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"disclosing", "divulging", "telling", "unveiling", "disabusing", "disenchanting", "disillusioning" ], "antonyms":[ "undeceiving" ] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] }, "doing away with":{ "to put an end to by formal action":{ "examples":[ "They decided to do away with the old dress code." ], "synonyms":[ "abating", "abolishing", "abrogating", "annulling", "avoiding", "canceling", "cancelling", "disannulling", "dissolving", "invalidating", "negating", "nullifying", "nulling", "quashing", "repealing", "rescinding", "rolling back", "striking down", "vacating", "voiding" ], "near synonyms":[ "countermanding", "overriding", "overruling", "overturning", "vetoing", "aborting", "calling", "calling off", "dropping", "recalling", "retracting", "reversing", "revoking", "suspending", "withdrawing", "banning", "enjoining", "forbidding", "outlawing", "prohibiting", "disallowing", "dismissing", "rejecting", "annihilating", "breaking down", "eliminating", "eradicating", "erasing", "liquidating", "removing", "throwing out", "writing off" ], "near antonyms":[ "enacting", "laying down", "legislating", "establishing", "founding", "instituting", "formalizing", "legalizing", "legitimating", "legitimizing", "validating", "passing", "ratifying", "allowing", "approving", "authorizing", "clearing", "endorsing", "indorsing", "permitting", "sanctioning", "warranting", "commanding", "decreeing", "mandating", "ordering", "prescribing" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to put to death deliberately":{ "examples":[ "He resolved to do away with the man who killed his parents." ], "synonyms":[ "assassinating", "bumping off", "croaking", "dispatching", "doing in", "executing", "getting", "icing", "knocking off", "liquidating", "murdering", "neutralizing", "offing", "putting away", "rubbing out", "slaying", "snuffing", "taking out", "terminating", "whacking" ], "near synonyms":[ "blowing away", "shooting", "shooting down", "blotting out", "carrying off", "claiming", "cutting down", "destroying", "felling", "killing", "smiting", "zapping", "butchering", "massacring", "mowing (down)", "slaughtering", "annihilating", "eliminating", "eradicating", "exterminating", "wiping out" ], "near antonyms":[ "animating", "raising", "restoring", "resurrecting", "resuscitating", "reviving" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] }, "doing for":{ "to attend to the needs and comforts of":{ "examples":[ "I trust him to do for my kids while I am at work." ], "synonyms":[ "administering (to)", "caring (for)", "ministering (to)", "mothering", "nursing" ], "near synonyms":[ "curing", "healing", "remedying", "doctoring", "treating", "aiding", "conserving", "preserving", "providing (for)", "supporting", "babying", "coddling", "mollycoddling", "pampering", "spoiling", "catering (to)", "humoring", "indulging" ], "near antonyms":[ "brushing (aside or off)", "forgetting", "ignoring", "neglecting", "overlooking", "slighting" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to deprive of life":{ "examples":[ "The long journey on foot nearly did for her." ], "synonyms":[ "carrying off", "claiming", "croaking", "destroying", "dispatching", "doing in", "felling", "killing", "slaying", "taking" ], "near synonyms":[ "bumping off", "butchering", "cutting down", "finishing", "getting", "icing", "knocking off", "murdering", "neutralizing", "offing", "putting away", "rubbing out", "scragging", "snuffing", "taking out", "wasting", "whacking", "annihilating", "blotting out", "decimating", "killing off", "massacring", "mowing", "slaughtering", "smiting", "assassinating", "executing", "martyring", "terminating", "euthanizing", "euthanatizing", "putting down", "suiciding" ], "near antonyms":[ "raising", "restoring", "resurrecting", "resuscitating", "reviving", "nurturing" ], "antonyms":[ "animating" ] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] }, "doing":{ "something done by someone":{ "examples":[ "is that mess in the kitchen your doing ?" ], "synonyms":[ "act", "action", "deed", "exploit", "feat", "thing" ], "near synonyms":[ "accomplishment", "achievement", "attainment", "adventure", "experience", "emprise", "enterprise", "initiative", "undertaking", "handiwork", "performance", "work", "stunt", "trick", "activity", "dealing", "maneuver", "measure", "move", "operation", "procedure", "proceeding", "step", "tactic", "coaction" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to be fitting or proper":{ "examples":[ "that outfit just won't do for the opera" ], "synonyms":[ "befitting", "beseeming", "fitting", "going", "serving", "suiting" ], "near synonyms":[ "satisfying", "sufficing", "functioning", "working" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to be enough":{ "examples":[ "even half of that amount of sugar will do" ], "synonyms":[ "serving", "sufficing" ], "near synonyms":[ "answering", "suiting", "assuaging", "contenting", "quenching", "satiating", "sating", "satisfying" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to carry through (as a process) to completion":{ "examples":[ "do as much as you can and leave the rest" ], "synonyms":[ "accomplishing", "achieving", "bringing off", "carrying off", "carrying out", "committing", "compassing", "executing", "following through (with)", "fulfilling", "making", "negotiating", "performing", "perpetrating", "prosecuting", "pulling off", "putting through" ], "near synonyms":[ "bringing about", "effecting", "effectuating", "implementing", "acing", "nailing", "engaging (in)", "practicing", "practising", "working (at)", "reduplicating", "reenacting", "repeating", "actualizing", "attaining", "realizing", "completing", "ending", "finishing", "winding up" ], "near antonyms":[ "failing", "skimping", "slighting", "slurring" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{ "examples":[ "did the living room in French provincial style" ], "synonyms":[ "adorning", "arraying", "beautifying", "bedecking", "bedizening", "blazoning", "caparisoning", "decking", "decorating", "doing up", "dolling up", "draping", "dressing", "embellishing", "emblazing", "embossing", "enriching", "fancifying", "fancying up", "festooning", "garnishing", "glitzing (up)", "gracing", "gussying up", "ornamenting", "prettying (up)", "trimming" ], "near synonyms":[ "accessorizing", "dressing up", "trapping", "tricking (out)", "brightening", "freshening", "smartening", "sprucing (up)", "bossing", "chasing", "braiding", "embroidering", "feathering", "figuring", "filigreeing", "filleting", "flouncing", "frilling", "fringing", "furbelowing", "garlanding", "hanging", "lacing", "ribboning", "swagging", "wreathing", "appliqu\u00e9ing", "gilding", "painting", "diamonding", "gemming", "impearling", "jeweling", "jewelling", "pearling", "redecorating", "redoing" ], "near antonyms":[ "simplifying", "streamlining", "baring", "denuding", "dismantling", "displaying", "divesting", "exposing", "revealing", "stripping", "uncovering", "uglifying" ], "antonyms":[ "blemishing", "defacing", "disfiguring", "marring", "scarring", "spoiling" ] }, "to meet one's 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"translating (into)", "working", "yielding" ], "near synonyms":[ "conducing (to)", "contributing (to)", "deciding", "determining", "beginning", "establishing", "fathering", "founding", "inaugurating", "initiating", "innovating", "instituting", "introducing", "launching", "pioneering", "setting", "setting up", "starting", "advancing", "cultivating", "developing", "encouraging", "forwarding", "fostering", "furthering", "nourishing", "nurturing", "promoting", "enacting", "rendering", "turning out" ], "near antonyms":[ "impeding", "limiting", "restricting", "clamping down (on)", "cracking down (on)", "crushing", "dampening", "putting down", "quashing", "quelling", "repressing", "smothering", "squashing", "squelching", "stifling", "subduing", "suppressing", "arresting", "checking", "controlling", "curbing", "inhibiting", "reining (in)", "restraining", "retarding", "canning", "killing", "snuffing (out)", "stilling", "abolishing", "demolishing", "destroying", "extinguishing", "liquidating", "quenching" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{ "examples":[ "the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again" ], "synonyms":[ "burlesquing", "caricaturing", "imitating", "mimicking", "mocking", "parodying", "sending up", "spoofing", "travestying" ], "near synonyms":[ "lampooning", "pasquinading", "satirizing", "deriding", "gibing", "jibing", "ridiculing", "aping", "copycatting", "monkeying", "parroting", "duplicating", "emulating", "replicating", "reproducing", "acting", "counterfeiting", "dissembling", "faking", "feigning", "pretending", "shamming", "simulating", "elaborating", "embellishing", "embroidering", "exaggerating", "magnifying", "padding", "playing up", "stretching", "amplifying", "enhancing", "enlarging (on or upon)", "expanding", "fleshing (out)", "overdrawing", "overstating", "putting on", "miming", "pantomiming", "impersonating", "performing", "personating", "playing" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to move forward along a course":{ "examples":[ "how are you doing with the house restoration?" ], "synonyms":[ "advancing", "coming", "coming along", "faring", "forging", "getting along", "getting on", "going", "going along", "going off", "marching", "pacing", "proceeding", "progressing" ], "near synonyms":[ "accelerating", "fast-forwarding", "speeding", "approaching", "nearing", "journeying", "passing", "repairing", "running", "traveling", "travelling", "wending", "actuating", "driving", "impelling", "propelling", "pushing", "taking out" ], "near antonyms":[ "arresting", "balking", "blocking", "checking", "detaining", "halting", "hindering", "holding back", "impeding", "nipping", "obstructing", "slowing (down or up)", "stemming", "repressing", "retarding", "stunting", "suppressing", "delaying", "interrupting", "stalling", "cramping", "hampering", "inhibiting", "ceasing", "letting up", "pausing", "regressing", "waiting" ], "antonyms":[ "remaining", "standing", "staying", "stopping" ] }, "to present a portrayal or performance of":{ "examples":[ "she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep" ], "synonyms":[ "acting", "impersonating", "interpreting", "performing", "playing", "portraying" ], "near synonyms":[ "depicting", "dramatizing", "rendering", "representing", "acting out", "enacting", "pantomiming", "playacting", "role-playing", "taking on", "overacting", "overplaying", "underplaying", "aping", "clowning", "hamming", "imitating", "masquerading", "mimicking", "miming", "posing (as)", "starring (in)", "coacting", "co-acting", "costarring", "co-starring" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{ "examples":[ "did them out of their savings with surprising ease" ], "synonyms":[ "beating", "bilking", "bleeding", "cheating", "chiseling", "chiselling", "chousing", "conning", "cozening", "defrauding", "diddling", "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":[] }, "to strike repeatedly":{ "examples":[ "no one is sure who did them in that alley" ], "synonyms":[ "bashing", "basting", "battering", "batting", "beating", "belaboring", "belting", "birching", "bludgeoning", "buffeting", "bunging up", "clubbing", "currying", "drubbing", "fibbing", "flogging", "hammering", "hiding", "lacing", "lambasting", "lashing", "lathering", "licking", "mauling", "messing (up)", "paddling", "pelting", "pommeling", "pommelling", "pounding", "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 take place":{ "examples":[ "nothing's ever doing in this boring little town" ], "synonyms":[ "befalling", "being", "betiding", "chancing", "coming", "coming about", "coming down", "coming off", "cooking", "going down", "going on", "happening", "happing", "occurring", "passing", "transpiring" ], "near synonyms":[ "breaking", "developing", "rising", "shaping (up)", "arising", "coming up", "cropping (up)", "materializing", "springing (up)", "intervening", "falling out", "following", "resulting", "turning out", "going off", "proceeding" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "doings":{ "something done by someone":{ "examples":[ "is that mess in the kitchen your doing ?" ], "synonyms":[ "actions", "acts", "deeds", "exploits", "feats", "things" ], "near synonyms":[ "accomplishments", "achievements", "attainments", "adventures", "experiences", "emprises", "enterprises", "initiatives", "undertakings", "handiworks", "performances", "works", "stunts", "tricks", "activities", "dealings", "maneuvers", "measures", "moves", "operations", "procedures", "proceedings", "steps", "tactics", "coactions", "co-actions" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "doing it":{ "to engage in sexual intercourse":{ "examples":[ "were both in the mood to do it" ], "synonyms":[ "breeding", "copulating", "mating", "sleeping" ], "near synonyms":[ "fooling around", "fornicating" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] }, "doing in":{ "to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{ "examples":[ "a business venture that was done in by poor planning" ], "synonyms":[ "annihilating", "creaming", "decimating", "demolishing", "desolating", "destroying", "devastating", "extinguishing", "nuking", "pulling down", "pulverizing", "razing", "rubbing out", "ruining", "shattering", "smashing", "tearing down", "totaling", "totalling", "vaporizing", "wasting", "wracking", "wrecking" ], "near synonyms":[ "beating", "besting", "clobbering", "conquering", "crushing", "defeating", "drubbing", "licking", "mastering", "overbearing", "overcoming", "overmatching", "prevailing (over)", "routing", "scotching", "skunking", "subduing", "surmounting", "thrashing", "trimming", "triumphing (over)", "trouncing", "walloping", "whipping", "winning (against)", "blasting", "blowing up", "breaking", "crippling", "damaging", "defacing", "deteriorating", "disfiguring", "disintegrating", "dissolving", "dynamiting", "harming", "impairing", "injuring", "mangling", "marring", "mutilating", "spoiling", "vitiating", "eroding", "scouring", "sweeping (away)", "washing out", "wearing (away)", "dilapidating", "disassembling", "dismantling", "gutting", "taking down", "unbuilding", "undoing", "unmaking", "blotting out", "effacing", "eradicating", "expunging", "exterminating", "extirpating", "liquidating", "obliterating", "removing", "rooting (out)", "snuffing (out)", "stamping (out)", "wiping out", "despoiling", "havocking", "looting", "pillaging", "plundering", "ravaging", "sacking", "trampling", "trashing", "vandalizing", "assassinating", "butchering", "cutting down", "dispatching", "executing", "felling", "killing", "killing off", "massacring", "mowing (down)", "murdering", "slaughtering", "slaying", "taking out", "zapping" ], "near antonyms":[ "doctoring", "fixing", "mending", "patching", "reconditioning", "repairing", "revamping", "creating", "inventing", "assembling", "fabricating", "fashioning", "forging", "forming", "framing", "making", "manufacturing", "molding", "producing", "shaping", "bringing about", "constituting", "establishing", "fathering", "founding", "instituting", "organizing", "conserving", "preserving", "protecting", "saving", "rebuilding", "reconstructing", "remodeling", "renovating", "restoring" ], "antonyms":[ "building", "constructing", "erecting", "putting up", "raising", "rearing", "setting up" ] }, "to deprive of life":{ "examples":[ "the early frost did in all of our tender plants" ], "synonyms":[ "carrying off", "claiming", "croaking", "destroying", "dispatching", "felling", "killing", "slaying", "taking" ], "near synonyms":[ "bumping off", "butchering", "cutting down", "finishing", "getting", "icing", "knocking off", "murdering", "neutralizing", "offing", "putting away", "rubbing out", "scragging", "snuffing", "taking out", "wasting", "whacking", "annihilating", "blotting out", "decimating", "killing off", "massacring", "mowing", "slaughtering", "smiting", "assassinating", "executing", "martyring", "terminating", "euthanizing", "euthanatizing", "putting down", "suiciding" ], "near antonyms":[ "raising", "restoring", "resurrecting", "resuscitating", "reviving", "nurturing" ], "antonyms":[ "animating" ] }, "to put to death deliberately":{ "examples":[ "somebody did the old man in late last night" ], "synonyms":[ "assassinating", "bumping off", "croaking", "dispatching", "executing", "getting", "icing", "knocking off", "liquidating", "murdering", "neutralizing", "offing", "putting away", "rubbing out", "slaying", "snuffing", "taking out", "terminating", "whacking" ], "near synonyms":[ "blowing away", "shooting", "shooting down", "blotting out", "carrying off", "claiming", "cutting down", "destroying", "felling", "killing", "smiting", "zapping", "butchering", "massacring", "mowing (down)", "slaughtering", "annihilating", "eliminating", "eradicating", "exterminating", "wiping out" ], "near antonyms":[ "animating", "raising", "restoring", "resurrecting", "resuscitating", "reviving" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to use up all the physical energy of":{ "examples":[ "the long day of hard work really did me in" ], "synonyms":[ "breaking", "burning out", "busting", "doing up", "draining", "exhausting", "fagging", "fatiguing", "frazzling", "harassing", "killing", "knocking out", "outwearing", "tiring", "tuckering (out)", "washing out", "wearing", "wearing out", "wearying" ], "near synonyms":[ "debilitating", "enervating", "enfeebling", "sapping", "wasting", "weakening" ], "near antonyms":[ "activating", "energizing", "invigorating", "rejuvenating", "strengthening", "vitalizing", "relaxing", "resting", "unwinding" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{ "examples":[ "too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns" ], "synonyms":[ "beating", "bilking", "bleeding", "cheating", "chiseling", "chiselling", "chousing", "conning", "cozening", "defrauding", "diddling", "doing", "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":[ "verb" ] }, "doing down":{ "to achieve a victory over":{ "examples":[ "you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet" ], "synonyms":[ "beating", "besting", "conquering", "defeating", "dispatching", "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" ] }, "doing by":{ "to behave toward in a stated way":{ "examples":[ "The company did well by him after he was injured on the job." ], "synonyms":[ "acting (toward)", "being (to)", "dealing (with)", "handling", "serving", "treating", "using" ], "near synonyms":[ "considering", "esteeming", "rating", "reckoning", "regarding", "viewing", "engaging (with)", "reacting (to)", "responding (to)" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] }, "doing the trick":{ "to turn out as planned or desired":{ "examples":[ "The suggested revisions did the trick , and the updated article was well-received." ], "synonyms":[ "clicking", "coming off", "delivering", "going", "going over", "panning out", "working out" ], "near synonyms":[ "catching on", "flourishing", "prospering", "thriving", "cooking", "percolating" ], "near antonyms":[ "languishing", "floundering", "struggling", "declining", "sinking", "skidding", "slipping", "slumping", "waning", "crashing", "cratering", "crumbling", "flaming out", "choking", "cracking up", "miscarrying", "misfiring", "falling down", "going under", "imploding", "self-destructing" ], "antonyms":[ "bombing", "collapsing", "failing", "flopping", "flunking", "folding", "foundering", "missing", "striking out", "washing out" ] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] }, "doing up":{ "to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{ "examples":[ "the whole house had been done up for Halloween" ], "synonyms":[ "adorning", "arraying", "beautifying", "bedecking", "bedizening", "blazoning", "caparisoning", "decking", "decorating", "doing", "dolling up", "draping", "dressing", "embellishing", "emblazing", "embossing", "enriching", "fancifying", "fancying up", "festooning", "garnishing", "glitzing (up)", "gracing", "gussying up", "ornamenting", "prettying (up)", "trimming" ], "near synonyms":[ "accessorizing", "dressing up", "trapping", "tricking (out)", "brightening", "freshening", "smartening", "sprucing (up)", "bossing", "chasing", "braiding", "embroidering", "feathering", "figuring", "filigreeing", "filleting", "flouncing", "frilling", "fringing", "furbelowing", "garlanding", "hanging", "lacing", "ribboning", "swagging", "wreathing", "appliqu\u00e9ing", "gilding", "painting", "diamonding", "gemming", "impearling", "jeweling", "jewelling", "pearling", "redecorating", "redoing" ], "near antonyms":[ "simplifying", "streamlining", "baring", "denuding", "dismantling", "displaying", "divesting", "exposing", "revealing", "stripping", "uncovering", "uglifying" ], "antonyms":[ "blemishing", "defacing", "disfiguring", "marring", "scarring", "spoiling" ] }, "to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{ "examples":[ "on Wild West Day some of the women came to the office done up as showgirls, while the men were mostly outlaws" ], "synonyms":[ "appareling", "apparelling", "arraying", "attiring", "bedecking", "caparisoning", "clothing", "costuming", "decking (out)", "dressing", "dressing up", "enrobing", "garbing", "garmenting", "getting up", "gowning", "habiting", "investing", "rigging (out)", "robing", "suiting", "togging (up or out)", "toileting", "vesturing" ], "near synonyms":[ "cloaking", "frocking", "jacketing", "mantling", "vesting", "draping", "enswathing", "happing", "huddling", "swaddling", "swathing", "wrapping", "accoutring", "accoutering", "bedighting", "equipping", "furnishing", "habilitating", "outfitting", "tailoring", "uniforming", "dressing down", "underdressing" ], "near antonyms":[ "denuding", "divesting", "uncovering", "undraping", "unveiling" ], "antonyms":[ "disarraying", "disrobing", "stripping", "unclothing", "undressing", "untrussing" ] }, "to use up all the physical energy of":{ "examples":[ "all of this fussing about the wedding has done me up" ], "synonyms":[ "breaking", "burning out", "busting", "doing in", "draining", "exhausting", "fagging", "fatiguing", "frazzling", "harassing", "killing", "knocking out", "outwearing", "tiring", "tuckering (out)", "washing out", "wearing", "wearing out", "wearying" ], "near synonyms":[ "debilitating", "enervating", "enfeebling", "sapping", "wasting", "weakening" ], "near antonyms":[ "activating", "energizing", "invigorating", "rejuvenating", "strengthening", "vitalizing", "relaxing", "resting", "unwinding" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "verb" ] } }