dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/bul_MWT.json
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{
"bulk":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the largest part or quantity of something":{
"antonyms":[
"minority"
],
"examples":[
"agriculture makes up the bulk of the country's economy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"couple",
"few",
"handful",
"smattering",
"sprinkling",
"least",
"minimum"
],
"related":[
"plurality",
"maximum",
"most",
"abundance",
"heap",
"loads",
"lot",
"much",
"oodles",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"reams",
"scads",
"wealth"
],
"synonyms":[
"generality",
"lion's share",
"majority",
"mass",
"preponderance"
]
},
"the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cookie lost a few crumbs, but the bulk of it remained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessory",
"accessary",
"adjunct",
"appendage",
"extension",
"offshoot",
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient",
"division",
"part",
"piece",
"section",
"segment",
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"feature",
"quality",
"side"
],
"related":[
"majority",
"aggregate",
"amount",
"entirety",
"quantum",
"sum",
"sum total",
"total",
"totality",
"whole",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"marrow",
"meat",
"nature",
"pith",
"quintessence",
"root",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance",
"center",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"middle",
"nucleus",
"nut",
"seat",
"affair",
"argument",
"burden",
"crux",
"focus",
"gist",
"nub",
"pitch",
"point",
"purport",
"matter",
"motif",
"subject",
"text",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"synonyms":[
"body",
"brunt",
"chief",
"core",
"generality",
"heft",
"main",
"mass",
"staple",
"weight"
]
},
"the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"due to its bulk , we were unable to get the enormous bookcase into the back seat of the car"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"area",
"capaciousness",
"commodiousness",
"roominess",
"spaciousness",
"ampleness",
"amplitude",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"enormousness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"grossness",
"heftiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"largeness",
"mass",
"massiveness",
"monstrousness",
"stupendousness",
"tremendousness",
"vastness",
"volume",
"voluminousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"dimension",
"extent",
"magnitude",
"measure",
"measurement",
"proportion",
"size"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulkiness":{
"the quality or state of being large in size":{
"examples":[
"the box wasn't heavy, but its bulkiness made it awkward to carry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness",
"substantiality",
"voluminousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"extensiveness",
"grossness",
"healthiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"massiveness",
"mightiness",
"mountainousness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"vastness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"handsomeness",
"liberality",
"muchness",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"weightiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"slightness",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"antonyms":[
"fineness",
"littleness",
"puniness",
"smallness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull":{
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the head office issued a bull banning the use of alcohol at all on-site social functions"
],
"synonyms":[
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"rescript",
"ruling",
"ukase"
],
"near synonyms":[
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"resolution",
"verdict",
"announcement",
"declaration",
"dictum",
"manifesto",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"canon",
"encyclical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"the town's drug dealers and bulls were well acquainted with one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobby",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"police officer",
"policeman",
"shamus"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolman",
"policewoman",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"sheriff",
"trooper",
"peace officer",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"boastful speech or writing":{
"examples":[
"an interview filled with the usual bull about how seriously she takes the art of acting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"cockalorum",
"fanfaronade",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant",
"rodomontade",
"rhodomontade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oratory",
"rhapsody",
"rhetoric",
"pomposity",
"turgidity",
"wind",
"bloviation",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"jawing",
"patter",
"prating",
"yammering",
"egotism",
"self-conceit",
"self-importance",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a guy who's always trying to sell some sucker a line of bull"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"bulldoze",
"crash",
"elbow",
"jam",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push",
"shoulder",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ram",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"examples":[
"no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"boast",
"brag",
"crow",
"gasconade",
"swagger",
"vapor",
"vaunt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"harangue",
"puff",
"pride",
"gush",
"exult",
"glory",
"rejoice",
"brandish",
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"flaunt",
"glorify",
"parade",
"show off",
"magnify",
"maximize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittle",
"deprecate",
"diminish",
"discount",
"laugh off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"shrug off",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"bemoan",
"lament",
"mourn",
"regret"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bull pens":{
"as in cells , holes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cages",
"cells",
"holes",
"tanks",
"bastilles",
"big houses",
"bridewells",
"brigs",
"calabooses",
"cans",
"clinks",
"coolers",
"coops",
"guardrooms",
"hocks",
"holds",
"hoosegows",
"jailhouses",
"jails",
"joints",
"jugs",
"lockups",
"nicks",
"penitentiaries",
"pens",
"pokeys",
"prisons",
"quods",
"slammers",
"slams",
"stirs",
"stockades",
"tolbooths",
"blocks",
"wards",
"glasshouses",
"guardhouses",
"hulks",
"concentration camps",
"gulags",
"labor camps",
"prison camps",
"stalags",
"work camps",
"dungeons",
"keeps",
"oubliettes",
"reformatories",
"reform schools",
"training schools"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outsides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull's-eyes":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulletined":{
"as in billed , gazetted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billboarded",
"billed",
"gazetted",
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulletins":{
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"picks up a church bulletin every Sunday after Mass"
],
"synonyms":[
"books",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"reviews",
"serials",
"zines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"weeklies",
"yearbooks",
"digests",
"little magazines",
"fanzines",
"pictorials",
"slicks",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"examples":[
"I signed up to receive the free financial bulletin daily in my in-box"
],
"synonyms":[
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bills , gazettes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billboards",
"bills",
"gazettes",
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullish":{
"as in beamish , eupeptic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beamish",
"eupeptic",
"assured",
"confident",
"decisive",
"doubtless",
"positive",
"sure",
"unhesitating",
"favorable",
"good",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"soothing",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"roseate",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bulls":{
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the head office issued a bull banning the use of alcohol at all on-site social functions"
],
"synonyms":[
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rescripts",
"rulings",
"ukases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calls",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"deliverances",
"determinations",
"diagnoses",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"opinions",
"resolutions",
"verdicts",
"announcements",
"declarations",
"dicta",
"dictums",
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"canons",
"encyclicals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"the town's drug dealers and bulls were well acquainted with one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbies",
"constables",
"coppers",
"cops",
"flatfeet",
"fuzzes",
"gendarmes",
"lawmen",
"officers",
"policemen",
"police officers",
"shamuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolmen",
"policewomen",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"inspectors",
"investigators",
"plainclothesmen",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"sheriffs",
"troopers",
"peace officers",
"captains",
"lieutenants",
"sergeants",
"constabularies",
"heat",
"men",
"police",
"police forces",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"bulldozes",
"crashes",
"elbows",
"jams",
"jostles",
"muscles",
"presses",
"pushes",
"shoulders",
"squeezes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rams",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"examples":[
"no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"boasts",
"brags",
"crows",
"gasconades",
"swaggers",
"vapors",
"vaunts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"harangues",
"puffs",
"prides",
"gushes",
"exults",
"glories",
"rejoices",
"brandishes",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"flaunts",
"glorifies",
"parades",
"shows off",
"magnifies",
"maximizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittles",
"deprecates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"laughs off",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"shrugs off",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"bemoans",
"laments",
"mourns",
"regrets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bully":{
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"that's a bully idea for reviving the town's retail center"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"the school has a procedure for students who want to report problems with bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullyboy",
"hector",
"intimidator"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonist",
"enemy",
"abuser",
"baiter",
"giber",
"jiber",
"harasser",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"oppressor",
"persecutor",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"torturer",
"goon",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mug",
"punk",
"rough",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"cutthroat",
"felon",
"gangster",
"gunman",
"mobster",
"racketeer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the local loan shark and his bullies have ways of making people pay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"brutalize",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"kick around",
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"mess over",
"mishandle",
"mistreat",
"misuse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molest",
"outrage",
"violate",
"harass",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"torment",
"torture",
"burn",
"sandbag",
"victimize",
"wrong",
"beat (up)",
"mess (up)",
"rough (up)",
"work (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"care (for)",
"cherish",
"foster",
"nurture",
"baby",
"cater (to)",
"coddle",
"favor",
"gratify",
"humor",
"indulge",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bullyrag",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullying":{
"as in browbeating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"determined",
"firm",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"dour",
"gruff",
"dogged",
"intractable",
"obstinate",
"relentless",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"callous",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"hard-line",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"merciless",
"ossified",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"rock-ribbed",
"stiff",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"austere",
"authoritarian",
"flinty",
"hard",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ramrod",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clement",
"forbearing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"lax",
"lenient",
"tolerant",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undemanding",
"charitable",
"kind",
"merciful",
"mild",
"patient",
"soft",
"softhearted",
"accepting",
"compromising",
"yielding",
"responsive",
"willing",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"compliant",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bulldozing , browbeating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"arm-twisting",
"coercion",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"duress",
"force",
"pressure",
"fear",
"intimidation",
"menace",
"sword",
"terror",
"terrorism",
"threat",
"violence",
"squeeze",
"squeeze play",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength",
"hardheadedness",
"self-will",
"willfulness",
"strain",
"stress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreement",
"approval",
"consent",
"permission",
"convincing",
"persuasion",
"reason",
"suasion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"brutalizing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"kicking around",
"maltreating",
"manhandling",
"messing over",
"mishandling",
"mistreating",
"misusing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molesting",
"outraging",
"violating",
"harassing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring",
"oppressing",
"persecuting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"burning",
"sandbagging",
"victimizing",
"wronging",
"beating (up)",
"messing (up)",
"roughing (up)",
"working (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"cherishing",
"fostering",
"nurturing",
"babying",
"catering (to)",
"coddling",
"favoring",
"gratifying",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullyrags":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulwark":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"fence",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"as in rampart , parapet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battlement",
"breastwork",
"earthwork",
"embattlement",
"parapet",
"rampart",
"bastion",
"castle",
"citadel",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortification",
"fortress",
"hold",
"redoubt",
"stronghold",
"bunker",
"dugout",
"blockhouse",
"garrison house",
"alcazar",
"casbah",
"kasbah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in support , buttress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorage",
"bed",
"brace",
"buttress",
"framework",
"infrastructure",
"mount",
"prop",
"shore",
"stay",
"substratum",
"substructure",
"support",
"base",
"basis",
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"cornerstone",
"footing",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"root",
"underpinning",
"warp",
"warp and woof",
"assumption",
"justification",
"premise",
"premiss",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"rationale",
"supposition",
"theory",
"thesis",
"warrant",
"backbone",
"center",
"core",
"eye",
"focus",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"nucleus",
"seat",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"touchstone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in embankment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embankment",
"butte",
"cuesta",
"hogback",
"tor",
"declivity",
"drop-off",
"pitch",
"barranca",
"barranco",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"escarpment",
"palisade",
"precipice",
"scar",
"scarp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullyboys":{
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"residents reported on some bullyboys who were causing problems at the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"hectors",
"intimidators"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonists",
"enemies",
"abusers",
"baiters",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"harassers",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"oppressors",
"persecutors",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"torturers",
"goons",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mugs",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"cutthroats",
"felons",
"gangsters",
"gunmen",
"mobsters",
"racketeers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullishly":{
"as in confidently , positively":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"confidently",
"expectantly",
"positively",
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"lightheartedly",
"sunnily",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously",
"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"gaily",
"happily",
"heartily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"smilingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically",
"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bull's-eye":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"course",
"direction",
"drift",
"tenor",
"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulking":{
"as in inflating , blowing up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bloating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloating",
"drenching",
"flooding",
"glutting",
"swamping",
"crowding",
"crushing",
"matting",
"pressing",
"ramming",
"shoving",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"brimming",
"charging",
"cramming",
"filling",
"heaping",
"jamming",
"jam-packing",
"loading",
"packing",
"stuffing",
"refilling",
"refreshing",
"reloading",
"repacking",
"replenishing",
"overcharging",
"overfilling",
"overflowing",
"saturating",
"honeycombing",
"penetrating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"vacating",
"voiding",
"lightening",
"depleting",
"draining",
"eliminating",
"exhausting",
"bleeding",
"drawing (off)",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging",
"scouring",
"sweeping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulletining":{
"as in billing , gazetting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billboarding",
"billing",
"gazetting",
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"blurbing",
"featuring",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"puffing",
"disseminating",
"spreading",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"introducing",
"kithing",
"kything",
"manifesting",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"showing",
"advising",
"apprising",
"handing down",
"informing",
"notifying",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"intimating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulletin":{
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"picks up a church bulletin every Sunday after Mass"
],
"synonyms":[
"book",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"fanzine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"examples":[
"I signed up to receive the free financial bulletin daily in my in-box"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bill , gazette":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bill",
"billboard",
"gazette",
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullyragged":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulletproof":{
"incapable of being defeated, overcome, or subdued":{
"examples":[
"this year the coach's strategy seems bulletproof"
],
"synonyms":[
"impregnable",
"indomitable",
"insuperable",
"insurmountable",
"invincible",
"invulnerable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"unstoppable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inviolable",
"unassailable",
"unbreachable",
"untouchable",
"armored",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safe",
"safeguarded",
"secure",
"shielded",
"unbeaten",
"unbowed",
"unconquered",
"undefeated",
"unsubdued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"insecure",
"liable",
"open",
"susceptible",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unsafe",
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"powerless",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"superable",
"surmountable",
"vincible",
"vulnerable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bulky":{
"of a size greater than average of its kind":{
"examples":[
"bulky packages might cost more to mail"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"major",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"copious",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"dinky",
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"little",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bullyragging":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bull market":{
"as in bear market":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bear market",
"call",
"demand",
"market",
"request",
"buyer's market",
"seller's market"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulling":{
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"bulldozing",
"crashing",
"elbowing",
"jamming",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"shouldering",
"squeezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramming",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"examples":[
"no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"boasting",
"bragging",
"crowing",
"gasconading",
"swaggering",
"vaporing",
"vaunting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"haranguing",
"puffing",
"priding",
"gushing",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"rejoicing",
"brandishing",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flaunting",
"glorifying",
"parading",
"showing off",
"magnifying",
"maximizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"laughing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"bemoaning",
"lamenting",
"mourning",
"regretting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulging":{
"as in dilated , protuberant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dilated",
"protuberant",
"bloated",
"blown",
"distended",
"overinflated",
"puffed",
"swollen",
"tumescent",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"varicose",
"varicosed",
"ballooned",
"blown up",
"expanded",
"ventricose",
"ballooning",
"dilating",
"turgescent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"detumescent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bursting , crammed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brimming",
"bursting",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"fat",
"filled",
"full",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"saturated",
"stuffed",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"awash",
"flush",
"fraught",
"lousy",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thick",
"thronging",
"clogged",
"congested",
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"surfeited",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"humming",
"lively"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"barren",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"deficient",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"pouting",
"projecting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"brimming",
"bristling",
"bursting",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"crawling",
"humming",
"overflowing",
"pullulating",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacking",
"needing",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bullies":{
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"the school has a procedure for students who want to report problems with bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullyboys",
"hectors",
"intimidators"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonists",
"enemies",
"abusers",
"baiters",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"harassers",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"oppressors",
"persecutors",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"torturers",
"goons",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mugs",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"cutthroats",
"felons",
"gangsters",
"gunmen",
"mobsters",
"racketeers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the local loan shark and his bullies have ways of making people pay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"brutalizes",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"kicks around",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"messes over",
"mishandles",
"mistreats",
"misuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molests",
"outrages",
"violates",
"harasses",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"torments",
"tortures",
"burns",
"sandbags",
"victimizes",
"wrongs",
"beats (up)",
"messes (up)",
"roughs (up)",
"works (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"cherishes",
"fosters",
"nurtures",
"babies",
"caters (to)",
"coddles",
"favors",
"gratifies",
"humors",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullied":{
"as in intimidated , cowed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeaten",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"crushed",
"downtrodden",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tyrannized",
"abused",
"maltreated",
"mistreated",
"abject",
"despairing",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"hopeless"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"brutalized",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"kicked around",
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"messed over",
"mishandled",
"mistreated",
"misused"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molested",
"outraged",
"violated",
"harassed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"burned",
"burnt",
"sandbagged",
"victimized",
"wronged",
"beat (up)",
"messed (up)",
"roughed (up)",
"worked (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"cherished",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"babied",
"catered (to)",
"coddled",
"favored",
"gratified",
"humored",
"indulged",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
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"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bull markets":{
"as in bear markets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bear markets",
"calls",
"demands",
"markets",
"requests",
"buyer's markets",
"seller's markets"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullseyes":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull pen":{
"as in cell , hole":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cage",
"cell",
"hole",
"tank",
"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth",
"block",
"ward",
"glasshouse",
"guardhouse",
"hulk(s)",
"concentration camp",
"gulag",
"labor camp",
"prison camp",
"stalag",
"work camp",
"dungeon",
"keep",
"oubliette",
"reformatory",
"reform school",
"training school"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outside"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull session":{
"as in meeting , skull session":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chat room",
"forum",
"meeting",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"skull session",
"skull practice",
"symposium",
"talkathon",
"argument",
"argumentation",
"argy-bargy",
"back-and-forth",
"colloquy",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"conference",
"consult",
"consultation",
"council",
"counsel",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"discussion",
"give-and-take",
"palaver",
"parley",
"talk",
"chat",
"conversation",
"rap",
"words",
"discourse",
"disquisition",
"bargaining",
"consultancy",
"negotiation",
"pourparler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullheadedness":{
"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"bullheadedness runs in that family"
],
"synonyms":[
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulks (up)":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"congregates",
"constellates",
"corrals",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"lumps",
"picks up",
"rounds up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balls",
"batches",
"bunches",
"clusters",
"huddles",
"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks",
"bands",
"brigades",
"musters",
"raises",
"rallies",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hives",
"packs",
"presses",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"combines",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"merges",
"pools",
"unites",
"archives",
"arranges",
"collates",
"compiles",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"re-collects",
"regathers",
"regroups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits (up)",
"dismisses",
"sends"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulldozed":{
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bored",
"bulled",
"crashed",
"elbowed",
"jammed",
"jostled",
"muscled",
"pressed",
"pushed",
"shouldered",
"squeezed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rammed",
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bullied",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulk (up)":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"pick up",
"round up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bullheaded":{
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"a bullheaded government official who refused to bend the rules even just a little bit"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bullwhips":{
"as in quirts , knouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birches",
"blacksnakes",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhides",
"crops",
"hickories",
"knouts",
"quirts",
"rattans",
"rawhides",
"straps",
"floggers",
"lashes",
"scourges",
"switches",
"whips",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"nightsticks",
"staffs",
"staves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulldozing":{
"as in bullying , browbeating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"arm-twisting",
"coercion",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"duress",
"force",
"pressure",
"fear",
"intimidation",
"menace",
"sword",
"terror",
"terrorism",
"threat",
"violence",
"squeeze",
"squeeze play",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength",
"hardheadedness",
"self-will",
"willfulness",
"strain",
"stress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreement",
"approval",
"consent",
"permission",
"convincing",
"persuasion",
"reason",
"suasion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"bulling",
"crashing",
"elbowing",
"jamming",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"shouldering",
"squeezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramming",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulking (up)":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"picking up",
"rounding up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulwarking":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"shielding",
"warding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"preventing",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"buffering",
"palisading",
"picketing",
"walling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bull snake":{
"as in rat snake , garter snake":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adder",
"anaconda",
"asp",
"black racer",
"blacksnake",
"blue racer",
"boa",
"bushmaster",
"chicken snake",
"cobra",
"constrictor",
"copperhead",
"coral snake",
"cottonmouth moccasin",
"diamondback rattlesnake",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snake",
"gopher snake",
"green snake",
"hognose snake",
"horned viper",
"indigo snake",
"king cobra",
"king snake",
"krait",
"mamba",
"milk snake",
"moccasin",
"pine snake",
"pit viper",
"puff adder",
"python",
"racer",
"rat snake",
"rattlesnake",
"sea serpent",
"sea snake",
"sidewinder",
"taipan",
"water moccasin",
"water snake",
"worm snake",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulldoze":{
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"bull",
"crash",
"elbow",
"jam",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push",
"shoulder",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ram",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"browbeat",
"bully",
"bullyrag",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulge":{
"a part that sticks out from the general mass of something":{
"examples":[
"several bulges in the old vinyl flooring in the dingy bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunch",
"convexity",
"jut",
"overhang",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blob",
"bump",
"dilatation",
"gibbosity",
"hump",
"knob",
"knot",
"knurl",
"lump",
"nub",
"obtrusion",
"puff",
"snag",
"swelling",
"block",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"enlargement",
"escalation",
"expansion",
"increase",
"hill",
"mound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crater",
"hole",
"well",
"basin",
"bowl",
"dip",
"valley",
"furrow",
"groove",
"trench",
"trough",
"dimple",
"gouge",
"impression",
"notch",
"pocket"
],
"antonyms":[
"cavity",
"concave",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hollow",
"indent",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
]
},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"she got the bulge on him in the race for the statehouse"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"edge",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"stead",
"upper hand",
"vantage",
"whip hand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"head start",
"lead",
"leg up",
"margin",
"odds",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"command",
"dominance",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"transcendency",
"precedence",
"preference",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"seniority",
"break",
"foothold",
"opportunity",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detriment",
"stranglehold",
"disparity",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"unevenness",
"disability",
"failing",
"impairment",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"burst",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"crawl",
"hum",
"overflow",
"pullulate",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulged":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounded",
"brimmed",
"bristled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"crawled",
"hummed",
"overflowed",
"pullulated",
"swarmed",
"teemed"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacked",
"needed",
"wanted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bullwhip":{
"as in quirt , knout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birch",
"blacksnake",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhide",
"crop",
"hickory",
"knout",
"quirt",
"rattan",
"rawhide",
"strap",
"flogger",
"lash",
"scourge",
"switch",
"whip",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"nightstick",
"staff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullyboy":{
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"residents reported on some bullyboys who were causing problems at the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"hector",
"intimidator"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonist",
"enemy",
"abuser",
"baiter",
"giber",
"jiber",
"harasser",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"oppressor",
"persecutor",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"torturer",
"goon",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mug",
"punk",
"rough",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"cutthroat",
"felon",
"gangster",
"gunman",
"mobster",
"racketeer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}