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11639 lines
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"defaced":{
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"examples":[],
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"disfigured",
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"deformed",
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"distorted",
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"malformed",
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"misshapen",
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"monstrous",
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"shapeless",
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"aberrant",
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"abnormal",
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"freakish",
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"mutant",
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"asymmetrical",
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"crooked",
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"disproportionate",
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"irregular",
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"lopsided",
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"nonsymmetrical",
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"overbalanced",
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"unbalanced",
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"unequal",
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"horrible",
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"horrific",
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"terrible",
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"ugly",
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"unattractive"
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"undeformed",
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"shapely",
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"flawless",
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"perfect"
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},
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"examples":[],
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"damaged",
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"disintegrated",
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"dynamited",
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"mangled",
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"mutilated",
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"demolished",
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"destroyed",
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"devastated",
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"pulverized",
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"ruinate",
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"ruined",
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"wrecked",
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"eradicated",
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"exterminated",
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"extirpated",
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"obliterated",
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"wiped out",
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"collapsed",
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"imploded",
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"breakable",
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"brittle",
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"delicate",
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"fragile",
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"frail",
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"frangible",
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"cracked",
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"slivered",
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"splintered",
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"split",
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"blasted",
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"detonated",
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"exploded",
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"broken",
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"busted",
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"fractured",
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"fragmented",
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"shattered",
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"smashed"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"unbroken",
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"fixed",
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"healed",
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"mended",
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"patched",
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"rebuilt",
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"reconstructed",
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"repaired",
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"infrangible",
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"unbreakable"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property":{
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"examples":[
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"the principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"trashed",
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"vandalized"
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],
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"desecrated",
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"violated",
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"graffitied",
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"tagged",
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"banged up",
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"broke",
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"damaged",
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"harmed",
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"hurt",
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"impaired",
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"marred",
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"shattered",
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"spoiled",
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"spoilt",
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"annihilated",
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"demolished",
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"destroyed",
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"devastated",
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"ravaged",
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"ravened",
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"razed",
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"ruined",
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"scourged",
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"smashed",
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"tore down",
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"totaled",
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"totalled",
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"wasted",
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"wiped out",
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"wracked",
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"wrecked",
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"sabotaged",
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"depredated",
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"despoiled",
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"looted",
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"marauded",
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"pillaged",
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"plundered",
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"ransacked",
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"sacked",
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"spoliated"
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"conserved",
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"preserved",
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"protected",
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"saved",
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"salvaged",
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"built",
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"rebuilt"
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
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"examples":[
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"years of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins"
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"synonyms":[
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"blemished",
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"bloodied",
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"broke",
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"compromised",
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"crabbed",
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"crippled",
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"crossed (up)",
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"damaged",
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"disfigured",
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"endamaged",
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"flawed",
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"harmed",
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"hurt",
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"impaired",
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"injured",
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"marred",
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"spoiled",
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"spoilt",
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"vitiated"
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"near synonyms":[
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"deteriorated",
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"enervated",
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"enfeebled",
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"undermined",
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"weakened",
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"eroded",
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"scoured",
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"washed out",
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"wore (away)",
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"blighted",
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"tarnished",
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"dented",
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"dinged",
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"dinted",
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"botched",
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"gummed (up)",
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"queered",
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"lacerated",
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"wounded",
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"disabled",
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"hamstrung",
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"lamed",
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"maimed",
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"mangled",
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"mutilated",
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"tormented",
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"tortured",
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"annihilated",
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"banged up",
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"bashed",
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"battered",
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"clobbered",
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"crushed",
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"dashed",
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"decimated",
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"demolished",
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"desolated",
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"destroyed",
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"devastated",
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"did in",
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"pulverized",
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"razed",
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"ruined",
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"scourged",
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"shattered",
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"smashed",
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"tore down",
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"totaled",
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"totalled",
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"wasted",
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"wiped out",
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"wrecked"
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"near antonyms":[
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"cured",
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"healed",
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"helped",
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"rectified",
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"rehabilitated",
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"remedied",
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"edited",
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"remodeled",
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"revised",
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"ameliorated",
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"bettered",
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"enhanced",
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"enriched",
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"improved",
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"meliorated",
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"perfected",
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"refined"
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"antonyms":[
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"doctored",
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"fixed",
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"mended",
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"patched",
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"rebuilt",
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"reconditioned",
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"reconstructed",
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"renovated",
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"repaired",
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"revamped"
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"verb"
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"defaces":{
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"to deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property":{
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"examples":[
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"the principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"trashes",
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"vandalizes"
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"desecrates",
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"violates",
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"graffitis",
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"tags",
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"bangs up",
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"breaks",
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"damages",
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"harms",
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"hurts",
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"impairs",
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"mars",
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"shatters",
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"spoils",
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"annihilates",
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"demolishes",
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"destroys",
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"devastates",
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"ravages",
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"ravens",
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"razes",
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"ruins",
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"scourges",
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"smashes",
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"tears down",
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"totals",
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"wastes",
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"wipes out",
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"wracks",
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"wrecks",
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"sabotages",
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"depredates",
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"despoils",
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"loots",
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"marauds",
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"pillages",
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"plunders",
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"ransacks",
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"sacks",
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"spoliates"
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"near antonyms":[
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"conserves",
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"preserves",
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"protects",
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"saves",
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"salvages",
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"builds",
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"rebuilds"
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"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
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"examples":[
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"years of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins"
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"synonyms":[
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"blemishes",
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"bloodies",
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"breaks",
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"compromises",
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"crabs",
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"cripples",
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"crosses (up)",
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"damages",
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"disfigures",
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"endamages",
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"flaws",
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"harms",
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"hurts",
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"impairs",
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"injures",
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"mars",
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"spoils",
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"vitiates"
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"deteriorates",
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"enervates",
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"enfeebles",
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"undermines",
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"weakens",
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"erodes",
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"scours",
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"washes out",
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"wears (away)",
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"blights",
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"tarnishes",
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"dents",
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"dings",
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"dints",
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"botches",
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"gums (up)",
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"queers",
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"lacerates",
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"wounds",
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"disables",
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"hamstrings",
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"lames",
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"maims",
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"mangles",
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"mutilates",
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"torments",
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"tortures",
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"annihilates",
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"bangs up",
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"bashes",
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"batters",
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"clobbers",
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"crushes",
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"dashes",
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"decimates",
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"demolishes",
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"desolates",
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"destroys",
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"devastates",
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"does in",
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"pulverizes",
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"razes",
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"ruins",
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"scourges",
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"shatters",
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"smashes",
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"tears down",
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"totals",
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"wastes",
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"wipes out",
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"wrecks"
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"near antonyms":[
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"cures",
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"heals",
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"helps",
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"rectifies",
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"rehabilitates",
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"remedies",
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"edits",
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"remodels",
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"revises",
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"ameliorates",
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"betters",
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"enhances",
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"enriches",
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"improves",
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"meliorates",
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"perfects",
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"refines"
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"antonyms":[
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"doctors",
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"fixes",
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"mends",
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"patches",
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"rebuilds",
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"reconditions",
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"reconstructs",
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"renovates",
|
||
|
|
"repairs",
|
||
|
|
"revamps"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defamations":{
|
||
|
|
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"accused the newspaper columnist of defamation of character"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersing",
|
||
|
|
"blackening",
|
||
|
|
"calumniation",
|
||
|
|
"calumny",
|
||
|
|
"character assassination",
|
||
|
|
"defaming",
|
||
|
|
"libel",
|
||
|
|
"libeling",
|
||
|
|
"libelling",
|
||
|
|
"maligning",
|
||
|
|
"slander",
|
||
|
|
"smearing",
|
||
|
|
"traducing",
|
||
|
|
"vilification",
|
||
|
|
"vilifying"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersion",
|
||
|
|
"innuendo",
|
||
|
|
"muck",
|
||
|
|
"mud",
|
||
|
|
"smear",
|
||
|
|
"backbiting",
|
||
|
|
"detraction",
|
||
|
|
"abuse",
|
||
|
|
"invective",
|
||
|
|
"vituperation",
|
||
|
|
"attack",
|
||
|
|
"censure",
|
||
|
|
"criticism",
|
||
|
|
"denunciation",
|
||
|
|
"hatchet job",
|
||
|
|
"contempt",
|
||
|
|
"disdain",
|
||
|
|
"scorn",
|
||
|
|
"belittlement",
|
||
|
|
"denigration",
|
||
|
|
"disparagement",
|
||
|
|
"cattiness",
|
||
|
|
"despite",
|
||
|
|
"hatefulness",
|
||
|
|
"malevolence",
|
||
|
|
"malice",
|
||
|
|
"maliciousness",
|
||
|
|
"malignancy",
|
||
|
|
"malignity",
|
||
|
|
"meanness",
|
||
|
|
"nastiness",
|
||
|
|
"spite",
|
||
|
|
"spitefulness",
|
||
|
|
"spleen",
|
||
|
|
"venom",
|
||
|
|
"viciousness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acclaim",
|
||
|
|
"accolade",
|
||
|
|
"applause",
|
||
|
|
"commendation",
|
||
|
|
"praise",
|
||
|
|
"esteem",
|
||
|
|
"honor",
|
||
|
|
"respect",
|
||
|
|
"adulation",
|
||
|
|
"flattery",
|
||
|
|
"adoration",
|
||
|
|
"reverence",
|
||
|
|
"veneration",
|
||
|
|
"worship"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defames":{
|
||
|
|
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"of course I want to win the election, but I refuse to defame my opponent in order to do so"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"asperses",
|
||
|
|
"blackens",
|
||
|
|
"calumniates",
|
||
|
|
"libels",
|
||
|
|
"maligns",
|
||
|
|
"slanders",
|
||
|
|
"smears",
|
||
|
|
"traduces",
|
||
|
|
"vilifies"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"belittles",
|
||
|
|
"denigrates",
|
||
|
|
"detracts",
|
||
|
|
"disparages",
|
||
|
|
"discredits",
|
||
|
|
"disgraces",
|
||
|
|
"dishonors",
|
||
|
|
"shames",
|
||
|
|
"abases",
|
||
|
|
"debases",
|
||
|
|
"degrades",
|
||
|
|
"humbles",
|
||
|
|
"humiliates",
|
||
|
|
"disdains",
|
||
|
|
"scorns"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"exalts",
|
||
|
|
"glorifies",
|
||
|
|
"honors",
|
||
|
|
"acclaims",
|
||
|
|
"applauds",
|
||
|
|
"commends",
|
||
|
|
"praises",
|
||
|
|
"esteems",
|
||
|
|
"respects",
|
||
|
|
"admires",
|
||
|
|
"regards",
|
||
|
|
"adores",
|
||
|
|
"reveres",
|
||
|
|
"venerates",
|
||
|
|
"worships"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make a claim of wrongdoing against":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"so the harmless old woman was defamed of witchcraft"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accuses",
|
||
|
|
"charges",
|
||
|
|
"criminates",
|
||
|
|
"impeaches",
|
||
|
|
"incriminates",
|
||
|
|
"indicts"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blames",
|
||
|
|
"calls (on)",
|
||
|
|
"castigates",
|
||
|
|
"censures",
|
||
|
|
"condemns",
|
||
|
|
"criticizes",
|
||
|
|
"damns",
|
||
|
|
"denounces",
|
||
|
|
"faults",
|
||
|
|
"impugns",
|
||
|
|
"reproaches",
|
||
|
|
"reprobates",
|
||
|
|
"chides",
|
||
|
|
"rebukes",
|
||
|
|
"reproves",
|
||
|
|
"taxes",
|
||
|
|
"appeals",
|
||
|
|
"arraigns",
|
||
|
|
"books",
|
||
|
|
"cites",
|
||
|
|
"summons",
|
||
|
|
"prosecutes",
|
||
|
|
"sues",
|
||
|
|
"tries",
|
||
|
|
"frames",
|
||
|
|
"implicates",
|
||
|
|
"inculpates",
|
||
|
|
"informs (against)",
|
||
|
|
"names",
|
||
|
|
"reports",
|
||
|
|
"recriminates",
|
||
|
|
"retaliates"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advocates",
|
||
|
|
"champions",
|
||
|
|
"defends",
|
||
|
|
"excuses",
|
||
|
|
"forgives",
|
||
|
|
"justifies",
|
||
|
|
"pardons",
|
||
|
|
"remits",
|
||
|
|
"shrives"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absolves",
|
||
|
|
"acquits",
|
||
|
|
"clears",
|
||
|
|
"exculpates",
|
||
|
|
"exonerates",
|
||
|
|
"vindicates"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeat":{
|
||
|
|
"a falling short of one's goals":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accomplishment",
|
||
|
|
"achievement",
|
||
|
|
"success"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"truly disheartened by the defeat of his plans to revitalize downtown"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"victory",
|
||
|
|
"win"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"related":[
|
||
|
|
"futility",
|
||
|
|
"uselessness",
|
||
|
|
"ineffectiveness",
|
||
|
|
"ineffectuality",
|
||
|
|
"ineffectualness",
|
||
|
|
"inefficaciousness",
|
||
|
|
"inefficacy",
|
||
|
|
"deficiency",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacy",
|
||
|
|
"inadequateness",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiency",
|
||
|
|
"disappointment",
|
||
|
|
"letdown",
|
||
|
|
"setback"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
|
"crash",
|
||
|
|
"cropper",
|
||
|
|
"failure",
|
||
|
|
"fizzle",
|
||
|
|
"nonachievement",
|
||
|
|
"nonsuccess"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"failure to win a contest":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"success",
|
||
|
|
"triumph",
|
||
|
|
"victory",
|
||
|
|
"win"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"sore losers still griping about their defeat in the basketball game earlier that week"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accomplishment",
|
||
|
|
"achievement",
|
||
|
|
"blowout",
|
||
|
|
"cakewalk",
|
||
|
|
"landslide",
|
||
|
|
"romp",
|
||
|
|
"runaway",
|
||
|
|
"sweep",
|
||
|
|
"walkaway",
|
||
|
|
"walkover"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"related":[
|
||
|
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
|
"debacle",
|
||
|
|
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
|
||
|
|
"failure",
|
||
|
|
"fiasco",
|
||
|
|
"fizzle",
|
||
|
|
"flop",
|
||
|
|
"nonsuccess",
|
||
|
|
"setback",
|
||
|
|
"upset",
|
||
|
|
"lurch",
|
||
|
|
"shutout",
|
||
|
|
"washout",
|
||
|
|
"whitewash"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beating",
|
||
|
|
"drubbing",
|
||
|
|
"licking",
|
||
|
|
"loss",
|
||
|
|
"lump",
|
||
|
|
"overthrow",
|
||
|
|
"plastering",
|
||
|
|
"rout",
|
||
|
|
"shellacking",
|
||
|
|
"trimming",
|
||
|
|
"trouncing",
|
||
|
|
"whipping"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to achieve a victory over":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"lose (to)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"they defeated their archrivals easily and moved into the next round of the play-offs"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fall",
|
||
|
|
"give up",
|
||
|
|
"go down",
|
||
|
|
"go under",
|
||
|
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
|
"fail",
|
||
|
|
"flop",
|
||
|
|
"flunk",
|
||
|
|
"fold",
|
||
|
|
"wash out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"related":[
|
||
|
|
"sweep",
|
||
|
|
"edge (out)",
|
||
|
|
"nose out",
|
||
|
|
"pip",
|
||
|
|
"annihilate",
|
||
|
|
"blow away",
|
||
|
|
"blow out",
|
||
|
|
"bomb",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"bury",
|
||
|
|
"clobber",
|
||
|
|
"cream",
|
||
|
|
"crush",
|
||
|
|
"drub",
|
||
|
|
"finish",
|
||
|
|
"flatten",
|
||
|
|
"overwhelm",
|
||
|
|
"rout",
|
||
|
|
"shellac",
|
||
|
|
"skin",
|
||
|
|
"slaughter",
|
||
|
|
"smoke",
|
||
|
|
"snow under",
|
||
|
|
"thrash",
|
||
|
|
"trounce",
|
||
|
|
"upset",
|
||
|
|
"wallop",
|
||
|
|
"wax",
|
||
|
|
"whip",
|
||
|
|
"cap",
|
||
|
|
"excel",
|
||
|
|
"flourish",
|
||
|
|
"score",
|
||
|
|
"succeed",
|
||
|
|
"knock off",
|
||
|
|
"knock over",
|
||
|
|
"overpower",
|
||
|
|
"overthrow",
|
||
|
|
"subjugate",
|
||
|
|
"unseat",
|
||
|
|
"vanquish",
|
||
|
|
"ace (out)",
|
||
|
|
"better",
|
||
|
|
"eclipse",
|
||
|
|
"exceed",
|
||
|
|
"excel",
|
||
|
|
"outdistance",
|
||
|
|
"outdo",
|
||
|
|
"outfight",
|
||
|
|
"outshine",
|
||
|
|
"outstrip",
|
||
|
|
"overtop",
|
||
|
|
"surpass",
|
||
|
|
"top",
|
||
|
|
"transcend"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beat",
|
||
|
|
"best",
|
||
|
|
"conquer",
|
||
|
|
"dispatch",
|
||
|
|
"do down",
|
||
|
|
"get",
|
||
|
|
"get around",
|
||
|
|
"lick",
|
||
|
|
"master",
|
||
|
|
"overbear",
|
||
|
|
"overcome",
|
||
|
|
"overmatch",
|
||
|
|
"prevail (over)",
|
||
|
|
"skunk",
|
||
|
|
"stop",
|
||
|
|
"subdue",
|
||
|
|
"surmount",
|
||
|
|
"take",
|
||
|
|
"trim",
|
||
|
|
"triumph (over)",
|
||
|
|
"upend",
|
||
|
|
"win (against)",
|
||
|
|
"worst"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeated":{
|
||
|
|
"as in depressed , dejected":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crestfallen",
|
||
|
|
"dejected",
|
||
|
|
"depressed",
|
||
|
|
"disconsolate",
|
||
|
|
"dispirited",
|
||
|
|
"downcast"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"cock-a-hoop",
|
||
|
|
"crank",
|
||
|
|
"crowing",
|
||
|
|
"exultant",
|
||
|
|
"exulting",
|
||
|
|
"glorying",
|
||
|
|
"jubilant",
|
||
|
|
"prideful",
|
||
|
|
"proud",
|
||
|
|
"rejoicing",
|
||
|
|
"triumphant",
|
||
|
|
"ecstatic",
|
||
|
|
"elated",
|
||
|
|
"euphoric",
|
||
|
|
"arrogant",
|
||
|
|
"boastful",
|
||
|
|
"cocky"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to achieve a victory over":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"they defeated their archrivals easily and moved into the next round of the play-offs"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beat",
|
||
|
|
"bested",
|
||
|
|
"conquered",
|
||
|
|
"did down",
|
||
|
|
"dispatched",
|
||
|
|
"got",
|
||
|
|
"got around",
|
||
|
|
"licked",
|
||
|
|
"mastered",
|
||
|
|
"overbore",
|
||
|
|
"overcame",
|
||
|
|
"overmatched",
|
||
|
|
"prevailed (over)",
|
||
|
|
"skunked",
|
||
|
|
"stopped",
|
||
|
|
"subdued",
|
||
|
|
"surmounted",
|
||
|
|
"took",
|
||
|
|
"trimmed",
|
||
|
|
"triumphed (over)",
|
||
|
|
"upended",
|
||
|
|
"won (against)",
|
||
|
|
"worsted"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"swept",
|
||
|
|
"edged (out)",
|
||
|
|
"nosed out",
|
||
|
|
"pipped",
|
||
|
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
|
"blew away",
|
||
|
|
"blew out",
|
||
|
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
|
"broke",
|
||
|
|
"buried",
|
||
|
|
"clobbered",
|
||
|
|
"creamed",
|
||
|
|
"crushed",
|
||
|
|
"drubbed",
|
||
|
|
"finished",
|
||
|
|
"flattened",
|
||
|
|
"overwhelmed",
|
||
|
|
"routed",
|
||
|
|
"shellacked",
|
||
|
|
"skinned",
|
||
|
|
"slaughtered",
|
||
|
|
"smoked",
|
||
|
|
"snowed under",
|
||
|
|
"thrashed",
|
||
|
|
"trounced",
|
||
|
|
"upset",
|
||
|
|
"walloped",
|
||
|
|
"waxed",
|
||
|
|
"whipped",
|
||
|
|
"capped",
|
||
|
|
"excelled",
|
||
|
|
"flourished",
|
||
|
|
"scored",
|
||
|
|
"succeeded",
|
||
|
|
"knocked off",
|
||
|
|
"knocked over",
|
||
|
|
"overpowered",
|
||
|
|
"overthrew",
|
||
|
|
"subjugated",
|
||
|
|
"unseated",
|
||
|
|
"vanquished",
|
||
|
|
"aced (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bettered",
|
||
|
|
"eclipsed",
|
||
|
|
"exceeded",
|
||
|
|
"excelled",
|
||
|
|
"outdid",
|
||
|
|
"outdistanced",
|
||
|
|
"outfought",
|
||
|
|
"outshone",
|
||
|
|
"outshined",
|
||
|
|
"outstripped",
|
||
|
|
"overtopped",
|
||
|
|
"surpassed",
|
||
|
|
"topped",
|
||
|
|
"transcended"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fell",
|
||
|
|
"gave up",
|
||
|
|
"went down",
|
||
|
|
"went under",
|
||
|
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
|
"failed",
|
||
|
|
"flopped",
|
||
|
|
"flunked",
|
||
|
|
"folded",
|
||
|
|
"washed out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"lost (to)"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defecting":{
|
||
|
|
"as in renegade , apostate":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"apostate",
|
||
|
|
"renegade",
|
||
|
|
"free-spirited",
|
||
|
|
"freethinking",
|
||
|
|
"nontraditional",
|
||
|
|
"schismatic",
|
||
|
|
"schismatical",
|
||
|
|
"sectarian",
|
||
|
|
"separatist",
|
||
|
|
"dissentient",
|
||
|
|
"dissenting",
|
||
|
|
"dissident",
|
||
|
|
"heretical",
|
||
|
|
"heretic",
|
||
|
|
"heterodox",
|
||
|
|
"iconoclastic",
|
||
|
|
"maverick",
|
||
|
|
"nonconformist",
|
||
|
|
"nonorthodox",
|
||
|
|
"out-there",
|
||
|
|
"unconventional",
|
||
|
|
"unorthodox"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conforming",
|
||
|
|
"conformist",
|
||
|
|
"conventional",
|
||
|
|
"orthodox"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in emigrating":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"emigrating",
|
||
|
|
"journeying",
|
||
|
|
"peregrinating",
|
||
|
|
"pilgrimaging",
|
||
|
|
"touring",
|
||
|
|
"traveling",
|
||
|
|
"travelling",
|
||
|
|
"trekking",
|
||
|
|
"tripping",
|
||
|
|
"voyaging",
|
||
|
|
"road-tripping",
|
||
|
|
"transferring",
|
||
|
|
"gallivanting",
|
||
|
|
"galavanting",
|
||
|
|
"hopping",
|
||
|
|
"jaunting",
|
||
|
|
"knocking (about)",
|
||
|
|
"perambulating",
|
||
|
|
"rambling",
|
||
|
|
"roaming",
|
||
|
|
"roving",
|
||
|
|
"traipsing",
|
||
|
|
"wandering",
|
||
|
|
"migrating",
|
||
|
|
"relocating",
|
||
|
|
"resettling"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defective":{
|
||
|
|
"having a fault":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"promptly took the defective microwave oven back to the store for a replacement"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"amiss",
|
||
|
|
"bad",
|
||
|
|
"faulty",
|
||
|
|
"flawed",
|
||
|
|
"imperfect"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fallible",
|
||
|
|
"blemished",
|
||
|
|
"broken",
|
||
|
|
"crippled",
|
||
|
|
"damaged",
|
||
|
|
"defaced",
|
||
|
|
"disfigured",
|
||
|
|
"harmed",
|
||
|
|
"hurt",
|
||
|
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
|
"injured",
|
||
|
|
"marred",
|
||
|
|
"spoiled",
|
||
|
|
"vitiated",
|
||
|
|
"deficient",
|
||
|
|
"inadequate",
|
||
|
|
"incomplete",
|
||
|
|
"insufficient",
|
||
|
|
"wanting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"complete",
|
||
|
|
"entire",
|
||
|
|
"intact",
|
||
|
|
"whole",
|
||
|
|
"unblemished",
|
||
|
|
"undamaged",
|
||
|
|
"unimpaired",
|
||
|
|
"unspoiled"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"faultless",
|
||
|
|
"flawless",
|
||
|
|
"impeccable",
|
||
|
|
"perfect"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defendant":{
|
||
|
|
"a person who is being sued or accused of a crime in a court of law":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"The jury believed that the defendant was guilty."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accused",
|
||
|
|
"arrestee",
|
||
|
|
"detainee",
|
||
|
|
"fish",
|
||
|
|
"suspect",
|
||
|
|
"criminal",
|
||
|
|
"crook",
|
||
|
|
"culprit",
|
||
|
|
"lawbreaker",
|
||
|
|
"malefactor",
|
||
|
|
"miscreant",
|
||
|
|
"offender",
|
||
|
|
"misdemeanant",
|
||
|
|
"accomplice",
|
||
|
|
"principal",
|
||
|
|
"desperado",
|
||
|
|
"outlaw",
|
||
|
|
"convict",
|
||
|
|
"jailbird",
|
||
|
|
"perp",
|
||
|
|
"perpetrator",
|
||
|
|
"evildoer",
|
||
|
|
"gallows bird",
|
||
|
|
"misdoer",
|
||
|
|
"misfeasor",
|
||
|
|
"sinner",
|
||
|
|
"transgressor",
|
||
|
|
"trespasser",
|
||
|
|
"villain",
|
||
|
|
"wrongdoer",
|
||
|
|
"blackhander",
|
||
|
|
"button man",
|
||
|
|
"gangster",
|
||
|
|
"hoodlum",
|
||
|
|
"hooligan",
|
||
|
|
"mobster",
|
||
|
|
"racketeer",
|
||
|
|
"thug",
|
||
|
|
"enforcer",
|
||
|
|
"gun",
|
||
|
|
"gunman",
|
||
|
|
"gunsel",
|
||
|
|
"hit man",
|
||
|
|
"triggerman",
|
||
|
|
"backslider",
|
||
|
|
"recidivist",
|
||
|
|
"relapser",
|
||
|
|
"repeater"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"gangbuster",
|
||
|
|
"lawman"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defenestrating":{
|
||
|
|
"as in pink-slipping , terminating":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defenselessness":{
|
||
|
|
"the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"our utter defenselessness against the rising floodwaters quickly became apparent"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"susceptibility",
|
||
|
|
"vulnerability",
|
||
|
|
"weakness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"helplessness",
|
||
|
|
"powerlessness",
|
||
|
|
"passiveness",
|
||
|
|
"passivity",
|
||
|
|
"feebleness",
|
||
|
|
"frailness",
|
||
|
|
"frailty",
|
||
|
|
"infirmity",
|
||
|
|
"exposure",
|
||
|
|
"liability",
|
||
|
|
"openness",
|
||
|
|
"predisposition",
|
||
|
|
"proneness",
|
||
|
|
"sensitivity",
|
||
|
|
"receptiveness",
|
||
|
|
"receptivity",
|
||
|
|
"easiness",
|
||
|
|
"gullibility",
|
||
|
|
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
|
||
|
|
"naivete",
|
||
|
|
"naivet\u00e9",
|
||
|
|
"credulity",
|
||
|
|
"credulousness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"immunity",
|
||
|
|
"impenetrability",
|
||
|
|
"indomitability",
|
||
|
|
"indomitableness",
|
||
|
|
"invincibility"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"invulnerability"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defensible":{
|
||
|
|
"capable of being defended against physical attack":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the pioneers retreated to a defensible hillside to take a stand against the raiders"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defendable",
|
||
|
|
"tenable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defended",
|
||
|
|
"guarded",
|
||
|
|
"protected",
|
||
|
|
"safeguarded",
|
||
|
|
"secure",
|
||
|
|
"secured",
|
||
|
|
"shielded",
|
||
|
|
"bulletproof",
|
||
|
|
"impregnable",
|
||
|
|
"indomitable",
|
||
|
|
"invincible",
|
||
|
|
"inviolable",
|
||
|
|
"invulnerable",
|
||
|
|
"unassailable",
|
||
|
|
"unbeatable",
|
||
|
|
"unconquerable",
|
||
|
|
"untouchable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"vincible",
|
||
|
|
"vulnerable",
|
||
|
|
"assailable",
|
||
|
|
"exposed",
|
||
|
|
"imperiled",
|
||
|
|
"imperilled",
|
||
|
|
"insecure",
|
||
|
|
"liable",
|
||
|
|
"open",
|
||
|
|
"susceptible",
|
||
|
|
"undefended",
|
||
|
|
"unguarded",
|
||
|
|
"unprotected",
|
||
|
|
"unsecured",
|
||
|
|
"defenseless",
|
||
|
|
"helpless",
|
||
|
|
"powerless",
|
||
|
|
"weak"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"indefensible",
|
||
|
|
"untenable"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"there's simply no defensible reason for dropping out of school"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defendable",
|
||
|
|
"justifiable",
|
||
|
|
"maintainable",
|
||
|
|
"supportable",
|
||
|
|
"sustainable",
|
||
|
|
"tenable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"rational",
|
||
|
|
"reasonable",
|
||
|
|
"sensible",
|
||
|
|
"well-grounded",
|
||
|
|
"acceptable",
|
||
|
|
"admissible",
|
||
|
|
"allowable",
|
||
|
|
"exceptionable",
|
||
|
|
"legitimate",
|
||
|
|
"passable",
|
||
|
|
"unobjectionable",
|
||
|
|
"viable",
|
||
|
|
"warrantable",
|
||
|
|
"confirmable",
|
||
|
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"provable",
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"verifiable",
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"explainable",
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||
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"explicable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
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"near antonyms":[
|
||
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"absurd",
|
||
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"illogical",
|
||
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"irrational",
|
||
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"ridiculous",
|
||
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"unsound",
|
||
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"extreme",
|
||
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"outrageous",
|
||
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"unreasonable",
|
||
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"groundless",
|
||
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"objectionable",
|
||
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"unacceptable",
|
||
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"unfounded",
|
||
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"inexplicable",
|
||
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"unexplainable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
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"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"indefensible",
|
||
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"insupportable",
|
||
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"unjustifiable",
|
||
|
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"unsustainable",
|
||
|
|
"untenable"
|
||
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]
|
||
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},
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||
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"type":[
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||
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"adjective"
|
||
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]
|
||
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},
|
||
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"deferred":{
|
||
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"as in delayed":{
|
||
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"examples":[],
|
||
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"synonyms":[],
|
||
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"near synonyms":[
|
||
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"delayed",
|
||
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"prolonged",
|
||
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"protracted",
|
||
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"slow",
|
||
|
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"sluggish",
|
||
|
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"dilatory",
|
||
|
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"tardy"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
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"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"immediate",
|
||
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|
"instant",
|
||
|
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"instantaneous",
|
||
|
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"split-second",
|
||
|
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"straightaway",
|
||
|
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"summary",
|
||
|
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"fast",
|
||
|
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"hit-and-run",
|
||
|
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"prompt",
|
||
|
|
"quick",
|
||
|
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"rapid",
|
||
|
|
"speedy",
|
||
|
|
"swift"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in delayed , postponed":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delayed",
|
||
|
|
"postponed",
|
||
|
|
"suspended"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"afoot",
|
||
|
|
"under way",
|
||
|
|
"under weigh"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to assign to a later time":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"we agreed to defer a discussion of the issue until we had more information"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delayed",
|
||
|
|
"held off (on)",
|
||
|
|
"held over",
|
||
|
|
"held up",
|
||
|
|
"laid over",
|
||
|
|
"postponed",
|
||
|
|
"put off",
|
||
|
|
"put over",
|
||
|
|
"remitted",
|
||
|
|
"shelved"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"suspended",
|
||
|
|
"hesitated",
|
||
|
|
"paused",
|
||
|
|
"stayed",
|
||
|
|
"detained",
|
||
|
|
"retarded",
|
||
|
|
"slowed",
|
||
|
|
"extended",
|
||
|
|
"lengthened",
|
||
|
|
"prolonged",
|
||
|
|
"protracted",
|
||
|
|
"stretched (out)",
|
||
|
|
"waited"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acted",
|
||
|
|
"dealt (with)",
|
||
|
|
"decided (upon)",
|
||
|
|
"did",
|
||
|
|
"worked (on)",
|
||
|
|
"wrought (on)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"adverb",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deferring (to)":{
|
||
|
|
"as in submitting (to) , surrendering (to)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"submitting (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrendering (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yielding (to)",
|
||
|
|
"adhering (to)",
|
||
|
|
"complying (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conforming (to)",
|
||
|
|
"following",
|
||
|
|
"goose-stepping (to)",
|
||
|
|
"minding",
|
||
|
|
"obeying",
|
||
|
|
"observing",
|
||
|
|
"acceding (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiescing (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agreeing (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assenting (to)",
|
||
|
|
"attending",
|
||
|
|
"hearing",
|
||
|
|
"heeding",
|
||
|
|
"listening (to)",
|
||
|
|
"marking",
|
||
|
|
"noticing",
|
||
|
|
"noting",
|
||
|
|
"regarding",
|
||
|
|
"taking",
|
||
|
|
"watching"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defying",
|
||
|
|
"disobeying",
|
||
|
|
"rebelling (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disobliging",
|
||
|
|
"challenging",
|
||
|
|
"daring",
|
||
|
|
"refusing",
|
||
|
|
"renouncing",
|
||
|
|
"repudiating",
|
||
|
|
"directing",
|
||
|
|
"leading",
|
||
|
|
"brushing (off)",
|
||
|
|
"disregarding",
|
||
|
|
"ignoring",
|
||
|
|
"overlooking",
|
||
|
|
"overpassing",
|
||
|
|
"passing over",
|
||
|
|
"tuning out",
|
||
|
|
"winking (at)",
|
||
|
|
"dismissing",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-poohing",
|
||
|
|
"poohing",
|
||
|
|
"shrugging off",
|
||
|
|
"breaching",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"infringing",
|
||
|
|
"transgressing",
|
||
|
|
"violating",
|
||
|
|
"deriding",
|
||
|
|
"flouting",
|
||
|
|
"mocking",
|
||
|
|
"scoffing (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorning",
|
||
|
|
"mutinying (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolting (against)",
|
||
|
|
"bucking",
|
||
|
|
"combating",
|
||
|
|
"combatting",
|
||
|
|
"contesting",
|
||
|
|
"disputing",
|
||
|
|
"fighting",
|
||
|
|
"opposing",
|
||
|
|
"resisting",
|
||
|
|
"withstanding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deficient":{
|
||
|
|
"lacking some necessary part":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a diet deficient in calcium can lead to weak bones"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fragmental",
|
||
|
|
"fragmentary",
|
||
|
|
"half",
|
||
|
|
"halfway",
|
||
|
|
"incomplete",
|
||
|
|
"partial"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"broken",
|
||
|
|
"damaged",
|
||
|
|
"flawed",
|
||
|
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
|
"imperfect",
|
||
|
|
"injured",
|
||
|
|
"marred",
|
||
|
|
"spoiled",
|
||
|
|
"sketchy",
|
||
|
|
"unassembled",
|
||
|
|
"uncompleted",
|
||
|
|
"unfinished"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"flawless",
|
||
|
|
"unbroken",
|
||
|
|
"undamaged",
|
||
|
|
"unimpaired",
|
||
|
|
"uninjured",
|
||
|
|
"unmarred",
|
||
|
|
"completed",
|
||
|
|
"finished"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"complete",
|
||
|
|
"entire",
|
||
|
|
"full",
|
||
|
|
"intact",
|
||
|
|
"integral",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"whole"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"falling short of a standard":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"woefully deficient eyesight kept him out of military service"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bad",
|
||
|
|
"bastard",
|
||
|
|
"bush",
|
||
|
|
"bush-league",
|
||
|
|
"crummy",
|
||
|
|
"crumby",
|
||
|
|
"dissatisfactory",
|
||
|
|
"ill",
|
||
|
|
"inferior",
|
||
|
|
"lame",
|
||
|
|
"lousy",
|
||
|
|
"off",
|
||
|
|
"paltry",
|
||
|
|
"poor",
|
||
|
|
"punk",
|
||
|
|
"sour",
|
||
|
|
"suboptimal",
|
||
|
|
"subpar",
|
||
|
|
"substandard",
|
||
|
|
"unacceptable",
|
||
|
|
"unsatisfactory",
|
||
|
|
"wack",
|
||
|
|
"wanting",
|
||
|
|
"wretched",
|
||
|
|
"wrong"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abysmal",
|
||
|
|
"atrocious",
|
||
|
|
"awful",
|
||
|
|
"bitchin'",
|
||
|
|
"brutal",
|
||
|
|
"damnable",
|
||
|
|
"deplorable",
|
||
|
|
"detestable",
|
||
|
|
"disastrous",
|
||
|
|
"dreadful",
|
||
|
|
"execrable",
|
||
|
|
"gnarly",
|
||
|
|
"horrendous",
|
||
|
|
"horrible",
|
||
|
|
"pathetic",
|
||
|
|
"stinky",
|
||
|
|
"sucky",
|
||
|
|
"terrible",
|
||
|
|
"unspeakable",
|
||
|
|
"defective",
|
||
|
|
"faulty",
|
||
|
|
"flawed",
|
||
|
|
"egregious",
|
||
|
|
"flagrant",
|
||
|
|
"gross",
|
||
|
|
"bum",
|
||
|
|
"cheesy",
|
||
|
|
"coarse",
|
||
|
|
"common",
|
||
|
|
"crappy",
|
||
|
|
"cut-rate",
|
||
|
|
"junky",
|
||
|
|
"lesser",
|
||
|
|
"low-grade",
|
||
|
|
"low-rent",
|
||
|
|
"mediocre",
|
||
|
|
"miserable",
|
||
|
|
"reprehensible",
|
||
|
|
"rotten",
|
||
|
|
"rubbishy",
|
||
|
|
"second-rate",
|
||
|
|
"shoddy",
|
||
|
|
"sleazy",
|
||
|
|
"trashy",
|
||
|
|
"abominable",
|
||
|
|
"odious",
|
||
|
|
"vile",
|
||
|
|
"useless",
|
||
|
|
"valueless",
|
||
|
|
"worthless",
|
||
|
|
"inadequate",
|
||
|
|
"insufficient",
|
||
|
|
"lacking",
|
||
|
|
"meager",
|
||
|
|
"meagre",
|
||
|
|
"mean",
|
||
|
|
"miserly",
|
||
|
|
"niggardly",
|
||
|
|
"scanty",
|
||
|
|
"shabby",
|
||
|
|
"short",
|
||
|
|
"skimp",
|
||
|
|
"skimpy",
|
||
|
|
"spare",
|
||
|
|
"stingy",
|
||
|
|
"miscreant",
|
||
|
|
"scurrilous",
|
||
|
|
"villainous",
|
||
|
|
"counterfeit",
|
||
|
|
"fake",
|
||
|
|
"phony",
|
||
|
|
"phoney",
|
||
|
|
"sham"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"classic",
|
||
|
|
"classical",
|
||
|
|
"A1",
|
||
|
|
"bang-up",
|
||
|
|
"banner",
|
||
|
|
"boss",
|
||
|
|
"capital",
|
||
|
|
"choice",
|
||
|
|
"crackerjack",
|
||
|
|
"dandy",
|
||
|
|
"divine",
|
||
|
|
"excellent",
|
||
|
|
"exceptional",
|
||
|
|
"fabulous",
|
||
|
|
"first-class",
|
||
|
|
"first-rate",
|
||
|
|
"grand",
|
||
|
|
"great",
|
||
|
|
"groovy",
|
||
|
|
"heavenly",
|
||
|
|
"high-test",
|
||
|
|
"jim-dandy",
|
||
|
|
"keen",
|
||
|
|
"marvelous",
|
||
|
|
"marvellous",
|
||
|
|
"mean",
|
||
|
|
"neat",
|
||
|
|
"nifty",
|
||
|
|
"noble",
|
||
|
|
"par excellence",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"premium",
|
||
|
|
"prime",
|
||
|
|
"sensational",
|
||
|
|
"slick",
|
||
|
|
"splendid",
|
||
|
|
"stellar",
|
||
|
|
"sterling",
|
||
|
|
"superb",
|
||
|
|
"superior",
|
||
|
|
"superlative",
|
||
|
|
"supernal",
|
||
|
|
"swell",
|
||
|
|
"terrific",
|
||
|
|
"tip-top",
|
||
|
|
"top",
|
||
|
|
"top-notch",
|
||
|
|
"unsurpassed",
|
||
|
|
"wonderful",
|
||
|
|
"better",
|
||
|
|
"exceptional",
|
||
|
|
"fancy",
|
||
|
|
"high-grade",
|
||
|
|
"special",
|
||
|
|
"sufficient",
|
||
|
|
"average",
|
||
|
|
"borderline",
|
||
|
|
"fair",
|
||
|
|
"mediocre",
|
||
|
|
"middling",
|
||
|
|
"minimal",
|
||
|
|
"so-so",
|
||
|
|
"unexceptional",
|
||
|
|
"suitable",
|
||
|
|
"useful",
|
||
|
|
"worthy",
|
||
|
|
"gratifying",
|
||
|
|
"satisfying"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acceptable",
|
||
|
|
"adequate",
|
||
|
|
"all right",
|
||
|
|
"decent",
|
||
|
|
"fine",
|
||
|
|
"OK",
|
||
|
|
"okay",
|
||
|
|
"passable",
|
||
|
|
"respectable",
|
||
|
|
"satisfactory",
|
||
|
|
"standard",
|
||
|
|
"tolerable"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
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"too deficient in common sense to be trusted to stay by himself"
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||
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],
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||
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"synonyms":[
|
||
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"inadequate",
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||
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"insufficient",
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||
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"lacking",
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||
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"low",
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||
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"scarce",
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||
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"short",
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||
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"shy",
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||
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"wanting"
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||
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],
|
||
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"near synonyms":[
|
||
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"substandard",
|
||
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"unacceptable",
|
||
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"unsatisfactory",
|
||
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"hand-to-mouth",
|
||
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"lean",
|
||
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"light",
|
||
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"meager",
|
||
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"meagre",
|
||
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"niggardly",
|
||
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"poor",
|
||
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"scant",
|
||
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"scanty",
|
||
|
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"skimp",
|
||
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"skimpy",
|
||
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"slender",
|
||
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"slim",
|
||
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"spare",
|
||
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"sparse",
|
||
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"stingy",
|
||
|
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"bare",
|
||
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"mere",
|
||
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"minimum",
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||
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"slight",
|
||
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"small"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
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"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abundant",
|
||
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"ample",
|
||
|
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"bounteous",
|
||
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"bountiful",
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||
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"copious",
|
||
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"generous",
|
||
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"liberal",
|
||
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"plenteous",
|
||
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"plentiful",
|
||
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"plenitudinous",
|
||
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"enlarged",
|
||
|
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"expanded",
|
||
|
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"supplemented",
|
||
|
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"abounding",
|
||
|
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"overflowing",
|
||
|
|
"teeming",
|
||
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"satisfactory",
|
||
|
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"tolerable",
|
||
|
|
"lavish",
|
||
|
|
"luxuriant",
|
||
|
|
"rich",
|
||
|
|
"big",
|
||
|
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"considerable",
|
||
|
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"hefty",
|
||
|
|
"jumbo",
|
||
|
|
"king-size",
|
||
|
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"king-sized",
|
||
|
|
"large",
|
||
|
|
"largish",
|
||
|
|
"oversize",
|
||
|
|
"oversized",
|
||
|
|
"sizable",
|
||
|
|
"sizeable",
|
||
|
|
"substantial",
|
||
|
|
"super"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adequate",
|
||
|
|
"enough",
|
||
|
|
"sufficient"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definite":{
|
||
|
|
"having distinct or certain limits":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"there should be a definite scope to your paper on the campaign for women's rights because you obviously cannot cover the whole history in five pages"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bounded",
|
||
|
|
"circumscribed",
|
||
|
|
"defined",
|
||
|
|
"determinate",
|
||
|
|
"finite",
|
||
|
|
"limited",
|
||
|
|
"measured",
|
||
|
|
"narrow",
|
||
|
|
"restricted"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"modified",
|
||
|
|
"qualified",
|
||
|
|
"detailed",
|
||
|
|
"exact",
|
||
|
|
"precise",
|
||
|
|
"specific",
|
||
|
|
"confined",
|
||
|
|
"constricted",
|
||
|
|
"moderate",
|
||
|
|
"modest",
|
||
|
|
"minute",
|
||
|
|
"puny",
|
||
|
|
"small",
|
||
|
|
"tiny",
|
||
|
|
"determined",
|
||
|
|
"fixed",
|
||
|
|
"settled"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bottomless",
|
||
|
|
"countless",
|
||
|
|
"incalculable",
|
||
|
|
"inestimable",
|
||
|
|
"inexhaustible",
|
||
|
|
"innumerable",
|
||
|
|
"unfathomable",
|
||
|
|
"unqualified",
|
||
|
|
"unreserved",
|
||
|
|
"general",
|
||
|
|
"indeterminate",
|
||
|
|
"nebulous",
|
||
|
|
"vague",
|
||
|
|
"enlarged",
|
||
|
|
"escalated",
|
||
|
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
|
"copious",
|
||
|
|
"plenitudinous",
|
||
|
|
"plentiful",
|
||
|
|
"big",
|
||
|
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
|
"bumper",
|
||
|
|
"considerable",
|
||
|
|
"extensive",
|
||
|
|
"goodly",
|
||
|
|
"great",
|
||
|
|
"handsome",
|
||
|
|
"hefty",
|
||
|
|
"hulking",
|
||
|
|
"jumbo",
|
||
|
|
"king-size",
|
||
|
|
"king-sized",
|
||
|
|
"large",
|
||
|
|
"largish",
|
||
|
|
"overscale",
|
||
|
|
"overscaled",
|
||
|
|
"oversize",
|
||
|
|
"oversized",
|
||
|
|
"respectable",
|
||
|
|
"sizable",
|
||
|
|
"sizeable",
|
||
|
|
"substantial",
|
||
|
|
"super",
|
||
|
|
"vast",
|
||
|
|
"voluminous",
|
||
|
|
"whacking",
|
||
|
|
"epic",
|
||
|
|
"grandiose",
|
||
|
|
"major",
|
||
|
|
"ample",
|
||
|
|
"broad",
|
||
|
|
"comprehensive",
|
||
|
|
"cosmopolitan",
|
||
|
|
"expansive",
|
||
|
|
"global",
|
||
|
|
"inclusive",
|
||
|
|
"sweeping",
|
||
|
|
"universal",
|
||
|
|
"whole"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"boundless",
|
||
|
|
"dimensionless",
|
||
|
|
"endless",
|
||
|
|
"illimitable",
|
||
|
|
"immeasurable",
|
||
|
|
"indefinite",
|
||
|
|
"infinite",
|
||
|
|
"limitless",
|
||
|
|
"measureless",
|
||
|
|
"unbounded",
|
||
|
|
"undefined",
|
||
|
|
"unlimited",
|
||
|
|
"unmeasured"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a definite instruction not to let anyone in the house while the parents were out for the evening"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clear-cut",
|
||
|
|
"definitive",
|
||
|
|
"explicit",
|
||
|
|
"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"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the house is a definite bargain by today's standards"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absolute",
|
||
|
|
"all-out",
|
||
|
|
"arrant",
|
||
|
|
"blank",
|
||
|
|
"blooming",
|
||
|
|
"bodacious",
|
||
|
|
"categorical",
|
||
|
|
"categoric",
|
||
|
|
"clean",
|
||
|
|
"complete",
|
||
|
|
"consummate",
|
||
|
|
"crashing",
|
||
|
|
"damn",
|
||
|
|
"damned",
|
||
|
|
"dead",
|
||
|
|
"deadly",
|
||
|
|
"downright",
|
||
|
|
"dreadful",
|
||
|
|
"fair",
|
||
|
|
"flat",
|
||
|
|
"flat-out",
|
||
|
|
"out-and-out",
|
||
|
|
"outright",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"plumb",
|
||
|
|
"profound",
|
||
|
|
"pure",
|
||
|
|
"rank",
|
||
|
|
"regular",
|
||
|
|
"sheer",
|
||
|
|
"simple",
|
||
|
|
"stark",
|
||
|
|
"stone",
|
||
|
|
"straight-out",
|
||
|
|
"thorough",
|
||
|
|
"thoroughgoing",
|
||
|
|
"total",
|
||
|
|
"unadulterated",
|
||
|
|
"unalloyed",
|
||
|
|
"unconditional",
|
||
|
|
"unmitigated",
|
||
|
|
"unqualified",
|
||
|
|
"utter",
|
||
|
|
"very"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"authentic",
|
||
|
|
"classic",
|
||
|
|
"genuine",
|
||
|
|
"real",
|
||
|
|
"veritable",
|
||
|
|
"constant",
|
||
|
|
"endless",
|
||
|
|
"eternal",
|
||
|
|
"perpetual",
|
||
|
|
"undying",
|
||
|
|
"unremitting",
|
||
|
|
"extreme",
|
||
|
|
"unrestricted",
|
||
|
|
"confirmed",
|
||
|
|
"habitual",
|
||
|
|
"hopeless",
|
||
|
|
"inveterate",
|
||
|
|
"extraordinary",
|
||
|
|
"frightful",
|
||
|
|
"horrible",
|
||
|
|
"huge",
|
||
|
|
"main",
|
||
|
|
"superlative",
|
||
|
|
"supreme",
|
||
|
|
"surpassing",
|
||
|
|
"terrible",
|
||
|
|
"terrific"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"doubtful",
|
||
|
|
"dubious",
|
||
|
|
"equivocal",
|
||
|
|
"qualified",
|
||
|
|
"questionable",
|
||
|
|
"restricted",
|
||
|
|
"uncertain"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definitely":{
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adverb"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"without any question":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"that is definitely the kind of dog we're looking to adopt"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[
|
||
|
|
"conceivably",
|
||
|
|
"likely",
|
||
|
|
"perhaps",
|
||
|
|
"possibly",
|
||
|
|
"probably",
|
||
|
|
"obviously",
|
||
|
|
"unmistakably"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"all right",
|
||
|
|
"alright",
|
||
|
|
"assuredly",
|
||
|
|
"certainly",
|
||
|
|
"clearly",
|
||
|
|
"doubtless",
|
||
|
|
"easily",
|
||
|
|
"forsooth",
|
||
|
|
"hands down",
|
||
|
|
"inarguably",
|
||
|
|
"incontestably",
|
||
|
|
"incontrovertibly",
|
||
|
|
"indeed",
|
||
|
|
"indisputably",
|
||
|
|
"plainly",
|
||
|
|
"really",
|
||
|
|
"so",
|
||
|
|
"sure",
|
||
|
|
"surely",
|
||
|
|
"truly",
|
||
|
|
"unarguably",
|
||
|
|
"undeniably",
|
||
|
|
"undoubtedly",
|
||
|
|
"unquestionably"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
}
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definition":{
|
||
|
|
"a vivid representation in words of someone or something":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"he gave us his definition of the perfect romantic evening on the town"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delineation",
|
||
|
|
"depiction",
|
||
|
|
"description",
|
||
|
|
"picture",
|
||
|
|
"portrait",
|
||
|
|
"portraiture",
|
||
|
|
"portrayal",
|
||
|
|
"rendering",
|
||
|
|
"sketch",
|
||
|
|
"vignette"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"account",
|
||
|
|
"anecdote",
|
||
|
|
"chronicle",
|
||
|
|
"narrative",
|
||
|
|
"report",
|
||
|
|
"story",
|
||
|
|
"tale",
|
||
|
|
"yarn",
|
||
|
|
"demonstration",
|
||
|
|
"exemplification",
|
||
|
|
"illustration",
|
||
|
|
"clarification",
|
||
|
|
"elucidation",
|
||
|
|
"explanation",
|
||
|
|
"explication",
|
||
|
|
"exposition"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definitively":{
|
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"as in":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"examples":[],
|
||
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"near antonyms":[],
|
||
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"related":[],
|
||
|
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"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
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},
|
||
|
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"type":[
|
||
|
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"adverb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
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},
|
||
|
|
"definitiveness":{
|
||
|
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"as in":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
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"examples":[],
|
||
|
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"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
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"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
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},
|
||
|
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"type":[
|
||
|
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"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
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"deflagrated":{
|
||
|
|
"as in fired , ignited":{
|
||
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"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
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"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflate":{
|
||
|
|
"to become smaller in size or volume due to loss of contents":{
|
||
|
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"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"We kept her birthday decorations up until the balloons started deflating ."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"shrink",
|
||
|
|
"contract",
|
||
|
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
|
"flatten",
|
||
|
|
"compress",
|
||
|
|
"condense",
|
||
|
|
"constrict",
|
||
|
|
"shrivel",
|
||
|
|
"wilt",
|
||
|
|
"wither",
|
||
|
|
"dry up",
|
||
|
|
"mummify",
|
||
|
|
"wizen",
|
||
|
|
"drip",
|
||
|
|
"leak",
|
||
|
|
"seep",
|
||
|
|
"trickle",
|
||
|
|
"ooze",
|
||
|
|
"abate",
|
||
|
|
"decrease",
|
||
|
|
"diminish",
|
||
|
|
"dwindle",
|
||
|
|
"lessen",
|
||
|
|
"recede",
|
||
|
|
"retreat",
|
||
|
|
"withdraw"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"balloon",
|
||
|
|
"inflate",
|
||
|
|
"puff (up)",
|
||
|
|
"blow up",
|
||
|
|
"bulk",
|
||
|
|
"distend",
|
||
|
|
"dilate",
|
||
|
|
"expand",
|
||
|
|
"snowball",
|
||
|
|
"swell",
|
||
|
|
"accumulate",
|
||
|
|
"grow",
|
||
|
|
"increase",
|
||
|
|
"mushroom"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make smaller in size or volume by removing the contents":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Please deflate the air mattress and fold it up before you leave."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"drain",
|
||
|
|
"empty",
|
||
|
|
"collapse",
|
||
|
|
"flatten",
|
||
|
|
"clear",
|
||
|
|
"evacuate",
|
||
|
|
"exhaust",
|
||
|
|
"vacate",
|
||
|
|
"vacuate",
|
||
|
|
"void",
|
||
|
|
"bleed",
|
||
|
|
"draft",
|
||
|
|
"draw (off)",
|
||
|
|
"pump",
|
||
|
|
"siphon",
|
||
|
|
"syphon",
|
||
|
|
"tap",
|
||
|
|
"milk",
|
||
|
|
"suck",
|
||
|
|
"decant",
|
||
|
|
"effuse",
|
||
|
|
"deplete",
|
||
|
|
"clean",
|
||
|
|
"flush",
|
||
|
|
"purge",
|
||
|
|
"bore",
|
||
|
|
"drill",
|
||
|
|
"hole",
|
||
|
|
"perforate",
|
||
|
|
"pierce",
|
||
|
|
"punch",
|
||
|
|
"puncture",
|
||
|
|
"riddle",
|
||
|
|
"broach",
|
||
|
|
"poke",
|
||
|
|
"prick",
|
||
|
|
"prickle",
|
||
|
|
"penetrate",
|
||
|
|
"burrow (into)",
|
||
|
|
"excavate",
|
||
|
|
"gouge",
|
||
|
|
"groove",
|
||
|
|
"hollow",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"cut",
|
||
|
|
"gash",
|
||
|
|
"notch",
|
||
|
|
"rend",
|
||
|
|
"rupture",
|
||
|
|
"slash",
|
||
|
|
"slit",
|
||
|
|
"split",
|
||
|
|
"compress",
|
||
|
|
"condense",
|
||
|
|
"constrict",
|
||
|
|
"contract",
|
||
|
|
"shrink",
|
||
|
|
"capsule",
|
||
|
|
"capsulize",
|
||
|
|
"compact",
|
||
|
|
"constringe",
|
||
|
|
"narrow (down)",
|
||
|
|
"squeeze",
|
||
|
|
"telescope"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fill",
|
||
|
|
"blow up",
|
||
|
|
"dilate",
|
||
|
|
"distend",
|
||
|
|
"inflate",
|
||
|
|
"swell",
|
||
|
|
"patch",
|
||
|
|
"plug",
|
||
|
|
"seal"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make or become lower in amount or value":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"The excess supply deflated prices.",
|
||
|
|
"The company's stock has deflated."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crash",
|
||
|
|
"crater",
|
||
|
|
"decline",
|
||
|
|
"descend",
|
||
|
|
"dip",
|
||
|
|
"dive",
|
||
|
|
"drop",
|
||
|
|
"fall",
|
||
|
|
"lower",
|
||
|
|
"nose-dive",
|
||
|
|
"plummet",
|
||
|
|
"plunge",
|
||
|
|
"sink",
|
||
|
|
"skid",
|
||
|
|
"tumble",
|
||
|
|
"attenuate",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"cheapen",
|
||
|
|
"depreciate",
|
||
|
|
"depress",
|
||
|
|
"devaluate",
|
||
|
|
"devalue",
|
||
|
|
"downgrade",
|
||
|
|
"mark down",
|
||
|
|
"reduce",
|
||
|
|
"write down",
|
||
|
|
"write off",
|
||
|
|
"abate",
|
||
|
|
"decrease",
|
||
|
|
"de-escalate",
|
||
|
|
"die (down)",
|
||
|
|
"diminish",
|
||
|
|
"droop",
|
||
|
|
"dwindle",
|
||
|
|
"ebb",
|
||
|
|
"lessen",
|
||
|
|
"let up",
|
||
|
|
"moderate",
|
||
|
|
"subside",
|
||
|
|
"taper off",
|
||
|
|
"wane",
|
||
|
|
"recede",
|
||
|
|
"retreat",
|
||
|
|
"debase",
|
||
|
|
"demonetize",
|
||
|
|
"underestimate",
|
||
|
|
"underprice",
|
||
|
|
"underrate",
|
||
|
|
"undervalue"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accumulate",
|
||
|
|
"balloon",
|
||
|
|
"build",
|
||
|
|
"burgeon",
|
||
|
|
"bourgeon",
|
||
|
|
"enlarge",
|
||
|
|
"escalate",
|
||
|
|
"expand",
|
||
|
|
"grow",
|
||
|
|
"increase",
|
||
|
|
"intensify",
|
||
|
|
"mushroom",
|
||
|
|
"pick up",
|
||
|
|
"snowball",
|
||
|
|
"swell",
|
||
|
|
"wax",
|
||
|
|
"arise",
|
||
|
|
"ascend",
|
||
|
|
"lift",
|
||
|
|
"mount",
|
||
|
|
"rise",
|
||
|
|
"soar",
|
||
|
|
"spike",
|
||
|
|
"up",
|
||
|
|
"appreciate",
|
||
|
|
"enhance",
|
||
|
|
"mark up",
|
||
|
|
"upgrade"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to cause to lose force or effectiveness":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Her cutting remark deflated his ego.",
|
||
|
|
"The lawsuit deflated their hopes for a quick resolution."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"throw cold water on",
|
||
|
|
"debilitate",
|
||
|
|
"enfeeble",
|
||
|
|
"undermine",
|
||
|
|
"weaken",
|
||
|
|
"damp",
|
||
|
|
"dampen",
|
||
|
|
"deaden",
|
||
|
|
"chill",
|
||
|
|
"daunt",
|
||
|
|
"demoralize",
|
||
|
|
"discourage",
|
||
|
|
"dishearten",
|
||
|
|
"dismay",
|
||
|
|
"dispirit",
|
||
|
|
"frustrate",
|
||
|
|
"unman",
|
||
|
|
"unnerve",
|
||
|
|
"browbeat",
|
||
|
|
"bully",
|
||
|
|
"cow",
|
||
|
|
"intimidate",
|
||
|
|
"depress",
|
||
|
|
"sadden",
|
||
|
|
"weigh",
|
||
|
|
"afflict",
|
||
|
|
"try",
|
||
|
|
"distress",
|
||
|
|
"trouble",
|
||
|
|
"bother",
|
||
|
|
"irk",
|
||
|
|
"vex",
|
||
|
|
"worry",
|
||
|
|
"frighten",
|
||
|
|
"horrify",
|
||
|
|
"scare"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"enforce",
|
||
|
|
"fortify",
|
||
|
|
"reinforce",
|
||
|
|
"reenforce",
|
||
|
|
"strengthen",
|
||
|
|
"embolden",
|
||
|
|
"encourage",
|
||
|
|
"hearten",
|
||
|
|
"nerve",
|
||
|
|
"steel",
|
||
|
|
"animate",
|
||
|
|
"enliven",
|
||
|
|
"invigorate",
|
||
|
|
"buoy (up)",
|
||
|
|
"cheer",
|
||
|
|
"gladden",
|
||
|
|
"boost",
|
||
|
|
"energize",
|
||
|
|
"excite",
|
||
|
|
"galvanize",
|
||
|
|
"inspire",
|
||
|
|
"lift",
|
||
|
|
"provoke",
|
||
|
|
"quicken",
|
||
|
|
"rally",
|
||
|
|
"stimulate",
|
||
|
|
"assure",
|
||
|
|
"reassure",
|
||
|
|
"stir"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflated":{
|
||
|
|
"as in collapsed , detumescent":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
|
"detumescent"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bloated",
|
||
|
|
"blown",
|
||
|
|
"distended",
|
||
|
|
"overinflated",
|
||
|
|
"puffed",
|
||
|
|
"swollen",
|
||
|
|
"tumescent",
|
||
|
|
"tumid",
|
||
|
|
"turgid",
|
||
|
|
"varicose",
|
||
|
|
"varicosed",
|
||
|
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
|
"blown up",
|
||
|
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
|
"bulging",
|
||
|
|
"dilated",
|
||
|
|
"protuberant"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to become smaller in size or volume due to loss of contents":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"We kept her birthday decorations up until the balloons started deflating ."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
|
"contracted",
|
||
|
|
"flattened",
|
||
|
|
"shrank",
|
||
|
|
"shrunk",
|
||
|
|
"compressed",
|
||
|
|
"condensed",
|
||
|
|
"constricted",
|
||
|
|
"shriveled",
|
||
|
|
"shrivelled",
|
||
|
|
"wilted",
|
||
|
|
"withered",
|
||
|
|
"dried up",
|
||
|
|
"mummified",
|
||
|
|
"wizened",
|
||
|
|
"dripped",
|
||
|
|
"leaked",
|
||
|
|
"oozed",
|
||
|
|
"seeped",
|
||
|
|
"trickled",
|
||
|
|
"abated",
|
||
|
|
"decreased",
|
||
|
|
"diminished",
|
||
|
|
"dwindled",
|
||
|
|
"lessened",
|
||
|
|
"receded",
|
||
|
|
"retreated",
|
||
|
|
"withdrew"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
|
"inflated",
|
||
|
|
"puffed (up)",
|
||
|
|
"blew up",
|
||
|
|
"bulked",
|
||
|
|
"distended",
|
||
|
|
"dilated",
|
||
|
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
|
"snowballed",
|
||
|
|
"swelled",
|
||
|
|
"accumulated",
|
||
|
|
"grew",
|
||
|
|
"increased",
|
||
|
|
"mushroomed"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make smaller in size or volume by removing the contents":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Please deflate the air mattress and fold it up before you leave."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"drained",
|
||
|
|
"emptied",
|
||
|
|
"collapsed",
|
||
|
|
"flattened",
|
||
|
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
|
"evacuated",
|
||
|
|
"exhausted",
|
||
|
|
"vacated",
|
||
|
|
"vacuated",
|
||
|
|
"voided",
|
||
|
|
"bled",
|
||
|
|
"drafted",
|
||
|
|
"drew (off)",
|
||
|
|
"pumped",
|
||
|
|
"siphoned",
|
||
|
|
"syphoned",
|
||
|
|
"tapped",
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"milked",
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"sucked",
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"decanted",
|
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"effused",
|
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"depleted",
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"cleaned",
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"flushed",
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"purged",
|
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"bored",
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"drilled",
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"holed",
|
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"perforated",
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"pierced",
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"punched",
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"punctured",
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"riddled",
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"broached",
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"poked",
|
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"pricked",
|
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"prickled",
|
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"penetrated",
|
||
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"burrowed (into)",
|
||
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"excavated",
|
||
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"gouged",
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||
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"grooved",
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"hollowed",
|
||
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"broke",
|
||
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"cut",
|
||
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"gashed",
|
||
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"notched",
|
||
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"rent",
|
||
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"rended",
|
||
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"ruptured",
|
||
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"slashed",
|
||
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"slit",
|
||
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"split",
|
||
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"compressed",
|
||
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"condensed",
|
||
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"constricted",
|
||
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"contracted",
|
||
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"shrank",
|
||
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"shrunk",
|
||
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"capsuled",
|
||
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"capsulized",
|
||
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"compacted",
|
||
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"constringed",
|
||
|
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"narrowed (down)",
|
||
|
|
"squeezed",
|
||
|
|
"telescoped"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"filled",
|
||
|
|
"blew up",
|
||
|
|
"dilated",
|
||
|
|
"distended",
|
||
|
|
"inflated",
|
||
|
|
"swelled",
|
||
|
|
"patched",
|
||
|
|
"plugged",
|
||
|
|
"sealed"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make or become lower in amount or value":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"The excess supply deflated prices.",
|
||
|
|
"The company's stock has deflated."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crashed",
|
||
|
|
"cratered",
|
||
|
|
"declined",
|
||
|
|
"descended",
|
||
|
|
"dipped",
|
||
|
|
"dived",
|
||
|
|
"dove",
|
||
|
|
"dropped",
|
||
|
|
"fell",
|
||
|
|
"lowered",
|
||
|
|
"nose-dived",
|
||
|
|
"plummeted",
|
||
|
|
"plunged",
|
||
|
|
"sank",
|
||
|
|
"sunk",
|
||
|
|
"skidded",
|
||
|
|
"tumbled",
|
||
|
|
"attenuated",
|
||
|
|
"broke",
|
||
|
|
"cheapened",
|
||
|
|
"depreciated",
|
||
|
|
"depressed",
|
||
|
|
"devaluated",
|
||
|
|
"devalued",
|
||
|
|
"downgraded",
|
||
|
|
"marked down",
|
||
|
|
"reduced",
|
||
|
|
"wrote down",
|
||
|
|
"wrote off",
|
||
|
|
"abated",
|
||
|
|
"decreased",
|
||
|
|
"de-escalated",
|
||
|
|
"died (down)",
|
||
|
|
"diminished",
|
||
|
|
"drooped",
|
||
|
|
"dwindled",
|
||
|
|
"ebbed",
|
||
|
|
"lessened",
|
||
|
|
"let up",
|
||
|
|
"moderated",
|
||
|
|
"subsided",
|
||
|
|
"tapered off",
|
||
|
|
"waned",
|
||
|
|
"receded",
|
||
|
|
"retreated",
|
||
|
|
"debased",
|
||
|
|
"demonetized",
|
||
|
|
"underestimated",
|
||
|
|
"underpriced",
|
||
|
|
"underrated",
|
||
|
|
"undervalued"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accumulated",
|
||
|
|
"ballooned",
|
||
|
|
"built",
|
||
|
|
"burgeoned",
|
||
|
|
"bourgeoned",
|
||
|
|
"enlarged",
|
||
|
|
"escalated",
|
||
|
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
|
"grew",
|
||
|
|
"increased",
|
||
|
|
"intensified",
|
||
|
|
"mushroomed",
|
||
|
|
"picked up",
|
||
|
|
"snowballed",
|
||
|
|
"swelled",
|
||
|
|
"waxed",
|
||
|
|
"arose",
|
||
|
|
"ascended",
|
||
|
|
"lifted",
|
||
|
|
"mounted",
|
||
|
|
"rose",
|
||
|
|
"soared",
|
||
|
|
"spiked",
|
||
|
|
"upped",
|
||
|
|
"appreciated",
|
||
|
|
"enhanced",
|
||
|
|
"marked up",
|
||
|
|
"upgraded"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to cause to lose force or effectiveness":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Her cutting remark deflated his ego.",
|
||
|
|
"The lawsuit deflated their hopes for a quick resolution."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"threw cold water on",
|
||
|
|
"debilitated",
|
||
|
|
"enfeebled",
|
||
|
|
"undermined",
|
||
|
|
"weakened",
|
||
|
|
"damped",
|
||
|
|
"dampened",
|
||
|
|
"deadened",
|
||
|
|
"chilled",
|
||
|
|
"daunted",
|
||
|
|
"demoralized",
|
||
|
|
"discouraged",
|
||
|
|
"disheartened",
|
||
|
|
"dismayed",
|
||
|
|
"dispirited",
|
||
|
|
"frustrated",
|
||
|
|
"unmanned",
|
||
|
|
"unnerved",
|
||
|
|
"browbeat",
|
||
|
|
"bullied",
|
||
|
|
"cowed",
|
||
|
|
"intimidated",
|
||
|
|
"depressed",
|
||
|
|
"saddened",
|
||
|
|
"weighed",
|
||
|
|
"afflicted",
|
||
|
|
"tried",
|
||
|
|
"distressed",
|
||
|
|
"troubled",
|
||
|
|
"bothered",
|
||
|
|
"irked",
|
||
|
|
"vexed",
|
||
|
|
"vext",
|
||
|
|
"worried",
|
||
|
|
"frightened",
|
||
|
|
"horrified",
|
||
|
|
"scared"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"enforced",
|
||
|
|
"fortified",
|
||
|
|
"reinforced",
|
||
|
|
"reenforced",
|
||
|
|
"strengthened",
|
||
|
|
"emboldened",
|
||
|
|
"encouraged",
|
||
|
|
"heartened",
|
||
|
|
"nerved",
|
||
|
|
"steeled",
|
||
|
|
"animated",
|
||
|
|
"enlivened",
|
||
|
|
"invigorated",
|
||
|
|
"buoyed (up)",
|
||
|
|
"cheered",
|
||
|
|
"gladdened",
|
||
|
|
"assured",
|
||
|
|
"boosted",
|
||
|
|
"energized",
|
||
|
|
"excited",
|
||
|
|
"galvanized",
|
||
|
|
"inspired",
|
||
|
|
"lifted",
|
||
|
|
"provoked",
|
||
|
|
"quickened",
|
||
|
|
"rallied",
|
||
|
|
"reassured",
|
||
|
|
"stimulated",
|
||
|
|
"stirred"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflates":{
|
||
|
|
"to become smaller in size or volume due to loss of contents":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"We kept her birthday decorations up until the balloons started deflating ."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to cause to lose force or effectiveness":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Her cutting remark deflated his ego.",
|
||
|
|
"The lawsuit deflated their hopes for a quick resolution."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make or become lower in amount or value":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"The excess supply deflated prices.",
|
||
|
|
"The company's stock has deflated."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make smaller in size or volume by removing the contents":{
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Please deflate the air mattress and fold it up before you leave."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"related":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflation":{
|
||
|
|
"as in downturn , slump":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abatement",
|
||
|
|
"decrease",
|
||
|
|
"decrement",
|
||
|
|
"de-escalation",
|
||
|
|
"diminishment",
|
||
|
|
"diminution",
|
||
|
|
"dip",
|
||
|
|
"downslide",
|
||
|
|
"downtrend",
|
||
|
|
"downturn",
|
||
|
|
"drop",
|
||
|
|
"drop-off",
|
||
|
|
"falloff",
|
||
|
|
"loss",
|
||
|
|
"lowering",
|
||
|
|
"reduction",
|
||
|
|
"sag",
|
||
|
|
"shrinkage",
|
||
|
|
"slip",
|
||
|
|
"slump",
|
||
|
|
"decadence",
|
||
|
|
"declension",
|
||
|
|
"declination",
|
||
|
|
"decline",
|
||
|
|
"degeneracy",
|
||
|
|
"degeneration",
|
||
|
|
"degradation",
|
||
|
|
"d\u00e9gringolade",
|
||
|
|
"descent",
|
||
|
|
"deterioration",
|
||
|
|
"devolution",
|
||
|
|
"downfall",
|
||
|
|
"downgrade",
|
||
|
|
"ebb",
|
||
|
|
"eclipse",
|
||
|
|
"fall",
|
||
|
|
"dark age",
|
||
|
|
"nadir",
|
||
|
|
"sunset",
|
||
|
|
"decay",
|
||
|
|
"rotting",
|
||
|
|
"spoiling",
|
||
|
|
"breakup",
|
||
|
|
"crumbling",
|
||
|
|
"decomposition",
|
||
|
|
"disintegration",
|
||
|
|
"dissolution",
|
||
|
|
"abasement",
|
||
|
|
"debasement",
|
||
|
|
"depreciation",
|
||
|
|
"lessening",
|
||
|
|
"decimation",
|
||
|
|
"demolishment",
|
||
|
|
"demolition",
|
||
|
|
"desolation",
|
||
|
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
|
"havoc",
|
||
|
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
|
"ruination"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advancement",
|
||
|
|
"development",
|
||
|
|
"evolution",
|
||
|
|
"growth",
|
||
|
|
"blossoming",
|
||
|
|
"flourishing",
|
||
|
|
"flowering",
|
||
|
|
"renewal",
|
||
|
|
"restoration",
|
||
|
|
"revitalization",
|
||
|
|
"heightening",
|
||
|
|
"accretion",
|
||
|
|
"accrual",
|
||
|
|
"addendum",
|
||
|
|
"addition",
|
||
|
|
"augmentation",
|
||
|
|
"boost",
|
||
|
|
"enhancement",
|
||
|
|
"gain",
|
||
|
|
"increase",
|
||
|
|
"increment",
|
||
|
|
"raise",
|
||
|
|
"supplement",
|
||
|
|
"ascent",
|
||
|
|
"rise",
|
||
|
|
"upswing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrauds":{
|
||
|
|
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"senior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beats",
|
||
|
|
"bilks",
|
||
|
|
"bleeds",
|
||
|
|
"cheats",
|
||
|
|
"chisels",
|
||
|
|
"chouses",
|
||
|
|
"cons",
|
||
|
|
"cozens",
|
||
|
|
"diddles",
|
||
|
|
"does",
|
||
|
|
"does in",
|
||
|
|
"euchres",
|
||
|
|
"fiddles",
|
||
|
|
"fleeces",
|
||
|
|
"flimflams",
|
||
|
|
"gaffs",
|
||
|
|
"hoses",
|
||
|
|
"hustles",
|
||
|
|
"mulcts",
|
||
|
|
"nobbles",
|
||
|
|
"plucks",
|
||
|
|
"reams",
|
||
|
|
"rips off",
|
||
|
|
"rooks",
|
||
|
|
"screws",
|
||
|
|
"shakes down",
|
||
|
|
"shortchanges",
|
||
|
|
"shorts",
|
||
|
|
"skins",
|
||
|
|
"skunks",
|
||
|
|
"squeezes",
|
||
|
|
"sticks",
|
||
|
|
"stiffs",
|
||
|
|
"stings",
|
||
|
|
"suckers",
|
||
|
|
"swindles",
|
||
|
|
"thimblerigs",
|
||
|
|
"victimizes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"extorts",
|
||
|
|
"wrenches",
|
||
|
|
"wrests",
|
||
|
|
"wrings",
|
||
|
|
"clips",
|
||
|
|
"gouges",
|
||
|
|
"nicks",
|
||
|
|
"overcharges",
|
||
|
|
"soaks",
|
||
|
|
"exploits",
|
||
|
|
"milks",
|
||
|
|
"deceives",
|
||
|
|
"dupes",
|
||
|
|
"fools",
|
||
|
|
"gulls",
|
||
|
|
"tricks",
|
||
|
|
"ropes (in)",
|
||
|
|
"betrays",
|
||
|
|
"bitches",
|
||
|
|
"double-crosses",
|
||
|
|
"bamboozles",
|
||
|
|
"fast-talks"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defray":{
|
||
|
|
"to provide money for (something)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"This will defray the costs."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clear",
|
||
|
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
|
"foot",
|
||
|
|
"liquidate",
|
||
|
|
"pay",
|
||
|
|
"pay off",
|
||
|
|
"pay up",
|
||
|
|
"quit",
|
||
|
|
"recompense",
|
||
|
|
"settle",
|
||
|
|
"spring (for)",
|
||
|
|
"stand",
|
||
|
|
"bankroll",
|
||
|
|
"capitalize",
|
||
|
|
"endow",
|
||
|
|
"finance",
|
||
|
|
"fund",
|
||
|
|
"stake",
|
||
|
|
"subsidize",
|
||
|
|
"underwrite",
|
||
|
|
"grubstake",
|
||
|
|
"cofinance",
|
||
|
|
"refinance",
|
||
|
|
"advocate",
|
||
|
|
"aid",
|
||
|
|
"back",
|
||
|
|
"champion",
|
||
|
|
"endorse",
|
||
|
|
"indorse",
|
||
|
|
"patronize",
|
||
|
|
"sponsor",
|
||
|
|
"support",
|
||
|
|
"maintain",
|
||
|
|
"nourish",
|
||
|
|
"provide (for)",
|
||
|
|
"refund"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defund"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrock":{
|
||
|
|
"to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the movie's director was defrocked for going way over budget"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"depose",
|
||
|
|
"deprive",
|
||
|
|
"dethrone",
|
||
|
|
"displace",
|
||
|
|
"oust",
|
||
|
|
"uncrown",
|
||
|
|
"unmake",
|
||
|
|
"unseat",
|
||
|
|
"unthrone"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"can",
|
||
|
|
"cashier",
|
||
|
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
|
"dismiss",
|
||
|
|
"fire",
|
||
|
|
"muster out",
|
||
|
|
"remove",
|
||
|
|
"retire",
|
||
|
|
"sack",
|
||
|
|
"overthrow",
|
||
|
|
"subvert",
|
||
|
|
"supplant",
|
||
|
|
"topple",
|
||
|
|
"usurp",
|
||
|
|
"banish",
|
||
|
|
"boot (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bounce",
|
||
|
|
"cast out",
|
||
|
|
"chase",
|
||
|
|
"drum (out)",
|
||
|
|
"eject",
|
||
|
|
"expel",
|
||
|
|
"extrude",
|
||
|
|
"rout",
|
||
|
|
"run off",
|
||
|
|
"throw out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"baptize",
|
||
|
|
"inaugurate",
|
||
|
|
"induct",
|
||
|
|
"initiate",
|
||
|
|
"install",
|
||
|
|
"instate",
|
||
|
|
"invest",
|
||
|
|
"appoint",
|
||
|
|
"designate",
|
||
|
|
"elect"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crown",
|
||
|
|
"enthrone",
|
||
|
|
"throne"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deft":{
|
||
|
|
"accomplished with trained ability":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a luthier whose deft craftsmanship is prized by violinists the world over"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adroit",
|
||
|
|
"artful",
|
||
|
|
"bravura",
|
||
|
|
"delicate",
|
||
|
|
"dexterous",
|
||
|
|
"dextrous",
|
||
|
|
"expert",
|
||
|
|
"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"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"skillful with the hands":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the deft jeweler quickly attached the diamond to its mount on the gold band"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clever",
|
||
|
|
"cunning",
|
||
|
|
"dexterous",
|
||
|
|
"dextrous",
|
||
|
|
"handy"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"agile",
|
||
|
|
"flexible",
|
||
|
|
"graceful",
|
||
|
|
"limber",
|
||
|
|
"lissome",
|
||
|
|
"lissom",
|
||
|
|
"lithe",
|
||
|
|
"lithesome",
|
||
|
|
"nimble",
|
||
|
|
"spry",
|
||
|
|
"coordinated",
|
||
|
|
"able",
|
||
|
|
"adept",
|
||
|
|
"capable",
|
||
|
|
"competent",
|
||
|
|
"expert",
|
||
|
|
"habile",
|
||
|
|
"masterful",
|
||
|
|
"masterly",
|
||
|
|
"proficient",
|
||
|
|
"qualified",
|
||
|
|
"skilled",
|
||
|
|
"skillful",
|
||
|
|
"sure-handed",
|
||
|
|
"double-jointed",
|
||
|
|
"loose-jointed"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"awkward",
|
||
|
|
"bungling",
|
||
|
|
"clumsy",
|
||
|
|
"fumbling",
|
||
|
|
"gauche",
|
||
|
|
"gawky",
|
||
|
|
"graceless",
|
||
|
|
"klutzy",
|
||
|
|
"rough-hewn",
|
||
|
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
|
"stilted",
|
||
|
|
"uncomfortable",
|
||
|
|
"uneasy",
|
||
|
|
"ungainly",
|
||
|
|
"ungraceful",
|
||
|
|
"wooden",
|
||
|
|
"uncoordinated",
|
||
|
|
"incapable",
|
||
|
|
"incompetent",
|
||
|
|
"inept",
|
||
|
|
"inexpert",
|
||
|
|
"maladroit"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"butterfingered",
|
||
|
|
"ham-fisted",
|
||
|
|
"ham-handed",
|
||
|
|
"handless",
|
||
|
|
"heavy-handed",
|
||
|
|
"unhandy"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflected":{
|
||
|
|
"to change the course or direction of (something)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the wind deflected the Frisbee just as I was about to lunge for it"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"diverted",
|
||
|
|
"redirected",
|
||
|
|
"swung",
|
||
|
|
"turned",
|
||
|
|
"veered",
|
||
|
|
"wheeled",
|
||
|
|
"whipped"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"averted",
|
||
|
|
"deviated",
|
||
|
|
"moved",
|
||
|
|
"rechanneled",
|
||
|
|
"rechannelled",
|
||
|
|
"shifted",
|
||
|
|
"shunted",
|
||
|
|
"sidetracked",
|
||
|
|
"swerved",
|
||
|
|
"switched",
|
||
|
|
"transferred",
|
||
|
|
"swiveled",
|
||
|
|
"swivelled",
|
||
|
|
"twisted",
|
||
|
|
"whirled",
|
||
|
|
"zigzagged",
|
||
|
|
"bent",
|
||
|
|
"curved",
|
||
|
|
"swayed",
|
||
|
|
"reversed",
|
||
|
|
"turned back"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflect":{
|
||
|
|
"to change the course or direction of (something)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the wind deflected the Frisbee just as I was about to lunge for it"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"divert",
|
||
|
|
"redirect",
|
||
|
|
"swing",
|
||
|
|
"turn",
|
||
|
|
"veer",
|
||
|
|
"wheel",
|
||
|
|
"whip"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"avert",
|
||
|
|
"deviate",
|
||
|
|
"move",
|
||
|
|
"rechannel",
|
||
|
|
"shift",
|
||
|
|
"shunt",
|
||
|
|
"sidetrack",
|
||
|
|
"swerve",
|
||
|
|
"switch",
|
||
|
|
"transfer",
|
||
|
|
"swivel",
|
||
|
|
"twist",
|
||
|
|
"whirl",
|
||
|
|
"zigzag",
|
||
|
|
"bend",
|
||
|
|
"curve",
|
||
|
|
"sway",
|
||
|
|
"reverse",
|
||
|
|
"turn back"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defection":{
|
||
|
|
"as in schism , infidelity":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"apostasy",
|
||
|
|
"infidelity",
|
||
|
|
"schism",
|
||
|
|
"scission",
|
||
|
|
"sectarianism",
|
||
|
|
"separatism",
|
||
|
|
"error",
|
||
|
|
"fallacy",
|
||
|
|
"falsehood",
|
||
|
|
"misbelief",
|
||
|
|
"misconception",
|
||
|
|
"myth",
|
||
|
|
"deviance",
|
||
|
|
"deviation",
|
||
|
|
"iconoclasm",
|
||
|
|
"unconventionality",
|
||
|
|
"dissent",
|
||
|
|
"dissidence",
|
||
|
|
"heresy",
|
||
|
|
"heterodoxy",
|
||
|
|
"nonconformity",
|
||
|
|
"disagreement",
|
||
|
|
"discord",
|
||
|
|
"dissension",
|
||
|
|
"dissention"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conformity",
|
||
|
|
"orthodoxy",
|
||
|
|
"agreement",
|
||
|
|
"conformation",
|
||
|
|
"conventionality"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in abandonment , desertion":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abandonment",
|
||
|
|
"dereliction",
|
||
|
|
"desertion",
|
||
|
|
"forsaking",
|
||
|
|
"discard",
|
||
|
|
"dumping",
|
||
|
|
"jettisoning",
|
||
|
|
"tergiversation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"reclamation",
|
||
|
|
"retention",
|
||
|
|
"recoupment",
|
||
|
|
"repossession",
|
||
|
|
"retrieval"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrocked":{
|
||
|
|
"to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the movie's director was defrocked for going way over budget"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deposed",
|
||
|
|
"deprived",
|
||
|
|
"dethroned",
|
||
|
|
"displaced",
|
||
|
|
"ousted",
|
||
|
|
"uncrowned",
|
||
|
|
"unmade",
|
||
|
|
"unseated",
|
||
|
|
"unthroned"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"canned",
|
||
|
|
"cashiered",
|
||
|
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
|
"dismissed",
|
||
|
|
"fired",
|
||
|
|
"mustered out",
|
||
|
|
"removed",
|
||
|
|
"retired",
|
||
|
|
"sacked",
|
||
|
|
"overthrew",
|
||
|
|
"subverted",
|
||
|
|
"supplanted",
|
||
|
|
"toppled",
|
||
|
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"usurped",
|
||
|
|
"banished",
|
||
|
|
"booted (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bounced",
|
||
|
|
"cast out",
|
||
|
|
"chased",
|
||
|
|
"drummed (out)",
|
||
|
|
"ejected",
|
||
|
|
"expelled",
|
||
|
|
"extruded",
|
||
|
|
"ran off",
|
||
|
|
"routed",
|
||
|
|
"threw out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"baptized",
|
||
|
|
"baptised",
|
||
|
|
"inaugurated",
|
||
|
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"inducted",
|
||
|
|
"initiated",
|
||
|
|
"installed",
|
||
|
|
"instated",
|
||
|
|
"invested",
|
||
|
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"appointed",
|
||
|
|
"designated",
|
||
|
|
"elected"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crowned",
|
||
|
|
"enthroned",
|
||
|
|
"throned"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defers (to)":{
|
||
|
|
"as in submits (to) , surrenders (to)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"submits (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrenders (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yields (to)",
|
||
|
|
"adheres (to)",
|
||
|
|
"complies (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conforms (to)",
|
||
|
|
"follows",
|
||
|
|
"goose-steps (to)",
|
||
|
|
"minds",
|
||
|
|
"obeys",
|
||
|
|
"observes",
|
||
|
|
"accedes (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiesces (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agrees (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assents (to)",
|
||
|
|
"attends",
|
||
|
|
"hears",
|
||
|
|
"heeds",
|
||
|
|
"listens (to)",
|
||
|
|
"marks",
|
||
|
|
"notes",
|
||
|
|
"notices",
|
||
|
|
"regards",
|
||
|
|
"takes",
|
||
|
|
"watches"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defies",
|
||
|
|
"disobeys",
|
||
|
|
"rebels (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disobliges",
|
||
|
|
"challenges",
|
||
|
|
"dares",
|
||
|
|
"refuses",
|
||
|
|
"renounces",
|
||
|
|
"repudiates",
|
||
|
|
"directs",
|
||
|
|
"leads",
|
||
|
|
"brushes (off)",
|
||
|
|
"disregards",
|
||
|
|
"ignores",
|
||
|
|
"overlooks",
|
||
|
|
"overpasses",
|
||
|
|
"passes over",
|
||
|
|
"tunes out",
|
||
|
|
"winks (at)",
|
||
|
|
"dismisses",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-poohs",
|
||
|
|
"poohs",
|
||
|
|
"shrugs off",
|
||
|
|
"breaches",
|
||
|
|
"breaks",
|
||
|
|
"infringes",
|
||
|
|
"transgresses",
|
||
|
|
"violates",
|
||
|
|
"derides",
|
||
|
|
"flouts",
|
||
|
|
"mocks",
|
||
|
|
"scoffs (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorns",
|
||
|
|
"mutinies (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolts (against)",
|
||
|
|
"bucks",
|
||
|
|
"combats",
|
||
|
|
"contests",
|
||
|
|
"disputes",
|
||
|
|
"fights",
|
||
|
|
"opposes",
|
||
|
|
"resists",
|
||
|
|
"withstands"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrays":{
|
||
|
|
"to provide money for (something)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"This will defray the costs."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clears",
|
||
|
|
"discharges",
|
||
|
|
"foots",
|
||
|
|
"liquidates",
|
||
|
|
"pays",
|
||
|
|
"pays off",
|
||
|
|
"pays up",
|
||
|
|
"quits",
|
||
|
|
"recompenses",
|
||
|
|
"settles",
|
||
|
|
"springs (for)",
|
||
|
|
"stands",
|
||
|
|
"bankrolls",
|
||
|
|
"capitalizes",
|
||
|
|
"endows",
|
||
|
|
"finances",
|
||
|
|
"funds",
|
||
|
|
"stakes",
|
||
|
|
"subsidizes",
|
||
|
|
"underwrites",
|
||
|
|
"grubstakes",
|
||
|
|
"cofinances",
|
||
|
|
"refinances",
|
||
|
|
"advocates",
|
||
|
|
"aids",
|
||
|
|
"backs",
|
||
|
|
"champions",
|
||
|
|
"endorses",
|
||
|
|
"indorses",
|
||
|
|
"patronizes",
|
||
|
|
"sponsors",
|
||
|
|
"supports",
|
||
|
|
"maintains",
|
||
|
|
"nourishes",
|
||
|
|
"provides (for)",
|
||
|
|
"refunds"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defunds"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deformity":{
|
||
|
|
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a primitive culture that cast aside infants born with deformities , allowing them to die of exposure to the elements"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blemish",
|
||
|
|
"blight",
|
||
|
|
"blotch",
|
||
|
|
"defect",
|
||
|
|
"disfigurement",
|
||
|
|
"excrescence",
|
||
|
|
"excrescency",
|
||
|
|
"fault",
|
||
|
|
"flaw",
|
||
|
|
"imperfection",
|
||
|
|
"mar",
|
||
|
|
"mark",
|
||
|
|
"pockmark",
|
||
|
|
"scar"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abnormality",
|
||
|
|
"distortion",
|
||
|
|
"irregularity",
|
||
|
|
"malformation",
|
||
|
|
"misshape",
|
||
|
|
"bug",
|
||
|
|
"glitch",
|
||
|
|
"kink",
|
||
|
|
"blot",
|
||
|
|
"blur",
|
||
|
|
"spot",
|
||
|
|
"stain",
|
||
|
|
"taint",
|
||
|
|
"damage",
|
||
|
|
"defacement",
|
||
|
|
"impairment",
|
||
|
|
"injury",
|
||
|
|
"failing",
|
||
|
|
"weakness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adornment",
|
||
|
|
"decoration",
|
||
|
|
"embellishment",
|
||
|
|
"enhancement",
|
||
|
|
"ornament"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defiances":{
|
||
|
|
"the inclination to resist":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"oppositions",
|
||
|
|
"resistances"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"demurs",
|
||
|
|
"objections",
|
||
|
|
"protests",
|
||
|
|
"remonstrances",
|
||
|
|
"compunctions",
|
||
|
|
"misgivings",
|
||
|
|
"reservations",
|
||
|
|
"disobediences",
|
||
|
|
"noncompliances",
|
||
|
|
"recalcitrances"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"compliances",
|
||
|
|
"obediences",
|
||
|
|
"acceptances",
|
||
|
|
"approvals"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acquiescences"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deformities":{
|
||
|
|
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a primitive culture that cast aside infants born with deformities , allowing them to die of exposure to the elements"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blemishes",
|
||
|
|
"blights",
|
||
|
|
"blotches",
|
||
|
|
"defects",
|
||
|
|
"disfigurements",
|
||
|
|
"excrescences",
|
||
|
|
"excrescencies",
|
||
|
|
"faults",
|
||
|
|
"flaws",
|
||
|
|
"imperfections",
|
||
|
|
"marks",
|
||
|
|
"mars",
|
||
|
|
"pockmarks",
|
||
|
|
"scars"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abnormalities",
|
||
|
|
"distortions",
|
||
|
|
"irregularities",
|
||
|
|
"malformations",
|
||
|
|
"misshapes",
|
||
|
|
"bugs",
|
||
|
|
"glitches",
|
||
|
|
"kinks",
|
||
|
|
"blots",
|
||
|
|
"blurs",
|
||
|
|
"spots",
|
||
|
|
"stains",
|
||
|
|
"taints",
|
||
|
|
"damages",
|
||
|
|
"defacements",
|
||
|
|
"impairments",
|
||
|
|
"injuries",
|
||
|
|
"failings",
|
||
|
|
"weaknesses"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adornments",
|
||
|
|
"decorations",
|
||
|
|
"embellishments",
|
||
|
|
"enhancements",
|
||
|
|
"ornaments"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defunct":{
|
||
|
|
"no longer existing":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a stack of brochures and a few faded placards are all that remain of the defunct organization"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bygone",
|
||
|
|
"bypast",
|
||
|
|
"dead",
|
||
|
|
"departed",
|
||
|
|
"done",
|
||
|
|
"expired",
|
||
|
|
"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"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"no longer living":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a defunct species that we know only through fossil remains"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"asleep",
|
||
|
|
"breathless",
|
||
|
|
"cold",
|
||
|
|
"dead",
|
||
|
|
"deceased",
|
||
|
|
"demised",
|
||
|
|
"departed",
|
||
|
|
"fallen",
|
||
|
|
"gone",
|
||
|
|
"late",
|
||
|
|
"lifeless",
|
||
|
|
"low"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"extinct",
|
||
|
|
"dying",
|
||
|
|
"fading",
|
||
|
|
"moribund",
|
||
|
|
"stillborn",
|
||
|
|
"finished",
|
||
|
|
"lapsed",
|
||
|
|
"terminated",
|
||
|
|
"inanimate",
|
||
|
|
"insensate",
|
||
|
|
"nonliving"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"animated",
|
||
|
|
"dynamic",
|
||
|
|
"lively",
|
||
|
|
"thriving",
|
||
|
|
"vibrant",
|
||
|
|
"vital",
|
||
|
|
"vivacious",
|
||
|
|
"active",
|
||
|
|
"functioning",
|
||
|
|
"operative",
|
||
|
|
"running"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"alive",
|
||
|
|
"animate",
|
||
|
|
"breathing",
|
||
|
|
"going",
|
||
|
|
"live",
|
||
|
|
"living",
|
||
|
|
"quick"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defers":{
|
||
|
|
"to assign to a later time":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"we agreed to defer a discussion of the issue until we had more information"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delays",
|
||
|
|
"holds off (on)",
|
||
|
|
"holds over",
|
||
|
|
"holds up",
|
||
|
|
"lays over",
|
||
|
|
"postpones",
|
||
|
|
"puts off",
|
||
|
|
"puts over",
|
||
|
|
"remits",
|
||
|
|
"shelves"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"suspends",
|
||
|
|
"hesitates",
|
||
|
|
"pauses",
|
||
|
|
"stays",
|
||
|
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"detains",
|
||
|
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"retards",
|
||
|
|
"slows",
|
||
|
|
"extends",
|
||
|
|
"lengthens",
|
||
|
|
"prolongs",
|
||
|
|
"protracts",
|
||
|
|
"stretches (out)",
|
||
|
|
"waits"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acts",
|
||
|
|
"deals (with)",
|
||
|
|
"decides (upon)",
|
||
|
|
"does",
|
||
|
|
"works (on)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deformation":{
|
||
|
|
"the twisting of something out of its natural or normal shape or condition":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the catastrophic deformation of the steel girders under the enormous weight of the bridge"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"contortion",
|
||
|
|
"distortion",
|
||
|
|
"misshaping",
|
||
|
|
"screwing",
|
||
|
|
"squinching",
|
||
|
|
"torturing",
|
||
|
|
"warping"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defacement",
|
||
|
|
"deformity",
|
||
|
|
"disfigurement",
|
||
|
|
"malformation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"default":{
|
||
|
|
"the nonperformance of an assigned or expected action":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a default in the repayment of a bank loan"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delinquency",
|
||
|
|
"dereliction",
|
||
|
|
"failure",
|
||
|
|
"misprision",
|
||
|
|
"neglect",
|
||
|
|
"negligence",
|
||
|
|
"nonfeasance",
|
||
|
|
"oversight"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"carelessness",
|
||
|
|
"heedlessness",
|
||
|
|
"inadvertence",
|
||
|
|
"inadvertency",
|
||
|
|
"laxity"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"compliance",
|
||
|
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
|
"fulfillment",
|
||
|
|
"fulfilment"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in fail , ignore":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregard",
|
||
|
|
"ignore",
|
||
|
|
"overlook",
|
||
|
|
"overpass",
|
||
|
|
"pass over",
|
||
|
|
"pretermit",
|
||
|
|
"slight",
|
||
|
|
"fail",
|
||
|
|
"forget",
|
||
|
|
"neglect",
|
||
|
|
"omit",
|
||
|
|
"slide",
|
||
|
|
"slip",
|
||
|
|
"skip"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"heed",
|
||
|
|
"mind",
|
||
|
|
"remember",
|
||
|
|
"keep",
|
||
|
|
"observe",
|
||
|
|
"carry out",
|
||
|
|
"do",
|
||
|
|
"execute",
|
||
|
|
"perform",
|
||
|
|
"practice",
|
||
|
|
"practise",
|
||
|
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
|
"fulfill",
|
||
|
|
"fulfil",
|
||
|
|
"meet",
|
||
|
|
"satisfy",
|
||
|
|
"comply (with)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflations":{
|
||
|
|
"as in downturns , slumps":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abatements",
|
||
|
|
"decreases",
|
||
|
|
"decrements",
|
||
|
|
"de-escalations",
|
||
|
|
"diminishments",
|
||
|
|
"diminutions",
|
||
|
|
"dips",
|
||
|
|
"downslides",
|
||
|
|
"downtrends",
|
||
|
|
"downturns",
|
||
|
|
"drop-offs",
|
||
|
|
"drops",
|
||
|
|
"falloffs",
|
||
|
|
"losses",
|
||
|
|
"reductions",
|
||
|
|
"sags",
|
||
|
|
"shrinkages",
|
||
|
|
"slips",
|
||
|
|
"slumps",
|
||
|
|
"decadences",
|
||
|
|
"declensions",
|
||
|
|
"declinations",
|
||
|
|
"declines",
|
||
|
|
"degeneracies",
|
||
|
|
"degenerations",
|
||
|
|
"degradations",
|
||
|
|
"d\u00e9gringolades",
|
||
|
|
"descents",
|
||
|
|
"deteriorations",
|
||
|
|
"devolutions",
|
||
|
|
"downfalls",
|
||
|
|
"downgrades",
|
||
|
|
"ebbs",
|
||
|
|
"eclipses",
|
||
|
|
"falls",
|
||
|
|
"dark ages",
|
||
|
|
"nadirs",
|
||
|
|
"sunsets",
|
||
|
|
"decays",
|
||
|
|
"breakups",
|
||
|
|
"decompositions",
|
||
|
|
"disintegrations",
|
||
|
|
"dissolutions",
|
||
|
|
"abasements",
|
||
|
|
"debasements",
|
||
|
|
"depreciations",
|
||
|
|
"decimations",
|
||
|
|
"demolishments",
|
||
|
|
"demolitions",
|
||
|
|
"desolations",
|
||
|
|
"destructions",
|
||
|
|
"havoc",
|
||
|
|
"ruinations",
|
||
|
|
"ruins"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advancements",
|
||
|
|
"developments",
|
||
|
|
"evolutions",
|
||
|
|
"growths",
|
||
|
|
"flowerings",
|
||
|
|
"renewals",
|
||
|
|
"restorations",
|
||
|
|
"revitalizations",
|
||
|
|
"accretions",
|
||
|
|
"accruals",
|
||
|
|
"addenda",
|
||
|
|
"addendums",
|
||
|
|
"additions",
|
||
|
|
"augmentations",
|
||
|
|
"boosts",
|
||
|
|
"enhancements",
|
||
|
|
"gains",
|
||
|
|
"increases",
|
||
|
|
"increments",
|
||
|
|
"raises",
|
||
|
|
"supplements",
|
||
|
|
"ascents",
|
||
|
|
"rises",
|
||
|
|
"upswings"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defamatory":{
|
||
|
|
"causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"defamatory remarks that were published in the newspaper"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"calumnious",
|
||
|
|
"libelous",
|
||
|
|
"libellous",
|
||
|
|
"scandalous",
|
||
|
|
"slanderous"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"erroneous",
|
||
|
|
"false",
|
||
|
|
"inaccurate",
|
||
|
|
"incorrect",
|
||
|
|
"inexact",
|
||
|
|
"invalid",
|
||
|
|
"off",
|
||
|
|
"unsound",
|
||
|
|
"untrue",
|
||
|
|
"wrong",
|
||
|
|
"denigrative",
|
||
|
|
"denigratory",
|
||
|
|
"depreciative",
|
||
|
|
"depreciatory",
|
||
|
|
"derogatory",
|
||
|
|
"detractive",
|
||
|
|
"disparaging",
|
||
|
|
"uncomplimentary",
|
||
|
|
"unfavorable",
|
||
|
|
"unflattering",
|
||
|
|
"invidious",
|
||
|
|
"objectionable",
|
||
|
|
"maligning",
|
||
|
|
"traducing",
|
||
|
|
"vilifying",
|
||
|
|
"hateful",
|
||
|
|
"malevolent",
|
||
|
|
"malicious",
|
||
|
|
"spiteful"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"appreciative",
|
||
|
|
"complimentary",
|
||
|
|
"favorable",
|
||
|
|
"adulatory",
|
||
|
|
"commendatory",
|
||
|
|
"eulogistic",
|
||
|
|
"hagiographic",
|
||
|
|
"hagiographical",
|
||
|
|
"laudatory",
|
||
|
|
"accurate",
|
||
|
|
"correct",
|
||
|
|
"errorless",
|
||
|
|
"factual",
|
||
|
|
"right",
|
||
|
|
"sound",
|
||
|
|
"true",
|
||
|
|
"valid"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeasance":{
|
||
|
|
"the doing away with something by formal action":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the kind of gross misconduct that could result in the defeasance of the athlete's contract to endorse their products"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abatement",
|
||
|
|
"abolishment",
|
||
|
|
"abolition",
|
||
|
|
"abrogation",
|
||
|
|
"annulment",
|
||
|
|
"avoidance",
|
||
|
|
"cancellation",
|
||
|
|
"cancelation",
|
||
|
|
"dissolution",
|
||
|
|
"invalidation",
|
||
|
|
"negation",
|
||
|
|
"nullification",
|
||
|
|
"quashing",
|
||
|
|
"repeal",
|
||
|
|
"rescindment",
|
||
|
|
"voiding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abortion",
|
||
|
|
"calling off",
|
||
|
|
"recall",
|
||
|
|
"countermand",
|
||
|
|
"override",
|
||
|
|
"overruling",
|
||
|
|
"overturn",
|
||
|
|
"veto",
|
||
|
|
"retraction",
|
||
|
|
"reversal",
|
||
|
|
"revocation",
|
||
|
|
"suspension",
|
||
|
|
"withdrawal",
|
||
|
|
"banning",
|
||
|
|
"enjoining",
|
||
|
|
"forbiddance",
|
||
|
|
"outlawing",
|
||
|
|
"prohibition",
|
||
|
|
"disallowance",
|
||
|
|
"dismissal",
|
||
|
|
"rejection",
|
||
|
|
"elimination",
|
||
|
|
"eradication",
|
||
|
|
"erasure",
|
||
|
|
"liquidation",
|
||
|
|
"removal"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"enactment",
|
||
|
|
"legislation",
|
||
|
|
"establishment",
|
||
|
|
"founding",
|
||
|
|
"institution",
|
||
|
|
"formalization",
|
||
|
|
"legalization",
|
||
|
|
"legitimation",
|
||
|
|
"legitimization",
|
||
|
|
"validation",
|
||
|
|
"passing",
|
||
|
|
"ratification",
|
||
|
|
"approval",
|
||
|
|
"authorization",
|
||
|
|
"clearance",
|
||
|
|
"endorsement",
|
||
|
|
"indorsement",
|
||
|
|
"permission",
|
||
|
|
"sanctioning",
|
||
|
|
"commandment",
|
||
|
|
"decreeing",
|
||
|
|
"mandating",
|
||
|
|
"ordering",
|
||
|
|
"prescription"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflagrate":{
|
||
|
|
"as in fire , ignite":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fire",
|
||
|
|
"ignite",
|
||
|
|
"kindle",
|
||
|
|
"catch",
|
||
|
|
"enkindle",
|
||
|
|
"flare (up)",
|
||
|
|
"light (up)",
|
||
|
|
"blaze",
|
||
|
|
"burn",
|
||
|
|
"combust",
|
||
|
|
"flame",
|
||
|
|
"glow",
|
||
|
|
"flicker",
|
||
|
|
"gutter",
|
||
|
|
"waver",
|
||
|
|
"bake",
|
||
|
|
"broil",
|
||
|
|
"char",
|
||
|
|
"cook",
|
||
|
|
"melt",
|
||
|
|
"roast",
|
||
|
|
"scorch",
|
||
|
|
"swelter",
|
||
|
|
"smolder",
|
||
|
|
"smoulder",
|
||
|
|
"spark",
|
||
|
|
"sputter",
|
||
|
|
"beam",
|
||
|
|
"brighten",
|
||
|
|
"radiate",
|
||
|
|
"beat (down)",
|
||
|
|
"flash",
|
||
|
|
"glare",
|
||
|
|
"gleam",
|
||
|
|
"glimmer",
|
||
|
|
"glint",
|
||
|
|
"glisten",
|
||
|
|
"glitter",
|
||
|
|
"scintillate",
|
||
|
|
"shimmer",
|
||
|
|
"shine",
|
||
|
|
"sparkle",
|
||
|
|
"twinkle"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deform":{
|
||
|
|
"to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a cynic whose face seems to be permanently deformed by a sneer"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"contort",
|
||
|
|
"distort",
|
||
|
|
"misshape",
|
||
|
|
"screw",
|
||
|
|
"squinch",
|
||
|
|
"torture",
|
||
|
|
"warp"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deface",
|
||
|
|
"disfigure",
|
||
|
|
"wrench",
|
||
|
|
"wrest",
|
||
|
|
"wring",
|
||
|
|
"coil",
|
||
|
|
"curl",
|
||
|
|
"loop",
|
||
|
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"spiral",
|
||
|
|
"twine",
|
||
|
|
"wind",
|
||
|
|
"wreathe"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"straighten",
|
||
|
|
"unbend",
|
||
|
|
"uncurl"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeating":{
|
||
|
|
"to achieve a victory over":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"they defeated their archrivals easily and moved into the next round of the play-offs"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beating",
|
||
|
|
"besting",
|
||
|
|
"conquering",
|
||
|
|
"dispatching",
|
||
|
|
"doing down",
|
||
|
|
"getting",
|
||
|
|
"getting around",
|
||
|
|
"licking",
|
||
|
|
"mastering",
|
||
|
|
"overbearing",
|
||
|
|
"overcoming",
|
||
|
|
"overmatching",
|
||
|
|
"prevailing (over)",
|
||
|
|
"skunking",
|
||
|
|
"stopping",
|
||
|
|
"subduing",
|
||
|
|
"surmounting",
|
||
|
|
"taking",
|
||
|
|
"trimming",
|
||
|
|
"triumphing (over)",
|
||
|
|
"upending",
|
||
|
|
"winning (against)",
|
||
|
|
"worsting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"sweeping",
|
||
|
|
"edging (out)",
|
||
|
|
"nosing out",
|
||
|
|
"pipping",
|
||
|
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
|
"blowing away",
|
||
|
|
"blowing out",
|
||
|
|
"bombing",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"burying",
|
||
|
|
"clobbering",
|
||
|
|
"creaming",
|
||
|
|
"crushing",
|
||
|
|
"drubbing",
|
||
|
|
"finishing",
|
||
|
|
"flattening",
|
||
|
|
"overwhelming",
|
||
|
|
"routing",
|
||
|
|
"shellacking",
|
||
|
|
"skinning",
|
||
|
|
"slaughtering",
|
||
|
|
"smoking",
|
||
|
|
"snowing under",
|
||
|
|
"thrashing",
|
||
|
|
"trouncing",
|
||
|
|
"upsetting",
|
||
|
|
"walloping",
|
||
|
|
"waxing",
|
||
|
|
"whipping",
|
||
|
|
"capping",
|
||
|
|
"excelling",
|
||
|
|
"flourishing",
|
||
|
|
"scoring",
|
||
|
|
"succeeding",
|
||
|
|
"knocking off",
|
||
|
|
"knocking over",
|
||
|
|
"overpowering",
|
||
|
|
"overthrowing",
|
||
|
|
"subjugating",
|
||
|
|
"unseating",
|
||
|
|
"vanquishing",
|
||
|
|
"acing (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bettering",
|
||
|
|
"eclipsing",
|
||
|
|
"exceeding",
|
||
|
|
"excelling",
|
||
|
|
"outdistancing",
|
||
|
|
"outdoing",
|
||
|
|
"outfighting",
|
||
|
|
"outshining",
|
||
|
|
"outstripping",
|
||
|
|
"overtopping",
|
||
|
|
"surpassing",
|
||
|
|
"topping",
|
||
|
|
"transcending"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"falling",
|
||
|
|
"giving up",
|
||
|
|
"going down",
|
||
|
|
"going under",
|
||
|
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
|
"failing",
|
||
|
|
"flopping",
|
||
|
|
"flunking",
|
||
|
|
"folding",
|
||
|
|
"washing out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"losing (to)"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defaulting (on)":{
|
||
|
|
"as in ignoring , breaking":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregarding",
|
||
|
|
"forgetting",
|
||
|
|
"ignoring",
|
||
|
|
"neglecting",
|
||
|
|
"overlooking",
|
||
|
|
"overpassing",
|
||
|
|
"passing over",
|
||
|
|
"slighting",
|
||
|
|
"breaching",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"transgressing",
|
||
|
|
"violating"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"answering",
|
||
|
|
"completing",
|
||
|
|
"complying (with)",
|
||
|
|
"filling",
|
||
|
|
"fulfilling",
|
||
|
|
"keeping",
|
||
|
|
"meeting",
|
||
|
|
"redeeming",
|
||
|
|
"satisfying",
|
||
|
|
"concluding",
|
||
|
|
"consummating",
|
||
|
|
"finalizing",
|
||
|
|
"finishing",
|
||
|
|
"perfecting",
|
||
|
|
"accomplishing",
|
||
|
|
"achieving",
|
||
|
|
"bringing about",
|
||
|
|
"bringing off",
|
||
|
|
"carrying out",
|
||
|
|
"effecting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deferent":{
|
||
|
|
"marked by or showing proper regard for another's higher status":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"though he's already attained star status, the rookie remains deferent to the team's veteran players"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deferential",
|
||
|
|
"dutiful",
|
||
|
|
"regardful",
|
||
|
|
"respectful"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"reverent",
|
||
|
|
"reverential",
|
||
|
|
"venerating",
|
||
|
|
"worshipful",
|
||
|
|
"fawning",
|
||
|
|
"genuflecting",
|
||
|
|
"groveling",
|
||
|
|
"grovelling",
|
||
|
|
"hagiographic",
|
||
|
|
"hagiographical",
|
||
|
|
"kowtowing",
|
||
|
|
"obsequious",
|
||
|
|
"servile",
|
||
|
|
"subservient",
|
||
|
|
"sycophantic",
|
||
|
|
"toadying",
|
||
|
|
"civil",
|
||
|
|
"courteous",
|
||
|
|
"gracious",
|
||
|
|
"polite",
|
||
|
|
"kid-glove",
|
||
|
|
"kid-gloved"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abusive",
|
||
|
|
"insulting",
|
||
|
|
"offensive",
|
||
|
|
"belittling",
|
||
|
|
"demeaning",
|
||
|
|
"depreciative",
|
||
|
|
"depreciatory",
|
||
|
|
"derogatory",
|
||
|
|
"disparaging",
|
||
|
|
"contemptuous",
|
||
|
|
"impudent",
|
||
|
|
"irreverent",
|
||
|
|
"scornful",
|
||
|
|
"discourteous",
|
||
|
|
"insolent",
|
||
|
|
"rude",
|
||
|
|
"uncivil"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disrespectful",
|
||
|
|
"undutiful"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defer (to)":{
|
||
|
|
"as in submit (to) , surrender (to)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"submit (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrender (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yield (to)",
|
||
|
|
"adhere (to)",
|
||
|
|
"comply (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conform (to)",
|
||
|
|
"follow",
|
||
|
|
"goose-step (to)",
|
||
|
|
"mind",
|
||
|
|
"obey",
|
||
|
|
"observe",
|
||
|
|
"accede (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiesce (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agree (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assent (to)",
|
||
|
|
"attend",
|
||
|
|
"hear",
|
||
|
|
"heed",
|
||
|
|
"listen (to)",
|
||
|
|
"mark",
|
||
|
|
"note",
|
||
|
|
"notice",
|
||
|
|
"regard",
|
||
|
|
"take",
|
||
|
|
"watch"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defy",
|
||
|
|
"disobey",
|
||
|
|
"rebel (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disoblige",
|
||
|
|
"challenge",
|
||
|
|
"dare",
|
||
|
|
"refuse",
|
||
|
|
"renounce",
|
||
|
|
"repudiate",
|
||
|
|
"direct",
|
||
|
|
"lead",
|
||
|
|
"brush (off)",
|
||
|
|
"disregard",
|
||
|
|
"ignore",
|
||
|
|
"overlook",
|
||
|
|
"overpass",
|
||
|
|
"pass over",
|
||
|
|
"tune out",
|
||
|
|
"wink (at)",
|
||
|
|
"dismiss",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-pooh",
|
||
|
|
"pooh",
|
||
|
|
"shrug off",
|
||
|
|
"breach",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"infringe",
|
||
|
|
"transgress",
|
||
|
|
"violate",
|
||
|
|
"deride",
|
||
|
|
"flout",
|
||
|
|
"mock",
|
||
|
|
"scoff (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorn",
|
||
|
|
"mutiny (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolt (against)",
|
||
|
|
"buck",
|
||
|
|
"combat",
|
||
|
|
"contest",
|
||
|
|
"dispute",
|
||
|
|
"fight",
|
||
|
|
"oppose",
|
||
|
|
"resist",
|
||
|
|
"withstand"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deftness":{
|
||
|
|
"ease and grace in physical activity":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the effortless deftness with which he plays the piano"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"agility",
|
||
|
|
"dexterity",
|
||
|
|
"nimbleness",
|
||
|
|
"sleight",
|
||
|
|
"spryness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"coordination",
|
||
|
|
"flexibility",
|
||
|
|
"gracefulness",
|
||
|
|
"limberness",
|
||
|
|
"litheness",
|
||
|
|
"loose-jointedness",
|
||
|
|
"suppleness",
|
||
|
|
"handiness",
|
||
|
|
"sure-handedness",
|
||
|
|
"sure-footedness",
|
||
|
|
"adeptness",
|
||
|
|
"adroitness",
|
||
|
|
"finesse",
|
||
|
|
"prowess"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disability",
|
||
|
|
"inability",
|
||
|
|
"incapability",
|
||
|
|
"incapacity",
|
||
|
|
"debilitation",
|
||
|
|
"disablement",
|
||
|
|
"impairment",
|
||
|
|
"incapacitation",
|
||
|
|
"unhandiness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"awkwardness",
|
||
|
|
"clumsiness",
|
||
|
|
"gaucheness",
|
||
|
|
"gawkiness",
|
||
|
|
"gawkishness",
|
||
|
|
"gracelessness",
|
||
|
|
"ham-handedness",
|
||
|
|
"heavy-handedness",
|
||
|
|
"klutziness",
|
||
|
|
"ungainliness"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"with deftness and aplomb she managed to keep the bickering relatives apart for the duration of the reception"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adeptness",
|
||
|
|
"adroitness",
|
||
|
|
"art",
|
||
|
|
"artfulness",
|
||
|
|
"artifice",
|
||
|
|
"artistry",
|
||
|
|
"cleverness",
|
||
|
|
"craft",
|
||
|
|
"cunning",
|
||
|
|
"masterfulness",
|
||
|
|
"skill",
|
||
|
|
"skillfulness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"dexterity",
|
||
|
|
"ease",
|
||
|
|
"finesse",
|
||
|
|
"handiness",
|
||
|
|
"experience",
|
||
|
|
"expertise",
|
||
|
|
"expertness",
|
||
|
|
"know-how",
|
||
|
|
"proficiency",
|
||
|
|
"creativity",
|
||
|
|
"ingenuity",
|
||
|
|
"inventiveness",
|
||
|
|
"knowledge",
|
||
|
|
"learning",
|
||
|
|
"aptitude",
|
||
|
|
"bent",
|
||
|
|
"flair",
|
||
|
|
"gift",
|
||
|
|
"knack",
|
||
|
|
"talent"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"amateurishness",
|
||
|
|
"awkwardness",
|
||
|
|
"clumsiness",
|
||
|
|
"crudeness",
|
||
|
|
"klutziness",
|
||
|
|
"rudeness",
|
||
|
|
"inability",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacy",
|
||
|
|
"inadequateness",
|
||
|
|
"incapability",
|
||
|
|
"incapacity",
|
||
|
|
"incompetence",
|
||
|
|
"ineffectiveness",
|
||
|
|
"ineffectuality",
|
||
|
|
"ineffectualness",
|
||
|
|
"inefficacy",
|
||
|
|
"inefficiency"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"artlessness",
|
||
|
|
"ineptitude",
|
||
|
|
"ineptness",
|
||
|
|
"maladroitness"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definable":{
|
||
|
|
"as in defined , discrete":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defined",
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"definite",
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"determinate",
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"discrete",
|
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"circumscribed",
|
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"confined",
|
||
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"restricted",
|
||
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"decided",
|
||
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"established",
|
||
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"fixed",
|
||
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"set",
|
||
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"finite",
|
||
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"limited",
|
||
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"exact",
|
||
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"precise",
|
||
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"specific",
|
||
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"fathomable",
|
||
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"measurable",
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||
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"mensurable",
|
||
|
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"numerable"
|
||
|
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],
|
||
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"near antonyms":[
|
||
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"boundless",
|
||
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"endless",
|
||
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"illimitable",
|
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"infinite",
|
||
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"limitless",
|
||
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"unbounded",
|
||
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"unlimited",
|
||
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"unconfined",
|
||
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"unrestricted",
|
||
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"immeasurable",
|
||
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"indefinite",
|
||
|
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"indeterminate",
|
||
|
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"measureless",
|
||
|
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"undefinable",
|
||
|
|
"undefined",
|
||
|
|
"unfathomable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
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"type":[
|
||
|
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"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
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"deferrals":{
|
||
|
|
"the act of delaying or deferring something":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a tax deferral"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deferments",
|
||
|
|
"postponements",
|
||
|
|
"delays",
|
||
|
|
"detainments",
|
||
|
|
"detentions",
|
||
|
|
"holdbacks",
|
||
|
|
"holding patterns",
|
||
|
|
"holdups",
|
||
|
|
"waits",
|
||
|
|
"reprieves",
|
||
|
|
"respites",
|
||
|
|
"foot-draggings",
|
||
|
|
"hesitations",
|
||
|
|
"lags",
|
||
|
|
"pauses",
|
||
|
|
"setbacks",
|
||
|
|
"slowdowns"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"hastes",
|
||
|
|
"rushes",
|
||
|
|
"dispatches",
|
||
|
|
"promptitudes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflating":{
|
||
|
|
"to become smaller in size or volume due to loss of contents":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"We kept her birthday decorations up until the balloons started deflating ."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
|
"contracting",
|
||
|
|
"flattening",
|
||
|
|
"shrinking",
|
||
|
|
"compressing",
|
||
|
|
"condensing",
|
||
|
|
"constricting",
|
||
|
|
"shriveling",
|
||
|
|
"shrivelling",
|
||
|
|
"wilting",
|
||
|
|
"withering",
|
||
|
|
"drying up",
|
||
|
|
"mummifying",
|
||
|
|
"wizening",
|
||
|
|
"dripping",
|
||
|
|
"leaking",
|
||
|
|
"oozing",
|
||
|
|
"seeping",
|
||
|
|
"trickling",
|
||
|
|
"abating",
|
||
|
|
"decreasing",
|
||
|
|
"diminishing",
|
||
|
|
"dwindling",
|
||
|
|
"lessening",
|
||
|
|
"receding",
|
||
|
|
"retreating",
|
||
|
|
"withdrawing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
|
"inflating",
|
||
|
|
"puffing (up)",
|
||
|
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
|
"bulking",
|
||
|
|
"distending",
|
||
|
|
"dilating",
|
||
|
|
"expanding",
|
||
|
|
"snowballing",
|
||
|
|
"swelling",
|
||
|
|
"accumulating",
|
||
|
|
"growing",
|
||
|
|
"increasing",
|
||
|
|
"mushrooming"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make smaller in size or volume by removing the contents":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Please deflate the air mattress and fold it up before you leave."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"draining",
|
||
|
|
"emptying",
|
||
|
|
"collapsing",
|
||
|
|
"flattening",
|
||
|
|
"clearing",
|
||
|
|
"evacuating",
|
||
|
|
"exhausting",
|
||
|
|
"vacating",
|
||
|
|
"vacuating",
|
||
|
|
"voiding",
|
||
|
|
"bleeding",
|
||
|
|
"drafting",
|
||
|
|
"drawing (off)",
|
||
|
|
"pumping",
|
||
|
|
"siphoning",
|
||
|
|
"syphoning",
|
||
|
|
"tapping",
|
||
|
|
"milking",
|
||
|
|
"sucking",
|
||
|
|
"decanting",
|
||
|
|
"effusing",
|
||
|
|
"depleting",
|
||
|
|
"cleaning",
|
||
|
|
"flushing",
|
||
|
|
"purging",
|
||
|
|
"boring",
|
||
|
|
"drilling",
|
||
|
|
"holing",
|
||
|
|
"perforating",
|
||
|
|
"piercing",
|
||
|
|
"punching",
|
||
|
|
"puncturing",
|
||
|
|
"riddling",
|
||
|
|
"broaching",
|
||
|
|
"poking",
|
||
|
|
"pricking",
|
||
|
|
"prickling",
|
||
|
|
"penetrating",
|
||
|
|
"burrowing (into)",
|
||
|
|
"excavating",
|
||
|
|
"gouging",
|
||
|
|
"grooving",
|
||
|
|
"hollowing",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"cutting",
|
||
|
|
"gashing",
|
||
|
|
"notching",
|
||
|
|
"rending",
|
||
|
|
"rupturing",
|
||
|
|
"slashing",
|
||
|
|
"slitting",
|
||
|
|
"splitting",
|
||
|
|
"compressing",
|
||
|
|
"condensing",
|
||
|
|
"constricting",
|
||
|
|
"contracting",
|
||
|
|
"shrinking",
|
||
|
|
"capsuling",
|
||
|
|
"capsulizing",
|
||
|
|
"compacting",
|
||
|
|
"constringing",
|
||
|
|
"narrowing (down)",
|
||
|
|
"squeezing",
|
||
|
|
"telescoping"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"filling",
|
||
|
|
"blowing up",
|
||
|
|
"dilating",
|
||
|
|
"distending",
|
||
|
|
"inflating",
|
||
|
|
"swelling",
|
||
|
|
"patching",
|
||
|
|
"plugging",
|
||
|
|
"sealing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make or become lower in amount or value":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"The excess supply deflated prices.",
|
||
|
|
"The company's stock has deflated."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crashing",
|
||
|
|
"cratering",
|
||
|
|
"declining",
|
||
|
|
"descending",
|
||
|
|
"dipping",
|
||
|
|
"diving",
|
||
|
|
"dropping",
|
||
|
|
"falling",
|
||
|
|
"lowering",
|
||
|
|
"nose-diving",
|
||
|
|
"plummeting",
|
||
|
|
"plunging",
|
||
|
|
"sinking",
|
||
|
|
"skidding",
|
||
|
|
"tumbling",
|
||
|
|
"attenuating",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"cheapening",
|
||
|
|
"depreciating",
|
||
|
|
"depressing",
|
||
|
|
"devaluating",
|
||
|
|
"devaluing",
|
||
|
|
"downgrading",
|
||
|
|
"marking down",
|
||
|
|
"reducing",
|
||
|
|
"writing down",
|
||
|
|
"writing off",
|
||
|
|
"abating",
|
||
|
|
"decreasing",
|
||
|
|
"de-escalating",
|
||
|
|
"diminishing",
|
||
|
|
"drooping",
|
||
|
|
"dwindling",
|
||
|
|
"dying (down)",
|
||
|
|
"ebbing",
|
||
|
|
"lessening",
|
||
|
|
"letting up",
|
||
|
|
"moderating",
|
||
|
|
"subsiding",
|
||
|
|
"tapering off",
|
||
|
|
"waning",
|
||
|
|
"receding",
|
||
|
|
"retreating",
|
||
|
|
"debasing",
|
||
|
|
"demonetizing",
|
||
|
|
"underestimating",
|
||
|
|
"underpricing",
|
||
|
|
"underrating",
|
||
|
|
"undervaluing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accumulating",
|
||
|
|
"ballooning",
|
||
|
|
"building",
|
||
|
|
"burgeoning",
|
||
|
|
"bourgeoning",
|
||
|
|
"enlarging",
|
||
|
|
"escalating",
|
||
|
|
"expanding",
|
||
|
|
"growing",
|
||
|
|
"increasing",
|
||
|
|
"intensifying",
|
||
|
|
"mushrooming",
|
||
|
|
"picking up",
|
||
|
|
"snowballing",
|
||
|
|
"swelling",
|
||
|
|
"waxing",
|
||
|
|
"arising",
|
||
|
|
"ascending",
|
||
|
|
"lifting",
|
||
|
|
"mounting",
|
||
|
|
"rising",
|
||
|
|
"soaring",
|
||
|
|
"spiking",
|
||
|
|
"upping",
|
||
|
|
"appreciating",
|
||
|
|
"enhancing",
|
||
|
|
"marking up",
|
||
|
|
"upgrading"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to cause to lose force or effectiveness":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Her cutting remark deflated his ego.",
|
||
|
|
"The lawsuit deflated their hopes for a quick resolution."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"throwing cold water on",
|
||
|
|
"debilitating",
|
||
|
|
"enfeebling",
|
||
|
|
"undermining",
|
||
|
|
"weakening",
|
||
|
|
"dampening",
|
||
|
|
"damping",
|
||
|
|
"deadening",
|
||
|
|
"chilling",
|
||
|
|
"daunting",
|
||
|
|
"demoralizing",
|
||
|
|
"discouraging",
|
||
|
|
"disheartening",
|
||
|
|
"dismaying",
|
||
|
|
"dispiriting",
|
||
|
|
"frustrating",
|
||
|
|
"unmanning",
|
||
|
|
"unnerving",
|
||
|
|
"browbeating",
|
||
|
|
"bullying",
|
||
|
|
"cowing",
|
||
|
|
"intimidating",
|
||
|
|
"depressing",
|
||
|
|
"saddening",
|
||
|
|
"weighing",
|
||
|
|
"afflicting",
|
||
|
|
"trying",
|
||
|
|
"distressing",
|
||
|
|
"troubling",
|
||
|
|
"bothering",
|
||
|
|
"irking",
|
||
|
|
"vexing",
|
||
|
|
"worrying",
|
||
|
|
"frightening",
|
||
|
|
"horrifying",
|
||
|
|
"scaring"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"enforcing",
|
||
|
|
"fortifying",
|
||
|
|
"reinforcing",
|
||
|
|
"reenforcing",
|
||
|
|
"strengthening",
|
||
|
|
"emboldening",
|
||
|
|
"encouraging",
|
||
|
|
"heartening",
|
||
|
|
"nerving",
|
||
|
|
"steeling",
|
||
|
|
"animating",
|
||
|
|
"enlivening",
|
||
|
|
"invigorating",
|
||
|
|
"buoying (up)",
|
||
|
|
"cheering",
|
||
|
|
"gladdening",
|
||
|
|
"assuring",
|
||
|
|
"boosting",
|
||
|
|
"energizing",
|
||
|
|
"exciting",
|
||
|
|
"galvanizing",
|
||
|
|
"inspiring",
|
||
|
|
"lifting",
|
||
|
|
"provoking",
|
||
|
|
"quickening",
|
||
|
|
"rallying",
|
||
|
|
"reassuring",
|
||
|
|
"stimulating",
|
||
|
|
"stirring"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definitive":{
|
||
|
|
"being the most accurate and apparently thorough":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the definitive work on the attack on Pearl Harbor"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"authoritative",
|
||
|
|
"classic",
|
||
|
|
"classical",
|
||
|
|
"magisterial"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conclusive",
|
||
|
|
"decisive",
|
||
|
|
"approved",
|
||
|
|
"official",
|
||
|
|
"sanctioned",
|
||
|
|
"accurate",
|
||
|
|
"correct",
|
||
|
|
"complete",
|
||
|
|
"comprehensive",
|
||
|
|
"exhaustive",
|
||
|
|
"thorough"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"serving to put an end to all debate or questioning":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a definitive answer that put an immediate end to the discussion"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absolute",
|
||
|
|
"clear",
|
||
|
|
"conclusive",
|
||
|
|
"deciding",
|
||
|
|
"decisive",
|
||
|
|
"last"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"determinate",
|
||
|
|
"determinative",
|
||
|
|
"dispositive",
|
||
|
|
"hands-down",
|
||
|
|
"inarguable",
|
||
|
|
"incontestable",
|
||
|
|
"incontrovertible",
|
||
|
|
"indisputable",
|
||
|
|
"indubitable",
|
||
|
|
"irrefutable",
|
||
|
|
"unanswerable",
|
||
|
|
"undebatable",
|
||
|
|
"undeniable",
|
||
|
|
"undisputable",
|
||
|
|
"unquestionable",
|
||
|
|
"unchallenged",
|
||
|
|
"uncontested",
|
||
|
|
"undisputed",
|
||
|
|
"unambiguous",
|
||
|
|
"unequivocal",
|
||
|
|
"certain",
|
||
|
|
"definite",
|
||
|
|
"positive",
|
||
|
|
"sure",
|
||
|
|
"cogent",
|
||
|
|
"compelling",
|
||
|
|
"convincing",
|
||
|
|
"persuasive",
|
||
|
|
"telling"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"debatable",
|
||
|
|
"disputable",
|
||
|
|
"doubtable",
|
||
|
|
"doubtful",
|
||
|
|
"moot",
|
||
|
|
"problematic",
|
||
|
|
"problematical",
|
||
|
|
"questionable",
|
||
|
|
"refutable",
|
||
|
|
"ambiguous",
|
||
|
|
"equivocal",
|
||
|
|
"controversial",
|
||
|
|
"debated",
|
||
|
|
"disputed"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"inconclusive",
|
||
|
|
"indecisive",
|
||
|
|
"unclear"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the insurance company's definitive statement on the types of surgical operations that are covered"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clear-cut",
|
||
|
|
"definite",
|
||
|
|
"explicit",
|
||
|
|
"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"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade is often cited as the definitive hard-boiled private detective"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"archetypal",
|
||
|
|
"archetypical",
|
||
|
|
"classic",
|
||
|
|
"exemplary",
|
||
|
|
"imitable",
|
||
|
|
"model",
|
||
|
|
"paradigmatic",
|
||
|
|
"quintessential",
|
||
|
|
"textbook"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"ideal",
|
||
|
|
"nonpareil",
|
||
|
|
"special",
|
||
|
|
"unique",
|
||
|
|
"absolute",
|
||
|
|
"flawless",
|
||
|
|
"impeccable",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"A-OK",
|
||
|
|
"A1",
|
||
|
|
"bang-up",
|
||
|
|
"banner",
|
||
|
|
"capital",
|
||
|
|
"choice",
|
||
|
|
"crackerjack",
|
||
|
|
"dandy",
|
||
|
|
"excellent",
|
||
|
|
"fabulous",
|
||
|
|
"fantastic",
|
||
|
|
"fine",
|
||
|
|
"first-class",
|
||
|
|
"first-rate",
|
||
|
|
"grand",
|
||
|
|
"great",
|
||
|
|
"groovy",
|
||
|
|
"jim-dandy",
|
||
|
|
"keen",
|
||
|
|
"marvelous",
|
||
|
|
"marvellous",
|
||
|
|
"nifty",
|
||
|
|
"par excellence",
|
||
|
|
"prime",
|
||
|
|
"primo",
|
||
|
|
"sensational",
|
||
|
|
"splendid",
|
||
|
|
"stellar",
|
||
|
|
"sterling",
|
||
|
|
"superb",
|
||
|
|
"superior",
|
||
|
|
"superlative",
|
||
|
|
"swell",
|
||
|
|
"terrific",
|
||
|
|
"tip-top",
|
||
|
|
"top",
|
||
|
|
"top-notch",
|
||
|
|
"unsurpassed",
|
||
|
|
"wizard",
|
||
|
|
"wonderful",
|
||
|
|
"exceptional",
|
||
|
|
"fancy",
|
||
|
|
"high-grade"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bad",
|
||
|
|
"low-grade",
|
||
|
|
"poor",
|
||
|
|
"substandard",
|
||
|
|
"unsatisfactory",
|
||
|
|
"atrocious",
|
||
|
|
"execrable",
|
||
|
|
"vile",
|
||
|
|
"wretched",
|
||
|
|
"deficient",
|
||
|
|
"disappointing",
|
||
|
|
"failed",
|
||
|
|
"inadequate",
|
||
|
|
"inferior",
|
||
|
|
"average",
|
||
|
|
"normal",
|
||
|
|
"ordinary",
|
||
|
|
"representative",
|
||
|
|
"typical",
|
||
|
|
"mediocre",
|
||
|
|
"second-class",
|
||
|
|
"second-rate"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deficiencies":{
|
||
|
|
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"there is a deficiency of fresh food in the diet of many of the working poor"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crunches",
|
||
|
|
"dearths",
|
||
|
|
"deficits",
|
||
|
|
"droughts",
|
||
|
|
"drouths",
|
||
|
|
"failures",
|
||
|
|
"famines",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacies",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiencies",
|
||
|
|
"lacks",
|
||
|
|
"lacunae",
|
||
|
|
"lacunas",
|
||
|
|
"paucities",
|
||
|
|
"pinches",
|
||
|
|
"poverties",
|
||
|
|
"scarcities",
|
||
|
|
"shortages",
|
||
|
|
"undersupplies",
|
||
|
|
"wants"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absences",
|
||
|
|
"omissions",
|
||
|
|
"necessities",
|
||
|
|
"needs",
|
||
|
|
"privations"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"excesses",
|
||
|
|
"overabundances",
|
||
|
|
"oversupplies",
|
||
|
|
"surfeits",
|
||
|
|
"surpluses"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abundances",
|
||
|
|
"adequacies",
|
||
|
|
"amplitudes",
|
||
|
|
"opulences",
|
||
|
|
"plenitudes",
|
||
|
|
"plenties",
|
||
|
|
"sufficiencies",
|
||
|
|
"wealths"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforce":{
|
||
|
|
"as in evict":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"evict",
|
||
|
|
"dispossess",
|
||
|
|
"divest",
|
||
|
|
"expropriate",
|
||
|
|
"oust",
|
||
|
|
"disfurnish",
|
||
|
|
"strip",
|
||
|
|
"bereave",
|
||
|
|
"deprive",
|
||
|
|
"disinherit",
|
||
|
|
"annex",
|
||
|
|
"appropriate",
|
||
|
|
"commandeer",
|
||
|
|
"impound",
|
||
|
|
"seize",
|
||
|
|
"take over",
|
||
|
|
"usurp"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deficit":{
|
||
|
|
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a growing deficit in the number of hours devoted to sleep"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crunch",
|
||
|
|
"dearth",
|
||
|
|
"deficiency",
|
||
|
|
"drought",
|
||
|
|
"drouth",
|
||
|
|
"failure",
|
||
|
|
"famine",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacy",
|
||
|
|
"inadequateness",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiency",
|
||
|
|
"lack",
|
||
|
|
"lacuna",
|
||
|
|
"paucity",
|
||
|
|
"pinch",
|
||
|
|
"poverty",
|
||
|
|
"scantiness",
|
||
|
|
"scarceness",
|
||
|
|
"scarcity",
|
||
|
|
"shortage",
|
||
|
|
"undersupply",
|
||
|
|
"want"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absence",
|
||
|
|
"omission",
|
||
|
|
"meagerness",
|
||
|
|
"poorness",
|
||
|
|
"skimpiness",
|
||
|
|
"necessity",
|
||
|
|
"need",
|
||
|
|
"privation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bountifulness",
|
||
|
|
"copiousness",
|
||
|
|
"excess",
|
||
|
|
"overabundance",
|
||
|
|
"oversupply",
|
||
|
|
"surfeit",
|
||
|
|
"surplus"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abundance",
|
||
|
|
"adequacy",
|
||
|
|
"amplitude",
|
||
|
|
"opulence",
|
||
|
|
"plenitude",
|
||
|
|
"plenty",
|
||
|
|
"sufficiency",
|
||
|
|
"wealth"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defamers":{
|
||
|
|
"as in libelers , libelists":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"calumniators",
|
||
|
|
"libelers",
|
||
|
|
"libelists",
|
||
|
|
"slanderers",
|
||
|
|
"exaggerators",
|
||
|
|
"mythomaniacs",
|
||
|
|
"perjurers",
|
||
|
|
"fabricators",
|
||
|
|
"fabulists",
|
||
|
|
"fibbers",
|
||
|
|
"liars",
|
||
|
|
"prevaricators",
|
||
|
|
"storytellers",
|
||
|
|
"distorters",
|
||
|
|
"falsifiers",
|
||
|
|
"equivocators",
|
||
|
|
"palterers",
|
||
|
|
"gossipers",
|
||
|
|
"gossips",
|
||
|
|
"talebearers",
|
||
|
|
"charlatans",
|
||
|
|
"cheaters",
|
||
|
|
"cheats",
|
||
|
|
"counterfeiters",
|
||
|
|
"cozeners",
|
||
|
|
"deceivers",
|
||
|
|
"defrauders",
|
||
|
|
"dissemblers",
|
||
|
|
"dissimulators",
|
||
|
|
"double-dealers",
|
||
|
|
"frauds",
|
||
|
|
"hustlers",
|
||
|
|
"knaves",
|
||
|
|
"mountebanks",
|
||
|
|
"operators",
|
||
|
|
"pretenders"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"square shooters"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defy":{
|
||
|
|
"to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"in those days a woman was brave if she defied fashion and wore white after Labor Day"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobey",
|
||
|
|
"mock",
|
||
|
|
"rebel (against)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disoblige",
|
||
|
|
"mutiny (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolt (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disregard",
|
||
|
|
"ignore",
|
||
|
|
"overlook",
|
||
|
|
"overpass",
|
||
|
|
"pass over",
|
||
|
|
"tune out",
|
||
|
|
"brush (off)",
|
||
|
|
"dismiss",
|
||
|
|
"flout",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-pooh",
|
||
|
|
"pooh",
|
||
|
|
"reject",
|
||
|
|
"scoff (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorn",
|
||
|
|
"shrug off",
|
||
|
|
"wink (at)",
|
||
|
|
"breach",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"infringe",
|
||
|
|
"transgress",
|
||
|
|
"violate",
|
||
|
|
"buck",
|
||
|
|
"combat",
|
||
|
|
"contest",
|
||
|
|
"dispute",
|
||
|
|
"fight",
|
||
|
|
"oppose",
|
||
|
|
"resist",
|
||
|
|
"withstand"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"capitulate (to)",
|
||
|
|
"concede (to)",
|
||
|
|
"defer (to)",
|
||
|
|
"goose-step (to)",
|
||
|
|
"serve",
|
||
|
|
"stoop (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submit (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrender (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yield (to)",
|
||
|
|
"cooperate (with)",
|
||
|
|
"keep",
|
||
|
|
"observe",
|
||
|
|
"accede (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiesce (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agree (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assent (to)",
|
||
|
|
"oblige",
|
||
|
|
"attend",
|
||
|
|
"hear",
|
||
|
|
"heed",
|
||
|
|
"listen (to)",
|
||
|
|
"mark",
|
||
|
|
"note",
|
||
|
|
"notice",
|
||
|
|
"regard",
|
||
|
|
"watch"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"comply (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conform (to)",
|
||
|
|
"follow",
|
||
|
|
"mind",
|
||
|
|
"obey"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"after missing the target, she defied her boyfriend to do better"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"challenge",
|
||
|
|
"dare",
|
||
|
|
"stump"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beard",
|
||
|
|
"brave",
|
||
|
|
"brazen",
|
||
|
|
"breast",
|
||
|
|
"confront",
|
||
|
|
"face",
|
||
|
|
"outbrave",
|
||
|
|
"outface"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a rescue team willing to defy the raging storm"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beard",
|
||
|
|
"brave",
|
||
|
|
"brazen",
|
||
|
|
"breast",
|
||
|
|
"confront",
|
||
|
|
"dare",
|
||
|
|
"face",
|
||
|
|
"outbrave",
|
||
|
|
"outface"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"face up (to)",
|
||
|
|
"front",
|
||
|
|
"affront",
|
||
|
|
"challenge",
|
||
|
|
"encounter",
|
||
|
|
"meet",
|
||
|
|
"accost",
|
||
|
|
"approach",
|
||
|
|
"corner",
|
||
|
|
"repel",
|
||
|
|
"resist",
|
||
|
|
"stand",
|
||
|
|
"withstand",
|
||
|
|
"battle",
|
||
|
|
"combat",
|
||
|
|
"contend (with)",
|
||
|
|
"fight",
|
||
|
|
"oppose",
|
||
|
|
"square (off)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"avoid",
|
||
|
|
"eschew",
|
||
|
|
"shun",
|
||
|
|
"elude",
|
||
|
|
"escape",
|
||
|
|
"evade",
|
||
|
|
"shake"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"dodge",
|
||
|
|
"duck",
|
||
|
|
"funk",
|
||
|
|
"shirk",
|
||
|
|
"sidestep"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to refuse to give in to":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a bicyclist who regularly defies illness and infirmity in order to compete in races"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"buck",
|
||
|
|
"fight",
|
||
|
|
"oppose",
|
||
|
|
"repel",
|
||
|
|
"resist",
|
||
|
|
"withstand"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"battle",
|
||
|
|
"combat",
|
||
|
|
"contend (with)",
|
||
|
|
"challenge",
|
||
|
|
"contest",
|
||
|
|
"contradict",
|
||
|
|
"dispute",
|
||
|
|
"baffle",
|
||
|
|
"balk",
|
||
|
|
"foil",
|
||
|
|
"frustrate",
|
||
|
|
"thwart",
|
||
|
|
"check",
|
||
|
|
"counter",
|
||
|
|
"hinder",
|
||
|
|
"obstruct",
|
||
|
|
"stem"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bow (to)",
|
||
|
|
"capitulate (to)",
|
||
|
|
"give in (to)",
|
||
|
|
"knuckle under (to)",
|
||
|
|
"stoop (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submit (to)",
|
||
|
|
"succumb (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrender (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yield (to)"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defame":{
|
||
|
|
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"of course I want to win the election, but I refuse to defame my opponent in order to do so"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"asperse",
|
||
|
|
"blacken",
|
||
|
|
"calumniate",
|
||
|
|
"libel",
|
||
|
|
"malign",
|
||
|
|
"slander",
|
||
|
|
"smear",
|
||
|
|
"traduce",
|
||
|
|
"vilify"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"belittle",
|
||
|
|
"denigrate",
|
||
|
|
"detract",
|
||
|
|
"disparage",
|
||
|
|
"discredit",
|
||
|
|
"disgrace",
|
||
|
|
"dishonor",
|
||
|
|
"shame",
|
||
|
|
"abase",
|
||
|
|
"debase",
|
||
|
|
"degrade",
|
||
|
|
"humble",
|
||
|
|
"humiliate",
|
||
|
|
"disdain",
|
||
|
|
"scorn"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"exalt",
|
||
|
|
"glorify",
|
||
|
|
"honor",
|
||
|
|
"acclaim",
|
||
|
|
"applaud",
|
||
|
|
"commend",
|
||
|
|
"praise",
|
||
|
|
"esteem",
|
||
|
|
"respect",
|
||
|
|
"admire",
|
||
|
|
"regard",
|
||
|
|
"adore",
|
||
|
|
"revere",
|
||
|
|
"venerate",
|
||
|
|
"worship"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make a claim of wrongdoing against":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"so the harmless old woman was defamed of witchcraft"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accuse",
|
||
|
|
"charge",
|
||
|
|
"criminate",
|
||
|
|
"impeach",
|
||
|
|
"incriminate",
|
||
|
|
"indict"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blame",
|
||
|
|
"call (on)",
|
||
|
|
"castigate",
|
||
|
|
"censure",
|
||
|
|
"condemn",
|
||
|
|
"criticize",
|
||
|
|
"damn",
|
||
|
|
"denounce",
|
||
|
|
"fault",
|
||
|
|
"impugn",
|
||
|
|
"reproach",
|
||
|
|
"reprobate",
|
||
|
|
"chide",
|
||
|
|
"rebuke",
|
||
|
|
"reprove",
|
||
|
|
"tax",
|
||
|
|
"appeal",
|
||
|
|
"arraign",
|
||
|
|
"book",
|
||
|
|
"cite",
|
||
|
|
"summon",
|
||
|
|
"prosecute",
|
||
|
|
"sue",
|
||
|
|
"try",
|
||
|
|
"frame",
|
||
|
|
"implicate",
|
||
|
|
"inculpate",
|
||
|
|
"inform (against)",
|
||
|
|
"name",
|
||
|
|
"report",
|
||
|
|
"recriminate",
|
||
|
|
"retaliate"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advocate",
|
||
|
|
"champion",
|
||
|
|
"defend",
|
||
|
|
"excuse",
|
||
|
|
"forgive",
|
||
|
|
"justify",
|
||
|
|
"pardon",
|
||
|
|
"remit",
|
||
|
|
"shrive"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absolve",
|
||
|
|
"acquit",
|
||
|
|
"clear",
|
||
|
|
"exculpate",
|
||
|
|
"exonerate",
|
||
|
|
"vindicate"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrauders":{
|
||
|
|
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the state's department of consumer protection has to contend with defrauders of every ilk"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bilkers",
|
||
|
|
"bilks",
|
||
|
|
"cheaters",
|
||
|
|
"cheats",
|
||
|
|
"chiselers",
|
||
|
|
"chisellers",
|
||
|
|
"confidence men",
|
||
|
|
"cozeners",
|
||
|
|
"dodgers",
|
||
|
|
"fakirs",
|
||
|
|
"finaglers",
|
||
|
|
"fraudsters",
|
||
|
|
"hoaxers",
|
||
|
|
"scammers",
|
||
|
|
"scamsters",
|
||
|
|
"sharks",
|
||
|
|
"sharpers",
|
||
|
|
"sharpies",
|
||
|
|
"skinners",
|
||
|
|
"swindlers",
|
||
|
|
"trickers",
|
||
|
|
"tricksters"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"double-crossers",
|
||
|
|
"double-dealers",
|
||
|
|
"bluffers",
|
||
|
|
"charlatans",
|
||
|
|
"fakers",
|
||
|
|
"fakes",
|
||
|
|
"humbugs",
|
||
|
|
"impostors",
|
||
|
|
"imposters",
|
||
|
|
"mountebanks",
|
||
|
|
"phonies",
|
||
|
|
"phoneys",
|
||
|
|
"pretenders",
|
||
|
|
"quacks",
|
||
|
|
"quacksalvers",
|
||
|
|
"ringers",
|
||
|
|
"shams",
|
||
|
|
"adventurers",
|
||
|
|
"foxes",
|
||
|
|
"fox",
|
||
|
|
"gamesmen",
|
||
|
|
"knaves",
|
||
|
|
"pranksters",
|
||
|
|
"rascals",
|
||
|
|
"rogues",
|
||
|
|
"fast-talkers",
|
||
|
|
"slickers",
|
||
|
|
"slicks",
|
||
|
|
"slicksters",
|
||
|
|
"slyboots",
|
||
|
|
"smoothies",
|
||
|
|
"wheeler-dealers",
|
||
|
|
"plotters",
|
||
|
|
"schemers",
|
||
|
|
"sneakers",
|
||
|
|
"sneaks",
|
||
|
|
"blacklegs",
|
||
|
|
"cardsharps",
|
||
|
|
"cardsharpers"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defunds":{
|
||
|
|
"as in disendows":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disendows",
|
||
|
|
"draws",
|
||
|
|
"receives",
|
||
|
|
"subsists"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"endows",
|
||
|
|
"finances",
|
||
|
|
"funds",
|
||
|
|
"subsidizes",
|
||
|
|
"establishes",
|
||
|
|
"founds",
|
||
|
|
"organizes",
|
||
|
|
"bequeaths",
|
||
|
|
"contributes",
|
||
|
|
"donates",
|
||
|
|
"subscribes",
|
||
|
|
"supports",
|
||
|
|
"underwrites"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defaulted":{
|
||
|
|
"as in failed , ignored":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregarded",
|
||
|
|
"ignored",
|
||
|
|
"overlooked",
|
||
|
|
"overpassed",
|
||
|
|
"passed over",
|
||
|
|
"pretermitted",
|
||
|
|
"slighted",
|
||
|
|
"failed",
|
||
|
|
"forgot",
|
||
|
|
"neglected",
|
||
|
|
"omitted",
|
||
|
|
"slid",
|
||
|
|
"slipped",
|
||
|
|
"skipped"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"heeded",
|
||
|
|
"minded",
|
||
|
|
"remembered",
|
||
|
|
"kept",
|
||
|
|
"observed",
|
||
|
|
"carried out",
|
||
|
|
"did",
|
||
|
|
"executed",
|
||
|
|
"performed",
|
||
|
|
"practiced",
|
||
|
|
"practised",
|
||
|
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
|
"fulfilled",
|
||
|
|
"met",
|
||
|
|
"satisfied",
|
||
|
|
"complied (with)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defector":{
|
||
|
|
"a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the defector demanded political asylum in exchange for information about his nation's spying operations"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"apostate",
|
||
|
|
"deserter",
|
||
|
|
"recreant",
|
||
|
|
"renegade"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"betrayer",
|
||
|
|
"double-crosser",
|
||
|
|
"quisling",
|
||
|
|
"traitor",
|
||
|
|
"traitress",
|
||
|
|
"traitoress",
|
||
|
|
"turnabout",
|
||
|
|
"turncoat",
|
||
|
|
"abandoner",
|
||
|
|
"come-outer",
|
||
|
|
"dropout",
|
||
|
|
"leaver",
|
||
|
|
"defier",
|
||
|
|
"insurgent",
|
||
|
|
"insurrectionary",
|
||
|
|
"insurrectionist",
|
||
|
|
"mutineer",
|
||
|
|
"rebel",
|
||
|
|
"red",
|
||
|
|
"revolter",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionary",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionist",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionizer",
|
||
|
|
"discontent",
|
||
|
|
"malcontent",
|
||
|
|
"recusant",
|
||
|
|
"refusenik",
|
||
|
|
"refusnik",
|
||
|
|
"refuser"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adherent",
|
||
|
|
"disciple",
|
||
|
|
"follower",
|
||
|
|
"supporter",
|
||
|
|
"fanatic",
|
||
|
|
"militant",
|
||
|
|
"partisan",
|
||
|
|
"partizan",
|
||
|
|
"zealot"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"loyalist"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defier":{
|
||
|
|
"as in oppositionist , challenger":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"challenger",
|
||
|
|
"insubordinate",
|
||
|
|
"oppositionist",
|
||
|
|
"recusant",
|
||
|
|
"refuser",
|
||
|
|
"resistant",
|
||
|
|
"resister",
|
||
|
|
"insurgent",
|
||
|
|
"insurrectionary",
|
||
|
|
"insurrectionist",
|
||
|
|
"mutineer",
|
||
|
|
"rebel",
|
||
|
|
"red",
|
||
|
|
"revolter",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionary",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionist",
|
||
|
|
"anarch",
|
||
|
|
"anarchist",
|
||
|
|
"discontent",
|
||
|
|
"extremist",
|
||
|
|
"malcontent",
|
||
|
|
"radical"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"loyalist",
|
||
|
|
"patriot",
|
||
|
|
"supporter",
|
||
|
|
"counterinsurgent",
|
||
|
|
"counterrevolutionary",
|
||
|
|
"counterrevolutionist"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defense":{
|
||
|
|
"means or method of defending":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"thorns are a rose's defense against grazing animals"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aegis",
|
||
|
|
"egis",
|
||
|
|
"ammunition",
|
||
|
|
"armor",
|
||
|
|
"buckler",
|
||
|
|
"cover",
|
||
|
|
"guard",
|
||
|
|
"protection",
|
||
|
|
"safeguard",
|
||
|
|
"screen",
|
||
|
|
"security",
|
||
|
|
"shield",
|
||
|
|
"wall",
|
||
|
|
"ward"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"arm",
|
||
|
|
"armament",
|
||
|
|
"munitions",
|
||
|
|
"weapon",
|
||
|
|
"weaponry",
|
||
|
|
"fastness",
|
||
|
|
"fort",
|
||
|
|
"fortress",
|
||
|
|
"palisade",
|
||
|
|
"stronghold"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aggression",
|
||
|
|
"assault",
|
||
|
|
"attack",
|
||
|
|
"offense",
|
||
|
|
"offence",
|
||
|
|
"offensive"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"an explanation that frees one from fault or blame":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"there's absolutely no defense for your actions"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"alibi",
|
||
|
|
"apology",
|
||
|
|
"excuse",
|
||
|
|
"justification",
|
||
|
|
"plea",
|
||
|
|
"reason"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"color",
|
||
|
|
"guise",
|
||
|
|
"pretense",
|
||
|
|
"pretence",
|
||
|
|
"pretext",
|
||
|
|
"rationale",
|
||
|
|
"rationalization",
|
||
|
|
"vindication",
|
||
|
|
"whitewash",
|
||
|
|
"cop-out",
|
||
|
|
"out",
|
||
|
|
"acknowledgment",
|
||
|
|
"acknowledgement",
|
||
|
|
"atonement",
|
||
|
|
"confession",
|
||
|
|
"extenuation",
|
||
|
|
"palliation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeatism":{
|
||
|
|
"as in resignation , pessimism":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"pessimism",
|
||
|
|
"resignation",
|
||
|
|
"blues",
|
||
|
|
"dejection",
|
||
|
|
"depression",
|
||
|
|
"dumps",
|
||
|
|
"gloom",
|
||
|
|
"melancholy",
|
||
|
|
"mopes",
|
||
|
|
"demoralization",
|
||
|
|
"despair",
|
||
|
|
"despondency",
|
||
|
|
"discouragement",
|
||
|
|
"disheartenment",
|
||
|
|
"dismay",
|
||
|
|
"dispiritedness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"encouragement",
|
||
|
|
"optimism",
|
||
|
|
"sanguinity"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defatted":{
|
||
|
|
"as in lean":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"lean",
|
||
|
|
"fibrous",
|
||
|
|
"gristly",
|
||
|
|
"stringy",
|
||
|
|
"tough",
|
||
|
|
"nonfat"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adipose",
|
||
|
|
"fatty",
|
||
|
|
"blubbery",
|
||
|
|
"greasy",
|
||
|
|
"oily"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defect (from)":{
|
||
|
|
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"soldiers defected from the rebel army en masse as the failure of their cause became apparent"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"desert",
|
||
|
|
"rat (on)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abandon",
|
||
|
|
"abdicate",
|
||
|
|
"abjure",
|
||
|
|
"apostatize",
|
||
|
|
"cut off",
|
||
|
|
"disown",
|
||
|
|
"forsake",
|
||
|
|
"quit",
|
||
|
|
"reject",
|
||
|
|
"renounce",
|
||
|
|
"repudiate",
|
||
|
|
"spurn",
|
||
|
|
"renege",
|
||
|
|
"depart",
|
||
|
|
"go",
|
||
|
|
"leave",
|
||
|
|
"withdraw"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adhere (to)",
|
||
|
|
"cling (to)",
|
||
|
|
"stick (to or with)",
|
||
|
|
"cherish",
|
||
|
|
"cultivate",
|
||
|
|
"foster"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defensives":{
|
||
|
|
"a position of readiness to oppose actual or expected attack":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"their unexpectedly harsh words put him on the defensive"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"guards"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"alerts",
|
||
|
|
"lookouts",
|
||
|
|
"qui vives",
|
||
|
|
"watches"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"offensives"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defiers":{
|
||
|
|
"as in oppositionists , challengers":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"challengers",
|
||
|
|
"insubordinates",
|
||
|
|
"oppositionists",
|
||
|
|
"recusants",
|
||
|
|
"refusers",
|
||
|
|
"resistants",
|
||
|
|
"resisters",
|
||
|
|
"insurgents",
|
||
|
|
"insurrectionaries",
|
||
|
|
"insurrectionists",
|
||
|
|
"mutineers",
|
||
|
|
"rebels",
|
||
|
|
"reds",
|
||
|
|
"revolters",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionaries",
|
||
|
|
"revolutionists",
|
||
|
|
"anarchists",
|
||
|
|
"anarchs",
|
||
|
|
"discontents",
|
||
|
|
"extremists",
|
||
|
|
"malcontents",
|
||
|
|
"radicals"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"loyalists",
|
||
|
|
"patriots",
|
||
|
|
"supporters",
|
||
|
|
"counterinsurgents",
|
||
|
|
"counterrevolutionaries",
|
||
|
|
"counterrevolutionists"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defectively":{
|
||
|
|
"as in badly , imperfectly":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"amiss",
|
||
|
|
"badly",
|
||
|
|
"faultily",
|
||
|
|
"imperfectly",
|
||
|
|
"deficiently",
|
||
|
|
"inadequately",
|
||
|
|
"incompletely",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiently",
|
||
|
|
"fallibly",
|
||
|
|
"atrociously",
|
||
|
|
"execrably",
|
||
|
|
"wretchedly"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"faultlessly",
|
||
|
|
"flawlessly",
|
||
|
|
"ideally",
|
||
|
|
"immaculately",
|
||
|
|
"impeccably",
|
||
|
|
"pat",
|
||
|
|
"perfectly",
|
||
|
|
"excellently",
|
||
|
|
"fabulously",
|
||
|
|
"finely",
|
||
|
|
"grandly",
|
||
|
|
"greatly",
|
||
|
|
"marvelously",
|
||
|
|
"superbly",
|
||
|
|
"superiorly",
|
||
|
|
"superlatively",
|
||
|
|
"terrifically",
|
||
|
|
"exceptionally",
|
||
|
|
"fancily",
|
||
|
|
"specially"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adverb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeasances":{
|
||
|
|
"the doing away with something by formal action":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the kind of gross misconduct that could result in the defeasance of the athlete's contract to endorse their products"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abatements",
|
||
|
|
"abolishments",
|
||
|
|
"abolitions",
|
||
|
|
"abrogations",
|
||
|
|
"annulments",
|
||
|
|
"avoidances",
|
||
|
|
"cancellations",
|
||
|
|
"cancelations",
|
||
|
|
"dissolutions",
|
||
|
|
"invalidations",
|
||
|
|
"negations",
|
||
|
|
"nullifications",
|
||
|
|
"repeals",
|
||
|
|
"rescindments"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abortions",
|
||
|
|
"recalls",
|
||
|
|
"countermands",
|
||
|
|
"overrides",
|
||
|
|
"overturns",
|
||
|
|
"vetoes",
|
||
|
|
"retractions",
|
||
|
|
"reversals",
|
||
|
|
"revocations",
|
||
|
|
"suspensions",
|
||
|
|
"withdrawals",
|
||
|
|
"forbiddances",
|
||
|
|
"prohibitions",
|
||
|
|
"disallowances",
|
||
|
|
"dismissals",
|
||
|
|
"rejections",
|
||
|
|
"eliminations",
|
||
|
|
"eradications",
|
||
|
|
"erasures",
|
||
|
|
"liquidations",
|
||
|
|
"removals"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"enactments",
|
||
|
|
"legislations",
|
||
|
|
"establishments",
|
||
|
|
"institutions",
|
||
|
|
"formalizations",
|
||
|
|
"legalizations",
|
||
|
|
"legitimations",
|
||
|
|
"legitimizations",
|
||
|
|
"validations",
|
||
|
|
"passings",
|
||
|
|
"ratifications",
|
||
|
|
"approvals",
|
||
|
|
"authorizations",
|
||
|
|
"clearances",
|
||
|
|
"endorsements",
|
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"indorsements",
|
||
|
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"permissions",
|
||
|
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"commandments",
|
||
|
|
"orderings",
|
||
|
|
"prescriptions"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deficiency":{
|
||
|
|
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"there is a deficiency of fresh food in the diet of many of the working poor"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crunch",
|
||
|
|
"dearth",
|
||
|
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"deficit",
|
||
|
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"drought",
|
||
|
|
"drouth",
|
||
|
|
"failure",
|
||
|
|
"famine",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacy",
|
||
|
|
"inadequateness",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiency",
|
||
|
|
"lack",
|
||
|
|
"lacuna",
|
||
|
|
"paucity",
|
||
|
|
"pinch",
|
||
|
|
"poverty",
|
||
|
|
"scantiness",
|
||
|
|
"scarceness",
|
||
|
|
"scarcity",
|
||
|
|
"shortage",
|
||
|
|
"undersupply",
|
||
|
|
"want"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absence",
|
||
|
|
"omission",
|
||
|
|
"meagerness",
|
||
|
|
"poorness",
|
||
|
|
"skimpiness",
|
||
|
|
"necessity",
|
||
|
|
"need",
|
||
|
|
"privation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bountifulness",
|
||
|
|
"copiousness",
|
||
|
|
"excess",
|
||
|
|
"overabundance",
|
||
|
|
"oversupply",
|
||
|
|
"surfeit",
|
||
|
|
"surplus"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abundance",
|
||
|
|
"adequacy",
|
||
|
|
"amplitude",
|
||
|
|
"opulence",
|
||
|
|
"plenitude",
|
||
|
|
"plenty",
|
||
|
|
"sufficiency",
|
||
|
|
"wealth"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defund":{
|
||
|
|
"as in disendow":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disendow",
|
||
|
|
"draw",
|
||
|
|
"receive",
|
||
|
|
"subsist"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"endow",
|
||
|
|
"finance",
|
||
|
|
"fund",
|
||
|
|
"subsidize",
|
||
|
|
"establish",
|
||
|
|
"found",
|
||
|
|
"organize",
|
||
|
|
"bequeath",
|
||
|
|
"contribute",
|
||
|
|
"donate",
|
||
|
|
"subscribe",
|
||
|
|
"support",
|
||
|
|
"underwrite"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defying":{
|
||
|
|
"to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"in those days a woman was brave if she defied fashion and wore white after Labor Day"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobeying",
|
||
|
|
"mocking",
|
||
|
|
"rebelling (against)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobliging",
|
||
|
|
"mutinying (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolting (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disregarding",
|
||
|
|
"ignoring",
|
||
|
|
"overlooking",
|
||
|
|
"overpassing",
|
||
|
|
"passing over",
|
||
|
|
"tuning out",
|
||
|
|
"brushing (off)",
|
||
|
|
"dismissing",
|
||
|
|
"flouting",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-poohing",
|
||
|
|
"poohing",
|
||
|
|
"rejecting",
|
||
|
|
"scoffing (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorning",
|
||
|
|
"shrugging off",
|
||
|
|
"winking (at)",
|
||
|
|
"breaching",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"infringing",
|
||
|
|
"transgressing",
|
||
|
|
"violating",
|
||
|
|
"bucking",
|
||
|
|
"combating",
|
||
|
|
"combatting",
|
||
|
|
"contesting",
|
||
|
|
"disputing",
|
||
|
|
"fighting",
|
||
|
|
"opposing",
|
||
|
|
"resisting",
|
||
|
|
"withstanding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"capitulating (to)",
|
||
|
|
"conceding (to)",
|
||
|
|
"deferring (to)",
|
||
|
|
"goose-stepping (to)",
|
||
|
|
"serving",
|
||
|
|
"stooping (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submitting (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrendering (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yielding (to)",
|
||
|
|
"cooperating (with)",
|
||
|
|
"keeping",
|
||
|
|
"observing",
|
||
|
|
"acceding (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiescing (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agreeing (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assenting (to)",
|
||
|
|
"obliging",
|
||
|
|
"attending",
|
||
|
|
"hearing",
|
||
|
|
"heeding",
|
||
|
|
"listening (to)",
|
||
|
|
"marking",
|
||
|
|
"noticing",
|
||
|
|
"noting",
|
||
|
|
"regarding",
|
||
|
|
"watching"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"complying (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conforming (to)",
|
||
|
|
"following",
|
||
|
|
"minding",
|
||
|
|
"obeying"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"after missing the target, she defied her boyfriend to do better"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"challenging",
|
||
|
|
"daring",
|
||
|
|
"stumping"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bearding",
|
||
|
|
"braving",
|
||
|
|
"brazening",
|
||
|
|
"breasting",
|
||
|
|
"confronting",
|
||
|
|
"facing",
|
||
|
|
"outbraving",
|
||
|
|
"outfacing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a rescue team willing to defy the raging storm"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bearding",
|
||
|
|
"braving",
|
||
|
|
"brazening",
|
||
|
|
"breasting",
|
||
|
|
"confronting",
|
||
|
|
"daring",
|
||
|
|
"facing",
|
||
|
|
"outbraving",
|
||
|
|
"outfacing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"facing up (to)",
|
||
|
|
"fronting",
|
||
|
|
"affronting",
|
||
|
|
"challenging",
|
||
|
|
"encountering",
|
||
|
|
"meeting",
|
||
|
|
"accosting",
|
||
|
|
"approaching",
|
||
|
|
"cornering",
|
||
|
|
"repelling",
|
||
|
|
"resisting",
|
||
|
|
"standing",
|
||
|
|
"withstanding",
|
||
|
|
"battling",
|
||
|
|
"combating",
|
||
|
|
"combatting",
|
||
|
|
"contending (with)",
|
||
|
|
"fighting",
|
||
|
|
"opposing",
|
||
|
|
"squaring (off)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"avoiding",
|
||
|
|
"eschewing",
|
||
|
|
"shunning",
|
||
|
|
"eluding",
|
||
|
|
"escaping",
|
||
|
|
"evading",
|
||
|
|
"shaking"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"dodging",
|
||
|
|
"ducking",
|
||
|
|
"funking",
|
||
|
|
"shirking",
|
||
|
|
"sidestepping"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to refuse to give in to":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a bicyclist who regularly defies illness and infirmity in order to compete in races"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bucking",
|
||
|
|
"fighting",
|
||
|
|
"opposing",
|
||
|
|
"repelling",
|
||
|
|
"resisting",
|
||
|
|
"withstanding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"battling",
|
||
|
|
"combating",
|
||
|
|
"combatting",
|
||
|
|
"contending (with)",
|
||
|
|
"challenging",
|
||
|
|
"contesting",
|
||
|
|
"contradicting",
|
||
|
|
"disputing",
|
||
|
|
"baffling",
|
||
|
|
"balking",
|
||
|
|
"foiling",
|
||
|
|
"frustrating",
|
||
|
|
"thwarting",
|
||
|
|
"checking",
|
||
|
|
"countering",
|
||
|
|
"hindering",
|
||
|
|
"obstructing",
|
||
|
|
"stemming"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bowing (to)",
|
||
|
|
"capitulating (to)",
|
||
|
|
"giving in (to)",
|
||
|
|
"knuckling under (to)",
|
||
|
|
"stooping (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submitting (to)",
|
||
|
|
"succumbing (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrendering (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yielding (to)"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defaults (on)":{
|
||
|
|
"as in ignores , breaks":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregards",
|
||
|
|
"forgets",
|
||
|
|
"ignores",
|
||
|
|
"neglects",
|
||
|
|
"overlooks",
|
||
|
|
"overpasses",
|
||
|
|
"passes over",
|
||
|
|
"slights",
|
||
|
|
"breaches",
|
||
|
|
"breaks",
|
||
|
|
"transgresses",
|
||
|
|
"violates"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"answers",
|
||
|
|
"completes",
|
||
|
|
"complies (with)",
|
||
|
|
"fills",
|
||
|
|
"fulfills",
|
||
|
|
"fulfils",
|
||
|
|
"keeps",
|
||
|
|
"meets",
|
||
|
|
"redeems",
|
||
|
|
"satisfies",
|
||
|
|
"concludes",
|
||
|
|
"consummates",
|
||
|
|
"finalizes",
|
||
|
|
"finishes",
|
||
|
|
"perfects",
|
||
|
|
"accomplishes",
|
||
|
|
"achieves",
|
||
|
|
"brings about",
|
||
|
|
"brings off",
|
||
|
|
"carries out",
|
||
|
|
"effects"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforcements":{
|
||
|
|
"as in ejections , dispossessions":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disfurnishments",
|
||
|
|
"dispossessions",
|
||
|
|
"ejections",
|
||
|
|
"invasions",
|
||
|
|
"occupancies",
|
||
|
|
"occupations",
|
||
|
|
"preoccupancies",
|
||
|
|
"trespasses",
|
||
|
|
"encroachments",
|
||
|
|
"infringements",
|
||
|
|
"piracies",
|
||
|
|
"despoilments",
|
||
|
|
"defalcations",
|
||
|
|
"embezzlements",
|
||
|
|
"misapplications",
|
||
|
|
"misappropriations",
|
||
|
|
"misuses",
|
||
|
|
"peculations",
|
||
|
|
"thefts",
|
||
|
|
"annexations",
|
||
|
|
"assumptions",
|
||
|
|
"attachments",
|
||
|
|
"confiscations",
|
||
|
|
"grabs",
|
||
|
|
"impoundments",
|
||
|
|
"repossessions",
|
||
|
|
"sequestrations",
|
||
|
|
"appropriations",
|
||
|
|
"arrogations",
|
||
|
|
"detainers",
|
||
|
|
"expropriations",
|
||
|
|
"preemptions",
|
||
|
|
"seizures",
|
||
|
|
"takeovers",
|
||
|
|
"usurpations"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defaming":{
|
||
|
|
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the callous defaming of the popular actress by the unscrupulous tabloid reporter"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersing",
|
||
|
|
"blackening",
|
||
|
|
"calumniation",
|
||
|
|
"calumny",
|
||
|
|
"character assassination",
|
||
|
|
"defamation",
|
||
|
|
"libel",
|
||
|
|
"libeling",
|
||
|
|
"libelling",
|
||
|
|
"maligning",
|
||
|
|
"slander",
|
||
|
|
"smearing",
|
||
|
|
"traducing",
|
||
|
|
"vilification",
|
||
|
|
"vilifying"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersion",
|
||
|
|
"innuendo",
|
||
|
|
"muck",
|
||
|
|
"mud",
|
||
|
|
"smear",
|
||
|
|
"backbiting",
|
||
|
|
"detraction",
|
||
|
|
"abuse",
|
||
|
|
"invective",
|
||
|
|
"vituperation",
|
||
|
|
"attack",
|
||
|
|
"censure",
|
||
|
|
"criticism",
|
||
|
|
"denunciation",
|
||
|
|
"hatchet job",
|
||
|
|
"contempt",
|
||
|
|
"disdain",
|
||
|
|
"scorn",
|
||
|
|
"belittlement",
|
||
|
|
"denigration",
|
||
|
|
"disparagement",
|
||
|
|
"cattiness",
|
||
|
|
"despite",
|
||
|
|
"hatefulness",
|
||
|
|
"malevolence",
|
||
|
|
"malice",
|
||
|
|
"maliciousness",
|
||
|
|
"malignancy",
|
||
|
|
"malignity",
|
||
|
|
"meanness",
|
||
|
|
"nastiness",
|
||
|
|
"spite",
|
||
|
|
"spitefulness",
|
||
|
|
"spleen",
|
||
|
|
"venom",
|
||
|
|
"viciousness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acclaim",
|
||
|
|
"accolade",
|
||
|
|
"applause",
|
||
|
|
"commendation",
|
||
|
|
"praise",
|
||
|
|
"esteem",
|
||
|
|
"honor",
|
||
|
|
"respect",
|
||
|
|
"adulation",
|
||
|
|
"flattery",
|
||
|
|
"adoration",
|
||
|
|
"reverence",
|
||
|
|
"veneration",
|
||
|
|
"worship"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"of course I want to win the election, but I refuse to defame my opponent in order to do so"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersing",
|
||
|
|
"blackening",
|
||
|
|
"calumniating",
|
||
|
|
"libeling",
|
||
|
|
"libelling",
|
||
|
|
"maligning",
|
||
|
|
"slandering",
|
||
|
|
"smearing",
|
||
|
|
"traducing",
|
||
|
|
"vilifying"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"belittling",
|
||
|
|
"denigrating",
|
||
|
|
"detracting",
|
||
|
|
"disparaging",
|
||
|
|
"discrediting",
|
||
|
|
"disgracing",
|
||
|
|
"dishonoring",
|
||
|
|
"shaming",
|
||
|
|
"abasing",
|
||
|
|
"debasing",
|
||
|
|
"degrading",
|
||
|
|
"humbling",
|
||
|
|
"humiliating",
|
||
|
|
"disdaining",
|
||
|
|
"scorning"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"exalting",
|
||
|
|
"glorifying",
|
||
|
|
"honoring",
|
||
|
|
"acclaiming",
|
||
|
|
"applauding",
|
||
|
|
"commending",
|
||
|
|
"praising",
|
||
|
|
"esteeming",
|
||
|
|
"respecting",
|
||
|
|
"admiring",
|
||
|
|
"regarding",
|
||
|
|
"adoring",
|
||
|
|
"revering",
|
||
|
|
"venerating",
|
||
|
|
"worshipping",
|
||
|
|
"worshiping"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make a claim of wrongdoing against":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"so the harmless old woman was defamed of witchcraft"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accusing",
|
||
|
|
"charging",
|
||
|
|
"criminating",
|
||
|
|
"impeaching",
|
||
|
|
"incriminating",
|
||
|
|
"indicting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blaming",
|
||
|
|
"calling (on)",
|
||
|
|
"castigating",
|
||
|
|
"censuring",
|
||
|
|
"condemning",
|
||
|
|
"criticizing",
|
||
|
|
"damning",
|
||
|
|
"denouncing",
|
||
|
|
"faulting",
|
||
|
|
"impugning",
|
||
|
|
"reproaching",
|
||
|
|
"reprobating",
|
||
|
|
"chiding",
|
||
|
|
"rebuking",
|
||
|
|
"reproving",
|
||
|
|
"taxing",
|
||
|
|
"appealing",
|
||
|
|
"arraigning",
|
||
|
|
"booking",
|
||
|
|
"citing",
|
||
|
|
"summoning",
|
||
|
|
"prosecuting",
|
||
|
|
"suing",
|
||
|
|
"trying",
|
||
|
|
"framing",
|
||
|
|
"implicating",
|
||
|
|
"inculpating",
|
||
|
|
"informing (against)",
|
||
|
|
"naming",
|
||
|
|
"reporting",
|
||
|
|
"recriminating",
|
||
|
|
"retaliating"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advocating",
|
||
|
|
"championing",
|
||
|
|
"defending",
|
||
|
|
"excusing",
|
||
|
|
"forgiving",
|
||
|
|
"justifying",
|
||
|
|
"pardoning",
|
||
|
|
"remitting",
|
||
|
|
"shriving"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absolving",
|
||
|
|
"acquitting",
|
||
|
|
"clearing",
|
||
|
|
"exculpating",
|
||
|
|
"exonerating",
|
||
|
|
"vindicating"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforcing":{
|
||
|
|
"as in evicting":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"evicting",
|
||
|
|
"dispossessing",
|
||
|
|
"divesting",
|
||
|
|
"expropriating",
|
||
|
|
"ousting",
|
||
|
|
"disfurnishing",
|
||
|
|
"stripping",
|
||
|
|
"bereaving",
|
||
|
|
"depriving",
|
||
|
|
"disinheriting",
|
||
|
|
"annexing",
|
||
|
|
"appropriating",
|
||
|
|
"commandeering",
|
||
|
|
"impounding",
|
||
|
|
"seizing",
|
||
|
|
"taking over",
|
||
|
|
"usurping"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defacing":{
|
||
|
|
"deliberate damaging or destroying of another's property":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the neo-Nazis' defacing of the synagogue was condemned by the entire community"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defacement",
|
||
|
|
"trashing",
|
||
|
|
"vandalism",
|
||
|
|
"vandalization"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
|
"demolishment",
|
||
|
|
"desecrating",
|
||
|
|
"desecration",
|
||
|
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
|
"ravage",
|
||
|
|
"ravaging",
|
||
|
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
|
"ruination",
|
||
|
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
|
"sabotage",
|
||
|
|
"depredation",
|
||
|
|
"despoiling",
|
||
|
|
"despoilment",
|
||
|
|
"looting",
|
||
|
|
"marauding",
|
||
|
|
"pillage",
|
||
|
|
"pillaging",
|
||
|
|
"plunder",
|
||
|
|
"plundering",
|
||
|
|
"predation",
|
||
|
|
"ransacking",
|
||
|
|
"sacking",
|
||
|
|
"spoliation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conservation",
|
||
|
|
"preservation",
|
||
|
|
"protection",
|
||
|
|
"salvage",
|
||
|
|
"saving"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"trashing",
|
||
|
|
"vandalizing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"desecrating",
|
||
|
|
"violating",
|
||
|
|
"graffitiing",
|
||
|
|
"graffiting",
|
||
|
|
"tagging",
|
||
|
|
"banging up",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"damaging",
|
||
|
|
"harming",
|
||
|
|
"hurting",
|
||
|
|
"impairing",
|
||
|
|
"marring",
|
||
|
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
|
"spoiling",
|
||
|
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
|
"devastating",
|
||
|
|
"ravaging",
|
||
|
|
"ravening",
|
||
|
|
"razing",
|
||
|
|
"ruining",
|
||
|
|
"scourging",
|
||
|
|
"smashing",
|
||
|
|
"tearing down",
|
||
|
|
"totaling",
|
||
|
|
"totalling",
|
||
|
|
"wasting",
|
||
|
|
"wiping out",
|
||
|
|
"wracking",
|
||
|
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
|
"sabotaging",
|
||
|
|
"depredating",
|
||
|
|
"despoiling",
|
||
|
|
"looting",
|
||
|
|
"marauding",
|
||
|
|
"pillaging",
|
||
|
|
"plundering",
|
||
|
|
"ransacking",
|
||
|
|
"sacking",
|
||
|
|
"spoliating"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conserving",
|
||
|
|
"preserving",
|
||
|
|
"protecting",
|
||
|
|
"saving",
|
||
|
|
"salvaging",
|
||
|
|
"building",
|
||
|
|
"rebuilding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"years of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blemishing",
|
||
|
|
"bloodying",
|
||
|
|
"breaking",
|
||
|
|
"compromising",
|
||
|
|
"crabbing",
|
||
|
|
"crippling",
|
||
|
|
"crossing (up)",
|
||
|
|
"damaging",
|
||
|
|
"disfiguring",
|
||
|
|
"endamaging",
|
||
|
|
"flawing",
|
||
|
|
"harming",
|
||
|
|
"hurting",
|
||
|
|
"impairing",
|
||
|
|
"injuring",
|
||
|
|
"marring",
|
||
|
|
"spoiling",
|
||
|
|
"vitiating"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deteriorating",
|
||
|
|
"enervating",
|
||
|
|
"enfeebling",
|
||
|
|
"undermining",
|
||
|
|
"weakening",
|
||
|
|
"eroding",
|
||
|
|
"scouring",
|
||
|
|
"washing out",
|
||
|
|
"wearing (away)",
|
||
|
|
"blighting",
|
||
|
|
"tarnishing",
|
||
|
|
"denting",
|
||
|
|
"dinging",
|
||
|
|
"dinting",
|
||
|
|
"botching",
|
||
|
|
"gumming (up)",
|
||
|
|
"queering",
|
||
|
|
"lacerating",
|
||
|
|
"wounding",
|
||
|
|
"disabling",
|
||
|
|
"hamstringing",
|
||
|
|
"laming",
|
||
|
|
"maiming",
|
||
|
|
"mangling",
|
||
|
|
"mutilating",
|
||
|
|
"tormenting",
|
||
|
|
"torturing",
|
||
|
|
"annihilating",
|
||
|
|
"banging up",
|
||
|
|
"bashing",
|
||
|
|
"battering",
|
||
|
|
"clobbering",
|
||
|
|
"crushing",
|
||
|
|
"dashing",
|
||
|
|
"decimating",
|
||
|
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
|
"desolating",
|
||
|
|
"destroying",
|
||
|
|
"devastating",
|
||
|
|
"doing in",
|
||
|
|
"pulverizing",
|
||
|
|
"razing",
|
||
|
|
"ruining",
|
||
|
|
"scourging",
|
||
|
|
"shattering",
|
||
|
|
"smashing",
|
||
|
|
"tearing down",
|
||
|
|
"totaling",
|
||
|
|
"totalling",
|
||
|
|
"wasting",
|
||
|
|
"wiping out",
|
||
|
|
"wrecking"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"curing",
|
||
|
|
"healing",
|
||
|
|
"helping",
|
||
|
|
"rectifying",
|
||
|
|
"rehabilitating",
|
||
|
|
"remedying",
|
||
|
|
"editing",
|
||
|
|
"remodeling",
|
||
|
|
"revising",
|
||
|
|
"ameliorating",
|
||
|
|
"bettering",
|
||
|
|
"enhancing",
|
||
|
|
"enriching",
|
||
|
|
"improving",
|
||
|
|
"meliorating",
|
||
|
|
"perfecting",
|
||
|
|
"refining"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"doctoring",
|
||
|
|
"fixing",
|
||
|
|
"mending",
|
||
|
|
"patching",
|
||
|
|
"rebuilding",
|
||
|
|
"reconditioning",
|
||
|
|
"reconstructing",
|
||
|
|
"renovating",
|
||
|
|
"repairing",
|
||
|
|
"revamping"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforesting":{
|
||
|
|
"as in denuding , defoliating":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"barking",
|
||
|
|
"flaying",
|
||
|
|
"hulling",
|
||
|
|
"husking",
|
||
|
|
"shelling",
|
||
|
|
"shucking",
|
||
|
|
"skinning",
|
||
|
|
"baring",
|
||
|
|
"clearing",
|
||
|
|
"denuding",
|
||
|
|
"exposing",
|
||
|
|
"scaling",
|
||
|
|
"stripping",
|
||
|
|
"defoliating",
|
||
|
|
"paring"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defenestrate":{
|
||
|
|
"as in pink-slip , terminate":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"ax",
|
||
|
|
"axe",
|
||
|
|
"can",
|
||
|
|
"cashier",
|
||
|
|
"discharge",
|
||
|
|
"fire",
|
||
|
|
"muster out",
|
||
|
|
"pink-slip",
|
||
|
|
"release",
|
||
|
|
"remove",
|
||
|
|
"retire",
|
||
|
|
"sack",
|
||
|
|
"terminate",
|
||
|
|
"deforce",
|
||
|
|
"deport",
|
||
|
|
"displace",
|
||
|
|
"dispossess",
|
||
|
|
"evict",
|
||
|
|
"exile",
|
||
|
|
"expatriate",
|
||
|
|
"ostracize",
|
||
|
|
"read out",
|
||
|
|
"shut out",
|
||
|
|
"banish",
|
||
|
|
"boot (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bounce",
|
||
|
|
"cast out",
|
||
|
|
"chase",
|
||
|
|
"dismiss",
|
||
|
|
"drum (out)",
|
||
|
|
"eject",
|
||
|
|
"expel",
|
||
|
|
"extrude",
|
||
|
|
"kick out",
|
||
|
|
"oust",
|
||
|
|
"out",
|
||
|
|
"rout",
|
||
|
|
"run off",
|
||
|
|
"throw out",
|
||
|
|
"turf (out)",
|
||
|
|
"turn out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accept",
|
||
|
|
"admit",
|
||
|
|
"receive",
|
||
|
|
"take",
|
||
|
|
"take in",
|
||
|
|
"welcome",
|
||
|
|
"entertain",
|
||
|
|
"harbor",
|
||
|
|
"house",
|
||
|
|
"lodge",
|
||
|
|
"shelter"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defends":{
|
||
|
|
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a solemn oath to defend the mother country at any cost"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bulwarks",
|
||
|
|
"covers",
|
||
|
|
"fences",
|
||
|
|
"fends",
|
||
|
|
"forfends",
|
||
|
|
"guards",
|
||
|
|
"keeps",
|
||
|
|
"protects",
|
||
|
|
"safeguards",
|
||
|
|
"screens",
|
||
|
|
"secures",
|
||
|
|
"shields",
|
||
|
|
"wards"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"averts",
|
||
|
|
"prevents",
|
||
|
|
"opposes",
|
||
|
|
"resists",
|
||
|
|
"withstands",
|
||
|
|
"battles",
|
||
|
|
"contends",
|
||
|
|
"fights",
|
||
|
|
"wars",
|
||
|
|
"conserves",
|
||
|
|
"preserves",
|
||
|
|
"saves",
|
||
|
|
"buffers",
|
||
|
|
"palisades",
|
||
|
|
"pickets",
|
||
|
|
"walls"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bombards",
|
||
|
|
"storms",
|
||
|
|
"besets",
|
||
|
|
"besieges",
|
||
|
|
"overruns",
|
||
|
|
"capitulates",
|
||
|
|
"caves",
|
||
|
|
"submits",
|
||
|
|
"yields"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"assails",
|
||
|
|
"assaults",
|
||
|
|
"attacks"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"she will pigheadedly defend any claim regardless of all evidence to the contrary"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"justifies",
|
||
|
|
"maintains",
|
||
|
|
"supports",
|
||
|
|
"upholds"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advocates",
|
||
|
|
"champions",
|
||
|
|
"espouses",
|
||
|
|
"confirms",
|
||
|
|
"vindicates",
|
||
|
|
"warrants",
|
||
|
|
"affirms",
|
||
|
|
"asserts",
|
||
|
|
"avers",
|
||
|
|
"avouches",
|
||
|
|
"avows",
|
||
|
|
"claims",
|
||
|
|
"contends",
|
||
|
|
"insists",
|
||
|
|
"pleads",
|
||
|
|
"proclaims",
|
||
|
|
"professes",
|
||
|
|
"protests",
|
||
|
|
"states",
|
||
|
|
"argues",
|
||
|
|
"debates",
|
||
|
|
"discusses",
|
||
|
|
"emphasizes",
|
||
|
|
"stresses",
|
||
|
|
"underlines",
|
||
|
|
"underscores"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abandons",
|
||
|
|
"abjures",
|
||
|
|
"forsakes",
|
||
|
|
"recants",
|
||
|
|
"retracts",
|
||
|
|
"takes back",
|
||
|
|
"withdraws",
|
||
|
|
"reverses",
|
||
|
|
"switches",
|
||
|
|
"controverts",
|
||
|
|
"disproves",
|
||
|
|
"rebuts",
|
||
|
|
"refutes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defect":{
|
||
|
|
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the statue has a slight defect on the base, so it's being sold at a discount"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blemish",
|
||
|
|
"blight",
|
||
|
|
"blotch",
|
||
|
|
"deformity",
|
||
|
|
"disfigurement",
|
||
|
|
"excrescence",
|
||
|
|
"excrescency",
|
||
|
|
"fault",
|
||
|
|
"flaw",
|
||
|
|
"imperfection",
|
||
|
|
"mar",
|
||
|
|
"mark",
|
||
|
|
"pockmark",
|
||
|
|
"scar"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abnormality",
|
||
|
|
"distortion",
|
||
|
|
"irregularity",
|
||
|
|
"malformation",
|
||
|
|
"misshape",
|
||
|
|
"bug",
|
||
|
|
"glitch",
|
||
|
|
"kink",
|
||
|
|
"blot",
|
||
|
|
"blur",
|
||
|
|
"spot",
|
||
|
|
"stain",
|
||
|
|
"taint",
|
||
|
|
"damage",
|
||
|
|
"defacement",
|
||
|
|
"impairment",
|
||
|
|
"injury",
|
||
|
|
"failing",
|
||
|
|
"weakness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adornment",
|
||
|
|
"decoration",
|
||
|
|
"embellishment",
|
||
|
|
"enhancement",
|
||
|
|
"ornament"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in emigrate":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"emigrate",
|
||
|
|
"journey",
|
||
|
|
"peregrinate",
|
||
|
|
"pilgrimage",
|
||
|
|
"tour",
|
||
|
|
"travel",
|
||
|
|
"trek",
|
||
|
|
"trip",
|
||
|
|
"voyage",
|
||
|
|
"road-trip",
|
||
|
|
"transfer",
|
||
|
|
"gallivant",
|
||
|
|
"galavant",
|
||
|
|
"hop",
|
||
|
|
"jaunt",
|
||
|
|
"knock (about)",
|
||
|
|
"perambulate",
|
||
|
|
"ramble",
|
||
|
|
"roam",
|
||
|
|
"rove",
|
||
|
|
"traipse",
|
||
|
|
"wander",
|
||
|
|
"migrate",
|
||
|
|
"relocate",
|
||
|
|
"resettle"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrayed":{
|
||
|
|
"to provide money for (something)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"This will defray the costs."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
|
"discharged",
|
||
|
|
"footed",
|
||
|
|
"liquidated",
|
||
|
|
"paid",
|
||
|
|
"paid off",
|
||
|
|
"paid up",
|
||
|
|
"quit",
|
||
|
|
"quitted",
|
||
|
|
"recompensed",
|
||
|
|
"settled",
|
||
|
|
"sprang (for)",
|
||
|
|
"sprung (for)",
|
||
|
|
"stood",
|
||
|
|
"bankrolled",
|
||
|
|
"capitalized",
|
||
|
|
"endowed",
|
||
|
|
"financed",
|
||
|
|
"funded",
|
||
|
|
"staked",
|
||
|
|
"subsidized",
|
||
|
|
"underwrote",
|
||
|
|
"grubstaked",
|
||
|
|
"cofinanced",
|
||
|
|
"co-financed",
|
||
|
|
"refinanced",
|
||
|
|
"advocated",
|
||
|
|
"aided",
|
||
|
|
"backed",
|
||
|
|
"championed",
|
||
|
|
"endorsed",
|
||
|
|
"indorsed",
|
||
|
|
"patronized",
|
||
|
|
"sponsored",
|
||
|
|
"supported",
|
||
|
|
"maintained",
|
||
|
|
"nourished",
|
||
|
|
"provided (for)",
|
||
|
|
"refunded"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defunded"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deficits":{
|
||
|
|
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a growing deficit in the number of hours devoted to sleep"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crunches",
|
||
|
|
"dearths",
|
||
|
|
"deficiencies",
|
||
|
|
"droughts",
|
||
|
|
"drouths",
|
||
|
|
"failures",
|
||
|
|
"famines",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacies",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiencies",
|
||
|
|
"lacks",
|
||
|
|
"lacunae",
|
||
|
|
"lacunas",
|
||
|
|
"paucities",
|
||
|
|
"pinches",
|
||
|
|
"poverties",
|
||
|
|
"scarcities",
|
||
|
|
"shortages",
|
||
|
|
"undersupplies",
|
||
|
|
"wants"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absences",
|
||
|
|
"omissions",
|
||
|
|
"necessities",
|
||
|
|
"needs",
|
||
|
|
"privations"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"excesses",
|
||
|
|
"overabundances",
|
||
|
|
"oversupplies",
|
||
|
|
"surfeits",
|
||
|
|
"surpluses"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abundances",
|
||
|
|
"adequacies",
|
||
|
|
"amplitudes",
|
||
|
|
"opulences",
|
||
|
|
"plenitudes",
|
||
|
|
"plenties",
|
||
|
|
"sufficiencies",
|
||
|
|
"wealths"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defaults":{
|
||
|
|
"as in fails , ignores":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregards",
|
||
|
|
"ignores",
|
||
|
|
"overlooks",
|
||
|
|
"overpasses",
|
||
|
|
"passes over",
|
||
|
|
"pretermits",
|
||
|
|
"slights",
|
||
|
|
"fails",
|
||
|
|
"forgets",
|
||
|
|
"neglects",
|
||
|
|
"omits",
|
||
|
|
"slides",
|
||
|
|
"slips",
|
||
|
|
"skips"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"heeds",
|
||
|
|
"minds",
|
||
|
|
"remembers",
|
||
|
|
"keeps",
|
||
|
|
"observes",
|
||
|
|
"carries out",
|
||
|
|
"does",
|
||
|
|
"executes",
|
||
|
|
"performs",
|
||
|
|
"practices",
|
||
|
|
"practises",
|
||
|
|
"discharges",
|
||
|
|
"fulfills",
|
||
|
|
"fulfils",
|
||
|
|
"meets",
|
||
|
|
"satisfies",
|
||
|
|
"complies (with)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defacement":{
|
||
|
|
"deliberate damaging or destroying of another's property":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the defacement of the school's property ended up costing hundreds of dollars"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defacing",
|
||
|
|
"trashing",
|
||
|
|
"vandalism",
|
||
|
|
"vandalization"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
|
"demolishment",
|
||
|
|
"desecrating",
|
||
|
|
"desecration",
|
||
|
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
|
"ravage",
|
||
|
|
"ravaging",
|
||
|
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
|
"ruination",
|
||
|
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
|
"sabotage",
|
||
|
|
"depredation",
|
||
|
|
"despoiling",
|
||
|
|
"despoilment",
|
||
|
|
"looting",
|
||
|
|
"marauding",
|
||
|
|
"pillage",
|
||
|
|
"pillaging",
|
||
|
|
"plunder",
|
||
|
|
"plundering",
|
||
|
|
"predation",
|
||
|
|
"ransacking",
|
||
|
|
"sacking",
|
||
|
|
"spoliation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conservation",
|
||
|
|
"preservation",
|
||
|
|
"protection",
|
||
|
|
"salvage",
|
||
|
|
"saving"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deferentially":{
|
||
|
|
"in a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertion":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"behaved deferentially when approaching someone in authority"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abjectly",
|
||
|
|
"hat in hand",
|
||
|
|
"humbly",
|
||
|
|
"lowly",
|
||
|
|
"meanly",
|
||
|
|
"meekly",
|
||
|
|
"modestly",
|
||
|
|
"sheepishly",
|
||
|
|
"submissively"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"obsequiously",
|
||
|
|
"servilely",
|
||
|
|
"subserviently",
|
||
|
|
"fearfully",
|
||
|
|
"mousily",
|
||
|
|
"timidly",
|
||
|
|
"bashfully",
|
||
|
|
"diffidently",
|
||
|
|
"self-deprecatingly",
|
||
|
|
"shyly",
|
||
|
|
"timorously",
|
||
|
|
"civilly",
|
||
|
|
"courteously",
|
||
|
|
"politely",
|
||
|
|
"respectfully",
|
||
|
|
"suppliantly"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"fearlessly",
|
||
|
|
"discourteously",
|
||
|
|
"disdainfully",
|
||
|
|
"disrespectfully",
|
||
|
|
"impertinently",
|
||
|
|
"rashly",
|
||
|
|
"recklessly",
|
||
|
|
"saucily",
|
||
|
|
"bitchily",
|
||
|
|
"impolitely",
|
||
|
|
"impudently",
|
||
|
|
"rudely",
|
||
|
|
"uncivilly",
|
||
|
|
"ungraciously"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"arrogantly",
|
||
|
|
"audaciously",
|
||
|
|
"boldly",
|
||
|
|
"brashly",
|
||
|
|
"brazenly",
|
||
|
|
"contemptuously",
|
||
|
|
"haughtily",
|
||
|
|
"huffily",
|
||
|
|
"imperiously",
|
||
|
|
"loftily",
|
||
|
|
"pompously",
|
||
|
|
"presumptuously",
|
||
|
|
"pretentiously",
|
||
|
|
"pridefully",
|
||
|
|
"proudly",
|
||
|
|
"scornfully",
|
||
|
|
"self-importantly",
|
||
|
|
"superciliously",
|
||
|
|
"swaggeringly",
|
||
|
|
"uppishly"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adverb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrauder":{
|
||
|
|
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the state's department of consumer protection has to contend with defrauders of every ilk"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bilk",
|
||
|
|
"bilker",
|
||
|
|
"cheat",
|
||
|
|
"cheater",
|
||
|
|
"chiseler",
|
||
|
|
"chiseller",
|
||
|
|
"confidence man",
|
||
|
|
"cozener",
|
||
|
|
"dodger",
|
||
|
|
"fakir",
|
||
|
|
"finagler",
|
||
|
|
"fraudster",
|
||
|
|
"hoaxer",
|
||
|
|
"scammer",
|
||
|
|
"scamster",
|
||
|
|
"shark",
|
||
|
|
"sharper",
|
||
|
|
"sharpie",
|
||
|
|
"sharpy",
|
||
|
|
"skinner",
|
||
|
|
"swindler",
|
||
|
|
"tricker",
|
||
|
|
"trickster"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"double-crosser",
|
||
|
|
"double-dealer",
|
||
|
|
"bluffer",
|
||
|
|
"charlatan",
|
||
|
|
"fake",
|
||
|
|
"faker",
|
||
|
|
"humbug",
|
||
|
|
"impostor",
|
||
|
|
"imposter",
|
||
|
|
"mountebank",
|
||
|
|
"phony",
|
||
|
|
"phoney",
|
||
|
|
"pretender",
|
||
|
|
"quack",
|
||
|
|
"quacksalver",
|
||
|
|
"ringer",
|
||
|
|
"sham",
|
||
|
|
"adventurer",
|
||
|
|
"fox",
|
||
|
|
"gamesman",
|
||
|
|
"knave",
|
||
|
|
"prankster",
|
||
|
|
"rascal",
|
||
|
|
"rogue",
|
||
|
|
"fast-talker",
|
||
|
|
"slick",
|
||
|
|
"slicker",
|
||
|
|
"slickster",
|
||
|
|
"slyboots",
|
||
|
|
"smoothy",
|
||
|
|
"smoothie",
|
||
|
|
"wheeler-dealer",
|
||
|
|
"plotter",
|
||
|
|
"schemer",
|
||
|
|
"sneak",
|
||
|
|
"sneaker",
|
||
|
|
"blackleg",
|
||
|
|
"cardsharp",
|
||
|
|
"cardsharper"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defiles":{
|
||
|
|
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the cattle, once they were cornered in the defile , were quickly rounded up"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"canyons",
|
||
|
|
"ca\u00f1ons",
|
||
|
|
"cols",
|
||
|
|
"couloirs",
|
||
|
|
"flumes",
|
||
|
|
"gaps",
|
||
|
|
"gills",
|
||
|
|
"gorges",
|
||
|
|
"gulches",
|
||
|
|
"gulfs",
|
||
|
|
"kloofs",
|
||
|
|
"linns",
|
||
|
|
"notches",
|
||
|
|
"passes",
|
||
|
|
"ravines",
|
||
|
|
"saddles"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abysses",
|
||
|
|
"chasms",
|
||
|
|
"cirques",
|
||
|
|
"clefts",
|
||
|
|
"crevasses",
|
||
|
|
"crevices",
|
||
|
|
"cwms",
|
||
|
|
"fissures",
|
||
|
|
"combes",
|
||
|
|
"coombes",
|
||
|
|
"coombs",
|
||
|
|
"dales",
|
||
|
|
"dells",
|
||
|
|
"glens",
|
||
|
|
"hollows",
|
||
|
|
"shut-ins",
|
||
|
|
"vales",
|
||
|
|
"valleys",
|
||
|
|
"basins",
|
||
|
|
"floodplains",
|
||
|
|
"kettles",
|
||
|
|
"arroyos",
|
||
|
|
"barrancas",
|
||
|
|
"barrancos",
|
||
|
|
"coulees",
|
||
|
|
"draws",
|
||
|
|
"gullies",
|
||
|
|
"gulleys",
|
||
|
|
"gutters",
|
||
|
|
"nullahs",
|
||
|
|
"trenches",
|
||
|
|
"troughs",
|
||
|
|
"wadis",
|
||
|
|
"washes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"supplies of meat that had been defiled by maggots"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"befouls",
|
||
|
|
"contaminates",
|
||
|
|
"fouls",
|
||
|
|
"poisons",
|
||
|
|
"pollutes",
|
||
|
|
"taints"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"infects",
|
||
|
|
"begrimes",
|
||
|
|
"besmirches",
|
||
|
|
"blackens",
|
||
|
|
"dirties",
|
||
|
|
"fouls up",
|
||
|
|
"grimes",
|
||
|
|
"mires",
|
||
|
|
"muddies",
|
||
|
|
"smirches",
|
||
|
|
"smudges",
|
||
|
|
"soils",
|
||
|
|
"stains",
|
||
|
|
"sullies",
|
||
|
|
"corrupts",
|
||
|
|
"rots",
|
||
|
|
"spoils",
|
||
|
|
"adulterates",
|
||
|
|
"doctors",
|
||
|
|
"dilutes",
|
||
|
|
"waters down"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clarifies",
|
||
|
|
"cleans",
|
||
|
|
"cleanses",
|
||
|
|
"clears",
|
||
|
|
"distills",
|
||
|
|
"distils",
|
||
|
|
"purges",
|
||
|
|
"filters",
|
||
|
|
"disinfects",
|
||
|
|
"sanitizes",
|
||
|
|
"sterilizes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"decontaminates",
|
||
|
|
"purifies"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"art conservators were careful not to do anything that might defile the holy relic"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"desecrates",
|
||
|
|
"profanes",
|
||
|
|
"violates"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deconsecrates",
|
||
|
|
"desacralizes",
|
||
|
|
"desanctifies",
|
||
|
|
"blasphemes",
|
||
|
|
"curses",
|
||
|
|
"swears",
|
||
|
|
"befouls",
|
||
|
|
"contaminates",
|
||
|
|
"fouls",
|
||
|
|
"poisons",
|
||
|
|
"pollutes",
|
||
|
|
"soils",
|
||
|
|
"sullies",
|
||
|
|
"taints",
|
||
|
|
"affronts",
|
||
|
|
"defames",
|
||
|
|
"insults",
|
||
|
|
"offends",
|
||
|
|
"outrages",
|
||
|
|
"annihilates",
|
||
|
|
"crushes",
|
||
|
|
"decimates",
|
||
|
|
"demolishes",
|
||
|
|
"desolates",
|
||
|
|
"destroys",
|
||
|
|
"devastates",
|
||
|
|
"ravages",
|
||
|
|
"razes",
|
||
|
|
"ruins",
|
||
|
|
"wastes",
|
||
|
|
"wrecks",
|
||
|
|
"despoils",
|
||
|
|
"loots",
|
||
|
|
"pillages",
|
||
|
|
"plunders",
|
||
|
|
"raids",
|
||
|
|
"ransacks",
|
||
|
|
"robs",
|
||
|
|
"sacks",
|
||
|
|
"spoils",
|
||
|
|
"strips"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blesses",
|
||
|
|
"consecrates",
|
||
|
|
"dedicates",
|
||
|
|
"hallows",
|
||
|
|
"sanctifies",
|
||
|
|
"honors",
|
||
|
|
"respects",
|
||
|
|
"cleanses",
|
||
|
|
"purges",
|
||
|
|
"purifies"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeatists":{
|
||
|
|
"one who emphasizes bad aspects or conditions and expects the worst":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"we told her that if she was going to be such a defeatist , she should keep her thoughts to herself"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"pessimists"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"Cassandras",
|
||
|
|
"Jeremiahs",
|
||
|
|
"cynics",
|
||
|
|
"fatalists",
|
||
|
|
"nihilists",
|
||
|
|
"hardnoses",
|
||
|
|
"pragmatists",
|
||
|
|
"realists",
|
||
|
|
"anti-utopians",
|
||
|
|
"knockers",
|
||
|
|
"naysayers",
|
||
|
|
"worriers",
|
||
|
|
"worrywarts"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"Don Quixotes",
|
||
|
|
"dreamers",
|
||
|
|
"fantasts",
|
||
|
|
"idealists",
|
||
|
|
"idealizers",
|
||
|
|
"ideologues",
|
||
|
|
"idealogues",
|
||
|
|
"romanticists",
|
||
|
|
"romantics",
|
||
|
|
"utopians",
|
||
|
|
"visionaries",
|
||
|
|
"sentimentalists"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"optimists",
|
||
|
|
"Pollyannas"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflection":{
|
||
|
|
"a turning away from a course or standard":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a stern father who would not tolerate the slightest deflection from the strict moral code that he imposed on his children"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"departure",
|
||
|
|
"detour",
|
||
|
|
"deviation",
|
||
|
|
"divagation",
|
||
|
|
"divergence",
|
||
|
|
"divergency",
|
||
|
|
"diversion"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"regression",
|
||
|
|
"retrogression",
|
||
|
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"reversion"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adherence"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defects (from)":{
|
||
|
|
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"soldiers defected from the rebel army en masse as the failure of their cause became apparent"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deserts",
|
||
|
|
"rats (on)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abandons",
|
||
|
|
"abdicates",
|
||
|
|
"abjures",
|
||
|
|
"apostatizes",
|
||
|
|
"cuts off",
|
||
|
|
"disowns",
|
||
|
|
"forsakes",
|
||
|
|
"quits",
|
||
|
|
"rejects",
|
||
|
|
"renounces",
|
||
|
|
"repudiates",
|
||
|
|
"spurns",
|
||
|
|
"reneges",
|
||
|
|
"departs",
|
||
|
|
"goes",
|
||
|
|
"leaves",
|
||
|
|
"withdraws"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"adheres (to)",
|
||
|
|
"clings (to)",
|
||
|
|
"sticks (to or with)",
|
||
|
|
"cherishes",
|
||
|
|
"cultivates",
|
||
|
|
"fosters"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforests":{
|
||
|
|
"as in denudes , defoliates":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"barks",
|
||
|
|
"flays",
|
||
|
|
"hulls",
|
||
|
|
"husks",
|
||
|
|
"shells",
|
||
|
|
"shucks",
|
||
|
|
"skins",
|
||
|
|
"bares",
|
||
|
|
"clears",
|
||
|
|
"denudes",
|
||
|
|
"exposes",
|
||
|
|
"scales",
|
||
|
|
"strips",
|
||
|
|
"defoliates",
|
||
|
|
"pares"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defaulted (on)":{
|
||
|
|
"as in ignored , broke":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregarded",
|
||
|
|
"forgot",
|
||
|
|
"ignored",
|
||
|
|
"neglected",
|
||
|
|
"overlooked",
|
||
|
|
"overpassed",
|
||
|
|
"passed over",
|
||
|
|
"slighted",
|
||
|
|
"breached",
|
||
|
|
"broke",
|
||
|
|
"transgressed",
|
||
|
|
"violated"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"answered",
|
||
|
|
"completed",
|
||
|
|
"complied (with)",
|
||
|
|
"filled",
|
||
|
|
"fulfilled",
|
||
|
|
"kept",
|
||
|
|
"met",
|
||
|
|
"redeemed",
|
||
|
|
"satisfied",
|
||
|
|
"concluded",
|
||
|
|
"consummated",
|
||
|
|
"finalized",
|
||
|
|
"finished",
|
||
|
|
"perfected",
|
||
|
|
"accomplished",
|
||
|
|
"achieved",
|
||
|
|
"brought about",
|
||
|
|
"brought off",
|
||
|
|
"carried out",
|
||
|
|
"effected"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defender":{
|
||
|
|
"someone that protects":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"one of the traditional roles of an older brother is that of schoolyard defender"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"custodian",
|
||
|
|
"guard",
|
||
|
|
"guardian",
|
||
|
|
"guardian angel",
|
||
|
|
"protection",
|
||
|
|
"protector"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bodyguard",
|
||
|
|
"champion",
|
||
|
|
"lookout",
|
||
|
|
"sentinel",
|
||
|
|
"sentry",
|
||
|
|
"warden",
|
||
|
|
"warder",
|
||
|
|
"watch",
|
||
|
|
"watchdog",
|
||
|
|
"watchman",
|
||
|
|
"conserver",
|
||
|
|
"harborer",
|
||
|
|
"keeper",
|
||
|
|
"preserver",
|
||
|
|
"saver"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defied":{
|
||
|
|
"to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"in those days a woman was brave if she defied fashion and wore white after Labor Day"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobeyed",
|
||
|
|
"mocked",
|
||
|
|
"rebelled (against)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobliged",
|
||
|
|
"mutinied (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolted (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disregarded",
|
||
|
|
"ignored",
|
||
|
|
"overlooked",
|
||
|
|
"overpassed",
|
||
|
|
"passed over",
|
||
|
|
"tuned out",
|
||
|
|
"brushed (off)",
|
||
|
|
"dismissed",
|
||
|
|
"flouted",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-poohed",
|
||
|
|
"poohed",
|
||
|
|
"rejected",
|
||
|
|
"scoffed (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorned",
|
||
|
|
"shrugged off",
|
||
|
|
"winked (at)",
|
||
|
|
"breached",
|
||
|
|
"broke",
|
||
|
|
"infringed",
|
||
|
|
"transgressed",
|
||
|
|
"violated",
|
||
|
|
"bucked",
|
||
|
|
"combated",
|
||
|
|
"combatted",
|
||
|
|
"contested",
|
||
|
|
"disputed",
|
||
|
|
"fought",
|
||
|
|
"opposed",
|
||
|
|
"resisted",
|
||
|
|
"withstood"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"capitulated (to)",
|
||
|
|
"conceded (to)",
|
||
|
|
"deferred (to)",
|
||
|
|
"goose-stepped (to)",
|
||
|
|
"served",
|
||
|
|
"stooped (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submitted (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrendered (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yielded (to)",
|
||
|
|
"cooperated (with)",
|
||
|
|
"kept",
|
||
|
|
"observed",
|
||
|
|
"acceded (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiesced (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agreed (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assented (to)",
|
||
|
|
"obliged",
|
||
|
|
"attended",
|
||
|
|
"heard",
|
||
|
|
"heeded",
|
||
|
|
"listened (to)",
|
||
|
|
"marked",
|
||
|
|
"noted",
|
||
|
|
"noticed",
|
||
|
|
"regarded",
|
||
|
|
"watched"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"complied (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conformed (to)",
|
||
|
|
"followed",
|
||
|
|
"minded",
|
||
|
|
"obeyed"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"after missing the target, she defied her boyfriend to do better"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"challenged",
|
||
|
|
"dared",
|
||
|
|
"stumped"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bearded",
|
||
|
|
"braved",
|
||
|
|
"brazened",
|
||
|
|
"breasted",
|
||
|
|
"confronted",
|
||
|
|
"faced",
|
||
|
|
"outbraved",
|
||
|
|
"outfaced"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a rescue team willing to defy the raging storm"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bearded",
|
||
|
|
"braved",
|
||
|
|
"brazened",
|
||
|
|
"breasted",
|
||
|
|
"confronted",
|
||
|
|
"dared",
|
||
|
|
"faced",
|
||
|
|
"outbraved",
|
||
|
|
"outfaced"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"faced up (to)",
|
||
|
|
"fronted",
|
||
|
|
"affronted",
|
||
|
|
"challenged",
|
||
|
|
"encountered",
|
||
|
|
"met",
|
||
|
|
"accosted",
|
||
|
|
"approached",
|
||
|
|
"cornered",
|
||
|
|
"repelled",
|
||
|
|
"resisted",
|
||
|
|
"stood",
|
||
|
|
"withstood",
|
||
|
|
"battled",
|
||
|
|
"combated",
|
||
|
|
"combatted",
|
||
|
|
"contended (with)",
|
||
|
|
"fought",
|
||
|
|
"opposed",
|
||
|
|
"squared (off)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"avoided",
|
||
|
|
"eschewed",
|
||
|
|
"shunned",
|
||
|
|
"eluded",
|
||
|
|
"escaped",
|
||
|
|
"evaded",
|
||
|
|
"shook"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"dodged",
|
||
|
|
"ducked",
|
||
|
|
"funked",
|
||
|
|
"shirked",
|
||
|
|
"sidestepped"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to refuse to give in to":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a bicyclist who regularly defies illness and infirmity in order to compete in races"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bucked",
|
||
|
|
"fought",
|
||
|
|
"opposed",
|
||
|
|
"repelled",
|
||
|
|
"resisted",
|
||
|
|
"withstood"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"battled",
|
||
|
|
"combated",
|
||
|
|
"combatted",
|
||
|
|
"contended (with)",
|
||
|
|
"challenged",
|
||
|
|
"contested",
|
||
|
|
"contradicted",
|
||
|
|
"disputed",
|
||
|
|
"baffled",
|
||
|
|
"balked",
|
||
|
|
"foiled",
|
||
|
|
"frustrated",
|
||
|
|
"thwarted",
|
||
|
|
"checked",
|
||
|
|
"countered",
|
||
|
|
"hindered",
|
||
|
|
"obstructed",
|
||
|
|
"stemmed"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bowed (to)",
|
||
|
|
"capitulated (to)",
|
||
|
|
"gave in (to)",
|
||
|
|
"knuckled under (to)",
|
||
|
|
"stooped (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submitted (to)",
|
||
|
|
"succumbed (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrendered (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yielded (to)"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforces":{
|
||
|
|
"as in evicts":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"evicts",
|
||
|
|
"dispossesses",
|
||
|
|
"divests",
|
||
|
|
"expropriates",
|
||
|
|
"ousts",
|
||
|
|
"disfurnishes",
|
||
|
|
"strips",
|
||
|
|
"bereaves",
|
||
|
|
"deprives",
|
||
|
|
"disinherits",
|
||
|
|
"annexes",
|
||
|
|
"appropriates",
|
||
|
|
"commandeers",
|
||
|
|
"impounds",
|
||
|
|
"seizes",
|
||
|
|
"takes over",
|
||
|
|
"usurps"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defamer":{
|
||
|
|
"as in libeler , libelist":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"calumniator",
|
||
|
|
"libeler",
|
||
|
|
"libelist",
|
||
|
|
"slanderer",
|
||
|
|
"exaggerator",
|
||
|
|
"mythomaniac",
|
||
|
|
"perjurer",
|
||
|
|
"fabricator",
|
||
|
|
"fabulist",
|
||
|
|
"fibber",
|
||
|
|
"liar",
|
||
|
|
"prevaricator",
|
||
|
|
"storyteller",
|
||
|
|
"distorter",
|
||
|
|
"falsifier",
|
||
|
|
"equivocator",
|
||
|
|
"palterer",
|
||
|
|
"gossip",
|
||
|
|
"gossiper",
|
||
|
|
"talebearer",
|
||
|
|
"charlatan",
|
||
|
|
"cheat",
|
||
|
|
"cheater",
|
||
|
|
"counterfeiter",
|
||
|
|
"cozener",
|
||
|
|
"deceiver",
|
||
|
|
"defrauder",
|
||
|
|
"dissembler",
|
||
|
|
"dissimulator",
|
||
|
|
"double-dealer",
|
||
|
|
"fraud",
|
||
|
|
"hustler",
|
||
|
|
"knave",
|
||
|
|
"mountebank",
|
||
|
|
"operator",
|
||
|
|
"pretender"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"square shooter"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defenestrates":{
|
||
|
|
"as in pink-slips , terminates":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"axes",
|
||
|
|
"cans",
|
||
|
|
"cashiers",
|
||
|
|
"discharges",
|
||
|
|
"fires",
|
||
|
|
"musters out",
|
||
|
|
"pink-slips",
|
||
|
|
"releases",
|
||
|
|
"removes",
|
||
|
|
"retires",
|
||
|
|
"sacks",
|
||
|
|
"terminates",
|
||
|
|
"deforces",
|
||
|
|
"deports",
|
||
|
|
"displaces",
|
||
|
|
"dispossesses",
|
||
|
|
"evicts",
|
||
|
|
"exiles",
|
||
|
|
"expatriates",
|
||
|
|
"ostracizes",
|
||
|
|
"reads out",
|
||
|
|
"shuts out",
|
||
|
|
"banishes",
|
||
|
|
"boots (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bounces",
|
||
|
|
"casts out",
|
||
|
|
"chases",
|
||
|
|
"dismisses",
|
||
|
|
"drums (out)",
|
||
|
|
"ejects",
|
||
|
|
"expels",
|
||
|
|
"extrudes",
|
||
|
|
"kicks out",
|
||
|
|
"ousts",
|
||
|
|
"outs",
|
||
|
|
"routs",
|
||
|
|
"runs off",
|
||
|
|
"throws out",
|
||
|
|
"turfs (out)",
|
||
|
|
"turns out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accepts",
|
||
|
|
"admits",
|
||
|
|
"receives",
|
||
|
|
"takes",
|
||
|
|
"takes in",
|
||
|
|
"welcomes",
|
||
|
|
"entertains",
|
||
|
|
"harbors",
|
||
|
|
"houses",
|
||
|
|
"lodges",
|
||
|
|
"shelters"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrocking":{
|
||
|
|
"to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the movie's director was defrocked for going way over budget"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deposing",
|
||
|
|
"depriving",
|
||
|
|
"dethroning",
|
||
|
|
"displacing",
|
||
|
|
"ousting",
|
||
|
|
"uncrowning",
|
||
|
|
"unmaking",
|
||
|
|
"unseating",
|
||
|
|
"unthroning"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"canning",
|
||
|
|
"cashiering",
|
||
|
|
"discharging",
|
||
|
|
"dismissing",
|
||
|
|
"firing",
|
||
|
|
"mustering out",
|
||
|
|
"removing",
|
||
|
|
"retiring",
|
||
|
|
"sacking",
|
||
|
|
"overthrowing",
|
||
|
|
"subverting",
|
||
|
|
"supplanting",
|
||
|
|
"toppling",
|
||
|
|
"usurping",
|
||
|
|
"banishing",
|
||
|
|
"booting (out)",
|
||
|
|
"bouncing",
|
||
|
|
"casting out",
|
||
|
|
"chasing",
|
||
|
|
"drumming (out)",
|
||
|
|
"ejecting",
|
||
|
|
"expelling",
|
||
|
|
"extruding",
|
||
|
|
"routing",
|
||
|
|
"running off",
|
||
|
|
"throwing out"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"baptizing",
|
||
|
|
"baptising",
|
||
|
|
"inaugurating",
|
||
|
|
"inducting",
|
||
|
|
"initiating",
|
||
|
|
"installing",
|
||
|
|
"instating",
|
||
|
|
"investing",
|
||
|
|
"appointing",
|
||
|
|
"designating",
|
||
|
|
"electing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crowning",
|
||
|
|
"enthroning",
|
||
|
|
"throning"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deferral":{
|
||
|
|
"the act of delaying or deferring something":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a tax deferral"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deferment",
|
||
|
|
"postponement",
|
||
|
|
"delay",
|
||
|
|
"detainment",
|
||
|
|
"detention",
|
||
|
|
"holdback",
|
||
|
|
"holding pattern",
|
||
|
|
"holdup",
|
||
|
|
"wait",
|
||
|
|
"reprieve",
|
||
|
|
"respite",
|
||
|
|
"foot-dragging",
|
||
|
|
"hesitation",
|
||
|
|
"lag",
|
||
|
|
"pause",
|
||
|
|
"setback",
|
||
|
|
"slowdown"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"haste",
|
||
|
|
"rush",
|
||
|
|
"dispatch",
|
||
|
|
"promptitude",
|
||
|
|
"promptness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defenses":{
|
||
|
|
"means or method of defending":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"thorns are a rose's defense against grazing animals"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aegises",
|
||
|
|
"egises",
|
||
|
|
"ammunitions",
|
||
|
|
"armors",
|
||
|
|
"bucklers",
|
||
|
|
"covers",
|
||
|
|
"guards",
|
||
|
|
"protections",
|
||
|
|
"safeguards",
|
||
|
|
"screens",
|
||
|
|
"securities",
|
||
|
|
"shields",
|
||
|
|
"walls",
|
||
|
|
"wards"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"armaments",
|
||
|
|
"arms",
|
||
|
|
"munitions",
|
||
|
|
"weaponries",
|
||
|
|
"weapons",
|
||
|
|
"fortresses",
|
||
|
|
"forts",
|
||
|
|
"palisades",
|
||
|
|
"strongholds"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aggressions",
|
||
|
|
"assaults",
|
||
|
|
"attacks",
|
||
|
|
"offenses",
|
||
|
|
"offences",
|
||
|
|
"offensives"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"an explanation that frees one from fault or blame":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"there's absolutely no defense for your actions"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"alibis",
|
||
|
|
"apologies",
|
||
|
|
"excuses",
|
||
|
|
"justifications",
|
||
|
|
"pleas",
|
||
|
|
"reasons"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"colors",
|
||
|
|
"guises",
|
||
|
|
"pretenses",
|
||
|
|
"pretences",
|
||
|
|
"pretexts",
|
||
|
|
"rationales",
|
||
|
|
"rationalizations",
|
||
|
|
"vindications",
|
||
|
|
"whitewashes",
|
||
|
|
"cop-outs",
|
||
|
|
"outs",
|
||
|
|
"acknowledgments",
|
||
|
|
"acknowledgements",
|
||
|
|
"atonements",
|
||
|
|
"confessions",
|
||
|
|
"extenuations",
|
||
|
|
"palliations"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defeatist":{
|
||
|
|
"emphasizing or expecting the worst":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"your defeatist attitude is depressing everyone else on the team!"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bearish",
|
||
|
|
"despairing",
|
||
|
|
"downbeat",
|
||
|
|
"hopeless",
|
||
|
|
"pessimistic"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"cynical",
|
||
|
|
"fatalistic",
|
||
|
|
"nihilist",
|
||
|
|
"nihilistic",
|
||
|
|
"desperate",
|
||
|
|
"discouraging",
|
||
|
|
"disheartening",
|
||
|
|
"inauspicious",
|
||
|
|
"unlikely",
|
||
|
|
"unpromising",
|
||
|
|
"bleak",
|
||
|
|
"cheerless",
|
||
|
|
"comfortless",
|
||
|
|
"depressing",
|
||
|
|
"desolate",
|
||
|
|
"dismal",
|
||
|
|
"dreary",
|
||
|
|
"funereal",
|
||
|
|
"gloomy",
|
||
|
|
"morose",
|
||
|
|
"saturnine",
|
||
|
|
"sepulchral",
|
||
|
|
"somber",
|
||
|
|
"sombre",
|
||
|
|
"sullen",
|
||
|
|
"grim",
|
||
|
|
"contrary",
|
||
|
|
"hostile",
|
||
|
|
"negative"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"auspicious",
|
||
|
|
"bright",
|
||
|
|
"encouraging",
|
||
|
|
"fair",
|
||
|
|
"golden",
|
||
|
|
"heartening",
|
||
|
|
"likely",
|
||
|
|
"promising",
|
||
|
|
"propitious",
|
||
|
|
"cheering",
|
||
|
|
"comforting",
|
||
|
|
"reassuring",
|
||
|
|
"favorable",
|
||
|
|
"good",
|
||
|
|
"positive",
|
||
|
|
"idealist",
|
||
|
|
"romantic",
|
||
|
|
"utopian",
|
||
|
|
"visionary",
|
||
|
|
"cheerful",
|
||
|
|
"cheery",
|
||
|
|
"chipper",
|
||
|
|
"sunny"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"hopeful",
|
||
|
|
"optimistic",
|
||
|
|
"Panglossian",
|
||
|
|
"Pollyanna",
|
||
|
|
"Pollyannaish",
|
||
|
|
"Pollyannish",
|
||
|
|
"rose-colored",
|
||
|
|
"rosy",
|
||
|
|
"upbeat"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"one who emphasizes bad aspects or conditions and expects the worst":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"we told her that if she was going to be such a defeatist , she should keep her thoughts to herself"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"pessimist"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"Cassandra",
|
||
|
|
"Jeremiah",
|
||
|
|
"cynic",
|
||
|
|
"fatalist",
|
||
|
|
"nihilist",
|
||
|
|
"hardnose",
|
||
|
|
"pragmatist",
|
||
|
|
"realist",
|
||
|
|
"anti-utopian",
|
||
|
|
"knocker",
|
||
|
|
"naysayer",
|
||
|
|
"worrier",
|
||
|
|
"worrywart"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"Don Quixote",
|
||
|
|
"dreamer",
|
||
|
|
"fantast",
|
||
|
|
"idealist",
|
||
|
|
"idealizer",
|
||
|
|
"ideologue",
|
||
|
|
"idealogue",
|
||
|
|
"romantic",
|
||
|
|
"romanticist",
|
||
|
|
"utopian",
|
||
|
|
"visionary",
|
||
|
|
"sentimentalist"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"optimist",
|
||
|
|
"Pollyanna"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defunding":{
|
||
|
|
"as in disendowing":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disendowing",
|
||
|
|
"drawing",
|
||
|
|
"receiving",
|
||
|
|
"subsisting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"endowing",
|
||
|
|
"financing",
|
||
|
|
"funding",
|
||
|
|
"subsidizing",
|
||
|
|
"establishing",
|
||
|
|
"founding",
|
||
|
|
"organizing",
|
||
|
|
"bequeathing",
|
||
|
|
"contributing",
|
||
|
|
"donating",
|
||
|
|
"subscribing",
|
||
|
|
"supporting",
|
||
|
|
"underwriting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defiled":{
|
||
|
|
"as in polluted , tainted":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"contaminated",
|
||
|
|
"germy",
|
||
|
|
"impure",
|
||
|
|
"polluted",
|
||
|
|
"tainted",
|
||
|
|
"bedraggled",
|
||
|
|
"befouled",
|
||
|
|
"begrimed",
|
||
|
|
"bemired",
|
||
|
|
"besmirched",
|
||
|
|
"black",
|
||
|
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
|
"cruddy",
|
||
|
|
"dingy",
|
||
|
|
"dirty",
|
||
|
|
"draggled",
|
||
|
|
"dusty",
|
||
|
|
"filthy",
|
||
|
|
"foul",
|
||
|
|
"grimy",
|
||
|
|
"grotty",
|
||
|
|
"grubby",
|
||
|
|
"grungy",
|
||
|
|
"mucky",
|
||
|
|
"muddy",
|
||
|
|
"nasty",
|
||
|
|
"smudged",
|
||
|
|
"smutty",
|
||
|
|
"soiled",
|
||
|
|
"sordid",
|
||
|
|
"stained",
|
||
|
|
"sullied",
|
||
|
|
"unclean",
|
||
|
|
"uncleanly",
|
||
|
|
"insanitary",
|
||
|
|
"uncleaned",
|
||
|
|
"unsanitary",
|
||
|
|
"unsterile",
|
||
|
|
"unsterilized",
|
||
|
|
"unwashed",
|
||
|
|
"greasy",
|
||
|
|
"gunky",
|
||
|
|
"chaotic",
|
||
|
|
"cluttered",
|
||
|
|
"confused",
|
||
|
|
"disarranged",
|
||
|
|
"disarrayed",
|
||
|
|
"disheveled",
|
||
|
|
"dishevelled",
|
||
|
|
"disordered",
|
||
|
|
"jumbled",
|
||
|
|
"littered",
|
||
|
|
"messed",
|
||
|
|
"messy",
|
||
|
|
"muddled",
|
||
|
|
"mussed",
|
||
|
|
"mussy",
|
||
|
|
"rumpled",
|
||
|
|
"scruffy",
|
||
|
|
"sloppy",
|
||
|
|
"slovenly",
|
||
|
|
"unkempt",
|
||
|
|
"untidy",
|
||
|
|
"raunchy",
|
||
|
|
"scuzzy",
|
||
|
|
"shabby",
|
||
|
|
"skanky",
|
||
|
|
"sleazy",
|
||
|
|
"squalid",
|
||
|
|
"collied",
|
||
|
|
"crocked",
|
||
|
|
"fuliginous",
|
||
|
|
"sooty"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clean",
|
||
|
|
"cleanly",
|
||
|
|
"immaculate",
|
||
|
|
"spick-and-span",
|
||
|
|
"spic-and-span",
|
||
|
|
"spotless",
|
||
|
|
"stainless",
|
||
|
|
"ultraclean",
|
||
|
|
"unsoiled",
|
||
|
|
"unstained",
|
||
|
|
"unsullied",
|
||
|
|
"clear",
|
||
|
|
"limpid",
|
||
|
|
"pure",
|
||
|
|
"cleaned",
|
||
|
|
"cleansed",
|
||
|
|
"combed",
|
||
|
|
"groomed",
|
||
|
|
"neat",
|
||
|
|
"ordered",
|
||
|
|
"orderly",
|
||
|
|
"tidy",
|
||
|
|
"bleached",
|
||
|
|
"purified",
|
||
|
|
"whitened",
|
||
|
|
"bright",
|
||
|
|
"flawless",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"shiny",
|
||
|
|
"sparkling",
|
||
|
|
"unspotted",
|
||
|
|
"untouched",
|
||
|
|
"taintless",
|
||
|
|
"unblemished",
|
||
|
|
"undefiled",
|
||
|
|
"unpolluted",
|
||
|
|
"untainted",
|
||
|
|
"virgin",
|
||
|
|
"wholesome"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"supplies of meat that had been defiled by maggots"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"befouled",
|
||
|
|
"contaminated",
|
||
|
|
"fouled",
|
||
|
|
"poisoned",
|
||
|
|
"polluted",
|
||
|
|
"tainted"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"infected",
|
||
|
|
"begrimed",
|
||
|
|
"besmirched",
|
||
|
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
|
"dirtied",
|
||
|
|
"fouled up",
|
||
|
|
"grimed",
|
||
|
|
"mired",
|
||
|
|
"muddied",
|
||
|
|
"smirched",
|
||
|
|
"smudged",
|
||
|
|
"soiled",
|
||
|
|
"stained",
|
||
|
|
"sullied",
|
||
|
|
"corrupted",
|
||
|
|
"rotted",
|
||
|
|
"spoiled",
|
||
|
|
"spoilt",
|
||
|
|
"adulterated",
|
||
|
|
"doctored",
|
||
|
|
"diluted",
|
||
|
|
"watered down"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clarified",
|
||
|
|
"cleaned",
|
||
|
|
"cleansed",
|
||
|
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
|
"distilled",
|
||
|
|
"purged",
|
||
|
|
"filtered",
|
||
|
|
"disinfected",
|
||
|
|
"sanitized",
|
||
|
|
"sterilized"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"decontaminated",
|
||
|
|
"purified"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"art conservators were careful not to do anything that might defile the holy relic"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"desecrated",
|
||
|
|
"profaned",
|
||
|
|
"violated"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deconsecrated",
|
||
|
|
"desacralized",
|
||
|
|
"desanctified",
|
||
|
|
"blasphemed",
|
||
|
|
"cursed",
|
||
|
|
"swore",
|
||
|
|
"befouled",
|
||
|
|
"contaminated",
|
||
|
|
"fouled",
|
||
|
|
"poisoned",
|
||
|
|
"polluted",
|
||
|
|
"soiled",
|
||
|
|
"sullied",
|
||
|
|
"tainted",
|
||
|
|
"affronted",
|
||
|
|
"defamed",
|
||
|
|
"insulted",
|
||
|
|
"offended",
|
||
|
|
"outraged",
|
||
|
|
"annihilated",
|
||
|
|
"crushed",
|
||
|
|
"decimated",
|
||
|
|
"demolished",
|
||
|
|
"desolated",
|
||
|
|
"destroyed",
|
||
|
|
"devastated",
|
||
|
|
"ravaged",
|
||
|
|
"razed",
|
||
|
|
"ruined",
|
||
|
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
|
"wrecked",
|
||
|
|
"despoiled",
|
||
|
|
"looted",
|
||
|
|
"pillaged",
|
||
|
|
"plundered",
|
||
|
|
"raided",
|
||
|
|
"ransacked",
|
||
|
|
"robbed",
|
||
|
|
"sacked",
|
||
|
|
"spoiled",
|
||
|
|
"spoilt",
|
||
|
|
"stripped",
|
||
|
|
"stript"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blessed",
|
||
|
|
"blest",
|
||
|
|
"consecrated",
|
||
|
|
"dedicated",
|
||
|
|
"hallowed",
|
||
|
|
"sanctified",
|
||
|
|
"honored",
|
||
|
|
"respected",
|
||
|
|
"cleansed",
|
||
|
|
"purged",
|
||
|
|
"purified"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defiance":{
|
||
|
|
"refusal to obey":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"any defiance of the authoritarian regime would have dire consequences"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"balkiness",
|
||
|
|
"contrariness",
|
||
|
|
"contumacy",
|
||
|
|
"disobedience",
|
||
|
|
"frowardness",
|
||
|
|
"insubordination",
|
||
|
|
"intractability",
|
||
|
|
"obstreperousness",
|
||
|
|
"rebellion",
|
||
|
|
"rebelliousness",
|
||
|
|
"recalcitrance",
|
||
|
|
"refractoriness",
|
||
|
|
"unruliness",
|
||
|
|
"waywardness",
|
||
|
|
"willfulness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"civil disobedience",
|
||
|
|
"noncooperation",
|
||
|
|
"discourteousness",
|
||
|
|
"disrespect",
|
||
|
|
"impertinence",
|
||
|
|
"impoliteness",
|
||
|
|
"impudence",
|
||
|
|
"inconsiderateness",
|
||
|
|
"inconsideration",
|
||
|
|
"insolence",
|
||
|
|
"rudeness",
|
||
|
|
"ungraciousness",
|
||
|
|
"doggedness",
|
||
|
|
"hardheadedness",
|
||
|
|
"mulishness",
|
||
|
|
"obduracy",
|
||
|
|
"obdurateness",
|
||
|
|
"obstinacy",
|
||
|
|
"obstinateness",
|
||
|
|
"peevishness",
|
||
|
|
"pertinaciousness",
|
||
|
|
"pertinacity",
|
||
|
|
"perversity",
|
||
|
|
"pigheadedness",
|
||
|
|
"self-will",
|
||
|
|
"stubbornness",
|
||
|
|
"tenaciousness",
|
||
|
|
"tenacity",
|
||
|
|
"knavery",
|
||
|
|
"mischievousness",
|
||
|
|
"naughtiness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"agreeability",
|
||
|
|
"amenability",
|
||
|
|
"amiability",
|
||
|
|
"slavishness",
|
||
|
|
"submissiveness",
|
||
|
|
"subservience",
|
||
|
|
"subserviency",
|
||
|
|
"trainability",
|
||
|
|
"deference",
|
||
|
|
"docility",
|
||
|
|
"dutifulness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"compliance",
|
||
|
|
"obedience",
|
||
|
|
"submission",
|
||
|
|
"subordinateness",
|
||
|
|
"subordination",
|
||
|
|
"tractability",
|
||
|
|
"tractableness"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"the inclination to resist":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"opposition",
|
||
|
|
"resistance"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"demur",
|
||
|
|
"objection",
|
||
|
|
"protest",
|
||
|
|
"remonstrance",
|
||
|
|
"compunction",
|
||
|
|
"misgiving",
|
||
|
|
"reservation",
|
||
|
|
"disobedience",
|
||
|
|
"noncompliance",
|
||
|
|
"recalcitrance"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"compliance",
|
||
|
|
"obedience",
|
||
|
|
"acceptance",
|
||
|
|
"approval"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acquiescence"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a deeply troubled person who seemed the very soul of defiance"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aggression",
|
||
|
|
"aggressiveness",
|
||
|
|
"assaultiveness",
|
||
|
|
"bellicosity",
|
||
|
|
"belligerence",
|
||
|
|
"belligerency",
|
||
|
|
"combativeness",
|
||
|
|
"contentiousness",
|
||
|
|
"disputatiousness",
|
||
|
|
"feistiness",
|
||
|
|
"fight",
|
||
|
|
"militance",
|
||
|
|
"militancy",
|
||
|
|
"militantness",
|
||
|
|
"pugnacity",
|
||
|
|
"quarrelsomeness",
|
||
|
|
"scrappiness",
|
||
|
|
"truculence"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"antagonism",
|
||
|
|
"fierceness",
|
||
|
|
"hostility",
|
||
|
|
"hyperaggressiveness",
|
||
|
|
"unfriendliness",
|
||
|
|
"imperialism",
|
||
|
|
"jingoism",
|
||
|
|
"militarism",
|
||
|
|
"acidity",
|
||
|
|
"biliousness",
|
||
|
|
"captiousness",
|
||
|
|
"crankiness",
|
||
|
|
"crossness",
|
||
|
|
"disagreeableness",
|
||
|
|
"fractiousness",
|
||
|
|
"fretfulness",
|
||
|
|
"grouchiness",
|
||
|
|
"grumpiness",
|
||
|
|
"huffiness",
|
||
|
|
"irascibility",
|
||
|
|
"irascibleness",
|
||
|
|
"irritability",
|
||
|
|
"irritableness",
|
||
|
|
"orneriness",
|
||
|
|
"peevishness",
|
||
|
|
"pettishness",
|
||
|
|
"petulance",
|
||
|
|
"querulousness",
|
||
|
|
"rudeness",
|
||
|
|
"surliness",
|
||
|
|
"testiness",
|
||
|
|
"waspishness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"antiaggression",
|
||
|
|
"anti-imperialism",
|
||
|
|
"antimilitarism",
|
||
|
|
"affability",
|
||
|
|
"amiability",
|
||
|
|
"amicability",
|
||
|
|
"benevolence",
|
||
|
|
"cordiality",
|
||
|
|
"friendliness",
|
||
|
|
"geniality",
|
||
|
|
"graciousness",
|
||
|
|
"pleasantness",
|
||
|
|
"sociability",
|
||
|
|
"gentleness",
|
||
|
|
"kindliness",
|
||
|
|
"mildness",
|
||
|
|
"amenability",
|
||
|
|
"complaisance",
|
||
|
|
"placability"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"nonaggression",
|
||
|
|
"pacifism"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforming":{
|
||
|
|
"to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a cynic whose face seems to be permanently deformed by a sneer"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"contorting",
|
||
|
|
"distorting",
|
||
|
|
"misshaping",
|
||
|
|
"screwing",
|
||
|
|
"squinching",
|
||
|
|
"torturing",
|
||
|
|
"warping"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defacing",
|
||
|
|
"disfiguring",
|
||
|
|
"wrenching",
|
||
|
|
"wresting",
|
||
|
|
"wringing",
|
||
|
|
"coiling",
|
||
|
|
"curling",
|
||
|
|
"looping",
|
||
|
|
"spiraling",
|
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"spiralling",
|
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"twining",
|
||
|
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"winding",
|
||
|
|
"wreathing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
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"straightening",
|
||
|
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"unbending",
|
||
|
|
"uncurling"
|
||
|
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],
|
||
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"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
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"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defections":{
|
||
|
|
"as in schisms , infidelities":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"apostasies",
|
||
|
|
"infidelities",
|
||
|
|
"schisms",
|
||
|
|
"scissions",
|
||
|
|
"sectarianisms",
|
||
|
|
"separatisms",
|
||
|
|
"errors",
|
||
|
|
"fallacies",
|
||
|
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"falsehoods",
|
||
|
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"misbeliefs",
|
||
|
|
"misconceptions",
|
||
|
|
"myths",
|
||
|
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"deviances",
|
||
|
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"deviations",
|
||
|
|
"iconoclasms",
|
||
|
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"unconventionalities",
|
||
|
|
"dissents",
|
||
|
|
"dissidences",
|
||
|
|
"heresies",
|
||
|
|
"heterodoxies",
|
||
|
|
"nonconformities",
|
||
|
|
"disagreements",
|
||
|
|
"discords",
|
||
|
|
"dissensions",
|
||
|
|
"dissentions"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conformities",
|
||
|
|
"orthodoxies",
|
||
|
|
"agreements",
|
||
|
|
"conformations",
|
||
|
|
"conventionalities"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in abandonments , desertions":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abandonments",
|
||
|
|
"derelictions",
|
||
|
|
"desertions",
|
||
|
|
"discards",
|
||
|
|
"dumpings",
|
||
|
|
"tergiversations"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"reclamations",
|
||
|
|
"retentions",
|
||
|
|
"recoupments",
|
||
|
|
"repossessions",
|
||
|
|
"retrievals"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforcement":{
|
||
|
|
"as in ejection , disfurnishment":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disfurnishment",
|
||
|
|
"dispossession",
|
||
|
|
"ejection",
|
||
|
|
"stripping",
|
||
|
|
"invasion",
|
||
|
|
"occupancy",
|
||
|
|
"occupation",
|
||
|
|
"preoccupancy",
|
||
|
|
"trespass",
|
||
|
|
"encroachment",
|
||
|
|
"infringement",
|
||
|
|
"piracy",
|
||
|
|
"despoilment",
|
||
|
|
"looting",
|
||
|
|
"pillaging",
|
||
|
|
"defalcation",
|
||
|
|
"embezzlement",
|
||
|
|
"misapplication",
|
||
|
|
"misappropriation",
|
||
|
|
"misuse",
|
||
|
|
"peculation",
|
||
|
|
"theft",
|
||
|
|
"annexation",
|
||
|
|
"assumption",
|
||
|
|
"attachment",
|
||
|
|
"confiscation",
|
||
|
|
"grab",
|
||
|
|
"impoundment",
|
||
|
|
"repossession",
|
||
|
|
"sequestration",
|
||
|
|
"appropriation",
|
||
|
|
"arrogation",
|
||
|
|
"commandeering",
|
||
|
|
"detainer",
|
||
|
|
"expropriation",
|
||
|
|
"preemption",
|
||
|
|
"seizure",
|
||
|
|
"takeover",
|
||
|
|
"usurpation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deforested":{
|
||
|
|
"as in denuded , defoliated":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"barked",
|
||
|
|
"flayed",
|
||
|
|
"hulled",
|
||
|
|
"husked",
|
||
|
|
"shelled",
|
||
|
|
"shucked",
|
||
|
|
"skinned",
|
||
|
|
"bared",
|
||
|
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
|
"denuded",
|
||
|
|
"exposed",
|
||
|
|
"scaled",
|
||
|
|
"stripped",
|
||
|
|
"stript",
|
||
|
|
"defoliated",
|
||
|
|
"pared"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrauded":{
|
||
|
|
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"senior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beat",
|
||
|
|
"bilked",
|
||
|
|
"bled",
|
||
|
|
"cheated",
|
||
|
|
"chiseled",
|
||
|
|
"chiselled",
|
||
|
|
"choused",
|
||
|
|
"conned",
|
||
|
|
"cozened",
|
||
|
|
"did",
|
||
|
|
"diddled",
|
||
|
|
"did in",
|
||
|
|
"euchred",
|
||
|
|
"fiddled",
|
||
|
|
"fleeced",
|
||
|
|
"flimflammed",
|
||
|
|
"gaffed",
|
||
|
|
"hosed",
|
||
|
|
"hustled",
|
||
|
|
"mulcted",
|
||
|
|
"nobbled",
|
||
|
|
"plucked",
|
||
|
|
"reamed",
|
||
|
|
"ripped off",
|
||
|
|
"rooked",
|
||
|
|
"screwed",
|
||
|
|
"shook down",
|
||
|
|
"shortchanged",
|
||
|
|
"shorted",
|
||
|
|
"skinned",
|
||
|
|
"skunked",
|
||
|
|
"squeezed",
|
||
|
|
"stiffed",
|
||
|
|
"stuck",
|
||
|
|
"stung",
|
||
|
|
"suckered",
|
||
|
|
"swindled",
|
||
|
|
"thimblerigged",
|
||
|
|
"victimized"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"extorted",
|
||
|
|
"wrenched",
|
||
|
|
"wrested",
|
||
|
|
"wrung",
|
||
|
|
"clipped",
|
||
|
|
"gouged",
|
||
|
|
"nicked",
|
||
|
|
"overcharged",
|
||
|
|
"soaked",
|
||
|
|
"exploited",
|
||
|
|
"milked",
|
||
|
|
"deceived",
|
||
|
|
"duped",
|
||
|
|
"fooled",
|
||
|
|
"gulled",
|
||
|
|
"tricked",
|
||
|
|
"roped (in)",
|
||
|
|
"betrayed",
|
||
|
|
"bitched",
|
||
|
|
"double-crossed",
|
||
|
|
"bamboozled",
|
||
|
|
"fast-talked"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defraud":{
|
||
|
|
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"senior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beat",
|
||
|
|
"bilk",
|
||
|
|
"bleed",
|
||
|
|
"cheat",
|
||
|
|
"chisel",
|
||
|
|
"chouse",
|
||
|
|
"con",
|
||
|
|
"cozen",
|
||
|
|
"diddle",
|
||
|
|
"do",
|
||
|
|
"do in",
|
||
|
|
"euchre",
|
||
|
|
"fiddle",
|
||
|
|
"fleece",
|
||
|
|
"flimflam",
|
||
|
|
"gaff",
|
||
|
|
"hose",
|
||
|
|
"hustle",
|
||
|
|
"mulct",
|
||
|
|
"nobble",
|
||
|
|
"pluck",
|
||
|
|
"ream",
|
||
|
|
"rip off",
|
||
|
|
"rook",
|
||
|
|
"screw",
|
||
|
|
"shake down",
|
||
|
|
"short",
|
||
|
|
"shortchange",
|
||
|
|
"skin",
|
||
|
|
"skunk",
|
||
|
|
"squeeze",
|
||
|
|
"stick",
|
||
|
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
|
"sting",
|
||
|
|
"sucker",
|
||
|
|
"swindle",
|
||
|
|
"thimblerig",
|
||
|
|
"victimize"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"extort",
|
||
|
|
"wrench",
|
||
|
|
"wrest",
|
||
|
|
"wring",
|
||
|
|
"clip",
|
||
|
|
"gouge",
|
||
|
|
"nick",
|
||
|
|
"overcharge",
|
||
|
|
"soak",
|
||
|
|
"exploit",
|
||
|
|
"milk",
|
||
|
|
"deceive",
|
||
|
|
"dupe",
|
||
|
|
"fool",
|
||
|
|
"gull",
|
||
|
|
"trick",
|
||
|
|
"rope (in)",
|
||
|
|
"betray",
|
||
|
|
"bitch",
|
||
|
|
"double-cross",
|
||
|
|
"bamboozle",
|
||
|
|
"fast-talk"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deferring":{
|
||
|
|
"to assign to a later time":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"we agreed to defer a discussion of the issue until we had more information"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delaying",
|
||
|
|
"holding off (on)",
|
||
|
|
"holding over",
|
||
|
|
"holding up",
|
||
|
|
"laying over",
|
||
|
|
"postponing",
|
||
|
|
"putting off",
|
||
|
|
"putting over",
|
||
|
|
"remitting",
|
||
|
|
"shelving"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"suspending",
|
||
|
|
"hesitating",
|
||
|
|
"pausing",
|
||
|
|
"staying",
|
||
|
|
"detaining",
|
||
|
|
"retarding",
|
||
|
|
"slowing",
|
||
|
|
"extending",
|
||
|
|
"lengthening",
|
||
|
|
"prolonging",
|
||
|
|
"protracting",
|
||
|
|
"stretching (out)",
|
||
|
|
"waiting"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acting",
|
||
|
|
"dealing (with)",
|
||
|
|
"deciding (upon)",
|
||
|
|
"doing",
|
||
|
|
"working (on)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"definitions":{
|
||
|
|
"a vivid representation in words of someone or something":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"he gave us his definition of the perfect romantic evening on the town"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delineations",
|
||
|
|
"depictions",
|
||
|
|
"descriptions",
|
||
|
|
"pictures",
|
||
|
|
"portraits",
|
||
|
|
"portraitures",
|
||
|
|
"portrayals",
|
||
|
|
"renderings",
|
||
|
|
"sketches",
|
||
|
|
"vignettes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accounts",
|
||
|
|
"anecdotes",
|
||
|
|
"anecdota",
|
||
|
|
"chronicles",
|
||
|
|
"narratives",
|
||
|
|
"reports",
|
||
|
|
"stories",
|
||
|
|
"tales",
|
||
|
|
"yarns",
|
||
|
|
"demonstrations",
|
||
|
|
"exemplifications",
|
||
|
|
"illustrations",
|
||
|
|
"clarifications",
|
||
|
|
"elucidations",
|
||
|
|
"explanations",
|
||
|
|
"explications",
|
||
|
|
"expositions"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defrauding":{
|
||
|
|
"marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"every new technology has brought with it a raft of defrauding schemes that make full use of it"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"crooked",
|
||
|
|
"deceitful",
|
||
|
|
"dishonest",
|
||
|
|
"double-dealing",
|
||
|
|
"false",
|
||
|
|
"fraudulent"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beguiling",
|
||
|
|
"deceiving",
|
||
|
|
"deceptive",
|
||
|
|
"deluding",
|
||
|
|
"delusive",
|
||
|
|
"delusory",
|
||
|
|
"duplicitous",
|
||
|
|
"fallacious",
|
||
|
|
"misleading",
|
||
|
|
"specious",
|
||
|
|
"spurious"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"legitimate",
|
||
|
|
"true",
|
||
|
|
"valid"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aboveboard",
|
||
|
|
"honest",
|
||
|
|
"truthful"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"as in cheating , swindling":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"cheating",
|
||
|
|
"chiseling",
|
||
|
|
"chiselling",
|
||
|
|
"skinning",
|
||
|
|
"swindling",
|
||
|
|
"extortion",
|
||
|
|
"fleecing",
|
||
|
|
"gouging",
|
||
|
|
"highway robbery",
|
||
|
|
"overcharging"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"senior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beating",
|
||
|
|
"bilking",
|
||
|
|
"bleeding",
|
||
|
|
"cheating",
|
||
|
|
"chiseling",
|
||
|
|
"chiselling",
|
||
|
|
"chousing",
|
||
|
|
"conning",
|
||
|
|
"cozening",
|
||
|
|
"diddling",
|
||
|
|
"doing",
|
||
|
|
"doing in",
|
||
|
|
"euchring",
|
||
|
|
"fiddling",
|
||
|
|
"fleecing",
|
||
|
|
"flimflamming",
|
||
|
|
"gaffing",
|
||
|
|
"hosing",
|
||
|
|
"hustling",
|
||
|
|
"mulcting",
|
||
|
|
"nobbling",
|
||
|
|
"plucking",
|
||
|
|
"reaming",
|
||
|
|
"ripping off",
|
||
|
|
"rooking",
|
||
|
|
"screwing",
|
||
|
|
"shaking down",
|
||
|
|
"shortchanging",
|
||
|
|
"shorting",
|
||
|
|
"skinning",
|
||
|
|
"skunking",
|
||
|
|
"squeezing",
|
||
|
|
"sticking",
|
||
|
|
"stiffing",
|
||
|
|
"stinging",
|
||
|
|
"suckering",
|
||
|
|
"swindling",
|
||
|
|
"thimblerigging",
|
||
|
|
"victimizing"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"extorting",
|
||
|
|
"wrenching",
|
||
|
|
"wresting",
|
||
|
|
"wringing",
|
||
|
|
"clipping",
|
||
|
|
"gouging",
|
||
|
|
"nicking",
|
||
|
|
"overcharging",
|
||
|
|
"soaking",
|
||
|
|
"exploiting",
|
||
|
|
"milking",
|
||
|
|
"deceiving",
|
||
|
|
"duping",
|
||
|
|
"fooling",
|
||
|
|
"gulling",
|
||
|
|
"tricking",
|
||
|
|
"roping (in)",
|
||
|
|
"betraying",
|
||
|
|
"bitching",
|
||
|
|
"double-crossing",
|
||
|
|
"bamboozling",
|
||
|
|
"fast-talking"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defies":{
|
||
|
|
"to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"in those days a woman was brave if she defied fashion and wore white after Labor Day"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobeys",
|
||
|
|
"mocks",
|
||
|
|
"rebels (against)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disobliges",
|
||
|
|
"mutinies (against)",
|
||
|
|
"revolts (against)",
|
||
|
|
"disregards",
|
||
|
|
"ignores",
|
||
|
|
"overlooks",
|
||
|
|
"overpasses",
|
||
|
|
"passes over",
|
||
|
|
"tunes out",
|
||
|
|
"brushes (off)",
|
||
|
|
"dismisses",
|
||
|
|
"flouts",
|
||
|
|
"pooh-poohs",
|
||
|
|
"poohs",
|
||
|
|
"rejects",
|
||
|
|
"scoffs (at)",
|
||
|
|
"scorns",
|
||
|
|
"shrugs off",
|
||
|
|
"winks (at)",
|
||
|
|
"breaches",
|
||
|
|
"breaks",
|
||
|
|
"infringes",
|
||
|
|
"transgresses",
|
||
|
|
"violates",
|
||
|
|
"bucks",
|
||
|
|
"combats",
|
||
|
|
"contests",
|
||
|
|
"disputes",
|
||
|
|
"fights",
|
||
|
|
"opposes",
|
||
|
|
"resists",
|
||
|
|
"withstands"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"capitulates (to)",
|
||
|
|
"concedes (to)",
|
||
|
|
"defers (to)",
|
||
|
|
"goose-steps (to)",
|
||
|
|
"serves",
|
||
|
|
"stoops (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submits (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrenders (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yields (to)",
|
||
|
|
"cooperates (with)",
|
||
|
|
"keeps",
|
||
|
|
"observes",
|
||
|
|
"accedes (to)",
|
||
|
|
"acquiesces (to)",
|
||
|
|
"agrees (to)",
|
||
|
|
"assents (to)",
|
||
|
|
"obliges",
|
||
|
|
"attends",
|
||
|
|
"hears",
|
||
|
|
"heeds",
|
||
|
|
"listens (to)",
|
||
|
|
"marks",
|
||
|
|
"notes",
|
||
|
|
"notices",
|
||
|
|
"regards",
|
||
|
|
"watches"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"complies (with)",
|
||
|
|
"conforms (to)",
|
||
|
|
"follows",
|
||
|
|
"minds",
|
||
|
|
"obeys"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"after missing the target, she defied her boyfriend to do better"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"challenges",
|
||
|
|
"dares",
|
||
|
|
"stumps"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beards",
|
||
|
|
"braves",
|
||
|
|
"brazens",
|
||
|
|
"breasts",
|
||
|
|
"confronts",
|
||
|
|
"faces",
|
||
|
|
"outbraves",
|
||
|
|
"outfaces"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a rescue team willing to defy the raging storm"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"beards",
|
||
|
|
"braves",
|
||
|
|
"brazens",
|
||
|
|
"breasts",
|
||
|
|
"confronts",
|
||
|
|
"dares",
|
||
|
|
"faces",
|
||
|
|
"outbraves",
|
||
|
|
"outfaces"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"faces up (to)",
|
||
|
|
"fronts",
|
||
|
|
"affronts",
|
||
|
|
"challenges",
|
||
|
|
"encounters",
|
||
|
|
"meets",
|
||
|
|
"accosts",
|
||
|
|
"approaches",
|
||
|
|
"corners",
|
||
|
|
"repels",
|
||
|
|
"resists",
|
||
|
|
"stands",
|
||
|
|
"withstands",
|
||
|
|
"battles",
|
||
|
|
"combats",
|
||
|
|
"contends (with)",
|
||
|
|
"fights",
|
||
|
|
"opposes",
|
||
|
|
"squares (off)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"avoids",
|
||
|
|
"eschews",
|
||
|
|
"shuns",
|
||
|
|
"eludes",
|
||
|
|
"escapes",
|
||
|
|
"evades",
|
||
|
|
"shakes"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"dodges",
|
||
|
|
"ducks",
|
||
|
|
"funks",
|
||
|
|
"shirks",
|
||
|
|
"sidesteps"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to refuse to give in to":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a bicyclist who regularly defies illness and infirmity in order to compete in races"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bucks",
|
||
|
|
"fights",
|
||
|
|
"opposes",
|
||
|
|
"repels",
|
||
|
|
"resists",
|
||
|
|
"withstands"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"battles",
|
||
|
|
"combats",
|
||
|
|
"contends (with)",
|
||
|
|
"challenges",
|
||
|
|
"contests",
|
||
|
|
"contradicts",
|
||
|
|
"disputes",
|
||
|
|
"baffles",
|
||
|
|
"balks",
|
||
|
|
"foils",
|
||
|
|
"frustrates",
|
||
|
|
"thwarts",
|
||
|
|
"checks",
|
||
|
|
"counters",
|
||
|
|
"hinders",
|
||
|
|
"obstructs",
|
||
|
|
"stems"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bows (to)",
|
||
|
|
"capitulates (to)",
|
||
|
|
"gives in (to)",
|
||
|
|
"knuckles under (to)",
|
||
|
|
"stoops (to)",
|
||
|
|
"submits (to)",
|
||
|
|
"succumbs (to)",
|
||
|
|
"surrenders (to)",
|
||
|
|
"yields (to)"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defamation":{
|
||
|
|
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"accused the newspaper columnist of defamation of character"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersing",
|
||
|
|
"blackening",
|
||
|
|
"calumniation",
|
||
|
|
"calumny",
|
||
|
|
"character assassination",
|
||
|
|
"defaming",
|
||
|
|
"libel",
|
||
|
|
"libeling",
|
||
|
|
"libelling",
|
||
|
|
"maligning",
|
||
|
|
"slander",
|
||
|
|
"smearing",
|
||
|
|
"traducing",
|
||
|
|
"vilification",
|
||
|
|
"vilifying"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersion",
|
||
|
|
"innuendo",
|
||
|
|
"muck",
|
||
|
|
"mud",
|
||
|
|
"smear",
|
||
|
|
"backbiting",
|
||
|
|
"detraction",
|
||
|
|
"abuse",
|
||
|
|
"invective",
|
||
|
|
"vituperation",
|
||
|
|
"attack",
|
||
|
|
"censure",
|
||
|
|
"criticism",
|
||
|
|
"denunciation",
|
||
|
|
"hatchet job",
|
||
|
|
"contempt",
|
||
|
|
"disdain",
|
||
|
|
"scorn",
|
||
|
|
"belittlement",
|
||
|
|
"denigration",
|
||
|
|
"disparagement",
|
||
|
|
"cattiness",
|
||
|
|
"despite",
|
||
|
|
"hatefulness",
|
||
|
|
"malevolence",
|
||
|
|
"malice",
|
||
|
|
"maliciousness",
|
||
|
|
"malignancy",
|
||
|
|
"malignity",
|
||
|
|
"meanness",
|
||
|
|
"nastiness",
|
||
|
|
"spite",
|
||
|
|
"spitefulness",
|
||
|
|
"spleen",
|
||
|
|
"venom",
|
||
|
|
"viciousness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acclaim",
|
||
|
|
"accolade",
|
||
|
|
"applause",
|
||
|
|
"commendation",
|
||
|
|
"praise",
|
||
|
|
"esteem",
|
||
|
|
"honor",
|
||
|
|
"respect",
|
||
|
|
"adulation",
|
||
|
|
"flattery",
|
||
|
|
"adoration",
|
||
|
|
"reverence",
|
||
|
|
"veneration",
|
||
|
|
"worship"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defenseless":{
|
||
|
|
"lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the lack of warm clothing left the hikers defenseless against the unexpected cold snap"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"exposed",
|
||
|
|
"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"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defacements":{
|
||
|
|
"to deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"trash",
|
||
|
|
"vandalize"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"desecrate",
|
||
|
|
"violate",
|
||
|
|
"graffiti",
|
||
|
|
"tag",
|
||
|
|
"bang up",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"damage",
|
||
|
|
"harm",
|
||
|
|
"hurt",
|
||
|
|
"impair",
|
||
|
|
"mar",
|
||
|
|
"shatter",
|
||
|
|
"spoil",
|
||
|
|
"annihilate",
|
||
|
|
"demolish",
|
||
|
|
"destroy",
|
||
|
|
"devastate",
|
||
|
|
"ravage",
|
||
|
|
"raven",
|
||
|
|
"raze",
|
||
|
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
|
"scourge",
|
||
|
|
"smash",
|
||
|
|
"tear down",
|
||
|
|
"total",
|
||
|
|
"waste",
|
||
|
|
"wipe out",
|
||
|
|
"wrack",
|
||
|
|
"wreck",
|
||
|
|
"sabotage",
|
||
|
|
"depredate",
|
||
|
|
"despoil",
|
||
|
|
"loot",
|
||
|
|
"maraud",
|
||
|
|
"pillage",
|
||
|
|
"plunder",
|
||
|
|
"ransack",
|
||
|
|
"sack",
|
||
|
|
"spoliate"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conserve",
|
||
|
|
"preserve",
|
||
|
|
"protect",
|
||
|
|
"save",
|
||
|
|
"salvage",
|
||
|
|
"build",
|
||
|
|
"rebuild"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"years of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blemish",
|
||
|
|
"bloody",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"compromise",
|
||
|
|
"crab",
|
||
|
|
"cripple",
|
||
|
|
"cross (up)",
|
||
|
|
"damage",
|
||
|
|
"disfigure",
|
||
|
|
"endamage",
|
||
|
|
"flaw",
|
||
|
|
"harm",
|
||
|
|
"hurt",
|
||
|
|
"impair",
|
||
|
|
"injure",
|
||
|
|
"mar",
|
||
|
|
"spoil",
|
||
|
|
"vitiate"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deteriorate",
|
||
|
|
"enervate",
|
||
|
|
"enfeeble",
|
||
|
|
"undermine",
|
||
|
|
"weaken",
|
||
|
|
"erode",
|
||
|
|
"scour",
|
||
|
|
"wash out",
|
||
|
|
"wear (away)",
|
||
|
|
"blight",
|
||
|
|
"tarnish",
|
||
|
|
"dent",
|
||
|
|
"ding",
|
||
|
|
"dint",
|
||
|
|
"botch",
|
||
|
|
"gum (up)",
|
||
|
|
"queer",
|
||
|
|
"lacerate",
|
||
|
|
"wound",
|
||
|
|
"disable",
|
||
|
|
"hamstring",
|
||
|
|
"lame",
|
||
|
|
"maim",
|
||
|
|
"mangle",
|
||
|
|
"mutilate",
|
||
|
|
"torment",
|
||
|
|
"torture",
|
||
|
|
"annihilate",
|
||
|
|
"bang up",
|
||
|
|
"bash",
|
||
|
|
"batter",
|
||
|
|
"clobber",
|
||
|
|
"crush",
|
||
|
|
"dash",
|
||
|
|
"decimate",
|
||
|
|
"demolish",
|
||
|
|
"desolate",
|
||
|
|
"destroy",
|
||
|
|
"devastate",
|
||
|
|
"do in",
|
||
|
|
"pulverize",
|
||
|
|
"raze",
|
||
|
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
|
"scourge",
|
||
|
|
"shatter",
|
||
|
|
"smash",
|
||
|
|
"tear down",
|
||
|
|
"total",
|
||
|
|
"waste",
|
||
|
|
"wipe out",
|
||
|
|
"wreck"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"cure",
|
||
|
|
"heal",
|
||
|
|
"help",
|
||
|
|
"rectify",
|
||
|
|
"rehabilitate",
|
||
|
|
"remedy",
|
||
|
|
"edit",
|
||
|
|
"remodel",
|
||
|
|
"revise",
|
||
|
|
"ameliorate",
|
||
|
|
"better",
|
||
|
|
"enhance",
|
||
|
|
"enrich",
|
||
|
|
"improve",
|
||
|
|
"meliorate",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"refine"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"doctor",
|
||
|
|
"fix",
|
||
|
|
"mend",
|
||
|
|
"patch",
|
||
|
|
"rebuild",
|
||
|
|
"recondition",
|
||
|
|
"reconstruct",
|
||
|
|
"renovate",
|
||
|
|
"repair",
|
||
|
|
"revamp"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deliberate damaging or destroying of another's property":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the defacement of the school's property ended up costing hundreds of dollars"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defacing",
|
||
|
|
"trashing",
|
||
|
|
"vandalism",
|
||
|
|
"vandalization"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"demolishing",
|
||
|
|
"demolishment",
|
||
|
|
"desecrating",
|
||
|
|
"desecration",
|
||
|
|
"destruction",
|
||
|
|
"ravage",
|
||
|
|
"ravaging",
|
||
|
|
"ruin",
|
||
|
|
"ruination",
|
||
|
|
"wrecking",
|
||
|
|
"sabotage",
|
||
|
|
"depredation",
|
||
|
|
"despoiling",
|
||
|
|
"despoilment",
|
||
|
|
"looting",
|
||
|
|
"marauding",
|
||
|
|
"pillage",
|
||
|
|
"pillaging",
|
||
|
|
"plunder",
|
||
|
|
"plundering",
|
||
|
|
"predation",
|
||
|
|
"ransacking",
|
||
|
|
"sacking",
|
||
|
|
"spoliation"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"conservation",
|
||
|
|
"preservation",
|
||
|
|
"protection",
|
||
|
|
"salvage",
|
||
|
|
"saving"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defer":{
|
||
|
|
"to assign to a later time":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"we agreed to defer a discussion of the issue until we had more information"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"delay",
|
||
|
|
"hold off (on)",
|
||
|
|
"hold over",
|
||
|
|
"hold up",
|
||
|
|
"lay over",
|
||
|
|
"postpone",
|
||
|
|
"put off",
|
||
|
|
"put over",
|
||
|
|
"remit",
|
||
|
|
"shelve"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"suspend",
|
||
|
|
"hesitate",
|
||
|
|
"pause",
|
||
|
|
"stay",
|
||
|
|
"detain",
|
||
|
|
"retard",
|
||
|
|
"slow",
|
||
|
|
"extend",
|
||
|
|
"lengthen",
|
||
|
|
"prolong",
|
||
|
|
"protract",
|
||
|
|
"stretch (out)",
|
||
|
|
"wait"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"act",
|
||
|
|
"deal (with)",
|
||
|
|
"decide (upon)",
|
||
|
|
"do",
|
||
|
|
"work (on)"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defamed":{
|
||
|
|
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"of course I want to win the election, but I refuse to defame my opponent in order to do so"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"aspersed",
|
||
|
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
|
"calumniated",
|
||
|
|
"libeled",
|
||
|
|
"libelled",
|
||
|
|
"maligned",
|
||
|
|
"slandered",
|
||
|
|
"smeared",
|
||
|
|
"traduced",
|
||
|
|
"vilified"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"belittled",
|
||
|
|
"denigrated",
|
||
|
|
"detracted",
|
||
|
|
"disparaged",
|
||
|
|
"discredited",
|
||
|
|
"disgraced",
|
||
|
|
"dishonored",
|
||
|
|
"shamed",
|
||
|
|
"abased",
|
||
|
|
"debased",
|
||
|
|
"degraded",
|
||
|
|
"humbled",
|
||
|
|
"humiliated",
|
||
|
|
"disdained",
|
||
|
|
"scorned"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"exalted",
|
||
|
|
"glorified",
|
||
|
|
"honored",
|
||
|
|
"acclaimed",
|
||
|
|
"applauded",
|
||
|
|
"commended",
|
||
|
|
"praised",
|
||
|
|
"esteemed",
|
||
|
|
"respected",
|
||
|
|
"admired",
|
||
|
|
"regarded",
|
||
|
|
"adored",
|
||
|
|
"revered",
|
||
|
|
"venerated",
|
||
|
|
"worshipped",
|
||
|
|
"worshiped"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to make a claim of wrongdoing against":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"so the harmless old woman was defamed of witchcraft"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"accused",
|
||
|
|
"charged",
|
||
|
|
"criminated",
|
||
|
|
"impeached",
|
||
|
|
"incriminated",
|
||
|
|
"indicted"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"blamed",
|
||
|
|
"called (on)",
|
||
|
|
"castigated",
|
||
|
|
"censured",
|
||
|
|
"condemned",
|
||
|
|
"criticized",
|
||
|
|
"damned",
|
||
|
|
"denounced",
|
||
|
|
"faulted",
|
||
|
|
"impugned",
|
||
|
|
"reproached",
|
||
|
|
"reprobated",
|
||
|
|
"chid",
|
||
|
|
"chided",
|
||
|
|
"rebuked",
|
||
|
|
"reproved",
|
||
|
|
"taxed",
|
||
|
|
"appealed",
|
||
|
|
"arraigned",
|
||
|
|
"booked",
|
||
|
|
"cited",
|
||
|
|
"summoned",
|
||
|
|
"prosecuted",
|
||
|
|
"sued",
|
||
|
|
"tried",
|
||
|
|
"framed",
|
||
|
|
"implicated",
|
||
|
|
"inculpated",
|
||
|
|
"informed (against)",
|
||
|
|
"named",
|
||
|
|
"reported",
|
||
|
|
"recriminated",
|
||
|
|
"retaliated"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advocated",
|
||
|
|
"championed",
|
||
|
|
"defended",
|
||
|
|
"excused",
|
||
|
|
"forgave",
|
||
|
|
"justified",
|
||
|
|
"pardoned",
|
||
|
|
"remitted",
|
||
|
|
"shrived",
|
||
|
|
"shrove"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"absolved",
|
||
|
|
"acquitted",
|
||
|
|
"cleared",
|
||
|
|
"exculpated",
|
||
|
|
"exonerated",
|
||
|
|
"vindicated"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defraying":{
|
||
|
|
"to provide money for (something)":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"This will defray the costs."
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"clearing",
|
||
|
|
"discharging",
|
||
|
|
"footing",
|
||
|
|
"liquidating",
|
||
|
|
"paying",
|
||
|
|
"paying off",
|
||
|
|
"paying up",
|
||
|
|
"quitting",
|
||
|
|
"recompensing",
|
||
|
|
"settling",
|
||
|
|
"springing (for)",
|
||
|
|
"standing",
|
||
|
|
"bankrolling",
|
||
|
|
"capitalizing",
|
||
|
|
"endowing",
|
||
|
|
"financing",
|
||
|
|
"funding",
|
||
|
|
"staking",
|
||
|
|
"subsidizing",
|
||
|
|
"underwriting",
|
||
|
|
"grubstaking",
|
||
|
|
"cofinancing",
|
||
|
|
"co-financing",
|
||
|
|
"refinancing",
|
||
|
|
"advocating",
|
||
|
|
"aiding",
|
||
|
|
"backing",
|
||
|
|
"championing",
|
||
|
|
"endorsing",
|
||
|
|
"indorsing",
|
||
|
|
"patronizing",
|
||
|
|
"sponsoring",
|
||
|
|
"supporting",
|
||
|
|
"maintaining",
|
||
|
|
"nourishing",
|
||
|
|
"providing (for)",
|
||
|
|
"refunding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defunding"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
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},
|
||
|
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"defectiveness":{
|
||
|
|
"as in disability , weakness":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"detriment",
|
||
|
|
"disability",
|
||
|
|
"failing",
|
||
|
|
"fault",
|
||
|
|
"impairment",
|
||
|
|
"weakness",
|
||
|
|
"gap",
|
||
|
|
"hiatus",
|
||
|
|
"hole",
|
||
|
|
"lacuna",
|
||
|
|
"space",
|
||
|
|
"void",
|
||
|
|
"deficiency",
|
||
|
|
"deficit",
|
||
|
|
"imperfection",
|
||
|
|
"inadequacy",
|
||
|
|
"inadequateness",
|
||
|
|
"incompleteness",
|
||
|
|
"insufficience",
|
||
|
|
"insufficiency",
|
||
|
|
"lack",
|
||
|
|
"need",
|
||
|
|
"shortcoming",
|
||
|
|
"shortfall",
|
||
|
|
"want"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"completeness",
|
||
|
|
"fullness"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"noun"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defend":{
|
||
|
|
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a solemn oath to defend the mother country at any cost"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bulwark",
|
||
|
|
"cover",
|
||
|
|
"fence",
|
||
|
|
"fend",
|
||
|
|
"forfend",
|
||
|
|
"guard",
|
||
|
|
"keep",
|
||
|
|
"protect",
|
||
|
|
"safeguard",
|
||
|
|
"screen",
|
||
|
|
"secure",
|
||
|
|
"shield",
|
||
|
|
"ward"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"avert",
|
||
|
|
"prevent",
|
||
|
|
"oppose",
|
||
|
|
"resist",
|
||
|
|
"withstand",
|
||
|
|
"battle",
|
||
|
|
"contend",
|
||
|
|
"fight",
|
||
|
|
"war",
|
||
|
|
"conserve",
|
||
|
|
"preserve",
|
||
|
|
"save",
|
||
|
|
"buffer",
|
||
|
|
"palisade",
|
||
|
|
"picket",
|
||
|
|
"wall"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"bombard",
|
||
|
|
"storm",
|
||
|
|
"beset",
|
||
|
|
"besiege",
|
||
|
|
"overrun",
|
||
|
|
"capitulate",
|
||
|
|
"cave",
|
||
|
|
"submit",
|
||
|
|
"yield"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"assail",
|
||
|
|
"assault",
|
||
|
|
"attack"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"she will pigheadedly defend any claim regardless of all evidence to the contrary"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"justify",
|
||
|
|
"maintain",
|
||
|
|
"support",
|
||
|
|
"uphold"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"advocate",
|
||
|
|
"champion",
|
||
|
|
"espouse",
|
||
|
|
"confirm",
|
||
|
|
"vindicate",
|
||
|
|
"warrant",
|
||
|
|
"affirm",
|
||
|
|
"assert",
|
||
|
|
"aver",
|
||
|
|
"avouch",
|
||
|
|
"avow",
|
||
|
|
"claim",
|
||
|
|
"contend",
|
||
|
|
"insist",
|
||
|
|
"plead",
|
||
|
|
"proclaim",
|
||
|
|
"profess",
|
||
|
|
"protest",
|
||
|
|
"state",
|
||
|
|
"argue",
|
||
|
|
"debate",
|
||
|
|
"discuss",
|
||
|
|
"emphasize",
|
||
|
|
"stress",
|
||
|
|
"underline",
|
||
|
|
"underscore"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"abandon",
|
||
|
|
"abjure",
|
||
|
|
"forsake",
|
||
|
|
"recant",
|
||
|
|
"retract",
|
||
|
|
"take back",
|
||
|
|
"withdraw",
|
||
|
|
"reverse",
|
||
|
|
"switch",
|
||
|
|
"controvert",
|
||
|
|
"disprove",
|
||
|
|
"rebut",
|
||
|
|
"refute"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deflagrating":{
|
||
|
|
"as in firing , igniting":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"firing",
|
||
|
|
"igniting",
|
||
|
|
"kindling",
|
||
|
|
"catching",
|
||
|
|
"enkindling",
|
||
|
|
"flaring (up)",
|
||
|
|
"lighting (up)",
|
||
|
|
"blazing",
|
||
|
|
"burning",
|
||
|
|
"combusting",
|
||
|
|
"flaming",
|
||
|
|
"glowing",
|
||
|
|
"flickering",
|
||
|
|
"guttering",
|
||
|
|
"wavering",
|
||
|
|
"baking",
|
||
|
|
"broiling",
|
||
|
|
"charring",
|
||
|
|
"cooking",
|
||
|
|
"melting",
|
||
|
|
"roasting",
|
||
|
|
"scorching",
|
||
|
|
"sweltering",
|
||
|
|
"smoldering",
|
||
|
|
"smouldering",
|
||
|
|
"sparking",
|
||
|
|
"sputtering",
|
||
|
|
"beaming",
|
||
|
|
"brightening",
|
||
|
|
"radiating",
|
||
|
|
"beating (down)",
|
||
|
|
"flashing",
|
||
|
|
"glaring",
|
||
|
|
"gleaming",
|
||
|
|
"glimmering",
|
||
|
|
"glinting",
|
||
|
|
"glistening",
|
||
|
|
"glittering",
|
||
|
|
"scintillating",
|
||
|
|
"shimmering",
|
||
|
|
"shining",
|
||
|
|
"sparkling",
|
||
|
|
"twinkling"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defiant":{
|
||
|
|
"given to resisting authority or another's control":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"the defiant puppy refused to let go of the football"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"balky",
|
||
|
|
"contrary",
|
||
|
|
"contumacious",
|
||
|
|
"disobedient",
|
||
|
|
"froward",
|
||
|
|
"incompliant",
|
||
|
|
"insubordinate",
|
||
|
|
"intractable",
|
||
|
|
"obstreperous",
|
||
|
|
"rebel",
|
||
|
|
"rebellious",
|
||
|
|
"recalcitrant",
|
||
|
|
"recusant",
|
||
|
|
"refractory",
|
||
|
|
"restive",
|
||
|
|
"ungovernable",
|
||
|
|
"unruly",
|
||
|
|
"untoward",
|
||
|
|
"wayward",
|
||
|
|
"willful",
|
||
|
|
"wilful"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"noncooperative",
|
||
|
|
"uncooperative",
|
||
|
|
"insurgent",
|
||
|
|
"mutinous",
|
||
|
|
"adamant",
|
||
|
|
"adamantine",
|
||
|
|
"dogged",
|
||
|
|
"hardheaded",
|
||
|
|
"headstrong",
|
||
|
|
"immovable",
|
||
|
|
"implacable",
|
||
|
|
"inflexible",
|
||
|
|
"mulish",
|
||
|
|
"negativistic",
|
||
|
|
"obdurate",
|
||
|
|
"obstinate",
|
||
|
|
"opinionated",
|
||
|
|
"peevish",
|
||
|
|
"pertinacious",
|
||
|
|
"pigheaded",
|
||
|
|
"rigid",
|
||
|
|
"self-willed",
|
||
|
|
"stubborn",
|
||
|
|
"unbending",
|
||
|
|
"uncompromising",
|
||
|
|
"unrelenting",
|
||
|
|
"unyielding",
|
||
|
|
"fractious",
|
||
|
|
"uncontrollable",
|
||
|
|
"unmanageable",
|
||
|
|
"wild",
|
||
|
|
"perverse",
|
||
|
|
"resistant",
|
||
|
|
"wrongheaded",
|
||
|
|
"bad",
|
||
|
|
"disorderly",
|
||
|
|
"errant",
|
||
|
|
"misbehaving",
|
||
|
|
"mischievous",
|
||
|
|
"monkeying",
|
||
|
|
"monkeyish",
|
||
|
|
"naughty",
|
||
|
|
"undisciplined",
|
||
|
|
"dissident",
|
||
|
|
"nonconformist",
|
||
|
|
"discourteous",
|
||
|
|
"disrespectful",
|
||
|
|
"ill-bred",
|
||
|
|
"ill-mannered",
|
||
|
|
"ill-natured",
|
||
|
|
"impertinent",
|
||
|
|
"impolite",
|
||
|
|
"impudent",
|
||
|
|
"inconsiderate",
|
||
|
|
"insolent",
|
||
|
|
"ornery",
|
||
|
|
"rude",
|
||
|
|
"uncivil",
|
||
|
|
"uncouth",
|
||
|
|
"ungracious",
|
||
|
|
"unmannerly"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"acquiescent",
|
||
|
|
"agreeable",
|
||
|
|
"amiable",
|
||
|
|
"cooperative",
|
||
|
|
"deferential",
|
||
|
|
"obliging",
|
||
|
|
"yielding",
|
||
|
|
"behaved",
|
||
|
|
"disciplined",
|
||
|
|
"well-bred",
|
||
|
|
"courteous",
|
||
|
|
"polite",
|
||
|
|
"respectful",
|
||
|
|
"kowtowing",
|
||
|
|
"obsequious",
|
||
|
|
"servile",
|
||
|
|
"slavish",
|
||
|
|
"subservient",
|
||
|
|
"decorous",
|
||
|
|
"mannerly",
|
||
|
|
"orderly",
|
||
|
|
"proper",
|
||
|
|
"controllable",
|
||
|
|
"governable",
|
||
|
|
"manageable",
|
||
|
|
"trainable"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"amenable",
|
||
|
|
"biddable",
|
||
|
|
"compliant",
|
||
|
|
"conformable",
|
||
|
|
"docile",
|
||
|
|
"obedient",
|
||
|
|
"ruly",
|
||
|
|
"submissive",
|
||
|
|
"tractable"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"deformed":{
|
||
|
|
"badly or imperfectly formed":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"his first sculpture looked more like a deformed rabbit than a galloping horse"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"distorted",
|
||
|
|
"malformed",
|
||
|
|
"misshapen",
|
||
|
|
"monstrous",
|
||
|
|
"shapeless"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defaced",
|
||
|
|
"disfigured",
|
||
|
|
"aberrant",
|
||
|
|
"abnormal",
|
||
|
|
"freakish",
|
||
|
|
"mutant",
|
||
|
|
"asymmetrical",
|
||
|
|
"asymmetric",
|
||
|
|
"crooked",
|
||
|
|
"disproportionate",
|
||
|
|
"irregular",
|
||
|
|
"lopsided",
|
||
|
|
"nonsymmetrical",
|
||
|
|
"overbalanced",
|
||
|
|
"unbalanced",
|
||
|
|
"unequal",
|
||
|
|
"horrible",
|
||
|
|
"horrific",
|
||
|
|
"terrible",
|
||
|
|
"ugly",
|
||
|
|
"unattractive"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"shapely",
|
||
|
|
"flawless",
|
||
|
|
"perfect"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"undeformed"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a cynic whose face seems to be permanently deformed by a sneer"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"contorted",
|
||
|
|
"distorted",
|
||
|
|
"misshaped",
|
||
|
|
"screwed",
|
||
|
|
"squinched",
|
||
|
|
"tortured",
|
||
|
|
"warped"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"defaced",
|
||
|
|
"disfigured",
|
||
|
|
"wrenched",
|
||
|
|
"wrested",
|
||
|
|
"wrung",
|
||
|
|
"coiled",
|
||
|
|
"curled",
|
||
|
|
"looped",
|
||
|
|
"spiraled",
|
||
|
|
"spiralled",
|
||
|
|
"twined",
|
||
|
|
"wound",
|
||
|
|
"winded",
|
||
|
|
"wreathed"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"straightened",
|
||
|
|
"unbent",
|
||
|
|
"uncurled"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"defensive":{
|
||
|
|
"intended to resist or prevent attack or aggression":{
|
||
|
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
|
"a defensive alliance among the small nations against the aggressors"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"protective",
|
||
|
|
"self-protective"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"deterrent",
|
||
|
|
"preventive",
|
||
|
|
"safe",
|
||
|
|
"secure"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
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"aggressive",
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"bellicose",
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"belligerent",
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"combative",
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"contentious",
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"in-your-face",
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"militant",
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"pugnacious",
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"quarrelsome",
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"scrappy",
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"truculent",
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"warlike"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"offensive"
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]
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},
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"a position of readiness to oppose actual or expected attack":{
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"examples":[
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"their unexpectedly harsh words put him on the defensive"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"guard"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"alert",
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"lookout",
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"qui vive",
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"watch"
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|
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],
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||
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"near antonyms":[],
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|
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"antonyms":[
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|
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"offensive"
|
||
|
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]
|
||
|
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},
|
||
|
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"type":[
|
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|
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"adjective",
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|
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"noun"
|
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|
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]
|
||
|
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},
|
||
|
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"default (on)":{
|
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|
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"as in ignore , break":{
|
||
|
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"examples":[],
|
||
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"disregard",
|
||
|
|
"forget",
|
||
|
|
"ignore",
|
||
|
|
"neglect",
|
||
|
|
"overlook",
|
||
|
|
"overpass",
|
||
|
|
"pass over",
|
||
|
|
"slight",
|
||
|
|
"breach",
|
||
|
|
"break",
|
||
|
|
"transgress",
|
||
|
|
"violate"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
|
"answer",
|
||
|
|
"complete",
|
||
|
|
"comply (with)",
|
||
|
|
"fill",
|
||
|
|
"fulfill",
|
||
|
|
"fulfil",
|
||
|
|
"keep",
|
||
|
|
"meet",
|
||
|
|
"redeem",
|
||
|
|
"satisfy",
|
||
|
|
"conclude",
|
||
|
|
"consummate",
|
||
|
|
"finalize",
|
||
|
|
"finish",
|
||
|
|
"perfect",
|
||
|
|
"accomplish",
|
||
|
|
"achieve",
|
||
|
|
"bring about",
|
||
|
|
"bring off",
|
||
|
|
"carry out",
|
||
|
|
"effect"
|
||
|
|
],
|
||
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
|
},
|
||
|
|
"type":[
|
||
|
|
"verb"
|
||
|
|
]
|
||
|
|
}
|
||
|
|
}
|