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{
"leaching":{
"as in cleaning , purifying":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in percolating":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lead":{
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"an enthusiastic docent led our group through the art museum"
],
"synonyms":[
"conduct",
"direct",
"guide",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"pilot",
"route",
"show",
"steer",
"usher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precede",
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"control",
"manage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dog",
"hound",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tailgate"
],
"antonyms":[
"follow",
"trail"
]
},
"to serve as leader of":{
"examples":[
"a senior programmer is leading the team that is developing the new accounting software"
],
"synonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"command",
"head",
"spearhead"
],
"near synonyms":[
"control",
"dominate",
"direct",
"govern",
"handle",
"manage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"run",
"superintend",
"supervise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bow (to)",
"comply (with)",
"defer (to)",
"follow",
"obey",
"serve",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be at the front of":{
"examples":[
"the local high school's marching band led the parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"head"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precede",
"announce",
"herald",
"accompany",
"attend",
"escort",
"usher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"stop",
"terminate",
"tail",
"tailgate",
"dog",
"follow",
"trail"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"this old road leads to an abandoned quarry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"extend",
"go",
"head",
"lie",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"cut",
"pass",
"course",
"follow",
"span",
"traverse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"the salesclerk led us through the maze of options now available to television buyers"
],
"synonyms":[
"coach",
"counsel",
"guide",
"mentor",
"pilot",
"shepherd",
"show",
"tutor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfather",
"direct",
"engineer",
"steer",
"sway",
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"squire",
"oversee",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"drill",
"train",
"brief",
"enlighten",
"inform",
"instruct",
"school",
"teach",
"inculcate",
"indoctrinate",
"cultivate",
"foster",
"nurture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show":{
"examples":[
"the actor's career has really taken off since he became the lead in that prime-time drama"
],
"synonyms":[
"headliner",
"principal",
"star"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leading lady",
"leading man",
"superstar",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"starlet",
"star turn",
"coprincipal",
"costar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extra",
"supernumerary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"the runner maintained a lead of several meters all the way around the track"
],
"synonyms":[
"distance",
"length",
"remove",
"spacing",
"spread",
"stretch",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitude",
"area",
"breadth",
"depth",
"height",
"rise",
"space",
"volume",
"width",
"extension",
"extent",
"cast",
"range",
"reach",
"scope",
"shot",
"sweep",
"throw",
"drop",
"fall",
"flight",
"haul",
"berth",
"clearance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert":{
"examples":[
"my sister got a lead on the job opening from her neighbor, who is the human resources director for the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"hint",
"pointer",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advice",
"advisement",
"assistance",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"caution",
"cautioning",
"sign",
"signal",
"telltale",
"tip-off",
"warning",
"brief",
"direction",
"feedback",
"instruction",
"observation",
"prompt",
"reminder",
"urging",
"answer",
"clue",
"solution"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)":{
"examples":[
"the police are now working on several leads generated by the evidence gathered at the crime scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"clue",
"cue",
"hint",
"indication",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"suggestion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breath",
"flicker",
"glimmer",
"glimpse",
"mention",
"scent",
"whiff",
"wind",
"hunch",
"idea",
"inspiration",
"notion",
"allusion",
"implication",
"inference",
"innuendo",
"insinuation",
"denotation",
"evidence",
"guidepost",
"key",
"mark",
"overtone",
"pointer",
"sign",
"signal",
"telltale",
"token",
"assistance",
"nod",
"prompt",
"tip",
"tip-off",
"wink",
"feeling",
"foreboding",
"intuition",
"premonition",
"presentiment",
"suspicion",
"augury",
"foreshadower",
"foretaste",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prefigurement",
"presage",
"symptom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answer",
"solution"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"highest in rank or authority":{
"examples":[
"the lead diplomat is responsible for making policy for the entire embassy"
],
"synonyms":[
"chief",
"commanding",
"first",
"foremost",
"head",
"high",
"leading",
"preeminent",
"premier",
"presiding",
"primary",
"prime",
"principal",
"supereminent",
"supreme",
"top"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-level",
"senior",
"controlling",
"directing",
"managing",
"officiating",
"overseeing",
"regnant",
"reigning",
"ruling",
"supervisory",
"main",
"major",
"paramount",
"predominant",
"predominate",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"ascendant",
"ascendent",
"dominant",
"grand",
"superior",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"upper",
"uppermost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancillary",
"inferior",
"last",
"less",
"lesser",
"lower",
"lowly",
"second",
"secondary",
"subordinate",
"subsidiary",
"assistant",
"assisting",
"coadjutor",
"deputy",
"junior",
"under"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lead one up the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"sucker",
"suck in",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"lead-pipe cinch":{
"one that is certain to succeed":{
"examples":[
"The attorney displayed no shortage of confidence when proclaiming a not guilty verdict in the trial to be a lead-pipe cinch ."
],
"synonyms":[
"cinch",
"lock",
"shoo-in",
"slam dunk",
"sure thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"certainty",
"inevitability",
"eventuality",
"foregone conclusion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark horse",
"long shot"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"leading edges":{
"the leading or most important part of a movement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an activist who is on the leading edge of the fight for equal marriage rights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"spearheads"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting edges",
"forefronts",
"front lines",
"vanguards",
"vans"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leads":{
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"an enthusiastic docent led our group through the art museum"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducts",
"directs",
"guides",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"pilots",
"routes",
"shows",
"steers",
"ushers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precedes",
"accompanies",
"attends",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"convoys",
"escorts",
"sees",
"controls",
"manages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogs",
"hounds",
"shadows",
"tailgates",
"tails"
],
"antonyms":[
"follows",
"trails"
]
},
"to serve as leader of":{
"examples":[
"a senior programmer is leading the team that is developing the new accounting software"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"commands",
"heads",
"spearheads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controls",
"dominates",
"directs",
"governs",
"handles",
"manages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"runs",
"superintends",
"supervises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bows (to)",
"complies (with)",
"defers (to)",
"follows",
"obeys",
"serves",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be at the front of":{
"examples":[
"the local high school's marching band led the parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"heads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precedes",
"announces",
"heralds",
"accompanies",
"attends",
"escorts",
"ushers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"stops",
"terminates",
"tailgates",
"tails",
"dogs",
"follows",
"trails"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"this old road leads to an abandoned quarry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"extends",
"goes",
"heads",
"lies",
"runs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"cuts",
"passes",
"courses",
"follows",
"spans",
"traverses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"the salesclerk led us through the maze of options now available to television buyers"
],
"synonyms":[
"coaches",
"counsels",
"guides",
"mentors",
"pilots",
"shepherds",
"shows",
"tutors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfathers",
"directs",
"engineers",
"steers",
"sways",
"accompanies",
"attends",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"convoys",
"escorts",
"sees",
"squires",
"oversees",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"drills",
"trains",
"briefs",
"enlightens",
"informs",
"instructs",
"schools",
"teaches",
"inculcates",
"indoctrinates",
"cultivates",
"fosters",
"nurtures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show":{
"examples":[
"the actor's career has really taken off since he became the lead in that prime-time drama"
],
"synonyms":[
"headliners",
"principals",
"stars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leading ladies",
"leading men",
"superstars",
"ingenues",
"ing\u00e9nues",
"starlets",
"star turns",
"coprincipals",
"co-principals",
"costars",
"co-stars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extras",
"supernumeraries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"the runner maintained a lead of several meters all the way around the track"
],
"synonyms":[
"distances",
"lengths",
"removes",
"spacings",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"areas",
"breadths",
"depths",
"heights",
"rises",
"spaces",
"volumes",
"widths",
"extensions",
"extents",
"casts",
"ranges",
"reaches",
"scopes",
"shots",
"sweeps",
"throws",
"drops",
"falls",
"flights",
"hauls",
"berths",
"clearances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert":{
"examples":[
"my sister got a lead on the job opening from her neighbor, who is the human resources director for the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"hints",
"pointers",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advice",
"advisements",
"assistances",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"cautions",
"signals",
"signs",
"telltales",
"tip-offs",
"warnings",
"briefs",
"directions",
"feedback",
"instructions",
"observations",
"prompts",
"reminders",
"urgings",
"answers",
"clues",
"solutions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)":{
"examples":[
"the police are now working on several leads generated by the evidence gathered at the crime scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"clues",
"cues",
"hints",
"indications",
"inklings",
"intimations",
"suggestions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaths",
"flickers",
"glimmers",
"glimpses",
"mentions",
"scents",
"whiffs",
"winds",
"hunches",
"ideas",
"inspirations",
"notions",
"allusions",
"implications",
"inferences",
"innuendos",
"innuendoes",
"insinuations",
"denotations",
"evidences",
"guideposts",
"keys",
"marks",
"overtones",
"pointers",
"signals",
"signs",
"telltales",
"tokens",
"assistances",
"nods",
"prompts",
"tip-offs",
"tips",
"winks",
"feelings",
"forebodings",
"intuitions",
"premonitions",
"presentiments",
"suspicions",
"auguries",
"foreshadowers",
"foretastes",
"harbingers",
"omens",
"portents",
"prefigurements",
"presages",
"symptoms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answers",
"solutions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leads one down the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"suckers",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"leafs":{
"to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner":{
"examples":[
"we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked"
],
"synonyms":[
"flips",
"riffles",
"skims",
"thumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browses",
"dips",
"glances (at)",
"looks over",
"scans"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pores (over)",
"studies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"league":{
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"a league of concerned parishioners who are seeking a greater voice in church affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"association",
"board",
"brotherhood",
"chamber",
"club",
"college",
"congress",
"consortium",
"council",
"fellowship",
"fraternity",
"guild",
"gild",
"institute",
"institution",
"order",
"organization",
"society",
"sodality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collective",
"commune",
"community",
"cooperative",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"camp",
"coalition",
"partnership",
"body",
"cadre",
"group",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"junta",
"junto",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"lot",
"set",
"crew",
"outfit",
"party",
"squad",
"team",
"branch",
"chapter",
"local",
"faithful",
"fold",
"membership",
"sisterhood",
"sorority",
"cabal",
"camarilla",
"camorra",
"confederacy",
"conspiracy",
"band",
"gang",
"ring",
"cartel",
"combine",
"syndicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"examples":[
"created to avert future wars, the League of Nations was a forerunner of the United Nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliance",
"axis",
"bloc",
"block",
"coalition",
"combination",
"combine",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"federation",
"union"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"junto",
"cartel",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"faction",
"front",
"fusion",
"side",
"wing",
"association",
"group",
"organization",
"affiliation",
"cooperative",
"partnership",
"circuit",
"conference"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic":{
"examples":[
"that falls into a different league of fiction\u2014the popular novel"
],
"synonyms":[
"bracket",
"category",
"class",
"classification",
"division",
"family",
"genus",
"grade",
"group",
"kind",
"order",
"rank(s)",
"rubric",
"set",
"species",
"tier",
"type"
],
"near synonyms":[
"description",
"feather",
"ilk",
"kidney",
"like",
"manner",
"nature",
"sort",
"branch",
"section",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"subclass",
"subdivision",
"subgroup",
"subspecies",
"variety",
"breed",
"race",
"generation",
"heading",
"label",
"title"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"the whole block leagued together to keep a liquor store from opening in their neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"club",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"cooperate",
"federate",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabal",
"collaborate",
"gang up",
"hang together",
"team (up)",
"incorporate",
"organize",
"unionize",
"affiliate",
"amalgamate",
"combine",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"converge",
"group",
"join",
"merge",
"knot",
"link",
"tie",
"wed"
],
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"detach",
"disengage",
"dissolve",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"part",
"segregate",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"fall out"
],
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"disband"
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"concert",
"concur",
"conjoin",
"conspire",
"cooperate",
"join",
"team (up)",
"unite"
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"ally",
"associate",
"combine",
"confederate",
"hang together",
"interface"
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"verb"
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"leaker":{
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"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"collaborator",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"betrayer",
"canary",
"deep throat",
"fink",
"informant",
"informer",
"nark",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stoolie",
"stool pigeon",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"whistle-blower",
"notifier"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in":{
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"to show partiality toward":{
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"care (for)",
"favor",
"like",
"prefer"
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"adore",
"cotton (to)",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"choose",
"cull",
"handpick",
"name",
"pick",
"select",
"single (out)",
"take",
"covet",
"crave",
"desire",
"hanker (for or after)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"incline (toward)",
"tend (to)",
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"mislike",
"abhor",
"abominate",
"detest",
"hate",
"loathe",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"turn down",
"discard",
"jettison",
"throw away",
"throw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
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"to show partiality toward":{
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"care (for)",
"favor",
"like",
"prefer"
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"cotton (to)",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"choose",
"cull",
"handpick",
"name",
"pick",
"select",
"single (out)",
"take",
"covet",
"crave",
"desire",
"hanker (for or after)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"incline (toward)",
"tend (to)",
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"mislike",
"abhor",
"abominate",
"detest",
"hate",
"loathe",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"turn down",
"discard",
"jettison",
"throw away",
"throw out"
],
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},
"type":[]
},
"lean-to":{
"as in shed":{
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"near synonyms":[
"shed",
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shack",
"shanty",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leapfrogging":{
"as in bouncing , skipping":{
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"bouncing",
"hurdling",
"loping",
"skipping",
"bounding",
"hopping",
"jumping",
"leaping",
"springing",
"vaulting",
"bucking",
"capering",
"caprioling",
"cavorting",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"attacking",
"pouncing",
"shooting",
"skyrocketing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in avoiding , escaping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"fleeing",
"shaking",
"shunning",
"bypassing",
"circumnavigating",
"circumventing",
"detouring",
"skirting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confronting",
"facing",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaping":{
"passing from one topic to another":{
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"examples":[
"we had trouble following the lecturer's leaping look at archaeological discoveries around the world"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coherent",
"consistent",
"logical",
"direct",
"focused",
"focussed",
"straightforward",
"undeviating"
],
"related":[
"circuitous",
"deviating",
"devious",
"indirect",
"roundabout"
],
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"desultory",
"digressional",
"digressionary",
"digressive",
"discursive",
"excursive",
"maundering",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"wandering"
]
},
"to propel oneself upward or forward into the air":{
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"examples":[
"the outfielder leaped into the air to catch the ball before it went over the fence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"hurdling",
"leapfrogging",
"loping",
"skipping",
"bucking",
"capering",
"caprioling",
"cavorting",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"attacking",
"pouncing",
"shooting",
"skyrocketing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounding",
"hopping",
"jumping",
"springing",
"vaulting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"learn":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"after months of trying, he finally learned the dance steps"
],
"synonyms":[
"get",
"master",
"pick up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)",
"imbibe",
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig up",
"discern",
"discover",
"examine",
"find out",
"hear",
"hit (on or upon)",
"run down",
"scare up",
"search (for)",
"see",
"track (down)",
"tumble (to)",
"unearth",
"major (in)",
"study",
"memorize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forget",
"misunderstand",
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"the directors have since learned that they should examine the company's financial reports a little more closely"
],
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"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"get on (to)",
"hear",
"realize",
"see",
"wise (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"descry",
"detect",
"encounter",
"espy",
"spot",
"calculate",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"find",
"puzzle (out)",
"discern",
"mind",
"note",
"observe",
"perceive",
"divine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"forget",
"unlearn",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"occult",
"screen",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the police were astonished when they learned the identity of the students who had vandalized the school"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunt (down or up)",
"locate",
"nose out",
"root (out)",
"rout (out)",
"rummage",
"run down",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
]
},
"to commit to memory":{
"examples":[
"he learned the words to the song while performing karaoke"
],
"synonyms":[
"con",
"memorize",
"study"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hark back (to)",
"mind",
"recall",
"recollect",
"relive",
"remember",
"reminisce (about)",
"retain",
"think (of)",
"accept",
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"get",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"digest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disremember",
"forget",
"misremember",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"slur (over)"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"learned":{
"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
"examples":[
"the learned professor can speak knowledgeably on a wide array of subjects"
],
"synonyms":[
"educated",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"lettered",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read"
],
"near synonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"didactic",
"didactical",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"homeschooled",
"self-educated",
"self-instructed",
"self-taught",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"versed",
"overeducated",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncivilized",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"lowbrow",
"semiliterate",
"unintellectual",
"ill-bred",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable",
"uninstructed",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored",
"semiliterate",
"undereducated"
],
"antonyms":[
"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unscholarly"
]
},
"suggestive of the vocabulary used in books":{
"examples":[
"a teaching assistant who tries to impress us with all of his learned words"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookish",
"erudite",
"literary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"academic",
"academical",
"donnish",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"scholastic",
"belletristic",
"belle-lettristic",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"educated",
"schooled",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"high-flown",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"stately",
"towering",
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"pompous",
"stilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chatty",
"conversational",
"familiar",
"informal",
"slangy",
"illiterate"
],
"antonyms":[
"colloquial",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish"
]
},
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"after months of trying, he finally learned the dance steps"
],
"synonyms":[
"got",
"mastered",
"picked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"grasped",
"knew",
"understood",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)",
"imbibed",
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discerned",
"discovered",
"dug up",
"examined",
"found out",
"heard",
"hit (on or upon)",
"ran down",
"saw",
"scared up",
"searched (for)",
"tracked (down)",
"tumbled (to)",
"unearthed",
"majored (in)",
"studied",
"memorized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgot",
"misunderstood",
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearned"
]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"the directors have since learned that they should examine the company's financial reports a little more closely"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"got on (to)",
"heard",
"realized",
"saw",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"descried",
"detected",
"encountered",
"espied",
"spotted",
"calculated",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"found",
"puzzled (out)",
"discerned",
"minded",
"noted",
"observed",
"perceived",
"divined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"forgot",
"unlearned",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"occulted",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the police were astonished when they learned the identity of the students who had vandalized the school"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"got",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"rooted (out)",
"routed (out)",
"rummaged",
"scared up",
"scouted (up)",
"tracked (down)",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espied",
"sighted",
"spotted",
"looked for",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"misset",
"mis-set"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"passed over"
]
},
"to commit to memory":{
"examples":[
"he learned the words to the song while performing karaoke"
],
"synonyms":[
"conned",
"memorized",
"studied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harked back (to)",
"minded",
"recalled",
"recollected",
"relived",
"remembered",
"reminisced (about)",
"retained",
"thought (of)",
"accepted",
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"got",
"grasped",
"knew",
"understood",
"absorbed",
"digested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disremembered",
"forgot",
"misremembered",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted",
"slurred (over)"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearned"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"learns":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"antonyms":[
"unlearns"
],
"examples":[
"after months of trying, he finally learned the dance steps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgets",
"misunderstands",
"misses",
"overlooks",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"related":[
"apprehends",
"comprehends",
"grasps",
"knows",
"understands",
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"digests",
"drinks (in)",
"imbibes",
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs up",
"discerns",
"discovers",
"examines",
"finds out",
"hears",
"hits (on or upon)",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"searches (for)",
"sees",
"tracks (down)",
"tumbles (to)",
"unearths",
"majors (in)",
"studies",
"memorizes"
],
"synonyms":[
"gets",
"masters",
"picks up"
]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the directors have since learned that they should examine the company's financial reports a little more closely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"forgets",
"unlearns",
"blankets",
"blots out",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"occults",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"veils"
],
"related":[
"hits (on or upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"descries",
"detects",
"encounters",
"espies",
"spots",
"calculates",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"finds",
"puzzles (out)",
"discerns",
"minds",
"notes",
"observes",
"perceives",
"divines"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"catches on (to)",
"discovers",
"finds out",
"gets on (to)",
"hears",
"realizes",
"sees",
"wises (up)"
]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"passes over"
],
"examples":[
"the police were astonished when they learned the identity of the students who had vandalized the school"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses",
"mislays",
"misplaces",
"missets"
],
"related":[
"espies",
"sights",
"spots",
"looks for",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs out",
"digs up",
"discovers",
"dredges (up)",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"hunts (down or up)",
"locates",
"noses out",
"roots (out)",
"routs (out)",
"rummages",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"scouts (up)",
"tracks (down)",
"turns up"
]
},
"to commit to memory":{
"antonyms":[
"unlearns"
],
"examples":[
"he learned the words to the song while performing karaoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disremembers",
"forgets",
"misremembers",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights",
"slurs (over)"
],
"related":[
"harks back (to)",
"minds",
"recalls",
"recollects",
"relives",
"remembers",
"reminisces (about)",
"retains",
"thinks (of)",
"accepts",
"apprehends",
"comprehends",
"gets",
"grasps",
"knows",
"understands",
"absorbs",
"digests"
],
"synonyms":[
"cons",
"memorizes",
"studies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lease":{
"as in property , development":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lot",
"parcel",
"plat",
"plot",
"property",
"tract",
"development",
"frontage",
"real estate",
"patch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment":{
"examples":[
"the landlord was willing to lease the apartment for less than we had expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"let",
"rent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charter",
"engage",
"hire",
"lodge",
"sublease",
"sublet",
"rack-rent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"I couldn't afford to buy a car outright, so I decided to lease one instead"
],
"synonyms":[
"charter",
"engage",
"hire",
"rent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sublease",
"sublet",
"check out",
"arrange (for)",
"bespeak",
"book",
"contract (for)",
"order",
"reserve",
"sign up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leased":{
"to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment":{
"examples":[
"the landlord was willing to lease the apartment for less than we had expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"let",
"rented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chartered",
"engaged",
"hired",
"lodged",
"subleased",
"sublet",
"rack-rented"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"I couldn't afford to buy a car outright, so I decided to lease one instead"
],
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"chartered",
"engaged",
"hired",
"rented"
],
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"subleased",
"sublet",
"checked out",
"arranged (for)",
"bespoke",
"booked",
"contracted (for)",
"ordered",
"reserved",
"signed up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leave-taking":{
"the act of leaving a place":{
"antonyms":[
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival"
],
"examples":[
"the leave-taking of the guest of honor was scheduled for 11 o'clock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming",
"approach",
"entrance",
"ingress"
],
"related":[
"flight",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"running away",
"withdrawal",
"diaspora",
"emigration",
"evacuation",
"exodus",
"embarkation",
"embarkment",
"disembarkation",
"egress",
"abandonment",
"forsaking",
"relinquishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"going",
"leave",
"lighting out",
"outgo",
"parting",
"quitting",
"walking out"
]
},
"the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sweethearts' leave-taking was filled with tearful pauses and promises to meet again"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reunion",
"arrival",
"greeting",
"salutation",
"welcome",
"gathering",
"joining",
"meeting"
],
"related":[
"departure",
"egress",
"exit",
"exiting",
"exodus",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"running away",
"decamping",
"decampment",
"flight",
"withdrawal",
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"forsaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"farewell",
"parting",
"separation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leavens":{
"as in enlivens , invigorates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animates",
"charges",
"enlivens",
"invigorates",
"endues",
"indues",
"imbues",
"inculcates",
"infuses",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"inoculates",
"invests",
"steeps",
"suffuses",
"implants",
"instills",
"plants",
"impregnates",
"permeates",
"pervades",
"saturates",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"fills",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overwhelms",
"submerges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deprives",
"divests",
"strips",
"clears",
"empties",
"eliminates",
"removes",
"takes (away)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaves":{
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"you can leave your lunch in the refrigerator while we're outside",
"starry-eyed lovers who promise never to leave one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"maroons",
"quits",
"strands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discards",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"flings",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"scraps",
"sheds",
"shucks (off)",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"delivers",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields",
"escapes",
"retreats (from)",
"takes off (from)",
"vacates",
"withdraws (from)",
"abjures",
"cuts off",
"disowns",
"rejects",
"renounces",
"repudiates",
"separates (from)",
"sacrifices",
"distances",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harbors",
"has",
"holds",
"keeps",
"owns",
"possesses",
"reserves",
"retains",
"withholds",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaims"
]
},
"to give by means of a will":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to leave all of my possessions to my children"
],
"synonyms":[
"bequeaths",
"wills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deeds",
"hands down",
"hands on",
"passes (down)",
"devises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he left his job in the city and moved out into the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"chucks",
"quits",
"resigns (from)",
"retires (from)",
"steps aside (from)",
"steps down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandons",
"vacates",
"drops out (of)",
"throws up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"stays (at)"
]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"why don't you leave your watch with me while you swim?"
],
"synonyms":[
"commends",
"commits",
"confides",
"consigns",
"delegates",
"delivers",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"gives",
"gives over",
"hands",
"hands over",
"passes",
"recommends",
"reposes",
"transfers",
"transmits",
"trusts",
"turns over",
"vests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confers",
"grants",
"assigns",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"disperses",
"distributes",
"divides",
"hands in",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"submits",
"surrenders",
"turns in",
"yields",
"bequeaths",
"hands down",
"hands on",
"wills",
"advances",
"lends",
"loans",
"furnishes",
"supplies",
"recommits",
"redelivers",
"retransfers",
"retransmits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detains",
"holds back",
"reserves",
"withholds",
"owns",
"possesses",
"accepts",
"receives",
"takes in",
"occupies",
"takes",
"takes over"
],
"antonyms":[
"holds",
"keeps",
"retains"
]
},
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"examples":[
"is there ever a good way to leave a lover?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows off",
"breaks off (with)",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"jilts",
"kisses off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulders",
"cuts",
"high-hats",
"slights",
"snubs",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"maroons",
"quits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hooks up (with)",
"takes",
"befriends",
"latches (on or onto)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"aw, leave him come"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizes",
"commissions",
"empowers",
"licenses",
"licences",
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"caters (to)",
"gives in (to)",
"humors",
"indulges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"frustrates",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"prevents"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"prohibits"
]
},
"a period during which the usual routine of school or work is suspended":{
"examples":[
"the soldier was on leave for three days before having to report back to base"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"holidays",
"hols",
"recesses",
"vacations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sabbaticals",
"furloughs",
"liberties",
"breathers",
"relaxations",
"respites",
"rests",
"interims",
"intermissions",
"intervals",
"feasts",
"holy days",
"legal holidays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something":{
"examples":[
"the editor gave the reporters leave to follow up on their initial investigation of the senator's fund-raising practices"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowances",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"concurrences",
"consents",
"green lights",
"licenses",
"licences",
"permissions",
"sanctions",
"sufferances",
"warrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imprimaturs",
"seals",
"signatures",
"stamps",
"accreditations",
"certifications",
"liberties",
"passes",
"concessions",
"patents",
"permits",
"tolerances",
"tolerations",
"acceptances",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents",
"OKs",
"okays",
"accords",
"grants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denials",
"refusals",
"rejections",
"revocations",
"taboos",
"tabus",
"injunctions",
"vetoes",
"deterrences",
"discouragements",
"repressions",
"suppressions",
"bans",
"embargoes",
"exclusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"interdictions",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"the party was clearly dying down, and it was time to take our leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"decampments",
"departures",
"exits",
"farewells",
"goings",
"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",
"verb"
]
},
"leaving":{
"as in departing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"departing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"final",
"last",
"ultimate",
"farewell",
"parting",
"valedictory"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in leave , departure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abdication",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"leave",
"quitting",
"resignation",
"retirement",
"stepping down",
"relinquishment",
"renouncement",
"surrender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptance",
"adoption",
"embrace",
"embracement",
"espousal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"you can leave your lunch in the refrigerator while we're outside",
"starry-eyed lovers who promise never to leave one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"marooning",
"quitting",
"stranding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"flinging",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"scrapping",
"shedding",
"shucking (off)",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"delivering",
"giving up",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"escaping",
"retreating (from)",
"taking off (from)",
"vacating",
"withdrawing (from)",
"abjuring",
"cutting off",
"disowning",
"rejecting",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"separating (from)",
"sacrificing",
"distancing",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harboring",
"having",
"holding",
"keeping",
"owning",
"possessing",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"withholding",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaiming"
]
},
"to give by means of a will":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to leave all of my possessions to my children"
],
"synonyms":[
"bequeathing",
"willing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deeding",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"passing (down)",
"devising"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he left his job in the city and moved out into the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"chucking",
"quitting",
"resigning (from)",
"retiring (from)",
"stepping aside (from)",
"stepping down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"vacating",
"dropping out (of)",
"throwing up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"staying (at)"
]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"why don't you leave your watch with me while you swim?"
],
"synonyms":[
"commending",
"committing",
"confiding",
"consigning",
"delegating",
"delivering",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"giving",
"giving over",
"handing",
"handing over",
"passing",
"recommending",
"reposing",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"trusting",
"turning over",
"vesting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conferring",
"granting",
"assigning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"dispersing",
"distributing",
"dividing",
"handing in",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"submitting",
"surrendering",
"turning in",
"yielding",
"bequeathing",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"willing",
"advancing",
"lending",
"loaning",
"furnishing",
"supplying",
"recommitting",
"redelivering",
"retransferring",
"retransmitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaining",
"holding back",
"reserving",
"withholding",
"owning",
"possessing",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"occupying",
"taking",
"taking over"
],
"antonyms":[
"holding",
"keeping",
"retaining"
]
},
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"examples":[
"is there ever a good way to leave a lover?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing off",
"breaking off (with)",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"jilting",
"kissing off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldering",
"cutting",
"high-hatting",
"slighting",
"snubbing",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"marooning",
"quitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hooking up (with)",
"taking",
"befriending",
"latching (on or onto)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"aw, leave him come"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizing",
"commissioning",
"empowering",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"catering (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"frustrating",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"preventing"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leaving (out)":{
"as in excluding , omitting":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"left (out)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lefts":{
"a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom":{
"antonyms":[
"conservatism",
"illiberalism",
"immobilism",
"right"
],
"examples":[
"a rising politician who is being hailed as the new voice of the left"
],
"near antonyms":[
"neoconservatism"
],
"related":[
"neoliberalism",
"radicalism",
"socialism"
],
"synonyms":[
"left wing",
"leftism",
"liberalism"
]
},
"to cause to remain behind":{
"antonyms":[
"reclaimed"
],
"examples":[
"you can leave your lunch in the refrigerator while we're outside",
"starry-eyed lovers who promise never to leave one another"
],
"near antonyms":[
"had",
"harbored",
"held",
"kept",
"owned",
"possessed",
"reserved",
"retained",
"withheld",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"saved"
],
"related":[
"discarded",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"flung",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"scrapped",
"shed",
"shucked (off)",
"threw away",
"threw out",
"delivered",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded",
"escaped",
"retreated (from)",
"took off (from)",
"vacated",
"withdrew (from)",
"abjured",
"cut off",
"disowned",
"rejected",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"separated (from)",
"sacrificed",
"distanced",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"marooned",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stranded"
]
},
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"is there ever a good way to leave a lover?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hooked up (with)",
"took",
"befriended",
"latched (on or onto)"
],
"related":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldered",
"cut",
"high-hatted",
"slighted",
"snubbed",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"marooned",
"quit",
"quitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew off",
"broke off (with)",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"jilted",
"kissed off"
]
},
"to give by means of a will":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm going to leave all of my possessions to my children"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deeded",
"handed down",
"handed on",
"passed (down)",
"devised"
],
"synonyms":[
"bequeathed",
"willed"
]
},
"to give permission to":{
"antonyms":[
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited"
],
"examples":[
"aw, leave him come"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"barred",
"blocked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"frustrated",
"held back",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"obstructed",
"prevented"
],
"related":[
"authorized",
"commissioned",
"empowered",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"catered (to)",
"gave in (to)",
"humored",
"indulged"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted"
]
},
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"antonyms":[
"stayed (at)"
],
"examples":[
"he left his job in the city and moved out into the country"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"abandoned",
"vacated",
"dropped out (of)",
"threw up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"chucked",
"quit",
"quitted",
"resigned (from)",
"retired (from)",
"stepped aside (from)",
"stepped down (from)"
]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"antonyms":[
"held",
"kept",
"retained"
],
"examples":[
"why don't you leave your watch with me while you swim?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detained",
"held back",
"reserved",
"withheld",
"owned",
"possessed",
"accepted",
"received",
"took in",
"occupied",
"took",
"took over"
],
"related":[
"conferred",
"granted",
"assigned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"dispersed",
"distributed",
"divided",
"handed in",
"released",
"relinquished",
"submitted",
"surrendered",
"turned in",
"yielded",
"bequeathed",
"handed down",
"handed on",
"willed",
"advanced",
"lent",
"loaned",
"furnished",
"supplied",
"recommitted",
"redelivered",
"retransferred",
"retransmitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"commended",
"committed",
"confided",
"consigned",
"delegated",
"delivered",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"gave",
"gave over",
"handed",
"handed over",
"passed",
"recommended",
"reposed",
"transferred",
"transmitted",
"trusted",
"turned over",
"vested"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leg-pulls":{
"as in tricks , practical jokes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antics",
"buffooneries",
"capers",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"tricks",
"knee-slappers",
"panics",
"riots",
"screams",
"thigh-slappers",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"put-ons",
"riffs",
"boffolas",
"boffs",
"boffos",
"cracks",
"drolleries",
"funnies",
"gags",
"giggles",
"japes",
"jests",
"jokes",
"joshes",
"laughs",
"nifties",
"one-liners",
"pleasantries",
"quips",
"ribs",
"sallies",
"waggeries",
"wisecracks",
"witticisms",
"yuks",
"yucks",
"yaks",
"yocks",
"banters",
"persiflages",
"railleries",
"repartees",
"comedies",
"humors",
"wits",
"wordplays"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"gift",
"offering",
"present"
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"birthright",
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"inheritance",
"patrimony"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"as in validation , legitimization":{
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"formalization",
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"legitimization",
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"indorsement",
"permission",
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"commandment",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescription"
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"abatement",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"abrogation",
"annulment",
"avoidance",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"defeasance",
"dissolution",
"invalidation",
"negation",
"nullification",
"quashing",
"repeal",
"rescindment",
"voiding",
"abortion",
"calling off",
"recall",
"countermand",
"override",
"overruling",
"overturn",
"veto"
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"noun"
]
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"to make (something) legal":{
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"They wanted to legalize gambling in their city."
],
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"allows",
"enables",
"licenses",
"licences",
"passes",
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"okays",
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"acknowledges",
"affirms",
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"endorses",
"indorses",
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"canonizes",
"sanctifies",
"initials",
"rubber-stamps",
"signs",
"signs off (on)",
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"bans",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"illegalizes",
"interdicts",
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"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"rebuffs",
"rebuts",
"refuses",
"spurns",
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"denies",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"negatives",
"rejects",
"turns down",
"vetoes"
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"verb"
]
},
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"to make (something) legal":{
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"They wanted to legalize gambling in their city."
],
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"allowing",
"enabling",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"passing",
"permitting",
"accrediting",
"approbating",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
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"formalizing",
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"okaying",
"ratifying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"accepting",
"acknowledging",
"affirming",
"certifying",
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"indorsing",
"validating",
"blessing",
"canonizing",
"sanctifying",
"initialing",
"initialling",
"rubber-stamping",
"signing",
"signing off (on)",
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"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"illegalizing",
"interdicting",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"rebuffing",
"rebutting",
"refusing",
"spurning",
"declining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"vetoing"
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},
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"verb"
]
},
"legally":{
"according to the rules or the law":{
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"dirty",
"illegally"
],
"examples":[
"that's not a move that can be made legally in chess"
],
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"ignobly",
"immorally",
"underhandedly",
"unethically",
"dishonorably"
],
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"high-mindedly",
"morally",
"nobly",
"honorably"
],
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"clean",
"cleanly",
"fair",
"fairly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
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"a person sent on a mission to represent another":{
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"examples":[
"the legate was charged with a list of objectives to accomplish on behalf of his country"
],
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"attach\u00e9",
"charg\u00e9 d'affaires",
"consul",
"deputy",
"diplomat",
"foreign minister",
"nuncio",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"apostle",
"evangelist",
"missionary",
"deputation",
"detachment",
"legation",
"courier",
"messenger",
"mouthpiece",
"spokesperson"
],
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"ambassador",
"delegate",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"minister",
"representative"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legend":{
"an explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart":{
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"the legend indicated that a large circle represented a major city, while a small circle stood for a small town"
],
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"key"
],
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"scale",
"caption",
"guide",
"table"
],
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},
"an explanation or description accompanying a pictorial illustration":{
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"the legend in the science textbook indicated that the accompanying picture had been enlarged by 1000%"
],
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"caption",
"cutline"
],
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"key",
"closed-captioning",
"subtitle",
"translation",
"motto",
"posy",
"slogan",
"tagline"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"some ancient civilizations had legends about spirits that inhabited trees and rocks"
],
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"fable",
"myth",
"mythos"
],
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"parable",
"fabrication",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"figment",
"invention",
"narrative",
"saga",
"story",
"tale",
"yarn"
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},
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"that story of how the world came to be has long been part of Native American legend"
],
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"folklore",
"legendry",
"lore",
"myth",
"mythology",
"mythos",
"tradition"
],
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"folklife",
"information",
"knowledge",
"wisdom",
"anecdote",
"fable",
"folktale",
"old wives' tale",
"tale",
"yarn"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place":{
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"although the historic King Arthur lived in the sixth century, most of the legendry regarding him and the Knights of the Round Table is set in the far more romantic age of medieval chivalry"
],
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"folklore",
"legend",
"lore",
"myth",
"mythology",
"mythos",
"tradition"
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"information",
"knowledge",
"wisdom",
"anecdote",
"fable",
"folktale",
"old wives' tale",
"tale",
"yarn"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"legible":{
"capable of being understood":{
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"an anxious mood that was clearly legible upon her face"
],
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"accessible",
"apprehensible",
"coherent",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"scrutable",
"understandable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decipherable",
"plain",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"articulate",
"fluent",
"well-spoken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inarticulate",
"cryptic",
"esoteric",
"mysterious",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[
"incoherent",
"incomprehensible",
"inscrutable",
"insensible"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"as in warranted , sanctioned":{
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"examples":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"as in warrants , sanctions":{
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"legitimizes",
"sanctions",
"validates",
"warrants",
"authorizes",
"entitles",
"privileges",
"qualifies",
"empowers",
"enables",
"enfranchises",
"licenses",
"licences",
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"accredits",
"certificates",
"certifies",
"charters",
"ratifies",
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"reapproves",
"recertifies",
"recharters",
"revalidates"
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"delegitimizes",
"invalidates",
"nullifies",
"disables",
"disempowers",
"disenfranchises",
"decertifies",
"disallows",
"forbids",
"proscribes",
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to make something real, accepted, or official":{
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"slang words legitimized by usage"
],
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"legitimate",
"sanction",
"validate",
"warrant",
"authorize",
"entitle",
"privilege",
"qualify",
"empower",
"enable",
"enfranchise",
"license",
"licence",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"accredit",
"certificate",
"certify",
"charter",
"ratify",
"reaccredit",
"reapprove",
"recertify",
"recharter",
"revalidate"
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"delegitimize",
"invalidate",
"nullify",
"disable",
"disempower",
"disenfranchise",
"decertify",
"disallow",
"forbid",
"proscribe",
"disqualify"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to make something real, accepted, or official":{
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"slang words legitimized by usage"
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"legitimated",
"sanctioned",
"validated",
"warranted",
"authorized",
"entitled",
"privileged",
"qualified",
"empowered",
"enabled",
"enfranchised",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"accredited",
"certificated",
"certified",
"chartered",
"ratified",
"reaccredited",
"reapproved",
"recertified",
"rechartered",
"revalidated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delegitimized",
"invalidated",
"nullified",
"disabled",
"disempowered",
"disenfranchised",
"decertified",
"disallowed",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"proscribed",
"disqualified"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to make something real, accepted, or official":{
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"slang words legitimized by usage"
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"legitimates",
"sanctions",
"validates",
"warrants",
"authorizes",
"entitles",
"privileges",
"qualifies",
"empowers",
"enables",
"enfranchises",
"licenses",
"licences",
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"accredits",
"certificates",
"certifies",
"charters",
"ratifies",
"reaccredits",
"reapproves",
"recertifies",
"recharters",
"revalidates"
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"near antonyms":[
"delegitimizes",
"invalidates",
"nullifies",
"disables",
"disempowers",
"disenfranchises",
"decertifies",
"disallows",
"forbids",
"proscribes",
"disqualifies"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"lei":{
"an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck":{
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"examples":[
"we were presented with flowery leis as soon as we stepped off the plane in Hawaii"
],
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"related":[
"torque",
"torc",
"beads",
"carcanet",
"rivi\u00e8re",
"rope",
"strand",
"bangle",
"lavaliere",
"lavalliere",
"locket",
"pendant",
"pendent"
],
"synonyms":[
"choker",
"collar",
"dog collar",
"necklace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leisters":{
"as in tridents , harpoons":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gaffs",
"halberds",
"halberts",
"harpoons",
"tridents",
"javelins",
"lances",
"pike",
"pikes",
"pikestaffs",
"shafts",
"spears",
"darts",
"spikes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leisureliness":{
"as in lethargy , torpor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"languidness",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"slowness",
"sluggishness",
"reluctance",
"deliberateness",
"deliberation",
"dilatoriness",
"lateness",
"pokiness",
"procrastination"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celerity",
"fastness",
"fleetness",
"haste",
"hurry",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"rapidness",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"velocity",
"clip",
"gait",
"pace",
"rate",
"tempo",
"drive",
"hustle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed":{
"examples":[
"after buying our stuff, we just wandered around the mall at a leisurely pace"
],
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"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"snail-paced",
"snaillike",
"tardy",
"unhurried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deliberate",
"measured",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"heavy-footed",
"inching",
"plodding",
"shuffling",
"slow-footed",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"hurried",
"rushed"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping"
]
},
"at a pace that is less than usual, desirable, or expected":{
"examples":[
"the old hound dog leisurely sauntered over to his water bowl to take a drink"
],
"synonyms":[
"laggardly",
"pokily",
"slow",
"slowly",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carefully",
"cautiously",
"deliberately",
"purposefully",
"heavily",
"ploddingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immediately",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"readily",
"soon",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"abruptly",
"suddenly"
],
"antonyms":[
"apace",
"briskly",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"meteorically",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"lemures":{
"as in manes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"manes",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"double",
"fetch",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp",
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"lengthen":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"I had to lengthen the handle of the paint roller in order to reach the top of the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag (out)",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"extend",
"outstretch",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplify",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"the act of making longer":{
"examples":[
"a lengthening of the school year is favored by many of the parents in the school district"
],
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"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
]
},
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"I had to lengthen the handle of the paint roller in order to reach the top of the wall"
],
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"dragging (out)",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"extending",
"outstretching",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifying",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"attenuating",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"shortening"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lent":{
"to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned":{
"antonyms":[
"borrowed"
],
"examples":[
"I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend",
"can you lend me five dollars?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"received",
"took"
],
"related":[
"furnished",
"gave",
"granted",
"leased",
"let",
"rented"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"loaned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lesion":{
"an injured or diseased spot or area on or in the body":{
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"examples":[
"skin lesions",
"a brain lesion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"let up (on)":{
"as in reduce , decrease":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"subdue",
"muffle",
"mute",
"tone (down)",
"debilitate",
"enfeeble",
"weaken",
"benumb",
"blunt",
"cauterize",
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"numb",
"dwindle",
"recede",
"subside",
"taper (off)",
"wane",
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten",
"abate",
"moderate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sharpen",
"whet",
"amplify",
"augment",
"beef (up)",
"boost",
"consolidate",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"redouble",
"step up",
"strengthen",
"animate",
"arouse",
"stimulate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"letting go":{
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"antonyms":[
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"governing",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"smothering",
"taming"
],
"examples":[
"It's time to let go of the past."
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"binding",
"confining",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"haltering",
"hampering"
],
"related":[
"discharging",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"manumitting",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering",
"unmooring",
"unshackling",
"airing",
"expressing",
"taking out",
"venting"
],
"synonyms":[
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"uncorking",
"unleashing",
"unlocking",
"unloosening",
"unloosing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"letting on":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"she's not half as innocent as she likes to let on"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"making out",
"pretending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"impersonating",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"feigning",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"bluffing",
"feinting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"letting on (about)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"we agreed not to let on about our marriage plans to anyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"letup":{
"a usually gradual decrease in the pace or level of activity of something":{
"examples":[
"the downpour continued for hours without letup"
],
"synonyms":[
"braking",
"deceleration",
"downshift",
"retardation",
"slowdown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decline",
"drop",
"slump",
"ebb",
"remission",
"retreat",
"wane",
"flagging",
"weakening",
"arrest",
"check",
"halt",
"stoppage",
"collapse",
"crash",
"fall",
"plunge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"acceleration",
"hastening",
"quickening"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the rain let up just as we reached the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the windmill slowed down as the wind let up"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"levee":{
"a bank of earth constructed to control water":{
"examples":[
"the raging floodwaters were too much for the levee to handle"
],
"synonyms":[
"dam",
"dike",
"embankment",
"head"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breakwater",
"jetty",
"seawall",
"breastwork",
"bulwark",
"earthwork",
"rampart",
"canal",
"channel",
"ditch",
"gutter",
"trough",
"lock",
"barricade",
"barrier",
"block",
"floodgate",
"sluice",
"barrage",
"milldam",
"stank",
"weir"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers":{
"examples":[
"we tied the boat up at the levee and started unloading the fish we had caught"
],
"synonyms":[
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"pier",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berth",
"mooring",
"slip",
"embarcadero",
"dockyard",
"marina",
"quayage",
"shipyard",
"wharfage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"levelheadedness":{
"the ability to make intelligent decisions especially in everyday matters":{
"examples":[
"the judge had developed a reputation for no-nonsense levelheadedness in deciding cases"
],
"synonyms":[
"common sense",
"discreetness",
"discretion",
"gumption",
"horse sense",
"nous",
"policy",
"prudence",
"sense",
"sensibleness",
"wisdom",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"street smarts",
"farsightedness",
"forehandedness",
"foresight",
"foresightedness",
"forethoughtfulness",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"brains",
"gray matter",
"intelligence",
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"practicality",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"discernment",
"discrimination",
"insight",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"clearheadedness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"perspicacity",
"shrewdness",
"care",
"caution",
"circumspection",
"precaution",
"premeditation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shortsightedness",
"brainlessness",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"idiocy",
"senselessness",
"stupidity",
"carelessness",
"heedlessness",
"unreasonableness"
],
"antonyms":[
"imprudence",
"indiscretion"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"levelling":{
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"we'll give both teams the same equipment so as to level the playing field"
],
"synonyms":[
"balancing",
"equalizing",
"equating",
"evening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrating",
"equipoising",
"accommodating",
"adjusting",
"compensating",
"fitting",
"counterbalancing",
"homogenizing",
"normalizing",
"regularizing",
"standardizing",
"democratizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps":{
"examples":[
"the construction workers leveled the ground before laying a foundation for the new house"
],
"synonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"planing",
"smoothening",
"smoothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clipping",
"cropping",
"paring",
"pruning",
"shaving",
"trimming",
"laying",
"pressing",
"spreading",
"carding",
"combing",
"raking",
"surfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsening",
"rumpling",
"wrinkling",
"bending",
"kinking",
"denting",
"pitting"
],
"antonyms":[
"roughening",
"roughing"
]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"the marksman leveled his gun at the target and fired"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"bending",
"casting",
"directing",
"heading",
"holding",
"pinpointing",
"setting",
"training"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighting",
"bearing",
"facing",
"concentrating",
"focusing",
"focussing",
"inclining",
"orienting",
"steering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averting",
"curving",
"deflecting",
"detouring",
"diverting",
"rechanneling",
"shunting",
"sidetracking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer leveled his opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"downing",
"dropping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"mowing (down)",
"prostrating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an old warehouse that was leveled to build a parking lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolishing",
"pulling down",
"razing",
"tearing down",
"unbuilding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dynamiting",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"cracking up",
"crushing",
"dashing",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"devouring",
"dissolving",
"doing in",
"eradicating",
"extirpating",
"finishing",
"flattening",
"obliterating",
"overturning",
"pulverizing",
"ravaging",
"ruining",
"scourging",
"smashing",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"unmaking",
"wasting",
"wiping out",
"wrecking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rebuilding",
"renewing",
"renovating",
"restoring",
"creating",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"shaping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levels":{
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"a young karate student ready to rise to the next level in his chosen art of self-defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"rungs",
"situations",
"standings",
"stations",
"statuses",
"strata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"we'll give both teams the same equipment so as to level the playing field"
],
"synonyms":[
"balances",
"equalizes",
"equates",
"evens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrates",
"equipoises",
"accommodates",
"adjusts",
"compensates",
"fits",
"counterbalances",
"homogenizes",
"normalizes",
"regularizes",
"standardizes",
"democratizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps":{
"examples":[
"the construction workers leveled the ground before laying a foundation for the new house"
],
"synonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"planes",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clips",
"crops",
"pares",
"prunes",
"shaves",
"trims",
"lays",
"presses",
"spreads",
"cards",
"combs",
"rakes",
"surfaces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsens",
"rumples",
"wrinkles",
"bends",
"kinks",
"dents",
"pits"
],
"antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs"
]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"the marksman leveled his gun at the target and fired"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"bends",
"casts",
"directs",
"heads",
"holds",
"pinpoints",
"sets",
"trains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sights",
"bears",
"faces",
"concentrates",
"focuses",
"focusses",
"inclines",
"orients",
"steers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averts",
"curves",
"deflects",
"detours",
"diverts",
"rechannels",
"shunts",
"sidetracks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer leveled his opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls (down or over)",
"downs",
"drops",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"knocks over",
"mows (down)",
"prostrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"KOs",
"overthrows",
"throws down",
"topples",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"belts",
"bludgeons",
"clobbers",
"hammers",
"hits",
"jabs",
"pastes",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an old warehouse that was leveled to build a parking lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolishes",
"pulls down",
"razes",
"tears down",
"unbuilds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows up",
"dynamites",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"cracks up",
"crushes",
"dashes",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"does in",
"eradicates",
"extirpates",
"finishes",
"flattens",
"obliterates",
"overturns",
"pulverizes",
"ravages",
"ruins",
"scourges",
"smashes",
"totals",
"unmakes",
"wastes",
"wipes out",
"wrecks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rebuilds",
"renews",
"renovates",
"restores",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leverage":{
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"lacking much of the leverage it once had, the union is now being forced to make some concessions"
],
"synonyms":[
"authority",
"clout",
"credit",
"heft",
"in",
"influence",
"juice",
"pull",
"sway",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluence",
"command",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"reign",
"scepter",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"consequence",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment",
"impact",
"impress",
"impression",
"imprint",
"mark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a reality show contestant who's trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"capitalize (on)",
"cash in (on)",
"exploit",
"impose (on or upon)",
"milk",
"pimp",
"play (on or upon)",
"use",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerk around",
"manipulate",
"mistreat",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"fleece",
"overcharge",
"skin",
"soak",
"stick",
"commercialize",
"commodify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lewd":{
"depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society":{
"examples":[
"bystanders were shocked by the lewd behavior of the couple in the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"gutter",
"impure",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"profane",
"raunchy",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"stag",
"trashy",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"X-rated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broad",
"coarse-grained",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salacious",
"salty",
"suggestive",
"barnyard",
"earthy",
"scatological",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"low",
"unbecoming",
"depraved",
"kinky",
"louche",
"naughty",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"wicked",
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"unacceptable",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"abhorrent",
"debasing",
"disgusting",
"loathsome",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"unpleasant",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"abusive",
"scurrilous",
"hard-core",
"soft",
"soft-core"
],
"near antonyms":[
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"acceptable",
"agreeable",
"desirable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"welcome",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"meet",
"suitable",
"immaculate",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"virginal",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"wholesome"
]
},
"having a strong sexual desire":{
"examples":[
"a lewd 18th-century nobleman who left behind hundreds of erotic love letters"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"indecent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celibate",
"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
]
},
"hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent":{
"examples":[
"a nearby diner kept telling lewd jokes until we told him to shut up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"ribald",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salty",
"spicy",
"suggestive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leering",
"barnyard",
"coarse",
"coarse-grained",
"crude",
"earthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"vulgar",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"gutter",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"prurient",
"raunchy",
"smutty",
"stag",
"unprintable",
"unpublishable",
"warm",
"X-rated",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"naughty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"legged (it)":{
"to go on foot":{
"examples":[
"the car was in the shop so we had to leg it to work for a couple of days"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulated",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"padded",
"stepped",
"traipsed",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paraded",
"promenaded",
"marched",
"paced",
"stepped out",
"strode",
"trooped",
"power walked",
"hiked",
"peregrinated",
"trekked",
"ambled",
"moseyed",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"wandered",
"clumped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"trampled",
"tromped",
"footslogged",
"plodded",
"trudged",
"gimped",
"hobbled",
"limped",
"minced",
"pranced",
"pussyfooted",
"tiptoed",
"bounced",
"sashayed",
"stalked",
"strutted",
"swaggered",
"faltered",
"lumbered",
"lurched",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"toddled",
"waddled",
"nipped",
"tapped",
"tripped",
"trotted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"letting down":{
"to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of":{
"examples":[
"with my poor performance I really felt that I had let my teammates down"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheating",
"disappointing",
"dissatisfying",
"failing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumming (out)",
"chagrining",
"discontenting",
"disgruntling",
"displeasing",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"mocking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fulfilling",
"gladdening"
],
"antonyms":[
"contenting",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lesser":{
"having not so great importance or rank as another":{
"examples":[
"it was the lesser evil of the two choices"
],
"synonyms":[
"inferior",
"junior",
"less",
"lower",
"minor",
"smaller",
"subordinate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little",
"mean",
"small",
"minute",
"petty",
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"two-bit",
"associate",
"auxiliary",
"secondary",
"subsidiary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choice",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"greater",
"higher",
"major",
"more",
"primary",
"prime",
"senior",
"superior",
"superordinate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lees":{
"the part or half of something that is sheltered from the wind":{
"examples":[
"the lee of the ship",
"on the lee side of the mountain"
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lewdly":{
"as in lustfully , lasciviously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"legislation":{
"a rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature":{
"examples":[
"Congress has proposed new legislation banning the commercial distribution of plastic straws."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amendment",
"command",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"ruling",
"bylaw",
"ground rule",
"regulation",
"rule",
"common law",
"martial law",
"blue law",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"restriction",
"canon",
"capitulary",
"encyclical",
"act",
"bill",
"constitution",
"enactment",
"law",
"ordinance",
"statute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leveraging":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a reality show contestant who's trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"capitalizing (on)",
"cashing in (on)",
"exploiting",
"imposing (on or upon)",
"milking",
"pimping",
"playing (on or upon)",
"using",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerking around",
"manipulating",
"mistreating",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"fleecing",
"overcharging",
"skinning",
"soaking",
"sticking",
"commercializing",
"commodifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leys":{
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"examples":[
"across the lea rolls a lonely wagon"
],
"synonyms":[
"campos",
"champaigns",
"downs",
"grasslands",
"heaths",
"llanos",
"moors",
"pampas",
"plains",
"prairies",
"savannas",
"savannahs",
"steppes",
"tundras",
"velds",
"veldts"
],
"related":[
"fields",
"meadows",
"floodplains",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"flats",
"lowlands",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"uplands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"open land over which livestock may roam and feed":{
"examples":[
"the cattle were free to range over the lea"
],
"synonyms":[
"pasturages",
"pastures",
"ranges"
],
"related":[
"ranches",
"stations",
"feedlots",
"stockyards",
"yards",
"grasslands",
"pampas",
"prairies",
"savannas",
"savannahs",
"steppes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"levitation":{
"as in takeoff , liftoff":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blastoff",
"elevation",
"hoist",
"liftoff",
"raising",
"takeoff",
"boost",
"hike",
"increase",
"raise",
"heave",
"thrust",
"upheaval",
"uplifting",
"upraising",
"upsurge",
"upsweep",
"upswing",
"upthrust",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"upwelling",
"ascension",
"ascent",
"climb",
"rise",
"rising",
"soar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descent",
"dip",
"dive",
"drop",
"fall",
"nosedive",
"plunge",
"plop",
"plummeting",
"sinking",
"decline",
"decrease",
"down",
"comedown",
"downfall",
"downgrade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legerdemains":{
"the art or skill of performing tricks or illusions for entertainment":{
"examples":[
"the illusionist's show is an entertaining blend of legerdemain and over-the-top showmanship"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjuring",
"hocus-pocus",
"magic",
"prestidigitation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"the reduction of the deficit is due in part to financial legerdemain that masks the true costs of running the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"oiliness",
"shadiness",
"sharpness",
"shiftiness",
"shrewdness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"treachery",
"underhandedness",
"wiliness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"fakery",
"humbuggery",
"imposture",
"quackery",
"dirty pool",
"dirty tricks",
"design",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"secrecy",
"stealth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lets on":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"she's not half as innocent as she likes to let on"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"makes out",
"pretends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"bluffs",
"feints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"letting fly":{
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"The pitcher let fly one of his famous fastballs."
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"catapulting",
"chucking",
"dashing",
"firing",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"hurtling",
"launching",
"lobbing",
"lofting",
"pegging",
"pelting",
"pitching",
"slinging",
"throwing",
"tossing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowling",
"darting",
"flipping",
"gunning",
"hooking",
"passing",
"rolling",
"shooting",
"bucking",
"ejecting",
"impelling",
"precipitating",
"projecting",
"propelling",
"rifling",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"letdown":{
"the emotion felt when one's expectations are not met":{
"examples":[
"the museum exhibit was just so-so, and we returned home with a vague sense of letdown"
],
"synonyms":[
"disappointment",
"dismay",
"dissatisfaction",
"frustration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crestfallenness",
"discontent",
"discontentedness",
"discontentment",
"disgruntlement",
"displeasure",
"disenchantment",
"disillusionment",
"blues",
"dejectedness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"distress",
"doldrums",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"mopes",
"oppression",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"chagrin",
"discomfiture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fulfillment",
"fulfilment",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"joy"
],
"antonyms":[
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
]
},
"something that disappoints":{
"examples":[
"the eagerly anticipated new movie starring our favorite actor turned out to be a big letdown"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringdown",
"bummer",
"disappointment"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticlimax",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"success",
"winner",
"relief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of":{
"examples":[
"with my poor performance I really felt that I had let my teammates down"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheat",
"disappoint",
"dissatisfy",
"fail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum (out)",
"chagrin",
"discontent",
"disgruntle",
"displease",
"distress",
"upset",
"disenchant",
"disillusion",
"deceive",
"delude",
"mock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"gladden"
],
"antonyms":[
"content",
"gratify",
"satisfy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leverages":{
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"lacking much of the leverage it once had, the union is now being forced to make some concessions"
],
"synonyms":[
"authorities",
"clouts",
"credits",
"hefts",
"influences",
"ins",
"juices",
"pulls",
"sways",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluences",
"counter-influences",
"commands",
"dominances",
"dominions",
"masteries",
"predominances",
"reigns",
"scepters",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"consequences",
"eminences",
"importances",
"moments",
"impacts",
"impresses",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"marks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impotences",
"impotencies",
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a reality show contestant who's trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"capitalizes (on)",
"cashes in (on)",
"exploits",
"imposes (on or upon)",
"milks",
"pimps",
"plays (on or upon)",
"uses",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerks around",
"manipulates",
"mistreats",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"fleeces",
"overcharges",
"skins",
"soaks",
"sticks",
"commercializes",
"commodifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"levelled":{
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"we'll give both teams the same equipment so as to level the playing field"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"equalized",
"equated",
"evened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrated",
"equipoised",
"accommodated",
"adjusted",
"compensated",
"fitted",
"fit",
"counterbalanced",
"homogenized",
"normalized",
"regularized",
"standardized",
"democratized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps":{
"examples":[
"the construction workers leveled the ground before laying a foundation for the new house"
],
"synonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"planed",
"smoothed",
"smoothened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clipped",
"cropped",
"pared",
"pruned",
"shaved",
"trimmed",
"laid",
"pressed",
"spread",
"carded",
"combed",
"raked",
"surfaced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsened",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"bent",
"kinked",
"dented",
"pitted"
],
"antonyms":[
"roughed",
"roughened"
]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"the marksman leveled his gun at the target and fired"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"bent",
"cast",
"directed",
"headed",
"held",
"pinpointed",
"set",
"trained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighted",
"bore",
"faced",
"concentrated",
"focused",
"focussed",
"inclined",
"oriented",
"steered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averted",
"curved",
"deflected",
"detoured",
"diverted",
"rechanneled",
"rechannelled",
"shunted",
"sidetracked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer leveled his opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled (down or over)",
"downed",
"dropped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"knocked over",
"mowed (down)",
"prostrated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"KO'd",
"overthrew",
"threw down",
"toppled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"clobbered",
"hammered",
"hit",
"jabbed",
"pasted",
"poked",
"pounded",
"punched",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an old warehouse that was leveled to build a parking lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolished",
"pulled down",
"razed",
"tore down",
"unbuilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew up",
"dynamited",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"cracked up",
"crushed",
"dashed",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"devoured",
"did in",
"dissolved",
"eradicated",
"extirpated",
"finished",
"flattened",
"obliterated",
"overturned",
"pulverized",
"ravaged",
"ruined",
"scourged",
"smashed",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"unmade",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"rebuilt",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"restored",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lenience":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"a judge's reputation for lenience towards first-time criminals"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"leniency",
"lenity",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"led":{
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"an enthusiastic docent led our group through the art museum"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducted",
"directed",
"guided",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"piloted",
"routed",
"showed",
"steered",
"ushered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceded",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"controlled",
"managed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogged",
"hounded",
"shadowed",
"tailed",
"tailgated"
],
"antonyms":[
"followed",
"trailed"
]
},
"to serve as leader of":{
"examples":[
"a senior programmer is leading the team that is developing the new accounting software"
],
"synonyms":[
"bossed",
"captained",
"commanded",
"headed",
"spearheaded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controlled",
"dominated",
"directed",
"governed",
"handled",
"managed",
"oversaw",
"ran",
"run",
"regulated",
"superintended",
"supervised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowed (to)",
"complied (with)",
"deferred (to)",
"followed",
"obeyed",
"served",
"submitted (to)",
"yielded (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be at the front of":{
"examples":[
"the local high school's marching band led the parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"headed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceded",
"announced",
"heralded",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"escorted",
"ushered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"tailed",
"tailgated",
"dogged",
"followed",
"trailed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"this old road leads to an abandoned quarry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"extended",
"headed",
"lay",
"ran",
"run",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossed",
"cut",
"passed",
"coursed",
"followed",
"spanned",
"traversed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"the salesclerk led us through the maze of options now available to television buyers"
],
"synonyms":[
"coached",
"counseled",
"counselled",
"guided",
"mentored",
"piloted",
"shepherded",
"showed",
"tutored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfathered",
"directed",
"engineered",
"steered",
"swayed",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"squired",
"oversaw",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"drilled",
"trained",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"taught",
"inculcated",
"indoctrinated",
"cultivated",
"fostered",
"nurtured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legislative assembly":{
"as in general assembly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"general assembly",
"assembly",
"chamber",
"council",
"diet",
"house",
"legislative",
"legislature",
"congress",
"parliament"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"levitations":{
"as in takeoffs , liftoffs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blastoffs",
"elevations",
"hoists",
"liftoffs",
"takeoffs",
"boosts",
"hikes",
"increases",
"raises",
"heaves",
"thrusts",
"upheavals",
"upsurges",
"upsweeps",
"upswings",
"upthrusts",
"uptrends",
"upturns",
"upwellings",
"ascensions",
"ascents",
"climbs",
"rises",
"risings",
"soars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descents",
"dips",
"dives",
"drops",
"falls",
"nosedives",
"plunges",
"plops",
"declines",
"decreases",
"downs",
"comedowns",
"downfalls",
"downgrades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaked (out)":{
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"the candidate's campaign didn't want his choice of a running mate to leak out before an official announcement was made"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"came out",
"circulated",
"got about",
"got around",
"got out",
"got round",
"outed",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"transpired",
"unfolded",
"disclosed",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed (up)",
"suppressed",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"hid",
"masked",
"secreted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leister":{
"as in trident , harpoon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gaff",
"halberd",
"halbert",
"harpoon",
"trident",
"javelin",
"lance",
"pike",
"pikestaff",
"shaft",
"spear",
"dart",
"spike"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leadmen":{
"as in managers , supervisors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"managers",
"overseers",
"principals",
"skippers",
"standard-bearers",
"stewards",
"straw bosses",
"superintendents",
"superiors",
"supervisors",
"bosses",
"boss men",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"honchos",
"jefes",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"mistresses",
"taskmasters",
"administrators",
"commanders",
"directors",
"executives",
"generals",
"governors",
"hierarchs",
"higher-ups",
"overlords",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"figureheads",
"barons",
"czarinas",
"tsarinas",
"tzarinas",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"presidents",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"big cheeses",
"big guns",
"bigwigs",
"top dogs",
"top guns",
"coheads",
"co-heads",
"coleaders",
"co-leaders",
"employers",
"gaffers",
"gangers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependents",
"inferiors",
"juniors",
"secondaries",
"subjects",
"subordinates",
"underlings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lectured":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"examples":[
"the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service"
],
"synonyms":[
"basted",
"bawled out",
"berated",
"called down",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"chewed out",
"dressed down",
"flayed",
"hammered",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"ragged",
"railed (at or against)",
"ranted (at)",
"rated",
"reamed (out)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"scolded",
"scored",
"tongue-lashed",
"upbraided"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"remonstrated (with)",
"reproved",
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bad-mouthed",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"crucified",
"denounced",
"dissed",
"excoriated",
"faulted",
"harangued",
"knocked",
"laced (into)",
"lashed",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"reviled",
"scourged",
"slammed",
"vituperated",
"belittled",
"disparaged",
"mocked",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"scoffed",
"scorned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a formal often extended talk on a subject":{
"examples":[
"a physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaimed",
"descanted",
"discoursed",
"expatiated",
"harangued",
"orated",
"spoke",
"talked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recited",
"soliloquized",
"disserted",
"expounded",
"pontificated",
"sermonized",
"mouthed",
"spouted",
"filibustered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lethargy":{
"physical or mental inertness":{
"examples":[
"the doctor suspected that the patient's depression and lethargy were a result of seasonal affective disorder"
],
"synonyms":[
"hebetude",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"listlessness",
"stupor",
"torpor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boredom",
"indifference",
"malaise",
"laziness",
"fatigue",
"sleepiness",
"narcosis",
"idleness",
"inaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"keenness",
"spiritedness",
"ambition",
"enterprise"
],
"antonyms":[
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"vivacity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leary":{
"feeling or showing a lack of trust in someone or something":{
"examples":[
"a leery attitude",
"She seemed a little leery about the proposal.",
"They were leery of their neighbors."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"guarded",
"gun-shy",
"wary",
"watchful",
"disbelieving",
"distrustful",
"doubting",
"incredulous",
"mistrustful",
"negativistic",
"questioning",
"show-me",
"skeptical",
"suspecting",
"suspicious",
"unbelieving",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"critical",
"puzzled",
"quizzical",
"cynical",
"experienced",
"knowing",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"curious",
"inquiring",
"inquisitive",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"snoopy",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"hesitant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"green",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"simpleminded",
"unknowing",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"certain",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"callow",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"childlike",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"beguiled",
"deceived",
"duped",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"careless",
"heedless",
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspicious",
"unwary",
"credulous",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"uncritical",
"unquestioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"leper":{
"one who is cast out or rejected by society":{
"examples":[
"was treated as a leper after she leveled unpopular criticism of the beloved star"
],
"synonyms":[
"castaway",
"castoff",
"offscouring",
"outcast",
"pariah",
"reject"
],
"near synonyms":[
"untouchable",
"outsider",
"deportee",
"exile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insider"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legislations":{
"a rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature":{
"examples":[
"Congress has proposed new legislation banning the commercial distribution of plastic straws."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amendments",
"commandments",
"commands",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rulings",
"bylaws",
"ground rules",
"regulations",
"rules",
"common law",
"blue laws",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions",
"restrictions",
"canons",
"capitularies",
"encyclicals",
"acts",
"bills",
"constitutions",
"enactments",
"laws",
"ordinances",
"statutes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leave off":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"we usually leave off working as soon as the bell rings"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"break up",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"pack (up or in)",
"quit",
"shut off",
"stop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"finish",
"close (down)",
"deactivate",
"block",
"blockade",
"dam",
"delay",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"kibosh",
"obstruct",
"stem",
"call",
"suspend",
"arrest",
"brake",
"check",
"clamp down",
"rein (in)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stamp",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abolish",
"abort",
"annul",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"dissolve",
"kill",
"ruin",
"scuttle",
"snuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep up",
"run on",
"advance",
"proceed",
"progress",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the snow should leave off around midnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leftists":{
"as in lefties , pinkos":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lefties",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists",
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"left off":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"we usually leave off working as soon as the bell rings"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"broke off",
"broke up",
"canned",
"ceased",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desisted (from)",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"ended",
"gave over",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"packed (up or in)",
"quit",
"quitted",
"shut off",
"stopped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completed",
"concluded",
"finished",
"closed (down)",
"deactivated",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"dammed",
"delayed",
"detained",
"held",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"kiboshed",
"obstructed",
"stemmed",
"called",
"suspended",
"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"clamped down",
"reined (in)",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stamped",
"stanched",
"staunched",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"turned back",
"paused",
"stayed",
"suspended",
"abolished",
"aborted",
"annulled",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"dissolved",
"killed",
"ruined",
"scuttled",
"snuffed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept up",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the snow should leave off around midnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke off",
"broke up",
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"dead-ended",
"determined",
"died",
"discontinued",
"elapsed",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"halted",
"lapsed",
"let up",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"went",
"winked (out)",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisted (from)",
"laid off (of)",
"refrained (from)",
"gave over",
"knocked off",
"packed (up or in)",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"cut out",
"stalled",
"paused",
"stayed",
"suspended",
"abated",
"petered (out)",
"wound down",
"winded down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drew out",
"extended",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
],
"antonyms":[
"continued",
"hung on",
"persisted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lessens":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"we lessened our efforts as it became clear they weren't having an effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dents",
"depletes",
"diminishes",
"downscales",
"downsizes",
"drops",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"knocks down",
"lowers",
"reduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"clips",
"crops",
"curtails",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"cuts down",
"docks",
"nicks",
"pares",
"prunes",
"retrenches",
"shortens",
"slashes",
"trims",
"truncates",
"whittles",
"deflates",
"shrinks",
"minimizes",
"moderates",
"modifies",
"modulates",
"qualifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"swells",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"adds (to)",
"complements",
"supplements",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"raises"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the pain should begin to lessen within minutes of taking the medication"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"blatant hypocrisy that lessened him in the eyes of the voters"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"bastardizes",
"cankers",
"cheapens",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"deteriorates",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"vitiates",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"dilutes",
"dirties",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"thins",
"waters down",
"weakens",
"descends",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"shames",
"takes down",
"blemishes",
"damages",
"defaces",
"destroys",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"mars",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"stains",
"tarnishes",
"wrecks",
"depreciates",
"downgrades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"honors",
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"perfects",
"clarifies",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"refines",
"restores",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"let the cat out of the bag (about)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"discover",
"divulge",
"expose",
"let on (about)",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"unbosom",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confide",
"share",
"debunk",
"show up",
"unclothe",
"undrape",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blaze",
"bring out",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"sound",
"betray",
"blab",
"give away",
"leak",
"inform",
"squeal",
"talk",
"communicate",
"impart",
"relate",
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"avow",
"concede",
"confess",
"own",
"disinter",
"rake up",
"smoke out",
"unearth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover (up)",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"shroud",
"veil"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"legalizations":{
"as in validations , legitimizations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formalizations",
"legitimations",
"legitimizations",
"validations",
"establishments",
"institutions",
"passings",
"ratifications",
"enactments",
"legislations",
"approvals",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"permissions",
"commandments",
"orderings",
"prescriptions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatements",
"abolishments",
"abolitions",
"abrogations",
"annulments",
"avoidances",
"cancellations",
"cancelations",
"defeasances",
"dissolutions",
"invalidations",
"negations",
"nullifications",
"repeals",
"rescindments",
"abortions",
"recalls",
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overturns",
"vetoes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leastwise":{
"whatever else is done or is the case":{
"examples":[
"leastwise you have a job, and that's more than some folks can say"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"leastways"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"leases":{
"as in properties , developments":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lots",
"parcels",
"plats",
"plots",
"properties",
"tracts",
"developments",
"frontages",
"real estates",
"patches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment":{
"examples":[
"the landlord was willing to lease the apartment for less than we had expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"lets",
"rents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charters",
"engages",
"hires",
"lodges",
"subleases",
"sublets",
"rack-rents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"I couldn't afford to buy a car outright, so I decided to lease one instead"
],
"synonyms":[
"charters",
"engages",
"hires",
"rents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subleases",
"sublets",
"checks out",
"arranges (for)",
"bespeaks",
"books",
"contracts (for)",
"orders",
"reserves",
"signs up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"legislature":{
"a group of people with the power to make or change laws":{
"examples":[
"Our legislature passed a law requiring people to wear safety belts.",
"Each state has its own legislature .",
"state legislatures"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assembly",
"chamber",
"council",
"diet",
"house",
"legislative",
"congress",
"parliament",
"general assembly",
"legislative assembly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leasing":{
"to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment":{
"examples":[
"the landlord was willing to lease the apartment for less than we had expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"letting",
"renting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chartering",
"engaging",
"hiring",
"lodging",
"subleasing",
"subletting",
"rack-renting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"I couldn't afford to buy a car outright, so I decided to lease one instead"
],
"synonyms":[
"chartering",
"engaging",
"hiring",
"renting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subleasing",
"subletting",
"checking out",
"arranging (for)",
"bespeaking",
"booking",
"contracting (for)",
"ordering",
"reserving",
"signing up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levying":{
"as in charge , imposition":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assessment",
"charge",
"fine",
"imposition",
"conviction",
"sentence",
"castigation",
"chastening",
"chastisement",
"condemnation",
"penalty",
"punishment",
"retribution"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolution",
"amnesty",
"forgiveness",
"pardon",
"remission",
"remittal",
"parole",
"acquittal",
"exculpation",
"exoneration",
"vindication"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"examples":[
"unprepared for war, the government was forced to levy young citizens on a scale that was unprecedented in its history"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribing",
"conscripting",
"drafting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressing",
"pressing",
"enlisting",
"enrolling",
"recruiting",
"calling up",
"signing up",
"volunteering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharging",
"mustering out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"examples":[
"the baseball commissioner levied a fine against every player involved in the fracas"
],
"synonyms":[
"assessing",
"charging",
"exacting",
"fining",
"imposing",
"laying",
"putting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"docking",
"excising",
"mulcting",
"penalizing",
"taxing",
"extorting",
"shaking down",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"bleeding",
"fleecing",
"gouging",
"milking",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"inflicting",
"wreaking",
"setting",
"reapplying",
"reimposing",
"relaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"forgiving",
"releasing",
"condoning",
"disregarding",
"excusing",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"ignoring",
"pardoning"
],
"antonyms":[
"remitting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leeward":{
"being in the direction that the wind is blowing":{
"examples":[
"we moved to the leeward side of the ship so that we wouldn't have the wind in our faces"
],
"synonyms":[
"downwind"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"upwind",
"windward"
]
},
"as in lee , windward":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lee",
"windward",
"flank",
"hand",
"side",
"outside",
"face",
"top",
"bottom",
"foot",
"underbelly",
"underbody",
"underpart",
"underside",
"undersurface",
"left",
"right"
],
"near antonyms":[
"center",
"inside",
"interior",
"middle",
"midway"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"legibility":{
"as in intelligibility , comprehensibility":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"readability",
"readableness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"clarity",
"explicitness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"perspicuity",
"perspicuousness",
"simplicity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"unclarity",
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"obliqueness",
"obliquity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"unintelligibility",
"unintelligibleness",
"circuitousness",
"deviousness",
"indirectness",
"indistinctness",
"dimness",
"disjointedness",
"incoherence",
"faintness",
"fuzziness",
"muddiness",
"nebulousness",
"vagueness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"length":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadth",
"distance",
"expanse",
"expansion",
"extent",
"field",
"plain",
"reach",
"sheet",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline"
],
"synonyms":[
"distance",
"lead",
"remove",
"spacing",
"spread",
"stretch",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitude",
"area",
"breadth",
"depth",
"height",
"rise",
"space",
"volume",
"width",
"extension",
"extent",
"cast",
"range",
"reach",
"scope",
"shot",
"sweep",
"throw",
"drop",
"fall",
"flight",
"haul",
"berth",
"clearance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lemon":{
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"the used car he bought turned out to be a lemon , and he soon had trouble starting the thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"loser",
"miss",
"shipwreck",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lean-tos":{
"as in sheds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sheds",
"cabins",
"camps",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"hutments",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties",
"cots",
"cottages",
"lodges",
"cabanas",
"bungalows",
"chalets",
"hogans",
"wickiups",
"wigwams",
"tents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaning (on or against)":{
"as in forcing , compelling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"muscling",
"ramming",
"bearing (down)",
"compressing",
"depressing",
"jamming",
"pressuring",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"weighing (upon)",
"impelling",
"moving",
"driving",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"leveraged":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a reality show contestant who's trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"capitalized (on)",
"cashed in (on)",
"exploited",
"imposed (on or upon)",
"milked",
"pimped",
"played (on or upon)",
"used",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked around",
"manipulated",
"mistreated",
"bled",
"cheated",
"fleeced",
"overcharged",
"skinned",
"soaked",
"stuck",
"commercialized",
"commodified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leviathan":{
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"the Titanic was a leviathan ship by the standards of the time"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
]
},
"something that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoth",
"blockbuster",
"colossus",
"dinosaur",
"dreadnought",
"elephant",
"giant",
"Goliath",
"jumbo",
"mammoth",
"mastodon",
"monster",
"titan",
"whale",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazon",
"giantess",
"bulk",
"hulk",
"heavyweight",
"juggernaut",
"steamroller"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"wisp",
"nonentity",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"shrimp"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"leads on":{
"to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage":{
"examples":[
"a con man whose dupes are usually led on by their own greed and eagerness to turn an easy buck"
],
"synonyms":[
"allures",
"baits",
"beguiles",
"betrays",
"decoys",
"entices",
"lures",
"seduces",
"solicits",
"tempts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"draws in",
"inveigles",
"persuades",
"ropes (in)",
"snows",
"catches",
"enmeshes",
"immeshes",
"ensnares",
"entraps",
"meshes",
"snares",
"tangles",
"traps",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"enchants",
"fascinates",
"magnetizes",
"wiles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alerts",
"cautions",
"forewarns",
"wards (off)",
"warns",
"drives (away or off)",
"repulses",
"turns away"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lecherousness":{
"as in lechery , erotomania":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lechery",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"venery",
"libido",
"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"lech",
"letch",
"libidinousness",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lenient":{
"allowing a lot of freedom and not punishing bad behavior in a strong way":{
"examples":[
"a teacher who is lenient with students who have misbehaved",
"The public was outraged by the lenient sentence the corrupt banker received."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"merciful",
"soft",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted",
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grim",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable",
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lever":{
"to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever":{
"examples":[
"the workers used crowbars to lever the heavy stone block into its new position"
],
"synonyms":[
"jimmy",
"prize",
"pry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevate",
"hoist",
"lift",
"uplift",
"break",
"break up",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disjoin",
"divide",
"part",
"pull",
"separate",
"shift"
],
"near antonyms":[
"connect",
"join"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in button , switch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"button",
"dial",
"key",
"knob",
"push button",
"selector",
"switch",
"actuator",
"control",
"controller",
"regulator"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leans (on or against)":{
"as in forces , compels":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozes",
"compels",
"forces",
"muscles",
"rams",
"bears (down)",
"compresses",
"depresses",
"jams",
"pressures",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"weighs (upon)",
"impels",
"moves",
"drives",
"propels",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"letch":{
"a strong wish for something":{
"examples":[
"a sudden letch for chocolate"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetency",
"appetite",
"craving",
"desire",
"drive",
"hankering",
"hunger",
"itch",
"jones",
"longing",
"lust",
"passion",
"pining",
"thirst",
"thirstiness",
"urge",
"yearning",
"yen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compulsion",
"impulse",
"impulsion",
"will",
"zeal",
"liking",
"love",
"taste",
"weakness",
"eagerness",
"impatience",
"want",
"wish",
"necessity",
"need",
"requirement",
"obsession",
"acquisitiveness",
"avarice",
"avariciousness",
"avidity",
"covetousness",
"cupidity",
"greed",
"greediness",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"caco\u00ebthes",
"mania"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sexual appetite":{
"examples":[
"they clearly have a letch for each other, but it might not develop into anything more lasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"lech",
"libidinousness",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"libido",
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lecherousness",
"lechery",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"venery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leavened":{
"as in enlivened , invigorated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"charged",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"endued",
"indued",
"imbued",
"inculcated",
"infused",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"inoculated",
"invested",
"steeped",
"suffused",
"implanted",
"instilled",
"planted",
"impregnated",
"permeated",
"pervaded",
"saturated",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"filled",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deprived",
"divested",
"stripped",
"stript",
"cleared",
"emptied",
"eliminated",
"removed",
"took (away)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leave":{
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"you can leave your lunch in the refrigerator while we're outside",
"starry-eyed lovers who promise never to leave one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"maroon",
"quit",
"strand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"fling",
"jettison",
"junk",
"scrap",
"shed",
"shuck (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"deliver",
"give up",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield",
"escape",
"retreat (from)",
"take off (from)",
"vacate",
"withdraw (from)",
"abjure",
"cut off",
"disown",
"reject",
"renounce",
"repudiate",
"separate (from)",
"sacrifice",
"distance",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harbor",
"have",
"hold",
"keep",
"own",
"possess",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaim"
]
},
"to give by means of a will":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to leave all of my possessions to my children"
],
"synonyms":[
"bequeath",
"will"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deed",
"hand down",
"hand on",
"pass (down)",
"devise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he left his job in the city and moved out into the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"chuck",
"quit",
"resign (from)",
"retire (from)",
"step aside (from)",
"step down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandon",
"vacate",
"drop out (of)",
"throw up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"stay (at)"
]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"why don't you leave your watch with me while you swim?"
],
"synonyms":[
"commend",
"commit",
"confide",
"consign",
"delegate",
"deliver",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"give",
"give over",
"hand",
"hand over",
"pass",
"recommend",
"repose",
"transfer",
"transmit",
"trust",
"turn over",
"vest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confer",
"grant",
"assign",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"disperse",
"distribute",
"divide",
"hand in",
"release",
"relinquish",
"submit",
"surrender",
"turn in",
"yield",
"bequeath",
"hand down",
"hand on",
"will",
"advance",
"lend",
"loan",
"furnish",
"supply",
"recommit",
"redeliver",
"retransfer",
"retransmit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detain",
"hold back",
"reserve",
"withhold",
"own",
"possess",
"accept",
"receive",
"take in",
"occupy",
"take",
"take over"
],
"antonyms":[
"hold",
"keep",
"retain"
]
},
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"examples":[
"is there ever a good way to leave a lover?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow off",
"break off (with)",
"ditch",
"dump",
"jilt",
"kiss off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulder",
"cut",
"high-hat",
"slight",
"snub",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"maroon",
"quit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hook up (with)",
"take",
"befriend",
"latch (on or onto)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"aw, leave him come"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorize",
"commission",
"empower",
"license",
"licence",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"cater (to)",
"give in (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"curb",
"frustrate",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"prevent"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit"
]
},
"a period during which the usual routine of school or work is suspended":{
"examples":[
"the soldier was on leave for three days before having to report back to base"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"holiday",
"hols",
"recess",
"vacation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sabbatical",
"furlough",
"liberty",
"breather",
"relaxation",
"respite",
"rest",
"interim",
"intermission",
"interval",
"feast",
"holy day",
"legal holiday",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"slacking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something":{
"examples":[
"the editor gave the reporters leave to follow up on their initial investigation of the senator's fund-raising practices"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowance",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"granting",
"green light",
"license",
"licence",
"permission",
"sanction",
"sufferance",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imprimatur",
"seal",
"signature",
"stamp",
"accreditation",
"certification",
"liberty",
"pass",
"concession",
"patent",
"permit",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"OK",
"okay",
"accord",
"grant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denial",
"refusal",
"rejection",
"revocation",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"injunction",
"veto",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"repression",
"suppression",
"ban",
"embargo",
"exclusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"the party was clearly dying down, and it was time to take our leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"going",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leafed (through)":{
"as in turned over , dipped (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"scanned",
"skimmed",
"speed-read",
"thumbed (through)",
"turned over",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"read",
"devoured",
"gobbled (up)",
"slogged (through)",
"waded (through)",
"reread",
"proofread",
"deciphered",
"reviewed",
"studied",
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"got",
"grasped",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"saw",
"tumbled (to)",
"understood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levy":{
"a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use":{
"examples":[
"the legislators approved a new levy on imported cattle to help protect American ranchers"
],
"synonyms":[
"assessment",
"duty",
"imposition",
"impost",
"tax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"direct tax",
"personal tax",
"capitation",
"custom(s)",
"excise",
"hidden tax",
"income tax",
"poll tax",
"property tax",
"sales tax",
"single tax",
"sin tax",
"tariff",
"toll",
"tribute",
"value-added tax",
"withholding tax",
"supertax",
"surcharge",
"surtax",
"death tax",
"estate tax",
"inheritance tax",
"flat tax",
"proportional tax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"examples":[
"unprepared for war, the government was forced to levy young citizens on a scale that was unprecedented in its history"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribe",
"conscript",
"draft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impress",
"press",
"enlist",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"recruit",
"call up",
"sign up",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"muster out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"examples":[
"the baseball commissioner levied a fine against every player involved in the fracas"
],
"synonyms":[
"assess",
"charge",
"exact",
"fine",
"impose",
"lay",
"put"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dock",
"excise",
"mulct",
"penalize",
"tax",
"extort",
"shake down",
"wrest",
"wring",
"bleed",
"fleece",
"gouge",
"milk",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"coerce",
"compel",
"force",
"inflict",
"wreak",
"set",
"reapply",
"reimpose",
"relay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"forgive",
"release",
"condone",
"disregard",
"excuse",
"gloss (over)",
"gloze (over)",
"ignore",
"pardon"
],
"antonyms":[
"remit"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lepers":{
"one who is cast out or rejected by society":{
"examples":[
"was treated as a leper after she leveled unpopular criticism of the beloved star"
],
"synonyms":[
"castaways",
"castoffs",
"offscourings",
"outcasts",
"pariahs",
"rejects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"untouchables",
"outsiders",
"deportees",
"exiles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insiders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"letting someone know":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"acquainting",
"advising",
"apprising",
"briefing",
"catching up",
"clearing",
"clueing (in)",
"cluing (in)",
"enlightening",
"familiarizing",
"filling in",
"hipping",
"informing",
"instructing",
"telling",
"versing",
"wising (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"alerting",
"notifying",
"announcing (to)",
"disclosing (to)",
"assuring",
"certifying",
"convincing",
"reassuring",
"warranting",
"educating",
"lecturing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"tutoring",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning",
"undeceiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"leaf":{
"to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner":{
"examples":[
"we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked"
],
"synonyms":[
"flip",
"riffle",
"skim",
"thumb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browse",
"dip",
"glance (at)",
"look over",
"scan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pore (over)",
"study"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sheet , slice":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sheet",
"slice",
"chip",
"flake",
"sliver",
"splint",
"splinter",
"lamella",
"lamina",
"plate",
"scale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leading on":{
"to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage":{
"examples":[
"a con man whose dupes are usually led on by their own greed and eagerness to turn an easy buck"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"baiting",
"beguiling",
"betraying",
"decoying",
"enticing",
"luring",
"seducing",
"soliciting",
"tempting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing in",
"inveigling",
"persuading",
"roping (in)",
"snowing",
"catching",
"enmeshing",
"immeshing",
"ensnaring",
"entrapping",
"meshing",
"snaring",
"tangling",
"trapping",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"magnetizing",
"wiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alerting",
"cautioning",
"forewarning",
"warding (off)",
"warning",
"driving (away or off)",
"repulsing",
"turning away"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levers":{
"to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever":{
"examples":[
"the workers used crowbars to lever the heavy stone block into its new position"
],
"synonyms":[
"jimmies",
"pries",
"prizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevates",
"hoists",
"lifts",
"uplifts",
"breaks",
"breaks up",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disjoins",
"divides",
"parts",
"pulls",
"separates",
"shifts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"connects",
"joins"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in buttons , switches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buttons",
"dials",
"keys",
"knobs",
"push buttons",
"selectors",
"switches",
"actuators",
"controllers",
"controls",
"regulators"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lessening":{
"as in shrinking , diminishing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"reducing",
"shortening",
"shrinking",
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compression",
"condensation",
"contraction",
"curtailment",
"abruptness",
"brusqueness",
"curtness",
"brevity",
"briefness",
"conciseness",
"shortness",
"compendiousness",
"crispness",
"laconism",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"tautness",
"terseness",
"littleness",
"minuteness",
"smallness",
"tininess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lengthiness",
"extensiveness",
"elongating",
"elongation",
"extending",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"protraction",
"stretching",
"expansion",
"growth",
"spread",
"diffuseness",
"garrulousness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"talkativeness",
"talkiness",
"verboseness",
"volubility",
"wordiness",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in depreciation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depreciation",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"havoc",
"ruin",
"ruination",
"breakup",
"crumbling",
"decomposition",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"abatement",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"de-escalation",
"deflation",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"dip",
"downslide",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"falloff",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"sag",
"shrinkage",
"slip",
"slump",
"decay",
"rotting",
"spoiling",
"dark age",
"nadir",
"sunset",
"decadence",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devolution",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebb",
"eclipse",
"fall"
],
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"ascent",
"rise",
"upswing",
"advancement",
"development",
"evolution",
"growth",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"renewal",
"restoration",
"revitalization",
"heightening",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"enhancement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"supplement"
],
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},
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"we lessened our efforts as it became clear they weren't having an effect"
],
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"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"denting",
"depleting",
"diminishing",
"downscaling",
"downsizing",
"dropping",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lowering",
"reducing"
],
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"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"docking",
"nicking",
"paring",
"pruning",
"retrenching",
"shortening",
"slashing",
"trimming",
"truncating",
"whittling",
"deflating",
"shrinking",
"minimizing",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"modulating",
"qualifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling"
],
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"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the pain should begin to lessen within minutes of taking the medication"
],
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"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
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"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
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"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"blatant hypocrisy that lessened him in the eyes of the voters"
],
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"abasing",
"bastardizing",
"cankering",
"cheapening",
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"deteriorating",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"vitiating",
"warping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouling",
"begriming",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"diluting",
"dirtying",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"thinning",
"watering down",
"weakening",
"descending",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"shaming",
"taking down",
"blemishing",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"destroying",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"staining",
"tarnishing",
"wrecking",
"depreciating",
"downgrading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifying",
"exalting",
"honoring",
"ameliorating",
"amending",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"refining",
"restoring",
"respecting"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"uplifting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leg":{
"a lower limb of an animal":{
"examples":[
"he broke his leg when he accidentally stepped in that gopher hole"
],
"synonyms":[
"pin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"member",
"foreleg",
"forelimb",
"calf",
"drumstick",
"ham",
"shank",
"shin",
"thigh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a portion of a trip":{
"examples":[
"on the first leg of the cruise they went south to the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"lap",
"stage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"layover",
"stopover"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leveller":{
"one who advocates or practices social equality":{
"examples":[
"a nation of levelers , Norway has a tax structure designed to reduce the gap between the richest and the poorest"
],
"synonyms":[
"democrat",
"egalitarian"
],
"near synonyms":[
"populist",
"social democrat",
"socialist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"snob",
"snoot"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legion":{
"being of a large but indefinite number":{
"examples":[
"the obstacles that the programmers had to overcome have been legion"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaucoup",
"many",
"multifold",
"multiple",
"multiplex",
"multitudinous",
"numerous"
],
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"countless",
"innumerable",
"numberless",
"uncountable",
"unnumbered",
"untold",
"several",
"some",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"sundry",
"various",
"divers",
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"myriad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"countable",
"limited"
],
"antonyms":[
"few"
]
},
"a large body of men and women organized for land warfare":{
"examples":[
"joined the French Foreign Legion"
],
"synonyms":[
"army",
"array",
"battalion",
"host"
],
"near synonyms":[
"militia",
"national guard",
"standing army",
"infantry",
"ranks",
"regulars",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"troops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"legions of fans crowded the stadium for the rock concert"
],
"synonyms":[
"army",
"bike",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"mass",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"rout",
"scrum",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff",
"gaggle",
"heap",
"mountain",
"pile",
"jam",
"logjam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Leninist":{
"as in Trotskyist , Stalinist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolshevik",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leprechaun":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"the story that if you follow a rainbow to its end, you'll find a leprechaun's pot of gold"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling",
"imp",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaguering":{
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"an impregnable fortress that not even the mightiest army on earth would venture to leaguer"
],
"synonyms":[
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"blockading",
"investing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricading",
"blocking",
"cutting off",
"damming",
"encircling",
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"confining",
"insulating",
"isolating",
"quarantining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"rescuing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leniency":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"the defense requested leniency in light of their client's lack of a prior criminal record"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"lenience",
"lenity",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaning (toward or towards)":{
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"favoring",
"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":[]
},
"lettered":{
"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
"examples":[
"the lettered crowd is well acquainted with the author, but the average reader probably hasn't heard of him"
],
"synonyms":[
"educated",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read"
],
"near synonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"didactic",
"didactical",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"homeschooled",
"self-educated",
"self-instructed",
"self-taught",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"versed",
"overeducated",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncivilized",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"lowbrow",
"semiliterate",
"unintellectual",
"ill-bred",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable",
"uninstructed",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored",
"semiliterate",
"undereducated"
],
"antonyms":[
"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unscholarly"
]
},
"as in wrote , printed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inked",
"inscribed",
"penciled",
"pencilled",
"penned",
"printed",
"wrote",
"jotted (down)",
"doodled",
"scratched",
"scrawled",
"scribbled",
"squiggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lets go":{
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"examples":[
"It's time to let go of the past."
],
"synonyms":[
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"uncorks",
"unleashes",
"unlocks",
"unloosens",
"unlooses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharges",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"manumits",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters",
"unmoors",
"unshackles",
"airs",
"expresses",
"takes out",
"vents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"binds",
"confines",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"halters",
"hampers"
],
"antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"governs",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"tames"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lets fly":{
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"The pitcher let fly one of his famous fastballs."
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"catapults",
"chucks",
"dashes",
"fires",
"flings",
"heaves",
"hurls",
"hurtles",
"launches",
"lobs",
"lofts",
"pegs",
"pelts",
"pitches",
"slings",
"throws",
"tosses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowls",
"darts",
"flips",
"guns",
"hooks",
"passes",
"rolls",
"shoots",
"bucks",
"ejects",
"impels",
"precipitates",
"projects",
"propels",
"rifles",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"legislatures":{
"a group of people with the power to make or change laws":{
"examples":[
"Our legislature passed a law requiring people to wear safety belts.",
"Each state has its own legislature .",
"state legislatures"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assemblies",
"chambers",
"councils",
"diets",
"houses",
"legislatives",
"congresses",
"parliaments",
"general assemblies",
"legislative assemblies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaky":{
"as in porous , absorbent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbent",
"porous",
"unsealed",
"penetrable",
"permeable",
"pervious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"impervious",
"tight",
"close",
"compact",
"dense",
"snug",
"thick",
"airtight",
"hermetic",
"hermetical",
"leakproof",
"watertight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lets up (on)":{
"as in reduces , decreases":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"subdues",
"muffles",
"mutes",
"tones (down)",
"debilitates",
"enfeebles",
"weakens",
"benumbs",
"blunts",
"cauterizes",
"dampens",
"damps",
"deadens",
"dulls",
"numbs",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"subsides",
"tapers (off)",
"wanes",
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens",
"abates",
"moderates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sharpens",
"whets",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"beefs (up)",
"boosts",
"consolidates",
"deepens",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"redoubles",
"steps up",
"strengthens",
"animates",
"arouses",
"stimulates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legitimacy":{
"the quality or state of being legal":{
"examples":[
"the legitimacy of the military dictatorship was not recognized by most other nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawfulness",
"legality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rightfulness",
"rightness",
"permissibility",
"permissibleness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"badness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"sinfulness",
"unjustness",
"wickedness",
"wrongness",
"criminality",
"unconstitutionality"
],
"antonyms":[
"illegality",
"illegitimacy",
"unlawfulness",
"wrongfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leis":{
"an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck":{
"examples":[
"we were presented with flowery leis as soon as we stepped off the plane in Hawaii"
],
"synonyms":[
"chokers",
"collars",
"dog collars",
"necklaces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"torques",
"torcs",
"beads",
"carcanets",
"rivi\u00e8res",
"ropes",
"strands",
"bangles",
"lavalieres",
"lavallieres",
"lockets",
"pendants",
"pendents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leading man":{
"as in leading lady":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leading lady",
"headliner",
"lead",
"principal",
"star",
"superstar",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"starlet",
"star turn",
"coprincipal",
"costar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extra",
"supernumerary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaked":{
"as in blundered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"blatted",
"blurted (out)",
"bolted",
"cried (out)",
"ejaculated",
"exclaimed",
"bellowed",
"bleated",
"crowed",
"hollered",
"hooted",
"howled",
"roared",
"shouted",
"whooped",
"yowled",
"aahed",
"ahed",
"oohed",
"interjected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in seeped , trickled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dripped",
"oozed",
"seeped",
"trickled",
"dried up",
"mummified",
"wizened",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"wilted",
"withered",
"receded",
"retreated",
"withdrew",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"collapsed",
"contracted",
"deflated",
"flattened",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ballooned",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"dilated",
"expanded",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"accumulated",
"grew",
"increased",
"mushroomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in warned , exposed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayed",
"blabbed",
"exposed",
"gave away",
"informed",
"ratted",
"squealed",
"talked",
"tattled",
"tipped (off)",
"warned",
"wised (up)",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"broke",
"communicated",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"imparted",
"proclaimed",
"published",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"unveiled",
"breathed",
"said",
"whispered",
"accepted",
"recognized",
"yielded",
"affirmed",
"avowed",
"confirmed",
"professed",
"disburdened",
"unburdened",
"unloaded",
"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"agreed",
"allowed",
"conceded",
"confessed",
"fessed (up)",
"granted",
"owned (up to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"negatived",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"concealed",
"covered (up)",
"hid",
"obscured",
"veiled",
"kidded (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"let someone know":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"Let me know if have questions about the assignment."
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"hip",
"inform",
"instruct",
"tell",
"verse",
"wise (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"alert",
"notify",
"announce (to)",
"disclose (to)",
"assure",
"certify",
"convince",
"reassure",
"warrant",
"educate",
"lecture",
"school",
"teach",
"tutor",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion",
"undeceive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lend":{
"to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned":{
"examples":[
"I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend",
"can you lend me five dollars?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"loan"
],
"near synonyms":[
"furnish",
"give",
"grant",
"lease",
"let",
"rent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receive",
"take"
],
"antonyms":[
"borrow"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"let on (about)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"we agreed not to let on about our marriage plans to anyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"discover",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"unbosom",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confide",
"share",
"debunk",
"show up",
"unclothe",
"undrape",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blaze",
"bring out",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"sound",
"betray",
"blab",
"give away",
"leak",
"inform",
"squeal",
"talk",
"communicate",
"impart",
"relate",
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"avow",
"concede",
"confess",
"own",
"disinter",
"rake up",
"smoke out",
"unearth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover (up)",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"shroud",
"veil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Leninite":{
"as in Stalinist , Maoist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legal eagles":{
"a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations":{
"examples":[
"the actor hired a dream team of high-priced legal eagles to defend him against the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"attorneys",
"attorneys-at-law",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"counselors-at-law",
"counsels",
"lawyers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cocounsels",
"co-counsels",
"district attorneys",
"prosecuting attorneys",
"prosecutors",
"solicitors",
"criminal lawyers",
"mouthpieces",
"public defenders",
"trial lawyers",
"solicitors",
"jurists",
"lawgivers",
"lawmakers",
"legislators",
"solons",
"ambulance chasers",
"pettifoggers",
"Philadelphia lawyers",
"shysters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"led off":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"plans to lead off the news conference with a prepared statement"
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaver":{
"as in dropout , abandoner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoner",
"come-outer",
"dropout",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"quisling",
"traitor",
"traitress",
"traitoress",
"turnabout",
"turncoat",
"defier",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionary",
"insurrectionist",
"mutineer",
"rebel",
"red",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"revolutionizer",
"apostate",
"defector",
"deserter",
"recreant",
"renegade",
"discontent",
"malcontent",
"recusant",
"refusenik",
"refusnik",
"refuser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalist",
"adherent",
"disciple",
"follower",
"supporter",
"fanatic",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"levies":{
"a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use":{
"examples":[
"the legislators approved a new levy on imported cattle to help protect American ranchers"
],
"synonyms":[
"assessments",
"duties",
"impositions",
"imposts",
"taxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"direct taxes",
"personal taxes",
"capitations",
"customs",
"excises",
"hidden taxes",
"income taxes",
"poll taxes",
"property taxes",
"sales taxes",
"single taxes",
"sin taxes",
"tariffs",
"tolls",
"tributes",
"value-added taxes",
"withholding taxes",
"supertaxes",
"surcharges",
"surtaxes",
"death taxes",
"estate taxes",
"inheritance taxes",
"flat taxes",
"proportional taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"examples":[
"unprepared for war, the government was forced to levy young citizens on a scale that was unprecedented in its history"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribes",
"conscripts",
"drafts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impresses",
"presses",
"enlists",
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"recruits",
"calls up",
"signs up",
"volunteers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"musters out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"examples":[
"the baseball commissioner levied a fine against every player involved in the fracas"
],
"synonyms":[
"assesses",
"charges",
"exacts",
"fines",
"imposes",
"lays",
"puts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"docks",
"excises",
"mulcts",
"penalizes",
"taxes",
"extorts",
"shakes down",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"bleeds",
"fleeces",
"gouges",
"milks",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"coerces",
"compels",
"forces",
"inflicts",
"wreaks",
"sets",
"reapplies",
"reimposes",
"relays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"forgives",
"releases",
"condones",
"disregards",
"excuses",
"glosses (over)",
"glozes (over)",
"ignores",
"pardons"
],
"antonyms":[
"remits"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"legislates":{
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"examples":[
"wants the Congress to legislate new laws banning the use of these types of weapons"
],
"synonyms":[
"constitutes",
"enacts",
"lays down",
"makes",
"ordains",
"passes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reenacts",
"repasses",
"brings about",
"effects",
"allows",
"authorizes",
"permits",
"sanctions",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"proclaims",
"administers",
"executes",
"approves",
"confirms",
"ratifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishes",
"abrogates",
"annuls",
"cancels",
"invalidates",
"kills",
"nullifies",
"overturns",
"reverses",
"voids"
],
"antonyms":[
"repeals",
"rescinds",
"revokes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leafs (through)":{
"as in turns over , dips (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browses",
"dips (into)",
"scans",
"skims",
"speed-reads",
"thumbs (through)",
"turns over",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"reads",
"devours",
"gobbles (up)",
"slogs (through)",
"wades (through)",
"rereads",
"proofreads",
"deciphers",
"reviews",
"studies",
"apprehends",
"comprehends",
"gets",
"grasps",
"makes",
"makes out",
"perceives",
"sees",
"tumbles (to)",
"understands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lecturing":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"examples":[
"the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service"
],
"synonyms":[
"basting",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"calling down",
"castigating",
"chastising",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"hammering",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"ranting (at)",
"rating",
"reaming (out)",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"tongue-lashing",
"upbraiding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"remonstrating (with)",
"reproving",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"haranguing",
"knocking",
"lacing (into)",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"reviling",
"scourging",
"slamming",
"vituperating",
"belittling",
"disparaging",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a formal often extended talk on a subject":{
"examples":[
"a physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaiming",
"descanting",
"discoursing",
"expatiating",
"haranguing",
"orating",
"speaking",
"talking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reciting",
"soliloquizing",
"disserting",
"expounding",
"pontificating",
"sermonizing",
"mouthing",
"spouting",
"filibustering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lexica":{
"a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order":{
"examples":[
"an avid word enthusiast who is compiling a lexicon of archaic and unusual words"
],
"synonyms":[
"dictionaries",
"wordbooks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glossaries",
"glosses",
"nomenclators",
"thesauri",
"thesauruses",
"vocabularies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lengthwise":{
"as in longitudinally":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"longitudinally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"athwart",
"bias",
"cornerways",
"cornerwise",
"crossways",
"crosswise",
"diagonally",
"kitty-corner",
"catty-corner",
"catercorner",
"kitty-cornered",
"catty-cornered",
"catercornered",
"obliquely",
"transversely",
"across",
"on the bias",
"on the diagonal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"Leninism":{
"as in bolshevism , Marxism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolshevism",
"Marxism",
"Sovietism",
"Stalinism",
"collectivism",
"Communism",
"leftism",
"liberalism",
"radicalism",
"Big Brother",
"Big Brotherism",
"fascism",
"Nazism",
"absolutism",
"autarchy",
"authoritarianism",
"autocracy",
"Caesarism",
"czarism",
"tsarism",
"tzarism",
"despotism",
"dictatorship",
"totalism",
"totalitarianism",
"tyranny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democracy",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"self-rule",
"freedom",
"self-determination",
"autonomy",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leery":{
"feeling or showing a lack of trust in someone or something":{
"examples":[
"a leery attitude",
"She seemed a little leery about the proposal.",
"They were leery of their neighbors."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"guarded",
"gun-shy",
"wary",
"watchful",
"disbelieving",
"distrustful",
"doubting",
"incredulous",
"mistrustful",
"negativistic",
"questioning",
"show-me",
"skeptical",
"suspecting",
"suspicious",
"unbelieving",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"critical",
"puzzled",
"quizzical",
"cynical",
"experienced",
"knowing",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"curious",
"inquiring",
"inquisitive",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"snoopy",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"hesitant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"green",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"simpleminded",
"unknowing",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"certain",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"callow",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"childlike",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"beguiled",
"deceived",
"duped",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"careless",
"heedless",
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspicious",
"unwary",
"credulous",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"uncritical",
"unquestioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"leadoff":{
"coming before all others in time or order":{
"examples":[
"the leadoff batter"
],
"synonyms":[
"earliest",
"first",
"foremost",
"headmost",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"maiden",
"original",
"pioneer",
"premier",
"virgin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ancient",
"early",
"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"antecedent",
"preceding",
"previous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"late",
"consequent",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"succeeding",
"penultimate"
],
"antonyms":[
"final",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"terminal",
"terminating",
"ultimate"
]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"plans to lead off the news conference with a prepared statement"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"embark (on or upon)",
"enter (into or upon)",
"fall (to)",
"get off",
"kick off",
"launch",
"open",
"start",
"strike (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"take on",
"take up",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"pioneer",
"set up",
"spawn",
"get around (to)",
"get down (to)",
"get round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cease",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"quit",
"stop",
"close",
"complete",
"abandon",
"forsake",
"leave",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"phase out"
],
"antonyms":[
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"terminate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lets the cat out of the bag (about)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"lets on (about)",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unbosoms",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confides",
"shares",
"debunks",
"shows up",
"unclothes",
"undrapes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"brings out",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"betrays",
"blabs",
"gives away",
"leaks",
"informs",
"squeals",
"talks",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"relates",
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"avows",
"concedes",
"confesses",
"owns",
"disinters",
"rakes up",
"smokes out",
"unearths"
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"camouflages",
"disguises",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"shrouds",
"veils"
]
},
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},
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"assembly",
"chamber",
"council",
"diet",
"house",
"legislature",
"congress",
"parliament",
"general assembly",
"legislative assembly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaders":{
"a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)":{
"examples":[
"the leader funnels water off of the roof and down into the cistern"
],
"synonyms":[
"channels",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"lines",
"penstocks",
"pipes",
"troughs",
"tubes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drainpipes",
"drains",
"funnels",
"hydrants",
"mains",
"smokestacks",
"spouts",
"standpipes",
"stovepipes",
"tiles",
"waste pipes",
"waterspouts",
"pipages",
"pipeages",
"pipelines",
"pipings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do":{
"examples":[
"the team leader is good at making sure that everyone keeps busy at their assigned tasks"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"boss men",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"honchos",
"jefes",
"kingpins",
"masters",
"taskmasters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"directresses",
"mistresses",
"administrators",
"commanders",
"directors",
"executives",
"generals",
"governors",
"hierarchs",
"higher-ups",
"leadmen",
"managers",
"overseers",
"principals",
"skippers",
"standard-bearers",
"stewards",
"straw bosses",
"superintendents",
"superiors",
"supervisors",
"dominators",
"lords",
"overlords",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"figureheads",
"barons",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"presidents",
"princes",
"big cheeses",
"big guns",
"bigwigs",
"top dogs",
"top guns",
"coheads",
"co-heads",
"coleaders",
"co-leaders",
"employers",
"gaffers",
"gangers",
"micromanagers",
"subchiefs",
"sub-chiefs",
"subdirectors",
"sub-directors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependents",
"inferiors",
"juniors",
"secondaries",
"subjects",
"subordinates",
"underlings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that takes the lead or sets an example":{
"examples":[
"an architectural firm that is widely regarded as a leader in innovative residential design"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellwethers",
"pacemakers",
"pacers",
"pacesetters",
"trendsetters",
"trend-setters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foregoers",
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"precursors",
"groundbreakers",
"innovators",
"pioneers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Johnny-come-latelies",
"Johnnies-come-lately",
"me-tooers"
],
"antonyms":[
"followers",
"imitators"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leadman":{
"as in manager , supervisor":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"manager",
"overseer",
"principal",
"skipper",
"standard-bearer",
"steward",
"straw boss",
"superintendent",
"superior",
"supervisor",
"boss",
"boss man",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"mistress",
"taskmaster",
"administrator",
"commander",
"director",
"executive",
"general",
"governor",
"hierarch",
"higher-up",
"overlord",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"figurehead",
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"czarina",
"tsarina",
"tzarina",
"king",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"president",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"bigwig",
"top dog",
"top gun",
"cohead",
"coleader",
"employer",
"gaffer",
"ganger"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependent",
"inferior",
"junior",
"secondary",
"subject",
"subordinate",
"underling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legacies":{
"something that is or may be inherited":{
"examples":[
"the old locket was part of the legacy from my great-great-grandmother"
],
"synonyms":[
"bequests",
"birthrights",
"heritages",
"inheritances",
"patrimonies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heirlooms",
"bestowals",
"gifts",
"offerings",
"presents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leads off":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"plans to lead off the news conference with a prepared statement"
],
"synonyms":[
"begins",
"commences",
"embarks (on or upon)",
"enters (into or upon)",
"falls (to)",
"gets off",
"kicks off",
"launches",
"opens",
"starts",
"strikes (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes on",
"takes up",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"pioneers",
"sets up",
"spawns",
"gets around (to)",
"gets down (to)",
"gets round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceases",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"quits",
"stops",
"closes",
"completes",
"abandons",
"forsakes",
"leaves",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"phases out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"terminates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lewdness":{
"the quality or state of being obscene":{
"examples":[
"the lewdness of the material on that website makes it inappropriate for children"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdiness",
"blueness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"foulness",
"grossness",
"impureness",
"impurity",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"nastiness",
"obscenity",
"profanity",
"raunch",
"raunchiness",
"ribaldry",
"smut",
"smuttiness",
"vulgarity",
"wantonness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadness",
"earthiness",
"gaminess",
"raciness",
"saltiness",
"suggestiveness",
"immodesty",
"indecorousness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"unbecomingness",
"lechery",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"kinkiness",
"naughtiness",
"perverseness",
"perversion",
"perversity",
"pervertedness",
"wickedness",
"exceptionability",
"objectionableness",
"unacceptability",
"undesirability",
"reprehensibility",
"reprehensibleness",
"abusiveness",
"scurrilousness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"infamy",
"loathsomeness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repugnance",
"repulsiveness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"priggery",
"priggishness",
"primness",
"prudery",
"prudishness",
"puritanism",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"seemliness",
"appropriateness",
"fitness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"perfection",
"purity",
"spotlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leeway":{
"an allowable margin of freedom or variation":{
"examples":[
"you will be given some leeway in choosing how to carry out the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"latitude",
"slack",
"space",
"wiggle room"
],
"near synonyms":[
"license",
"licence",
"rein",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legislators":{
"a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws":{
"examples":[
"the legislators met in an all-night session to hammer out the details of the bill"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawgivers",
"lawmakers",
"solons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemblymen",
"assemblywomen",
"congressmen",
"congresswomen",
"senators"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"levering":{
"to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever":{
"examples":[
"the workers used crowbars to lever the heavy stone block into its new position"
],
"synonyms":[
"jimmying",
"prizing",
"prying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevating",
"hoisting",
"lifting",
"uplifting",
"breaking",
"breaking up",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disjoining",
"dividing",
"parting",
"pulling",
"separating",
"shifting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"connecting",
"joining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lecher":{
"a man given to seducing women":{
"examples":[
"the biography portrays the star as a dishonest and uncouth lecher"
],
"synonyms":[
"Casanova",
"Don Juan",
"lothario",
"lounge lizard",
"masher",
"philanderer",
"satyr",
"wolf",
"womanizer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amorist",
"gallant",
"ladies' man",
"lady's man",
"lady-killer",
"lover",
"paramour",
"Romeo",
"debaucher",
"romancer",
"seducer",
"whoremaster",
"whoremonger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaves off":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"we usually leave off working as soon as the bell rings"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"cans",
"ceases",
"cuts off",
"cuts out",
"desists (from)",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"ends",
"gives over",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"packs (up or in)",
"quits",
"shuts off",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completes",
"concludes",
"finishes",
"closes (down)",
"deactivates",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"dams",
"delays",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"kiboshes",
"obstructs",
"stems",
"calls",
"suspends",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"clamps down",
"reins (in)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stamps",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abolishes",
"aborts",
"annuls",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"dissolves",
"kills",
"ruins",
"scuttles",
"snuffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps up",
"runs on",
"advances",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the snow should leave off around midnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"dead-ends",
"determines",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"elapses",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"goes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"lets up",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"winks (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desists (from)",
"lays off (of)",
"refrains (from)",
"gives over",
"knocks off",
"packs (up or in)",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"cuts out",
"stalls",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abates",
"peters (out)",
"winds down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draws out",
"extends",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
],
"antonyms":[
"continues",
"hangs on",
"persists"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levity":{
"a lack of seriousness often at an improper time":{
"examples":[
"the teachers disapprove of any displays of levity during school assemblies"
],
"synonyms":[
"facetiousness",
"flightiness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"frivolousness",
"frothiness",
"light-headedness",
"light-mindedness",
"lightness",
"silliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"high-spiritedness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"childishness",
"goofiness",
"puerility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"mopes",
"moroseness",
"sadness",
"sullenness",
"unhappiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnestness",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"level":{
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"a young karate student ready to rise to the next level in his chosen art of self-defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"degree",
"echelon",
"footing",
"place",
"position",
"rank",
"ranking",
"reach(es)",
"rung",
"situation",
"standing",
"station",
"status",
"stratum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"order",
"walk",
"capacity",
"function",
"rating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"we'll give both teams the same equipment so as to level the playing field"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"equalize",
"equate",
"even"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrate",
"equipoise",
"accommodate",
"adjust",
"compensate",
"fit",
"counterbalance",
"homogenize",
"normalize",
"regularize",
"standardize",
"democratize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps":{
"examples":[
"the construction workers leveled the ground before laying a foundation for the new house"
],
"synonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"plane",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clip",
"crop",
"pare",
"prune",
"shave",
"trim",
"lay",
"press",
"spread",
"card",
"comb",
"rake",
"surface"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsen",
"rumple",
"wrinkle",
"bend",
"kink",
"dent",
"pit"
],
"antonyms":[
"rough",
"roughen"
]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"the marksman leveled his gun at the target and fired"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"bend",
"cast",
"direct",
"head",
"hold",
"pinpoint",
"set",
"train"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sight",
"bear",
"face",
"concentrate",
"focus",
"incline",
"orient",
"steer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avert",
"curve",
"deflect",
"detour",
"divert",
"rechannel",
"shunt",
"sidetrack"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer leveled his opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl (down or over)",
"down",
"drop",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"mow (down)",
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an old warehouse that was leveled to build a parking lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolish",
"pull down",
"raze",
"tear down",
"unbuild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"dynamite",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"crack up",
"crush",
"dash",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"do in",
"eradicate",
"extirpate",
"finish",
"flatten",
"obliterate",
"overturn",
"pulverize",
"ravage",
"ruin",
"scourge",
"smash",
"total",
"unmake",
"waste",
"wipe out",
"wreck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rebuild",
"renew",
"renovate",
"restore",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities":{
"examples":[
"looked for a level place to land the plane"
],
"synonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"plane",
"smooth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inexact",
"irregular",
"unaligned",
"warped",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"pitted",
"pockmarked",
"pocky"
],
"antonyms":[
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"lumpy",
"rough",
"uneven",
"unsmoothed"
]
},
"free from emotional or mental agitation":{
"examples":[
"in a much more level mood now that the worst is over"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"cool",
"coolheaded",
"equal",
"limpid",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"possessed",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unruffled",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"even",
"even-keeled",
"steady",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"centered",
"disciplined",
"equable",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"loosey-goosey",
"mellow",
"carefree",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"indifferent",
"bovine",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"sober",
"stolid",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"restless",
"skittish",
"tense",
"high-strung",
"unstable",
"uptight"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
"unglued",
"unhinged",
"unstrung",
"upset"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"legit":{
"to go on foot":{
"examples":[
"the car was in the shop so we had to leg it to work for a couple of days"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulate",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"pad",
"step",
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"hobble",
"limp",
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"scuff",
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"waddle",
"nip",
"tap",
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"legal",
"legitimate",
"licit"
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"authorized",
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"warrantable",
"constitutional",
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"regulation",
"statutory",
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"innocent",
"just",
"proper",
"right"
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"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
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"sinful",
"wicked",
"wrong",
"banned",
"criminal",
"forbidden",
"guilty",
"impermissible",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"unauthorized",
"unjust",
"under-the-counter",
"under-the-table",
"nonconstitutional",
"unconstitutional"
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"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful"
]
},
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"adjective",
"verb"
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"gaze",
"glare",
"ogle",
"stare",
"cast",
"eye",
"gander",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"look",
"peek",
"peep",
"regard",
"sight",
"view",
"side-glance",
"squinny",
"squint",
"coup d'oeil"
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"ogle",
"consider",
"eye",
"fixate",
"observe",
"regard",
"watch",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"study",
"glare",
"gloat",
"glower",
"outface",
"outstare",
"stare down",
"blink",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gawp",
"gaze",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare"
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"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"wink (at)"
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"verb"
]
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"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learning",
"literacy",
"scholarship"
],
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"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
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"functional illiteracy"
],
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"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in refined , filtered":{
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"filtered",
"refined",
"buttery",
"smooth",
"velvety",
"close-grained",
"comminuted",
"ground",
"micronized",
"milled",
"mulled",
"pestled",
"pulverized",
"reduced",
"triturated",
"dusty",
"fine",
"floury",
"powdery",
"superfine",
"ultrafine"
],
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"coarse",
"grained",
"grainy",
"granular",
"granulated",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"earthy",
"gravelly",
"gritty",
"sandy"
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"adjective"
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"animate",
"charge",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"endue",
"indue",
"imbue",
"inculcate",
"infuse",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"inoculate",
"invest",
"steep",
"suffuse",
"implant",
"instill",
"plant",
"impregnate",
"permeate",
"pervade",
"saturate",
"deluge",
"drown",
"fill",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overwhelm",
"submerge"
],
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"deprive",
"divest",
"strip",
"clear",
"empty",
"eliminate",
"remove",
"take (away)"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
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"slow to move or act":{
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"a big meal always makes me feel lethargic and sleepy"
],
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"dull",
"inactive",
"inert",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
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"ambitionless",
"apathetic",
"indolent",
"languorous",
"lazy",
"lazyish",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"slack",
"slothful",
"sluggard",
"sluggardly",
"dormant",
"inanimate",
"motionless",
"resting",
"sedentary",
"static",
"still",
"dead",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"drugged",
"asleep",
"drowsy",
"somnambulant",
"catatonic",
"comatose"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busy",
"engaged",
"occupied",
"working",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"assiduous",
"diligent",
"hardworking",
"industrious",
"sedulous"
],
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"active"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"legations":{
"as in missions , embassies":{
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"embassies",
"missions",
"contingents",
"delegacies",
"delegations",
"bands",
"companies",
"crews",
"detachments",
"gangs",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lesson":{
"something assigned to be read or studied":{
"examples":[
"your lesson for tonight will be the chapter on chemical reactions"
],
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"assignment",
"reading"
],
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"homework",
"schoolwork",
"lecture",
"drill",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"\u00e9tude",
"study"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
"examples":[
"would tirelessly lesson the children in proper manners"
],
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"educate",
"indoctrinate",
"instruct",
"school",
"teach",
"train",
"tutor"
],
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"coach",
"mentor",
"drill",
"fit",
"ground",
"habilitate",
"prepare",
"prime",
"qualify",
"direct",
"guide",
"lead",
"rear",
"catechize",
"lecture",
"moralize",
"preach",
"implant",
"inculcate",
"instill",
"instil",
"homeschool",
"edify",
"enlighten",
"brief",
"familiarize",
"impart (to)",
"inform",
"verse",
"initiate",
"introduce",
"show",
"reeducate",
"reschool",
"reteach",
"retrain"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leading one up the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
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"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"type":[]
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"legatee":{
"a person who has the right to inherit property":{
"examples":[
"the couple had no children, so they declared their nephew their only legatee"
],
"synonyms":[
"heir",
"heir at law",
"inheritor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"claimant",
"heir apparent",
"representative",
"succeeder",
"successor",
"coheir",
"coheiress",
"heiress",
"assignee",
"beneficiary",
"devisee",
"grantee",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"scion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lea":{
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"examples":[
"across the lea rolls a lonely wagon"
],
"synonyms":[
"campo",
"champaign",
"down(s)",
"grassland",
"heath",
"llano",
"moor",
"pampa",
"plain",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"tundra",
"veld",
"veldt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"field",
"meadow",
"floodplain",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"flat",
"lowland",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"upland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"open land over which livestock may roam and feed":{
"examples":[
"the cattle were free to range over the lea"
],
"synonyms":[
"pasturage",
"pasture",
"range"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranch",
"station",
"feedlot",
"stockyard",
"yard",
"grassland",
"pampas",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lethal":{
"likely to cause or capable of causing death":{
"examples":[
"we were lucky that the snake's venom wasn't lethal , and our friend turned out to be all right"
],
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fatal",
"fell",
"killer",
"mortal",
"murderous",
"pestilent",
"terminal",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"destructive",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"truculent",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"sublethal",
"toxic",
"virulent",
"dangerous",
"grave",
"grievous",
"hazardous",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"serious",
"threatening",
"ugly",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"bloody",
"internecine",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficial",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"alleviative",
"corrective",
"curative",
"remedial",
"tonic",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"safe"
],
"antonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal",
"wholesome"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"leapt":{
"to propel oneself upward or forward into the air":{
"examples":[
"the outfielder leaped into the air to catch the ball before it went over the fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounded",
"hopped",
"jumped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"vaulted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounced",
"hurdled",
"leapfrogged",
"loped",
"skipped",
"bucked",
"capered",
"caprioled",
"cavorted",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"attacked",
"pounced",
"shot",
"skyrocketed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leftism":{
"a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom":{
"examples":[
"the candidate's opponents are working overtime to paint him as a champion of extreme leftism"
],
"synonyms":[
"left",
"left wing",
"liberalism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neoliberalism",
"radicalism",
"socialism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"neoconservatism"
],
"antonyms":[
"conservatism",
"illiberalism",
"immobilism",
"right"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lengthened":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"I had to lengthen the handle of the paint roller in order to reach the top of the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged (out)",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"extended",
"outstretched",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"increased",
"attenuated",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shortened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leewards":{
"as in lees , windwards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lees",
"windwards",
"flanks",
"hands",
"sides",
"outsides",
"faces",
"tops",
"bottoms",
"feet",
"foot",
"underbellies",
"underbodies",
"underparts",
"undersides",
"undersurfaces",
"lefts",
"rights"
],
"near antonyms":[
"centers",
"insides",
"interiors",
"middles",
"midways"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leading ladies":{
"as in leading men":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leading men",
"headliners",
"leads",
"principals",
"stars",
"superstars",
"ingenues",
"ing\u00e9nues",
"starlets",
"star turns",
"coprincipals",
"co-principals",
"costars",
"co-stars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extras",
"supernumeraries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legions":{
"a large body of men and women organized for land warfare":{
"examples":[
"joined the French Foreign Legion"
],
"synonyms":[
"armies",
"arrays",
"battalions",
"hosts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"militias",
"national guards",
"standing armies",
"infantries",
"ranks",
"regulars",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"troops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"legions of fans crowded the stadium for the rock concert"
],
"synonyms":[
"armies",
"bikes",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"masses",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"routs",
"scrums",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs",
"gaggles",
"heaps",
"mountains",
"piles",
"jams",
"logjams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Leninites":{
"as in Stalinists , Maoists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leniencies":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"the defense requested leniency in light of their client's lack of a prior criminal record"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"lenience",
"lenity",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lessoned":{
"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
"examples":[
"would tirelessly lesson the children in proper manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"educated",
"indoctrinated",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coached",
"mentored",
"drilled",
"fitted",
"fit",
"grounded",
"habilitated",
"prepared",
"primed",
"qualified",
"directed",
"guided",
"led",
"reared",
"catechized",
"lectured",
"moralized",
"preached",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"instilled",
"homeschooled",
"edified",
"enlightened",
"briefed",
"familiarized",
"imparted (to)",
"informed",
"versed",
"initiated",
"introduced",
"showed",
"reeducated",
"reschooled",
"retaught",
"retrained"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lensmen":{
"one who takes photographs":{
"examples":[
"an expert lensman whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines"
],
"synonyms":[
"photographers",
"photogs",
"shooters",
"shutterbugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinematographers",
"paparazzi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lessen":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"we lessened our efforts as it became clear they weren't having an effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decrease",
"dent",
"deplete",
"diminish",
"downscale",
"downsize",
"drop",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"knock down",
"lower",
"reduce"
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"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"clip",
"crop",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"dock",
"nick",
"pare",
"prune",
"retrench",
"shorten",
"slash",
"trim",
"truncate",
"whittle",
"deflate",
"shrink",
"minimize",
"moderate",
"modify",
"modulate",
"qualify"
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"near antonyms":[
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"add (to)",
"complement",
"supplement",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble"
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"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"raise"
]
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"examples":[
"the pain should begin to lessen within minutes of taking the medication"
],
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"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
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"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
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"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
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"examples":[
"blatant hypocrisy that lessened him in the eyes of the voters"
],
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"abase",
"bastardize",
"canker",
"cheapen",
"corrupt",
"debase",
"debauch",
"degrade",
"demean",
"demoralize",
"deprave",
"deteriorate",
"pervert",
"poison",
"profane",
"prostitute",
"subvert",
"vitiate",
"warp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befoul",
"begrime",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"dilute",
"dirty",
"pollute",
"taint",
"thin",
"water down",
"weaken",
"descend",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"shame",
"take down",
"blemish",
"damage",
"deface",
"destroy",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"mar",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"stain",
"tarnish",
"wreck",
"depreciate",
"downgrade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignify",
"exalt",
"honor",
"ameliorate",
"amend",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"perfect",
"clarify",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"refine",
"restore",
"respect"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"uplift"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levied":{
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"examples":[
"unprepared for war, the government was forced to levy young citizens on a scale that was unprecedented in its history"
],
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"conscribed",
"conscripted",
"drafted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressed",
"pressed",
"enlisted",
"enrolled",
"recruited",
"called up",
"signed up",
"volunteered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharged",
"mustered out"
],
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},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"examples":[
"the baseball commissioner levied a fine against every player involved in the fracas"
],
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"assessed",
"charged",
"exacted",
"fined",
"imposed",
"laid",
"put"
],
"near synonyms":[
"docked",
"excised",
"mulcted",
"penalized",
"taxed",
"extorted",
"shook down",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"bled",
"fleeced",
"gouged",
"milked",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"forced",
"inflicted",
"wreaked",
"set",
"reapplied",
"reimposed",
"relaid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"forgave",
"released",
"condoned",
"disregarded",
"excused",
"glossed (over)",
"glozed (over)",
"ignored",
"pardoned"
],
"antonyms":[
"remitted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leashes":{
"to attach (someone or something) to something else by or as if by means of a line or cord":{
"examples":[
"Dogs must be leashed while in the dog park."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"lashes",
"tethers",
"bands",
"binds",
"ties",
"trusses",
"cinches",
"cords",
"ropes",
"straps",
"threads",
"wires",
"girds",
"girts",
"interlaces",
"intertwines",
"interweaves",
"laces",
"entangles",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles",
"twists",
"coils",
"winds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unleashes",
"untethers",
"unbinds",
"unties",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unlaces",
"unlashes",
"unloosens",
"unlooses",
"unstraps",
"unstrings",
"unthreads",
"disentangles",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"untangles",
"untwines",
"untwists",
"uncoils",
"unspools",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leered (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"upbraided the man for leering at the young waitress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ogled"
],
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"eyed",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gazed",
"glared",
"goggled",
"peered",
"rubbernecked",
"stared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lengthiness":{
"as in prolixity , extensiveness":{
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"diffuseness",
"garrulousness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"talkativeness",
"talkiness",
"verboseness",
"volubility",
"wordiness",
"elongating",
"elongation",
"extending",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"protraction",
"stretching",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness",
"extensiveness",
"expansion",
"growth",
"spread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"conciseness",
"shortness",
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compression",
"condensation",
"contraction",
"curtailment",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"shortening",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legends":{
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"examples":[
"the legend indicated that a large circle represented a major city, while a small circle stood for a small town"
],
"synonyms":[
"keys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scales",
"captions",
"guides",
"tables"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an explanation or description accompanying a pictorial illustration":{
"examples":[
"the legend in the science textbook indicated that the accompanying picture had been enlarged by 1000%"
],
"synonyms":[
"captions",
"cutlines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"keys",
"closed-captionings",
"subtitles",
"translations",
"mottoes",
"mottos",
"posies",
"slogans",
"taglines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature":{
"examples":[
"some ancient civilizations had legends about spirits that inhabited trees and rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"mythoi",
"myths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allegories",
"parables",
"fabrications",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"fictions",
"figments",
"inventions",
"narratives",
"sagas",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place":{
"examples":[
"that story of how the world came to be has long been part of Native American legend"
],
"synonyms":[
"folklores",
"legendries",
"lores",
"mythoi",
"mythologies",
"myths",
"traditions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"folklifes",
"folklives",
"information",
"knowledges",
"wisdoms",
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"fables",
"folktales",
"old wives' tales",
"tales",
"yarns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lessened":{
"as in reduced , diminished":{
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"near synonyms":[
"bankrupted",
"consumed",
"debilitated",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"drained",
"dried-up",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"reduced",
"spent",
"used up",
"uncultivable",
"untillable",
"arid",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dry",
"rainless",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless",
"bleak",
"inhospitable",
"lifeless",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked",
"barren",
"bony",
"boney",
"dead",
"desolate",
"hardscrabble",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"poor",
"stark",
"unfertile",
"unproductive",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich",
"arable",
"tillable",
"green",
"sylvan",
"verdant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"we lessened our efforts as it became clear they weren't having an effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"dented",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"downscaled",
"downsized",
"dropped",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"knocked down",
"lowered",
"reduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"docked",
"nicked",
"pared",
"pruned",
"retrenched",
"shortened",
"slashed",
"trimmed",
"truncated",
"whittled",
"deflated",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"minimized",
"moderated",
"modified",
"modulated",
"qualified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"added (to)",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"raised"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the pain should begin to lessen within minutes of taking the medication"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"blatant hypocrisy that lessened him in the eyes of the voters"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"bastardized",
"cankered",
"cheapened",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"deteriorated",
"perverted",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"subverted",
"vitiated",
"warped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"diluted",
"dirtied",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"watered down",
"weakened",
"descended",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"shamed",
"took down",
"blemished",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"destroyed",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"marred",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tarnished",
"wrecked",
"depreciated",
"downgraded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignified",
"exalted",
"honored",
"ameliorated",
"amended",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"refined",
"restored",
"respected"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lengths":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadths",
"distances",
"expanses",
"expansions",
"extents",
"fields",
"plains",
"reaches",
"sheets",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domains",
"spheres",
"territories",
"compasses",
"ranges",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"gamuts",
"scales",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"depths",
"voids",
"extensions",
"latitudes",
"spans",
"amplitudes",
"immensities",
"magnitudes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline"
],
"synonyms":[
"distances",
"leads",
"removes",
"spacings",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"areas",
"breadths",
"depths",
"heights",
"rises",
"spaces",
"volumes",
"widths",
"extensions",
"extents",
"casts",
"ranges",
"reaches",
"scopes",
"shots",
"sweeps",
"throws",
"drops",
"falls",
"flights",
"hauls",
"berths",
"clearances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leveled":{
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"we'll give both teams the same equipment so as to level the playing field"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"equalized",
"equated",
"evened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrated",
"equipoised",
"accommodated",
"adjusted",
"compensated",
"fitted",
"fit",
"counterbalanced",
"homogenized",
"normalized",
"regularized",
"standardized",
"democratized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps":{
"examples":[
"the construction workers leveled the ground before laying a foundation for the new house"
],
"synonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"planed",
"smoothed",
"smoothened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clipped",
"cropped",
"pared",
"pruned",
"shaved",
"trimmed",
"laid",
"pressed",
"spread",
"carded",
"combed",
"raked",
"surfaced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsened",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"bent",
"kinked",
"dented",
"pitted"
],
"antonyms":[
"roughed",
"roughened"
]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"the marksman leveled his gun at the target and fired"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"bent",
"cast",
"directed",
"headed",
"held",
"pinpointed",
"set",
"trained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighted",
"bore",
"faced",
"concentrated",
"focused",
"focussed",
"inclined",
"oriented",
"steered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averted",
"curved",
"deflected",
"detoured",
"diverted",
"rechanneled",
"rechannelled",
"shunted",
"sidetracked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer leveled his opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled (down or over)",
"downed",
"dropped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"knocked over",
"mowed (down)",
"prostrated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"KO'd",
"overthrew",
"threw down",
"toppled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"clobbered",
"hammered",
"hit",
"jabbed",
"pasted",
"poked",
"pounded",
"punched",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an old warehouse that was leveled to build a parking lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolished",
"pulled down",
"razed",
"tore down",
"unbuilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew up",
"dynamited",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"cracked up",
"crushed",
"dashed",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"devoured",
"did in",
"dissolved",
"eradicated",
"extirpated",
"finished",
"flattened",
"obliterated",
"overturned",
"pulverized",
"ravaged",
"ruined",
"scourged",
"smashed",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"unmade",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"rebuilt",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"restored",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legislating":{
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"examples":[
"wants the Congress to legislate new laws banning the use of these types of weapons"
],
"synonyms":[
"constituting",
"enacting",
"laying down",
"making",
"ordaining",
"passing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reenacting",
"repassing",
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"allowing",
"authorizing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"decreeing",
"dictating",
"proclaiming",
"administering",
"executing",
"approving",
"confirming",
"ratifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"invalidating",
"killing",
"nullifying",
"overturning",
"reversing",
"voiding"
],
"antonyms":[
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leathers":{
"the hairless natural covering of an animal prepared for use":{
"examples":[
"the company claims to use only the finest leathers for its shoes and handbags"
],
"synonyms":[
"hides",
"skins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"buckskins",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"moroccos",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sharkskins",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value":{
"examples":[
"this jacket was made from real leather"
],
"synonyms":[
"furs",
"hides",
"pelts",
"skins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badgers",
"beavers",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"chinchillas",
"ermines",
"fishers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"marten",
"martens",
"mink",
"minks",
"muskrat",
"muskrats",
"otters",
"otter",
"Persian lambs",
"rabbit",
"rabbits",
"raccoon",
"raccoons",
"racoon",
"racoons",
"sables",
"seals",
"bearskins",
"buckskins",
"calfskins",
"coonskins",
"cowhides",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"karakuls",
"kidskins",
"kolinskies",
"lambskins",
"pigskins",
"rawhides",
"sealskins",
"sharkskins",
"sheep",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"fleeces",
"moutons",
"alligators",
"crocodiles",
"cordovans",
"moroccos",
"patent leathers",
"suedes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible":{
"examples":[
"an expert rider will find almost no reason to leather a horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"birches",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"flails",
"flogs",
"hides",
"horsewhips",
"lashes",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"slashes",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"whales",
"whips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knouts",
"quirts",
"straps",
"cuts",
"flicks",
"touches up",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"fustigates",
"pistol-whips",
"bangs",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"hits",
"knocks",
"lams",
"pastes",
"punches",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"spanks",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"hammers",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"slates",
"slogs",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leg up":{
"an act or instance of helping":{
"examples":[
"a key endorsement that would give the struggling candidate a real leg up right now"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetment",
"aid",
"assist",
"assistance",
"backing",
"boost",
"hand",
"help",
"helping hand",
"lift",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancement",
"encouragement",
"facilitation",
"forwarding",
"furtherance",
"furthering",
"nurturance",
"benefaction",
"patronage",
"promotion",
"sponsorship",
"advice",
"care",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"mentoring",
"attendance",
"attention",
"hand-holding",
"service",
"beneficence",
"charity",
"favor",
"kindness",
"philanthropy",
"assuagement",
"palliation",
"relief",
"succor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraint",
"frustration",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"obstruction",
"repression",
"restraint",
"deterrence",
"discouragement"
],
"antonyms":[
"hindrance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaps":{
"an act of leaping into the air":{
"examples":[
"the horse cleared the hurdle with a tremendous leap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounds",
"hops",
"jumps",
"springs",
"vaults"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounces",
"lopes",
"skips",
"capers",
"caprioles",
"gambadoes",
"gambados",
"gambols",
"attacks",
"pounces",
"dives",
"pitches",
"plunges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to propel oneself upward or forward into the air":{
"examples":[
"the outfielder leaped into the air to catch the ball before it went over the fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounds",
"hops",
"jumps",
"springs",
"vaults"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounces",
"hurdles",
"leapfrogs",
"lopes",
"skips",
"bucks",
"capers",
"caprioles",
"cavorts",
"frolics",
"gambols",
"romps",
"attacks",
"pounces",
"shoots",
"skyrockets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leers (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"upbraided the man for leering at the young waitress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ogles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eyes",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gazes",
"glares",
"goggles",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legerdemain":{
"the art or skill of performing tricks or illusions for entertainment":{
"examples":[
"the illusionist's show is an entertaining blend of legerdemain and over-the-top showmanship"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjuring",
"hocus-pocus",
"magic",
"prestidigitation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"the reduction of the deficit is due in part to financial legerdemain that masks the true costs of running the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"oiliness",
"shadiness",
"sharpness",
"shiftiness",
"shrewdness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"treachery",
"underhandedness",
"wiliness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"fakery",
"humbuggery",
"imposture",
"quackery",
"dirty pool",
"dirty tricks",
"design",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"secrecy",
"stealth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leafed":{
"to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner":{
"examples":[
"we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked"
],
"synonyms":[
"flipped",
"riffled",
"skimmed",
"thumbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browsed",
"dipped",
"glanced (at)",
"looked over",
"scanned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pored (over)",
"studied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lends":{
"to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned":{
"examples":[
"I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend",
"can you lend me five dollars?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"loans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"furnishes",
"gives",
"grants",
"leases",
"lets",
"rents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receives",
"takes"
],
"antonyms":[
"borrows"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leading one down the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"leavings":{
"a remaining group or portion":{
"examples":[
"the leavings of the banquet were packed up and delivered to a shelter for the homeless"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"leftovers",
"odds and ends",
"remainder",
"remains",
"remnant",
"residue",
"residuum",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragment",
"scrap",
"vestige",
"butt",
"oddment",
"scraping(s)",
"stub",
"stump",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"body",
"bulk",
"main",
"mass",
"most",
"weight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"lets (someone) know":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"Let me know if have questions about the assignment."
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaints",
"advises",
"apprises",
"briefs",
"catches up",
"clears",
"clues (in)",
"enlightens",
"familiarizes",
"fills in",
"hips",
"informs",
"instructs",
"tells",
"verses",
"wises (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"alerts",
"notifies",
"announces (to)",
"discloses (to)",
"assures",
"certifies",
"convinces",
"reassures",
"warrants",
"educates",
"lectures",
"schools",
"teaches",
"tutors",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"undeceives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lexical":{
"of or relating to words or language":{
"examples":[
"a dictionary provides lexical information\u2014it tells you what the word \"cat\" means, not all there is to know about cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"linguistic",
"linguistical",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"verbal",
"vocabular",
"wordy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communicative",
"conversational"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonlexical",
"nonlinguistic",
"nonverbal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"legitimization":{
"as in legalization , legitimation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formalization",
"legalization",
"legitimation",
"validation",
"establishment",
"founding",
"institution",
"passing",
"ratification",
"enactment",
"legislation",
"approval",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"permission",
"sanctioning",
"commandment",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescription"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatement",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"abrogation",
"annulment",
"avoidance",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"defeasance",
"dissolution",
"invalidation",
"negation",
"nullification",
"quashing",
"repeal",
"rescindment",
"voiding",
"abortion",
"calling off",
"recall",
"countermand",
"override",
"overruling",
"overturn",
"veto"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leg (it)":{
"to go on foot":{
"examples":[
"the car was in the shop so we had to leg it to work for a couple of days"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulate",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"pad",
"step",
"traipse",
"tread",
"walk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parade",
"promenade",
"march",
"pace",
"step out",
"stride",
"troop",
"power walk",
"hike",
"peregrinate",
"trek",
"amble",
"mosey",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"wander",
"clump",
"stomp",
"stump",
"tramp",
"trample",
"tromp",
"footslog",
"plod",
"trudge",
"gimp",
"hobble",
"limp",
"mince",
"prance",
"pussyfoot",
"tiptoe",
"bounce",
"sashay",
"stalk",
"strut",
"swagger",
"falter",
"lumber",
"lurch",
"pound",
"scuff",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stumble",
"toddle",
"waddle",
"nip",
"tap",
"trip",
"trot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"permitted by law":{
"examples":[
"the barbershop, which appears to be a legit operation, is actually a front for a local mobster"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"licit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowable",
"authorized",
"noncriminal",
"permissible",
"justifiable",
"warrantable",
"constitutional",
"de jure",
"regulation",
"statutory",
"good",
"innocent",
"just",
"proper",
"right"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"corrupt",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"reprobate",
"sinful",
"wicked",
"wrong",
"banned",
"criminal",
"forbidden",
"guilty",
"impermissible",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"unauthorized",
"unjust",
"under-the-counter",
"under-the-table",
"nonconstitutional",
"unconstitutional"
],
"antonyms":[
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"leather":{
"the hairless natural covering of an animal prepared for use":{
"examples":[
"the company claims to use only the finest leathers for its shoes and handbags"
],
"synonyms":[
"hide",
"skin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value":{
"examples":[
"this jacket was made from real leather"
],
"synonyms":[
"fur",
"hide",
"pelt",
"skin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badger",
"beaver",
"chamois",
"chinchilla",
"ermine",
"fisher",
"fox",
"marten",
"mink",
"muskrat",
"otter",
"Persian lamb",
"rabbit",
"raccoon",
"racoon",
"sable",
"seal",
"bearskin",
"buckskin",
"calfskin",
"coonskin",
"cowhide",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"karakul",
"kidskin",
"kolinsky",
"lambskin",
"pigskin",
"rawhide",
"sealskin",
"sharkskin",
"sheep",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"fleece",
"mouton",
"alligator",
"crocodile",
"cordovan",
"morocco",
"patent leather",
"suede"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible":{
"examples":[
"an expert rider will find almost no reason to leather a horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"birch",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"flail",
"flog",
"hide",
"horsewhip",
"lash",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"slash",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"whale",
"whip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knout",
"quirt",
"strap",
"cut",
"flick",
"touch up",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"fustigate",
"pistol-whip",
"bang",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"hit",
"knock",
"lam",
"paste",
"punch",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"spank",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung",
"drub",
"fib",
"hammer",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lather",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"rough",
"slate",
"slog",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leaped":{
"to propel oneself upward or forward into the air":{
"examples":[
"the outfielder leaped into the air to catch the ball before it went over the fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounded",
"hopped",
"jumped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"vaulted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounced",
"hurdled",
"leapfrogged",
"loped",
"skipped",
"bucked",
"capered",
"caprioled",
"cavorted",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"attacked",
"pounced",
"shot",
"skyrocketed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legitimizing":{
"to make something real, accepted, or official":{
"examples":[
"slang words legitimized by usage"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"legitimating",
"sanctioning",
"validating",
"warranting",
"authorizing",
"entitling",
"privileging",
"qualifying",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"enfranchising",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"accrediting",
"certificating",
"certifying",
"chartering",
"ratifying",
"reaccrediting",
"reapproving",
"recertifying",
"rechartering",
"revalidating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delegitimizing",
"invalidating",
"nullifying",
"disabling",
"disempowering",
"disenfranchising",
"decertifying",
"disallowing",
"forbidding",
"proscribing",
"disqualifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lethargically":{
"as in idly , lazily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"halfheartedly",
"idly",
"indolently",
"lazily",
"slothfully",
"dully",
"inanimately",
"sluggishly",
"tardily",
"heavily",
"inactively",
"listlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"airily",
"animatedly",
"animately",
"bouncily",
"buoyantly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"high-spiritedly",
"livelily",
"lively",
"perkily",
"pertly",
"snappily",
"sparkily",
"spiritedly",
"sprightly",
"trippingly",
"vivaciously",
"friskily",
"gamesomely",
"playfully",
"skittishly",
"sportively",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"effervescently",
"energetically",
"jazzily",
"racily",
"springily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"leftovers":{
"a remaining group or portion":{
"examples":[
"take as many of these calendars as you want, and put the leftovers back on the shelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"leavings",
"odds and ends",
"remainder",
"remains",
"remnant",
"residue",
"residuum",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragment",
"scrap",
"vestige",
"butt",
"oddment",
"scraping(s)",
"stub",
"stump",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"body",
"bulk",
"main",
"mass",
"most",
"weight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legionary":{
"a person engaged in military service":{
"examples":[
"the daring exploits of the French legionaries have long been the stuff of literary and cinematic legend"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogface",
"fighter",
"legionnaire",
"man-at-arms",
"regular",
"serviceman",
"soldier",
"trooper",
"warrior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"servicewoman",
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"dragoon",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman",
"commando",
"raider",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"lifer",
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"conscript",
"draftee",
"enrollee",
"recruit",
"reservist",
"champion",
"knight",
"digger",
"gallowglass",
"gendarme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"civilian"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Leninists":{
"as in Trotskyists , Stalinists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"levered":{
"to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever":{
"examples":[
"the workers used crowbars to lever the heavy stone block into its new position"
],
"synonyms":[
"jimmied",
"pried",
"prized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"hoisted",
"lifted",
"uplifted",
"broke",
"broke up",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disjoined",
"divided",
"parted",
"pulled",
"separated",
"shifted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"connected",
"joined"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lead-pipe cinches":{
"one that is certain to succeed":{
"examples":[
"The attorney displayed no shortage of confidence when proclaiming a not guilty verdict in the trial to be a lead-pipe cinch ."
],
"synonyms":[
"cinches",
"locks",
"shoo-ins",
"slam dunks",
"sure things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"certainties",
"inevitabilities",
"eventualities",
"foregone conclusions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark horses",
"long shots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"leaguers":{
"the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies":{
"examples":[
"Germany's abandonment of the leaguer of Stalingrad is seen as a major turning point of World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"beleaguerments",
"blockades",
"investments",
"sieges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblockades",
"counter-blockades",
"containments",
"encirclements",
"encompassments",
"confinements",
"insulations",
"isolations",
"quarantines",
"seclusions",
"segregations",
"sequestrations",
"incarcerations",
"internments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"an impregnable fortress that not even the mightiest army on earth would venture to leaguer"
],
"synonyms":[
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"blockades",
"invests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricades",
"blocks",
"cuts off",
"dams",
"encircles",
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"confines",
"insulates",
"isolates",
"quarantines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"rescues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leaden":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"a leaden performance of a classic American play that nearly put us to sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"of the color gray":{
"examples":[
"the leaden sky made everything seem dark and depressing"
],
"synonyms":[
"argentine",
"gray",
"grey",
"grayish",
"pewter",
"silver",
"silvery",
"slate",
"slaty",
"slatey",
"steely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"achromatic",
"colorless",
"neutral",
"dirty",
"dull",
"faded",
"sad",
"washed-out",
"ashen",
"ashy",
"chalky",
"livid",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"pale",
"palish",
"white",
"whitish",
"chocolate",
"dun",
"sandy",
"sepia",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"grizzled",
"hoar",
"hoary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"bright",
"deep",
"gay",
"rich",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"varicolored",
"variegated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"led one down the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"legs":{
"a lower limb of an animal":{
"examples":[
"he broke his leg when he accidentally stepped in that gopher hole"
],
"synonyms":[
"pins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"members",
"forelegs",
"forelimbs",
"calves",
"calfs",
"drumsticks",
"hams",
"shanks",
"shins",
"thighs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a portion of a trip":{
"examples":[
"on the first leg of the cruise they went south to the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"laps",
"stages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"layovers",
"stopovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaned":{
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"just lean the ladder against the tree and climb up it"
],
"synonyms":[
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"listed",
"pitched",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked",
"bent",
"deviated",
"swerved",
"veered",
"declined",
"descended",
"reclined",
"retreated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"straightened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show a liking or proneness (for something)":{
"examples":[
"the family's diet leans toward greasy food"
],
"synonyms":[
"inclined",
"ran",
"run",
"tended",
"trended"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gravitated",
"went",
"indicated",
"pointed",
"suggested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"shied (from or away from)",
"shunned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"you can always lean on me if you need help"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculated",
"counted",
"depended",
"reckoned",
"relied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committed",
"confided",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"trusted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lessee":{
"one who rents a room or apartment in another's house":{
"examples":[
"the lessee has the right to expect the lessor to make all necessary repairs in a timely manner"
],
"synonyms":[
"boarder",
"lodger",
"renter",
"roomer",
"tenant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cotenant",
"subtenant",
"flatmate",
"roommate",
"roomie",
"guest",
"visitor",
"occupant",
"occupier",
"resident",
"resider"
],
"near antonyms":[
"laird",
"landholder",
"landowner",
"proprietor",
"landlady",
"slumlord",
"host",
"innkeeper",
"proprietor"
],
"antonyms":[
"landlord",
"lessor",
"letter"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lenities":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"lenience",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leader":{
"a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)":{
"examples":[
"the leader funnels water off of the roof and down into the cistern"
],
"synonyms":[
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"line",
"penstock",
"pipe",
"trough",
"tube"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drain",
"drainpipe",
"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"smokestack",
"spout",
"standpipe",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
"waste pipe",
"waterspout",
"pipage",
"pipeage",
"pipeline",
"piping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do":{
"examples":[
"the team leader is good at making sure that everyone keeps busy at their assigned tasks"
],
"synonyms":[
"boss",
"boss man",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"master",
"taskmaster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"directress",
"mistress",
"administrator",
"commander",
"director",
"executive",
"general",
"governor",
"hierarch",
"higher-up",
"leadman",
"manager",
"overseer",
"principal",
"skipper",
"standard-bearer",
"steward",
"straw boss",
"superintendent",
"superior",
"supervisor",
"dominator",
"lord",
"overlord",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"figurehead",
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"president",
"prince",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"bigwig",
"top dog",
"top gun",
"cohead",
"coleader",
"employer",
"gaffer",
"ganger",
"micromanager",
"subchief",
"subdirector"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependent",
"inferior",
"junior",
"secondary",
"subject",
"subordinate",
"underling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that takes the lead or sets an example":{
"examples":[
"an architectural firm that is widely regarded as a leader in innovative residential design"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellwether",
"pacemaker",
"pacer",
"pacesetter",
"trendsetter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"precursor",
"groundbreaker",
"innovator",
"pioneer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Johnny-come-lately",
"me-tooer"
],
"antonyms":[
"follower",
"imitator"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leadership":{
"the capacity to guide the actions of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"The company's high turnover rate is a sign of poor leadership .",
"The scouts were awarded badges for demonstrating strong leadership ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"administration",
"control",
"direction",
"generalship",
"governance",
"lead",
"management",
"running",
"piloting",
"shepherding",
"steering",
"monitoring",
"observance",
"observation",
"observing",
"policing",
"care",
"charge",
"guidance",
"headship",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision",
"surveillance",
"government",
"reign",
"rule",
"aegis",
"egis",
"auspices",
"guardianship",
"protection",
"trusteeship",
"tutelage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leers":{
"as in gazes , stares":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gapes",
"gazes",
"glares",
"ogles",
"stares",
"casts",
"eyes",
"ganders",
"glances",
"glimpses",
"looks",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"regards",
"sights",
"views",
"side-glances",
"squinnies",
"squints",
"coups d'oeil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ogles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ogles",
"considers",
"eyes",
"fixates",
"observes",
"regards",
"watches",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"studies",
"glares",
"gloats",
"glowers",
"outfaces",
"outstares",
"stares down",
"blinks",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gawps",
"gazes",
"goggles",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"browses",
"dips (into)",
"scans",
"winks (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leaning":{
"running in a slanting direction":{
"examples":[
"the leaning tower of Pisa is a popular tourist attraction in Italy"
],
"synonyms":[
"cant",
"canted",
"diagonal",
"graded",
"inclined",
"listing",
"oblique",
"pitched",
"raked",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slantwise",
"sloped",
"sloping",
"tilted",
"tilting"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"horizontal",
"level",
"plumb",
"up-and-down",
"vertical",
"parallel",
"perpendicular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a prevailing or general movement or inclination":{
"examples":[
"the news media are often accused of having liberal leanings"
],
"synonyms":[
"current",
"direction",
"drift",
"run",
"tendency",
"tide",
"trend",
"wind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curve",
"downside",
"shift",
"swing",
"turn",
"turnabout",
"upside",
"custom",
"habit",
"propensity",
"tenor",
"way",
"countercurrent",
"countertrend",
"undercurrent",
"undertow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a habitual attraction to some activity or thing":{
"examples":[
"despite what his athletic leanings might suggest, he was actually a very lazy kid"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"bias",
"bone",
"devices",
"disposition",
"genius",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"inclination",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favor",
"one-sidedness",
"partisanship",
"prejudice",
"endowment",
"faculty",
"flair",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"addiction",
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"preference",
"taste",
"forte",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"convention",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"trick",
"way",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"kink",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disrelish",
"distaste",
"detachment",
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"just lean the ladder against the tree and climb up it"
],
"synonyms":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"listing",
"pitching",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking",
"bending",
"deviating",
"swerving",
"veering",
"declining",
"descending",
"reclining",
"retreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"straightening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show a liking or proneness (for something)":{
"examples":[
"the family's diet leans toward greasy food"
],
"synonyms":[
"inclining",
"running",
"tending",
"trending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"going",
"gravitating",
"indicating",
"pointing",
"suggesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"shunning",
"shying (from or away from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"you can always lean on me if you need help"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculating",
"counting",
"depending",
"reckoning",
"relying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committing",
"confiding",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"trusting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusting",
"mistrusting",
"questioning",
"suspecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leprechaunish":{
"tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness":{
"examples":[
"he broke into a leprechaunish grin at the mere thought of his devilish plan for revenge"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"devilish",
"elvish",
"espi\u00e8gle",
"impish",
"knavish",
"mischievous",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"pixieish",
"prankish",
"puckish",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"scampish",
"sly",
"tricksy",
"waggish",
"wicked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antic",
"coltish",
"coy",
"frisky",
"frolicsome",
"kittenish",
"playful",
"sportful",
"sportive",
"gay",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"whimsical",
"energetic",
"lively",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"wily",
"misbehaving",
"naughty",
"troublemaking",
"pestering",
"riling",
"teasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"grim",
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"staid",
"stern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"leghorn":{
"as in tricorne , homburg":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball cap",
"beret",
"billycock",
"biretta",
"boater",
"bonnet",
"bowler",
"calotte",
"capuche",
"casque",
"castor",
"cloche",
"cocked hat",
"cowboy hat",
"cowl",
"derby",
"fedora",
"fez",
"garrison cap",
"hard hat",
"helm",
"helmet",
"high hat",
"homburg",
"hood",
"kepi",
"k\u00e9pi",
"kufi",
"miter",
"mitre",
"nightcap",
"opera hat",
"overseas cap",
"panama",
"picture hat",
"pillbox",
"plug hat",
"porkpie hat",
"service cap",
"shako",
"silk hat",
"skimmer",
"skullcap",
"sombrero",
"sou'wester",
"Stetson",
"stocking cap",
"stovepipe",
"sunbonnet",
"tam",
"tam-o'-shanter",
"ten-gallon hat",
"top hat",
"topper",
"toque",
"tricorne",
"tricorn",
"turban",
"zucchetto",
"cap",
"chapeau",
"hat",
"headdress",
"headgear",
"headpiece",
"lid",
"warbonnet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lead off":{
"coming before all others in time or order":{
"examples":[
"the leadoff batter"
],
"synonyms":[
"earliest",
"first",
"foremost",
"headmost",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"maiden",
"original",
"pioneer",
"premier",
"virgin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ancient",
"early",
"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"antecedent",
"preceding",
"previous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"late",
"consequent",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"succeeding",
"penultimate"
],
"antonyms":[
"final",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"terminal",
"terminating",
"ultimate"
]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"plans to lead off the news conference with a prepared statement"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"embark (on or upon)",
"enter (into or upon)",
"fall (to)",
"get off",
"kick off",
"launch",
"open",
"start",
"strike (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"take on",
"take up",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"pioneer",
"set up",
"spawn",
"get around (to)",
"get down (to)",
"get round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cease",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"quit",
"stop",
"close",
"complete",
"abandon",
"forsake",
"leave",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"phase out"
],
"antonyms":[
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"terminate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"ledger":{
"a book that a company uses to record information about the money it has paid and received":{
"examples":[
"The accountant went over the company's ledgers at the end of the fiscal year."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"document",
"record",
"account",
"bill",
"check",
"invoice",
"statement",
"tab",
"receipt",
"reckoning",
"charge",
"cost",
"expense",
"fee",
"price",
"rate",
"toll",
"score",
"tally"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"let up":{
"a usually gradual decrease in the pace or level of activity of something":{
"examples":[
"the downpour continued for hours without letup"
],
"synonyms":[
"braking",
"deceleration",
"downshift",
"retardation",
"slowdown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decline",
"drop",
"slump",
"ebb",
"remission",
"retreat",
"wane",
"flagging",
"weakening",
"arrest",
"check",
"halt",
"stoppage",
"collapse",
"crash",
"fall",
"plunge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"acceleration",
"hastening",
"quickening"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the rain let up just as we reached the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the windmill slowed down as the wind let up"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lets up":{
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the rain let up just as we reached the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"dead-ends",
"determines",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"elapses",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"goes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"winks (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desists (from)",
"lays off (of)",
"refrains (from)",
"gives over",
"knocks off",
"packs (up or in)",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"cuts out",
"stalls",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abates",
"peters (out)",
"winds down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draws out",
"extends",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
],
"antonyms":[
"continues",
"hangs on",
"persists"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the windmill slowed down as the wind let up"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaguer":{
"the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies":{
"examples":[
"Germany's abandonment of the leaguer of Stalingrad is seen as a major turning point of World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"beleaguerment",
"blockade",
"investment",
"siege"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblockade",
"containment",
"encirclement",
"encompassment",
"confinement",
"insulation",
"isolation",
"quarantine",
"seclusion",
"segregation",
"sequestration",
"incarceration",
"internment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"an impregnable fortress that not even the mightiest army on earth would venture to leaguer"
],
"synonyms":[
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"blockade",
"invest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricade",
"block",
"cut off",
"dam",
"encircle",
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"confine",
"insulate",
"isolate",
"quarantine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"rescue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leak":{
"as in blunder":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"blat",
"blurt (out)",
"bolt",
"cry (out)",
"ejaculate",
"exclaim",
"bellow",
"bleat",
"crow",
"holler",
"hoot",
"howl",
"roar",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yowl",
"aah",
"ah",
"ooh",
"interject"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in seep , trickle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drip",
"ooze",
"seep",
"trickle",
"dry up",
"mummify",
"wizen",
"abate",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"shrivel",
"wilt",
"wither",
"recede",
"retreat",
"withdraw",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"collapse",
"contract",
"deflate",
"flatten",
"shrink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balloon",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"dilate",
"expand",
"snowball",
"swell",
"accumulate",
"grow",
"increase",
"mushroom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in warn , expose":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"betray",
"blab",
"expose",
"give away",
"inform",
"rat",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tattle",
"tip (off)",
"warn",
"wise (up)",
"announce",
"break",
"broadcast",
"communicate",
"declare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"impart",
"proclaim",
"publish",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"breathe",
"say",
"whisper",
"accept",
"recognize",
"yield",
"affirm",
"avow",
"confirm",
"profess",
"disburden",
"unburden",
"unload",
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"agree",
"allow",
"concede",
"confess",
"fess (up)",
"grant",
"own (up to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deny",
"disallow",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"contradict",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"rebut",
"refute",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"conceal",
"cover (up)",
"hide",
"obscure",
"veil",
"kid (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lets on (about)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"we agreed not to let on about our marriage plans to anyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unbosoms",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confides",
"shares",
"debunks",
"shows up",
"unclothes",
"undrapes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"brings out",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"betrays",
"blabs",
"gives away",
"leaks",
"informs",
"squeals",
"talks",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"relates",
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"avows",
"concedes",
"confesses",
"owns",
"disinters",
"rakes up",
"smokes out",
"unearths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"shrouds",
"veils"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leading men":{
"as in leading ladies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leading ladies",
"headliners",
"leads",
"principals",
"stars",
"superstars",
"ingenues",
"ing\u00e9nues",
"starlets",
"star turns",
"coprincipals",
"co-principals",
"costars",
"co-stars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extras",
"supernumeraries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lessors":{
"the owner of land or housing that is rented to another":{
"examples":[
"lessors are free to charge as much as they want for a house"
],
"synonyms":[
"landlords",
"letters",
"renters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"landladies",
"lairds",
"landholders",
"landowners",
"proprietors",
"slumlords"
],
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"antonyms":[
"lessees",
"lodgers",
"roomers",
"tenants"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lemons":{
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"the used car he bought turned out to be a lemon , and he soon had trouble starting the thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"frosts",
"losers",
"misses",
"shipwrecks",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leak (out)":{
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"the candidate's campaign didn't want his choice of a running mate to leak out before an official announcement was made"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"circulate",
"come out",
"get about",
"get around",
"get out",
"get round",
"out",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"transpire",
"unfold",
"disclose",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hush (up)",
"suppress",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide",
"mask",
"secrete"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legislator":{
"a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws":{
"examples":[
"the legislators met in an all-night session to hammer out the details of the bill"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawgiver",
"lawmaker",
"solon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemblyman",
"assemblywoman",
"congressman",
"congresswoman",
"senator"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legionaries":{
"a person engaged in military service":{
"examples":[
"the daring exploits of the French legionaries have long been the stuff of literary and cinematic legend"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogfaces",
"fighters",
"legionnaires",
"men-at-arms",
"regulars",
"servicemen",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"warriors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"servicewomen",
"carabineers",
"carabiniers",
"cavaliers",
"cavalrymen",
"cuirassiers",
"dragoons",
"doughboys",
"footmen",
"foot soldiers",
"grunts",
"infantrymen",
"commandos",
"commandoes",
"raiders",
"jarheads",
"marines",
"rangers",
"artillerymen",
"cannoneers",
"gunners",
"mortarmen",
"musketeers",
"riflemen",
"archers",
"crossbowmen",
"lancers",
"pikemen",
"spearmen",
"Confederates",
"Continentals",
"Federals",
"GIs",
"GI's",
"guardsmen",
"militiamen",
"minutemen",
"counterguerrillas",
"counterguerillas",
"guerrillas",
"guerillas",
"irregulars",
"paramilitaries",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"combatants",
"noncombatants",
"lifers",
"veterans",
"warhorses",
"conscripts",
"draftees",
"enrollees",
"recruits",
"reservists",
"champions",
"knights",
"diggers",
"gallowglasses",
"gendarmes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"civilians"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leisure":{
"freedom from activity or labor":{
"examples":[
"upon retiring, the elderly couple looked forward to a life of well-deserved leisure"
],
"synonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"lazing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"quiet",
"silence",
"stillness",
"calm",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"respite",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"dolce far niente",
"idleness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pressure",
"strain",
"stress",
"tenseness",
"tension"
],
"antonyms":[
"exertion",
"labor",
"toil",
"work"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leads one up the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"suckers",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"lefty":{
"as in radical , ultraradical":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"nonconformist",
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive",
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in leftist , pinko":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leftist",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist",
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"lets down":{
"to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of":{
"examples":[
"with my poor performance I really felt that I had let my teammates down"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheats",
"disappoints",
"dissatisfies",
"fails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bums (out)",
"chagrins",
"discontents",
"disgruntles",
"displeases",
"distresses",
"upsets",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"mocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"gladdens"
],
"antonyms":[
"contents",
"gratifies",
"satisfies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaned (on or against)":{
"as in forced , compelled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozed",
"compelled",
"forced",
"muscled",
"rammed",
"bore (down)",
"compressed",
"depressed",
"jammed",
"pressured",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"weighed (upon)",
"impelled",
"moved",
"drove",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"letter carrier":{
"a person who delivers mail":{
"examples":[
"we like to leave a little gift in the mailbox around Christmas for our letter carrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"mail carrier",
"mailman",
"postie",
"postman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courier",
"messenger",
"postmaster",
"postmistress"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"least":{
"as in mere , minimal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"littlest",
"lowest",
"mere",
"minimal",
"slightest",
"bare",
"bare-bones",
"slight",
"small",
"thin",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"short",
"wanting",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive",
"exiguous",
"hand-to-mouth",
"light",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparing",
"sparse",
"stingy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"adequate",
"enough",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"tolerable",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"prolific",
"rich",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"proliferative",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"excess",
"extra",
"surplus"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in nothing , number":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pip-squeak",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch",
"inferior",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity",
"no-name",
"noncelebrity",
"figurehead",
"puppet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP",
"chief",
"head",
"lead",
"leader",
"celebrity",
"luminary",
"notable",
"personality",
"planet",
"star",
"superstar",
"authority",
"superior",
"great power",
"party",
"power"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"lessees":{
"one who rents a room or apartment in another's house":{
"examples":[
"the lessee has the right to expect the lessor to make all necessary repairs in a timely manner"
],
"synonyms":[
"boarders",
"lodgers",
"renters",
"roomers",
"tenants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cotenants",
"co-tenants",
"subtenants",
"flatmates",
"roommates",
"roomies",
"guests",
"visitors",
"occupants",
"occupiers",
"residents",
"residers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lairds",
"landholders",
"landowners",
"proprietors",
"landladies",
"slumlords",
"hosts",
"innkeepers",
"proprietors"
],
"antonyms":[
"landlords",
"lessors",
"letters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"letting":{
"as in leave , allowing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"allowing",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"consent",
"granting",
"leave",
"license",
"licence",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"permission",
"permitting",
"sanction",
"sanctioning",
"sufferance",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"imprimatur",
"OK",
"okay",
"prescription",
"enabling",
"encouragement",
"facilitation",
"promotion",
"support",
"compliance",
"obedience",
"submission",
"accession",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"embargo",
"interdict",
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"veto",
"no-no",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"constraint",
"inhibition",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"my parents would not let me drive until I had a job and could pay for my own gas"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"leaving",
"permitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizing",
"commissioning",
"empowering",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"catering (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"frustrating",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"preventing"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting"
]
},
"to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment":{
"examples":[
"the pensioner has begun letting rooms in her home to earn some extra money"
],
"synonyms":[
"leasing",
"renting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chartering",
"engaging",
"hiring",
"lodging",
"subleasing",
"subletting",
"rack-renting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make able or possible":{
"examples":[
"the low gravity on the moon lets you make enormous leaps and jumps"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"permitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fitting",
"habilitating",
"preparing",
"qualifying",
"readying",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"conditioning",
"equipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhibiting",
"precluding",
"disallowing",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"preventing"
]
},
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"they let their kids get away with murder"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"tolerating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"condoning",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"shrugging off",
"winking (at)",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"pardoning",
"brooking",
"catering (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbidding",
"prohibiting",
"curbing",
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"frustrating",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"preventing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"letting up":{
"as in waning , moderating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leftover",
"remaining",
"lingering",
"residual",
"abiding",
"biding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping up",
"lasting",
"perduring",
"persisting",
"running on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the rain let up just as we reached the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"dead-ending",
"determining",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"elapsing",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"going",
"halting",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"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 grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the windmill slowed down as the wind let up"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"legislated":{
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"examples":[
"wants the Congress to legislate new laws banning the use of these types of weapons"
],
"synonyms":[
"constituted",
"enacted",
"laid down",
"made",
"ordained",
"passed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reenacted",
"repassed",
"brought about",
"effected",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"permitted",
"sanctioned",
"decreed",
"dictated",
"proclaimed",
"administered",
"executed",
"approved",
"confirmed",
"ratified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolished",
"abrogated",
"annulled",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"invalidated",
"killed",
"nullified",
"overturned",
"reversed",
"voided"
],
"antonyms":[
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"revoked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"letter carriers":{
"a person who delivers mail":{
"examples":[
"we like to leave a little gift in the mailbox around Christmas for our letter carrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"mail carriers",
"mailmen",
"posties",
"postmen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"couriers",
"messengers",
"postmasters",
"postmistresses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leaf (through)":{
"as in turn over , dip (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"skim",
"speed-read",
"thumb (through)",
"turn over",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"read",
"devour",
"gobble (up)",
"slog (through)",
"wade (through)",
"reread",
"proofread",
"decipher",
"review",
"study",
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"get",
"grasp",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"see",
"tumble (to)",
"understand"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"let (someone) know":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"Let me know if have questions about the assignment."
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"hip",
"inform",
"instruct",
"tell",
"verse",
"wise (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"alert",
"notify",
"announce (to)",
"disclose (to)",
"assure",
"certify",
"convince",
"reassure",
"warrant",
"educate",
"lecture",
"school",
"teach",
"tutor",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion",
"undeceive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"leakers":{
"as in gossips , blabbermouths":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbermouths",
"blabbers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"collaborators",
"snoopers",
"snoops",
"spies",
"betrayers",
"canaries",
"deep throats",
"finks",
"informants",
"informers",
"narks",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"snitchers",
"snitches",
"squealers",
"stoolies",
"stool pigeons",
"talebearers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"telltales",
"whistle-blowers",
"notifiers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"let":{
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"my parents would not let me drive until I had a job and could pay for my own gas"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"leave",
"permit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorize",
"commission",
"empower",
"license",
"licence",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"cater (to)",
"give in (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"curb",
"frustrate",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"prevent"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit"
]
},
"to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment":{
"examples":[
"the pensioner has begun letting rooms in her home to earn some extra money"
],
"synonyms":[
"lease",
"rent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charter",
"engage",
"hire",
"lodge",
"sublease",
"sublet",
"rack-rent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make able or possible":{
"examples":[
"the low gravity on the moon lets you make enormous leaps and jumps"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"empower",
"enable",
"permit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fit",
"habilitate",
"prepare",
"qualify",
"ready",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"condition",
"equip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhibit",
"preclude",
"disallow",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit"
],
"antonyms":[
"prevent"
]
},
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"they let their kids get away with murder"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"tolerate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"condone",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"shrug off",
"wink (at)",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"pardon",
"brook",
"cater (to)",
"give in (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbid",
"prohibit",
"curb",
"deter",
"discourage",
"frustrate",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"prevent"
]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"artists are allowed to sell their goods in the public square without let or hindrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ledgers":{
"a book that a company uses to record information about the money it has paid and received":{
"examples":[
"The accountant went over the company's ledgers at the end of the fiscal year."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"documents",
"records",
"accounts",
"bills",
"checks",
"invoices",
"statements",
"tabs",
"receipts",
"reckonings",
"charges",
"costs",
"expenses",
"fees",
"prices",
"rates",
"tolls",
"scores",
"tallies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"led one up the garden path":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"leastways":{
"whatever else is done or is the case":{
"examples":[
"the minister is fixing to get married, leastways that's what everyone at the diner was saying"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"leastwise"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"legitimacies":{
"the quality or state of being legal":{
"examples":[
"the legitimacy of the military dictatorship was not recognized by most other nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawfulness",
"legality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rightfulness",
"rightness",
"permissibility",
"permissibleness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"badness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"sinfulness",
"unjustness",
"wickedness",
"wrongness",
"criminality",
"unconstitutionality"
],
"antonyms":[
"illegality",
"illegitimacy",
"unlawfulness",
"wrongfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legislative assemblies":{
"as in general assemblies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"general assemblies",
"assemblies",
"chambers",
"councils",
"diets",
"houses",
"legislatives",
"legislatures",
"congresses",
"parliaments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"let alone":{
"to say nothing of":{
"examples":[
"I don't have enough money for a new car, let alone a luxury sedan"
],
"synonyms":[
"much less",
"never mind",
"still less"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"conjunction"
]
},
"leagued":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"the whole block leagued together to keep a liquor store from opening in their neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"clubbed",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"cooperated",
"federated",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballed",
"collaborated",
"ganged up",
"hung together",
"teamed (up)",
"incorporated",
"organized",
"unionized",
"affiliated",
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"converged",
"grouped",
"joined",
"merged",
"knotted",
"linked",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"dissolved",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"parted",
"segregated",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"fell out"
],
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"some unlikely political bedfellows leagued together to get the bill passed"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded (together)",
"collaborated",
"concerted",
"concurred",
"conjoined",
"conspired",
"cooperated",
"joined",
"teamed (up)",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connived",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"combined",
"confederated",
"hung together",
"interfaced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"levelers":{
"one who advocates or practices social equality":{
"examples":[
"a nation of levelers , Norway has a tax structure designed to reduce the gap between the richest and the poorest"
],
"synonyms":[
"democrats",
"egalitarians"
],
"near synonyms":[
"populists",
"social democrats",
"socialists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"snobs",
"snoots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lead-in":{
"as in start , prelude":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"curtain-raiser",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preliminary",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog",
"warm-up",
"kickoff",
"start",
"countdown",
"run-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"letdowns":{
"something that disappoints":{
"examples":[
"the eagerly anticipated new movie starring our favorite actor turned out to be a big letdown"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringdowns",
"bummers",
"disappointments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticlimaxes",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"lemons",
"losers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"successes",
"winners",
"reliefs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lessons":{
"something assigned to be read or studied":{
"examples":[
"your lesson for tonight will be the chapter on chemical reactions"
],
"synonyms":[
"assignments",
"readings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"homeworks",
"schoolwork",
"lectures",
"drills",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"\u00e9tudes",
"studies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
"examples":[
"would tirelessly lesson the children in proper manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"educates",
"indoctrinates",
"instructs",
"schools",
"teaches",
"trains",
"tutors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coaches",
"mentors",
"drills",
"fits",
"grounds",
"habilitates",
"prepares",
"primes",
"qualifies",
"directs",
"guides",
"leads",
"rears",
"catechizes",
"lectures",
"moralizes",
"preaches",
"implants",
"inculcates",
"instills",
"instils",
"homeschools",
"edifies",
"enlightens",
"briefs",
"familiarizes",
"imparts (to)",
"informs",
"verses",
"initiates",
"introduces",
"shows",
"reeducates",
"reschools",
"reteaches",
"retrains"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lectures":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"examples":[
"the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastes",
"bawls out",
"berates",
"calls down",
"castigates",
"chastises",
"chews out",
"dresses down",
"flays",
"hammers",
"jaws",
"keelhauls",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"rags",
"rails (at or against)",
"rants (at)",
"rates",
"reams (out)",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"scolds",
"scores",
"tongue-lashes",
"upbraids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admonishes",
"chides",
"remonstrates (with)",
"reproves",
"abuses",
"assails",
"attacks",
"bad-mouths",
"blames",
"blasts",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"crucifies",
"denounces",
"disses",
"excoriates",
"faults",
"harangues",
"knocks",
"laces (into)",
"lashes",
"pans",
"reprehends",
"reviles",
"scourges",
"slams",
"vituperates",
"belittles",
"disparages",
"mocks",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"scoffs",
"scorns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a formal often extended talk on a subject":{
"examples":[
"a physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaims",
"descants",
"discourses",
"expatiates",
"harangues",
"orates",
"speaks",
"talks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recites",
"soliloquizes",
"disserts",
"expounds",
"pontificates",
"sermonizes",
"mouths",
"spouts",
"filibusters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in speeches , lessons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"exhortations",
"lessons",
"sermons",
"speeches",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"hints",
"pointers",
"tips",
"data",
"feedback",
"information",
"answers",
"solutions",
"advisements",
"considerations",
"thoughts",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"alerts",
"cautions",
"expostulations",
"forewarnings",
"remonstrances",
"remonstrations",
"urgings",
"warnings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"observations",
"verdicts",
"assistances",
"briefings",
"directions",
"instructions",
"primings",
"promptings",
"teachings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"leaks (out)":{
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"the candidate's campaign didn't want his choice of a running mate to leak out before an official announcement was made"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"circulates",
"comes out",
"gets about",
"gets around",
"gets out",
"gets round",
"outs",
"spreads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develops",
"transpires",
"unfolds",
"discloses",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushes (up)",
"suppresses",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"hides",
"masks",
"secretes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legitimizations":{
"as in legalizations , legitimations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formalizations",
"legalizations",
"legitimations",
"validations",
"establishments",
"institutions",
"passings",
"ratifications",
"enactments",
"legislations",
"approvals",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"permissions",
"commandments",
"orderings",
"prescriptions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatements",
"abolishments",
"abolitions",
"abrogations",
"annulments",
"avoidances",
"cancellations",
"cancelations",
"defeasances",
"dissolutions",
"invalidations",
"negations",
"nullifications",
"repeals",
"rescindments",
"abortions",
"recalls",
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overturns",
"vetoes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legman":{
"as in subordinate , underling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auxiliary",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"attendant",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"scullion",
"servant",
"employee",
"employe",
"hand",
"help",
"hireling",
"laborer",
"swamper",
"worker",
"adjunct",
"adjutant",
"aid",
"aide",
"apprentice",
"assistant",
"coadjutor",
"deputy",
"helper",
"helpmate",
"helpmeet",
"lieutenant",
"mate",
"sidekick",
"gal Friday",
"girl Friday",
"man Friday",
"right hand",
"aide-de-camp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leering":{
"as in lewd , vulgar":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dirty",
"filthy",
"gutter",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"prurient",
"raunchy",
"smutty",
"stag",
"unprintable",
"unpublishable",
"warm",
"X-rated",
"bawdy",
"blue",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"lewd",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"ribald",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salty",
"spicy",
"suggestive",
"barnyard",
"coarse",
"coarse-grained",
"crude",
"earthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"vulgar",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"naughty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ogling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ogling",
"considering",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"fixating",
"observing",
"regarding",
"watching",
"perusing",
"poring (over)",
"studying",
"glaring",
"gloating",
"glowering",
"outfacing",
"outstaring",
"staring down",
"blinking",
"gaping",
"gawking",
"gawping",
"gazing",
"goggling",
"peering",
"rubbernecking",
"staring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glancing",
"glimpsing",
"peeking",
"peeping",
"browsing",
"dipping (into)",
"scanning",
"winking (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lending library":{
"as in library , archive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"archive",
"library",
"stacks",
"bibliotheca"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"learning":{
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
"examples":[
"the learning that you get from books is just as important as the experience you get from life"
],
"synonyms":[
"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"literacy",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"after months of trying, he finally learned the dance steps"
],
"synonyms":[
"getting",
"mastering",
"picking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"grasping",
"knowing",
"understanding",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"digesting",
"drinking (in)",
"imbibing",
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging up",
"discerning",
"discovering",
"examining",
"finding out",
"hearing",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"searching (for)",
"seeing",
"tracking (down)",
"tumbling (to)",
"unearthing",
"majoring (in)",
"studying",
"memorizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgetting",
"misunderstanding",
"missing",
"overlooking",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearning"
]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"the directors have since learned that they should examine the company's financial reports a little more closely"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"catching on (to)",
"discovering",
"finding out",
"getting on (to)",
"hearing",
"realizing",
"seeing",
"wising (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hitting (on or upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"encountering",
"espying",
"spotting",
"calculating",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"finding",
"puzzling (out)",
"discerning",
"minding",
"noting",
"observing",
"perceiving",
"divining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"forgetting",
"unlearning",
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"occulting",
"screening",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the police were astonished when they learned the identity of the students who had vandalized the school"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"hunting (down or up)",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"rooting (out)",
"routing (out)",
"rummaging",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
]
},
"to commit to memory":{
"examples":[
"he learned the words to the song while performing karaoke"
],
"synonyms":[
"conning",
"memorizing",
"studying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harking back (to)",
"minding",
"recalling",
"recollecting",
"reliving",
"remembering",
"reminiscing (about)",
"retaining",
"thinking (of)",
"accepting",
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"getting",
"grasping",
"knowing",
"understanding",
"absorbing",
"digesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disremembering",
"forgetting",
"misremembering",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting",
"slurring (over)"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearning"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lech":{
"sexual appetite":{
"examples":[
"a story about a detective with a nose for crime and a lech for women"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"letch",
"libidinousness",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"libido",
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lecherousness",
"lechery",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"venery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lensman":{
"one who takes photographs":{
"examples":[
"an expert lensman whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines"
],
"synonyms":[
"photog",
"photographer",
"shooter",
"shutterbug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinematographer",
"paparazzo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leasts":{
"as in numbers , nobodies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ciphers",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"insects",
"insignificancies",
"lightweights",
"morsels",
"nobodies",
"nonentities",
"nullities",
"numbers",
"pip-squeaks",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"snippersnappers",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches",
"inferiors",
"mediocrities",
"obscurities",
"no-names",
"noncelebrities",
"figureheads",
"puppets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"eminences",
"figures",
"kahunas",
"kingpins",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"personages",
"somebodies",
"VIPs",
"chiefs",
"heads",
"leaders",
"leads",
"celebrities",
"luminaries",
"notables",
"personalities",
"planets",
"stars",
"superstars",
"authorities",
"superiors",
"great powers",
"parties",
"powers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leviathans":{
"something that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoths",
"blockbusters",
"colossi",
"dinosaurs",
"dreadnoughts",
"elephants",
"elephant",
"giants",
"Goliaths",
"jumbos",
"mammoths",
"mastodons",
"monsters",
"titans",
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazons",
"giantesses",
"bulks",
"hulks",
"heavyweights",
"juggernauts",
"steamrollers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"weaklings",
"wimps",
"wisps",
"nonentities",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"runts",
"shrimp",
"shrimps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leech":{
"a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return":{
"examples":[
"whenever the gang went out for pizza, the leech in the group always had an excuse for not paying his fair share"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsucker",
"freeloader",
"free rider",
"hanger-on",
"moocher",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependent",
"deadbeat",
"idler",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"satellite",
"stooge",
"sycophant",
"toady",
"yes-man",
"cheapskate",
"miser",
"niggard",
"piker",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benefactor",
"philanthropist",
"supporter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in use , mooch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"freeload",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"exploit",
"use",
"beg"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"let go":{
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"examples":[
"It's time to let go of the past."
],
"synonyms":[
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"uncork",
"unleash",
"unlock",
"unloose",
"unloosen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharge",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"manumit",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter",
"unmoor",
"unshackle",
"air",
"express",
"take out",
"vent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"bind",
"confine",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"halter",
"hamper"
],
"antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"govern",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"smother",
"tame"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"leaguing":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"the whole block leagued together to keep a liquor store from opening in their neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"cooperating",
"federating",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"ganging up",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"some unlikely political bedfellows leagued together to get the bill passed"
],
"synonyms":[
"banding (together)",
"collaborating",
"concerting",
"concurring",
"conjoining",
"conspiring",
"cooperating",
"joining",
"teaming (up)",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conniving",
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"combining",
"confederating",
"hanging together",
"interfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lecturer":{
"a person who makes usually formal public speeches":{
"examples":[
"this evening's lecturer has an uncanny ability to make highly abstruse material understandable to lay audiences"
],
"synonyms":[
"orator",
"speaker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rhetorician",
"spellbinder",
"declaimer",
"spouter",
"spieler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leafless":{
"as in barren":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barren",
"bleak",
"depleted",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"poor",
"stark",
"unproductive",
"arid",
"dead",
"desert",
"dry",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"waterless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"green",
"grown",
"leafy",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"overgrown",
"verdant",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich",
"dense",
"tangled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"leans (toward or towards)":{
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"favors",
"likes",
"prefers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adores",
"cottons (to)",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"chooses",
"culls",
"handpicks",
"names",
"picks",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"takes",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"hankers (for or after)",
"wants",
"wishes (for)",
"biases",
"biasses",
"prejudices",
"inclines (toward)",
"tends (to)",
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"mislikes",
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"hates",
"loathes",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"turns down",
"discards",
"jettisons",
"throws away",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"legitimation":{
"as in legalization , legitimization":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formalization",
"legalization",
"legitimization",
"validation",
"establishment",
"founding",
"institution",
"passing",
"ratification",
"enactment",
"legislation",
"approval",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"permission",
"sanctioning",
"commandment",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescription"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatement",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"abrogation",
"annulment",
"avoidance",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"defeasance",
"dissolution",
"invalidation",
"negation",
"nullification",
"quashing",
"repeal",
"rescindment",
"voiding",
"abortion",
"calling off",
"recall",
"countermand",
"override",
"overruling",
"overturn",
"veto"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legitimations":{
"as in legalizations , legitimizations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formalizations",
"legalizations",
"legitimizations",
"validations",
"establishments",
"institutions",
"passings",
"ratifications",
"enactments",
"legislations",
"approvals",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"permissions",
"commandments",
"orderings",
"prescriptions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatements",
"abolishments",
"abolitions",
"abrogations",
"annulments",
"avoidances",
"cancellations",
"cancelations",
"defeasances",
"dissolutions",
"invalidations",
"negations",
"nullifications",
"repeals",
"rescindments",
"abortions",
"recalls",
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overturns",
"vetoes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leapfrogged":{
"as in bounced , skipped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounced",
"hurdled",
"loped",
"skipped",
"bounded",
"hopped",
"jumped",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"vaulted",
"bucked",
"capered",
"caprioled",
"cavorted",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"attacked",
"pounced",
"shot",
"skyrocketed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in avoided , escaped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"fled",
"shook",
"shunned",
"bypassed",
"circumnavigated",
"circumvented",
"detoured",
"skirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confronted",
"faced",
"met",
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legging":{
"as in hose , sweatpants":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hose",
"sweatpants",
"baggies",
"bell-bottoms",
"blue jeans",
"cargo pants",
"cords",
"corduroys",
"denims",
"jeans",
"pants suit",
"pantsuit",
"breech",
"britches",
"pantaloons",
"pants",
"slacks",
"trousers",
"bloomers",
"knee breeches",
"knickerbockers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leer (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"upbraided the man for leering at the young waitress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ogle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eye",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gaze",
"glare",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaks":{
"as in blunders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"blats",
"blurts (out)",
"bolts",
"cries (out)",
"ejaculates",
"exclaims",
"bellows",
"bleats",
"crows",
"hollers",
"hoots",
"howls",
"roars",
"shouts",
"whoops",
"yowls",
"aahs",
"ahs",
"oohs",
"interjects"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in seeps , trickles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drips",
"oozes",
"seeps",
"trickles",
"dries up",
"mummifies",
"wizens",
"abates",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"shrivels",
"wilts",
"withers",
"recedes",
"retreats",
"withdraws",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"collapses",
"contracts",
"deflates",
"flattens",
"shrinks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balloons",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"dilates",
"expands",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"accumulates",
"grows",
"increases",
"mushrooms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in warns , exposes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"betrays",
"blabs",
"exposes",
"gives away",
"informs",
"rats",
"squeals",
"talks",
"tattles",
"tips (off)",
"warns",
"wises (up)",
"announces",
"breaks",
"broadcasts",
"communicates",
"declares",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"imparts",
"proclaims",
"publishes",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unveils",
"breathes",
"says",
"whispers",
"accepts",
"recognizes",
"yields",
"affirms",
"avows",
"confirms",
"professes",
"disburdens",
"unburdens",
"unloads",
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"agrees",
"allows",
"concedes",
"confesses",
"fesses (up)",
"grants",
"owns (up to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denies",
"disallows",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"negatives",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"hides",
"obscures",
"veils",
"kids (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leisures":{
"freedom from activity or labor":{
"examples":[
"upon retiring, the elderly couple looked forward to a life of well-deserved leisure"
],
"synonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"lazing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"quiet",
"silence",
"stillness",
"calm",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"respite",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"dolce far niente",
"idleness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pressure",
"strain",
"stress",
"tenseness",
"tension"
],
"antonyms":[
"exertion",
"labor",
"toil",
"work"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legs up":{
"an act or instance of helping":{
"examples":[
"a key endorsement that would give the struggling candidate a real leg up right now"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetments",
"aids",
"assistances",
"assists",
"backings",
"boosts",
"hands",
"help",
"helping hands",
"lifts",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancements",
"encouragements",
"facilitations",
"furtherances",
"nurturances",
"benefactions",
"patronages",
"promotions",
"sponsorships",
"advice",
"care",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"attendances",
"attentions",
"hand-holdings",
"services",
"beneficences",
"charities",
"favors",
"philanthropies",
"assuagements",
"palliations",
"reliefs",
"succors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraints",
"frustrations",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"obstructions",
"repressions",
"restraints",
"deterrences",
"discouragements"
],
"antonyms":[
"hindrances"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lechery":{
"as in erotomania , hypersexuality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lecherousness",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"venery",
"libido",
"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"lech",
"letch",
"libidinousness",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in perversion , indecency":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"wantonness",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"depravedness",
"dissoluteness",
"dissolution",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"criminality",
"reprehensibleness",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness",
"baseness",
"despicableness",
"dirtiness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"lousiness",
"miserableness",
"wretchedness",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"licentiousness",
"profligacy",
"sin",
"vice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue",
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"pureness",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leafing":{
"to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner":{
"examples":[
"we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked"
],
"synonyms":[
"flipping",
"riffling",
"skimming",
"thumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browsing",
"dipping",
"glancing (at)",
"looking over",
"scanning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"poring (over)",
"studying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lexicon":{
"a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order":{
"examples":[
"an avid word enthusiast who is compiling a lexicon of archaic and unusual words"
],
"synonyms":[
"dictionary",
"wordbook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gloss",
"glossary",
"nomenclator",
"thesaurus",
"vocabulary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leavening":{
"as in enlivening , invigorating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animating",
"charging",
"enlivening",
"invigorating",
"enduing",
"induing",
"imbuing",
"inculcating",
"infusing",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"inoculating",
"investing",
"steeping",
"suffusing",
"implanting",
"instilling",
"planting",
"impregnating",
"permeating",
"pervading",
"saturating",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"filling",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overwhelming",
"submerging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depriving",
"divesting",
"stripping",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"eliminating",
"removing",
"taking (away)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legal holiday":{
"as in feast , holy day":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"feast",
"holy day",
"interim",
"intermission",
"interval",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"slacking",
"breather",
"relaxation",
"respite",
"rest",
"furlough",
"liberty",
"sabbatical",
"break",
"holiday",
"hols",
"leave",
"recess",
"vacation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leagues":{
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"a league of concerned parishioners who are seeking a greater voice in church affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"associations",
"boards",
"brotherhoods",
"chambers",
"clubs",
"colleges",
"congresses",
"consortia",
"consortiums",
"councils",
"fellowships",
"fraternities",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"institutes",
"institutions",
"orders",
"organizations",
"societies",
"sodalities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collectives",
"communes",
"communities",
"cooperatives",
"alliances",
"blocs",
"camps",
"coalitions",
"partnerships",
"bodies",
"cadres",
"groups",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"juntas",
"juntos",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"lots",
"sets",
"crews",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"branches",
"chapters",
"locals",
"faithfuls",
"folds",
"memberships",
"sisterhoods",
"sororities",
"cabals",
"camarillas",
"camorras",
"confederacies",
"conspiracies",
"bands",
"gangs",
"rings",
"cartels",
"combines",
"syndicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"examples":[
"created to avert future wars, the League of Nations was a forerunner of the United Nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliances",
"axes",
"blocks",
"blocs",
"coalitions",
"combinations",
"combines",
"confederacies",
"confederations",
"federations",
"unions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabals",
"conspiracies",
"juntos",
"cartels",
"syndicates",
"trusts",
"factions",
"fronts",
"fusions",
"sides",
"wings",
"associations",
"groups",
"organizations",
"affiliations",
"cooperatives",
"partnerships",
"circuits",
"conferences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic":{
"examples":[
"that falls into a different league of fiction\u2014the popular novel"
],
"synonyms":[
"brackets",
"categories",
"classes",
"classifications",
"divisions",
"families",
"genera",
"genuses",
"grades",
"groups",
"kinds",
"orders",
"ranks",
"rubrics",
"sets",
"species",
"tiers",
"types"
],
"near synonyms":[
"descriptions",
"feathers",
"ilks",
"kidneys",
"likes",
"manners",
"natures",
"sorts",
"branches",
"sections",
"specialities",
"specialties",
"subclasses",
"subdivisions",
"subgroups",
"subspecieses",
"varieties",
"breeds",
"races",
"generations",
"headings",
"labels",
"titles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"the whole block leagued together to keep a liquor store from opening in their neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"allies",
"associates",
"bands (together)",
"clubs",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"confederates",
"conjoins",
"cooperates",
"federates",
"unites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabals",
"collaborates",
"gangs up",
"hangs together",
"teams (up)",
"incorporates",
"organizes",
"unionizes",
"affiliates",
"amalgamates",
"combines",
"conglomerates",
"consolidates",
"converges",
"groups",
"joins",
"merges",
"knots",
"links",
"ties",
"weds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaches",
"disengages",
"dissolves",
"disunites",
"divorces",
"parts",
"segregates",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders",
"alienates",
"estranges",
"falls out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"some unlikely political bedfellows leagued together to get the bill passed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bands (together)",
"collaborates",
"concerts",
"concurs",
"conjoins",
"conspires",
"cooperates",
"joins",
"teams (up)",
"unites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connives",
"affiliates",
"allies",
"associates",
"combines",
"confederates",
"hangs together",
"interfaces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"learners":{
"as in kids , novices":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beginners",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"kids",
"neophytes",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"rookies",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros",
"amateurs",
"hackers",
"hacks",
"inexperts",
"jacklegs",
"triflers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"craftsmen",
"experts",
"hands",
"masters",
"past masters",
"sharks",
"sharps",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"vets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leering (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"upbraided the man for leering at the young waitress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ogling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eyeing",
"eying",
"gaping",
"gawking",
"gazing",
"glaring",
"goggling",
"peering",
"rubbernecking",
"staring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legalized":{
"as in legal , legitimate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"law-abiding",
"orderly",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"docile",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anarchic",
"anarchical",
"disorderly",
"lawbreaking",
"lawless",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insubordinate",
"mutinous",
"rebellious",
"refractory",
"riotous",
"undisciplined"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) legal":{
"examples":[
"They wanted to legalize gambling in their city."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allowed",
"enabled",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"passed",
"permitted",
"accredited",
"approbated",
"approved",
"authorized",
"cleared",
"confirmed",
"finalized",
"formalized",
"homologated",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"ratified",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"accepted",
"acknowledged",
"affirmed",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"validated",
"blessed",
"blest",
"canonized",
"sanctified",
"initialed",
"initialled",
"rubber-stamped",
"signed",
"signed off (on)",
"reapproved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"illegalized",
"interdicted",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"rebuffed",
"rebutted",
"refused",
"spurned",
"declined",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"rejected",
"turned down",
"vetoed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"legatees":{
"a person who has the right to inherit property":{
"examples":[
"the couple had no children, so they declared their nephew their only legatee"
],
"synonyms":[
"heirs",
"heirs at law",
"inheritors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"claimants",
"heirs apparent",
"representatives",
"succeeders",
"successors",
"coheiresses",
"co-heiresses",
"coheirs",
"co-heirs",
"heiresses",
"assignees",
"beneficiaries",
"devisees",
"grantees",
"descendants",
"descendents",
"scions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"legionnaire":{
"a person engaged in military service":{
"examples":[
"the legionnaires are well respected for their fighting prowess"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogface",
"fighter",
"legionary",
"man-at-arms",
"regular",
"serviceman",
"soldier",
"trooper",
"warrior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"servicewoman",
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"dragoon",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman",
"commando",
"raider",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"lifer",
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"conscript",
"draftee",
"enrollee",
"recruit",
"reservist",
"champion",
"knight",
"digger",
"gallowglass",
"gendarme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"civilian"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leered":{
"as in ogled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ogled",
"considered",
"eyed",
"fixated",
"observed",
"regarded",
"watched",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"studied",
"glared",
"gloated",
"glowered",
"outfaced",
"outstared",
"stared down",
"blinked",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gawped",
"gazed",
"goggled",
"peered",
"rubbernecked",
"stared"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glanced",
"glimpsed",
"peeked",
"peeped",
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"scanned",
"winked (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"legitimating":{
"as in warranting , sanctioning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"legitimizing",
"sanctioning",
"validating",
"warranting",
"authorizing",
"entitling",
"privileging",
"qualifying",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"enfranchising",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"accrediting",
"certificating",
"certifying",
"chartering",
"ratifying",
"reaccrediting",
"reapproving",
"recertifying",
"rechartering",
"revalidating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delegitimizing",
"invalidating",
"nullifying",
"disabling",
"disempowering",
"disenfranchising",
"decertifying",
"disallowing",
"forbidding",
"proscribing",
"disqualifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"leaves (out)":{
"as in excludes , omits":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"excludes",
"misses out",
"omits",
"bans",
"bars",
"debars",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"prohibits",
"denies",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"rules out",
"loses",
"mislays",
"misplaces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries",
"comprehends",
"contains",
"embraces",
"encompasses",
"entails",
"includes",
"involves",
"numbers",
"subsumes",
"takes in",
"comprises",
"consists (of)",
"brackets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}
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