dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/pl_mwt.json
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{
"placated":{
"as in mollified , appeased":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"antonyms":[
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"maddened",
"outraged"
],
"examples":[
"attempted to placate the screaming child by offering him a cookie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"antagonized",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"provoked",
"roused",
"harassed",
"harried",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"offended",
"slighted"
],
"related":[
"calmed",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"hushed",
"quieted",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"endeared (to)",
"ingratiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"adulated",
"blarneyed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"quenched",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"sweet-talked",
"wheedled",
"babied",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"dulcified",
"sweetened"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeased",
"assuaged",
"conciliated",
"disarmed",
"gentled",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"propitiated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"placating":{
"tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility":{
"antonyms":[
"antagonizing"
],
"examples":[
"a placating comment that seemed to calm everyone down a bit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"chafing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"inflammatory",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nagging",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"offensive",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"rankling",
"riling",
"vexing",
"engaging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"contentious",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"martial",
"militant",
"militaristic",
"military",
"warlike"
],
"related":[
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"winning",
"winsome",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"nonbelligerent",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"obliging",
"satisfying",
"affable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"kindly",
"passive",
"submissive",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"conciliatory",
"disarming",
"mollifying",
"pacific",
"pacifying",
"peacemaking",
"placatory",
"propitiatory"
]
},
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"antonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"outraging"
],
"examples":[
"attempted to placate the screaming child by offering him a cookie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"antagonizing",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"persecuting",
"pestering",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"offending",
"slighting"
],
"related":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"hushing",
"quieting",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"endearing (to)",
"ingratiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"adulating",
"blarneying",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"soft-soaping",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"satisfying",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"sweet-talking",
"wheedling",
"babying",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling",
"dulcifying",
"sweetening"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"assuaging",
"conciliating",
"disarming",
"gentling",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"propitiating"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"placidity":{
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
"antonyms":[
"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
],
"examples":[
"the placidity of the area makes it a perfect vacation spot for people who just want to relax"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
"related":[
"lull",
"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
]
},
"evenness of emotions or temper":{
"antonyms":[
"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation"
],
"examples":[
"his evident lack of placidity makes him poorly suited for such a stressful job"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"solicitude",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"excitability",
"excitableness",
"nervousness",
"disturbance"
],
"related":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-assuredness",
"self-confidence",
"self-trust",
"easygoingness",
"laid-backness",
"apathy",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"indifference",
"insensibility",
"numbness",
"phlegm",
"unconcern"
],
"synonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composedness",
"composure",
"cool",
"coolness",
"countenance",
"equanimity",
"equilibrium",
"imperturbability",
"repose",
"sangfroid",
"self-composedness",
"self-possession",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
]
},
"freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions":{
"antonyms":[
"agitation",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"uneasiness",
"vexation",
"worry"
],
"examples":[
"her apparent placidity belied an inner turmoil as she faced a life-altering decision"
],
"near antonyms":[
"care",
"concern",
"perturbation",
"strain",
"stress",
"tenseness",
"tension",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"nervousness",
"fear",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty"
],
"related":[
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"repose"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"heartsease",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plaguing":{
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plagued by a cough for all of last week"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"delivering",
"releasing",
"relieving",
"reprieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"succoring"
],
"related":[
"assailing",
"attacking",
"badgering",
"dogging",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"riding",
"aggravating",
"agitating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"molesting",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"vexing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"flustering",
"grieving",
"perturbing",
"straining",
"stressing",
"troubling",
"trying",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"crushing",
"oppressing",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming",
"smiting",
"striking",
"tyrannizing",
"victimizing",
"hurting",
"paining",
"panging",
"pricking",
"smarting",
"stabbing",
"stinging",
"wringing",
"martyring"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflicting",
"agonizing",
"anguishing",
"bedeviling",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"cursing",
"excruciating",
"harrowing",
"persecuting",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plaguy":{
"causing annoyance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I've had this plaguey cough for weeks now"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delightful",
"pleasing"
],
"related":[
"burdensome",
"discomforting",
"displeasing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"importunate",
"importune",
"inconveniencing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"infuriating",
"brattish",
"bratty",
"mischievous",
"offensive",
"troublesome",
"upsetting",
"distractive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"worrisome",
"biting",
"grating",
"jangling",
"jarring",
"spiny",
"thorny"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"carking",
"chafing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pesky",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"pesty",
"rankling",
"rebarbative",
"riling",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"plain-Jane":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"plainspokenness":{
"the free expression of one's true feelings and opinions":{
"antonyms":[
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"indirection"
],
"examples":[
"a movie reviewer known for his plainspokenness when assessing the latest offerings from Tinseltown"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circuitousness",
"evasiveness",
"secretiveness",
"inhibition",
"reserve",
"restraint",
"reticence",
"shyness",
"diplomacy",
"tact"
],
"related":[
"earnestness",
"sincerity",
"sobriety",
"artlessness",
"genuineness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"communicativeness",
"freedom",
"license",
"licence",
"uninhibitedness",
"unrestrainedness",
"unrestraint"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluntness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"honesty",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"outspokenness",
"plainness",
"plumpness",
"straightforwardness",
"unguardedness",
"unreserve",
"unreservedness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plaintively":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"with feelings of bitterness or grief":{
"antonyms":[
"blissfully",
"gladly",
"happily",
"joyfully",
"joyously"
],
"examples":[
"the man sighed plaintively as it became clear that he was getting nowhere with the officious bureaucrat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"delightedly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"gleefully",
"good-naturedly",
"lightheartedly",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"rejoicingly",
"sunnily",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"calmly",
"casually",
"dispassionately",
"easily",
"impassively",
"indifferently",
"lightly",
"nonchalantly",
"stoically",
"unconcernedly",
"favorably",
"well"
],
"related":[
"abjectly",
"cheerlessly",
"crestfallenly",
"dejectedly",
"despairingly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"downheartedly",
"low-spiritedly",
"blackly",
"darkly",
"dismally",
"distressfully",
"distressingly",
"dourly",
"drearily",
"forlornly",
"gloomily",
"glumly",
"joylessly",
"mirthlessly",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"pessimistically",
"somberly",
"sullenly",
"acutely",
"harshly",
"keenly",
"piercingly",
"poignantly",
"severely",
"sharply",
"cruelly",
"hurtfully",
"ill",
"rancorously"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizingly",
"bitterly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"grievously",
"hard",
"hardly",
"inconsolably",
"lugubriously",
"mournfully",
"painfully",
"regretfully",
"resentfully",
"ruefully",
"sadly",
"sorely",
"sorrowfully",
"unhappily",
"wailfully",
"woefully",
"wretchedly"
]
}
},
"plaited":{
"to form into a braid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plaited the doll's hair so it wouldn't tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"interlaced",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"wove",
"weaved"
],
"synonyms":[
"braided",
"platted",
"pleated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plane":{
"a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a plane flew overhead"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"airliner",
"air taxi",
"liner",
"aerodyne",
"aircraft",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"airframe",
"airship",
"ship",
"tractor",
"freighter",
"tanker",
"jet",
"jetliner",
"superjet",
"supersonic",
"supersonic transport",
"trijet",
"turbojet",
"turboprop",
"aerospace plane",
"rocket plane",
"bomber",
"fighter",
"jump jet",
"torpedo bomber",
"warplane",
"amphibian",
"seaplane",
"biplane",
"lightplane",
"tilt-rotor",
"towplane",
"trimotor",
"triplane",
"glider",
"sailplane"
],
"synonyms":[
"aeroplane",
"airplane"
]
},
"having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities":{
"antonyms":[
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"lumpy",
"rough",
"uneven",
"unsmoothed"
],
"examples":[
"you can do these tracings on any plane surface"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inexact",
"irregular",
"unaligned",
"warped",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"pitted",
"pockmarked",
"pocky"
],
"related":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical"
],
"synonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"level",
"smooth"
]
},
"to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps":{
"antonyms":[
"rough",
"roughen"
],
"examples":[
"planed the wood for the picnic table perfectly smooth so that no one would get splinters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsen",
"rumple",
"wrinkle",
"bend",
"kink",
"dent",
"pit"
],
"related":[
"clip",
"crop",
"pare",
"prune",
"shave",
"trim",
"lay",
"press",
"spread",
"card",
"comb",
"rake",
"surface"
],
"synonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"level",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
]
},
"to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an eagle planed effortlessly overhead, gliding on an air current"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"waft",
"coast",
"cruise",
"sail",
"sweep",
"dart",
"flit",
"flutter",
"catapult",
"helicopter",
"jet",
"orbit",
"rocket",
"dive",
"stoop"
],
"synonyms":[
"aviate",
"fly",
"glide",
"soar",
"wing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"planet":{
"the celestial body on which we live":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"our collective responsibility to conserve the planet and its natural resources for future generations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cosmos",
"creation",
"nature",
"universe",
"ball",
"orb",
"sphere",
"macrocosm",
"microcosm",
"microcosmos"
],
"synonyms":[
"earth",
"globe",
"world"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"planish":{
"as in chase":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"planking":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"planked the carton down on the counter and left"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"flinging",
"heaving",
"slinging",
"tossing",
"ensconcing",
"installing",
"planting",
"settling"
],
"synonyms":[
"flopping",
"flumping",
"plopping",
"plumping",
"plunking",
"plonking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"planners":{
"as in plans , journals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in researchers , pioneers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"planning":{
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I plan to have a party for my birthday, even if I have to throw it myself"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dreaming",
"hoping",
"wishing",
"considering",
"debating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"striving",
"struggling",
"trying",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"executing",
"performing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"allowing",
"aspiring",
"calculating",
"contemplating",
"designing",
"going",
"intending",
"looking",
"meaning",
"meditating",
"proposing",
"purporting",
"purposing"
]
},
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"we planned the school dance down to the smallest detail"
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"contriving",
"devising",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"putting up",
"concerting",
"getting up",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"sketching",
"aiming",
"figuring",
"having on",
"intending",
"meaning",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"premeditating"
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"blueprinting",
"budgeting",
"calculating",
"charting",
"choreographing",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping (out)",
"organizing",
"preparing",
"projecting",
"scheming (out)",
"shaping",
"strategizing (about)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter"
],
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"related":[
"camp",
"diaspora",
"exclave",
"habitation",
"outpost",
"post",
"dependency",
"mandate",
"possession",
"protectorate",
"territory"
],
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"colony"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
"Native Americans have inhabited the plateau for centuries"
],
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"related":[
"butte",
"dome",
"height",
"highland",
"upland",
"karoo",
"karroo",
"puna"
],
"synonyms":[
"altiplano",
"mesa",
"table",
"tableland"
]
},
"as in stabilize":{
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"noun",
"verb"
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"as in":{
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"an idea or expression that has been used by many people":{
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"examples":[
"\"blondes have more fun\" is a silly platitude"
],
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"profundity"
],
"related":[
"conventional wisdom",
"party line",
"routine",
"inanity",
"generality",
"generalization",
"simplification",
"adage",
"proverb",
"saw",
"saying",
"old wives' tale",
"stereotype"
],
"synonyms":[
"banality",
"bromide",
"chestnut",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"commonplace",
"groaner",
"homily",
"shibboleth",
"trope",
"truism"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plausible":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"worthy of being accepted as true or reasonable":{
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"far-fetched",
"implausible",
"improbable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unlikely",
"unplausible"
],
"examples":[
"it's a plausible explanation for the demise of that prehistoric species"
],
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"absurd",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"flimsy",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"questionable",
"ridiculous",
"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"skeptical",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"hopeless",
"unworkable",
"useless"
],
"related":[
"cogent",
"compelling",
"conclusive",
"convincing",
"decisive",
"effective",
"forceful",
"persuasive",
"satisfying",
"strong",
"telling",
"acceptable",
"cogitable",
"conceivable",
"imaginable",
"possible",
"practical",
"reasonable",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"trustworthy",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious"
],
"synonyms":[
"believable",
"credible",
"creditable",
"likely",
"presumptive",
"probable"
]
}
},
"play (around)":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"playacted":{
"as in played , acted":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in rakes , libertines":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"played":{
"to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently":{
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"examples":[
"this is how we're going to play the situation"
],
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"botched",
"bungled",
"foozled",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"scamped"
],
"related":[
"engineered",
"finessed",
"jockeyed",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"got off",
"pulled",
"commanded",
"directed",
"guided",
"steered",
"controlled",
"micromanaged",
"ran",
"run",
"regulated",
"reacted (to)",
"responded (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"contended (with)",
"coped (with)",
"fielded",
"grappled (with)",
"hacked",
"handled",
"managed",
"maneuvered",
"manipulated",
"negotiated",
"swung",
"took",
"treated"
]
},
"to engage in activity for amusement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"told her son that he needed some time to run and play in the yard after his hard work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"labored",
"plodded",
"plugged (away)",
"slaved",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"related":[
"cavorted",
"frisked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"dabbled",
"trifled",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"dabbled",
"fiddled (around)",
"messed around",
"puttered (around)",
"bummed (around)",
"dawdled",
"goldbricked",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lounged (around or about)",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"screwed around",
"slacked (off)",
"jested",
"joked",
"teased"
],
"synonyms":[
"dallied",
"disported",
"frolicked",
"recreated",
"rollicked",
"skylarked",
"sported",
"toyed"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
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"examples":[
"played Hamlet in the campus production of the classic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"rendered",
"represented",
"acted out",
"enacted",
"pantomimed",
"playacted",
"role-played",
"took on",
"overacted",
"overplayed",
"underplayed",
"aped",
"clowned",
"hammed",
"imitated",
"masqueraded",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"posed (as)",
"starred (in)",
"coacted",
"co-acted",
"costarred",
"co-starred"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"did",
"impersonated",
"interpreted",
"performed",
"portrayed"
]
},
"to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stop playing the innocent, because I know that you were behind that prank"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aped",
"copied",
"imitated",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"mocked",
"monkeyed",
"parodied",
"travestied",
"performed",
"portrayed"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"impersonated",
"masqueraded (as)",
"personated",
"posed (as)"
]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"figuring that she had little to lose, she played her last few bucks on the state lottery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bade",
"bid",
"offered",
"adventured",
"chanced",
"hazarded",
"speculated",
"ventured",
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeopardized"
],
"synonyms":[
"bet",
"betted",
"gambled",
"laid",
"put",
"staked",
"wagered",
"went"
]
},
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"just played around while we waited for the bus to arrive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckled (down)",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)"
],
"related":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"clowned (around)",
"horsed around",
"diddled (with)",
"tinkered"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodled",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung about",
"kicked around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"played ball":{
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"She refused to play ball with the investigators."
],
"synonyms":[
"banded (together)",
"collaborated",
"concerted",
"concurred",
"conjoined",
"conspired",
"cooperated",
"joined",
"leagued",
"teamed (up)",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connived",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"combined",
"confederated",
"hung together",
"interfaced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"played ducks and drakes with":{
"to use up carelessly":{
"antonyms":[
"conserved"
],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[
"economized",
"scrimped",
"skimped",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"hoarded",
"laid up"
],
"related":[
"splurged",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"exhausted",
"impoverished",
"overspent",
"shot",
"indulged",
"overindulged",
"disbursed",
"expended",
"laid out"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"dissipated",
"fiddled away",
"frittered (away)",
"lavished",
"lost",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"spent",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"trifled (away)",
"wasted"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"played out":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I'm just played out after the week I've had"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"we've finally played out the leftovers from that huge holiday meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"devoured",
"drained",
"drew down",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"spent",
"used up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"ate",
"used",
"bankrupted",
"cleaned (out)",
"impoverished",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"dried up",
"emptied",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"guzzled",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmented",
"enlarged",
"increased",
"bolstered",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"rebuilt",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revived",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewed",
"replaced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"playgrounds":{
"as in hives , hotbeds":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plea":{
"an earnest request":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the captive made an impassioned plea for his life to be spared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"application",
"requisition",
"call",
"claim",
"demand",
"insistence"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjuration",
"appeal",
"conjuration",
"cry",
"desire",
"entreaty",
"petition",
"pleading",
"prayer",
"solicitation",
"suit",
"suppliance",
"supplication"
]
},
"an explanation that frees one from fault or blame":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my only plea is that I've been overworked lately"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"color",
"guise",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretext",
"rationale",
"rationalization",
"vindication",
"whitewash",
"cop-out",
"out",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"atonement",
"confession",
"extenuation",
"palliation"
],
"synonyms":[
"alibi",
"apology",
"defense",
"excuse",
"justification",
"reason"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pleaches":{
"as in braids , plaits":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pleading":{
"an earnest request":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"coldhearted tourists pointedly ignoring the pleadings of the city's many street urchins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"application",
"requisition",
"call",
"claim",
"demand",
"insistence"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjuration",
"appeal",
"conjuration",
"cry",
"desire",
"entreaty",
"petition",
"plea",
"prayer",
"solicitation",
"suit",
"suppliance",
"supplication"
]
},
"asking humbly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a pleading husband seeking forgiveness once again from his long-suffering wife"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"begging",
"importunate",
"insistent",
"persistent"
],
"synonyms":[
"beseeching",
"entreating",
"imploring",
"prayerful",
"soliciting",
"suppliant",
"supplicant",
"supplicating",
"supplicatory"
]
},
"to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"can I plead temporary insanity for having made that foolish decision?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"adducing",
"citing",
"mentioning",
"claiming",
"insisting",
"affirming",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"advancing",
"giving",
"offering",
"proposing",
"submitting",
"advising",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"recommending",
"suggesting",
"urging",
"convincing",
"persuading",
"advocating",
"championing",
"defending",
"enforcing",
"espousing",
"supporting",
"explaining",
"justifying",
"rationalizing",
"considering",
"debating",
"discussing",
"confuting",
"countering",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguing",
"asserting",
"contending",
"maintaining",
"reasoning"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pleasance":{
"as in joy , bliss":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pleasantness":{
"the state or quality of having a pleasant or agreeable manner in socializing with others":{
"antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"examples":[
"his habitual pleasantness makes him everyone's first choice for a party guest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boorishness",
"discourtesy",
"impoliteness",
"incivility",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"biliousness",
"cantankerousness",
"churlishness",
"crankiness",
"fussiness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"peevishness",
"petulance",
"testiness",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"orneriness",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"hostility",
"unfriendliness",
"sourness",
"vinegar"
],
"related":[
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"mellowness",
"sweetness and light",
"amicability",
"amicableness",
"amity",
"cordiality",
"empressement",
"friendliness",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"benignity",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"sunniness",
"civility",
"comity",
"considerateness",
"consideration",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"politeness",
"thoughtfulness",
"attractiveness",
"delightfulness",
"enjoyableness",
"likability",
"likableness",
"pleasingness"
],
"synonyms":[
"affability",
"agreeability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"geniality",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"personableness",
"sweetness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pleasantries":{
"an act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"\"how are you\" is merely a social pleasantry"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"honors",
"ceremonies",
"observances",
"rites",
"rituals",
"decorums",
"etiquettes",
"forms",
"manners",
"mores",
"proprieties",
"addresses",
"devoirs",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects",
"favors",
"graces",
"protocols",
"rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenities",
"attentions",
"civilities",
"courtesies",
"formalities",
"gestures"
]
},
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his after-dinner speeches usually include the sort of gentle pleasantry that raises a chuckle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"knee-slappers",
"panics",
"riots",
"screams",
"thigh-slappers",
"antics",
"buffooneries",
"capers",
"leg-pulls",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"tricks",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"put-ons",
"riffs",
"banters",
"persiflages",
"railleries",
"repartees",
"comedies",
"humors",
"wits",
"wordplays"
],
"synonyms":[
"boffolas",
"boffs",
"boffos",
"cracks",
"drolleries",
"funnies",
"gags",
"giggles",
"japes",
"jests",
"jokes",
"joshes",
"laughs",
"nifties",
"one-liners",
"quips",
"ribs",
"sallies",
"waggeries",
"wisecracks",
"witticisms",
"yuks",
"yucks",
"yaks",
"yocks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pleasantry":{
"an act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"\"how are you\" is merely a social pleasantry"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"honors",
"ceremony",
"observance",
"rite",
"ritual",
"decorum",
"etiquette",
"form",
"manners",
"mores",
"proprieties",
"addresses",
"devoirs",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects",
"favor",
"grace",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"protocol",
"rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenity",
"attention",
"civility",
"courtesy",
"formality",
"gesture",
"politeness"
]
},
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his after-dinner speeches usually include the sort of gentle pleasantry that raises a chuckle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"funning",
"joking",
"wisecracking",
"knee-slapper",
"panic",
"riot",
"scream",
"thigh-slapper",
"antic",
"buffoonery",
"caper",
"leg-pull",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"trick",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"mock",
"mockery",
"parody",
"put-on",
"riff",
"banter",
"kidding",
"persiflage",
"raillery",
"repartee",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"comedy",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay"
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"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"crack",
"drollery",
"funny",
"gag",
"giggle",
"jape",
"jest",
"joke",
"josh",
"laugh",
"nifty",
"one-liner",
"quip",
"rib",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"yuk",
"yuck",
"yak",
"yock"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to give satisfaction to":{
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"displease"
],
"examples":[
"fresh flowers please me greatly"
],
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"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"perturb",
"pique",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"agitate",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fret",
"upset",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend"
],
"related":[
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"soothe",
"assuage",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"excite",
"tickle",
"titillate",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain",
"treat",
"captivate",
"charm",
"galvanize",
"thrill",
"calm",
"comfort",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
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"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"glad",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
]
},
"to see fit":{
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"examples":[
"clearly, you are going to do as you please no matter what I advise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ache (for)",
"covet",
"crave",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"fancy",
"hanker (for)",
"hunger (for)",
"itch (for)",
"long (for)",
"lust (for or after)",
"pant (after)",
"pine (for)",
"repine (for)",
"sigh (for)",
"thirst (for)",
"yearn (for)",
"decide",
"determine",
"resolve"
],
"synonyms":[
"choose",
"like",
"want",
"will",
"wish"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight":{
"antonyms":[
"displeased",
"dissatisfied",
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unpleased",
"unsatisfied"
],
"examples":[
"she looked pleased with the gift"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"melancholy",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"woeful",
"black",
"dark",
"desolate",
"dispirited",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"grieved",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"miserable",
"woebegone",
"wretched"
],
"related":[
"beaming",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gay",
"gladsome",
"lighthearted",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"smiling",
"beatific",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"intoxicated",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"jubilant",
"rapt",
"rejoicing",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine"
],
"synonyms":[
"blissful",
"chuffed",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"tickled"
]
},
"feeling that one's needs or desires have been met":{
"antonyms":[
"discontent",
"discontented",
"displeased",
"dissatisfied",
"malcontent",
"malcontented",
"unhappy"
],
"examples":[
"a sleepy, pleased cat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disaffected",
"disgruntled",
"displeased",
"unsatisfied",
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"brokenhearted",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted"
],
"related":[
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"rejoicing",
"tickled",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"euphoric",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"thrilled",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"contented",
"gratified",
"happy",
"satisfied"
]
},
"to give satisfaction to":{
"antonyms":[
"displeased"
],
"examples":[
"fresh flowers please me greatly"
],
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"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"perturbed",
"piqued",
"put out",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"steamed up",
"provoked",
"roused",
"agitated",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fretted",
"upset",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"offended"
],
"related":[
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"soothed",
"assuaged",
"quenched",
"sated",
"satiated",
"excited",
"tickled",
"titillated",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained",
"treated",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"galvanized",
"thrilled",
"calmed",
"comforted",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
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"agreed (with)",
"contented",
"delighted",
"feasted",
"gassed",
"gladded",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleasured",
"rejoiced",
"satisfied",
"suited",
"warmed"
]
},
"to see fit":{
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"examples":[
"clearly, you are going to do as you please no matter what I advise"
],
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"related":[
"ached (for)",
"coveted",
"craved",
"desired",
"died (for)",
"fancied",
"hankered (for)",
"hungered (for)",
"itched (for)",
"longed (for)",
"lusted (for or after)",
"panted (after)",
"pined (for)",
"repined (for)",
"sighed (for)",
"thirsted (for)",
"yearned (for)",
"decided",
"determined",
"resolved"
],
"synonyms":[
"chose",
"liked",
"wanted",
"willed",
"wished"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pleases":{
"to give satisfaction to":{
"antonyms":[
"displeases"
],
"examples":[
"fresh flowers please me greatly"
],
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"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"perturbs",
"piques",
"puts out",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"angers",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"outrages",
"rankles",
"riles",
"roils",
"steams up",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"agitates",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"frets",
"upsets",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offends"
],
"related":[
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"soothes",
"assuages",
"quenches",
"sates",
"satiates",
"excites",
"tickles",
"titillates",
"amuses",
"diverts",
"entertains",
"treats",
"captivates",
"charms",
"galvanizes",
"thrills",
"calms",
"comforts",
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"indulges",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"synonyms":[
"agrees (with)",
"contents",
"delights",
"feasts",
"gases",
"gasses",
"gladdens",
"glads",
"gratifies",
"pleasures",
"rejoices",
"satisfies",
"suits",
"warms"
]
},
"to see fit":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"clearly, you are going to do as you please no matter what I advise"
],
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"related":[
"aches (for)",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"dies (for)",
"fancies",
"hankers (for)",
"hungers (for)",
"itches (for)",
"longs (for)",
"lusts (for or after)",
"pants (after)",
"pines (for)",
"repines (for)",
"sighs (for)",
"thirsts (for)",
"yearns (for)",
"decides",
"determines",
"resolves"
],
"synonyms":[
"chooses",
"likes",
"wants",
"wills",
"wishes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pleating":{
"to form into a braid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pleat ribbons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"interlacing",
"interweaving",
"weaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"braiding",
"plaiting",
"platting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plebeians":{
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"upper crust"
],
"examples":[
"the current administration evidently believes that we plebeians cannot withstand a dose of harsh reality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentility",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"gentry",
"haute monde",
"nobility",
"patriciate",
"peerage",
"quality",
"royalty",
"society"
],
"related":[
"cattle",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"riffraff",
"rout",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class"
],
"synonyms":[
"commoners",
"commons",
"crowd",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"mass",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebs",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"plebs":{
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"upper crust"
],
"examples":[
"the tabloids know that there's more money to be made from the antics of celebs than from the problems of the plebs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentility",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"gentry",
"haute monde",
"nobility",
"patriciate",
"peerage",
"quality",
"royalty",
"society"
],
"related":[
"cattle",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"riffraff",
"rout",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class"
],
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"commoners",
"commons",
"crowd",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"mass",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"pledges":{
"a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"made a pledge to quit smoking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"appointments",
"arrangements",
"commitments",
"engagements",
"obligations",
"agreements",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"assurances",
"guarantees",
"guaranties",
"undertakings",
"bails",
"bonds",
"deposits",
"gages",
"pawns",
"securities",
"tokens",
"warranties"
],
"synonyms":[
"oaths",
"promises",
"troths",
"vows",
"words"
]
},
"something given or held to assure that the giver will keep a promise":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I was required to leave my keys as a pledge that I would bring the car back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bails",
"bonds",
"deposits",
"down payments",
"earnests",
"handsels",
"sureties",
"warranties",
"assurances",
"oaths",
"promises",
"troths",
"words",
"commitments",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"recognizances"
],
"synonyms":[
"gages",
"guarantees",
"guaranties",
"pawns",
"securities"
]
},
"to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pledged their house against the loan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys (back)",
"redeems",
"wins (back)"
],
"related":[
"deposits",
"mortgages",
"bonds"
],
"synonyms":[
"hocks",
"pawns"
]
},
"to make a solemn declaration of intent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I pledge that I will abide by all of the rules of this organization"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affiances",
"betroths",
"plights",
"troths",
"accedes",
"agrees",
"assents",
"consents",
"contracts",
"engages",
"ensures",
"guarantees",
"undertakes",
"affirms",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"declares",
"insists",
"warrants"
],
"synonyms":[
"covenants",
"promises",
"swears",
"vows"
]
},
"to obligate by prior agreement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I would love to go to dinner with you, but I've pledged myself to a play with my parents that night"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reneges"
],
"related":[
"affiances",
"betroths",
"plights",
"promises",
"swears",
"vows",
"contracts",
"enlists",
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"signs on",
"signs up",
"overcommits"
],
"synonyms":[
"commits",
"engages",
"mortgages",
"troths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pledging":{
"to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pledged their house against the loan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying (back)",
"redeeming",
"winning (back)"
],
"related":[
"depositing",
"mortgaging",
"bonding"
],
"synonyms":[
"hocking",
"pawning"
]
},
"to make a solemn declaration of intent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I pledge that I will abide by all of the rules of this organization"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affiancing",
"betrothing",
"plighting",
"trothing",
"acceding",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"consenting",
"contracting",
"engaging",
"ensuring",
"guaranteeing",
"undertaking",
"affirming",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"declaring",
"insisting",
"warranting"
],
"synonyms":[
"covenanting",
"promising",
"swearing",
"vowing"
]
},
"to obligate by prior agreement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I would love to go to dinner with you, but I've pledged myself to a play with my parents that night"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reneging"
],
"related":[
"affiancing",
"betrothing",
"plighting",
"promising",
"swearing",
"vowing",
"contracting",
"enlisting",
"enrolling",
"signing on",
"signing up",
"overcommitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"committing",
"engaging",
"mortgaging",
"trothing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plenitudes":{
"a considerable amount":{
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"examples":[
"there's a plenitude of natural beauty in the state"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"related":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plenteously":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"plentifulness":{
"as in plenty , plenteousness":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
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"examples":[
"plodded night and day to get the assignment done"
],
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"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"wayfarers plodding across the sandy wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
]
},
"to move slowly":{
"antonyms":[
"fly",
"race",
"speed",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
],
"examples":[
"plodded reluctantly off to work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"float",
"glide",
"sail",
"hurry",
"tear"
],
"related":[
"lumber",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"tramp",
"trudge"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creak (along)",
"creep",
"drag",
"inch",
"limp",
"nose",
"ooze",
"poke",
"slouch",
"snail"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
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"examples":[
"oxen plodding through deep mud"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coast",
"fly",
"glide",
"kilt",
"sail",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"related":[
"jog",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"wallow",
"welter",
"falter",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"fumble",
"muddle"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bumble",
"flog",
"flounder",
"limp",
"lumber",
"struggle",
"stumble",
"trudge"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plods":{
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plodded night and day to get the assignment done"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"related":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezes",
"coasts",
"glides",
"slides",
"waltzes",
"whisks"
],
"examples":[
"wayfarers plodding across the sandy wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifts",
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"poises",
"wafts"
],
"related":[
"drags",
"flops",
"hauls",
"blunders",
"careens",
"dodders",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"waddles",
"weaves",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"synonyms":[
"barges",
"clumps",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"galumphs",
"lumbers",
"lumps",
"pounds",
"scuffles",
"scuffs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"slogs",
"sloughs",
"stamps",
"stomps",
"stumbles",
"stumps",
"tramps",
"tromps",
"trudges"
]
},
"to move slowly":{
"antonyms":[
"flies",
"races",
"speeds",
"whizzes",
"zips"
],
"examples":[
"plodded reluctantly off to work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floats",
"glides",
"sails",
"hurries",
"tears"
],
"related":[
"lumbers",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"tramps",
"trudges"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creaks (along)",
"creeps",
"drags",
"inches",
"limps",
"noses",
"oozes",
"pokes",
"slouches",
"snails"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"oxen plodding through deep mud"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasts",
"flies",
"glides",
"kilts",
"sails",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"related":[
"jogs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"wallows",
"welters",
"falters",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"fumbles",
"muddles"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bumbles",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"limps",
"lumbers",
"struggles",
"stumbles",
"trudges"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plonk":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plunked a battered hat on his head"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fling",
"heave",
"sling",
"toss",
"ensconce",
"install",
"plant",
"settle"
],
"synonyms":[
"flop",
"flump",
"plank",
"plop",
"plump"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plonked down":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plonking down":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plot":{
"a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Secret Service uncovered just in time a plot to assassinate the President"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterconspiracy",
"counterplot",
"frame-up",
"manipulation",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"artifice",
"contrivance",
"cover-up",
"dodge",
"draft",
"maneuver",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"cabal",
"confederacy",
"ring",
"game",
"gimmick",
"racket",
"ground plan",
"program",
"strategy",
"system",
"collusion",
"complicity",
"connivance",
"conniving",
"conspiration"
],
"synonyms":[
"conspiracy",
"design",
"intrigue",
"machination",
"scheme"
]
},
"a small area of usually open land":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"grew vegetables in a little plot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"common(s)",
"croft",
"grass",
"green",
"greensward",
"lawn",
"glade",
"grassland",
"heath",
"heathland",
"lea",
"ley",
"meadow",
"moor",
"pasture",
"pastureland"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearing",
"field",
"ground",
"lot",
"parcel",
"plat",
"tract"
]
},
"a small piece of land that is developed or available for development":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"subdivided the old farm into plots for tract houses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"patch",
"frontage",
"lease",
"development",
"real estate"
],
"synonyms":[
"lot",
"parcel",
"plat",
"property",
"tract"
]
},
"the unfolding of events in a dramatic or literary work":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wrote novels in which the plot was always subordinate to the characterizations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"subplot",
"arc",
"development",
"design",
"outline",
"plan",
"scheme",
"argument",
"mythos",
"subject",
"theme"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"story",
"story line"
]
},
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterplot",
"brew",
"concoct",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"hatch",
"engineer",
"jockey",
"maneuver",
"manipulate",
"design",
"frame",
"lay out",
"map",
"plan",
"shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"collude",
"compass",
"connive",
"conspire",
"contrive",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"put up",
"scheme"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plotted":{
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterplotted",
"brewed",
"concocted",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"hatched",
"engineered",
"jockeyed",
"maneuvered",
"manipulated",
"designed",
"framed",
"laid out",
"mapped",
"planned",
"shaped"
],
"synonyms":[
"colluded",
"compassed",
"connived",
"conspired",
"contrived",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"put up",
"schemed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ploys":{
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bluffs",
"end runs",
"feints",
"chicaneries",
"cozenages",
"crafts",
"crookeries",
"cunnings",
"deceptions",
"duperies",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"juggleries",
"legerdemains",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"hoaxes",
"shams",
"swindles",
"blinds",
"fronts",
"smoke screens"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifices",
"devices",
"dodges",
"fetches",
"flimflams",
"gambits",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"juggles",
"knacks",
"plays",
"ruses",
"schemes",
"shenanigans",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles"
]
},
"a time or instance of carefree fun":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wanted one grand ploy through Europe before settling down and raising a family"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"capers",
"escapades",
"pranks",
"benders",
"brannigans",
"bums",
"busts",
"carouses",
"souses",
"splores",
"toots",
"antics",
"monkeyshines",
"shenanigans",
"field days",
"festivities",
"merriments",
"merrymakings",
"enjoyments",
"indulgences",
"pleasures",
"self-indulgences",
"amusements",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"recreations"
],
"synonyms":[
"binges",
"flings",
"frisks",
"frolics",
"gambols",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"larks",
"revels",
"rollicks",
"romps",
"sprees"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pluck":{
"the act or an instance of applying force on something so that it moves in the direction of the force":{
"antonyms":[
"push"
],
"examples":[
"a quick pluck pulled the hair right out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heave",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"tow",
"hitch",
"twitch",
"grab",
"snatch"
],
"synonyms":[
"draw",
"haul",
"jerk",
"pull",
"tug",
"wrench",
"yank"
]
},
"the strength of mind that enables a person to endure pain or hardship":{
"antonyms":[
"spinelessness"
],
"examples":[
"it takes pluck to survive a crippling car accident and still go on to become successful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indecisiveness",
"irresoluteness",
"irresolution",
"vacillation",
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"faintheartedness",
"pusillanimity",
"timidity",
"timorousness"
],
"related":[
"determination",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"nerve",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"endurance",
"forbearance",
"stamina",
"sufferance",
"tolerance",
"heart",
"mettle",
"spirit",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brass",
"cheek",
"chutzpah",
"chutzpa",
"hutzpah",
"hutzpa",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"hardihood",
"nerve",
"nerviness",
"temerity"
],
"synonyms":[
"backbone",
"constancy",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"grittiness",
"guts",
"intestinal fortitude",
"spunk"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Internet opened up a whole new medium for con artists to pluck the gullible"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pluckiness":{
"as in fortitude , grit":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plucky":{
"having or showing a lot of courage or determination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"A plucky young man who never gave up on his dream."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"plug":{
"as in scent , spinner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in skate , cob":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in spot , word":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plugged the hole in the wall with putty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavate",
"hollow (out)",
"scoop (out)",
"shovel"
],
"related":[
"choke",
"clog",
"close (off)",
"clot",
"congest",
"jam",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"caulk",
"chink",
"seal",
"repack",
"restuff"
],
"synonyms":[
"block",
"bung",
"dam",
"fill",
"pack",
"stop",
"stuff"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plugged away at solving the math problem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actress is giving lots of interviews to plug her latest movie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertise",
"bark",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"sell",
"push",
"acclaim",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"recommend",
"review",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"publish"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"hype",
"pitch",
"promote",
"publicize",
"talk up",
"tout"
]
},
"to strike with a missile from a gun":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the drug lord plugged the stool pigeon as a lesson for any others who were tempted to talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blow away",
"bring down",
"drop",
"pick off",
"shoot down",
"blaze",
"pepper",
"potshot",
"snipe (at)",
"blast (at)",
"fire (at)",
"pistol",
"shotgun",
"machine-gun",
"tommy-gun",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"ice",
"kill",
"slay",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"butcher",
"decimate",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"wipe out"
],
"synonyms":[
"drill",
"gun",
"pop",
"shoot"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plug (up)":{
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"free",
"open (up)",
"unblock",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop"
],
"examples":[
"hair plugged up the drain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavate",
"hollow (out)",
"scoop (out)",
"empty",
"lighten"
],
"related":[
"bung",
"cork",
"spile",
"stopper",
"stopple",
"fill",
"gridlock",
"pack",
"fur",
"silt",
"flood",
"glut",
"inundate",
"overwhelm",
"swamp"
],
"synonyms":[
"block",
"choke",
"clog",
"clot",
"congest",
"dam",
"gum (up)",
"jam",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"stop (up)",
"stuff"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plugged":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
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"examples":[
"plugged the hole in the wall with putty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavated",
"hollowed (out)",
"scooped (out)",
"shoveled",
"shovelled"
],
"related":[
"choked",
"clogged",
"closed (off)",
"clotted",
"congested",
"jammed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"caulked",
"calked",
"chinked",
"sealed",
"repacked",
"restuffed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocked",
"bunged",
"dammed",
"filled",
"packed",
"stopped",
"stuffed"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
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"examples":[
"plugged away at solving the math problem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke",
"eased (up)",
"let up",
"slackened",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dillydallied",
"footled",
"goldbricked",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"lounged",
"shirked",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"lolled",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"dabbled",
"doodled",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"related":[
"applied (oneself)",
"buckled (down)",
"dug in",
"hammered (away)",
"knuckled down",
"pitched in",
"attacked",
"drove",
"essayed",
"tried",
"exercised",
"exerted",
"overexerted",
"overworked",
"eked out",
"ground (out)",
"put out",
"scrabbled",
"scratched",
"trudged",
"waded"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged away",
"beavered (away)",
"drudged",
"dug (away)",
"endeavored",
"fagged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"tugged",
"worked",
"wrought"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
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"examples":[
"the actress is giving lots of interviews to plug her latest movie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertised",
"barked",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"sold",
"pushed",
"acclaimed",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"plumped (for)",
"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
"recommended",
"reviewed",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"published"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"boosted",
"hyped",
"pitched",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"talked up",
"touted"
]
},
"to strike with a missile from a gun":{
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"examples":[
"the drug lord plugged the stool pigeon as a lesson for any others who were tempted to talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blew away",
"brought down",
"dropped",
"picked off",
"shot down",
"blazed",
"peppered",
"potshot",
"sniped (at)",
"blasted (at)",
"fired (at)",
"pistoled",
"pistolled",
"shotgunned",
"machine-gunned",
"tommy-gunned",
"croaked",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"felled",
"iced",
"killed",
"slew",
"annihilated",
"blotted out",
"butchered",
"decimated",
"massacred",
"slaughtered",
"wiped out"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilled",
"gunned",
"popped",
"shot"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"plugged (up)":{
"as in closed , blocked":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
"antonyms":[
"cleared",
"freed",
"opened (up)",
"unblocked",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped"
],
"examples":[
"hair plugged up the drain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavated",
"hollowed (out)",
"scooped (out)",
"emptied",
"lightened"
],
"related":[
"bunged",
"corked",
"spiled",
"stoppered",
"stoppled",
"filled",
"gridlocked",
"packed",
"furred",
"silted",
"flooded",
"glutted",
"inundated",
"overwhelmed",
"swamped"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocked",
"choked",
"clogged",
"clotted",
"congested",
"dammed",
"gummed (up)",
"jammed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"stopped (up)",
"stuffed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"plugging":{
"as in repair , patching":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plugged the hole in the wall with putty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavating",
"hollowing (out)",
"scooping (out)",
"shoveling",
"shovelling"
],
"related":[
"choking",
"clogging",
"closing (off)",
"clotting",
"congesting",
"jamming",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"caulking",
"calking",
"chinking",
"sealing",
"repacking",
"restuffing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocking",
"bunging",
"damming",
"filling",
"packing",
"stopping",
"stuffing"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plugged away at solving the math problem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking",
"easing (up)",
"letting up",
"slackening",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goldbricking",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"lazing",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"shirking",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"lolling",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"dabbling",
"doodling",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"related":[
"applying (oneself)",
"buckling (down)",
"digging in",
"hammering (away)",
"knuckling down",
"pitching in",
"attacking",
"driving",
"essaying",
"trying",
"exercising",
"exerting",
"overexerting",
"overworking",
"eking out",
"grinding (out)",
"putting out",
"scrabbling",
"scratching",
"trudging",
"wading"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging away",
"beavering (away)",
"digging (away)",
"drudging",
"endeavoring",
"fagging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"tugging",
"working"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actress is giving lots of interviews to plug her latest movie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertising",
"barking",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"selling",
"pushing",
"acclaiming",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"recommending",
"reviewing",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"publishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooing",
"boosting",
"hyping",
"pitching",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"talking up",
"touting"
]
},
"to strike with a missile from a gun":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the drug lord plugged the stool pigeon as a lesson for any others who were tempted to talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blowing away",
"bringing down",
"dropping",
"picking off",
"shooting down",
"blazing",
"peppering",
"potshotting",
"sniping (at)",
"blasting (at)",
"firing (at)",
"pistoling",
"pistolling",
"shotgunning",
"machine-gunning",
"tommy-gunning",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"felling",
"icing",
"killing",
"slaying",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"butchering",
"decimating",
"massacring",
"slaughtering",
"wiping out"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilling",
"gunning",
"popping",
"shooting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plugola":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plummeted":{
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"antonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"lifted",
"mounted",
"rose",
"soared",
"spiked",
"upped"
],
"examples":[
"a week in which stock prices plummeted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"related":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (down)",
"diminished",
"drooped",
"dwindled",
"ebbed",
"lessened",
"let up",
"moderated",
"subsided",
"tapered off",
"waned",
"receded",
"retreated"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashed",
"cratered",
"declined",
"descended",
"dipped",
"dived",
"dove",
"dropped",
"fell",
"lowered",
"nose-dived",
"plunged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"tumbled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plump":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"angrily gave a plump of his fist against the door"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"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",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
]
},
"having an excess of body fat":{
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"examples":[
"she's been plump all her life, and her sister has always been skinny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"related":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
]
},
"in a direct line or course":{
"antonyms":[
"indirectly"
],
"examples":[
"there was a squirrel on the sidewalk plump in front of us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circuitously",
"deviously",
"veeringly"
],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"direct",
"directly",
"due",
"plumb",
"right",
"straight",
"straightway"
]
},
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plumped herself down on the couch and turned on the TV"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fling",
"heave",
"sling",
"toss",
"ensconce",
"install",
"plant",
"settle"
],
"synonyms":[
"flop",
"flump",
"plank",
"plop",
"plunk",
"plonk"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plumps (for)":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"will plump for any candidate who supports stem cell research"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down"
],
"related":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"seconds",
"sides (with)",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advances",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"plugs",
"preaches",
"talks up",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"supports"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plunderers":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plundering":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to search through with the intent of committing robbery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the escaped convict plundered the house in search of valuables"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaking in",
"burglarizing",
"ripping off",
"stealing (from)",
"combing",
"hunting",
"raking",
"rifling",
"rummaging",
"harrying",
"raiding",
"ravishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"despoiling",
"looting",
"marauding",
"pillaging",
"ransacking",
"sacking"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plunge (in)":{
"as in fall (to) , pitch in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plunged (in)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plunging":{
"to cast oneself head first into deep water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she took a deep breath and plunged from the side of the pool"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfacing"
],
"related":[
"dipping",
"immersing",
"submerging",
"belly flopping",
"plumping",
"plunking",
"plonking"
],
"synonyms":[
"diving",
"pitching",
"sounding"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"lifting",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"spiking",
"upping"
],
"examples":[
"prices for those televisions have really plunged since they were first introduced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"related":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"drooping",
"dwindling",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"tapering off",
"waning",
"receding",
"retreating"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashing",
"cratering",
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"diving",
"dropping",
"falling",
"lowering",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"tumbling"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"mounting",
"rising",
"uprising",
"upsweeping",
"upturning"
],
"examples":[
"a stairway plunging into darkness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"planing",
"smoothing",
"straightening"
],
"related":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"dropping",
"falling",
"sinking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plunk":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plunked a battered hat on his head"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fling",
"heave",
"sling",
"toss",
"ensconce",
"install",
"plant",
"settle"
],
"synonyms":[
"flop",
"flump",
"plank",
"plop",
"plump"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plunking (for)":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm willing to plunk for any program that will reduce carbon emissions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down"
],
"related":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"propping (up)",
"seconding",
"siding (with)",
"backstopping",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"advancing",
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"plugging",
"preaching",
"talking up",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"plumping (for)",
"supporting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plunks":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plunked a battered hat on his head"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"flings",
"heaves",
"slings",
"tosses",
"ensconces",
"installs",
"plants",
"settles"
],
"synonyms":[
"flops",
"flumps",
"planks",
"plops",
"plumps"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"played (on or upon)":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"the candidate played on the voters' prejudices"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"capitalized (on)",
"cashed in (on)",
"exploited",
"imposed (on or upon)",
"leveraged",
"milked",
"pimped",
"used",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"related":[
"jerked around",
"manipulated",
"mistreated",
"bled",
"cheated",
"fleeced",
"overcharged",
"skinned",
"soaked",
"stuck",
"commercialized",
"commodified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plaintive":{
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"the puppy's plaintive expression after we put the toy away was rather amusing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"related":[
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"play ducks and drakes with":{
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fiddle away",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"lose",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"trifle (away)",
"waste"
],
"related":[
"splurge",
"consume",
"deplete",
"exhaust",
"impoverish",
"overspend",
"shoot",
"indulge",
"overindulge",
"disburse",
"expend",
"lay out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economize",
"scrimp",
"skimp",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"hoard",
"lay up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserve"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"plays out":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"we've finally played out the leftovers from that huge holiday meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"burns",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"drains",
"draws down",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"related":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plainly":{
"in an honest and direct manner":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to tell your relatives very plainly that you don't like perfume, or they'll keep giving it to you"
],
"synonyms":[
"directly",
"forthrightly",
"foursquare",
"plain",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"straightforwards",
"straightforwardly"
],
"related":[
"baldly",
"bluffly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"honestly",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"unguardedly",
"unreservedly",
"artlessly",
"earnestly",
"simply",
"sincerely",
"abruptly",
"bluntly",
"brusquely",
"curtly",
"gruffly",
"point-blank",
"sharply",
"impolitely",
"inconsiderately",
"rudely",
"tactlessly",
"truthfully",
"veraciously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"diplomatically",
"politely",
"tactfully",
"deceitfully",
"mendaciously",
"untruthfully",
"erroneously",
"fallaciously",
"falsely",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"ambiguously",
"circuitously",
"equivocally",
"evasively",
"indirectly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"without any question":{
"examples":[
"your wife is plainly upset that you didn't invite her to the game with us"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"related":[
"conceivably",
"likely",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"probably",
"obviously",
"unmistakably"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"placability":{
"as in amenability , complaisance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"play-offs":{
"as in semifinals , finals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"play-off":{
"as in semifinal , final":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plights":{
"a very bad or difficult situation \u2014 usually singular":{
"examples":[
"The recent cut in funding will only contribute to the hospital's financial plight .",
"the plight of the unemployed"
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in promises , vows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plenteous":{
"being more than enough without being excessive":{
"examples":[
"a plenteous supply of napkins for the backyard barbecue"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"aplenty",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"comfortable",
"cornucopian",
"galore",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plentiful",
"plenty"
],
"related":[
"extra",
"supernumerary",
"surplus",
"abounding",
"blooming",
"overflowing",
"plump",
"replete",
"rich",
"rife",
"teeming",
"wealthy",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"luxuriant",
"prodigal",
"prolific",
"copious",
"fulsome",
"lavish",
"profuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"stingy",
"skimpy",
"least",
"minimum",
"light",
"slight",
"small",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"minimal",
"scant",
"spare"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"plenitudinous":{
"as in generous , liberal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"play (on or upon)":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"the candidate played on the voters' prejudices"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"capitalize (on)",
"cash in (on)",
"exploit",
"impose (on or upon)",
"leverage",
"milk",
"pimp",
"use",
"work"
],
"related":[
"jerk around",
"manipulate",
"mistreat",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"fleece",
"overcharge",
"skin",
"soak",
"stick",
"commercialize",
"commodify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plazas":{
"as in places , squares":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forecourts",
"places",
"squares",
"atria",
"atriums",
"gallerias",
"parvises",
"peristyles",
"decks",
"terraces",
"closes",
"courts",
"courtyards",
"enclosures",
"inclosures",
"patios",
"quadrangles",
"quads",
"yards",
"curtilages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plays":{
"to engage in activity for amusement":{
"examples":[
"told her son that he needed some time to run and play in the yard after his hard work"
],
"synonyms":[
"dallies",
"disports",
"frolics",
"recreates",
"rollicks",
"skylarks",
"sports",
"toys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cavorts",
"frisks",
"gambols",
"romps",
"dabbles",
"trifles",
"amuses",
"diverts",
"entertains",
"delights",
"pleases",
"dabbles",
"fiddles (around)",
"messes around",
"putters (around)",
"bums (around)",
"dawdles",
"goldbricks",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lounges (around or about)",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"screws around",
"slacks (off)",
"jests",
"jokes",
"teases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"labors",
"plods",
"plugs (away)",
"slaves",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"works"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"played Hamlet in the campus production of the classic"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"does",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"portrays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depicts",
"dramatizes",
"renders",
"represents",
"acts out",
"enacts",
"pantomimes",
"playacts",
"role-plays",
"takes on",
"overacts",
"overplays",
"underplays",
"apes",
"clowns",
"hams",
"imitates",
"masquerades",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"poses (as)",
"stars (in)",
"coacts",
"costars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior":{
"examples":[
"stop playing the innocent, because I know that you were behind that prank"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades (as)",
"personates",
"poses (as)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apes",
"copies",
"imitates",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"mocks",
"monkeys",
"parodies",
"travesties",
"performs",
"portrays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"just played around while we waited for the bus to arrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodles",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs about",
"kicks around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"clowns (around)",
"horses around",
"diddles (with)",
"tinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckles (down)",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently":{
"examples":[
"this is how we're going to play the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"addresses",
"contends (with)",
"copes (with)",
"fields",
"grapples (with)",
"hacks",
"handles",
"manages",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"negotiates",
"swings",
"takes",
"treats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engineers",
"finesses",
"jockeys",
"brings off",
"carries off",
"carries out",
"gets off",
"pulls",
"commands",
"directs",
"guides",
"steers",
"controls",
"micromanages",
"regulates",
"runs",
"reacts (to)",
"responds (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"botches",
"bungles",
"foozles",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"messes (up)",
"mishandles",
"muffs",
"scamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"figuring that she had little to lose, she played her last few bucks on the state lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"gambles",
"goes",
"lays",
"puts",
"stakes",
"wagers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bids",
"offers",
"adventures",
"chances",
"hazards",
"speculates",
"ventures",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage":{
"examples":[
"we'll be putting on a school play using that stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"dramas",
"dramatizations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interludes",
"playlets",
"comedies",
"comedy dramas",
"docudramas",
"dramedies",
"melodramas",
"monodramas",
"musical comedies",
"musicals",
"psychodramas",
"tragedies",
"tragicomedies",
"magnum opuses",
"opera",
"opuses",
"works",
"adaptations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"the host's sense of humor was obviously in play during the awards ceremony"
],
"synonyms":[
"applications",
"employments",
"exercises",
"operations",
"usages",
"uses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exertions",
"reuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disuses",
"nonuses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"the guy at the bar made an unusually creative play to get her phone number"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifices",
"devices",
"dodges",
"fetches",
"flimflams",
"gambits",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"juggles",
"knacks",
"ploys",
"ruses",
"schemes",
"shenanigans",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluffs",
"end runs",
"feints",
"chicaneries",
"cozenages",
"crafts",
"crookeries",
"cunnings",
"deceptions",
"duperies",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"juggleries",
"legerdemains",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"hoaxes",
"shams",
"swindles",
"blinds",
"fronts",
"smoke screens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"plunking":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"examples":[
"plunked a battered hat on his head"
],
"synonyms":[
"flopping",
"flumping",
"planking",
"plopping",
"plumping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinging",
"heaving",
"slinging",
"tossing",
"ensconcing",
"installing",
"planting",
"settling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plumpish":{
"as in heavyset , stocky":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin",
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"plyometrics":{
"as in gymnastics , calisthenics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aerobics",
"athletics",
"bodybuilding",
"body mechanics",
"calisthenics",
"gymnastics",
"isometrics",
"slimnastics",
"weight lifting",
"activity",
"conditioning",
"exercise",
"exertion",
"training",
"warm-up",
"workout",
"toning",
"trimming",
"physical therapy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"plethoras":{
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"the author offers a plethora of detail that tends to overwhelm the reader"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyfuls",
"excesses",
"fat",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"overpluses",
"oversupplies",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surplusages",
"surpluses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abundances",
"bounties",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"profusions",
"sufficiencies",
"overproductions",
"overstocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dearths",
"lacks",
"scarcities",
"wants"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"insufficiencies",
"undersupplies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"planting":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilling",
"putting in",
"seeding",
"sowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedding",
"replanting",
"transplanting",
"broadcasting",
"scattering",
"potting",
"overseeding",
"reseeding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathering",
"harvesting",
"reaping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony"
],
"synonyms":[
"beginning",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"pioneering",
"setting up",
"starting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoring",
"fathering",
"originating",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"creating",
"devising",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"producing",
"thinking (up)",
"constructing",
"putting up",
"developing",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"endowing",
"financing",
"funding",
"subsidizing",
"arranging",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"systemizing",
"refounding",
"reinitiating",
"reinstituting",
"relaunching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"annulling",
"nullifying",
"ending",
"finishing",
"halting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"rounding (off or out)",
"winding up",
"wrapping up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closing (down)",
"phasing out",
"shutting (up)"
]
},
"to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set":{
"examples":[
"a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding",
"enrooting",
"implanting",
"inculcating",
"infixing",
"inseminating",
"instilling",
"sowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"driving",
"hammering",
"pounding",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"fixing",
"lodging",
"rooting",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"inoculating",
"investing",
"steeping",
"suffusing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"plays hooky":{
"to fail to attend":{
"examples":[
"He got in big trouble when his parents found out he played hooky that day."
],
"synonyms":[
"blows off",
"cuts",
"misses",
"skips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignores",
"neglects",
"passes over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"attends",
"shows up (for)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pleasuring":{
"to give satisfaction to":{
"examples":[
"a wine that is sure to pleasure even the most discriminating palate"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeing (with)",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"feasting",
"gassing",
"gladdening",
"gladding",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"rejoicing",
"satisfying",
"suiting",
"warming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"soothing",
"assuaging",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"exciting",
"tickling",
"titillating",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"treating",
"captivating",
"charming",
"galvanizing",
"thrilling",
"calming",
"comforting",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"agitating",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fretting",
"upsetting",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"offending"
],
"antonyms":[
"displeasing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}