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{
"Brussels lace":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brabbled":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bored children brabbling in the back seat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisted",
"got along",
"accepted",
"agreed",
"assented",
"concurred",
"consented"
],
"related":[
"challenged",
"dared",
"defied",
"clashed",
"contended",
"contested",
"tangled",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"fussed",
"nitpicked",
"considered",
"debated",
"discussed",
"kicked",
"objected",
"protested"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercated",
"argued",
"argufied",
"bickered",
"brawled",
"controverted",
"disputed",
"fell out",
"fought",
"hassled",
"jarred",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"quibbled",
"rowed",
"scrapped",
"spatted",
"squabbled",
"tiffed",
"wrangled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brace":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wore a brace for the injured knee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
],
"synonyms":[
"buttress",
"mount",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"support",
"underpinning"
]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill"
],
"examples":[
"the pep talk braced the team up for the second half"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burn out",
"debilitate",
"do in",
"drain",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"harass",
"kayo",
"knock out",
"sap",
"tucker (out)",
"undermine",
"wash out",
"weaken",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary",
"check",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"jade",
"quell",
"quench",
"repress",
"restrain",
"slow",
"still",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
],
"related":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"raise",
"rouse",
"stir",
"wake (up)",
"activate",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"motivate",
"motive",
"move",
"propel",
"charge",
"electrify",
"galvanize",
"enkindle",
"excite",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"instigate",
"kindle",
"provoke",
"set off",
"spark",
"trigger",
"turn on",
"whip (up)",
"abet",
"boost",
"buoy",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"fortify",
"hearten",
"infuse",
"inspire",
"lift",
"rally",
"steel",
"strengthen",
"reactivate",
"reanimate",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"recharge",
"recreate",
"reenergize",
"refresh",
"refreshen",
"regenerate",
"reinvigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"rekindle",
"renew",
"restimulate",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revitalize",
"revive"
],
"synonyms":[
"amp (up)",
"animate",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"several boards braced the wall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bolster",
"buttress",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
]
},
"to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she braced herself for the job interview"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit",
"psych (out)",
"shake",
"unnerve",
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"prostrate",
"sap",
"soften",
"tire",
"undercut",
"undermine",
"weaken"
],
"related":[
"arm",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buoy (up)",
"buttress",
"enforce",
"prop (up)",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"support",
"sustain",
"cheer (up)",
"comfort",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"rally",
"rouse",
"stir"
],
"synonyms":[
"forearm",
"fortify",
"nerve",
"poise",
"psych (up)",
"ready",
"steel",
"strengthen"
]
},
"two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bagged a brace of pheasants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"span",
"yoke",
"partnership",
"team",
"companion",
"complement",
"doublet",
"fellow",
"half",
"match",
"mate",
"twin",
"coordinate",
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"like",
"parallel",
"peer",
"rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"couple",
"couplet",
"duo",
"dyad",
"pair",
"twain",
"twosome"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bracketed":{
"to describe as similar":{
"antonyms":[
"contrasted"
],
"examples":[
"I wouldn't exactly bracket your paintings with those of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"associated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"linked",
"alluded",
"referred",
"related",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled"
],
"synonyms":[
"analogized",
"assimilated",
"compared",
"equated",
"likened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"braggadocio":{
"boastful speech or writing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his braggadocio hid the fact that he felt personally inadequate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"oratory",
"rhapsody",
"rhetoric",
"pomposity",
"turgidity",
"wind",
"bloviation",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"jawing",
"patter",
"prating",
"yammering",
"egotism",
"self-conceit",
"self-importance",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"bull",
"cockalorum",
"fanfaronade",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant",
"rodomontade",
"rhodomontade"
]
},
"someone who boasts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the swaggering braggadocio is a stock figure of American folklore, with Davy Crockett and Mike Fink being prime examples"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blusterer",
"cock",
"self-advertiser",
"self-dramatizer",
"self-promoter"
],
"synonyms":[
"blower",
"blowhard",
"boaster",
"brag",
"braggart",
"bragger",
"cockalorum",
"cracker",
"gascon",
"gasconader",
"swaggerer",
"vaunter"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"braggart":{
"as in boastful , cocky":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"someone who boasts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a braggart who was always talking about how much money he made"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blusterer",
"cock",
"self-advertiser",
"self-dramatizer",
"self-promoter"
],
"synonyms":[
"blower",
"blowhard",
"boaster",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"bragger",
"cockalorum",
"cracker",
"gascon",
"gasconader",
"swaggerer",
"vaunter"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"braid":{
"a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"until she was 15, she had a braid that reached to her knees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rickrack",
"ricrac",
"stripe",
"cornrow",
"dreadlock",
"pigtail",
"queue",
"braiding"
],
"synonyms":[
"lace",
"lacing",
"plait",
"plat"
]
},
"to form into a braid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they taught each other how to braid yarn into bracelets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"interlace",
"interweave",
"weave"
],
"synonyms":[
"plait",
"plat",
"pleat"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"brain-dead":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"examples":[
"it seems like she's always doing some brain-dead thing or another"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"thinking",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"related":[
"cretinous",
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"silly",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thick-witted",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brainchild":{
"something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the artificial language Esperanto was the brainchild of L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish oculist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
"reduplication",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction"
],
"related":[
"contraption",
"device",
"gadget",
"gizmo",
"gismo",
"novelty",
"design",
"product",
"work",
"dream",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"picture",
"vision",
"conception",
"imagining",
"origination"
],
"synonyms":[
"coinage",
"concoction",
"contrivance",
"creation",
"innovation",
"invention",
"wrinkle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brained":{
"as in beaned , skulled":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"braininess":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brainstorm":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to engage in an exchange of information or ideas":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they brainstormed about ways to raise money for their organization"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"correspond",
"converse",
"talk",
"message",
"bond",
"commune",
"relate",
"accost",
"approach",
"board",
"contact"
],
"synonyms":[
"communicate",
"intercommunicate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"brainwashes":{
"to cause (someone) to think or believe something by using methods that make a person unable to think normally":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Terrorists brainwashed the prisoners.",
"Does advertising brainwash children?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"braise":{
"as in smother , steam":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brake":{
"a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"built a small shelter in the brake to watch for deer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"canebrake",
"brush",
"bush",
"scrub",
"scrubland",
"bramble",
"jungle",
"tangle",
"grove",
"hedge",
"stand",
"woodlot",
"forest",
"greenwood",
"wildwood",
"wood",
"woodland"
],
"synonyms":[
"boscage",
"boskage",
"bosk",
"bosque",
"bosquet",
"brushwood",
"chaparral",
"coppice",
"copse",
"covert",
"thicket"
]
},
"to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace":{
"antonyms":[
"accelerate",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"quicken",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"step up"
],
"examples":[
"braked the car sharply when someone pulled out in front of us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drive",
"encourage",
"goad",
"propel",
"push",
"spur",
"stir",
"urge",
"advance",
"aid",
"dispatch",
"ease",
"expedite",
"facilitate",
"forward",
"further",
"help"
],
"related":[
"halt",
"stop",
"encumber",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"set back",
"tie up",
"bottleneck",
"arrest",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"sabotage",
"thwart"
],
"synonyms":[
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slacken",
"slow"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"branching (out)":{
"to go or move in different directions from a central point":{
"antonyms":[
"converging",
"joining"
],
"examples":[
"the vine branched out as it climbed the trellis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assembling",
"gathering",
"meeting"
],
"related":[
"bestrewing",
"breaking up",
"broadcasting",
"clearing out",
"disbanding",
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"distributing",
"scattering",
"sowing",
"distancing",
"receding",
"retreating"
],
"synonyms":[
"diverging",
"dividing",
"forking",
"parting",
"separating",
"spreading"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"branded":{
"to produce a vivid impression of":{
"examples":[
"the exact words my father spoke as he left us are branded in my memory"
],
"synonyms":[
"engraved",
"etched",
"impressed",
"imprinted",
"infixed",
"ingrained",
"engrained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enrooted",
"imbued",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"infused",
"instilled",
"fixed",
"set",
"stamped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blotted out",
"erased",
"expunged",
"obliterated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"branding":{
"to produce a vivid impression of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the exact words my father spoke as he left us are branded in my memory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blotting out",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating"
],
"related":[
"enrooting",
"imbuing",
"implanting",
"inculcating",
"infusing",
"instilling",
"fixing",
"setting",
"stamping"
],
"synonyms":[
"engraving",
"etching",
"impressing",
"imprinting",
"infixing",
"ingraining",
"engraining"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brashness":{
"shameless boldness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"for sheer brashness it would be hard to beat the customer who wanted a refund on merchandise bought elsewhere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"hesitancy",
"modesty",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"timorousness",
"civility",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"mannerliness",
"manners"
],
"related":[
"arrogance",
"assurance",
"cockiness",
"confidence",
"hardihood",
"overconfidence",
"sanguinity",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"discourteousness",
"disrespect",
"impertinence",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"incivility",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"back talk",
"sass",
"swagger",
"swash"
],
"synonyms":[
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"brass",
"brassiness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"chutzpah",
"chutzpa",
"hutzpah",
"hutzpa",
"crust",
"effrontery",
"face",
"gall",
"nerve",
"nerviness",
"pertness",
"presumption",
"presumptuousness",
"sauce",
"sauciness",
"temerity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brass":{
"shameless boldness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had the brass to demand a refund for something they had broken themselves!"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"hesitancy",
"modesty",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"timorousness",
"civility",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"mannerliness",
"manners"
],
"related":[
"arrogance",
"assurance",
"cockiness",
"confidence",
"hardihood",
"overconfidence",
"sanguinity",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"discourteousness",
"disrespect",
"impertinence",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"incivility",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"back talk",
"sass",
"swagger",
"swash"
],
"synonyms":[
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"chutzpah",
"chutzpa",
"hutzpah",
"hutzpa",
"crust",
"effrontery",
"face",
"gall",
"nerve",
"nerviness",
"pertness",
"presumption",
"presumptuousness",
"sauce",
"sauciness",
"temerity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brass band":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"braved":{
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"antonyms":[
"dodged",
"ducked",
"funked",
"shirked",
"sidestepped"
],
"examples":[
"a soldier who braved enemy fire to rescue her wounded comrade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"eschewed",
"shunned",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook"
],
"related":[
"faced up (to)",
"fronted",
"affronted",
"challenged",
"encountered",
"met",
"accosted",
"approached",
"cornered",
"repelled",
"resisted",
"stood",
"withstood",
"battled",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contended (with)",
"fought",
"opposed",
"squared (off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearded",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved",
"outfaced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bravos":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brawl":{
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they were thrown out of the party after starting a brawl"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"synonyms":[
"affray",
"broil",
"donnybrook",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"rough-and-tumble",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction"
]
},
"an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the student drama society's decision to put on the controversial play prompted a brawl at the school board meeting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"clash",
"run-in",
"skirmish",
"tangle",
"tussle",
"logomachy",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"attack",
"contention",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"debate",
"difference",
"disputation",
"fuss",
"objection",
"protest",
"protestation",
"affray",
"fisticuffs",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"catfight"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercation",
"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"battle royal",
"bicker",
"contretemps",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"donnybrook",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"imbroglio",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"rhubarb",
"row",
"scrap",
"set-to",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
]
},
"loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound":{
"antonyms":[
"quiet",
"silence",
"silentness",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"examples":[
"we could hear the brawl of the river rapids ahead of us before we could actually see them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"lull",
"quietude",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"related":[
"discord",
"dissonance",
"commotion",
"furor",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly-burly",
"rumpus",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"clatter",
"jangle",
"bang",
"blast",
"boom",
"clap",
"crack",
"crash"
],
"synonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"bowwow",
"bruit",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"decibel(s)",
"din",
"discordance",
"katzenjammer",
"noise",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar"
]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Wilsons were always loudly brawling , and the neighbors were always shutting their windows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexist",
"get along",
"accept",
"agree",
"assent",
"concur",
"consent"
],
"related":[
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"clash",
"contend",
"contest",
"tangle",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"nitpick",
"consider",
"debate",
"discuss",
"kick",
"object",
"protest"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercate",
"argue",
"argufy",
"bicker",
"brabble",
"controvert",
"dispute",
"fall out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"jar",
"quarrel",
"quibble",
"row",
"scrap",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"brawly":{
"feeling or displaying eagerness to fight":{
"antonyms":[
"nonaggressive",
"nonbelligerent",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"unbelligerent",
"uncombative",
"uncontentious"
],
"examples":[
"a bar that was once a favorite haunt of brawly servicemen from the nearby military base"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anti-imperialist",
"antimilitarist",
"unwarlike",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"complaisant",
"conciliatory",
"cordial",
"easygoing",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"ingratiating",
"kindhearted",
"obliging",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"calm",
"quiet",
"relaxed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"mild"
],
"related":[
"antagonistic",
"fierce",
"hostile",
"hot-tempered",
"acidic",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bristly",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"huffy",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"ornery",
"peevish",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"querulous",
"rude",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"stroppy",
"surly",
"testy",
"touchy",
"ugly",
"waspish",
"savage",
"vicious",
"battling",
"fighting",
"warring"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"chippy",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"warlike"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brawny":{
"having muscles capable of exerting great physical force":{
"antonyms":[
"delicate",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"weakling",
"wimpy"
],
"examples":[
"the store manager always asked the brawniest person there to do the heavy lifting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"paralyzed",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"puny",
"slight",
"small",
"unathletic",
"unfit",
"unhealthy"
],
"related":[
"forceful",
"forcible",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"fit",
"trim",
"beefy",
"burly",
"husky",
"strapping",
"masculine",
"virile",
"hard",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound"
],
"synonyms":[
"muscular",
"rugged",
"sinewy",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
]
},
"marked by a well-developed musculature":{
"antonyms":[
"scrawny",
"skinny"
],
"examples":[
"brawny arms that weren't developed in the gym but by years of work in the construction business"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonathletic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"weak",
"weakened",
"weakly",
"wimpy",
"light",
"lightweight",
"slight",
"lean",
"slender",
"slim",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"thin",
"willowy",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"spare"
],
"related":[
"wiry",
"powerful",
"strong",
"beefy",
"burly",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"herculean",
"mighty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"sturdy",
"muscle-bound",
"sculpted"
],
"synonyms":[
"muscular",
"sinewy"
]
},
"strongly and heavily built":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a tough little boy who's going to be a brawny man someday"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lean",
"light",
"lightweight",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"thin",
"willowy",
"bony",
"boney",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"gaunt",
"gawky",
"lanky",
"reedy",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"skinny",
"spare",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"spidery",
"wiry",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"effete",
"emaciated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"puny",
"unathletic",
"weak",
"weakly",
"wimpy"
],
"related":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"herculean",
"mighty",
"muscle-bound",
"muscular",
"powerful",
"robust",
"rugged",
"sinewy",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"chunky",
"compact",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"solid",
"squat",
"squatty",
"stocky",
"thickset",
"chubby",
"dumpy",
"lumpish",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"tubby"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefy",
"burly",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"mesomorphic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"braying":{
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bray the seeds using a mortar and pestle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"grating",
"kibbling",
"crumbling",
"crunching",
"breaking",
"busting",
"dashing",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"micronizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizing",
"beating",
"comminuting",
"crushing",
"disintegrating",
"grinding",
"milling",
"mulling",
"pounding",
"powdering",
"pulverizing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"breach":{
"a breaking of a moral or legal code":{
"antonyms":[
"noncrime"
],
"examples":[
"cheating on the exam was a serious breach of the military academy's honor code"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blamelessness",
"faultlessness",
"guiltlessness",
"impeccability",
"innocence",
"irreproachability",
"goodness",
"morality",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
],
"related":[
"bias crime",
"hate crime",
"felony",
"misconduct",
"misdemeanor",
"misfeasance",
"fault",
"foible",
"peccadillo",
"break",
"infringement",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"sinfulness",
"vice",
"wickedness",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"licentiousness",
"abuse",
"criminality",
"illegality",
"lawlessness",
"unlawfulness",
"descent",
"downfall",
"fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"crime",
"debt",
"error",
"lawbreaking",
"malefaction",
"misdeed",
"misdoing",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation",
"wrongdoing"
]
},
"a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation":{
"antonyms":[
"noninfringement",
"observance"
],
"examples":[
"the president's deliberate misstatements were widely seen as a breach of the public trust"
],
"near antonyms":[
"respecting",
"upholding"
],
"related":[
"misconduct",
"misdemeanor",
"misfeasance",
"misprision",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
"wrong",
"disregard",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"nonobservance",
"overlooking",
"delinquency",
"dereliction",
"neglect",
"encroachment",
"intrusion",
"invasion"
],
"synonyms":[
"contravention",
"infraction",
"infringement",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation"
]
},
"an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cat got out of the yard through a breach in the hedge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"fissure",
"notch",
"slit",
"slot",
"split",
"interspace",
"pore",
"abyss",
"aperture",
"cavity",
"chasm",
"gape",
"orifice",
"fracture",
"rupture",
"severance",
"sundering"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"gulf",
"hiatus",
"hole",
"interstice",
"interval",
"opening",
"rent",
"rift",
"separation",
"void"
]
},
"to fail to keep":{
"antonyms":[
"comply (with)",
"conform (to)",
"follow",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe"
],
"examples":[
"a builder being sued by a homeowner for breaching a contract"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defer (to)",
"serve",
"submit (to)",
"surrender (to)",
"yield (to)",
"attend",
"hear",
"heed",
"listen (to)",
"mark",
"note",
"notice",
"regard",
"watch"
],
"related":[
"disobey",
"rebel",
"blow off",
"brush (off)",
"disregard",
"flout",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"tune out",
"wink (at)",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"scorn",
"shrug off",
"defy",
"resist",
"withstand"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"contravene",
"fracture",
"infringe (on or upon)",
"offend",
"traduce",
"transgress",
"violate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bread":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'll buy that tomorrow, when I get some bread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
]
},
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"supplied his charges with bread and a place to stay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"related":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"synonyms":[
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provender",
"provisions",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"breadth":{
"a wide space or area":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a great breadth of land awaited those who were brave and hardy enough to settle it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
],
"synonyms":[
"distance",
"expanse",
"expansion",
"extent",
"field",
"length",
"plain",
"reach",
"sheet",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
]
},
"an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the breadth of his knowledge on the subject is awesome"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gamut",
"spectrum",
"spread",
"bailiwick",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"field",
"province",
"region",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"frontier",
"horizon",
"panorama"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"compass",
"confines",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"range",
"reach",
"realm",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"break down":{
"a mental or nervous collapse":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you don't ease your workload, you're going to have a breakdown"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"composure",
"coolness",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"self-possession",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
],
"related":[
"frazzle",
"freak-out",
"meltdown",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"apprehension",
"disquiet",
"excitability",
"nervousness",
"disturbance",
"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation",
"basket case"
],
"synonyms":[
"crack-up",
"nervous breakdown",
"tailspin"
]
},
"the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the breakdown of the body was arrested by the embalming process"
],
"near antonyms":[
"growth",
"maturation",
"ripening"
],
"related":[
"crumbling",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"curdling",
"fermentation",
"moldering",
"souring"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"decay",
"decomposition",
"festering",
"putrefaction",
"putrescence",
"rot",
"spoilage"
]
},
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"the boss wanted a detailed breakdown of the sales figures"
],
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"agglomeration",
"aggregation",
"amalgamation",
"assimilation",
"coalescence",
"conglomeration",
"consolidation",
"integration",
"synthesis",
"unification"
],
"related":[
"assessment",
"diagnosis",
"evaluation",
"examination",
"inspection",
"investigation",
"muster",
"scrutiny",
"arrangement",
"assortment",
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"categorization",
"classification",
"codification",
"indexing",
"enumeration",
"inventory",
"itemization",
"tabulation",
"division",
"reduction",
"segmentation",
"separation",
"subdivision"
],
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"analysis",
"anatomizing",
"anatomy",
"assay",
"deconstruction",
"dissection"
]
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"examples":[
"when presented with the pile of files, the first thing he did was to break them down by month, order within the month, and region"
],
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"confuse",
"disarrange",
"jumble",
"lump",
"mix (up)",
"scramble",
"misclassify",
"missort",
"mistype"
],
"related":[
"array",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"systematize",
"alphabetize",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"file",
"index",
"list",
"refer",
"pigeonhole",
"shelve",
"identify",
"recognize",
"cull",
"screen",
"set",
"sieve",
"sift",
"winnow",
"clump",
"cluster",
"colligate",
"recategorize",
"reclassify",
"regroup",
"subcategorize"
],
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"assort",
"categorize",
"class",
"classify",
"codify",
"compartment",
"compartmentalize",
"digest",
"distinguish",
"distribute",
"grade",
"group",
"peg",
"place",
"range",
"rank",
"relegate",
"separate",
"sort",
"type"
]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
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"examples":[
"firefighters had to break down the wall to rescue the kitten"
],
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"related":[
"bust",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"annihilate",
"bash",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"pulverize",
"ruin",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck",
"shiver",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crunch",
"crush",
"snap"
],
"synonyms":[
"crash",
"shatter",
"smash"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
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"examples":[
"the enamel of a human tooth will begin to break down when exposed to sugar for too long"
],
"near antonyms":[
"age",
"develop",
"grow",
"mature",
"ripen",
"refresh",
"renew",
"restore",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"assemble",
"compose",
"integrate",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"meliorate"
],
"related":[
"sour",
"turn",
"turn off",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"addle",
"curdle",
"ferment",
"mortify",
"rust",
"crumble",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"dilapidate",
"sink",
"wither"
],
"synonyms":[
"corrupt",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"fester",
"foul",
"mold",
"molder",
"perish",
"putrefy",
"rot",
"spoil"
]
},
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if we break the problem down into what appear to be three aspects of it, we'll have a better chance of solving it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"aggregate",
"amalgamate",
"assimilate",
"coalesce",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"integrate",
"synthesize",
"unify"
],
"related":[
"assess",
"diagnose",
"evaluate",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"scrutinize",
"arrange",
"assort",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"categorize",
"classify",
"codify",
"diagram",
"enumerate",
"index",
"order",
"schematize",
"sort",
"tabulate",
"divide",
"reduce",
"segment",
"separate",
"subdivide"
],
"synonyms":[
"analyze",
"anatomize",
"assay",
"cut",
"deconstruct",
"dissect"
]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"start (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the computer finally broke down and had to be replaced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fizzle",
"sputter",
"wheeze",
"act up",
"malfunction",
"jam"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"cut out",
"die",
"fail",
"give out",
"stall"
]
},
"to take apart":{
"antonyms":[
"assemble",
"construct"
],
"examples":[
"the crew was breaking down the party tent when we arrived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"build",
"erect",
"pitch",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"related":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"break up",
"disaggregate",
"disarticulate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"synonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"dismount",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"began to break down when he realized that he was on the verge of bankruptcy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choke"
],
"synonyms":[
"break up",
"crack",
"flip (out)",
"freak (out)",
"melt down",
"wig (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"break off (with)":{
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"sincerely wants to break off with him without hurting his feelings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hook up (with)",
"take",
"befriend",
"latch (on or onto)"
],
"related":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulder",
"cut",
"high-hat",
"slight",
"snub",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"maroon",
"quit"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow off",
"ditch",
"dump",
"jilt",
"kiss off",
"leave"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"break out":{
"the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the captives had been planning to stage a breakout at the next change in shift for the guards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"custody",
"detention",
"hold",
"holding",
"retention",
"endangerment",
"hazard",
"imperilment",
"jeopardy",
"peril",
"risk",
"trouble"
],
"related":[
"jailbreak",
"deliverance",
"liberation",
"redemption",
"release",
"rescue",
"salvation",
"close call",
"close shave",
"near miss"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bunk",
"escape",
"flight",
"getaway",
"lam",
"rout",
"slip"
]
},
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in the wake of news reports of deaths from the flu, panic broke out , and there was a mad rush for flu shots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"blow up",
"detonate",
"touch off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze (up)",
"burst (forth)",
"erupt",
"explode",
"flame",
"flare (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"break up":{
"the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or pieces":{
"antonyms":[
"unification",
"union"
],
"examples":[
"the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism pretty much signaled the end of the Cold War"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assemblage",
"association",
"attachment",
"conjunction",
"connection",
"link",
"linkage",
"linkup",
"aggregation",
"combination",
"consolidation",
"fusion"
],
"related":[
"breach",
"rupture",
"divorce",
"severance",
"decomposition",
"disassembly",
"dismemberment",
"segmentation",
"subdivision",
"atomization",
"dichotomization",
"polarization",
"diffusion",
"dispersal",
"dispersion",
"scattering",
"administration",
"apportionment",
"distribution",
"isolation",
"seclusion",
"segregation",
"sequestration"
],
"synonyms":[
"bifurcation",
"cleavage",
"dissolution",
"disunion",
"division",
"fractionalization",
"fractionation",
"partition",
"schism",
"scission",
"separation",
"split",
"sundering"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"police arrived at the scene and immediately broke up the fracas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep up",
"run on",
"advance",
"proceed",
"progress",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"stir"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"leave off",
"pack (up or in)",
"quit",
"shut off",
"stop"
]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"break up the feta cheese and spread it over the salad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"heal",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renovate",
"repair"
],
"related":[
"atomize",
"crush",
"grind",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"reduce",
"blast",
"blow up",
"burst",
"detonate",
"explode",
"crack",
"pop",
"shatter",
"shiver",
"smash",
"chip",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"split",
"implode",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"disintegrate",
"dismember",
"disrupt",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"rive"
]
},
"to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization":{
"antonyms":[
"band",
"join",
"unite"
],
"examples":[
"the band broke up when their arguments over money grew too stressful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incorporate",
"consolidate",
"hang together"
],
"related":[
"demobilize"
],
"synonyms":[
"disband",
"disperse",
"dissolve"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
],
"examples":[
"the meeting broke up when all the business for the day had been completed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
]
},
"to set or force apart":{
"antonyms":[
"join",
"link",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"examples":[
"he broke up the rocks in the old stone wall with a crowbar, sending them tumbling to the ground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assemble",
"associate",
"blend",
"combine",
"mingle",
"mix",
"connect",
"couple",
"accumulate",
"agglutinate",
"attach",
"bind",
"cement",
"close",
"fasten",
"fuse",
"knit",
"stick",
"weld"
],
"related":[
"break down",
"decompose",
"disassemble",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"bifurcate",
"bisect",
"cleave",
"dichotomize",
"dissect",
"fractionalize",
"fractionate",
"halve",
"partition",
"quarter",
"segment",
"subdivide",
"trisect",
"fragment",
"fragmentate",
"fragmentize",
"break",
"fracture",
"pull",
"rend",
"rift",
"rip",
"rive",
"rupture",
"tear",
"cut off",
"insulate",
"isolate",
"seclude",
"segregate",
"sequester",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"unravel",
"untie"
],
"synonyms":[
"decouple",
"disassociate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"ramify",
"resolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke"
]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you break up during the skit, the audience will know that you're in on the joke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"weep",
"howl",
"squall",
"wail",
"yowl",
"bleat",
"pule",
"whimper",
"whine",
"sniffle",
"snivel",
"groan",
"moan",
"sigh"
],
"related":[
"grin",
"smile"
],
"synonyms":[
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"crack up",
"giggle",
"hee-haw",
"laugh",
"roar",
"scream",
"snicker",
"titter",
"twitter"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sort of person who would be among the first to break up in a prisoner of war camp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choke"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"crack",
"flip (out)",
"freak (out)",
"melt down",
"wig (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"break-in":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he rudely broke in to drop the names of several celebrities that he had met"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"barge (in)",
"bother",
"horn in",
"add",
"contribute",
"put in"
],
"synonyms":[
"chime in",
"chip in",
"cut in",
"interpose",
"interrupt",
"intrude"
]
},
"to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the burglars broke in by smashing a window"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"invade",
"trespass",
"hold up",
"loot",
"plunder",
"rip off",
"rob",
"stick up",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"devastate",
"maraud",
"pillage",
"ravage",
"sack"
],
"synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"burgle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"breakfast":{
"as in lunch , sup":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the first meal of the day":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a big/good/hearty breakfast"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"breaking free":{
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The hostages managed to break free before anyone got hurt."
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"coming back",
"returning"
],
"related":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"evading",
"losing",
"shunning",
"decamping",
"departing",
"eloping",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"moving",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"bringing off",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"redeeming",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconding",
"breaking out (of)",
"clearing out",
"escaping",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"running away",
"running off"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"breakneck":{
"moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed":{
"antonyms":[
"slow"
],
"examples":[
"the breakneck production of naval vessels during World War II"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"related":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"breathtaking",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"high-speed",
"rush",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid"
],
"synonyms":[
"blistering",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"quick",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"breakout":{
"the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the captives had been planning to stage a breakout at the next change in shift for the guards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"custody",
"detention",
"hold",
"holding",
"retention",
"endangerment",
"hazard",
"imperilment",
"jeopardy",
"peril",
"risk",
"trouble"
],
"related":[
"jailbreak",
"deliverance",
"liberation",
"redemption",
"release",
"rescue",
"salvation",
"close call",
"close shave",
"near miss"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bunk",
"escape",
"flight",
"getaway",
"lam",
"rout",
"slip"
]
},
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in the wake of news reports of deaths from the flu, panic broke out , and there was a mad rush for flu shots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"blow up",
"detonate",
"touch off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze (up)",
"burst (forth)",
"erupt",
"explode",
"flame",
"flare (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"breaks out (with)":{
"as in gets , goes down (with)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"breakup":{
"the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or pieces":{
"antonyms":[
"unification",
"union"
],
"examples":[
"the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism pretty much signaled the end of the Cold War"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assemblage",
"association",
"attachment",
"conjunction",
"connection",
"link",
"linkage",
"linkup",
"aggregation",
"combination",
"consolidation",
"fusion"
],
"related":[
"breach",
"rupture",
"divorce",
"severance",
"decomposition",
"disassembly",
"dismemberment",
"segmentation",
"subdivision",
"atomization",
"dichotomization",
"polarization",
"diffusion",
"dispersal",
"dispersion",
"scattering",
"administration",
"apportionment",
"distribution",
"isolation",
"seclusion",
"segregation",
"sequestration"
],
"synonyms":[
"bifurcation",
"cleavage",
"dissolution",
"disunion",
"division",
"fractionalization",
"fractionation",
"partition",
"schism",
"scission",
"separation",
"split",
"sundering"
]
},
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"examples":[
"police arrived at the scene and immediately broke up the fracas"
],
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"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep up",
"run on",
"advance",
"proceed",
"progress",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"stir"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"leave off",
"pack (up or in)",
"quit",
"shut off",
"stop"
]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
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"examples":[
"break up the feta cheese and spread it over the salad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"heal",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renovate",
"repair"
],
"related":[
"atomize",
"crush",
"grind",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"reduce",
"blast",
"blow up",
"burst",
"detonate",
"explode",
"crack",
"pop",
"shatter",
"shiver",
"smash",
"chip",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"split",
"implode",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"disintegrate",
"dismember",
"disrupt",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"rive"
]
},
"to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization":{
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"band",
"join",
"unite"
],
"examples":[
"the band broke up when their arguments over money grew too stressful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incorporate",
"consolidate",
"hang together"
],
"related":[
"demobilize"
],
"synonyms":[
"disband",
"disperse",
"dissolve"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
],
"examples":[
"the meeting broke up when all the business for the day had been completed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
]
},
"to set or force apart":{
"antonyms":[
"join",
"link",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"examples":[
"he broke up the rocks in the old stone wall with a crowbar, sending them tumbling to the ground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assemble",
"associate",
"blend",
"combine",
"mingle",
"mix",
"connect",
"couple",
"accumulate",
"agglutinate",
"attach",
"bind",
"cement",
"close",
"fasten",
"fuse",
"knit",
"stick",
"weld"
],
"related":[
"break down",
"decompose",
"disassemble",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"bifurcate",
"bisect",
"cleave",
"dichotomize",
"dissect",
"fractionalize",
"fractionate",
"halve",
"partition",
"quarter",
"segment",
"subdivide",
"trisect",
"fragment",
"fragmentate",
"fragmentize",
"break",
"fracture",
"pull",
"rend",
"rift",
"rip",
"rive",
"rupture",
"tear",
"cut off",
"insulate",
"isolate",
"seclude",
"segregate",
"sequester",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"unravel",
"untie"
],
"synonyms":[
"decouple",
"disassociate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"ramify",
"resolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke"
]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you break up during the skit, the audience will know that you're in on the joke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"weep",
"howl",
"squall",
"wail",
"yowl",
"bleat",
"pule",
"whimper",
"whine",
"sniffle",
"snivel",
"groan",
"moan",
"sigh"
],
"related":[
"grin",
"smile"
],
"synonyms":[
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"crack up",
"giggle",
"hee-haw",
"laugh",
"roar",
"scream",
"snicker",
"titter",
"twitter"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sort of person who would be among the first to break up in a prisoner of war camp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choke"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"crack",
"flip (out)",
"freak (out)",
"melt down",
"wig (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"breathe":{
"to have life":{
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"die",
"expire",
"pass away",
"perish",
"succumb"
],
"examples":[
"as long as I breathe , you will have a place to stay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappear",
"evaporate",
"vanish",
"cease",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"end",
"quit",
"stop",
"abate",
"die (down)",
"ebb",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"wane"
],
"related":[
"abide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hold on",
"hold up",
"keep (on)",
"kick",
"last",
"lead",
"persist",
"rule",
"run on",
"survive",
"move",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"exist",
"live",
"subsist"
]
},
"to inhale and exhale air":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"sometimes it gets so hot in here that it's hard to even breathe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asphyxiate",
"choke",
"gag",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"garrote",
"garotte",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle"
],
"related":[
"blow (out)",
"draw",
"expire",
"inbreathe",
"inspire",
"gasp",
"huff",
"pant",
"puff",
"suspire",
"wheeze",
"sniff",
"snore",
"snort",
"snuff",
"snuffle",
"whiff",
"yawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"respire"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"breathing":{
"having or showing life":{
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"breathless",
"cold",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"departed",
"expired",
"inanimate",
"lifeless",
"nonliving"
],
"examples":[
"realized that he didn't need a comic-book superhero, since he had a real, breathing hero in his father"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dying",
"fading",
"moribund",
"stillborn",
"reposing",
"resting",
"ghostlike",
"ghostly",
"ghosty",
"zombielike",
"absent",
"extinct",
"fallen",
"finished",
"gone",
"lapsed",
"lost",
"nonexistent",
"perished",
"terminated",
"vanished",
"wiped out",
"barren",
"desert"
],
"related":[
"active",
"animated",
"dynamic",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"current",
"existent",
"existing",
"extant",
"going",
"prevailing",
"surviving",
"resurrected"
],
"synonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"live",
"living",
"quick"
]
},
"to have life":{
"antonyms":[
"departing",
"dying",
"expiring",
"passing away",
"perishing",
"succumbing"
],
"examples":[
"as long as I breathe , you will have a place to stay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappearing",
"evaporating",
"vanishing",
"ceasing",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning"
],
"related":[
"abiding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping (on)",
"kicking",
"lasting",
"leading",
"persisting",
"ruling",
"running on",
"surviving",
"moving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"synonyms":[
"being",
"existing",
"living",
"subsisting"
]
},
"to inhale and exhale air":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"sometimes it gets so hot in here that it's hard to even breathe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asphyxiating",
"choking",
"gagging",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"garroting",
"garotting",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"throttling"
],
"related":[
"blowing (out)",
"drawing",
"expiring",
"inbreathing",
"inspiring",
"gasping",
"huffing",
"panting",
"puffing",
"suspiring",
"wheezing",
"sniffing",
"snoring",
"snorting",
"snuffing",
"snuffling",
"whiffing",
"yawning"
],
"synonyms":[
"respiring"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"breathless":{
"lacking fresh air":{
"antonyms":[
"airy",
"breezy",
"unstuffy"
],
"examples":[
"the room was hot and breathless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bracing",
"brisk",
"invigorating",
"refreshed",
"refreshing",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"sweet",
"ventilated"
],
"related":[
"airless",
"unventilated",
"fuggy",
"heavy",
"oppressive",
"thick"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"stifling",
"stuffy",
"suffocating"
]
},
"moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed":{
"antonyms":[
"slow"
],
"examples":[
"ran at a breathless pace to get help"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"related":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"breathtaking",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"high-speed",
"rush",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid"
],
"synonyms":[
"blistering",
"breakneck",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"quick",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy"
]
},
"no longer living":{
"antonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"breathing",
"going",
"live",
"living",
"quick"
],
"examples":[
"carried the breathless body of his beloved dog back home"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"dynamic",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"active",
"functioning",
"operative",
"running"
],
"related":[
"extinct",
"dying",
"fading",
"moribund",
"stillborn",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"terminated",
"inanimate",
"insensate",
"nonliving"
],
"synonyms":[
"asleep",
"cold",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"demised",
"departed",
"fallen",
"gone",
"late",
"lifeless",
"low"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bred-in-the-bone":{
"being such by habit and not likely to change":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a bred-in-the-bone Democrat who always votes a straight ticket"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaccustomed",
"unused",
"intermittent",
"occasional"
],
"related":[
"incorrigible",
"unreconstructed",
"unregenerate",
"born",
"natural",
"persistent",
"regular",
"repeat",
"serial",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unfailing",
"addicted",
"accustomed",
"habituated",
"used",
"wonted",
"deep-rooted",
"deep-seated",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"inbred",
"inherent",
"innate",
"intrinsic",
"apt",
"inclined",
"prone",
"mulish",
"obstinate",
"set",
"stubborn"
],
"synonyms":[
"chronic",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"habitual",
"inveterate"
]
},
"firmly established over time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bred-in-the-bone honesty earned him the nickname of \"Honest Abe\""
],
"near antonyms":[
"brief",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"impermanent",
"interim",
"momentary",
"provisional",
"short-lived",
"short-term",
"temporary",
"transient"
],
"related":[
"firm",
"fixed",
"frozen",
"hard",
"hard-and-fast",
"immutable",
"irradicable",
"set",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"instilled",
"inborn",
"inbred",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"inherent",
"innate",
"integral",
"intrinsic",
"natural",
"accustomed",
"chronic",
"customary",
"habitual",
"regular",
"typical",
"usual",
"abiding",
"enduring",
"lifelong",
"persistent",
"persisting"
],
"synonyms":[
"confirmed",
"deep",
"deep-rooted",
"deep-seated",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"hard-core",
"inveterate",
"rooted",
"settled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"breezily":{
"as in blithely , laughingly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"breezy":{
"having a relaxed, casual manner":{
"antonyms":[
"high-strung",
"uptight"
],
"examples":[
"a breezy tour guide who remains completely unfazed no matter what the mishap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"decorous",
"formal",
"rigid",
"strict",
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittish",
"tense"
],
"related":[
"carefree",
"casual",
"d\u00e9gag\u00e9",
"lackadaisical",
"nonchalant",
"unaffected",
"unconcerned",
"unfussy",
"unperturbed",
"untroubled",
"unworried",
"familiar",
"homey",
"homy",
"informal",
"flexible",
"lax",
"lenient",
"permissive",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"soft",
"accessible",
"approachable",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"amicable",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"genial",
"hail-fellow-well-met",
"hearty",
"neighborly",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"synonyms":[
"affable",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"mellow"
]
},
"marked by strong wind or more wind than usual":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a breezy day usually finds the waters of the bay studded with sail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathless",
"calm",
"motionless",
"still"
],
"related":[
"drafty",
"stormy",
"tempestuous"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowy",
"blustery",
"gusty",
"squally",
"windy"
]
},
"open to the free circulation of air":{
"antonyms":[
"breathless",
"stuffy",
"unventilated"
],
"examples":[
"let's sit on the front porch; it's breezier there"
],
"near antonyms":[
"close",
"stifling",
"suffocating"
],
"related":[
"atmosphered",
"vented"
],
"synonyms":[
"airy",
"ventilated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brewed":{
"to be about to happen":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there's trouble brewing in the department"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"de-escalated",
"died down",
"diminished",
"disappeared",
"dwindled",
"ebbed",
"faded",
"fell",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"vanished",
"waned",
"fell back",
"passed",
"receded",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"related":[
"advanced",
"approached",
"closed in",
"drew on",
"gathered",
"neared",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"lowered",
"loured",
"menaced",
"overhung",
"threatened"
],
"synonyms":[
"impended",
"loomed"
]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they accused her of deliberately trying to brew dissension within the rank and file"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"discouraged",
"held",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"tamed",
"allayed",
"calmed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"stilled",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"related":[
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"sowed",
"stimulated",
"detonated",
"set",
"set off",
"triggered",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"inspired",
"motivated",
"roused",
"activated",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"fired",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"stimulated",
"vitalized"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"instigated",
"picked",
"provoked",
"raised",
"stirred (up)",
"whipped (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brewpubs":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brewski":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bric-a-brac":{
"small objects that are used for decoration and are not usually valuable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"shelves full of bric-a-brac"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bridewells":{
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"cages",
"cells",
"holes",
"tanks",
"blocks",
"wards",
"glasshouses",
"guardhouses",
"hulks",
"concentration camps",
"gulags",
"labor camps",
"prison camps",
"stalags",
"work camps",
"dungeons",
"keeps",
"oubliettes",
"reformatories",
"reform schools",
"training schools"
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"calabooses",
"cans",
"clinks",
"coolers",
"coops",
"guardrooms",
"hocks",
"holds",
"hoosegows",
"jailhouses",
"jails",
"joints",
"jugs",
"lockups",
"nicks",
"penitentiaries",
"pens",
"pokeys",
"prisons",
"quods",
"slammers",
"slams",
"stirs",
"stockades",
"tolbooths"
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"noun"
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"loosed",
"loosened",
"unleashed",
"aired",
"expressed",
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"minced",
"muffled",
"pocketed",
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"sunk",
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"squelched",
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"swallowed",
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"stopped",
"blocked",
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"handcuffed",
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"obstructed",
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"silenced"
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"contained",
"controlled",
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"governed",
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"measured",
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"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"ruled",
"tamed"
]
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"adjective",
"verb"
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"try to bridle your criticism next time so that it is helpful and not hurtful"
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"loosening",
"loosing",
"unleashing",
"airing",
"expressing",
"taking out",
"venting"
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"strangling",
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"swallowing",
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"stopping",
"blocking",
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"hindering",
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"muzzling",
"silencing"
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"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"governing",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
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"measuring",
"pulling in",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
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"ruling",
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"verb"
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"a person who commits robbery usually as part of a group":{
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"noun"
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"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
],
"examples":[
"there is no bright-line rule governing the issue"
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"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
],
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"cognoscible",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
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"apparent",
"bald",
"bald-faced",
"barefaced",
"broad",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luculent",
"luminous",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"ringing",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
]
},
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"adjective"
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"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
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],
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"cores",
"hearts",
"inners",
"insides",
"interiors",
"middles",
"withins"
],
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"ambits",
"brinks",
"crests",
"curbs",
"cusps",
"lips",
"ceilings",
"maxima",
"maximums",
"demarcations",
"extents",
"limitations",
"measures",
"meres",
"restrictions",
"terminations",
"borderlands",
"frontiers",
"marches",
"outskirts",
"pales",
"selvages",
"laps",
"shores"
],
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"borderlines",
"borders",
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"circumferences",
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"confines",
"edges",
"edgings",
"ends",
"frames",
"fringes",
"hems",
"margins",
"perimeters",
"peripheries",
"rims",
"skirtings",
"skirts",
"verges"
]
},
"the projecting front part of a hat or cap":{
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"examples":[
"touched the brim of his cap by way of salute"
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"related":[
"shades"
],
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"bills",
"peaks",
"visors",
"vizors"
]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
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"a secondhand bookstore that was brimming with bargains"
],
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"lacks",
"needs",
"wants"
],
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"abounds",
"bristles",
"bulges",
"bursts",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"crawls",
"hums",
"overflows",
"pullulates",
"swarms",
"teems"
]
},
"to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained":{
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"clears",
"empties",
"evacuates",
"vacates",
"voids"
],
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"he brimmed the glass with milk, and now I'm sure to spill it"
],
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"lightens",
"depletes",
"drains",
"eliminates",
"exhausts",
"bleeds",
"draws (off)",
"cleans",
"flushes",
"purges",
"scours",
"sweeps"
],
"related":[
"drenches",
"floods",
"gluts",
"swamps",
"bloats",
"bulks",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"mats",
"presses",
"rams",
"shoves",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"refills",
"refreshes",
"reloads",
"repacks",
"replenishes",
"overcharges",
"overfills",
"overflows",
"saturates",
"honeycombs",
"penetrates"
],
"synonyms":[
"charges",
"crams",
"fills",
"heaps",
"jam-packs",
"jams",
"loads",
"packs",
"stuffs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"bring about":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
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"examples":[
"I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse"
],
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"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"related":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
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"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
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"examples":[
"this legislation will surely bring on some unintended consequences"
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"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"related":[
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"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
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"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bring to bear":{
"to put into action or service":{
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"examples":[
"The group brought all their strength to bear in trying to remove the car from the mud."
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignore",
"neglect",
"misapply",
"misuse"
],
"related":[
"handle",
"manipulate",
"wield",
"direct",
"run",
"work",
"cannibalize",
"recycle",
"reuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"apply",
"employ",
"exercise",
"exploit",
"harness",
"operate",
"use",
"utilize"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
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"bringing about":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
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"examples":[
"I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse"
],
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"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"dampening",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"arresting",
"checking",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"retarding",
"canning",
"killing",
"snuffing (out)",
"stilling",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"extinguishing",
"liquidating",
"quenching"
],
"related":[
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"beginning",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"pioneering",
"setting",
"setting up",
"starting",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"developing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"turning out"
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"begetting",
"breeding",
"bringing",
"bringing on",
"catalyzing",
"causing",
"creating",
"doing",
"drawing on",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"engendering",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"making",
"occasioning",
"producing",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"translating (into)",
"working",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request":{
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"examples":[
"an airtight argument is the only thing that will ever bring him around"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"dissuading",
"unselling"
],
"related":[
"blandishing",
"blarneying",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"entreating",
"exhorting",
"fast-talking",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"alluring",
"beguiling",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"snowing",
"tempting",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuading",
"inclining",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"selling",
"swaying",
"attracting",
"drawing",
"enticing",
"interesting",
"chewing over",
"conversing",
"debating",
"discussing",
"disputing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"reasoning (with)"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguing",
"bringing",
"converting",
"convincing",
"gaining",
"getting",
"inducing",
"moving",
"persuading",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"to express public or formal disapproval of":{
"antonyms":[
"citing",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing"
],
"examples":[
"The treasurer was brought to account in front of the whole town."
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"eulogizing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"approving",
"blessing",
"sanctioning"
],
"related":[
"admonishing",
"chastising",
"castigating",
"punishing",
"bawling out",
"berating",
"chewing out",
"cutting up",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"gibbeting",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"ragging",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"telling off",
"upbraiding",
"belittling",
"criticizing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging"
],
"synonyms":[
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"objurgating",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
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"brings on":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"this legislation will surely bring on some unintended consequences"
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"near antonyms":[
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"dampens",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"smothers",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"arrests",
"checks",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"retards",
"cans",
"kills",
"snuffs (out)",
"stills",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"extinguishes",
"liquidates",
"quenches"
],
"related":[
"conduces (to)",
"contributes (to)",
"decides",
"determines",
"begins",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"sets",
"sets up",
"starts",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"develops",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"enacts",
"renders",
"turns out"
],
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"begets",
"breeds",
"brings",
"brings about",
"catalyzes",
"causes",
"creates",
"does",
"draws on",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"engenders",
"generates",
"induces",
"invokes",
"makes",
"occasions",
"produces",
"prompts",
"results (in)",
"spawns",
"translates (into)",
"works",
"yields"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to put into action or service":{
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"examples":[
"The group brought all their strength to bear in trying to remove the car from the mud."
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignores",
"neglects",
"misapplies",
"misuses"
],
"related":[
"handles",
"manipulates",
"wields",
"directs",
"runs",
"works",
"cannibalizes",
"recycles",
"reuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"applies",
"employs",
"exercises",
"exploits",
"harnesses",
"operates",
"uses",
"utilizes"
]
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"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"broach":{
"to penetrate the surface (as of water) from below":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the immense whales broaching was a magnificent sight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dive",
"drop",
"drown",
"founder",
"plunge",
"sink",
"submerge",
"submerse"
],
"related":[
"emerge",
"rise"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"surface"
]
},
"to present or bring forward for discussion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"broached the topic of plans for next year's parade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"hush (up)",
"quiet",
"silence",
"suppress"
],
"related":[
"allude (to)",
"cite",
"mention",
"name",
"refer (to)",
"offer",
"propose",
"suggest",
"air",
"express",
"speak (of)",
"talk (about)",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"interject",
"interrupt",
"debate",
"discuss",
"thrash (out or over)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bring up",
"introduce",
"moot",
"place",
"raise"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to penetrate the surface (as of water) from below":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the immense whales broaching was a magnificent sight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving",
"dropping",
"drowning",
"foundering",
"plunging",
"sinking",
"submerging",
"submersing"
],
"related":[
"emerging",
"rising"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"surfacing"
]
},
"to present or bring forward for discussion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"broached the topic of plans for next year's parade"
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"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"hushing (up)",
"quieting",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"related":[
"alluding (to)",
"citing",
"mentioning",
"naming",
"referring (to)",
"offering",
"proposing",
"suggesting",
"airing",
"expressing",
"speaking (of)",
"talking (about)",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"interjecting",
"interrupting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"thrashing (out or over)"
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"bringing up",
"introducing",
"mooting",
"placing",
"raising"
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"hairlike",
"reedlike",
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"elongated",
"needlelike",
"bottleneck",
"close",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"squeezed",
"tight",
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"attenuate",
"attenuated",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
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"extensive",
"sweeping",
"commodious",
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"spacious",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
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"fat",
"thick",
"wide"
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"narrow"
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"her broad knowledge of American politics makes her a much-sought-after guest on talk shows"
],
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"circumscribed",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"related":[
"comprehensive",
"general",
"global",
"inclusive",
"boundless",
"endless",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"unlimited",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
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"expansive",
"extended",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"far-reaching",
"rangy",
"sweeping",
"wide",
"wide-ranging",
"widespread"
]
},
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"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
],
"examples":[
"gave them a broad hint that it was time to leave"
],
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"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
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"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
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"apparent",
"bald",
"bald-faced",
"barefaced",
"bright-line",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luculent",
"luminous",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"ringing",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
]
},
"relating to the main elements and not to specific details":{
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"close-up",
"delineated",
"detailed",
"molecular",
"particularized",
"specific"
],
"examples":[
"a broad overview of the topic"
],
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"limited",
"restricted",
"specified",
"distinct",
"explicit",
"precise",
"sharp",
"comprehensive",
"elaborate",
"full",
"mapped (out)",
"thorough",
"enumerated",
"inventoried",
"itemized",
"listed",
"individual",
"singular",
"particular",
"peculiar"
],
"related":[
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"inclusive",
"absolute",
"boundless",
"expansive",
"extensive",
"infinite",
"panoramic",
"sweeping",
"vast",
"wide",
"indeterminate",
"nebulous",
"nondescript",
"vague",
"unlimited",
"unrestricted",
"unspecified"
],
"synonyms":[
"all-around",
"all-round",
"bird's-eye",
"general",
"nonspecific",
"overall"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"as in announcer , newscaster":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people":{
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"examples":[
"broadcast the information only to people who needed to know"
],
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"cloaking",
"concealing",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"holding (in)",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"secreting",
"shrouding",
"veiling",
"containing",
"limiting",
"restricting"
],
"related":[
"radiating",
"sprawling",
"diffusing",
"dispensing",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering",
"sowing",
"communicating",
"conveying",
"imparting",
"passing (on)",
"transmitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulating",
"disseminating",
"propagating",
"spreading"
]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
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"examples":[
"please don't broadcast this news, as it's not being publicly announced yet"
],
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"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"related":[
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"billboarding",
"billing",
"bulletining",
"gazetting",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"blurbing",
"featuring",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"puffing",
"disseminating",
"spreading",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"introducing",
"kithing",
"kything",
"manifesting",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"showing",
"advising",
"apprising",
"handing down",
"informing",
"notifying",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"intimating"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"broadcasts":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people":{
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"examples":[
"broadcast the information only to people who needed to know"
],
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"cloaks",
"conceals",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"holds (in)",
"masks",
"obscures",
"secretes",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"contains",
"limits",
"restricts"
],
"related":[
"radiates",
"sprawls",
"diffuses",
"dispenses",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters",
"sows",
"communicates",
"conveys",
"imparts",
"passes (on)",
"transmits"
],
"synonyms":[
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"disseminates",
"propagates",
"spreads"
]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
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"examples":[
"please don't broadcast this news, as it's not being publicly announced yet"
],
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"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"related":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"broadside":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"with one side faced forward":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one car hit the other broadside and crushed the passenger door"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"direct",
"right",
"straight"
],
"related":[
"aslant",
"indirectly",
"obliquely",
"laterally",
"sideward",
"sidewards"
],
"synonyms":[
"crabwise",
"edgeways",
"edgewise",
"sideways",
"sidewise"
]
}
},
"broil":{
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a noisy broil broke out at the bar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"synonyms":[
"affray",
"brawl",
"donnybrook",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"rough-and-tumble",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction"
]
},
"to place in conflict or difficulties":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"instead of broiling themselves in internal strife, they should band together against the common enemy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"release"
],
"related":[
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"ensnarl",
"entangle",
"entrap",
"snare",
"tangle",
"trap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bog (down)",
"embrangle",
"embroil",
"mire"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"broke off":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the judge broke off court proceedings until after lunch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept up",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"stirred"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"broke up",
"canned",
"ceased",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desisted (from)",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"ended",
"gave over",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"left off",
"packed (up or in)",
"quit",
"quitted",
"shut off",
"stopped"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"antonyms":[
"continued",
"hung on",
"persisted"
],
"examples":[
"talks between the two sides broke off when one began making unreasonable demands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drew out",
"extended",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke up",
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"dead-ended",
"determined",
"died",
"discontinued",
"elapsed",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"halted",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"let up",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"went",
"winked (out)",
"wound up",
"winded up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"broke up":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"police arrived at the scene and immediately broke up the fracas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept up",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"stirred"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"broke off",
"canned",
"ceased",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desisted (from)",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"ended",
"gave over",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"left off",
"packed (up or in)",
"quit",
"quitted",
"shut off",
"stopped"
]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"break up the feta cheese and spread it over the salad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renovated",
"repaired"
],
"related":[
"atomized",
"crushed",
"ground",
"powdered",
"pulverized",
"reduced",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"cracked",
"popped",
"shattered",
"shivered",
"smashed",
"chipped",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"imploded",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"disintegrated",
"dismembered",
"disrupted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"rived"
]
},
"to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization":{
"antonyms":[
"banded",
"joined",
"united"
],
"examples":[
"the band broke up when their arguments over money grew too stressful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incorporated",
"consolidated",
"hung together"
],
"related":[
"demobilized"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"dissolved"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"antonyms":[
"continued",
"hung on",
"persisted"
],
"examples":[
"the meeting broke up when all the business for the day had been completed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drew out",
"extended",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke off",
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"dead-ended",
"determined",
"died",
"discontinued",
"elapsed",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"halted",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"let up",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"went",
"winked (out)",
"wound up",
"winded up"
]
},
"to set or force apart":{
"antonyms":[
"joined",
"linked",
"unified",
"united"
],
"examples":[
"he broke up the rocks in the old stone wall with a crowbar, sending them tumbling to the ground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assembled",
"associated",
"blended",
"blent",
"combined",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"connected",
"coupled",
"accumulated",
"agglutinated",
"attached",
"bound",
"cemented",
"closed",
"fastened",
"fused",
"knit",
"knitted",
"stuck",
"welded"
],
"related":[
"broke down",
"decomposed",
"disassembled",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"bifurcated",
"bisected",
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"dichotomized",
"dissected",
"fractionalized",
"fractionated",
"halved",
"partitioned",
"quartered",
"segmented",
"subdivided",
"trisected",
"fragmentated",
"fragmented",
"fragmentized",
"broke",
"fractured",
"pulled",
"rent",
"rended",
"rifted",
"ripped",
"rived",
"ruptured",
"tore",
"cut off",
"insulated",
"isolated",
"secluded",
"segregated",
"sequestered",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"unraveled",
"untied"
],
"synonyms":[
"decoupled",
"disassociated",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ramified",
"resolved",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unlinked",
"unyoked"
]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you break up during the skit, the audience will know that you're in on the joke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawled",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed",
"wept",
"howled",
"squalled",
"wailed",
"yowled",
"bleated",
"puled",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"sniffled",
"sniveled",
"snivelled",
"groaned",
"moaned",
"sighed"
],
"related":[
"grinned",
"smiled"
],
"synonyms":[
"cackled",
"chortled",
"chuckled",
"cracked up",
"giggled",
"hee-hawed",
"laughed",
"roared",
"screamed",
"snickered",
"tittered",
"twittered"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sort of person who would be among the first to break up in a prisoner of war camp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choked"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"broken down":{
"in a bad or weak condition because of being old, not well cared for, etc.":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"A broken-down car was blocking one of the lanes of the road.",
"His body was now broken-down after many years of hard living."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to arrange or assign according to type":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"when presented with the pile of files, the first thing he did was to break them down by month, order within the month, and region"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confused",
"disarranged",
"jumbled",
"lumped",
"mixed (up)",
"scrambled",
"misclassified",
"missorted",
"mis-sorted",
"mistyped"
],
"related":[
"arrayed",
"disposed",
"drawn up",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"ordered",
"organized",
"systematized",
"alphabetized",
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"filed",
"indexed",
"listed",
"referred",
"pigeonholed",
"shelved",
"identified",
"recognized",
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"screened",
"set",
"sieved",
"sifted",
"winnowed",
"clumped",
"clustered",
"colligated",
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"reclassified",
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"subcategorized"
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"classed",
"classified",
"codified",
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"compartmented",
"digested",
"distinguished",
"distributed",
"graded",
"grouped",
"pegged",
"placed",
"ranged",
"ranked",
"relegated",
"separated",
"sorted",
"typed"
]
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"examples":[
"firefighters had to break down the wall to rescue the kitten"
],
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"related":[
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"bust",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"annihilated",
"bashed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"nuked",
"pulverized",
"ruined",
"torn down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked",
"shivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crunched",
"crushed",
"snapped"
],
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"crashed",
"shattered",
"smashed"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
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"examples":[
"the enamel of a human tooth will begin to break down when exposed to sugar for too long"
],
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"aged",
"developed",
"grown",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"related":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
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"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
]
},
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
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"if we break the problem down into what appear to be three aspects of it, we'll have a better chance of solving it"
],
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"agglomerated",
"aggregated",
"amalgamated",
"assimilated",
"coalesced",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"integrated",
"synthesized",
"unified"
],
"related":[
"assessed",
"diagnosed",
"evaluated",
"examined",
"inspected",
"investigated",
"scrutinized",
"arranged",
"assorted",
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"categorized",
"classified",
"codified",
"diagrammed",
"diagramed",
"enumerated",
"indexed",
"ordered",
"schematized",
"sorted",
"tabulated",
"divided",
"reduced",
"segmented",
"separated",
"subdivided"
],
"synonyms":[
"analyzed",
"anatomized",
"assayed",
"cut",
"deconstructed",
"dissected"
]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"started (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the computer finally broke down and had to be replaced"
],
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"related":[
"fizzled",
"sputtered",
"wheezed",
"acted up",
"malfunctioned",
"jammed"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"cut out",
"died",
"failed",
"given out",
"stalled"
]
},
"to take apart":{
"antonyms":[
"assembled",
"constructed"
],
"examples":[
"the crew was breaking down the party tent when we arrived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built",
"erected",
"pitched",
"combined",
"united"
],
"related":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"broken up",
"disaggregated",
"disarticulated",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"disunited",
"divided",
"separated"
],
"synonyms":[
"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"dismounted",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"stricken",
"taken down"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
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"examples":[
"began to break down when he realized that he was on the verge of bankruptcy"
],
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"related":[
"choked"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in houses , kins":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop":{
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"examples":[
"don't disturb the hen while she's brooding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lays",
"spawns"
],
"synonyms":[
"hatches",
"incubates",
"sets",
"sits"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"broody":{
"given to or marked by long, quiet thinking":{
"antonyms":[
"unreflective"
],
"examples":[
"he spent a long, broody weekend trying to figure out where his relationship with his girlfriend was headed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"flippant",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"scatterbrained",
"brainless",
"mindless",
"silly",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking"
],
"related":[
"introspective",
"retrospective",
"self-reflective",
"earnest",
"grave",
"sedate",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"severe",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"weighty",
"philosophical",
"philosophic",
"analytic",
"analytical",
"logical",
"rational",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"absentminded",
"abstracted",
"preoccupied"
],
"synonyms":[
"cogitative",
"contemplative",
"meditative",
"melancholy",
"musing",
"pensive",
"reflective",
"ruminant",
"ruminative",
"thoughtful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brook":{
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
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"examples":[
"there are tiny fish and frogs in that brook"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"runoff",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"synonyms":[
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel",
"streamlet"
]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I will not brook insults from my own employees"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"combat",
"contest",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"miss",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)"
],
"related":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"countenance",
"endure",
"go",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"pocket",
"stand",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate",
"wear"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"brooked":{
"as in condoned , countenanced":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I will not brook insults from my own employees"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declined",
"dismissed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"turned down",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"dodged",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"missed",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"refrained (from)"
],
"related":[
"allowed",
"permitted",
"suffered",
"swallowed",
"reconciled (to)",
"acquiesced",
"agreed (with or to)",
"assented (to)",
"capitulated",
"consented (to)",
"respected",
"submitted (to)",
"yielded (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"absorbed",
"accepted",
"bode",
"bided",
"bore",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"hacked",
"handled",
"met",
"pocketed",
"stomached",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"supported",
"sustained",
"sweat out",
"sweated out",
"tolerated",
"took",
"went",
"wore"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"brotherhood":{
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"they're a brotherhood of retired war veterans"
],
"synonyms":[
"association",
"board",
"chamber",
"club",
"college",
"congress",
"consortium",
"council",
"fellowship",
"fraternity",
"guild",
"gild",
"institute",
"institution",
"league",
"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":[]
},
"the body of people in a profession or field of activity":{
"examples":[
"a family that has been part of the brotherhood of police officers for four generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"community",
"corps",
"fellowship",
"fraternity",
"sodality",
"vocation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calling",
"profession",
"association",
"club",
"federation",
"guild",
"gild",
"organization",
"society"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions":{
"examples":[
"the brotherhood that existed between the medical missionaries and the villagers they served"
],
"synonyms":[
"camaraderie",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradery",
"comradeship",
"fellowship",
"society"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"charity",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"compassion",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"chumminess",
"familiarity",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness",
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forlornness",
"loneliness",
"lonesomeness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"kindly concern, interest, or support":{
"examples":[
"in a display of brotherhood , other writers rushed to the defense of the jailed journalist"
],
"synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"charity",
"cordiality",
"cordialness",
"fellowship",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"good-fellowship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"neighborliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonhomie",
"camaraderie",
"collegiality",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"rapprochement",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"communion",
"empathy",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tolerance",
"altruism",
"philanthropy",
"selflessness",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"intolerance",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hate",
"hatred",
"hostility",
"incivility",
"malice",
"rancor",
"belligerency",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill will",
"malevolence",
"venom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"browbeat":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they would often browbeat the younger child until he cried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"related":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"bullyrag",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"browbeaten":{
"as in intimidated , bullied":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they would often browbeat the younger child until he cried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"related":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"browbeating":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they would often browbeat the younger child until he cried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"related":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"brownie":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"some people believe that brownies will clean your house if you leave them milk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"little people",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling",
"imp",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre"
],
"synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bruit":{
"loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound":{
"antonyms":[
"quiet",
"silence",
"silentness",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"examples":[
"a film that captures the thunderous fury of medieval warfare and the bruit of a thousand clashing swords"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"lull",
"quietude",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"related":[
"discord",
"dissonance",
"commotion",
"furor",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly-burly",
"rumpus",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"clatter",
"jangle",
"bang",
"blast",
"boom",
"clap",
"crack",
"crash"
],
"synonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"bowwow",
"brawl",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"decibel(s)",
"din",
"discordance",
"katzenjammer",
"noise",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bruit (about)":{
"to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"please don't bruit accusations about without confirming them first"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bandy (about)",
"blab",
"dish",
"gossip",
"tattle",
"bare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"expose",
"let on (about)",
"report",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"suggest",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"propagate",
"publicize",
"spread"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulate",
"noise (about or abroad)",
"rumor",
"whisper"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brumous":{
"filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"limpid",
"pellucid",
"unclouded"
],
"examples":[
"the village was slumbering peacefully beneath the brumous morning sky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"clean",
"clement",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"translucent",
"transparent"
],
"related":[
"overcast",
"rainy",
"stormy",
"thick",
"dirty",
"miry",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"slimy",
"slushy",
"turbid",
"miasmal",
"miasmatic",
"miasmic",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"smudgy",
"sooty",
"filmy",
"milky",
"opaque"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brush (aside or off)":{
"to dismiss as of little importance":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[
"heed",
"mark",
"mind",
"note",
"object (to)"
],
"related":[
"explain",
"justify",
"rationalize",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"clear",
"exculpate",
"exonerate",
"vindicate",
"waive",
"wave (aside or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink (at)",
"condone",
"discount",
"disregard",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"gloss (over)",
"gloze (over)",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"paper over",
"pardon",
"pass over",
"remit",
"shrug off",
"whitewash",
"wink (at)"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"brushed":{
"as in eggshell , semigloss":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"antonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled"
],
"examples":[
"a pop star brushing past a crowd of autograph seekers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"stumbled",
"trudged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"labored",
"toiled"
],
"related":[
"flew",
"raced",
"rushed",
"sped",
"speeded"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"coasted",
"cruised",
"drifted",
"flowed",
"glided",
"rolled",
"sailed",
"skimmed",
"slid",
"slipped",
"streamed",
"swept",
"whisked"
]
},
"to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"spiderwebs brushed her cheek as she walked through the basement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"bumped",
"clashed",
"collided",
"crashed",
"hit",
"impacted",
"impinged",
"knocked",
"punched",
"rammed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"swiped",
"thudded",
"thwacked",
"whacked"
],
"related":[
"bumped",
"contacted",
"scraped",
"sideswiped",
"struck",
"swept",
"swiped",
"touched",
"bounced",
"caromed",
"glanced",
"rebounded",
"ricocheted",
"ricochetted",
"skipped",
"caressed",
"cuddled",
"fondled",
"loved",
"patted",
"petted",
"stroked",
"missed",
"skirted"
],
"synonyms":[
"grazed",
"kissed",
"nudged",
"shaved",
"skimmed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"brushing (aside or off)":{
"to dismiss as of little importance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"brushed off their complaints as the whining of people who were never satisfied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeding",
"marking",
"minding",
"noting",
"objecting (to)"
],
"related":[
"explaining",
"justifying",
"rationalizing",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating",
"waiving",
"waving (aside or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinking (at)",
"condoning",
"discounting",
"disregarding",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"papering over",
"pardoning",
"passing over",
"remitting",
"shrugging off",
"whitewashing",
"winking (at)"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"brushing (off)":{
"as in rejecting , shrugging off":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brutalizes":{
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Red Cross workers reported that prisoners had been brutalized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"cherishes",
"fosters",
"nurtures",
"babies",
"caters (to)",
"coddles",
"favors",
"gratifies",
"humors",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"related":[
"molests",
"outrages",
"violates",
"harasses",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"torments",
"tortures",
"burns",
"sandbags",
"victimizes",
"wrongs",
"beats (up)",
"messes (up)",
"roughs (up)",
"works (over)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"bullies",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"kicks around",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"messes over",
"mishandles",
"mistreats",
"misuses"
]
},
"to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"even three years in a prison camp did not brutalize him"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"honors",
"amends",
"improves",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"restores",
"respects",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts"
],
"related":[
"abases",
"corrupts",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"depraves",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"warps",
"contaminates",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"disgraces",
"humbles",
"humiliates"
],
"synonyms":[
"animalizes",
"bestializes",
"dehumanizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"broad-mindedness":{
"as in tolerance , open-mindedness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"braises":{
"as in smothers , steams":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"braided":{
"to form into a braid":{
"examples":[
"they taught each other how to braid yarn into bracelets"
],
"synonyms":[
"plaited",
"platted",
"pleated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interlaced",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"wove",
"weaved"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"breedings":{
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"examples":[
"a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lineages",
"lines",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"stocks",
"strains"
],
"related":[
"heredities",
"successions",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"children",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"antonyms":[
"issues",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"braced":{
"as in armed , steeled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the pep talk braced the team up for the second half"
],
"synonyms":[
"amped (up)",
"animated",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"filliped",
"fired",
"gingered (up)",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"juiced up",
"jump-started",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"spiked",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"vivified",
"zipped (up)"
],
"related":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"raised",
"roused",
"stirred",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)",
"activated",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"motivated",
"motived",
"moved",
"propelled",
"charged",
"electrified",
"galvanized",
"enkindled",
"excited",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"instigated",
"kindled",
"provoked",
"set off",
"sparked",
"triggered",
"turned on",
"whipped (up)",
"abetted",
"boosted",
"buoyed",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"fortified",
"heartened",
"infused",
"inspired",
"lifted",
"rallied",
"steeled",
"strengthened",
"reactivated",
"reanimated",
"reawakened",
"reawoke",
"reawaked",
"recharged",
"recreated",
"reenergized",
"re-energized",
"refreshed",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"reinvigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"rekindled",
"renewed",
"restimulated",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"debilitated",
"did in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"harassed",
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"sapped",
"tuckered (out)",
"undermined",
"washed out",
"weakened",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out",
"checked",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"jaded",
"quelled",
"quenched",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"slowed",
"stilled",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"antonyms":[
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"killed"
]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"several boards braced the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolstered",
"bore",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
],
"related":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"underlay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally":{
"examples":[
"she braced herself for the job interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"forearmed",
"fortified",
"nerved",
"poised",
"psyched (up)",
"readied",
"steeled",
"strengthened"
],
"related":[
"armed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"bolstered",
"boosted",
"buoyed (up)",
"buttressed",
"enforced",
"propped (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"supported",
"sustained",
"cheered (up)",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"inspired",
"rallied",
"roused",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"psyched (out)",
"shook",
"unnerved",
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"softened",
"tired",
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"brought about":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"did",
"drew on",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"produced",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
],
"related":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"began",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brutal":{
"difficult to endure":{
"examples":[
"brutal hard labor in the hot sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"bitter",
"burdensome",
"cruel",
"excruciating",
"grievous",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy",
"inhuman",
"murderous",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rugged",
"searing",
"severe",
"stiff",
"tough",
"trying"
],
"related":[
"austere",
"bleak",
"comfortless",
"discomforting",
"forbidding",
"inhospitable",
"spartan",
"uncomfortable",
"biting",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"wild",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"agonizing",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"painful",
"wretched",
"crushing",
"grinding",
"overwhelming",
"wearing",
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"harrowing",
"tortuous",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"hostile",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"luxurious",
"snug",
"agreeable",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"peaceful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"painless",
"tolerable",
"balmy",
"calm",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate"
],
"antonyms":[
"easy",
"light",
"soft"
]
},
"having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others":{
"examples":[
"a brutal tyrant who drove his country to revolt"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brute",
"butcherly",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"vicious",
"wanton"
],
"related":[
"hard-hearted",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"unfeeling",
"fell",
"ferocious",
"grim",
"bloodthirsty",
"cutthroat",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"catty",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"vindictive",
"draconian",
"draconic",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tender",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"charitable",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"pitying",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful"
],
"antonyms":[
"benign",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted"
]
},
"having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal":{
"examples":[
"a coarse, brutal man who has no sense of what it means to be refined or sensitive or cultured"
],
"synonyms":[
"animalistic",
"beastly",
"bestial",
"brute",
"brutish",
"feral",
"ferine",
"subhuman",
"swinish"
],
"related":[
"animal",
"bodily",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"physical",
"sensual",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"lowbred",
"rude",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"gallant",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high",
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"noble",
"sublime",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"spiritual",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"tenderhearted",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brummagems":{
"as in bastards , duffers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bastards",
"duffers",
"shoddies",
"simulations",
"synthetics",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"impostures",
"spoofs",
"swindles",
"dummies",
"mock-ups",
"copies",
"facsimiles",
"replicas",
"reproductions",
"copycats",
"knockoffs",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"near antonyms":[
"originals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bringing up":{
"to bring to maturity through care and education":{
"examples":[
"it takes an immense commitment and a lot of love to bring up a child properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding",
"fostering",
"nourishing",
"nursing",
"raising",
"rearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fathering",
"mothering",
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"cradling",
"cultivating",
"minding",
"ministering (to)",
"nurturing",
"watching",
"disciplining",
"educating",
"instructing",
"mentoring",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tutoring",
"edifying",
"enlightening",
"indoctrinating",
"feeding",
"providing (for)",
"supplying",
"advancing",
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"promoting",
"preparing",
"directing",
"guiding",
"leading",
"shepherding",
"showing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abusing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"maltreating",
"mishandling",
"mistreating",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present or bring forward for discussion":{
"examples":[
"I hate to bring this up , but we're running short of money"
],
"synonyms":[
"broaching",
"introducing",
"mooting",
"placing",
"raising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluding (to)",
"citing",
"mentioning",
"naming",
"referring (to)",
"offering",
"proposing",
"suggesting",
"airing",
"expressing",
"speaking (of)",
"talking (about)",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"interjecting",
"interrupting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"thrashing (out or over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"hushing (up)",
"quieting",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"wasn't expecting the operator to bring up the carnival ride so suddenly"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling up",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bridle paths":{
"as in roads , bypaths":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lanes",
"passages",
"passes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"runs",
"runways",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"bypaths",
"byroads",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"passageways",
"walkways",
"footpaths",
"paths",
"pathways",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails",
"cutoffs",
"shortcuts",
"towpaths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brushy":{
"covered with or as if with hair":{
"examples":[
"the vogue for brushy cheeks on men reached a whimsical apex in the 19th century when muttonchop whiskers came in fashion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bristly",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"hirsute",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"stubbled",
"stubbly",
"downy",
"fluffy",
"fuzzy",
"linty",
"nappy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beardless",
"shaved",
"shaven"
],
"antonyms":[
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brass ring":{
"as in gold , prize money":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"gold",
"jackpot",
"prize money",
"treasure trove",
"blessing",
"find",
"godsend",
"goody",
"goodie",
"valuable",
"windfall",
"booty",
"loot",
"plunder",
"spoil",
"swag",
"glory",
"pride"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Brahmins":{
"as in sages , mandarins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mandarins",
"sages",
"blues",
"bluestockings",
"intellectualizers",
"pseuds",
"double-domes",
"geeks",
"highbrows",
"intellectualists",
"intellectuals",
"longhairs",
"nerds",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"intellects",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anti-intellectuals",
"lowbrows",
"philistines",
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"half-wits",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"nitwits",
"pinheads",
"simpletons"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brassy":{
"displaying or marked by rude boldness":{
"examples":[
"a brassy customer insisted on arriving late and still being taken first"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"audacious",
"bold",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassbound",
"brazen",
"brazen-faced",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"nervy",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"wise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assertive",
"forward",
"obtrusive",
"defiant",
"disrespectful",
"shameless",
"unabashed",
"unblushing",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"curt",
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"lippy",
"mouthy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"humble",
"modest",
"courteous",
"genteel",
"mannerly",
"polite",
"proper",
"deferential",
"respectful",
"abashed",
"ashamed",
"blushing",
"embarrassed",
"shamefaced",
"gentle",
"mild",
"inconspicuous",
"unobtrusive"
],
"antonyms":[
"meek",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"brass rings":{
"as in golds , prize moneys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catches",
"gems",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"golds",
"jackpots",
"prize moneys",
"treasure troves",
"blessings",
"finds",
"godsends",
"goodies",
"valuables",
"windfalls",
"booties",
"loots",
"plunders",
"spoils",
"swags",
"glories",
"prides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lemons",
"losers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bracelets":{
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"examples":[
"putting the handcuffs on the jewel thief, the detective asked him how he liked those bracelets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bands",
"binds",
"bonds",
"chains",
"cuffs",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"irons",
"ligatures",
"manacles",
"shackles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captivities",
"confinements",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"enchainments",
"enslavements",
"hindrances",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"entanglements",
"nets",
"trammels",
"traps",
"collars",
"straitjackets",
"straightjackets",
"fasteners",
"hobbles",
"hold-downs",
"holdings",
"holds",
"ties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"brought forth":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"His poetry brings forth an emotional response in many readers."
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"did",
"drew on",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"produced",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"began",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort":{
"examples":[
"The spring rain brought forth an abundance of lush greenery."
],
"synonyms":[
"carved (out)",
"developed",
"forged",
"ground (out)",
"hammered out",
"thrashed (out)",
"worked out",
"worked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"churned out",
"cranked out",
"turned out",
"cobbled (together or up)",
"threw up",
"composed",
"constructed",
"crafted",
"created",
"engineered",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"framed",
"generated",
"manufactured",
"minted",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"shaped",
"tailored",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"hatched",
"invented",
"originated",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought off",
"carried out",
"effected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"dismantled",
"razed",
"tore down",
"ruined",
"undid",
"unmade",
"wrecked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"braces":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"examples":[
"wore a brace for the injured knee"
],
"synonyms":[
"buttresses",
"mountings",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"shores",
"spurs",
"stays",
"supports",
"underpinnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shorings",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"arches",
"bolsters",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"bearings",
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"trusses",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together":{
"examples":[
"bagged a brace of pheasants"
],
"synonyms":[
"couples",
"couplets",
"duos",
"dyads",
"pairs",
"pair",
"twosomes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spans",
"yokes",
"partnerships",
"teams",
"companions",
"complements",
"doublets",
"fellows",
"halves",
"matches",
"mates",
"twins",
"coordinates",
"counterparts",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"likes",
"parallels",
"peers",
"rivals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the pep talk braced the team up for the second half"
],
"synonyms":[
"amps (up)",
"animates",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"fillips",
"fires",
"gingers (up)",
"invigorates",
"jazzes (up)",
"juices up",
"jump-starts",
"livens (up)",
"peps (up)",
"quickens",
"spikes",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"vivifies",
"zips (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"raises",
"rouses",
"stirs",
"wakes (up)",
"activates",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"motivates",
"motives",
"moves",
"propels",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"galvanizes",
"enkindles",
"excites",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"instigates",
"kindles",
"provokes",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"triggers",
"turns on",
"whips (up)",
"abets",
"boosts",
"buoys",
"cheers",
"emboldens",
"fortifies",
"heartens",
"infuses",
"inspires",
"lifts",
"rallies",
"steels",
"strengthens",
"reactivates",
"reanimates",
"reawakens",
"reawakes",
"recharges",
"recreates",
"reenergizes",
"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"reinvigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"rekindles",
"renews",
"restimulates",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burns out",
"debilitates",
"does in",
"drains",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"harasses",
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"saps",
"tuckers (out)",
"undermines",
"washes out",
"weakens",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out",
"checks",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"jades",
"quells",
"quenches",
"represses",
"restrains",
"slows",
"stills",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dampens",
"damps",
"deadens",
"dulls",
"kills"
]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"several boards braced the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"bolsters",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"stays",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"underpins",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadies",
"trusses",
"underlies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally":{
"examples":[
"she braced herself for the job interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"forearms",
"fortifies",
"nerves",
"poises",
"psyches (up)",
"readies",
"steels",
"strengthens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arms",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buoys (up)",
"buttresses",
"enforces",
"props (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"supports",
"sustains",
"cheers (up)",
"comforts",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"rallies",
"rouses",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits",
"psychs (out)",
"shakes",
"unnerves",
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"prostrates",
"saps",
"softens",
"tires",
"undercuts",
"undermines",
"weakens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"brawling":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"the Wilsons were always loudly brawling , and the neighbors were always shutting their windows"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercating",
"argufying",
"arguing",
"bickering",
"brabbling",
"controverting",
"disputing",
"falling out",
"fighting",
"hassling",
"jarring",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"quibbling",
"rowing",
"scrapping",
"spatting",
"squabbling",
"tiffing",
"wrangling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenging",
"daring",
"defying",
"clashing",
"contending",
"contesting",
"tangling",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"fussing",
"nitpicking",
"considering",
"debating",
"discussing",
"kicking",
"objecting",
"protesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisting",
"getting along",
"accepting",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"concurring",
"consenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"brings to light":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"The investigation brought to light several new facts about the case."
],
"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"
],
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"brouhaha":{
"great excitement or concern about something":{
"examples":[
"A brouhaha erupted over her statements about the president."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bedlam",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clamor",
"clatter",
"commotion",
"disturbance",
"fuss",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly-burly",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"tempest",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"agitation",
"deliriousness",
"delirium",
"distraction",
"fever",
"feverishness",
"flap",
"frenzy",
"furor",
"furore",
"fury",
"hysteria",
"rage",
"rampage",
"uproar",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disorder",
"havoc",
"pandemonium",
"turmoil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bringing":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"in the end, the lawsuit brought distress to everyone, including the plaintiff"
],
"synonyms":[
"begetting",
"breeding",
"bringing about",
"bringing on",
"catalyzing",
"causing",
"creating",
"doing",
"drawing on",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"engendering",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"making",
"occasioning",
"producing",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"translating (into)",
"working",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"beginning",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"pioneering",
"setting",
"setting up",
"starting",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"developing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"turning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"dampening",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"arresting",
"checking",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"retarding",
"canning",
"killing",
"snuffing (out)",
"stilling",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"extinguishing",
"liquidating",
"quenching"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request":{
"examples":[
"nothing will ever bring her to admit she's wrong"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguing",
"bringing around",
"converting",
"convincing",
"gaining",
"getting",
"inducing",
"moving",
"persuading",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishing",
"blarneying",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"entreating",
"exhorting",
"fast-talking",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"alluring",
"beguiling",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"snowing",
"tempting",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuading",
"inclining",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"selling",
"swaying",
"attracting",
"drawing",
"enticing",
"interesting",
"chewing over",
"conversing",
"debating",
"discussing",
"disputing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"reasoning (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"dissuading",
"unselling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"the antique will probably bring at least $1000 at auction"
],
"synonyms":[
"costing",
"fetching",
"going (for)",
"running",
"selling (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listing (for)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"commanding",
"exacting",
"asking",
"demanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bribable":{
"open to improper influence and especially bribery":{
"examples":[
"corruption in that country is so widespread that there are few public officials who are not bribable"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruptible",
"dirty",
"purchasable",
"venal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"temptable",
"hack",
"mercenary",
"crooked",
"cutthroat",
"dishonest",
"Machiavellian",
"unethical",
"unmoral",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"corrupt",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"defiled",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"sleazy",
"vitiated",
"warped",
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"sinful",
"vicious",
"wicked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"honest",
"principled",
"scrupulous",
"good",
"moral",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"incorruptible"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}
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