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{
"pounce (on":{
"as in jump , tackle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"mug",
"tackle",
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"storm",
"strike",
"charge",
"sally",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"capture",
"ensnare",
"entrap",
"mousetrap",
"net",
"snare",
"trap",
"hunt",
"prey (on or upon)",
"stalk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounce (on or upon)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"the muggers pounced on the unsuspecting tourists as soon as they rounded the corner"
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pound":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"give the nail a final pound with the hammer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals":{
"examples":[
"stray dogs wearing tags are kept in that pound until their owners can be notified"
],
"synonyms":[
"cage",
"coop",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kennel",
"run",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"cote",
"dovecote",
"dovecot",
"henhouse",
"fold",
"sheepfold",
"pigpen",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"live-box",
"fence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"pounding down the road as fast as he could run"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"pounding nails into boards all day long"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"pounding out a depression in the metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"draw",
"forge",
"hammer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chase",
"planish",
"fashion",
"form",
"knead",
"model",
"mold",
"pat",
"work",
"coin",
"mint",
"stamp",
"abate",
"boast",
"carve",
"chisel",
"cut",
"grave",
"hew",
"knap",
"sculpt",
"sculpture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomize",
"beat",
"bray",
"comminute",
"crush",
"disintegrate",
"grind",
"mill",
"mull",
"powder",
"pulverize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grate",
"kibble",
"crumble",
"crunch",
"break",
"bust",
"dash",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"micronize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pound (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt (down)",
"drink",
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"hoist",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slug (down)",
"slurp",
"sup",
"swig",
"swill",
"toss (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lap",
"lick",
"suck",
"consume",
"down",
"ingurgitate",
"kill",
"mouth (down)",
"put away",
"nip",
"tipple",
"pledge",
"toast",
"wine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounded (out)":{
"as in hammered out , forged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fashioned",
"forged",
"hammered out",
"crafted",
"handcrafted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cobbled (together or up)",
"jury-rigged",
"patched (together)",
"threw up",
"dashed (off)",
"jerry-built"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pourparlers":{
"as in negotiations , consultancies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"consultancies",
"negotiations",
"discourses",
"disquisitions",
"chats",
"conversations",
"raps",
"words",
"bull sessions",
"chat rooms",
"forums",
"fora",
"meetings",
"roundtables",
"round tables",
"seminars",
"skull sessions",
"skull practices",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"talkathons",
"argumentations",
"arguments",
"argy-bargies",
"back-and-forths",
"colloquies",
"confabs",
"confabulations",
"conferences",
"consultations",
"consults",
"councils",
"counsel",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"dialogues",
"dialogs",
"discussions",
"give-and-takes",
"palavers",
"parleys",
"talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pouting":{
"given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability":{
"examples":[
"stayed in a pouting mood until her boyfriend apologized, though he didn't have the vaguest idea what he was apologizing for"
],
"synonyms":[
"glum",
"mopey",
"pouty",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"testy",
"waspish",
"brooding",
"moping",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"huffy",
"sensitive",
"temperamental",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sociable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gladsome",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"perky",
"sunny",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"her lips pouted as she glared at him silently"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"projecting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumping",
"moping",
"sulking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brooding",
"dwelling (on)",
"mulling (over)",
"musing (over)",
"pondering",
"frowning",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"carrying on",
"taking on",
"petting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pouncing (on)":{
"as in jumping , tackling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"mugging",
"tackling",
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"storming",
"striking",
"charging",
"sallying",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"capturing",
"ensnaring",
"entrapping",
"mousetrapping",
"netting",
"snaring",
"trapping",
"hunting",
"preying (on or upon)",
"stalking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pouches":{
"a container made of a flexible material (as paper or plastic)":{
"examples":[
"we sealed the catnip in a cloth pouch and tossed it to the cat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"pokes",
"sacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carryalls",
"portmanteaus",
"portmanteaux",
"traveling bags",
"wallets",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"backpacks",
"barracks bags",
"duffel bags",
"haversacks",
"knapsacks",
"rucksacks",
"satchels",
"totes",
"handbags",
"pocketbooks",
"purses",
"tote bags",
"ditty bags",
"flight bags",
"garment bags",
"kit bags",
"shopping bags",
"work bags"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"as he grew older, the skin on his neck pouched"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pouncing":{
"as in attacking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attacking",
"capering",
"caprioling",
"cavorting",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"shooting",
"skyrocketing",
"bucking",
"bouncing",
"hurdling",
"leapfrogging",
"loping",
"skipping",
"bounding",
"hopping",
"jumping",
"leaping",
"springing",
"vaulting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounds (out)":{
"as in hammers out , forges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fashions",
"forges",
"hammers out",
"crafts",
"handcrafts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cobbles (together or up)",
"jury-rigs",
"patches (together)",
"throws up",
"dashes (off)",
"jerry-builds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounces (on or upon)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pouring":{
"marked by or abounding with rain":{
"examples":[
"a pouring , miserable day"
],
"synonyms":[
"precipitating",
"rainy",
"stormy",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drippy",
"drizzling",
"drizzly",
"misty",
"mizzly",
"spitting",
"sprinkling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to flow in a stream":{
"examples":[
"she lifted the teakettle and poured some hot water from the spout"
],
"synonyms":[
"streaming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ladling",
"spooning",
"cascading",
"trickling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water gently pouring down the canal toward the dam"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowing",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arising",
"disemboguing",
"effusing",
"emanating",
"issuing",
"springing",
"coursing",
"racing",
"rushing",
"fountaining",
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overrunning",
"swamping",
"cascading",
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"sheeting",
"trickling",
"flushing",
"washing out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"hardening",
"setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"backing up"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"tears pouring down his cheeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"gushing",
"jetting",
"rushing",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"squirting",
"swooshing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascading",
"issuing",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming",
"plashing",
"sloshing",
"splashing",
"washing",
"surging",
"swelling",
"flushing",
"sluicing",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overwhelming",
"submerging",
"submersing",
"swamping",
"fountaining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spattering",
"sprinkling",
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"leaking",
"oozing",
"percolating",
"seeping",
"straining",
"weeping"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"dropping",
"trickling"
]
},
"to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds":{
"examples":[
"it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella"
],
"synonyms":[
"precipitating",
"raining",
"storming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"showering",
"spitting",
"hailing",
"squalling",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"swamping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzling",
"misting",
"mizzling",
"spitting",
"sprinkling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaping",
"lavishing",
"raining",
"showering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"streaming",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overwhelming",
"swamping",
"bombarding",
"hailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holding back",
"keeping",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"withholding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pounding":{
"as in thrashing , hammering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch",
"bump",
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"pounding down the road as fast as he could run"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"pounding nails into boards all day long"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"pounding out a depression in the metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"drawing",
"forging",
"hammering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chasing",
"planishing",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"kneading",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"molding",
"patting",
"working",
"coining",
"minting",
"stamping",
"abating",
"boasting",
"carving",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"cutting",
"graving",
"hewing",
"knapping",
"sculpting",
"sculpturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizing",
"beating",
"braying",
"comminuting",
"crushing",
"disintegrating",
"grinding",
"milling",
"mulling",
"powdering",
"pulverizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grating",
"kibbling",
"crumbling",
"crunching",
"breaking",
"busting",
"dashing",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"micronizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pounding (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting (down)",
"drinking",
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"hoisting",
"imbibing",
"knocking back",
"quaffing",
"sipping",
"slugging (down)",
"slurping",
"supping",
"swigging",
"swilling",
"tossing (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lapping",
"licking",
"sucking",
"consuming",
"downing",
"ingurgitating",
"killing",
"mouthing (down)",
"putting away",
"nipping",
"tippling",
"pledging",
"toasting",
"wining"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pouted":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"her lips pouted as she glared at him silently"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumped",
"moped",
"sulked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brooded",
"dwelled (on)",
"dwelt (on)",
"mulled (over)",
"mused (over)",
"pondered",
"frowned",
"glowered",
"lowered",
"loured",
"scowled",
"carried on",
"took on",
"petted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pout":{
"a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"that storekeeper's face seems to be in a permanent pout"
],
"synonyms":[
"face",
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"moue",
"mouth",
"mow",
"mug",
"scowl",
"snoot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinch",
"squinch",
"wince",
"growl",
"snarl",
"rictus",
"simper",
"smirk",
"scoff",
"sneer",
"glare",
"glower",
"look",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grin",
"laugh",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of resentful silence or irritability":{
"examples":[
"she stayed in the pouts all day"
],
"synonyms":[
"grouch",
"hump",
"pet",
"snit",
"sulk",
"sulkiness",
"sullenness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blues",
"dumps",
"mopes",
"surliness",
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"fantods",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness",
"cantankerousness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerfulness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"high-spiritedness",
"lightheartedness",
"perkiness",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"sociality",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"her lips pouted as she glared at him silently"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"grump",
"mope",
"sulk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brood",
"dwell (on)",
"mull (over)",
"muse (over)",
"ponder",
"frown",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl",
"carry on",
"take on",
"pet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pouching":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"as he grew older, the skin on his neck pouched"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouting",
"projecting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poured":{
"to cause to flow in a stream":{
"examples":[
"she lifted the teakettle and poured some hot water from the spout"
],
"synonyms":[
"streamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ladled",
"spooned",
"cascaded",
"trickled",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water gently pouring down the canal toward the dam"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowed",
"ran",
"run",
"rolled",
"streamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arose",
"disembogued",
"effused",
"emanated",
"issued",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"coursed",
"raced",
"rushed",
"fountained",
"gushed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"deluged",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overran",
"swamped",
"cascaded",
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"guttered",
"riffled",
"rippled",
"sheeted",
"trickled",
"flushed",
"washed out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotted",
"coagulated",
"congealed",
"gelled",
"hardened",
"set"
],
"antonyms":[
"backed up"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"tears pouring down his cheeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"gushed",
"jetted",
"rushed",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"squirted",
"swooshed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascaded",
"issued",
"ran",
"run",
"rolled",
"streamed",
"plashed",
"sloshed",
"splashed",
"washed",
"surged",
"swelled",
"flushed",
"sluiced",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged",
"submersed",
"swamped",
"fountained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spattered",
"sprinkled",
"bled",
"exuded",
"leaked",
"oozed",
"percolated",
"seeped",
"strained",
"wept"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"dropped",
"trickled"
]
},
"to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds":{
"examples":[
"it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella"
],
"synonyms":[
"precipitated",
"rained",
"stormed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"showered",
"spit",
"spat",
"hailed",
"squalled",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"swamped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzled",
"misted",
"mizzled",
"spit",
"spat",
"sprinkled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaped",
"lavished",
"rained",
"showered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushed",
"streamed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"swamped",
"bombarded",
"hailed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"held back",
"kept",
"reserved",
"retained",
"withheld"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounds (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts (down)",
"drinks",
"gulps",
"guzzles",
"hoists",
"imbibes",
"knocks back",
"quaffs",
"sips",
"slugs (down)",
"slurps",
"sups",
"swigs",
"swills",
"tosses (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laps",
"licks",
"sucks",
"consumes",
"downs",
"ingurgitates",
"kills",
"mouths (down)",
"puts away",
"nips",
"tipples",
"pledges",
"toasts",
"wines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounded":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"pounding down the road as fast as he could run"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"pounding nails into boards all day long"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"biffed",
"bludgeoned",
"bobbed",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clipped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"hammered",
"hit",
"knocked",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"tagged",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"zapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"scuffed",
"bunted",
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"bumped",
"butted",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"rabbit-punched",
"sucker punched",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"lashed",
"sapped",
"slashed",
"sledged",
"sledgehammered",
"speared",
"stabbed",
"switched",
"thrashed",
"whipped",
"beaned",
"brained",
"conked",
"skulled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"pounding out a depression in the metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"drew",
"forged",
"hammered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chased",
"planished",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"kneaded",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"molded",
"patted",
"worked",
"wrought",
"coined",
"minted",
"stamped",
"abated",
"boasted",
"carved",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"cut",
"graved",
"hewed",
"knapped",
"sculpted",
"sculptured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomized",
"beat",
"brayed",
"comminuted",
"crushed",
"disintegrated",
"ground",
"milled",
"mulled",
"powdered",
"pulverized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grated",
"kibbled",
"crumbled",
"crunched",
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"dashed",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"micronized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pouts":{
"a state of resentful silence or irritability":{
"examples":[
"she stayed in the pouts all day"
],
"synonyms":[
"grouch",
"hump",
"pet",
"snit",
"sulk",
"sulkiness",
"sullenness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blues",
"dumps",
"mopes",
"surliness",
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"fantods",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness",
"cantankerousness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerfulness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"high-spiritedness",
"lightheartedness",
"perkiness",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"sociality",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"her lips pouted as she glared at him silently"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumps",
"mopes",
"sulks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broods",
"dwells (on)",
"mulls (over)",
"muses (over)",
"ponders",
"frowns",
"glowers",
"lowers",
"lours",
"scowls",
"carries on",
"takes on",
"pets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pouched":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"as he grew older, the skin on his neck pouched"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pouncing (on or upon)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"bushwhacking",
"charging",
"descending (on or upon)",
"going in (on)",
"jumping (on)",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"setting on",
"siccing",
"sicking",
"storming",
"striking",
"trashing",
"turning (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushing",
"ganging up (on)",
"mobbing",
"swarming",
"mugging",
"robbing",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"blitzing",
"bombarding",
"bombing",
"nuking",
"barraging",
"cannonading",
"cannoning",
"banging away (at)",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"plastering",
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"pressing",
"harrying",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"foraying",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"enveloping",
"flanking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"securing",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pounded (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
],
"synonyms":[
"belted (down)",
"drank",
"gulped",
"guzzled",
"hoisted",
"imbibed",
"knocked back",
"quaffed",
"sipped",
"slugged (down)",
"slurped",
"supped",
"swigged",
"swilled",
"tossed (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lapped",
"licked",
"sucked",
"consumed",
"downed",
"ingurgitated",
"killed",
"mouthed (down)",
"put away",
"nipped",
"tippled",
"pledged",
"toasted",
"wined"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounces (on)":{
"as in jumps , tackles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"mugs",
"tackles",
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"charges",
"sallies",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"captures",
"ensnares",
"entraps",
"mousetraps",
"nets",
"snares",
"traps",
"hunts",
"preys (on or upon)",
"stalks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pour":{
"to cause to flow in a stream":{
"examples":[
"she lifted the teakettle and poured some hot water from the spout"
],
"synonyms":[
"stream"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ladle",
"spoon",
"cascade",
"trickle",
"deluge",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water gently pouring down the canal toward the dam"
],
"synonyms":[
"flow",
"roll",
"run",
"stream"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arise",
"disembogue",
"effuse",
"emanate",
"issue",
"spring",
"course",
"race",
"rush",
"fountain",
"gush",
"spout",
"spurt",
"deluge",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overrun",
"swamp",
"cascade",
"dribble",
"drip",
"gutter",
"riffle",
"ripple",
"sheet",
"trickle",
"flush",
"wash out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clot",
"coagulate",
"congeal",
"gel",
"harden",
"set"
],
"antonyms":[
"back up"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"tears pouring down his cheeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"gush",
"jet",
"rush",
"spew",
"spout",
"spurt",
"squirt",
"swoosh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascade",
"issue",
"roll",
"run",
"stream",
"plash",
"slosh",
"splash",
"wash",
"surge",
"swell",
"flush",
"sluice",
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"submerge",
"submerse",
"swamp",
"fountain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spatter",
"sprinkle",
"bleed",
"exude",
"leak",
"ooze",
"percolate",
"seep",
"strain",
"weep"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"drop",
"trickle"
]
},
"to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds":{
"examples":[
"it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella"
],
"synonyms":[
"precipitate",
"rain",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shower",
"spit",
"hail",
"squall",
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"swamp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzle",
"mist",
"mizzle",
"spit",
"sprinkle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area"
],
"synonyms":[
"heap",
"lavish",
"rain",
"shower"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gush",
"stream",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"swamp",
"bombard",
"hail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hold back",
"keep",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pound (out)":{
"as in hammer out , forge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fashion",
"forge",
"hammer out",
"craft",
"handcraft"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cobble (together or up)",
"jury-rig",
"patch (together)",
"throw up",
"dash (off)",
"jerry-build"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pounces":{
"as in attacks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attacks",
"capers",
"caprioles",
"cavorts",
"frolics",
"gambols",
"romps",
"shoots",
"skyrockets",
"bucks",
"bounces",
"hurdles",
"leapfrogs",
"lopes",
"skips",
"bounds",
"hops",
"jumps",
"leaps",
"springs",
"vaults"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pounding (out)":{
"as in hammering out , forging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fashioning",
"forging",
"hammering out",
"crafting",
"handcrafting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cobbling (together or up)",
"jury-rigging",
"patching (together)",
"throwing up",
"dashing (off)",
"jerry-building"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pouty":{
"given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability":{
"examples":[
"we could tell from the way she turned pouty that she'd lost the tennis match"
],
"synonyms":[
"glum",
"mopey",
"pouting",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"testy",
"waspish",
"brooding",
"moping",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"huffy",
"sensitive",
"temperamental",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sociable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gladsome",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"perky",
"sunny",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pounds":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"give the nail a final pound with the hammer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals":{
"examples":[
"stray dogs wearing tags are kept in that pound until their owners can be notified"
],
"synonyms":[
"cages",
"coops",
"corrals",
"hutches",
"pens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kennels",
"runs",
"kraals",
"stockades",
"cotes",
"dovecotes",
"dovecots",
"henhouses",
"folds",
"sheepfolds",
"pigpens",
"aquariums",
"aquaria",
"terraria",
"terrariums",
"live-boxes",
"fences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"pounding down the road as fast as he could run"
],
"synonyms":[
"barges",
"clumps",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"galumphs",
"lumbers",
"lumps",
"plods",
"scuffles",
"scuffs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"slogs",
"sloughs",
"stamps",
"stomps",
"stumbles",
"stumps",
"tramps",
"tromps",
"trudges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drags",
"flops",
"hauls",
"blunders",
"careens",
"dodders",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"waddles",
"weaves",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifts",
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"poises",
"wafts"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezes",
"coasts",
"glides",
"slides",
"waltzes",
"whisks"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"pounding nails into boards all day long"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"scuffs",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"pounding out a depression in the metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"draws",
"forges",
"hammers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chases",
"planishes",
"fashions",
"forms",
"kneads",
"models",
"molds",
"pats",
"works",
"coins",
"mints",
"stamps",
"abates",
"boasts",
"carves",
"chisels",
"cuts",
"graves",
"hews",
"knaps",
"sculpts",
"sculptures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizes",
"beats",
"brays",
"comminutes",
"crushes",
"disintegrates",
"grinds",
"mills",
"mulls",
"powders",
"pulverizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grates",
"kibbles",
"crumbles",
"crunches",
"breaks",
"busts",
"dashes",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"micronizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"poultry":{
"as in game , red meat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"game",
"red meat",
"variety meat",
"flesh",
"meat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pours":{
"to cause to flow in a stream":{
"examples":[
"she lifted the teakettle and poured some hot water from the spout"
],
"synonyms":[
"streams"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ladles",
"spoons",
"cascades",
"trickles",
"deluges",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water gently pouring down the canal toward the dam"
],
"synonyms":[
"flows",
"rolls",
"runs",
"streams"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arises",
"disembogues",
"effuses",
"emanates",
"issues",
"springs",
"courses",
"races",
"rushes",
"fountains",
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"deluges",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overruns",
"swamps",
"cascades",
"dribbles",
"drips",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"sheets",
"trickles",
"flushes",
"washes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"hardens",
"sets"
],
"antonyms":[
"backs up"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"tears pouring down his cheeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"gushes",
"jets",
"rushes",
"spews",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"squirts",
"swooshes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascades",
"issues",
"rolls",
"runs",
"streams",
"plashes",
"sloshes",
"splashes",
"washes",
"surges",
"swells",
"flushes",
"sluices",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overwhelms",
"submerges",
"submerses",
"swamps",
"fountains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spatters",
"sprinkles",
"bleeds",
"exudes",
"leaks",
"oozes",
"percolates",
"seeps",
"strains",
"weeps"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribbles",
"drips",
"drops",
"trickles"
]
},
"to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds":{
"examples":[
"it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella"
],
"synonyms":[
"precipitates",
"rains",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"showers",
"spits",
"hails",
"squalls",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"swamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaps",
"lavishes",
"rains",
"showers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushes",
"streams",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overwhelms",
"swamps",
"bombards",
"hails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holds back",
"keeps",
"reserves",
"retains",
"withholds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}