dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/goi_MWT.json
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{
"going (on)":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathering (on)",
"maundering",
"rambling",
"rattling",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviating",
"digressing",
"straying",
"wandering",
"sidetracking",
"blabbering",
"blabbing",
"blithering",
"bumbling",
"burbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going crook":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"Riley found himself going crook when he discovered that his roommate had eaten all his food."
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going down":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"when's the drug deal supposed to go down ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going to one's head":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"The drink the host made for him really went to his head ."
],
"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"buffaloing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"flummoxing",
"foxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"puzzling",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticking",
"stumping",
"weirding out",
"abashing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"stunning",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"humbugging",
"misguiding",
"misleading",
"snowing",
"stringing along",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"satisfying",
"enlightening",
"informing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goings":{
"forward movement in time or place":{
"examples":[
"tried to get down the hill quickly, but it was slow going with an injured foot"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancements",
"advances",
"furtherances",
"headways",
"marches",
"onrushes",
"passages",
"processes",
"processions",
"progresses",
"progressions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"currents",
"drifts",
"flows",
"fluxes",
"streams",
"ways",
"advents",
"approaches",
"arrivals",
"comings",
"bounds",
"jumps",
"leaps",
"steps",
"strides",
"impetuses",
"momenta",
"momentums"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwashes",
"ebbs",
"refluxes",
"retractions",
"returns",
"reversals",
"reverses",
"about-faces",
"turnabouts",
"turnarounds"
],
"antonyms":[
"recesses",
"recessions",
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retreats",
"retrogressions"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"was so absorbed in her TV show she didn't notice his comings or goings"
],
"synonyms":[
"decampments",
"departures",
"exits",
"farewells",
"leaves",
"leave-takings",
"outgoes",
"partings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flights",
"retirements",
"retreats",
"withdrawals",
"diasporas",
"emigrations",
"evacuations",
"exoduses",
"embarkations",
"embarkments",
"disembarkations",
"egresses",
"abandonments",
"relinquishments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comings",
"approaches",
"entrances",
"ingresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going out":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"there was concern that the dam would go out under the force of the flood waters"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckling",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"foundering",
"giving",
"going",
"imploding",
"tumbling",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflating",
"flattening",
"melting",
"melting down",
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out",
"stalling",
"bursting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crumbling",
"popping",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflating",
"rising",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"she enjoys going out on weekends, but during the week she's a homebody"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"fraternizing",
"hobnobbing",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"socializing",
"stepping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"partying",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"circulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"slighting",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going at":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He went at his opponent with such fervor, the fight was practically over before it began."
],
"synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"bushwhacking",
"charging",
"descending (on or upon)",
"going in (on)",
"jumping (on)",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"setting on",
"siccing",
"sicking",
"storming",
"striking",
"trashing",
"turning (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushing",
"ganging up (on)",
"mobbing",
"swarming",
"mugging",
"robbing",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"blitzing",
"bombarding",
"bombing",
"nuking",
"barraging",
"cannonading",
"cannoning",
"banging away (at)",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"plastering",
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"pressing",
"harrying",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"foraying",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"enveloping",
"flanking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"securing",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"She went at that project with such enthusiasm, you could tell it was a labor of love."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacking",
"diving (into)",
"tackling",
"wading (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressing",
"approaching",
"facing",
"buckling (down to)",
"concentrating (on)",
"focusing (on)",
"focussing (on)",
"knuckling down (to)",
"zeroing (in on)",
"falling (to)",
"pitching in",
"plunging (in)",
"settling (down)",
"pursuing",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"evading",
"shunning",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"idling",
"lagging",
"messing",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"poking",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going public (with)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"The celeb went public with the news of her pregnancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"letting on (about)",
"revealing",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unbosoming",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confiding",
"sharing",
"debunking",
"showing up",
"unclothing",
"undraping",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"bringing out",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"sounding",
"betraying",
"blabbing",
"giving away",
"leaking",
"informing",
"squealing",
"talking",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"relating",
"acknowledging",
"admitting",
"avowing",
"conceding",
"confessing",
"owning",
"disinterring",
"raking up",
"smoking out",
"unearthing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"eclipsing",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"shading"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering (up)",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going-over":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"examples":[
"received a thorough going-over before being sent on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"examination",
"inspection",
"look-see",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutiny",
"survey",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analysis",
"assay",
"close-up",
"deconstruction",
"dissection",
"exploration",
"investigation",
"probe",
"research",
"study",
"inquisition",
"interrogation",
"once-over",
"perusal",
"recheck",
"reinspection",
"resurvey",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"checkout",
"test-drive",
"trial run"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"going down (with)":{
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week"
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting",
"getting",
"sickening (with)",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking out (with)",
"dying (from)",
"succumbing (to)",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming back",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering (from)",
"shaking (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going (away)":{
"as in disappearing , clearing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clearing",
"disappearing",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"fleeing",
"melting",
"branching (out)",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"diverging",
"dividing",
"forking",
"separating",
"spilling",
"disassembling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"dissolving",
"scattering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"congregating",
"gathering",
"meeting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going to pot":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"The house went to pot quickly after the owners moved out."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"rotting",
"sinking",
"worsening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"waning",
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decomposing",
"degrading",
"dilapidating",
"disintegrating",
"moldering",
"putrefying",
"souring",
"spoiling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"debilitating",
"undermining",
"drooping",
"failing",
"falling",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"running down",
"sagging",
"slipping",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettering",
"upgrading",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"strengthening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"marching",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"improving",
"meliorating"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going off":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"crumping",
"detonating",
"exploding",
"popping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"discharging",
"firing",
"shooting",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mushrooming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"fizzling"
],
"antonyms":[
"imploding"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going along",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"don't go off without telling us where we can find you"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goings-over":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"examples":[
"received a thorough going-over before being sent on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"audits",
"checks",
"checkups",
"examinations",
"inspections",
"look-sees",
"reviews",
"scans",
"scrutinies",
"surveys",
"views"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analyses",
"assays",
"close-ups",
"deconstructions",
"dissections",
"explorations",
"investigations",
"probes",
"researches",
"studies",
"inquisitions",
"interrogations",
"once-overs",
"perusals",
"rechecks",
"reinspections",
"resurveys",
"observations",
"surveillances",
"watches",
"checkouts",
"test-drives",
"trial runs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going (by)":{
"as in accepting , complying (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acceding (to)",
"accepting",
"acquiescing",
"assenting (to)",
"complying (with)",
"consenting (to)",
"subscribing",
"agreeing",
"coinciding",
"concurring",
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"uniting",
"collaborating",
"cooperating",
"getting along",
"getting on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differing",
"disagreeing",
"clashing",
"colliding",
"conflicting",
"bickering",
"countering",
"disputing",
"dissenting",
"diverging",
"falling out",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"protesting",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"resisting",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"dissociating",
"separating",
"splitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going to pieces":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"After the breakup of his marriage he completely went to pieces ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"breaking up",
"cracking",
"flipping (out)",
"freaking (out)",
"melting down",
"wigging (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going (to)":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager"
],
"synonyms":[
"consulting",
"referring (to)",
"resorting (to)",
"turning (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"depending (on)",
"relying (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going one better":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"The two siblings were always trying to go one better than the other."
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outclassing",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outgunning",
"outmatching",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"towering (over)",
"transcending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upping",
"outpacing",
"outracing",
"outrunning",
"overpassing",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"outcompeting",
"outperforming",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"shaming",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"overbearing",
"overshadowing",
"trumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going on":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathering (on)",
"maundering",
"rambling",
"rattling",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviating",
"digressing",
"straying",
"wandering",
"sidetracking",
"blabbering",
"blabbing",
"blithering",
"bumbling",
"burbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going":{
"accepted, used, or practiced by most people":{
"examples":[
"what's the going price for a good used washing machine?"
],
"synonyms":[
"conventional",
"current",
"customary",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"standard",
"stock",
"usual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"everyday",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"regular",
"routine",
"epidemic",
"ubiquitous",
"universal",
"widespread",
"accustomed",
"wonted",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"stylish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"uncommon"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonstandard",
"unconventional",
"unpopular",
"unusual"
]
},
"being in effective operation":{
"examples":[
"he just can't keep his small bookstore going"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"live",
"living",
"on",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"employable",
"operable",
"usable",
"useable",
"viable",
"workable",
"performing",
"producing",
"productive",
"serving",
"useful",
"yielding",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"flourishing",
"humming",
"roaring",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deactivated",
"decommissioned",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"useless",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"arrested",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"idle",
"inert",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"nonproductive",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"stagnating",
"unproductive",
"vegetating"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"dead",
"inactive",
"inoperative",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"nonactivated",
"nonfunctional",
"nonfunctioning",
"nonoperating",
"nonoperational",
"nonoperative"
]
},
"having attained a desired end or state of good fortune":{
"examples":[
"our continued partnership with them is a going concern"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourishing",
"palmy",
"prosperous",
"successful",
"thriving",
"triumphant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coming",
"promising",
"booming",
"growing",
"roaring",
"robust",
"boffo",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"runaway",
"socko"
],
"near antonyms":[
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"no-good",
"unpromising",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing-out",
"declining",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"bankrupt",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"kerflooey",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"forward movement in time or place":{
"examples":[
"tried to get down the hill quickly, but it was slow going with an injured foot"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"advancement",
"furtherance",
"headway",
"march",
"onrush",
"passage",
"process",
"procession",
"progress",
"progression"
],
"near synonyms":[
"current",
"drift",
"flow",
"flux",
"stream",
"way",
"advent",
"approach",
"arrival",
"coming",
"nearing",
"bound",
"jump",
"leap",
"step",
"stride",
"impetus",
"momentum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwash",
"ebb",
"reflux",
"retraction",
"return",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"about-face",
"turnabout",
"turnaround"
],
"antonyms":[
"recess",
"recession",
"regress",
"regression",
"retreat",
"retrogression"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"was so absorbed in her TV show she didn't notice his comings or goings"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"leave",
"leave-taking",
"lighting out",
"outgo",
"parting",
"quitting",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flight",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"running away",
"withdrawal",
"diaspora",
"emigration",
"evacuation",
"exodus",
"embarkation",
"embarkment",
"disembarkation",
"egress",
"abandonment",
"forsaking",
"relinquishment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming",
"approach",
"entrance",
"ingress"
],
"antonyms":[
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything is going according to our plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going along",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will go on vacation at the end of the year",
"decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitting",
"beseeming",
"doing",
"fitting",
"serving",
"suiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfying",
"sufficing",
"functioning",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said"
],
"synonyms":[
"according",
"agreeing",
"answering",
"checking",
"chording",
"cohering",
"coinciding",
"comporting",
"conforming",
"consisting",
"corresponding",
"dovetailing",
"fitting",
"harmonizing",
"jibing",
"rhyming",
"riming",
"sorting",
"squaring",
"tallying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling",
"aligning",
"alining",
"lining up",
"registering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicting",
"disputing",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"clashing",
"conflicting",
"jarring"
],
"antonyms":[
"differing (from)",
"disagreeing (with)"
]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the highway goes right along the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"extending",
"heading",
"leading",
"lying",
"running"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossing",
"cutting",
"passing",
"coursing",
"following",
"spanning",
"traversing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop",
"the room went dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"becoming",
"coming",
"getting",
"growing",
"running",
"turning",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"metamorphosing",
"modifying",
"mutating",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"being",
"continuing",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckling",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"foundering",
"giving",
"going out",
"imploding",
"tumbling",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflating",
"flattening",
"melting",
"melting down",
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out",
"stalling",
"bursting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crumbling",
"popping",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflating",
"rising",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"these plates go in this cabinet"
],
"synonyms":[
"belonging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"placing",
"staying",
"fitting (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"when you get old, your eyesight starts to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"decaying",
"drooping",
"emaciating",
"fading",
"failing",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"sagging",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"wearing out",
"yielding",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"rotting",
"running down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalescing",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"gaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursing",
"covering",
"crossing",
"cutting (across)",
"following",
"navigating",
"passing (over)",
"perambulating",
"peregrinating",
"proceeding (along)",
"tracking",
"transiting",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"traversing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiking",
"traipsing",
"tramping",
"treading",
"walking",
"riding",
"running",
"crisscrossing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million"
],
"synonyms":[
"ranging",
"running",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternating",
"fluctuating",
"moving",
"shifting",
"changing",
"mutating",
"extending",
"reaching",
"stretching",
"sweeping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round"
],
"synonyms":[
"betting",
"gambling",
"laying",
"playing",
"putting",
"staking",
"wagering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bidding",
"offering",
"adventuring",
"chancing",
"hazarding",
"speculating",
"venturing",
"endangering",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I didn't go to fire the gun\u2014it just went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"allowing",
"aspiring",
"calculating",
"contemplating",
"designing",
"intending",
"looking",
"meaning",
"meditating",
"planning",
"proposing",
"purporting",
"purposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreaming",
"hoping",
"wishing",
"considering",
"debating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"striving",
"struggling",
"trying",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"executing",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"dead-ending",
"determining",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"elapsing",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"halting",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"letting up",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"winking (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisting (from)",
"laying off (of)",
"refraining (from)",
"giving over",
"knocking off",
"packing (up or in)",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"cutting out",
"stalling",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abating",
"petering (out)",
"winding down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drawing out",
"extending",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"hanging on",
"persisting"
]
},
"to have enough money for":{
"examples":[
"I think I can go for the new car after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covering",
"expending",
"financing",
"outlaying",
"paying (for)",
"ponying up",
"springing (for)",
"picking up",
"purchasing",
"taking",
"acquiring",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"bidding",
"offering",
"bankrolling",
"endowing",
"subsidizing",
"underwriting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"absorbing",
"accepting",
"bearing",
"biding",
"brooking",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"hacking",
"handling",
"meeting",
"pocketing",
"standing",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"sweating out",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"wearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowing",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"swallowing",
"reconciling (to)",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing (with or to)",
"assenting (to)",
"capitulating",
"consenting (to)",
"respecting",
"submitting (to)",
"yielding (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"dodging",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"missing",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"her grandmother went peacefully last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go , but it never really worked out"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"going over":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"examples":[
"received a thorough going-over before being sent on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"examination",
"inspection",
"look-see",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutiny",
"survey",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analysis",
"assay",
"close-up",
"deconstruction",
"dissection",
"exploration",
"investigation",
"probe",
"research",
"study",
"inquisition",
"interrogation",
"once-over",
"perusal",
"recheck",
"reinspection",
"resurvey",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"checkout",
"test-drive",
"trial run"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"going back on":{
"to break a promise or agreement":{
"examples":[
"He went back on his decision to move to the west coast."
],
"synonyms":[
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backing out",
"copping out",
"finking out",
"reneging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chickening (out)",
"wimping out",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"abjuring",
"abnegating",
"disavowing",
"forswearing",
"foreswearing",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"repudiating",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"begging off",
"crying off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"following through (with)",
"complying (with)",
"fulfilling",
"honoring",
"keeping",
"satisfying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
"examples":[
"She went back on the group and took up with a better-funded one."
],
"synonyms":[
"defecting (from)",
"deserting",
"ratting (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"abdicating",
"abjuring",
"apostatizing",
"cutting off",
"disowning",
"forsaking",
"quitting",
"rejecting",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"reneging",
"departing",
"going",
"leaving",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"clinging (to)",
"sticking (to or with)",
"cherishing",
"cultivating",
"fostering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"She suspected that he had gone back on her during her time away."
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betraying",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"giving away",
"informing (on)",
"peaching",
"ratting (on)",
"shopping",
"snitching (on)",
"splitting (on)",
"telling (on)",
"turning in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"saving",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"standing by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going in for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He always goes in for the underdog."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"I don't usually go in for that type of ideology."
],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"favoring",
"leaning (toward or towards)",
"liking",
"preferring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adoring",
"cottoning (to)",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"choosing",
"culling",
"handpicking",
"naming",
"picking",
"selecting",
"singling (out)",
"taking",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiring",
"hankering (for or after)",
"wanting",
"wishing (for)",
"biasing",
"biassing",
"prejudicing",
"inclining (toward)",
"tending (to)",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavoring",
"disliking",
"misliking",
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"discarding",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goings-on":{
"as in hanky-panky":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hanky-panky",
"malpractice",
"familiarity",
"gaffe",
"impropriety",
"indiscretion",
"crime",
"malefaction",
"misdeed",
"misdemeanor",
"sin",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"wrong",
"blunder",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fumble",
"goof",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"malfeasance",
"misbehavior",
"misconduct",
"misdoing",
"wrongdoing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going ballistic":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The partners went ballistic when they lost the business deal of a lifetime."
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"flaring (up)",
"flipping (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angering",
"fulminating",
"raging",
"ranting",
"raving",
"snapping",
"snarling",
"sputtering",
"storming",
"teeing off",
"venting",
"vituperating",
"bristling",
"burning",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"glaring",
"glowering",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"steaming",
"warming",
"bursting",
"exploding",
"flaring (out)",
"flashing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"maddening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilling out",
"cooling (off or down)",
"relaxing",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"simmering down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going out (with)":{
"to go on a social engagement with":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to go out with that foxy woman from work next Saturday night"
],
"synonyms":[
"dating",
"taking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"courting",
"wooing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going (for)":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringing",
"costing",
"fetching",
"running",
"selling (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listing (for)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"commanding",
"exacting",
"asking",
"demanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"getting off (on)",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"rejoicing (in)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"devouring",
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"feasting (on)",
"doting (on)",
"idolizing",
"cottoning (to)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"indulging (in)",
"luxuriating (in)",
"wallowing (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"condemning",
"despising",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"approving (of)",
"caring (for)",
"countenancing",
"favoring",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"subscribing (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"backing (up)",
"concurring (in)",
"standing by",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"tolerating",
"assenting (to)",
"consenting (to)",
"commending",
"recommending",
"enjoying",
"liking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklisting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"disliking",
"minding",
"detesting",
"hating",
"loathing",
"dissenting (from)",
"objecting (to)",
"opposing"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapproving (of)",
"discountenancing",
"disfavoring",
"frowning (on or upon)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"going for":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringing",
"costing",
"fetching",
"running",
"selling (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listing (for)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"commanding",
"exacting",
"asking",
"demanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"getting off (on)",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"rejoicing (in)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"devouring",
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"feasting (on)",
"doting (on)",
"idolizing",
"cottoning (to)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"indulging (in)",
"luxuriating (in)",
"wallowing (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"condemning",
"despising",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"approving (of)",
"caring (for)",
"countenancing",
"favoring",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"subscribing (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"backing (up)",
"concurring (in)",
"standing by",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"tolerating",
"assenting (to)",
"consenting (to)",
"commending",
"recommending",
"enjoying",
"liking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklisting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"disliking",
"minding",
"detesting",
"hating",
"loathing",
"dissenting (from)",
"objecting (to)",
"opposing"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapproving (of)",
"discountenancing",
"disfavoring",
"frowning (on or upon)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"going (with)":{
"as in coordinating (with) , conforming (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blending (with)",
"conforming (to)",
"coordinating (with)",
"harmonizing (with)",
"corresponding (to)",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"counterbalancing",
"counterpoising",
"echoing",
"imaging",
"mirroring",
"repeating",
"adding up (to)",
"amounting (to)",
"approaching",
"coming (to)",
"nearing",
"measuring (up)",
"partaking (of)",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"suggesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going to bat for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"an advocate who goes to bat for the poor and marginalized"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going up in flames":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"The neighbors called the fire department when they saw the old house go up in flames ."
],
"synonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"flaming",
"glowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching",
"enkindling",
"deflagrating",
"firing",
"igniting",
"kindling",
"flaring (up)",
"lighting (up)",
"flickering",
"guttering",
"wavering",
"baking",
"broiling",
"charring",
"cooking",
"melting",
"roasting",
"scorching",
"sweltering",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"sparking",
"sputtering",
"beaming",
"brightening",
"radiating",
"beating (down)",
"flashing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glittering",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"twinkling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going steady":{
"to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage":{
"examples":[
"She asked him if he wanted to go steady ."
],
"synonyms":[
"courting",
"dating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attending",
"gallanting",
"romancing",
"sparking",
"wooing",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"taking out",
"going out",
"stepping out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going to seed":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"rotting",
"sinking",
"worsening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"waning",
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decomposing",
"degrading",
"dilapidating",
"disintegrating",
"moldering",
"putrefying",
"souring",
"spoiling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"debilitating",
"undermining",
"drooping",
"failing",
"falling",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"running down",
"sagging",
"slipping",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettering",
"upgrading",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"strengthening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"marching",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"improving",
"meliorating"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going like clockwork":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"going off the deep end":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"breaking up",
"cracking",
"flipping (out)",
"freaking (out)",
"melting down",
"wigging (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"going through":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"I know how that feels because I've gone through it."
],
"synonyms":[
"enduring",
"experiencing",
"feeling",
"having",
"knowing",
"passing",
"seeing",
"suffering",
"sustaining",
"tasting",
"undergoing",
"witnessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"assimilating",
"digesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"He'd recently gone through the process of obtaining a driver's license."
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing off",
"carrying off",
"carrying out",
"committing",
"compassing",
"doing",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"fulfilling",
"making",
"negotiating",
"performing",
"perpetrating",
"prosecuting",
"pulling off",
"putting through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"implementing",
"acing",
"nailing",
"engaging (in)",
"practicing",
"practising",
"working (at)",
"reduplicating",
"reenacting",
"repeating",
"actualizing",
"attaining",
"realizing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"winding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failing",
"skimping",
"slighting",
"slurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use the mind to acquire knowledge":{
"examples":[
"They went through the lesson several times."
],
"synonyms":[
"boning (up)",
"studying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cramming",
"grinding",
"swotting",
"analyzing",
"deducing",
"finding out",
"conning",
"learning",
"memorizing",
"reading",
"researching",
"restudying",
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"grasping",
"knowing",
"understanding",
"absorbing",
"digesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going in (on)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"bushwhacking",
"charging",
"descending (on or upon)",
"jumping (on)",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"setting on",
"siccing",
"sicking",
"storming",
"striking",
"trashing",
"turning (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushing",
"ganging up (on)",
"mobbing",
"swarming",
"mugging",
"robbing",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"blitzing",
"bombarding",
"bombing",
"nuking",
"barraging",
"cannonading",
"cannoning",
"banging away (at)",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"plastering",
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"pressing",
"harrying",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"foraying",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"enveloping",
"flanking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"securing",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going under":{
"as in failing , flaming out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"failing",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"tanking",
"washing out",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out",
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}