dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/vam_MW.json
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{
"vamoose":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to depart quickly":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259-\u02c8m\u00fcs",
"va-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up ",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out ",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"walk out"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"it's getting late, so we had better vamoose",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Khan\u2019s group packed fast and vamoosed on a small airplane, which rose straight into a thrashing thunderstorm. \u2014 David Quammen, The New Yorker , 4 May 2020",
"Nearby, a woman was making her own bathroom right next to the entrance of a residential building, vamoosing only when the doorman, Clever Santos Chavez, chased her away. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2020",
"In November, the owner of the building housing Trump\u2019s SoHo hotel in Manhattan paid the Trump Organization to vamoose . \u2014 Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer , 27 Jan. 2018",
"The Senate left town for its August recess Thursday, a week after the House vamoosed , and let\u2019s hope the Members get an earful from constituents at home. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 4 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Spanish vamos \"let us go,\" suppletive 1st person plural imperative (going back to Latin vadimus , 1st person plural present indicative of vadere \"to proceed, go\") of ir \"to go,\" going back to Latin \u012bre \u2014 more at wade entry 1 , issue entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093502"
},
"vamp":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses":[],
": a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men":[],
": improvise , extemporize":[],
": invent , fabricate":[
"vamp up an excuse"
],
": the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper":[],
": to act like a vamp":[
"vamping for the camera"
],
": to piece (something old) with a new part : patch":[
"vamp up old sermons"
],
": to play a musical vamp":[],
": to practice seductive wiles on":[],
": to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1915, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vampe, vaumpe \"covering for the foot, upper of a shoe,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, probably truncated from *vamp\u00e9 , reduced form of avanpi\u00e9 , from avant- \"fore-\" + pi\u00e9 \"foot,\" going back to Latin ped-, p\u0113s \u2014 more at vanguard , foot entry 1":"Noun",
"short for vampire":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vamp"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103225",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vamp (up)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination political spin doctors who can vamp up a justification for just about anything"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-180228",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"vamphorn":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a megaphone used in churches during the 18th and early 19th centuries":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"vamp entry 2 + horn ; from its use by the choir leader to amplify his voice as an accompaniment to the rest of the choir":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103617",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vampire":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep":[],
": one who lives by preying on others":[],
": a woman who exploits and ruins her lover":[],
": vampire bat":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(\u0259)r",
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r",
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012br"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsucker",
"buzzard",
"harpy",
"kite",
"predator",
"shark",
"vulture",
"wolf"
],
"antonyms":[
"prey"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"regarded debt collectors as vampires who made a living from the misery of others",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The real fun, though, was watching Simmons fully embrace the scene's demonic nature, his dead eyes basking in eerie green light behind that kabuki-style make-up, his head jerking ominously, like a vampire ready to strike its prey. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 May 2022",
"Batalon plays the eponymous Reginald, an ordinary guy with a lousy job, romantic problems and low self-esteem who becomes an unlikely hero when he is inadvertently turned into a vampire . \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In the film, Leto immerses himself in the part of Dr. Michael Morbius, a biochemist who inadvertently turns himself into a vampire when a life-saving scientific experiment goes wrong. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Publishers, Lucas pointed out, have nurtured audiences for items as strange as adult coloring books and young-adult vampire mysteries. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Then again, maybe this was all just part of the Morbius star's process to get into character as a blood-sucking vampire . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 14 June 2022",
"This 1985 horror-comedy finds Carrey as a very horny (and sometimes possessed) high schooler in the midst of a wild vampire story. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"However, by leaning into the mockery associated with the character, by essentially throwing themselves on the sword, Sony can use Jared Leto\u2019s self-serious living vampire as a comic foil for a later \u2018Sony\u2019s Spider-Man Universe\u2019 movie. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Gellar played the eponymous vampire slayer Buffy Summers in the teen sci-fi series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, borrowed from German Vampir , borrowed from Serbian vampir":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-104225"
},
"vampire bat":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So the Zombie Devil, for instance, turns people into its mindless zombie minions, while the Bat Devil devours humans for their blood like an oversized vampire bat . \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
"Draculin is an anticoagulant from vampire bat venom and is used to treat stroke and heart attack. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Michael Bodenchuk, the state's director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said his team has been looking for any sign of the vampire bat near the border. \u2014 Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The vampire bat brain may have also benefitted from a fortuitous gene loss. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Paleontologists have previously presented ideas about how the giant reptile took off, such as running and flapping its wings or lurching forward on its wingtips like a vampire bat . \u2014 Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Dec. 2021",
"There are three species of vampire bat : common, white-winged and hairy-legged. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 July 2021",
"That indicated a vampire bat , pushed north from its usual habitat in Mexico by climate change. \u2014 Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker , 8 Mar. 2021",
"Or slow-motion video of a vampire bat catching a mouse? \u2014 Anand Varma, National Geographic , 4 Aug. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1790, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-204626"
},
"vampirism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": belief in vampires":[],
": the actions of a vampire":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r-\u02cci-z\u0259m",
"-\u02ccp\u012b(\u0259)r-\u02cciz-\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is simply no ethical consumption in vampirism . \u2014 A Werewolf, Vulture , 30 Oct. 2021",
"An example of stellar vampirism is an exciting finding in its own right, since that phase of stellar evolution is relatively short and hence very difficult to detect. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The concept of vampirism is the most intriguing through line here, as the outgoing generation of artists represented by Vera and Henry feed on the energy of a dismissive and disrespectful younger generation in an attempt to gain immortality. \u2014 Mark Keizer, Variety , 18 Dec. 2021",
"But the surprise reunion is complicated by the revelation that Eleanor is indeed involved in Masque\u2019s operations, though probably only to be cured of her vampirism . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Dec. 2021",
"And fun fact: Renfield syndrome is another term for clinical vampirism , that is, an obsession with drinking blood. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 1 Dec. 2021",
"After accidentally injecting himself with vampirism , Morbius receives bat-like powers like echo-location \u2014 and of course, an insatiable thirst for blood. \u2014 Jennifer Yuma, Variety , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Though the show has at various times explored the basic rules of energy vampirism , this season provides a much fuller picture of the relatively short (from a vampiric perspective) lifespan of everyone\u2019s least-favorite Super Bowl party guest. \u2014 Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Harry is their recruit to vampirism , which is an apt metaphor for one of America\u2019s real-life horror stories: addiction, whether that be physical dependence, as on opioids, or metaphysical, as with avarice and aspiration. \u2014 Michael P. H. Stanley, National Review , 3 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-210521"
},
"vampirize":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to play the vampire":[],
": to exhaust or prey upon in the manner of a vampire":[
"parents who vampirize their children"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccr\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214147"
},
"vampires":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep":[],
": one who lives by preying on others":[],
": a woman who exploits and ruins her lover":[],
": vampire bat":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r",
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(\u0259)r",
"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012br"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsucker",
"buzzard",
"harpy",
"kite",
"predator",
"shark",
"vulture",
"wolf"
],
"antonyms":[
"prey"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"regarded debt collectors as vampires who made a living from the misery of others",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The real fun, though, was watching Simmons fully embrace the scene's demonic nature, his dead eyes basking in eerie green light behind that kabuki-style make-up, his head jerking ominously, like a vampire ready to strike its prey. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 May 2022",
"Batalon plays the eponymous Reginald, an ordinary guy with a lousy job, romantic problems and low self-esteem who becomes an unlikely hero when he is inadvertently turned into a vampire . \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In the film, Leto immerses himself in the part of Dr. Michael Morbius, a biochemist who inadvertently turns himself into a vampire when a life-saving scientific experiment goes wrong. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Publishers, Lucas pointed out, have nurtured audiences for items as strange as adult coloring books and young-adult vampire mysteries. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Then again, maybe this was all just part of the Morbius star's process to get into character as a blood-sucking vampire . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 14 June 2022",
"This 1985 horror-comedy finds Carrey as a very horny (and sometimes possessed) high schooler in the midst of a wild vampire story. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"However, by leaning into the mockery associated with the character, by essentially throwing themselves on the sword, Sony can use Jared Leto\u2019s self-serious living vampire as a comic foil for a later \u2018Sony\u2019s Spider-Man Universe\u2019 movie. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Gellar played the eponymous vampire slayer Buffy Summers in the teen sci-fi series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, borrowed from German Vampir , borrowed from Serbian vampir":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-220318"
},
"vamplate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a round plate of iron mounted on the shaft of a lance or tilting spear to protect the hand":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vam\u02ccpl\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, vaunplate , from Anglo-French vaunt- fore- (from Old French avant- ) + plate":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-222020"
},
"vamp trap":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": vampire sense 4":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"vamp (short for vampire ) + trap":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-223506"
},
"vampy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vam-p\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Halsey always knocks it out of the park with their glam, but this vampy look was especially incredible. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The Maleficent star started off her month with a surprisingly vampy look. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 Nov. 2021",
"In the \u201990s, Hayek played up her vampy side, embracing daring silhouettes and body-conscious fashions. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 2 Sep. 2021",
"But more importantly, the star also has a history of wearing vampy black dresses on the red carpet, meaning her personal style is meant for this role. \u2014 Christian Allair, Vogue , 10 Aug. 2021",
"One of those Floridians, a convincingly vampy Rebecca Ferguson, gets under Hugh\u2019s skin and then disappears mysteriously in time-space, as Floridians are wont to do. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Flash-forward to today, however, and Kim Kardashian\u2014the queen of Instagram fit pics\u2014also paid homage to the throwback trend, albeit in her own vampy way. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 22 Mar. 2021",
"Despite the mega star power at the awards show, the couple instantly commanded the paparazzi on the red carpet: Fox wore a vampy Mugler dress with cut-outs, while Kelly\u2014who won the top rock artist award\u2014sported a modern, edgy Balmain suit. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 24 May 2021",
"Villa, one of my two favorites, perfectly amps up my natural lip color, while my other favorite Vesper, is a vampy magenta that sheers out to a berry stain. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 27 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"vamp entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-231925"
},
"Vampyrella":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of protozoans (order Amoebina) comprising small amoeboid forms that are ectoparasitic on algae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvamp\u0259\u02c8rel\u0259",
"-\u02ccp\u012b\u02c8r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from vampyrus vampire + -ella":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232813"
},
"Vampyrum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of South and Central American bats (family Phyllostomatidae) that includes various harmless insectivorous usually spearnose bats \u2014 compare vampire sense 3a":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)vam\u00a6p\u012br\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from vampyrus vampire, from French vampire":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232909"
},
"vampish":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men":[],
": to practice seductive wiles on":[],
": to act like a vamp":[
"vamping for the camera"
],
": the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper":[],
": a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses":[],
": to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp":[],
": to piece (something old) with a new part : patch":[
"vamp up old sermons"
],
": invent , fabricate":[
"vamp up an excuse"
],
": to play a musical vamp":[],
": improvise , extemporize":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vamp"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"short for vampire":"Noun",
"Middle English vampe, vaumpe \"covering for the foot, upper of a shoe,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, probably truncated from *vamp\u00e9 , reduced form of avanpi\u00e9 , from avant- \"fore-\" + pi\u00e9 \"foot,\" going back to Latin ped-, p\u0113s \u2014 more at vanguard , foot entry 1":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1915, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-233843"
},
"vambraced":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": wearing a vambrace":[
"\u2014 used chiefly in heraldic description"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-st"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"vambrace + -ed":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093503"
},
"vambrace":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a piece of medieval armor designed to protect the forearm":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vam\u02ccbr\u0101s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English vambras, vambrace , from Anglo-French vauntbras , from vaunt- fore- (from Old French avant- ) + bras arm (from Old French)":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-093505"
}
}