
"an articulate expounder of the liberal position on the issue"
],
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"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"friends",
"gospelers",
"gospellers",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"one who brings an art or science to full realization":{
"examples":[
"one of the early expounders of abstract expressionism"
],
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"exponents",
"gurus",
"high priests",
"interpreters",
"practitioners"
],
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"deans",
"doyens",
"grand old men",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"philosophers",
"theorists",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expatriating":{
"to force to leave a country":{
"examples":[
"members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishing",
"deporting",
"displacing",
"exiling",
"relegating",
"transporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casting out",
"dismissing",
"ejecting",
"eliminating",
"evicting",
"excluding",
"expelling",
"expulsing",
"kicking out",
"ousting",
"running out",
"throwing out",
"excommunicating",
"ostracizing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"dispossessing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalizing",
"repatriating",
"accepting",
"admitting",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"entertaining",
"harboring",
"housing",
"sheltering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expatiate":{
"to give a formal often extended talk on a subject":{
"examples":[
"the naturalist is known for her willingness to expatiate on any number of issues relating to wildlife and the environment"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaim",
"descant",
"discourse",
"harangue",
"lecture",
"orate",
"speak",
"talk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recite",
"soliloquize",
"dissert",
"expound",
"pontificate",
"sermonize",
"mouth",
"spout",
"filibuster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expensively":{
"in a luxurious manner":{
"examples":[
"the pop singer's expensively decorated mansion was a testament to her commercial success"
],
"synonyms":[
"extravagantly",
"fatly",
"grandly",
"high",
"large",
"lavishly",
"luxuriously",
"opulently",
"palatially",
"plushly",
"richly",
"sumptuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imposingly",
"impressively",
"magnificently",
"splendidly",
"grandiosely",
"ostentatiously",
"pompously",
"pretentiously",
"affluently",
"comfortably",
"fine",
"wealthily",
"immoderately",
"indulgently",
"intemperately",
"prodigally",
"wantonly",
"wastefully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unpretentiously",
"cheaply",
"economically",
"frugally",
"inexpensively",
"meagerly",
"poorly",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"sparingly",
"thriftily",
"conservatively",
"moderately",
"prudently",
"reasonably",
"restrainedly",
"sensibly",
"temperately"
],
"antonyms":[
"austerely",
"humbly",
"modestly",
"plainly",
"simply"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"explicitness":{
"careful thoroughness of detail":{
"examples":[
"the explicitness of the instruction about human reproduction should be appropriate for the age of the students receiving it"
],
"synonyms":[
"particularity",
"specificity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"care",
"carefulness",
"conscientiousness",
"finicalness",
"finickiness",
"fussiness",
"meticulosity",
"meticulousness",
"alertness",
"cautiousness",
"circumspection",
"heedfulness",
"scrupulousness",
"discrimination",
"selectivity",
"accuracy",
"definitude",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness",
"preciseness",
"precision"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"inexactness",
"indistinctness",
"vagueness"
],
"antonyms":[
"generality"
]
},
"clearness of expression":{
"examples":[
"the user's manual is written with such rare explicitness that the average consumer actually has a chance of understanding it"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarity",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"perspicuity",
"perspicuousness",
"simplicity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"readability",
"readableness",
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"legibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"obliqueness",
"obliquity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"unintelligibility",
"unintelligibleness",
"circuitousness",
"deviousness",
"indirectness",
"indistinctness",
"dimness",
"disjointedness",
"incoherence",
"faintness",
"fuzziness",
"muddiness",
"nebulousness",
"vagueness"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"unclarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expound":{
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"a rambling interview in which the celebrated author expounds his views on an array of topics"
],
"synonyms":[
"air",
"express",
"give",
"look",
"raise",
"sound",
"state",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"declare",
"enounce",
"enunciate",
"proclaim",
"say",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"disseminate",
"publish",
"describe",
"write",
"write up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"chime in",
"communicate",
"convey",
"put across",
"put over",
"offer",
"submit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"restrain",
"restrict"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress"
]
},
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"at the start of the trial the judge expounded the legal difference between libel and slander to the jury"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarify",
"clear (up)",
"construe",
"demonstrate",
"demystify",
"elucidate",
"explain",
"explicate",
"get across",
"illuminate",
"illustrate",
"interpret",
"simplify",
"spell out",
"unriddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decipher",
"decode",
"analyze",
"break down",
"disentangle",
"undo",
"unravel",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"resolve",
"solve",
"define",
"specify",
"annotate",
"commentate",
"gloss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befog",
"cloud",
"confound",
"confuse",
"obfuscate"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscure"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expeditious":{
"having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation":{
"examples":[
"a company that is well-regarded for its expeditious handling of any request or complaint"
],
"synonyms":[
"alacritous",
"alert",
"prompt",
"quick",
"ready",
"willing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"receptive",
"responsive",
"immediate",
"instant",
"instantaneous",
"summary",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"hit-and-run",
"lightning",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"eager",
"keen",
"sharp",
"apt",
"clever",
"quick-witted",
"ready-witted",
"sharp-witted",
"smart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unresponsive",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"lazy",
"lazyish",
"leisurely",
"logy",
"loggy",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slothful",
"slow",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"tardy",
"unhurried",
"dormant",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expressionless":{
"not expressing any emotion":{
"examples":[
"veteran poker players invariably have expressionless faces, regardless of the hand they're holding"
],
"synonyms":[
"blank",
"catatonic",
"deadpan",
"empty",
"impassive",
"inexpressive",
"numb",
"stolid",
"vacant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dull",
"vacuous",
"vague",
"vapid",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"impenetrable",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious",
"motionless",
"static",
"still",
"wooden",
"reserved",
"restrained",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"aloof",
"apathetic",
"cold",
"cool",
"detached",
"indifferent",
"phlegmatic",
"unresponsive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engaged",
"interested",
"responsive",
"active",
"alive",
"animated",
"bright",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"effervescent",
"energetic",
"expansive",
"exuberant",
"lively",
"vivacious",
"eloquent",
"revealing",
"revelatory",
"gestic",
"gesticulant",
"gesticulative",
"gesticulatory",
"gestural",
"emotional",
"melodramatic",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"demonstrative",
"expressive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expeditions":{
"a going from one place to another usually of some distance":{
"examples":[
"an avid mountain climber, always on an expedition to some far-off corner of the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"journeys",
"passages",
"peregrinations",
"travels",
"treks",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commutations",
"commutes",
"errands",
"excursions",
"flights",
"hops",
"jaunts",
"junkets",
"outings",
"sallies",
"sorties",
"tours",
"cruises",
"sails",
"voyages",
"drives",
"rides",
"spins",
"grand tours",
"odysseys",
"pilgrimages",
"progresses",
"quests",
"safaris",
"hikes",
"slogs",
"tramps",
"walkabouts",
"walks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explored":{
"to search through or into":{
"examples":[
"communities must explore new ways of raising money for their cultural institutions"
],
"synonyms":[
"delved (into)",
"dug (into)",
"examined",
"inquired (into)",
"investigated",
"looked (into)",
"probed",
"researched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inspected",
"sifted",
"studied",
"viewed",
"browsed",
"cruised",
"perused",
"scanned",
"skimmed (through)",
"surfed",
"thumbed (through)",
"reinvestigated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"we must continue to explore the depths of the ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"hunted",
"probed",
"prospected",
"searched",
"skirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoitered",
"reconnoitred",
"scouted",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"unearthed",
"fathomed",
"plumbed",
"sounded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explanations":{
"a statement that makes something clear":{
"examples":[
"an explanation of photosynthesis that most museum visitors will be able to understand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifications",
"constructions",
"elucidations",
"exegeses",
"explications",
"expositions",
"illuminations",
"illustrations",
"interpretations",
"road maps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paraphrases",
"restatements",
"translations",
"annotations",
"commentaries",
"comments",
"epexegeses",
"glosses",
"disentanglements",
"analyses",
"edifications",
"enlightenments",
"definitions",
"meanings",
"demonstrations",
"enactments",
"justifications",
"rationales",
"rationalizations",
"reasonings",
"cautions",
"caveats",
"warnings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement given to explain a belief or act":{
"examples":[
"when questioned by authorities, the students were at a loss for an explanation for their senseless vandalism"
],
"synonyms":[
"accountings",
"accounts",
"arguments",
"cases",
"rationales",
"reasons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alibis",
"apologiae",
"apologias",
"apologies",
"defenses",
"excuses",
"justifications",
"vindications",
"appeals",
"pleas",
"guises",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"pretexts",
"rationalizations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"exposes":{
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"a well-researched article that exposes the UFO story as a hoax"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunks",
"nails",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"undresses",
"unmasks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolishes",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hides",
"secretes",
"veils"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"disguises",
"masks"
]
},
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"the documentary claims to expose how winners of beauty pageants are really picked"
],
"synonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"divulges",
"lets on (about)",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unbosoms",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confides",
"shares",
"debunks",
"shows up",
"unclothes",
"undrapes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"brings out",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"betrays",
"blabs",
"gives away",
"leaks",
"informs",
"squeals",
"talks",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"relates",
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"avows",
"concedes",
"confesses",
"owns",
"disinters",
"rakes up",
"smokes out",
"unearths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"shrouds",
"veils"
]
},
"to make known (something abstract) through outward signs":{
"examples":[
"the tight race for the championship exposed one team's mean streak"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespeaks",
"betrays",
"communicates",
"declares",
"demonstrates",
"displays",
"evinces",
"gives away",
"manifests",
"reveals",
"shows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"unbosoms",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"advertises",
"airs",
"announces",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"placards",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"sounds",
"trumpets",
"projects"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belies",
"misrepresents",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"garbles",
"twists",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"conceals",
"counterfeits",
"covers",
"hides",
"masks",
"obscures",
"occludes",
"veils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"I didn't want to expose my ignorance in front of the others, so I kept silent"
],
"synonyms":[
"displays",
"disports",
"exhibits",
"flashes",
"flaunts",
"lays out",
"parades",
"produces",
"shows",
"shows off",
"sports",
"struts",
"unveils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandishes",
"flourishes",
"waves",
"advertises",
"airs",
"announces",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"sounds",
"trumpets",
"divulges",
"talks (about)",
"tells (of)",
"bares",
"discovers",
"reveals",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"masks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"obscures",
"occludes",
"occults",
"shrouds",
"veils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"exponent":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"exponents of space exploration earnestly called for more missions to the outer reaches of the solar system"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"expounder",
"espouser",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
]
},
"one who brings an art or science to full realization":{
"examples":[
"has long reigned as the nation's leading exponent of modern dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"expounder",
"guru",
"high priest",
"interpreter",
"practitioner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dean",
"doyen",
"grand old man",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"philosopher",
"theorist",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expectorated":{
"as in spit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"spit",
"spat",
"watered",
"foamed",
"frothed",
"spluttered",
"dribbled",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"salivated",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"sputtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in expelled , exhaled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blew (out)",
"breathed (out)",
"exhaled",
"expelled",
"expired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inbreathed",
"inhaled",
"inspired"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explaining away":{
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"after the surprise attack, military leaders struggled to explain away the nation's unpreparedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounting (for)",
"attributing",
"explaining",
"rationalizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condoning",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"justifying",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses":{
"examples":[
"tried to explain away his adulterous affairs by saying that men are promiscuous by nature"
],
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"deodorizing",
"excusing",
"extenuating",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"palliating",
"whitewashing"
],
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"sugarcoating",
"varnishing",
"apologizing",
"atoning",
"confessing",
"accounting (for)",
"explaining",
"justifying",
"rationalizing",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"soft-pedaling",
"alleviating",
"easing",
"lessening",
"lightening",
"mitigating",
"moderating",
"softening",
"tempering",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experiments (with)":{
"as in studies , investigates":{
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"checks (out)",
"examines",
"explores",
"feels (out)",
"investigates",
"researches",
"studies",
"samples",
"tests",
"tries (out)",
"resamples",
"retests"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expectorates":{
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"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"spits",
"waters",
"foams",
"froths",
"splutters",
"dribbles",
"drivels",
"drools",
"salivates",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"sputters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in expels , exhales":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blows (out)",
"breathes (out)",
"exhales",
"expels",
"expires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inbreathes",
"inhales",
"inspires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explore":{
"to search through or into":{
"examples":[
"communities must explore new ways of raising money for their cultural institutions"
],
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"delve (into)",
"dig (into)",
"examine",
"inquire (into)",
"investigate",
"look (into)",
"probe",
"research"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inspect",
"sift",
"study",
"view",
"browse",
"cruise",
"peruse",
"scan",
"skim (through)",
"surf",
"thumb (through)",
"reinvestigate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"we must continue to explore the depths of the ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"hunt",
"probe",
"prospect",
"search",
"skirr"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoiter",
"reconnoitre",
"scout",
"disclose",
"discover",
"reveal",
"unearth",
"fathom",
"plumb",
"sound"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expatriated":{
"to force to leave a country":{
"examples":[
"members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well"
],
"synonyms":[
"banished",
"deported",
"displaced",
"exiled",
"relegated",
"transported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismissed",
"ejected",
"eliminated",
"evicted",
"excluded",
"expelled",
"expulsed",
"kicked out",
"ousted",
"ran out",
"threw out",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"dispossessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalized",
"repatriated",
"accepted",
"admitted",
"received",
"took in",
"entertained",
"harbored",
"housed",
"sheltered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expanding":{
"to express more fully and in greater detail":{
"examples":[
"an article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book"
],
"synonyms":[
"amplifying",
"developing",
"dilating (on or upon)",
"elaborating (on)",
"enlarging (on or upon)",
"fleshing (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"discoursing",
"expatiating",
"rambling",
"running on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"contracting",
"outlining",
"summarizing",
"summing up"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"condensing",
"shortening"
]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"we had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"building up",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"stoking",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"fleshing (out)",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching",
"developing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"beefing (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"following up",
"parlaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"antonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)"
]
},
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests"
],
"synonyms":[
"extending",
"fanning (out)",
"flaring (out)",
"opening",
"outspreading",
"outstretching",
"spreading (out)",
"stretching (out)",
"unfolding",
"unfurling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspreading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacting",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"reducing"
],
"antonyms":[
"closing",
"contracting",
"folding"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"water expands when it becomes frozen"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experiences":{
"an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand":{
"examples":[
"related in a book his experiences as a roving correspondent for network TV news"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventures",
"emprises",
"exploits",
"gests",
"gestes",
"happenings",
"times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"escapades",
"larks",
"ploys",
"actions",
"acts",
"deeds",
"doings",
"feats",
"episodes",
"occasions",
"baptisms",
"ordeals",
"tests",
"trials",
"tribulations",
"enterprises",
"risks",
"ventures",
"expeditions",
"explorations",
"missions",
"performances",
"quests",
"stunts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bores",
"bummers",
"busts",
"downers",
"drags"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"eventually we all have to experience the loss of a loved one"
],
"synonyms":[
"endures",
"feels",
"has",
"knows",
"passes",
"sees",
"suffers",
"sustains",
"tastes",
"undergoes",
"witnesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encounters",
"meets",
"accepts",
"receives",
"assimilates",
"digests"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"experiential":{
"based on observation or experience":{
"examples":[
"possesses the kind of experiential knowledge that is gained only from a long and eventful life"
],
"synonyms":[
"empirical",
"empiric",
"existential",
"experimental",
"objective",
"observational"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"factual",
"genuine",
"hard",
"material",
"real",
"accepted",
"established",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"indisputable",
"undeniable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"verifiable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"unproven",
"unsubstantiated",
"metaphysical",
"transcendentalist",
"visionary"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonempirical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unempirical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expertly":{
"in a skillful or expert manner":{
"examples":[
"the apple pie was a traditional but expertly made version of an old favorite"
],
"synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"artfully",
"capably",
"competently",
"consummately",
"deftly",
"masterfully",
"masterly",
"proficiently",
"skillfully",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptly",
"fluently",
"cleanly",
"cleverly",
"dexterously",
"neatly",
"nimbly",
"easily",
"facilely",
"handily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaptly",
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"crudely"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateurishly",
"artlessly",
"incapably",
"incompetently",
"inefficiently",
"ineptly",
"inexpertly",
"poorly",
"unskillfully"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"expelling":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"animal lover though I am, I was determined to expel the uninvited mouse from my room"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishing",
"booting (out)",
"bouncing",
"casting out",
"chasing",
"dismissing",
"drumming (out)",
"ejecting",
"extruding",
"kicking out",
"ousting",
"outing",
"routing",
"running off",
"throwing out",
"turfing (out)",
"turning out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforcing",
"deporting",
"displacing",
"dispossessing",
"evicting",
"exiling",
"expatriating",
"ostracizing",
"reading out",
"shutting out",
"axing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"defenestrating",
"discharging",
"firing",
"mustering out",
"pink-slipping",
"releasing",
"removing",
"retiring",
"sacking",
"terminating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"admitting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"taking in",
"welcoming",
"entertaining",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"sheltering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"something in a wastebasket was expelling a foul odor"
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"discharging",
"emanating",
"emitting",
"evolving",
"exhaling",
"expiring",
"giving out",
"irradiating",
"issuing",
"radiating",
"releasing",
"sending (out)",
"shooting",
"throwing out",
"venting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminating",
"evacuating",
"excreting",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"secreting",
"ejecting",
"erupting",
"gushing",
"jetting",
"outpouring",
"pouring",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spraying",
"spurting",
"squirting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"inhaling",
"soaking (up)",
"sponging",
"sucking (up)",
"taking up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"ringing and flashing madly, the slot machine expelled a bucketful of quarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"belching",
"disgorging",
"ejecting",
"eructing",
"erupting",
"jetting",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"pouring",
"squirting",
"streaming",
"surging",
"emanating",
"exhaling",
"issuing",
"releasing",
"shooting",
"spitting",
"springing",
"venting",
"discharging",
"emitting",
"firing",
"casting",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"launching",
"pitching",
"tossing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottling (up)",
"containing",
"restraining",
"shutting (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"asked the patient to expel a deep breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing (out)",
"breathing (out)",
"exhaling",
"expiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inbreathing",
"inhaling",
"inspiring"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"exposition":{
"a public showing of objects of interest":{
"examples":[
"an exposition of flying machines from the early days of aviation"
],
"synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"expo",
"fair",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstration",
"performance",
"presentation",
"production",
"extravaganza",
"pageant",
"spectacle",
"auction",
"offering",
"presentment",
"sale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)":{
"examples":[
"the nonstop exposition of the ceremonies by the TV newscasters was both unnecessary and irritating"
],
"synonyms":[
"analysis",
"comment",
"commentary",
"play-by-play"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annotation",
"explication",
"descant",
"discant",
"note",
"observation",
"remark",
"report",
"review",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement that makes something clear":{
"examples":[
"the astronomer's exposition of white dwarfs was a little helpful"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarification",
"construction",
"elucidation",
"exegesis",
"explanation",
"explication",
"illumination",
"illustration",
"interpretation",
"road map"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paraphrase",
"restatement",
"translation",
"annotation",
"comment",
"commentary",
"epexegesis",
"gloss",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"disentanglement",
"unscrambling",
"analysis",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"definition",
"meaning",
"demonstration",
"enactment",
"justification",
"rationale",
"rationalization",
"reasoning",
"caution",
"caveat",
"warning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expiated":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"Yom Kippur is the holy day on which Jews are expected to expiate sins committed during the past year"
],
"synonyms":[
"atoned (for)",
"mended",
"redeemed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensated",
"recompensed",
"reimbursed",
"remunerated",
"repaid",
"amended",
"corrected",
"rectified",
"redressed",
"propitiated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expounder":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"an articulate expounder of the liberal position on the issue"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
]
},
"one who brings an art or science to full realization":{
"examples":[
"one of the early expounders of abstract expressionism"
],
"synonyms":[
"exponent",
"guru",
"high priest",
"interpreter",
"practitioner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dean",
"doyen",
"grand old man",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"philosopher",
"theorist",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explanation":{
"a statement that makes something clear":{
"examples":[
"an explanation of photosynthesis that most museum visitors will be able to understand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarification",
"construction",
"elucidation",
"exegesis",
"explication",
"exposition",
"illumination",
"illustration",
"interpretation",
"road map"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paraphrase",
"restatement",
"translation",
"annotation",
"comment",
"commentary",
"epexegesis",
"gloss",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"disentanglement",
"unscrambling",
"analysis",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"definition",
"meaning",
"demonstration",
"enactment",
"justification",
"rationale",
"rationalization",
"reasoning",
"caution",
"caveat",
"warning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement given to explain a belief or act":{
"examples":[
"when questioned by authorities, the students were at a loss for an explanation for their senseless vandalism"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"accounting",
"argument",
"case",
"rationale",
"reason"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alibi",
"apologia",
"apology",
"defense",
"excuse",
"justification",
"vindication",
"appeal",
"plea",
"guise",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretext",
"rationalization"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expeditiousness":{
"as in dispatch , expedition":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"dispatch",
"expedition",
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"acceleration",
"hastiness",
"precipitation",
"precipitousness",
"rush",
"warp speed",
"drive",
"hustle",
"clip",
"gait",
"pace",
"rate",
"tempo",
"celerity",
"fastness",
"fleetness",
"haste",
"hurry",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"rapidness",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"velocity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slowness",
"sluggishness",
"languidness",
"languor",
"leisureliness",
"lethargy",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"reluctance",
"deliberateness",
"deliberation",
"dilatoriness",
"lateness",
"pokiness",
"procrastination"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explaining":{
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"a pamphlet that explains the medical procedure in language that any layperson can understand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"construing",
"demonstrating",
"demystifying",
"elucidating",
"explicating",
"expounding",
"getting across",
"illuminating",
"illustrating",
"interpreting",
"simplifying",
"spelling out",
"unriddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"analyzing",
"breaking down",
"disentangling",
"undoing",
"unraveling",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"resolving",
"solving",
"defining",
"specifying",
"annotating",
"commentating",
"glossing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogging",
"clouding",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"obfuscating"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscuring"
]
},
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"can you explain your very odd behavior at the wedding reception?"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounting (for)",
"attributing",
"explaining away",
"rationalizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condoning",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"justifying",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explanatory":{
"serving to explain":{
"examples":[
"the explanatory section has as its heading \"What the New Tax Changes Mean\""
],
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"elucidative",
"exegetical",
"exegetic",
"explanative",
"explicative",
"explicatory",
"expositive",
"expository",
"illuminative",
"illustrative",
"interpretative",
"interpretive"
],
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"analytic",
"analytical",
"demonstrative",
"discursive",
"exculpatory",
"exonerative"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expand":{
"to express more fully and in greater detail":{
"examples":[
"an article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book"
],
"synonyms":[
"amplify",
"develop",
"dilate (on or upon)",
"elaborate (on)",
"enlarge (on or upon)",
"flesh (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"add (to)",
"complement",
"supplement",
"discourse",
"expatiate",
"ramble",
"run on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"contract",
"outline",
"summarize",
"sum up"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"condense",
"shorten"
]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"we had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding"
],
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"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"build up",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"multiply",
"pump up",
"raise",
"stoke",
"supersize",
"swell",
"up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boom",
"jump",
"skyrocket",
"spike",
"bump (up)",
"ratchet (up)",
"rachet (up)",
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"flesh (out)",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch",
"develop",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"complement",
"supplement",
"beef (up)",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"maximize",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"collect",
"follow up",
"parlay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"cut back",
"retrench"
],
"antonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"minify",
"reduce",
"subtract (from)"
]
},
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests"
],
"synonyms":[
"extend",
"fan (out)",
"flare (out)",
"open",
"outspread",
"outstretch",
"spread (out)",
"stretch (out)",
"unfold",
"unfurl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compact",
"compress",
"condense",
"reduce"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"contract",
"fold"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"water expands when it becomes frozen"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
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"antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expulse":{
"as in expel , evict":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismiss",
"eject",
"eliminate",
"evict",
"exclude",
"expel",
"kick out",
"oust",
"run out",
"throw out",
"banish",
"deport",
"displace",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"relegate",
"transport",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"dispossess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalize",
"repatriate",
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take in",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explains away":{
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"after the surprise attack, military leaders struggled to explain away the nation's unpreparedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts (for)",
"attributes",
"explains",
"rationalizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condones",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"justifies",
"absolves",
"acquits",
"exculpates",
"exonerates",
"vindicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses":{
"examples":[
"tried to explain away his adulterous affairs by saying that men are promiscuous by nature"
],
"synonyms":[
"deodorizes",
"excuses",
"extenuates",
"glosses (over)",
"glozes (over)",
"palliates",
"whitewashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sugarcoats",
"varnishes",
"apologizes",
"atones",
"confesses",
"accounts (for)",
"explains",
"justifies",
"rationalizes",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"soft-pedals",
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lessens",
"lightens",
"mitigates",
"moderates",
"softens",
"tempers",
"absolves",
"acquits",
"clears",
"exculpates",
"exonerates",
"vindicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expiries":{
"the act of ceasing to exist":{
"examples":[
"the expiry of a great empire is always a cataclysmic event"
],
"synonyms":[
"deaths",
"demises",
"expirations",
"terminations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispersions",
"dissolutions",
"cessations",
"closes",
"conclusions",
"deceases",
"discontinuances",
"dooms",
"endings",
"ends",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"ruins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"persistences",
"prolongations",
"inaugurations",
"initiations",
"institutions",
"originations"
],
"antonyms":[
"alphas",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"creations",
"dawns",
"geneses",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"launches",
"mornings",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts"
]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"once upon expiry , her soul entered the abode of the blessed dead"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"dooms",
"ends",
"exits",
"expirations",
"fates",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"sleeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expedient":{
"suitable for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances":{
"examples":[
"made the expedient decision to sell the land to whomever offered the most money"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisable",
"desirable",
"judicious",
"politic",
"prudent",
"tactical",
"wise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable",
"useful",
"utilitarian",
"feasible",
"possible",
"practicable",
"practical",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"opportunistic",
"self-seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"profitless",
"unfeasible",
"unprofitable",
"inopportune",
"unseasonable",
"untimely"
],
"antonyms":[
"impolitic",
"imprudent",
"inadvisable",
"inexpedient",
"injudicious",
"unwise"
]
},
"a temporary replacement":{
"examples":[
"if you're a spectator caught without rainwear at a sporting event, then a plastic garbage bag makes an acceptable, if unfashionable, expedient"
],
"synonyms":[
"makeshift",
"stopgap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quick fix",
"recourse",
"refuge",
"resort",
"alternate",
"backup",
"standby",
"stand-in",
"substitute",
"understudy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an action planned or taken to achieve a desired result":{
"examples":[
"he vowed to use any expedient available to get the project done on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"means",
"measure",
"move",
"shift",
"step"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"thing",
"course",
"procedure",
"proceeding",
"process",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"coup",
"exploit",
"success",
"triumph",
"activity",
"affair",
"business",
"dealing",
"enterprise",
"event",
"attempt",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"initiative",
"operation",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"undertaking",
"whack",
"effort",
"exertion",
"labor",
"pains",
"trouble",
"while",
"work",
"project",
"proposal",
"proposition",
"makeshift",
"resort",
"resource",
"stopgap",
"countermeasure",
"countermove",
"counterstep"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that one uses to accomplish an end especially when the usual means is not available":{
"examples":[
"since there wasn't a single bandage left in our backpacks, we had to use a bandanna, our only expedient"
],
"synonyms":[
"recourse",
"resort",
"resource"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hope",
"opportunity",
"possibility",
"relief",
"makeshift",
"replacement",
"stopgap",
"substitute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"expediency":{
"suitability for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances":{
"examples":[
"the expediency of such a plan is questionable"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisability",
"advisableness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"expedience",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"wisdom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageousness",
"beneficialness",
"profitability",
"feasibility",
"practicality",
"usefulness",
"opportuneness",
"seasonableness",
"timeliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impracticality",
"infeasibility",
"inopportuneness",
"unseasonableness",
"untimeliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"imprudence",
"inadvisability",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"injudiciousness",
"unwisdom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expirations":{
"the act of ceasing to exist":{
"examples":[
"directed that upon her expiration her splendid Italian-style villa be given to the public as a museum"
],
"synonyms":[
"deaths",
"demises",
"expiries",
"terminations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispersions",
"dissolutions",
"cessations",
"closes",
"conclusions",
"deceases",
"discontinuances",
"dooms",
"endings",
"ends",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"ruins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"persistences",
"prolongations",
"inaugurations",
"initiations",
"institutions",
"originations"
],
"antonyms":[
"alphas",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"creations",
"dawns",
"geneses",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"launches",
"mornings",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts"
]
},
"the stopping of a process or activity":{
"examples":[
"with the expiration of all brain activity there was no point in keeping the patient alive"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"ceases",
"cessations",
"checks",
"closedowns",
"closes",
"closures",
"conclusions",
"cutoffs",
"discontinuances",
"discontinuations",
"endings",
"ends",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"offsets",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stays",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mop-ups",
"phaseouts",
"abeyances",
"breaks",
"interruptions",
"layoffs",
"letups",
"moratoriums",
"moratoria",
"pauses",
"standstills",
"suspensions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extensions",
"persistences",
"prolongations"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuances",
"continuations"
]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"the cancer patient passed away sometime during the night, the exact moment of her expiration not being known"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"dooms",
"ends",
"exits",
"expiries",
"fates",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"sleeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expository":{
"serving to explain":{
"examples":[
"an expository piece on the workings of the internal-combustion engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"elucidative",
"exegetical",
"exegetic",
"explanative",
"explanatory",
"explicative",
"explicatory",
"expositive",
"illuminative",
"illustrative",
"interpretative",
"interpretive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analytic",
"analytical",
"demonstrative",
"discursive",
"exculpatory",
"exonerative"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"exporting":{
"to send a product to be sold in another country":{
"examples":[
"countries that export oil to the U.S."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bartering",
"distributing",
"exchanging",
"handling",
"trading",
"trafficking (in)",
"dealing (in)",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"putting up",
"retailing",
"selling",
"vending",
"preselling",
"wholesaling",
"remarketing",
"reselling",
"hawking",
"peddling",
"advertising",
"ballyhooing",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"touting",
"bargaining",
"chaffering",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse-trading",
"paltering",
"auctioning",
"providing",
"supplying",
"carrying",
"keeping",
"stocking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"importing",
"purchasing",
"receiving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experts":{
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"experts at the crime lab were able to tell the sex, race, and approximate age of the murderer"
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"artists",
"authorities",
"cognoscenti",
"connoisseurs",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dab hands",
"dabs",
"fiends",
"geeks",
"gurus",
"hands",
"hotshots",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"meisters",
"past masters",
"proficients",
"scholars",
"sharks",
"sharps",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"professionals",
"pros",
"consultants",
"hired guns",
"specialists",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"craftsmen",
"journeymen",
"all-rounders",
"jacks-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance men",
"mistresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentices",
"beginners",
"neophytes",
"novices",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"laymen",
"nonprofessionals"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateurs",
"inexperts",
"nonexperts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expostulates":{
"to present an opposing opinion or argument":{
"examples":[
"the concerned parents tried to expostulate with their daughter when she announced her intention to live on her own in New York City"
],
"synonyms":[
"demurs",
"excepts",
"kicks",
"objects",
"protests",
"remonstrates (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cavils",
"quibbles",
"challenges",
"dares",
"defies",
"fights",
"conflicts",
"debates",
"disputes",
"hassles",
"quarrels",
"squabbles",
"wrangles",
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"caterwauls",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grizzles",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"grumps",
"hollers",
"keens",
"maunders",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"nags",
"repines",
"screams",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"balks",
"gags",
"sticks",
"censures",
"criticizes",
"denounces",
"disobeys",
"rebels",
"withstands",
"demonstrates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"sanctions",
"accepts",
"accedes",
"acquiesces",
"agrees",
"assents",
"adheres",
"complies",
"conforms",
"follows",
"minds",
"obeys",
"observes",
"advocates",
"champions",
"defends",
"maintains",
"supports",
"sustains",
"upholds",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expressways":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"a baffling maze of high-speed expressways encircles the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expropriating":{
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"arrogating",
"commandeering",
"converting",
"pirating",
"preempting",
"pressing",
"seizing",
"taking over",
"usurping"
],
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"grabbing",
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"snatching",
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"looting",
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"misusing",
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"ousting"
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"stripping",
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"commandeering",
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"seizing",
"taking over"
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"delivering",
"forfeiting",
"giving up",
"handing over",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"rendering",
"surrendering",
"turning over",
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"verb"
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"answerable",
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"resolvable",
"soluble",
"solvable"
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"decipherable",
"feasible",
"workable"
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"inextricable",
"knotty",
"impossible",
"insuperable",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous"
],
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"inexplicable",
"insoluble",
"insolvable",
"unexplainable",
"unresolvable",
"unsolvable"
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"adjective"
]
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"you'll have to drastically cut back on your clothing expenditures if you hope to save anything"
],
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"cost",
"disbursement",
"expense",
"outgo",
"outlay"
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"outflow",
"pocket money",
"spending money",
"price",
"rate",
"tab",
"tariff",
"toll"
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},
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"the expenditure of the nation's military might on wars that may or may not involve the national interest"
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"elbow grease",
"exertion",
"labor",
"pains",
"sweat",
"trouble",
"while",
"work"
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"grind",
"slog",
"strain",
"toil",
"travail",
"dint",
"energy",
"force",
"might",
"muscle",
"power",
"puissance",
"attempt",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"whack"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adroitness",
"ease",
"facility",
"fluency",
"smoothness",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inaction",
"inactivity",
"indolence",
"inertia",
"languor",
"laziness",
"quiescence"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to remove objectionable parts from":{
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"the newspaper had to expurgate the expletive-laden speech that the criminal made upon being sentenced to life imprisonment"
],
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"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"laundering",
"red-penciling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleansing",
"purging",
"purifying",
"abbreviating",
"blue-penciling",
"editing",
"shortening",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"cutting (out)",
"deleting",
"excising",
"expunging",
"gutting",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"examining",
"reviewing",
"screening",
"scrutinizing"
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"approving",
"authorizing",
"sanctioning"
],
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"type":[
"verb"
]
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"serving to explain":{
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"an edition of Melville's novel that could use more explanative footnotes about whaling"
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"elucidative",
"exegetical",
"exegetic",
"explanatory",
"explicative",
"explicatory",
"expositive",
"expository",
"illuminative",
"illustrative",
"interpretative",
"interpretive"
],
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"analytic",
"analytical",
"demonstrative",
"discursive",
"exculpatory",
"exonerative"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"expression":{
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"the poem is his expression of his grief upon the loss of his beloved wife"
],
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"articulation",
"formulation",
"phrasing",
"statement",
"utterance",
"verbalism",
"voice",
"wording"
],
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"outlet",
"vent",
"observation",
"reflection",
"remark",
"thought",
"speech",
"tongue"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"facial appearance regarded as an indication of mood or feeling":{
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"we could tell by the fans' expressions that the Chicago Cubs had lost again"
],
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"cast",
"countenance",
"face",
"look",
"visage"
],
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"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"mouth",
"pout",
"scowl",
"grin",
"smile",
"air",
"appearance",
"aspect",
"bearing",
"demeanor",
"manner",
"mien",
"presence"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a pronounceable series of letters having a distinct meaning especially in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"the expression \"John Doe\" is used in legal proceedings to refer to a person whose actual name is either unknown or being withheld from the public"
],
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"term",
"word"
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"linguistic form",
"monosyllable",
"morpheme",
"speech form",
"polysyllable",
"collocation",
"idiom",
"locution",
"phrase",
"archaism",
"coinage",
"colloquialism",
"euphemism",
"loanword",
"modernism",
"neologism",
"vernacularism"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"a sequence of words having a specific meaning":{
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"the popular expression \"raining cats and dogs\" is meaningless in other languages"
],
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"idiom",
"phrase"
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"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"locution",
"term",
"epithet",
"expletive",
"name",
"byword",
"cry",
"motto",
"shibboleth",
"slogan",
"watchword",
"archaism",
"colloquialism",
"euphemism",
"modernism",
"neologism",
"provincialism",
"vulgarism"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to cause (something) to happen faster":{
"examples":[
"They've asked the judge to expedite the lawsuits.",
"We'll do what we can to expedite the processing of your insurance claim."
],
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"aid",
"dispatch",
"ease",
"encourage",
"facilitate",
"accelerate",
"bundle",
"fast-track",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"quicken",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"whisk",
"drive",
"goad",
"prod",
"propel",
"push",
"race",
"spur",
"stir",
"urge"
],
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"delay",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"arrest",
"check",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop",
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"exporters":{
"as in retailers , distributors":{
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"discounters",
"distributors",
"e-tailers",
"jobbers",
"resellers",
"retailers",
"wholesalers",
"brokers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"auctioneers",
"concessionaires",
"black marketers",
"black marketeers",
"bootleggers",
"fencers",
"fences",
"hustlers",
"scalpers",
"smugglers",
"traffickers",
"chapmen",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"peddlers",
"pedlars",
"salesclerks",
"salesmen",
"salespeople",
"saleswomen",
"shopgirls",
"bargainers",
"hagglers",
"horse traders",
"palterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"consumers",
"end users",
"users",
"buyers",
"purchasers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to cause (something) to happen faster":{
"examples":[
"They've asked the judge to expedite the lawsuits.",
"We'll do what we can to expedite the processing of your insurance claim."
],
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"aiding",
"dispatching",
"easing",
"encouraging",
"facilitating",
"accelerating",
"bundling",
"fast-tracking",
"hastening",
"hurrying",
"quickening",
"rushing",
"speeding (up)",
"whisking",
"driving",
"goading",
"prodding",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"racing",
"spurring",
"stirring",
"urging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delaying",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"arresting",
"checking",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping",
"braking",
"decelerating",
"retarding",
"slowing (down)"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expo":{
"a public showing of objects of interest":{
"examples":[
"many of the bigger expos won't fit into the city's relatively small civic center"
],
"synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"exposition",
"fair",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstration",
"performance",
"presentation",
"production",
"extravaganza",
"pageant",
"spectacle",
"auction",
"offering",
"presentment",
"sale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"experimenting (with)":{
"as in studying , investigating":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"checking (out)",
"examining",
"exploring",
"feeling (out)",
"investigating",
"researching",
"studying",
"sampling",
"testing",
"trying (out)",
"resampling",
"retesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
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"explosives":{
"as in bombs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bombs",
"torpedoes",
"hazards",
"pitfalls",
"snares",
"traps",
"claymore mines",
"land mines",
"ambushes",
"nets",
"webs",
"booby traps",
"mines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expectations":{
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"examples":[
"in expectation of a harsh winter, we budgeted more money than usual for the cost of heating our home"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipations",
"contemplations",
"expectances",
"expectancies",
"prospects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarms",
"alarums",
"apprehensions",
"dreads",
"forebodings",
"misgivings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expletive":{
"a disrespectful or indecent word or expression":{
"examples":[
"unleashed a slew of expletives upon losing the tennis match"
],
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"curse",
"cuss",
"cussword",
"dirty word",
"four-letter word",
"obscenity",
"profanity",
"swear",
"swearword",
"vulgarism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawdry",
"language",
"scurrility",
"execration",
"imprecation",
"malediction",
"epithet",
"name",
"oath"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expatriations":{
"the forced removal from a homeland":{
"examples":[
"the brutal expatriation of thousands of Cherokee to Indian Territory is now commonly referred to as the Trail of Tears"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishments",
"deportations",
"displacements",
"exiles",
"expulsions",
"relegations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ostracisms",
"extraditions",
"diasporas",
"dispersions",
"scatterings",
"emigrations",
"migrations",
"evacuations",
"ethnic cleansings",
"transportations",
"dispossessions",
"ejections",
"ousters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repatriations",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expulses":{
"as in expels , evicts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casts out",
"dismisses",
"ejects",
"eliminates",
"evicts",
"excludes",
"expels",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"runs out",
"throws out",
"banishes",
"deports",
"displaces",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"relegates",
"transports",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"dispossesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalizes",
"repatriates",
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes in",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expulsion":{
"the forced removal from a homeland":{
"examples":[
"the ruthless expulsion of the French-speaking Acadians from Nova Scotia by the British"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishment",
"deportation",
"displacement",
"exile",
"expatriation",
"relegation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ostracism",
"extradition",
"diaspora",
"dispersion",
"scattering",
"emigration",
"migration",
"evacuation",
"ethnic cleansing",
"transportation",
"dispossession",
"ejection",
"ouster"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repatriation",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"experiment (with)":{
"as in study , investigate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"check (out)",
"examine",
"explore",
"feel (out)",
"investigate",
"research",
"study",
"sample",
"test",
"try (out)",
"resample",
"retest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experiencing":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"eventually we all have to experience the loss of a loved one"
],
"synonyms":[
"enduring",
"feeling",
"having",
"knowing",
"passing",
"seeing",
"suffering",
"sustaining",
"tasting",
"undergoing",
"witnessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"assimilating",
"digesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expunges":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"time and the weather have expunged any evidence that a thriving community once existed here"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blacks out",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expostulate":{
"to present an opposing opinion or argument":{
"examples":[
"the concerned parents tried to expostulate with their daughter when she announced her intention to live on her own in New York City"
],
"synonyms":[
"demur",
"except",
"kick",
"object",
"protest",
"remonstrate (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experimenter":{
"one who observes or studies by close examination and systematic inquiry":{
"examples":[
"a psychology experimenter doing research into the sources of panic attacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"investigator",
"researcher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monitor",
"observer",
"empiric",
"empiricist",
"fact finder",
"field-worker",
"examiner",
"inspector"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expanses":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"the great explorers who crossed the vast expanses of the seven seas in small ships"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadths",
"distances",
"expansions",
"extents",
"fields",
"lengths",
"plains",
"reaches",
"sheets",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domains",
"spheres",
"territories",
"compasses",
"ranges",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"gamuts",
"scales",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"depths",
"voids",
"extensions",
"latitudes",
"spans",
"amplitudes",
"immensities",
"magnitudes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expletives":{
"a disrespectful or indecent word or expression":{
"examples":[
"unleashed a slew of expletives upon losing the tennis match"
],
"synonyms":[
"curses",
"cusses",
"cusswords",
"dirty words",
"four-letter words",
"obscenities",
"profanities",
"swears",
"swearwords",
"vulgarisms"
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"bawdries",
"languages",
"scurrilities",
"execrations",
"imprecations",
"maledictions",
"epithets",
"names",
"oaths"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the building was wrecked when a powerful bomb exploded"
],
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"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"crumping",
"detonating",
"going off",
"popping"
],
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"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"discharging",
"firing",
"shooting",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mushrooming"
],
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"collapsing",
"fizzling"
],
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"imploding"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
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"the bomb was so powerful that it exploded windows in several neighboring buildings"
],
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"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"demolishing",
"popping",
"shattering",
"smashing"
],
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"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
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"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
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},
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"the mayor's latest unpopular decision caused long-suppressed resentment to explode into open anger"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazing (up)",
"breaking out",
"bursting (forth)",
"erupting",
"flaming",
"flaring (up)"
],
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"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"blowing up",
"detonating",
"touching off"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expels":{
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"examples":[
"animal lover though I am, I was determined to expel the uninvited mouse from my room"
],
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"banishes",
"boots (out)",
"bounces",
"casts out",
"chases",
"dismisses",
"drums (out)",
"ejects",
"extrudes",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"outs",
"routs",
"runs off",
"throws out",
"turfs (out)",
"turns out"
],
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"deforces",
"deports",
"displaces",
"dispossesses",
"evicts",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"ostracizes",
"reads out",
"shuts out",
"axes",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"defenestrates",
"discharges",
"fires",
"musters out",
"pink-slips",
"releases",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes",
"takes in",
"welcomes",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"shelters"
],
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},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"something in a wastebasket was expelling a foul odor"
],
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"discharges",
"emanates",
"emits",
"evolves",
"exhales",
"expires",
"gives out",
"irradiates",
"issues",
"radiates",
"releases",
"sends (out)",
"shoots",
"throws out",
"vents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminates",
"evacuates",
"excretes",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"secretes",
"ejects",
"erupts",
"gushes",
"jets",
"outpours",
"pours",
"spews",
"spouts",
"sprays",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbs",
"inhales",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"sucks (up)",
"takes up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"ringing and flashing madly, the slot machine expelled a bucketful of quarters"
],
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"belches",
"disgorges",
"ejects",
"eructs",
"erupts",
"jets",
"spews",
"spouts",
"spurts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushes",
"pours",
"squirts",
"streams",
"surges",
"emanates",
"exhales",
"issues",
"releases",
"shoots",
"spits",
"springs",
"vents",
"discharges",
"emits",
"fires",
"casts",
"flings",
"heaves",
"hurls",
"launches",
"pitches",
"tosses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"contains",
"restrains",
"shuts (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"asked the patient to expel a deep breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows (out)",
"breathes (out)",
"exhales",
"expires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorates"
],
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"antonyms":[
"inbreathes",
"inhales",
"inspires"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experimenters":{
"one who observes or studies by close examination and systematic inquiry":{
"examples":[
"a psychology experimenter doing research into the sources of panic attacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"investigators",
"researchers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monitors",
"observers",
"empiricists",
"empirics",
"fact finders",
"field-workers",
"examiners",
"inspectors"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expedition":{
"a going from one place to another usually of some distance":{
"examples":[
"an avid mountain climber, always on an expedition to some far-off corner of the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"journey",
"passage",
"peregrination",
"travel(s)",
"trek",
"trip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commutation",
"commute",
"errand",
"excursion",
"flight",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"junket",
"outing",
"sally",
"sortie",
"tour",
"cruise",
"sail",
"voyage",
"drive",
"ride",
"spin",
"grand tour",
"odyssey",
"pilgrimage",
"progress",
"quest",
"safari",
"hike",
"slog",
"tramp",
"walk",
"walkabout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explicating":{
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen"
],
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"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"construing",
"demonstrating",
"demystifying",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"expounding",
"getting across",
"illuminating",
"illustrating",
"interpreting",
"simplifying",
"spelling out",
"unriddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"analyzing",
"breaking down",
"disentangling",
"undoing",
"unraveling",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"resolving",
"solving",
"defining",
"specifying",
"annotating",
"commentating",
"glossing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogging",
"clouding",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"obfuscating"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscuring"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"exposed":{
"being in a situation where one is likely to meet with harm":{
"examples":[
"without our immune systems we'd be exposed to all sorts of deadly infections"
],
"synonyms":[
"endangered",
"liable",
"open",
"sensitive",
"subject (to)",
"susceptible",
"vulnerable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"likely",
"prone",
"uncovered",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unscreened",
"unsecured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"warded"
],
"antonyms":[
"insusceptible",
"invulnerable",
"unexposed",
"unsusceptible"
]
},
"lacking a usual or natural covering":{
"examples":[
"the exposed electrical wires were a safety hazard"
],
"synonyms":[
"bald",
"bare",
"denuded",
"naked",
"open",
"peeled",
"stripped",
"uncovered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displayed",
"revealed",
"hairless",
"shaven",
"disrobed",
"unclad",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"furless",
"skinned",
"divested",
"unprotected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mantled",
"overgrown",
"overrun",
"overspread",
"bearded",
"hairy"
],
"antonyms":[
"covered"
]
},
"lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack":{
"examples":[
"the soldiers were so exposed in the open field that they were the proverbial sitting ducks"
],
"synonyms":[
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"susceptible",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indefensible",
"untenable",
"uncovered",
"unsafe",
"overcome",
"preyed (on or upon)",
"disarmed",
"passive",
"resistless",
"unarmed",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"abandoned",
"high and dry",
"marooned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defensible",
"covered",
"fortified",
"safe",
"screened",
"secure",
"sheltered",
"armed",
"armored",
"immune",
"impenetrable",
"impregnable",
"invincible",
"strong",
"unassailable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"almighty",
"omnipotent"
],
"antonyms":[
"guarded",
"invulnerable",
"protected",
"resistant",
"shielded"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"a well-researched article that exposes the UFO story as a hoax"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunked",
"nailed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"undressed",
"unmasked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolished",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hid",
"secreted",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"disguised",
"masked"
]
},
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"the documentary claims to expose how winners of beauty pageants are really picked"
],
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"bared",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"divulged",
"let on (about)",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"unbosomed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confided",
"shared",
"debunked",
"showed up",
"unclothed",
"undraped",
"advertised",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"brought out",
"declared",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"sounded",
"betrayed",
"blabbed",
"gave away",
"leaked",
"informed",
"squealed",
"talked",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"related",
"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"avowed",
"conceded",
"confessed",
"owned",
"disinterred",
"raked up",
"smoked out",
"unearthed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obscured",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered (up)",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
]
},
"to make known (something abstract) through outward signs":{
"examples":[
"the tight race for the championship exposed one team's mean streak"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespoke",
"betrayed",
"communicated",
"declared",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"evinced",
"gave away",
"manifested",
"revealed",
"showed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"unbosomed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"placarded",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"projected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belied",
"misrepresented",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"twisted",
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"concealed",
"counterfeited",
"covered",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"I didn't want to expose my ignorance in front of the others, so I kept silent"
],
"synonyms":[
"displayed",
"disported",
"exhibited",
"flashed",
"flaunted",
"laid out",
"paraded",
"produced",
"showed",
"showed off",
"sported",
"strutted",
"unveiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandished",
"flourished",
"waved",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"divulged",
"talked (about)",
"told (of)",
"bared",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"masked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"occulted",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"expectances":{
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"examples":[
"gave them the painting, with no expectance of anything in return"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipations",
"contemplations",
"expectancies",
"expectations",
"prospects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarms",
"alarums",
"apprehensions",
"dreads",
"forebodings",
"misgivings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expectants":{
"one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award":{
"examples":[
"divinity students who were all expectants for a curacy"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicants",
"appliers",
"aspirants",
"campaigners",
"candidates",
"contenders",
"hopefuls",
"prospects",
"seekers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"competitors",
"contestants",
"entrants",
"entries",
"favorites",
"qualifiers",
"dark horses",
"spoilers",
"stalking horses",
"crown princes",
"favorite sons",
"claimants",
"pretenders",
"nominees",
"running mates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incumbents",
"officeholders",
"awardees",
"honorees",
"inductees",
"dropouts"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncandidates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expectorating":{
"as in spitting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"spitting",
"watering",
"foaming",
"frothing",
"spluttering",
"dribbling",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"salivating",
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"sputtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in expelling , exhaling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing (out)",
"breathing (out)",
"exhaling",
"expelling",
"expiring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inbreathing",
"inhaling",
"inspiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expropriates":{
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"arrogates",
"commandeers",
"converts",
"pirates",
"preempts",
"presses",
"seizes",
"takes over",
"usurps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annexes",
"attaches",
"claims",
"confiscates",
"impounds",
"repossesses",
"sequesters",
"assumes",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"snatches",
"steals",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"despoils",
"loots",
"pillages",
"encroaches",
"infringes",
"invades",
"occupies",
"preoccupies",
"trespasses",
"embezzles",
"misapplies",
"misappropriates",
"misuses",
"peculates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to end the occupancy or possession of":{
"examples":[
"the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road"
],
"synonyms":[
"dispossesses",
"divests",
"ousts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforces",
"evicts",
"disfurnishes",
"strips",
"bereaves",
"deprives",
"disinherits",
"annexes",
"appropriates",
"commandeers",
"impounds",
"seizes",
"takes over",
"usurps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority":{
"examples":[
"plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport"
],
"synonyms":[
"attaches",
"confiscates",
"sequesters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"garnishees",
"appropriates",
"arrogates",
"preempts",
"usurps",
"commandeers",
"seizes",
"takes over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cedes",
"delivers",
"forfeits",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"renders",
"surrenders",
"turns over",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explorations":{
"a systematic search for the truth or facts about something":{
"examples":[
"an exploration into the disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart"
],
"synonyms":[
"disquisitions",
"examens",
"examinations",
"inquests",
"inquiries",
"inquisitions",
"investigations",
"probations",
"probes",
"probings",
"researches",
"studies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quests",
"audits",
"checks",
"checkups",
"diagnoses",
"inspections",
"hearings",
"interrogations",
"trials",
"feelers",
"queries",
"questions",
"polls",
"questionaries",
"questionnaires",
"surveys",
"challenges",
"cross-examinations",
"goings-over",
"quizzes",
"rehearings",
"reinvestigations",
"self-examinations",
"self-explorations",
"self-questionings",
"self-reflections",
"self-scrutinies",
"soul-searchings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expanse":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"the great explorers who crossed the vast expanses of the seven seas in small ships"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadth",
"distance",
"expansion",
"extent",
"field",
"length",
"plain",
"reach",
"sheet",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explodes":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"the building was wrecked when a powerful bomb exploded"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"crumps",
"detonates",
"goes off",
"pops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"discharges",
"fires",
"shoots",
"balloons",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"mushrooms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fizzles"
],
"antonyms":[
"implodes"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"the bomb was so powerful that it exploded windows in several neighboring buildings"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"demolishes",
"pops",
"shatters",
"smashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamites",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks",
"detonates",
"discharges",
"fragments",
"splinters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"implodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"the mayor's latest unpopular decision caused long-suppressed resentment to explode into open anger"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes (up)",
"breaks out",
"bursts (forth)",
"erupts",
"flames",
"flares (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"balloons",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes",
"blows up",
"detonates",
"touches off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expects":{
"to believe in the future occurrence of (something)":{
"examples":[
"we expect their arrival late this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipates",
"awaits",
"hopes (for)",
"watches (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks on",
"counts (on or upon)",
"depends (on or upon)",
"relies (on or upon)",
"waits (for)",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"foresees",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"prophesies",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"contemplates",
"eyes",
"views"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubts",
"questions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expectant":{
"having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something":{
"examples":[
"expectant crowds gathered at the spot where the President was scheduled to make an appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"agape",
"agog",
"anticipant",
"anticipatory"
],
"near synonyms":[
"open-eyed",
"openmouthed",
"alert",
"vigilant",
"watchful",
"anxious",
"athirst",
"breathless",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"raring",
"antsy",
"impatient",
"restive",
"restless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"unimpressed",
"uninterested",
"unmoved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"containing unborn young within the body":{
"examples":[
"a medication that should not be taken by expectant women without permission from their doctors"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"caught",
"enceinte",
"expecting",
"gone",
"gravid",
"heavy",
"pregnant",
"quick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parturient",
"prenatal",
"childbearing",
"gestational",
"brooding",
"conceiving",
"impregnated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barren",
"infertile",
"aborting",
"miscarrying",
"delivered"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonpregnant"
]
},
"one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award":{
"examples":[
"divinity students who were all expectants for a curacy"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicant",
"applier",
"aspirant",
"campaigner",
"candidate",
"contender",
"hopeful",
"prospect",
"seeker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"competitor",
"contestant",
"entrant",
"entry",
"favorite",
"qualifier",
"dark horse",
"spoiler",
"stalking horse",
"crown prince",
"favorite son",
"claimant",
"pretender",
"nominee",
"running mate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incumbent",
"officeholder",
"awardee",
"honoree",
"inductee",
"dropout"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncandidate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"expends":{
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"examples":[
"redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"disburses",
"drops",
"forks (over, out, or up)",
"gives",
"lays out",
"outlays",
"pays",
"shells out",
"spends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavishes",
"rains",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caches",
"hoards",
"lays up",
"saves",
"acquires",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"makes",
"procures",
"realizes",
"secures",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"burns",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"drains",
"draws down",
"exhausts",
"plays out",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expunged":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"time and the weather have expunged any evidence that a thriving community once existed here"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"blacked out",
"blotted out",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"cleaned (up)",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"rooted (out)",
"rubbed out",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"swept (away)",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ravaged",
"dismantled",
"flattened",
"mowed (down)",
"razed",
"tore down",
"ruined",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"wasted",
"wrecked",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"dashed",
"dynamited",
"smashed",
"atomized",
"consumed",
"devoured",
"dissolved",
"fragmented",
"powdered",
"pulverized",
"shattered",
"splintered",
"doomed",
"finished",
"killed",
"killed off",
"terminated",
"zapped",
"cut",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"ejected",
"excised",
"expelled",
"jettisoned",
"ousted",
"threw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"built",
"constructed",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expired":{
"no longer existing":{
"examples":[
"a wildlife organization dedicated to ensuring that the giant panda not be added to the list of expired species"
],
"synonyms":[
"bygone",
"bypast",
"dead",
"defunct",
"departed",
"done",
"extinct",
"gone",
"nonextant",
"vanished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nonexistent",
"dying",
"faded",
"moribund",
"collapsed",
"fallen",
"overthrown",
"antiquated",
"dated",
"obsolete",
"pass\u00e9",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"terminated",
"lost",
"missing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"active",
"dynamic",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"antonyms":[
"alive",
"existent",
"existing",
"extant",
"living"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"speakers will not be allowed to continue after their allotted time has expired"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke off",
"broke up",
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"dead-ended",
"determined",
"died",
"discontinued",
"elapsed",
"ended",
"finished",
"halted",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"let up",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"went",
"winked (out)",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisted (from)",
"laid off (of)",
"refrained (from)",
"gave over",
"knocked off",
"packed (up or in)",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"cut out",
"stalled",
"paused",
"stayed",
"suspended",
"abated",
"petered (out)",
"wound down",
"winded down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drew out",
"extended",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
],
"antonyms":[
"continued",
"hung on",
"persisted"
]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"he vows to hold on to that belief until he expires his last breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew (out)",
"breathed (out)",
"exhaled",
"expelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inbreathed",
"inhaled",
"inspired"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"made one last visit to his homeland and expired not long afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"checked out",
"conked (out)",
"croaked",
"deceased",
"demised",
"departed",
"died",
"dropped",
"ended",
"exited",
"fell",
"flatlined",
"kicked in",
"kicked off",
"parted",
"passed away",
"passed (on)",
"pegged out",
"perished",
"popped off",
"stepped out",
"succumbed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceased",
"consumed",
"disappeared",
"dried up",
"faded",
"failed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came to",
"revived",
"lingered",
"existed",
"subsisted",
"was",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathed",
"lived"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"linden trees expiring their rich perfume"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharged",
"emanated",
"emitted",
"evolved",
"exhaled",
"expelled",
"gave out",
"irradiated",
"issued",
"radiated",
"released",
"sent (out)",
"shot",
"threw out",
"vented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminated",
"evacuated",
"excreted",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"secreted",
"ejected",
"erupted",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"outpoured",
"poured",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"sprayed",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbed",
"inhaled",
"soaked (up)",
"sponged",
"sucked (up)",
"took up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"exporter":{
"as in retailer , distributor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discounter",
"distributor",
"e-tailer",
"jobber",
"reseller",
"retailer",
"wholesaler",
"broker",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"seller",
"vendor",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"auctioneer",
"concessionaire",
"black marketer",
"black marketeer",
"bootlegger",
"fence",
"fencer",
"hustler",
"scalper",
"smuggler",
"trafficker",
"chapman",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"peddler",
"pedlar",
"salesclerk",
"salesman",
"salesperson",
"saleswoman",
"shopgirl",
"bargainer",
"haggler",
"horse trader",
"palterer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"consumer",
"end user",
"user",
"buyer",
"purchaser"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explication":{
"a statement that makes something clear":{
"examples":[
"any explication of Einstein's theory of relativity probably wouldn't help me much"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarification",
"construction",
"elucidation",
"exegesis",
"explanation",
"exposition",
"illumination",
"illustration",
"interpretation",
"road map"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paraphrase",
"restatement",
"translation",
"annotation",
"comment",
"commentary",
"epexegesis",
"gloss",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"disentanglement",
"unscrambling",
"analysis",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"definition",
"meaning",
"demonstration",
"enactment",
"justification",
"rationale",
"rationalization",
"reasoning",
"caution",
"caveat",
"warning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expected":{
"being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events":{
"examples":[
"the children did their chores, but not without the expected whining"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipated",
"awaited",
"due",
"scheduled",
"slated"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"behind",
"behindhand",
"belated",
"delinquent",
"dilatory",
"late",
"latish",
"overdue",
"tardy",
"early",
"premature",
"untimely",
"unanticipated",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to believe in the future occurrence of (something)":{
"examples":[
"we expect their arrival late this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipated",
"awaited",
"hoped (for)",
"watched (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked on",
"counted (on or upon)",
"depended (on or upon)",
"relied (on or upon)",
"waited (for)",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"foresaw",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"prophesied",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"contemplated",
"eyed",
"viewed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubted",
"questioned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"explains":{
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"a pamphlet that explains the medical procedure in language that any layperson can understand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"construes",
"demonstrates",
"demystifies",
"elucidates",
"explicates",
"expounds",
"gets across",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"simplifies",
"spells out",
"unriddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"analyzes",
"breaks down",
"disentangles",
"undoes",
"unravels",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"resolves",
"solves",
"defines",
"specifies",
"annotates",
"commentates",
"glosses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogs",
"clouds",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"obfuscates"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscures"
]
},
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"can you explain your very odd behavior at the wedding reception?"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts (for)",
"attributes",
"explains away",
"rationalizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condones",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"justifies",
"absolves",
"acquits",
"exculpates",
"exonerates",
"vindicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"explain away":{
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"after the surprise attack, military leaders struggled to explain away the nation's unpreparedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"account (for)",
"attribute",
"explain",
"rationalize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condone",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"justify",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"exculpate",
"exonerate",
"vindicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses":{
"examples":[
"tried to explain away his adulterous affairs by saying that men are promiscuous by nature"
],
"synonyms":[
"deodorize",
"excuse",
"extenuate",
"gloss (over)",
"gloze (over)",
"palliate",
"whitewash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sugarcoat",
"varnish",
"apologize",
"atone",
"confess",
"account (for)",
"explain",
"justify",
"rationalize",
"minimize",
"play down",
"soft-pedal",
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lessen",
"lighten",
"mitigate",
"moderate",
"soften",
"temper",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"clear",
"exculpate",
"exonerate",
"vindicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expel":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"animal lover though I am, I was determined to expel the uninvited mouse from my room"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"drum (out)",
"eject",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"rout",
"run off",
"throw out",
"turf (out)",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforce",
"deport",
"displace",
"dispossess",
"evict",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"ostracize",
"read out",
"shut out",
"ax",
"axe",
"can",
"cashier",
"defenestrate",
"discharge",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take",
"take in",
"welcome",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"something in a wastebasket was expelling a foul odor"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharge",
"emanate",
"emit",
"evolve",
"exhale",
"expire",
"give out",
"irradiate",
"issue",
"radiate",
"release",
"send (out)",
"shoot",
"throw out",
"vent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminate",
"evacuate",
"excrete",
"exude",
"ooze",
"secrete",
"eject",
"erupt",
"gush",
"jet",
"outpour",
"pour",
"spew",
"spout",
"spray",
"spurt",
"squirt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorb",
"inhale",
"soak (up)",
"sponge",
"suck (up)",
"take up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"ringing and flashing madly, the slot machine expelled a bucketful of quarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"belch",
"disgorge",
"eject",
"eruct",
"erupt",
"jet",
"spew",
"spout",
"spurt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gush",
"pour",
"squirt",
"stream",
"surge",
"emanate",
"exhale",
"issue",
"release",
"shoot",
"spit",
"spring",
"vent",
"discharge",
"emit",
"fire",
"cast",
"fling",
"heave",
"hurl",
"launch",
"pitch",
"toss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"contain",
"restrain",
"shut (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"asked the patient to expel a deep breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow (out)",
"breathe (out)",
"exhale",
"expire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inbreathe",
"inhale",
"inspire"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"express":{
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"in a true democracy, a person can freely express his or her views"
],
"synonyms":[
"air",
"expound",
"give",
"look",
"raise",
"sound",
"state",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"declare",
"enounce",
"enunciate",
"proclaim",
"say",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"disseminate",
"publish",
"describe",
"write",
"write up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"chime in",
"communicate",
"convey",
"put across",
"put over",
"offer",
"submit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"restrain",
"restrict"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress"
]
},
"to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of":{
"examples":[
"except as a fun event at festivals, nowadays people do not make wine by expressing grapes with their feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"crush",
"mash",
"press",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ream",
"pulp",
"puree",
"pur\u00e9e",
"extract",
"extrude"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind":{
"examples":[
"an upraised thumb is now universally recognized as a gesture expressing approval or encouragement"
],
"synonyms":[
"denote",
"import",
"intend",
"mean",
"signify",
"spell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connote",
"imply",
"suggest",
"add up (to)",
"amount (to)",
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"personify",
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"cite",
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"refer (to)",
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"touch (on or upon)",
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"point (to)",
"signal",
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"proclaim",
"elucidate",
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"could you express your opinion of the book in words a little more precise than \"lousy\"?"
],
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"clothe",
"couch",
"formulate",
"phrase",
"put",
"say",
"state",
"word"
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"rephrase",
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"reword",
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"translate",
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"disclose",
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"talk",
"tell",
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"render",
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"to represent in visible form":{
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"embody",
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"instantiate",
"manifest",
"materialize",
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"personify",
"substantiate"
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"concretize",
"realize",
"exemplify",
"illustrate",
"image",
"objectify",
"symbolize",
"typify"
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"a trip to the supermarket with the express purpose of buying milk"
],
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"distinct",
"especial",
"peculiar",
"precise",
"set",
"special",
"specific"
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"only",
"separate",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"distinctive",
"exclusive",
"individual",
"unique",
"limited",
"restricted",
"differentiated",
"specialized",
"given",
"specified"
],
"near antonyms":[
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"generalized",
"generic",
"nonexclusive",
"universal"
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"students are not allowed to leave the grounds during school hours unless they have express permission from the principal's office"
],
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"definite",
"definitive",
"explicit",
"specific",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"univocal"
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"declared",
"specified",
"stated",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"exhaustive",
"full",
"certain",
"sure",
"unmistakable",
"clear",
"distinct",
"lucid",
"well-defined",
"exact",
"precise",
"direct",
"literal",
"plain",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"comprehensible",
"intelligible",
"understandable"
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"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"obscure",
"unclear",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"incomprehensible",
"unintelligible"
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"implied",
"inferred",
"ambiguous",
"circuitous",
"equivocal",
"indefinite",
"inexplicit",
"unspecific",
"vague"
]
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"the solicitors employ an express to deliver their summonses"
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"go-between",
"messenger",
"page",
"runner"
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"harbinger",
"herald",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative",
"bearer",
"carrier",
"deliveryman",
"letter carrier",
"mail carrier",
"mailman"
],
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},
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"as in reparations , atonements":{
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"amends",
"atonements",
"reparations",
"absolutions",
"condonations",
"pardons",
"remissions",
"compensations",
"damages",
"indemnifications",
"indemnities",
"quittances",
"recompenses",
"recoupments",
"redresses",
"remunerations",
"reprisals",
"requitals",
"restitutions",
"satisfactions",
"compurgations",
"whitewashes",
"acquittals",
"clearances",
"clearings",
"exculpations",
"exonerations",
"vindications",
"rebirths",
"regenerations",
"restorations",
"graces",
"redemptions",
"salvations",
"sanctifications"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accusations",
"arraignments",
"impeachments",
"incriminations",
"indictments",
"prosecutions",
"castigations",
"censures",
"condemnations",
"denunciations",
"convictions",
"corruptions",
"debasements",
"perversions"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"the museum's new wing is only the first in a series of expansions planned for the next decade"
],
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"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"more",
"plus",
"proliferation",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"supplement",
"uptick"
],
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"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"gathering",
"complement",
"accession",
"appendix",
"continuation",
"extension",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"jump",
"run-up",
"spike"
],
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"deduction",
"subtraction"
],
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"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"depletion",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
]
},
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"the expansion of remedial reading classes into a district-wide program using school volunteers for a variety of needs"
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"elaboration",
"evolution",
"growth",
"progress",
"progression"
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"betterment",
"improvement",
"perfection",
"refinement",
"incubation",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"enhancement",
"supplementation",
"emergence",
"evolvement",
"metamorphosis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslide",
"lapse",
"relapse",
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devaluation",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"weakening"
],
"antonyms":[
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"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion"
]
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"examples":[
"we gazed in awe at the star-strewn expansion of nighttime sky above us"
],
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"breadth",
"distance",
"expanse",
"extent",
"field",
"length",
"plain",
"reach",
"sheet",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"in a true democracy, a person can freely express his or her views"
],
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"expounds",
"gives",
"looks",
"raises",
"sounds",
"states",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices"
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"announces",
"declares",
"enounces",
"enunciates",
"proclaims",
"says",
"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"disseminates",
"publishes",
"describes",
"writes",
"writes up",
"sounds off",
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"speaks up",
"chimes in",
"communicates",
"conveys",
"puts across",
"puts over",
"offers",
"submits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censors",
"restrains",
"restricts"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifles",
"suppresses"
]
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"to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents of":{
"examples":[
"except as a fun event at festivals, nowadays people do not make wine by expressing grapes with their feet"
],
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"crushes",
"mashes",
"presses",
"squeezes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reams",
"pulps",
"purees",
"pur\u00e9es",
"extracts",
"extrudes"
],
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"to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind":{
"examples":[
"an upraised thumb is now universally recognized as a gesture expressing approval or encouragement"
],
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"denotes",
"imports",
"intends",
"means",
"signifies",
"spells"
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"implies",
"suggests",
"adds up (to)",
"amounts (to)",
"hints",
"infers",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"embodies",
"epitomizes",
"personifies",
"represents",
"symbolizes",
"symbols",
"adverts",
"alludes (to)",
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"instances",
"mentions",
"refers (to)",
"specifies",
"touches (on or upon)",
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"indicates",
"points (to)",
"signals",
"announces",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"elucidates",
"explains"
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"antonyms":[]
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"examples":[
"could you express your opinion of the book in words a little more precise than \"lousy\"?"
],
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"articulates",
"clothes",
"couches",
"formulates",
"phrases",
"puts",
"says",
"states",
"words"
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"near synonyms":[
"crafts",
"frames",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests",
"paraphrases",
"rephrases",
"restates",
"rewords",
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"translates",
"communicates",
"discloses",
"speaks",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes",
"describes",
"renders",
"writes up"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to represent in visible form":{
"examples":[
"towering spires express in glass and steel the optimism of the age"
],
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"bodies",
"embodies",
"epitomizes",
"externalizes",
"incarnates",
"incorporates",
"instantiates",
"manifests",
"materializes",
"personalizes",
"personifies",
"substantiates"
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"near synonyms":[
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"concretizes",
"realizes",
"exemplifies",
"illustrates",
"images",
"objectifies",
"symbolizes",
"typifies"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"the solicitors employ an express to deliver their summonses"
],
"synonyms":[
"couriers",
"go-betweens",
"messengers",
"pages",
"runners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives",
"bearers",
"carriers",
"deliverymen",
"letter carriers",
"mail carriers",
"mailmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"exploratory":{
"done or created to find something or to learn more about something":{
"examples":[
"exploratory drilling for oil"
],
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"investigative",
"probative",
"developmental",
"experimental",
"pilot",
"trial",
"preliminary",
"preparatory",
"provisional",
"temporary",
"tentative",
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"untested",
"untried",
"unproved",
"unproven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"established",
"standard",
"tested",
"tried",
"advanced",
"developed",
"proved",
"proven",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"definitive",
"final",
"permanent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expiring":{
"as in fading , sinking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fading",
"passing away",
"sinking",
"dying",
"moribund",
"decadent",
"declining",
"deteriorating",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"demised",
"departed",
"fallen",
"gone",
"lifeless",
"passed away",
"terminal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"live",
"living",
"quick",
"being",
"breathing",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"surviving",
"booming",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"roaring",
"thriving",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in expiration , end":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dying",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"expiry",
"perishing",
"ebbing",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"waning",
"wilting",
"withering",
"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion",
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"decline",
"declining",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"development",
"growth",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"mellowing",
"softening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"speakers will not be allowed to continue after their allotted time has expired"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"dead-ending",
"determining",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"elapsing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"going",
"halting",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"letting up",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"winking (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisting (from)",
"laying off (of)",
"refraining (from)",
"giving over",
"knocking off",
"packing (up or in)",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"cutting out",
"stalling",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abating",
"petering (out)",
"winding down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drawing out",
"extending",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"hanging on",
"persisting"
]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"he vows to hold on to that belief until he expires his last breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing (out)",
"breathing (out)",
"exhaling",
"expelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inbreathing",
"inhaling",
"inspiring"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"made one last visit to his homeland and expired not long afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"linden trees expiring their rich perfume"
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"discharging",
"emanating",
"emitting",
"evolving",
"exhaling",
"expelling",
"giving out",
"irradiating",
"issuing",
"radiating",
"releasing",
"sending (out)",
"shooting",
"throwing out",
"venting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminating",
"evacuating",
"excreting",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"secreting",
"ejecting",
"erupting",
"gushing",
"jetting",
"outpouring",
"pouring",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spraying",
"spurting",
"squirting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"inhaling",
"soaking (up)",
"sponging",
"sucking (up)",
"taking up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"experimentation":{
"a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"people who oppose experimentations involving animals for the testing of cosmetics intended for humans"
],
"synonyms":[
"essay",
"experiment",
"test",
"trial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trial and error",
"dry run",
"shakedown",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"tryout",
"workout",
"crucible",
"ordeal",
"attempt",
"effort",
"try"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expounded":{
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"a rambling interview in which the celebrated author expounds his views on an array of topics"
],
"synonyms":[
"aired",
"expressed",
"gave",
"looked",
"raised",
"sounded",
"stated",
"vented",
"ventilated",
"voiced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"declared",
"enounced",
"enunciated",
"proclaimed",
"said",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"circulated",
"disseminated",
"published",
"described",
"wrote",
"wrote up",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"chimed in",
"communicated",
"conveyed",
"put across",
"put over",
"offered",
"submitted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censored",
"restrained",
"restricted"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifled",
"suppressed"
]
},
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"at the start of the trial the judge expounded the legal difference between libel and slander to the jury"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleared (up)",
"construed",
"demonstrated",
"demystified",
"elucidated",
"explained",
"explicated",
"got across",
"illuminated",
"illustrated",
"interpreted",
"simplified",
"spelled out",
"unriddled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"analyzed",
"broke down",
"disentangled",
"undid",
"unraveled",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"resolved",
"solved",
"defined",
"specified",
"annotated",
"commentated",
"glossed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogged",
"clouded",
"confounded",
"confused",
"obfuscated"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscured"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expressionistic":{
"as in impressionistic , impressionist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expressionist",
"impressionist",
"impressionistic",
"abstract",
"nonfigurative",
"nonobjective",
"nonrealistic",
"nonrepresentational",
"symbolist",
"symbolistic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"figurative",
"naturalistic",
"naturalist",
"nonabstract",
"objective",
"realistic",
"representational",
"lifelike",
"natural"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"exploit":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"the type of person who exploits a friend's good nature by constantly sponging off of him"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"capitalize (on)",
"cash in (on)",
"impose (on or upon)",
"leverage",
"milk",
"pimp",
"play (on or upon)",
"use",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerk around",
"manipulate",
"mistreat",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"fleece",
"overcharge",
"skin",
"soak",
"stick",
"commercialize",
"commodify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means":{
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"a politician more than willing to exploit any national tragedy for political gain"
],
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"manipulate",
"play (upon)"
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"finagle",
"jockey",
"maneuver",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"shanghai",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"scheme",
"arrange",
"contrive",
"devise",
"finesse",
"mastermind",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"con",
"defraud",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"swindle"
],
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"to put into action or service":{
"examples":[
"it will be a shame if you don't exploit your artistic talent to the fullest"
],
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"apply",
"employ",
"exercise",
"harness",
"operate",
"use",
"utilize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handle",
"manipulate",
"wield",
"direct",
"run",
"work",
"cannibalize",
"recycle",
"reuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignore",
"neglect",
"misapply",
"misuse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness":{
"examples":[
"the fanciful exploits of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan"
],
"synonyms":[
"deed",
"feat",
"number",
"stunt",
"tour de force",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"coup",
"success",
"triumph",
"adventure",
"performance"
],
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},
"something done by someone":{
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"once famed as an actor, John Wilkes Booth is now remembered for a single exploit , his assassination of Lincoln"
],
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"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"thing"
],
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"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"adventure",
"experience",
"emprise",
"enterprise",
"initiative",
"undertaking",
"handiwork",
"performance",
"work",
"stunt",
"trick",
"activity",
"dealing",
"maneuver",
"measure",
"move",
"operation",
"procedure",
"proceeding",
"step",
"tactic",
"coaction"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand":{
"examples":[
"a memoir recounting three decades of exploits as a roving foreign correspondent for TV news"
],
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"adventure",
"emprise",
"experience",
"gest",
"geste",
"happening",
"time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"escapade",
"lark",
"ploy",
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"episode",
"occasion",
"baptism",
"ordeal",
"test",
"trial",
"tribulation",
"enterprise",
"risk",
"venture",
"expedition",
"exploration",
"mission",
"performance",
"quest",
"stunt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"bummer",
"bust",
"downer",
"drag"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"expounds":{
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"a rambling interview in which the celebrated author expounds his views on an array of topics"
],
"synonyms":[
"airs",
"expresses",
"gives",
"looks",
"raises",
"sounds",
"states",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"declares",
"enounces",
"enunciates",
"proclaims",
"says",
"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"disseminates",
"publishes",
"describes",
"writes",
"writes up",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"chimes in",
"communicates",
"conveys",
"puts across",
"puts over",
"offers",
"submits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censors",
"restrains",
"restricts"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifles",
"suppresses"
]
},
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"at the start of the trial the judge expounded the legal difference between libel and slander to the jury"
],
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"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"construes",
"demonstrates",
"demystifies",
"elucidates",
"explains",
"explicates",
"gets across",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"simplifies",
"spells out",
"unriddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"analyzes",
"breaks down",
"disentangles",
"undoes",
"unravels",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"resolves",
"solves",
"defines",
"specifies",
"annotates",
"commentates",
"glosses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogs",
"clouds",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"obfuscates"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscures"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expectation":{
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"examples":[
"in expectation of a harsh winter, we budgeted more money than usual for the cost of heating our home"
],
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"anticipation",
"contemplation",
"expectance",
"expectancy",
"prospect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"apprehension",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"misgiving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expressly":{
"as in concretely":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concretely",
"especially",
"notably",
"particularly",
"specially",
"specifically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"generally",
"altogether",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"largely",
"mainly",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in even , perfectly":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"even",
"faultlessly",
"perfectly",
"exactly",
"just",
"precisely",
"identically",
"uniformly",
"alike",
"likewise",
"similarly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slightly",
"somewhat",
"vaguely",
"differently",
"variably"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"expires":{
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"speakers will not be allowed to continue after their allotted time has expired"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"dead-ends",
"determines",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"elapses",
"ends",
"finishes",
"goes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"lets up",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"winks (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desists (from)",
"lays off (of)",
"refrains (from)",
"gives over",
"knocks off",
"packs (up or in)",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"cuts out",
"stalls",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abates",
"peters (out)",
"winds down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draws out",
"extends",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
],
"antonyms":[
"continues",
"hangs on",
"persists"
]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"he vows to hold on to that belief until he expires his last breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows (out)",
"breathes (out)",
"exhales",
"expels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inbreathes",
"inhales",
"inspires"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"made one last visit to his homeland and expired not long afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"conks (out)",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"falls",
"flatlines",
"goes",
"kicks in",
"kicks off",
"parts",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"pegs out",
"perishes",
"pops off",
"steps out",
"succumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceases",
"consumes",
"disappears",
"dries up",
"fades",
"fails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes to",
"revives",
"lingers",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathes",
"lives"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"linden trees expiring their rich perfume"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"discharges",
"emanates",
"emits",
"evolves",
"exhales",
"expels",
"gives out",
"irradiates",
"issues",
"radiates",
"releases",
"sends (out)",
"shoots",
"throws out",
"vents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminates",
"evacuates",
"excretes",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"secretes",
"ejects",
"erupts",
"gushes",
"jets",
"outpours",
"pours",
"spews",
"spouts",
"sprays",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbs",
"inhales",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"sucks (up)",
"takes up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expectancies":{
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"examples":[
"that feeling of optimistic expectancy that fills theatergoers as they wait for the curtain to rise"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipations",
"contemplations",
"expectances",
"expectations",
"prospects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarms",
"alarums",
"apprehensions",
"dreads",
"forebodings",
"misgivings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expositive":{
"serving to explain":{
"examples":[
"the writer's descriptions are objectively expositive and entirely without editorialization"
],
"synonyms":[
"elucidative",
"exegetical",
"exegetic",
"explanative",
"explanatory",
"explicative",
"explicatory",
"expository",
"illuminative",
"illustrative",
"interpretative",
"interpretive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analytic",
"analytical",
"demonstrative",
"discursive",
"exculpatory",
"exonerative"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expos":{
"a public showing of objects of interest":{
"examples":[
"many of the bigger expos won't fit into the city's relatively small civic center"
],
"synonyms":[
"displays",
"exhibitions",
"exhibits",
"expositions",
"fairs",
"shows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrations",
"performances",
"presentations",
"productions",
"extravaganzas",
"pageants",
"spectacles",
"auctions",
"offerings",
"presentments",
"sales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expropriate":{
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"arrogate",
"commandeer",
"convert",
"pirate",
"preempt",
"press",
"seize",
"take over",
"usurp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annex",
"attach",
"claim",
"confiscate",
"impound",
"repossess",
"sequester",
"assume",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"snatch",
"steal",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"despoil",
"loot",
"pillage",
"encroach",
"infringe",
"invade",
"occupy",
"preoccupy",
"trespass",
"embezzle",
"misapply",
"misappropriate",
"misuse",
"peculate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to end the occupancy or possession of":{
"examples":[
"the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road"
],
"synonyms":[
"dispossess",
"divest",
"oust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforce",
"evict",
"disfurnish",
"strip",
"bereave",
"deprive",
"disinherit",
"annex",
"appropriate",
"commandeer",
"impound",
"seize",
"take over",
"usurp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority":{
"examples":[
"plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport"
],
"synonyms":[
"attach",
"confiscate",
"sequester"
],
"near synonyms":[
"garnishee",
"appropriate",
"arrogate",
"preempt",
"usurp",
"commandeer",
"seize",
"take over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cede",
"deliver",
"forfeit",
"give up",
"hand over",
"release",
"relinquish",
"render",
"surrender",
"turn over",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expulsed":{
"as in expelled , evicted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismissed",
"ejected",
"eliminated",
"evicted",
"excluded",
"expelled",
"kicked out",
"ousted",
"ran out",
"threw out",
"banished",
"deported",
"displaced",
"exiled",
"expatriated",
"relegated",
"transported",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"dispossessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalized",
"repatriated",
"accepted",
"admitted",
"received",
"took in",
"entertained",
"harbored",
"housed",
"sheltered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expatriate":{
"a person forced to emigrate for political reasons":{
"examples":[
"while in exile, the deposed king was accompanied by a small band of loyal expatriates"
],
"synonyms":[
"deportee",
"\u00e9migr\u00e9",
"emigr\u00e9",
"evacuee",
"exile",
"expat",
"refugee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alien",
"fugitive",
"castoff",
"outcast",
"pariah",
"loyalist",
"patriot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force to leave a country":{
"examples":[
"members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"deport",
"displace",
"exile",
"relegate",
"transport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismiss",
"eject",
"eliminate",
"evict",
"exclude",
"expel",
"expulse",
"kick out",
"oust",
"run out",
"throw out",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"dispossess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalize",
"repatriate",
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take in",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in immigrant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"immigrant",
"alien",
"exotic",
"foreign",
"strange",
"imported",
"introduced",
"transplanted",
"nonindigenous",
"nonnative"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aboriginal",
"autochthonous",
"born",
"domestic",
"endemic",
"indigenous",
"native",
"local",
"regional",
"original"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"expecting":{
"containing unborn young within the body":{
"examples":[
"the special nutritional needs of expecting women"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"caught",
"enceinte",
"expectant",
"gone",
"gravid",
"heavy",
"pregnant",
"quick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parturient",
"prenatal",
"childbearing",
"gestational",
"brooding",
"conceiving",
"impregnated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barren",
"infertile",
"aborting",
"miscarrying",
"delivered"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonpregnant"
]
},
"to believe in the future occurrence of (something)":{
"examples":[
"we expect their arrival late this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipating",
"awaiting",
"hoping (for)",
"watching (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking on",
"counting (on or upon)",
"depending (on or upon)",
"relying (on or upon)",
"waiting (for)",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"foreseeing",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prophesying",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"contemplating",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"viewing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubting",
"questioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"explain":{
"to make plain or understandable":{
"examples":[
"a pamphlet that explains the medical procedure in language that any layperson can understand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarify",
"clear (up)",
"construe",
"demonstrate",
"demystify",
"elucidate",
"explicate",
"expound",
"get across",
"illuminate",
"illustrate",
"interpret",
"simplify",
"spell out",
"unriddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decipher",
"decode",
"analyze",
"break down",
"disentangle",
"undo",
"unravel",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"resolve",
"solve",
"define",
"specify",
"annotate",
"commentate",
"gloss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befog",
"cloud",
"confound",
"confuse",
"obfuscate"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscure"
]
},
"to give the reason for or cause of":{
"examples":[
"can you explain your very odd behavior at the wedding reception?"
],
"synonyms":[
"account (for)",
"attribute",
"explain away",
"rationalize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condone",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"justify",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"exculpate",
"exonerate",
"vindicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expressiveness":{
"as in expression":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expression",
"articulacy",
"articulateness",
"eloquence",
"poetry",
"rhetoric",
"declamation",
"elocution",
"oratory",
"cogency",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"meaningfulness",
"persuasion",
"persuasiveness",
"ardor",
"emotion",
"fervency",
"fervidness",
"fervor",
"heat",
"intensity",
"passion",
"power",
"vehemence",
"warmth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inarticulateness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"explosions":{
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"examples":[
"the explosion of the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blowups",
"bursts",
"detonations",
"eruptions",
"outbursts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharges",
"firings",
"shootings",
"blowouts",
"flare-ups",
"bangs",
"booms",
"pops",
"airbursts",
"groundbursts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"the explosion of patriotic feeling that the country experienced after that momentous event"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonies",
"blazes",
"bursts",
"ebullitions",
"eruptions",
"fits",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flushes",
"gales",
"gushes",
"gusts",
"outbursts",
"paroxysms",
"spasms",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowups",
"grouches",
"rages",
"tantrums",
"ecstasies",
"raptures",
"transports",
"deliriums",
"firestorms",
"frenzies",
"furors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an outburst or display of excited anger":{
"examples":[
"the tennis player's expletive-enriched explosions on the court tested the patience of officials"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowups",
"fireworks",
"fits",
"hissies",
"hissy fits",
"huffs",
"scenes",
"tantrums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"outbursts",
"storms",
"uproars",
"agitations",
"deliriums",
"distractions",
"frenzies",
"furies",
"furores",
"furors",
"hysterias",
"rages",
"rampages",
"convulsions",
"paroxysms",
"seizures",
"spasms",
"upheavals",
"cholers",
"indignations",
"ires",
"lividities",
"spleens",
"wraths",
"reactions",
"rises",
"danders",
"tempers",
"grouches",
"humps",
"pets",
"pouts",
"snits",
"sulks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"experimentations":{
"a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"people who oppose experimentations involving animals for the testing of cosmetics intended for humans"
],
"synonyms":[
"essays",
"experiments",
"tests",
"trials"
],
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"trial and errors",
"dry runs",
"shakedowns",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"rehearsals",
"tryouts",
"workouts",
"crucibles",
"ordeals",
"attempts",
"efforts",
"tries"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expansive":{
"having considerable extent":{
"examples":[
"as the river nears the end of its long journey to the sea it becomes quite expansive in breadth"
],
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"broad",
"deep",
"extended",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"far-reaching",
"rangy",
"sweeping",
"wide",
"wide-ranging",
"widespread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensive",
"general",
"global",
"inclusive",
"boundless",
"endless",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"unlimited",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circumscribed",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"antonyms":[
"narrow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"expectorate":{
"as in spit":{
"examples":[],
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"spit",
"water",
"foam",
"froth",
"splutter",
"dribble",
"drivel",
"drool",
"salivate",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"sputter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in expel , exhale":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blow (out)",
"breathe (out)",
"exhale",
"expel",
"expire"
],
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"inbreathe",
"inhale",
"inspire"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expiate":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"Yom Kippur is the holy day on which Jews are expected to expiate sins committed during the past year"
],
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"atone (for)",
"mend",
"redeem"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensate",
"recompense",
"reimburse",
"remunerate",
"repay",
"amend",
"correct",
"rectify",
"redress",
"propitiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"experience":{
"knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something":{
"examples":[
"the hospital is looking for nurses with operating-room experience"
],
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"chops",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"moxie",
"proficiency",
"savvy",
"skills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"background",
"command",
"mastery",
"acquaintance",
"conversance",
"familiarity",
"intimacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"unawareness",
"unfamiliarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"inexperience"
]
},
"an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand":{
"examples":[
"related in a book his experiences as a roving correspondent for network TV news"
],
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"adventure",
"emprise",
"exploit",
"gest",
"geste",
"happening",
"time"
],
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"escapade",
"lark",
"ploy",
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"episode",
"occasion",
"baptism",
"ordeal",
"test",
"trial",
"tribulation",
"enterprise",
"risk",
"venture",
"expedition",
"exploration",
"mission",
"performance",
"quest",
"stunt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"bummer",
"bust",
"downer",
"drag"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"eventually we all have to experience the loss of a loved one"
],
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"endure",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive",
"assimilate",
"digest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"expunging":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"time and the weather have expunged any evidence that a thriving community once existed here"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"blacking out",
"blotting out",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"cleaning (up)",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"sweeping (away)",
"wiping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"ravaging",
"dismantling",
"flattening",
"mowing (down)",
"razing",
"tearing down",
"ruining",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"dashing",
"dynamiting",
"smashing",
"atomizing",
"consuming",
"devouring",
"dissolving",
"fragmenting",
"powdering",
"pulverizing",
"shattering",
"splintering",
"dooming",
"finishing",
"killing",
"killing off",
"terminating",
"zapping",
"cutting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"ejecting",
"excising",
"expelling",
"jettisoning",
"ousting",
"throwing out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"building",
"constructing",
"creating",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"shaping",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstructing",
"renewing",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"revamping"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expands":{
"to express more fully and in greater detail":{
"examples":[
"an article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book"
],
"synonyms":[
"amplifies",
"develops",
"dilates (on or upon)",
"elaborates (on)",
"enlarges (on or upon)",
"fleshes (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adds (to)",
"complements",
"supplements",
"discourses",
"expatiates",
"rambles",
"runs on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"contracts",
"outlines",
"summarizes",
"sums up"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"condenses",
"shortens"
]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"we had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding"
],
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"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"builds up",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"stokes",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"fleshes (out)",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches",
"develops",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"beefs (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"follows up",
"parlays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)"
]
},
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests"
],
"synonyms":[
"extends",
"fans (out)",
"flares (out)",
"opens",
"outspreads",
"outstretches",
"spreads (out)",
"stretches (out)",
"unfolds",
"unfurls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspreads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacts",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"reduces"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes",
"contracts",
"folds"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"water expands when it becomes frozen"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expropriation":{
"the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authority":{
"examples":[
"the development of the colony involved expropriation of large tracts of fertile farmland from the natives"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriation",
"arrogation",
"commandeering",
"detainer",
"preemption",
"seizure",
"takeover",
"usurpation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annexation",
"assumption",
"attachment",
"confiscation",
"grab",
"impoundment",
"repossession",
"sequestration",
"defalcation",
"embezzlement",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"misuse",
"peculation",
"theft",
"despoilment",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"encroachment",
"infringement",
"piracy",
"invasion",
"occupancy",
"occupation",
"preoccupancy",
"trespass",
"deforcement",
"disfurnishment",
"dispossession",
"ejection",
"stripping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expelled":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"animal lover though I am, I was determined to expel the uninvited mouse from my room"
],
"synonyms":[
"banished",
"booted (out)",
"bounced",
"cast out",
"chased",
"dismissed",
"drummed (out)",
"ejected",
"extruded",
"kicked out",
"ousted",
"outed",
"ran off",
"routed",
"threw out",
"turfed (out)",
"turned out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforced",
"deported",
"displaced",
"dispossessed",
"evicted",
"exiled",
"expatriated",
"ostracized",
"read out",
"shut out",
"axed",
"canned",
"cashiered",
"defenestrated",
"discharged",
"fired",
"mustered out",
"pink-slipped",
"released",
"removed",
"retired",
"sacked",
"terminated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"admitted",
"received",
"took",
"took in",
"welcomed",
"entertained",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"sheltered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"something in a wastebasket was expelling a foul odor"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharged",
"emanated",
"emitted",
"evolved",
"exhaled",
"expired",
"gave out",
"irradiated",
"issued",
"radiated",
"released",
"sent (out)",
"shot",
"threw out",
"vented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminated",
"evacuated",
"excreted",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"secreted",
"ejected",
"erupted",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"outpoured",
"poured",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"sprayed",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbed",
"inhaled",
"soaked (up)",
"sponged",
"sucked (up)",
"took up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"ringing and flashing madly, the slot machine expelled a bucketful of quarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"belched",
"disgorged",
"ejected",
"eructed",
"erupted",
"jetted",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushed",
"poured",
"squirted",
"streamed",
"surged",
"emanated",
"exhaled",
"issued",
"released",
"shot",
"spit",
"spat",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"vented",
"discharged",
"emitted",
"fired",
"cast",
"flung",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"launched",
"pitched",
"tossed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottled (up)",
"contained",
"restrained",
"shut (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let or force out of the lungs":{
"examples":[
"asked the patient to expel a deep breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew (out)",
"breathed (out)",
"exhaled",
"expired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expectorated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inbreathed",
"inhaled",
"inspired"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expanded":{
"as in ballooned , blown up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ballooned",
"blown up",
"bloated",
"blown",
"distended",
"overinflated",
"puffed",
"swollen",
"tumescent",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"varicose",
"varicosed",
"bulging",
"dilated",
"protuberant",
"ventricose",
"ballooning",
"dilating",
"turgescent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"detumescent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express more fully and in greater detail":{
"examples":[
"an article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book"
],
"synonyms":[
"amplified",
"developed",
"dilated (on or upon)",
"elaborated (on)",
"enlarged (on or upon)",
"fleshed (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"added (to)",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"discoursed",
"expatiated",
"rambled",
"ran on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"contracted",
"outlined",
"summarized",
"summed up"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"shortened"
]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"we had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"built up",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boomed",
"jumped",
"skyrocketed",
"spiked",
"bumped (up)",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"followed up",
"parlayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)"
]
},
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests"
],
"synonyms":[
"extended",
"fanned (out)",
"flared (out)",
"opened",
"outspread",
"outstretched",
"spread (out)",
"stretched (out)",
"unfolded",
"unfurled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacted",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"reduced"
],
"antonyms":[
"closed",
"contracted",
"folded"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"water expands when it becomes frozen"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"expedience":{
"suitability for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances":{
"examples":[
"the proven expedience of the carrot over the stick in getting the most out of people"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisability",
"advisableness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"expediency",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"wisdom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageousness",
"beneficialness",
"profitability",
"feasibility",
"practicality",
"usefulness",
"opportuneness",
"seasonableness",
"timeliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impracticality",
"infeasibility",
"inopportuneness",
"unseasonableness",
"untimeliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"imprudence",
"inadvisability",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"injudiciousness",
"unwisdom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expressions":{
"an act, process, or means of putting something into words":{
"examples":[
"the poem is his expression of his grief upon the loss of his beloved wife"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulations",
"formulations",
"phrasings",
"statements",
"utterances",
"verbalisms",
"voices",
"wordings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlets",
"vents",
"observations",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"thoughts",
"speeches",
"tongues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"facial appearance regarded as an indication of mood or feeling":{
"examples":[
"we could tell by the fans' expressions that the Chicago Cubs had lost again"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"countenances",
"faces",
"looks",
"visages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frowns",
"grimaces",
"lowers",
"lours",
"mouths",
"pouts",
"scowls",
"grins",
"smiles",
"airs",
"appearances",
"aspects",
"bearings",
"demeanors",
"manners",
"miens",
"presences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a pronounceable series of letters having a distinct meaning especially in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"the expression \"John Doe\" is used in legal proceedings to refer to a person whose actual name is either unknown or being withheld from the public"
],
"synonyms":[
"terms",
"words"
],
"near synonyms":[
"linguistic forms",
"monosyllables",
"morphemes",
"speech forms",
"polysyllables",
"collocations",
"idioms",
"locutions",
"phrases",
"archaisms",
"coinages",
"colloquialisms",
"euphemisms",
"loanwords",
"modernisms",
"neologisms",
"vernacularisms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sequence of words having a specific meaning":{
"examples":[
"the popular expression \"raining cats and dogs\" is meaningless in other languages"
],
"synonyms":[
"idioms",
"phrases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clich\u00e9s",
"cliches",
"locutions",
"terms",
"epithets",
"expletives",
"names",
"bywords",
"cries",
"mottoes",
"mottos",
"shibboleths",
"slogans",
"watchwords",
"archaisms",
"colloquialisms",
"euphemisms",
"modernisms",
"neologisms",
"provincialisms",
"vulgarisms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"exponents":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"exponents of space exploration earnestly called for more missions to the outer reaches of the solar system"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"expounders",
"friends",
"gospelers",
"gospellers",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"one who brings an art or science to full realization":{
"examples":[
"has long reigned as the nation's leading exponent of modern dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"expounders",
"gurus",
"high priests",
"interpreters",
"practitioners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deans",
"doyens",
"grand old men",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"philosophers",
"theorists",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"exploited":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"the type of person who exploits a friend's good nature by constantly sponging off of him"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"capitalized (on)",
"cashed in (on)",
"imposed (on or upon)",
"leveraged",
"milked",
"pimped",
"played (on or upon)",
"used",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked around",
"manipulated",
"mistreated",
"bled",
"cheated",
"fleeced",
"overcharged",
"skinned",
"soaked",
"stuck",
"commercialized",
"commodified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means":{
"examples":[
"a politician more than willing to exploit any national tragedy for political gain"
],
"synonyms":[
"manipulated",
"played (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engineered",
"finagled",
"jockeyed",
"maneuvered",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"kidded",
"shanghaied",
"snowed",
"took in",
"tricked",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"arranged",
"contrived",
"devised",
"finessed",
"masterminded",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"conned",
"defrauded",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into action or service":{
"examples":[
"it will be a shame if you don't exploit your artistic talent to the fullest"
],
"synonyms":[
"applied",
"employed",
"exercised",
"harnessed",
"operated",
"used",
"utilized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handled",
"manipulated",
"wielded",
"directed",
"ran",
"run",
"worked",
"wrought",
"cannibalized",
"recycled",
"reused"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignored",
"neglected",
"misapplied",
"misused"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"expansions":{
"something added (as by growth)":{
"examples":[
"the museum's new wing is only the first in a series of expansions planned for the next decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"more",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"proliferations",
"raises",
"rises",
"step-ups",
"supplements",
"upticks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulations",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"gatherings",
"complements",
"accessions",
"appendixes",
"appendices",
"continuations",
"extensions",
"uptrends",
"upturns",
"jumps",
"run-ups",
"spikes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deductions",
"subtractions"
],
"antonyms":[
"abatements",
"declines",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"depletions",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drop-offs",
"falloffs",
"falls",
"losses",
"reductions",
"shrinkages",
"step-downs"
]
},
"the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced":{
"examples":[
"the expansion of remedial reading classes into a district-wide program using school volunteers for a variety of needs"
],
"synonyms":[
"developments",
"elaborations",
"evolutions",
"growths",
"progresses",
"progressions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancements",
"betterments",
"improvements",
"perfections",
"refinements",
"incubations",
"maturations",
"flowerings",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"enhancements",
"supplementations",
"emergences",
"evolvements",
"metamorphoses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslides",
"lapses",
"relapses",
"decadences",
"decays",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devaluations",
"downfalls",
"downgrades"
],
"antonyms":[
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retrogressions",
"reversions"
]
},
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"we gazed in awe at the star-strewn expansion of nighttime sky above us"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadths",
"distances",
"expanses",
"extents",
"fields",
"lengths",
"plains",
"reaches",
"sheets",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domains",
"spheres",
"territories",
"compasses",
"ranges",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"gamuts",
"scales",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"depths",
"voids",
"extensions",
"latitudes",
"spans",
"amplitudes",
"immensities",
"magnitudes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"expatriation":{
"the forced removal from a homeland":{
"examples":[
"the brutal expatriation of thousands of Cherokee to Indian Territory is now commonly referred to as the Trail of Tears"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishment",
"deportation",
"displacement",
"exile",
"expulsion",
"relegation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ostracism",
"extradition",
"diaspora",
"dispersion",
"scattering",
"emigration",
"migration",
"evacuation",
"ethnic cleansing",
"transportation",
"dispossession",
"ejection",
"ouster"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repatriation",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"expectoration":{
"as in sputum , salivation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"salivation",
"sputum",
"foam",
"froth",
"drool",
"saliva",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"spit",
"spittle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"exported":{
"to send a product to be sold in another country":{
"examples":[
"countries that export oil to the U.S."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bartered",
"distributed",
"exchanged",
"handled",
"traded",
"trafficked (in)",
"dealt (in)",
"marketed",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"put up",
"retailed",
"sold",
"vended",
"presold",
"wholesaled",
"remarketed",
"resold",
"hawked",
"peddled",
"advertised",
"ballyhooed",
"boosted",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"touted",
"bargained",
"chaffered",
"dickered",
"haggled",
"horse-traded",
"paltered",
"auctioned",
"provided",
"supplied",
"carried",
"kept",
"stocked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bought",
"imported",
"purchased",
"received"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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}
}
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