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{
"pick over":{
"as in check (out) , pore (over)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"audit",
"check (out)",
"con",
"examine",
"inspect",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"view",
"delve (into)",
"explore",
"investigate",
"plumb",
"probe",
"research",
"study",
"notice",
"observe",
"watch",
"reinspect",
"rereview",
"resurvey",
"comb",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"analyze",
"dissect",
"parse",
"categorize",
"classify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"skim",
"miss"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pick up":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"get",
"learn",
"master"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)",
"imbibe",
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig up",
"discern",
"discover",
"examine",
"find out",
"hear",
"hit (on or upon)",
"run down",
"scare up",
"search (for)",
"see",
"track (down)",
"tumble (to)",
"unearth",
"major (in)",
"study",
"memorize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forget",
"misunderstand",
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"round up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"could you pick up some milk at the store?"
],
"synonyms":[
"buy",
"cop",
"purchase",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquire",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure",
"win",
"finance",
"pay (for)",
"spring (for)",
"barter (for)",
"deal (for)",
"dicker (over)",
"exchange (for)",
"haggle (for)",
"negotiate (about)",
"trade (for)",
"bargain (with)",
"chaffer (with)",
"horse-trade (with)",
"palter (with)",
"bid",
"offer",
"rebuy",
"repurchase"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"retail",
"sell",
"vend"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat"
],
"synonyms":[
"build up",
"gain",
"gather",
"grow (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double (in)",
"triple (in)",
"accrue",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"excite",
"stimulate",
"enhance",
"enlarge",
"enrich",
"expand",
"extend",
"maximize",
"boost",
"elevate",
"jack (up)",
"mount",
"ramp (up)",
"step up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"decline (in)",
"diminish (in)",
"dip",
"dwindle",
"fall (in)",
"lessen",
"taper",
"taper off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decrease (in)",
"lose"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"perk (up)",
"raise",
"take up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift",
"upraise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascend",
"mount",
"rise",
"rear",
"upend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"slip",
"bear",
"depress",
"press",
"push",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"antonyms":[
"drop",
"lower"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"run in",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff":{
"examples":[
"I thought you said you had picked up , so why are these things still lying around the rec room?"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean (up)",
"tidy (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"houseclean",
"housekeep",
"clean (off)",
"neaten",
"police (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"turn out",
"unclutter",
"arrange",
"order"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clutter",
"disarrange",
"mess (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"examples":[
"after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off"
],
"synonyms":[
"continue",
"proceed (with)",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume"
],
"near synonyms":[
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"recrudesce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"consummate",
"end",
"finalize",
"finish",
"belay",
"break",
"can",
"cease",
"check",
"cut",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"halt",
"knock off",
"leave off",
"quit",
"scuttle",
"shut off",
"stay",
"stop",
"terminate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"neaten",
"redd (up or out)",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up or out)",
"tidy (up)",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"rumple",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"tousle",
"tumble",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in increase , boost":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boost",
"increase",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"burst",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flicker",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"spurt",
"epidemic",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"paroxysm",
"recrudescence",
"recurrence",
"renewal",
"deluge",
"flood",
"rush",
"spate",
"surge",
"volley",
"commotion",
"furor",
"uproar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"doldrums",
"slump"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"picked off":{
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"picked off more passes than any other player in the division"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"captured",
"caught",
"collared",
"corralled",
"grabbed",
"seized",
"snared",
"snatched",
"trapped"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocked",
"intercepted",
"interdicted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picking off":{
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"examples":[
"picked off more passes than any other player in the division"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocking",
"intercepting",
"interdicting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"catching",
"collaring",
"corralling",
"grabbing",
"seizing",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picking over":{
"as in checking (out) , poring (over)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auditing",
"checking (out)",
"conning",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"reviewing",
"scanning",
"scrutinizing",
"surveying",
"viewing",
"delving (into)",
"exploring",
"investigating",
"plumbing",
"probing",
"researching",
"studying",
"noticing",
"observing",
"watching",
"reinspecting",
"rereviewing",
"re-reviewing",
"resurveying",
"combing",
"perusing",
"poring (over)",
"analyzing",
"dissecting",
"parsing",
"categorizing",
"classifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"skimming",
"missing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picking up":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"getting",
"learning",
"mastering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"grasping",
"knowing",
"understanding",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"digesting",
"drinking (in)",
"imbibing",
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging up",
"discerning",
"discovering",
"examining",
"finding out",
"hearing",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"searching (for)",
"seeing",
"tracking (down)",
"tumbling (to)",
"unearthing",
"majoring (in)",
"studying",
"memorizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgetting",
"misunderstanding",
"missing",
"overlooking",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearning"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"bulking (up)",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"rounding up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"could you pick up some milk at the store?"
],
"synonyms":[
"buying",
"copping",
"purchasing",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiring",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"winning",
"financing",
"paying (for)",
"springing (for)",
"bartering (for)",
"dealing (for)",
"dickering (over)",
"exchanging (for)",
"haggling (for)",
"negotiating (about)",
"trading (for)",
"bargaining (with)",
"chaffering (with)",
"horse-trading (with)",
"paltering (with)",
"bidding",
"offering",
"rebuying",
"repurchasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dealing (in)",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"retailing",
"selling",
"vending"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat"
],
"synonyms":[
"building up",
"gaining",
"gathering",
"growing (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubling (in)",
"tripling (in)",
"accruing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"exciting",
"stimulating",
"enhancing",
"enlarging",
"enriching",
"expanding",
"extending",
"maximizing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"jacking (up)",
"mounting",
"ramping (up)",
"stepping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"declining (in)",
"diminishing (in)",
"dipping",
"dwindling",
"falling (in)",
"lessening",
"tapering",
"tapering off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreasing (in)",
"losing"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosting",
"craning",
"elevating",
"heaving",
"hefting",
"heightening",
"hiking",
"hoisting",
"jacking (up)",
"lifting",
"perking (up)",
"raising",
"taking up",
"upholding",
"uplifting",
"upping",
"upraising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascending",
"mounting",
"rising",
"rearing",
"upending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descending",
"dipping",
"falling",
"pitching",
"plunging",
"slipping",
"bearing",
"depressing",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"sinking",
"submerging"
],
"antonyms":[
"dropping",
"lowering"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"busting",
"collaring",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"nicking",
"pinching",
"pulling in",
"restraining",
"running in",
"seizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping",
"committing",
"confining",
"detaining",
"holding",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"rearresting",
"remanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"unchaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharging"
]
},
"to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff":{
"examples":[
"I thought you said you had picked up , so why are these things still lying around the rec room?"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleaning (up)",
"tidying (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"housecleaning",
"housekeeping",
"cleaning (off)",
"neatening",
"policing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"turning out",
"uncluttering",
"arranging",
"ordering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cluttering",
"disarranging",
"messing (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"examples":[
"after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuing",
"proceeding (with)",
"renewing",
"reopening",
"restarting",
"resuming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"resuscitating",
"reviving",
"recrudescing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completing",
"concluding",
"consummating",
"ending",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"belaying",
"breaking",
"canning",
"ceasing",
"checking",
"cutting",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dropping",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"leaving off",
"quitting",
"scuttling",
"shutting off",
"staying",
"stopping",
"terminating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"neatening",
"redding (up or out)",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up or out)",
"tidying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arranging",
"arraying",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"systematizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"discomposing",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disordering",
"disorganizing",
"disrupting",
"disturbing",
"jumbling",
"messing (up)",
"mixing (up)",
"muddling",
"mussing",
"rumpling",
"scrambling",
"shuffling",
"tousling",
"tumbling",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picklock":{
"as in cat burglar , housebreaker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burglar",
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"safecracker",
"larcenist",
"pincher",
"purloiner",
"robber",
"stealer",
"thief",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"sneak thief",
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"shoplifter",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"poacher",
"rustler",
"smuggler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picks over":{
"as in checks (out) , pores (over)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"audits",
"checks (out)",
"cons",
"examines",
"inspects",
"overlooks",
"oversees",
"reviews",
"scans",
"scrutinizes",
"surveys",
"views",
"delves (into)",
"explores",
"investigates",
"plumbs",
"probes",
"researches",
"studies",
"notices",
"observes",
"watches",
"reinspects",
"rereviews",
"resurveys",
"combs",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"analyzes",
"dissects",
"parses",
"categorizes",
"classifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"skims",
"misses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pictograph":{
"as in icon , attribute":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attribute",
"icon",
"ikon",
"emblem",
"ensign",
"hallmark",
"impresa",
"logo",
"symbol",
"totem",
"trademark",
"logogram",
"logograph",
"badge",
"coat of arms",
"cognizance",
"crest",
"insignia",
"monogram",
"colophon",
"stamp",
"token"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in image , picture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing",
"illumination",
"image",
"pictogram",
"picture",
"art",
"artwork",
"caption",
"key",
"legend",
"diagram",
"figure",
"graphic",
"illustration",
"plate",
"visual",
"inset",
"depiction",
"pictorialization",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"representation",
"clarification",
"elucidation",
"explanation",
"explication",
"exposition"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picture book":{
"being entirely without fault or flaw":{
"examples":[
"the players gave a picture-book performance that will go down in the annals of football as one of the all-time great games"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"ideal",
"immaculate",
"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"picture-perfect",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummate",
"expert",
"masterly",
"classic",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prime",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"terrific",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"completed",
"finished",
"perfected",
"polished",
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"mint",
"unbruised",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unspoiled",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"airtight",
"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"fallible",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"broken",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"impaired",
"injured",
"malformed",
"marred",
"misshapen",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"wretched",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"censurable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"reproachable"
]
},
"as in album , anthology":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"album",
"almanac",
"anthology",
"casebook",
"chapbook",
"omnibus",
"novel",
"novelette",
"pulp",
"monograph",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"tract",
"treatise",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"cyclopedia",
"cyclopaedia",
"dictionary",
"encyclopedia",
"guidebook",
"handbook",
"how-to",
"manual",
"folio",
"quarto",
"hardback",
"hardcover",
"paper",
"paperback",
"paperbound",
"pocket book",
"pocket edition",
"softback",
"softcover",
"trade book",
"trade edition",
"book",
"tome",
"volume"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"picture-perfect":{
"being entirely without fault or flaw":{
"examples":[
"it was a picture-perfect day for a picnic\u2014the sun was shining and a light breeze stirred the air"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"ideal",
"immaculate",
"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"picture-book",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummate",
"expert",
"masterly",
"classic",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prime",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"terrific",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"completed",
"finished",
"perfected",
"polished",
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"mint",
"unbruised",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unspoiled",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"airtight",
"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"fallible",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"broken",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"impaired",
"injured",
"malformed",
"marred",
"misshapen",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"wretched",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"censurable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"reproachable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"picturesque":{
"producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description":{
"examples":[
"wrote a picturesque tale of their journey across the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"pictorial",
"visual",
"vivid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depicted",
"descriptive",
"expressive",
"concrete",
"explicit",
"specific",
"faithful",
"lifelike",
"natural",
"photographic",
"realistic",
"fresh",
"incisive",
"sharp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indeterminate",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"sketchy",
"unclear",
"vague",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dark",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"muddy",
"murky",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"ambiguous",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"piddly":{
"so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention":{
"examples":[
"there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken",
"de minimis",
"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddling",
"piffling",
"pimping",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inferior",
"mean",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"little",
"puny",
"tiny",
"hairsplitting",
"nitpicking",
"pettifogging",
"quibbling",
"one-horse",
"small-fry",
"two-bit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"serious",
"substantial",
"weighty",
"eventful",
"momentous",
"pivotal",
"conspicuous",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"striking",
"appreciable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"measurable"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"considerable",
"important",
"material",
"significant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"piece (together)":{
"as in assemble , compound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in figure out , work out":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piecing (together)":{
"as in assembling , compounding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assembling",
"compounding",
"building",
"constructing",
"making",
"redrafting",
"reformulating",
"reframing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"devising",
"authoring",
"inditing",
"penning",
"writing",
"couching",
"expressing",
"phrasing",
"stating",
"verbalizing",
"wording",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"molding",
"sculpturing",
"shaping",
"casting",
"composing",
"crafting",
"drafting",
"drawing up",
"formulating",
"framing",
"preparing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in figuring out , working out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"answering",
"breaking",
"cracking",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"puzzling (out)",
"resolving",
"riddling (out)",
"solving",
"unraveling",
"unriddling",
"working",
"working out",
"readdressing",
"reanalyzing",
"reconceiving",
"reconsidering",
"redefining",
"reevaluating",
"re-evaluating",
"reexamining",
"re-examining",
"reexploring",
"re-exploring",
"rethinking",
"reviewing",
"revisiting",
"reweighing",
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"reasoning",
"clearing (up)",
"ironing out",
"straightening (out)",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"reconceptualizing",
"reenvisioning",
"re-envisioning",
"reimagining",
"reduplicating",
"repeating",
"reconstructing",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"re-enacting",
"reinventing",
"rehearing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pierce":{
"to go or come in or into":{
"examples":[
"thoughts of revenge relentlessly pierced her mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"enter",
"penetrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"breeze (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"waltz (in)",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"stray (into)",
"wander (into)",
"crash",
"encroach",
"gate-crash",
"infiltrate",
"infringe",
"intrude",
"invade",
"trespass"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"pierced his ears with a needle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drill",
"hole",
"perforate",
"punch",
"puncture",
"riddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broach",
"tap",
"poke",
"prick",
"prickle",
"penetrate",
"burrow (into)",
"excavate",
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"notch",
"rend",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"the saber pierced his chest, releasing a spurt of blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindle",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piety":{
"belief and trust in and loyalty to God":{
"examples":[
"her piety is quiet but profound"
],
"synonyms":[
"devotion",
"faith",
"religion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devoutness",
"piousness",
"religiousness",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"profession",
"protestation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disbelief",
"doubt",
"unbelief",
"unfaith",
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"apostasy",
"lapse",
"tergiversation"
],
"antonyms":[
"atheism",
"godlessness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being spiritually pure or virtuous":{
"examples":[
"among fellow clerics he is respected and admired for his piety"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessedness",
"devoutness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piousness",
"sainthood",
"saintliness",
"saintship",
"sanctity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asceticism",
"devotion",
"morality",
"prayerfulness",
"religiousness",
"spirituality",
"priestliness",
"goodness",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"consecration",
"sacredness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemousness",
"irreverence",
"sacrilegiousness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"hypocrisy",
"sanctimoniousness",
"sanctimony"
],
"antonyms":[
"godlessness",
"impiety",
"ungodliness",
"unholiness"
]
},
"adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty":{
"examples":[
"familial piety keeps me from refusing to help my brother in this financial crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fastness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affection",
"fondness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolution",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"separation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pigeonhole":{
"as in cubbyhole , snuggery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pigeonholed":{
"to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category":{
"examples":[
"She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shelved",
"assorted",
"broke down",
"categorized",
"classed",
"classified",
"codified",
"compartmentalized",
"compartmented",
"digested",
"distinguished",
"distributed",
"graded",
"grouped",
"pegged",
"placed",
"ranged",
"ranked",
"relegated",
"separated",
"sorted",
"typed",
"arrayed",
"disposed",
"drew up",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"ordered",
"organized",
"systematized",
"alphabetized",
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"filed",
"indexed",
"listed",
"referred",
"identified",
"recognized",
"clumped",
"clustered",
"colligated",
"recategorized",
"reclassified",
"regrouped",
"subcategorized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confused",
"disarranged",
"jumbled",
"lumped",
"mixed (up)",
"scrambled",
"misclassified",
"missorted",
"mis-sorted",
"mistyped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pigeonholes":{
"to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category":{
"examples":[
"She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shelves",
"assorts",
"breaks down",
"categorizes",
"classes",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"compartmentalizes",
"compartments",
"digests",
"distinguishes",
"distributes",
"grades",
"groups",
"pegs",
"places",
"ranges",
"ranks",
"relegates",
"separates",
"sorts",
"types",
"arrays",
"disposes",
"draws up",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"alphabetizes",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"files",
"indexes",
"lists",
"refers",
"identifies",
"recognizes",
"clumps",
"clusters",
"colligates",
"recategorizes",
"reclassifies",
"regroups",
"subcategorizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuses",
"disarranges",
"jumbles",
"lumps",
"mixes (up)",
"scrambles",
"misclassifies",
"missorts",
"mistypes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cubbyholes , snuggeries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cubbyholes",
"snuggeries",
"bays",
"cabins",
"cells",
"chambers",
"compartments",
"cubes",
"cubicles",
"alcoves",
"niches",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"cabinets",
"drawers",
"lockers",
"cavities",
"holes",
"hollows",
"booths",
"boxes",
"cribs",
"loges",
"stalls",
"bunkers",
"crypts",
"vaults"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piggish":{
"having a huge appetite":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a piggish dog who ate anything left within reach"
],
"near antonyms":[
"content",
"full",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"stuffed"
],
"related":[
"hearty",
"wolfish",
"devouring",
"gobbling",
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"insatiable",
"unquenchable",
"unslakable",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished"
],
"synonyms":[
"edacious",
"esurient",
"gluttonous",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"swinish",
"voracious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pigmented":{
"as in colorful , colored":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorized"
],
"examples":[
"pigmented varnishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanched",
"bleached",
"whitened"
],
"related":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"darkened",
"embrowned",
"toned (down)",
"checkered",
"dappled",
"daubed",
"flecked",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"patterned",
"polychromed",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"striated",
"striped",
"variegated"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepainted",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"stained",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pigmenting":{
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorizing"
],
"examples":[
"pigmented varnishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanching",
"bleaching",
"whitening"
],
"related":[
"brightening",
"lightening",
"darkening",
"embrowning",
"toning (down)",
"checkering",
"dappling",
"daubing",
"flecking",
"marbling",
"mottling",
"patterning",
"polychroming",
"specking",
"speckling",
"streaking",
"striating",
"striping",
"variegating"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepainting",
"coloring",
"dyeing",
"painting",
"staining",
"tincturing",
"tingeing",
"tinging",
"tinting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pike":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"you can take the pike all the way to the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade":{
"examples":[
"a foot soldier armed with a pike"
],
"synonyms":[
"javelin",
"lance",
"pikestaff",
"shaft",
"spear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dart",
"spike",
"gaff",
"halberd",
"halbert",
"harpoon",
"leister",
"trident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrow":{
"examples":[
"the spear's metal pike was designed to cause a gaping wound when it was pulled out of the victim"
],
"synonyms":[
"apex",
"cusp",
"end",
"nib",
"nose",
"point",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pinpoint",
"prong",
"tine",
"barb",
"jag",
"prickle",
"snag",
"spike",
"sticker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bayonet , quill":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"spindle",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice",
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piked (out or off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piking":{
"as in bayoneting , quilling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"spindling",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing",
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piled":{
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaped",
"mounded",
"stacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked",
"layered",
"pyramided",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"massed",
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gather into a closely packed group":{
"examples":[
"the kids piled into the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunched",
"clustered",
"crowded",
"huddled",
"pressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembled",
"collected",
"concentered",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"congregated",
"convened",
"converged",
"flocked",
"forgathered",
"foregathered",
"herded",
"swarmed",
"thronged",
"encircled",
"mobbed",
"surrounded",
"embraced",
"hugged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piles":{
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"a large pile of newspapers that needed to be disposed of"
],
"synonyms":[
"cocks",
"heaps",
"hills",
"mounds",
"mountains",
"stacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bars",
"drifts",
"embankments",
"beds",
"layers",
"mows",
"pyramids",
"ricks",
"barrows",
"cairns",
"pyres",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"conglomerations",
"gatherings",
"groupings",
"hoards",
"huddles",
"jumbles",
"knots",
"pileups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"a job that paid piles of money"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"a soft airy substance or covering":{
"examples":[
"the lush pile of the carpeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"downs",
"flosses",
"fluffs",
"furs",
"fuzzes",
"lints",
"naps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick":{
"examples":[
"a dog with such a dense pile that he never minded the cold"
],
"synonyms":[
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"hairs",
"jackets",
"pelages",
"wools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"undercoats",
"underfurs",
"hides",
"leathers",
"pelts",
"skins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaps",
"mounds",
"stacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"layers",
"pyramids",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"masses",
"bunches",
"clumps",
"lumps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gather into a closely packed group":{
"examples":[
"the kids piled into the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunches",
"clusters",
"crowds",
"huddles",
"presses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"collects",
"concenters",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"congregates",
"convenes",
"converges",
"flocks",
"forgathers",
"foregathers",
"herds",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"encircles",
"mobs",
"surrounds",
"embraces",
"hugs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disperses",
"splits (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pilfering":{
"as in shoplifting , pilferage":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"related":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pilfers":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pill":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she can be such a pill when things don't go her way"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"related":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
"boor",
"bounder",
"bugger",
"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"dog",
"fink",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint",
"vermin"
]
},
"a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cure",
"drug",
"medication",
"medicinal",
"pharmaceutical",
"physic",
"remedy",
"specific",
"miracle drug",
"wonder drug",
"potion",
"preparation",
"dosage",
"dose",
"drop",
"gelcap",
"bolus",
"pilule"
],
"synonyms":[
"cap",
"capsule",
"lozenge",
"tablet"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pillage":{
"valuables stolen or taken by force":{
"examples":[
"the pirate ship was laden with the pillage of merchant ships from across the Spanish Main"
],
"synonyms":[
"booty",
"loot",
"plunder",
"spoil",
"swag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prize",
"catch",
"haul",
"take",
"treasure",
"pilferage",
"windfall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to search through with the intent of committing robbery":{
"examples":[
"soldiers pillaging the countryside for anything of value"
],
"synonyms":[
"despoil",
"loot",
"maraud",
"plunder",
"ransack",
"sack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break in",
"burglarize",
"rip off",
"steal (from)",
"comb",
"hunt",
"rake",
"rifle",
"rummage",
"harry",
"raid",
"ravish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pillars":{
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"the ancient Greek temple boasted graceful marble pillars with richly ornamented tops"
],
"synonyms":[
"columns",
"piers",
"pilasters",
"posts",
"stanchions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatids",
"caryatides",
"pedestals",
"buttresses",
"flying buttresses",
"needles",
"obelisks",
"piles",
"pilings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"my father has been my pillar throughout this crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchors",
"buttresses",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"mainstays",
"reliances",
"standbys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbones",
"sinews",
"spines",
"right hands",
"bolsterers",
"crutches",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"props",
"stays",
"anchorages",
"harbors",
"refuges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pilloried":{
"to subject (someone) to harsh public criticism":{
"examples":[
"The press pilloried the judge for her decision."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"berated",
"castigated",
"crucified",
"excoriated",
"flayed",
"gibbeted",
"hammered",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"scolded",
"upbraided",
"blamed",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"denounced",
"dispraised",
"dissed",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"slagged",
"skewered",
"tweaked",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"blasted",
"clobbered",
"slammed",
"slashed",
"nicked (at)",
"sniped (at)",
"beefed",
"bellyached",
"bitched",
"carped",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"fussed",
"griped",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"moaned",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"niggled",
"quibbled",
"whined",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"drubbed",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"derided",
"discommended",
"disparaged",
"put down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"recommended",
"sanctioned",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pillories":{
"to subject (someone) to harsh public criticism":{
"examples":[
"The press pilloried the judge for her decision."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"berates",
"castigates",
"crucifies",
"excoriates",
"flays",
"gibbets",
"hammers",
"keelhauls",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"scolds",
"upbraids",
"blames",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"denounces",
"dispraises",
"disses",
"faults",
"knocks",
"pans",
"reprehends",
"slags",
"skewers",
"tweaks",
"assails",
"attacks",
"blasts",
"clobbers",
"slams",
"slashes",
"nicks (at)",
"snipes (at)",
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"carps",
"cavils",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"kicks",
"kvetches",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"niggles",
"quibbles",
"whines",
"admonishes",
"chides",
"drubs",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"reproves",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"derides",
"discommends",
"disparages",
"puts down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"recommends",
"sanctions",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilule":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pin":{
"a lower limb of an animal":{
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"examples":[
"a cat that was still a little unsteady on its pins after anesthesia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"member",
"foreleg",
"forelimb",
"calf",
"drumstick",
"ham",
"shank",
"shin",
"thigh"
],
"synonyms":[
"leg"
]
},
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pin money":{
"a very small sum of money":{
"antonyms":[
"big buck(s)",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabuck(s)",
"mint",
"wad"
],
"examples":[
"the summer intern made only pin money but gained valuable work experience"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankroll",
"capital",
"funds",
"means",
"wherewithal",
"opulence",
"pelf",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"heap",
"pile",
"pot",
"bonanza",
"mine",
"treasure trove",
"treasury"
],
"related":[
"petty cash",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken feed",
"chump change",
"dime",
"hay",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"song",
"two cents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinch":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"antonyms":[
"abundance",
"adequacy",
"amplitude",
"opulence",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"sufficiency",
"wealth"
],
"examples":[
"this labor pinch means that there'll be long lines at the checkouts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"oversupply",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"related":[
"absence",
"omission",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"skimpiness",
"necessity",
"need",
"privation"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunch",
"dearth",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"drought",
"drouth",
"failure",
"famine",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want"
]
},
"an instance of theft":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the pinch of my favorite sweater really bugged me!"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"break-in",
"burglary",
"holdup",
"mugging",
"stickup"
],
"synonyms":[
"grab",
"heist",
"rip-off",
"snatching",
"swiping",
"theft"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the act of taking into one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
],
"examples":[
"an innocent person caught up in a city-wide pinch of drug dealers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipation",
"liberation",
"release"
],
"related":[
"raid",
"house arrest",
"capture",
"entrapment",
"seizure",
"captivity",
"confinement",
"detention",
"enchainment",
"hold",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehension",
"arrest",
"arrestment",
"bust",
"collar"
]
},
"to avoid unnecessary waste or expense":{
"antonyms":[
"waste"
],
"examples":[
"if we pinch hard for the upcoming year, we can probably afford the vacation at that fancy resort"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"splurge"
],
"related":[
"conserve",
"husband",
"maintain",
"manage",
"preserve",
"scrape",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"retrench",
"hoard",
"lay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"economize",
"save",
"scrimp",
"skimp",
"spare"
]
},
"to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the zipper on those jeans always pinches me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drop",
"free",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring"
],
"related":[
"crimp",
"tweak",
"clasp",
"clutch",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"take"
],
"synonyms":[
"nip"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pinched the earrings while the boutique owner was distracted by another customer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"related":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
],
"examples":[
"pinched the purse snatcher just two blocks from where he had robbed the old lady"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"related":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"run in",
"seize"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinchbeck":{
"as in spurious , feigned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pseudo",
"spurious",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"unauthentic",
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pined (for)":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"examples":[
"pining for a house in the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"ached (for)",
"coveted",
"craved",
"desiderated",
"desired",
"died (for)",
"hankered (for or after)",
"hungered (for)",
"itched (for)",
"jonesed (for)",
"longed (for)",
"lusted (for or after)",
"panted (after)",
"repined (for)",
"salivated (for)",
"sighed (for)",
"thirsted (for)",
"wanted",
"wished (for)",
"yearned (for)",
"yenned (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spoiled (for)",
"spoilt (for)",
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"spurned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pings":{
"as in rings , chimes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chimes",
"ding-dongs",
"knells",
"peals",
"plinks",
"rings",
"tintinnabulations",
"clangors",
"clangs",
"clanks",
"clashes",
"whangs",
"chinks",
"clinkety-clanks",
"clinks",
"jangles",
"jingles",
"rattles",
"tangs",
"tinkles",
"twangs",
"claps",
"clip-clops",
"clops",
"cracks",
"crashes",
"crunches",
"clumps",
"clunks",
"thumps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dings , clangs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chinks",
"clangs",
"clanks",
"clashes",
"clinks",
"ding-dongs",
"dings",
"gongs",
"jangles",
"jingles",
"plinks",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"tangs",
"tingles",
"tinkles",
"bongs",
"chimes",
"knells",
"peals",
"rings",
"tolls",
"echoes",
"resonates",
"resounds",
"reverberates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pink-slipping":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"the company pink-slipped 300 workers in an effort to avoid bankruptcy"
],
"synonyms":[
"axing",
"bouncing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"discharging",
"dismissing",
"firing",
"mustering out",
"releasing",
"removing",
"retiring",
"sacking",
"terminating",
"turning off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsizing",
"excessing",
"furloughing",
"laying off",
"trimming",
"booting (out)",
"chucking (out)",
"drumming (out)",
"kicking out",
"throwing out",
"unseating",
"separating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keeping",
"reemploying",
"re-employing",
"rehiring",
"contracting",
"subcontracting",
"recruiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"employing",
"engaging",
"hiring",
"retaining",
"signing (up or on)",
"taking on"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinnacle":{
"the highest part or point":{
"examples":[
"a singer who has reached the pinnacle of success"
],
"synonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"apogee",
"capstone",
"climax",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high noon",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"ne plus ultra",
"noon",
"noontime",
"peak",
"sum",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"roof",
"extreme",
"extremity",
"tip",
"vertex",
"high",
"highlight",
"highspot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abyss",
"base",
"foot",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottom",
"nadir",
"rock bottom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinning (down)":{
"as in choosing , determining":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinning (on)":{
"as in charging , fathering (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blaming",
"charging",
"fathering (on)",
"imputing (to)",
"accrediting",
"ascribing",
"attributing",
"chalking up",
"crediting",
"imputing",
"laying",
"putting down",
"assigning",
"referring",
"associating",
"attaching",
"connecting",
"linking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinpoint":{
"meeting the highest standard of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"the pinpoint measurement of brain tumors is critically important"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"close",
"delicate",
"exact",
"fine",
"hairline",
"mathematical",
"precise",
"refined",
"rigorous",
"spot-on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"correct",
"right",
"strict",
"true",
"definite",
"definitive",
"nice",
"subtle",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"finical",
"finicky",
"meticulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approximate",
"round",
"false",
"incorrect",
"untrue",
"wrong",
"careless",
"loose",
"indefinite",
"unclear",
"vague",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"questionable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy"
],
"antonyms":[
"coarse",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inexact",
"rough"
]
},
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"pinpointed the culprit by tracking calls from his cell phone"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguish",
"finger",
"ID",
"identify",
"single (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnose",
"determine",
"find",
"locate",
"pick out",
"place",
"recognize",
"spot",
"check",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"notice",
"observe",
"scrutinize",
"betray",
"disclose",
"discover",
"reveal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide",
"counterfeit",
"feign",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"publishers like to be able to pinpoint publicity efforts where they will have the most effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"bend",
"cast",
"direct",
"head",
"hold",
"level",
"set",
"train"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sight",
"bear",
"face",
"concentrate",
"focus",
"incline",
"orient",
"steer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avert",
"curve",
"deflect",
"detour",
"divert",
"rechannel",
"shunt",
"sidetrack"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in point , tip":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apex",
"cusp",
"end",
"nib",
"nose",
"pike",
"point",
"tip",
"barb",
"jag",
"prickle",
"snag",
"spike",
"sticker",
"prong",
"tine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinprick":{
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"the nurse kindly put a decorated bandage over the pinprick from the injection"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in poke , punch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"spindle",
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pintoes":{
"as in blacks , chestnuts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinup girl":{
"as in cover girl , bathing beauty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bathing beauty",
"cover girl",
"belle",
"charmer",
"peach",
"houri",
"babe",
"beauty",
"beauty queen",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dolly bird",
"enchantress",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"goddess",
"honey",
"knockout",
"queen",
"stunner",
"cutie-pie",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"hottie",
"looker",
"pretty",
"coquette",
"femme fatale",
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bag",
"frump",
"crone",
"hag",
"witch"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pioneer":{
"a person who settles in a new region":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hardships that the pioneers endured while taming the wilderness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"explorer",
"pathfinder",
"trailblazer",
"bushranger",
"mountain man",
"woodsman"
],
"synonyms":[
"colonial",
"colonist",
"colonizer",
"frontiersman",
"homesteader",
"settler"
]
},
"coming before all others in time or order":{
"antonyms":[
"final",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"terminal",
"terminating",
"ultimate"
],
"examples":[
"the nation's pioneer institution for the education of African-Americans"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"late",
"consequent",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"succeeding",
"penultimate"
],
"related":[
"ancient",
"early",
"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"antecedent",
"preceding",
"previous"
],
"synonyms":[
"earliest",
"first",
"foremost",
"headmost",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"leadoff",
"maiden",
"original",
"premier",
"virgin"
]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"antonyms":[
"close (down)",
"phase out",
"shut (up)"
],
"examples":[
"he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"annul",
"nullify",
"end",
"finish",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
"round (off or out)",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"related":[
"author",
"father",
"originate",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"create",
"devise",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"produce",
"think (up)",
"construct",
"put up",
"develop",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"endow",
"finance",
"fund",
"subsidize",
"arrange",
"organize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"refound",
"reinitiate",
"reinstitute",
"relaunch"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"constitute",
"establish",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"plant",
"set up",
"start"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pioneering":{
"as in revolutionary , trailblazing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"revolutionary",
"trailblazing",
"advanced",
"avant",
"avant-garde",
"cutting-edge",
"progressive",
"state-of-the-art",
"alternative",
"antiestablishment",
"nontraditional",
"unconventional",
"underground",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"outr\u00e9",
"way-out",
"fresh",
"new",
"novel",
"original",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"unfamiliar",
"unheard-of",
"unknown",
"unprecedented",
"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conventional",
"customary",
"established",
"orthodox",
"traditional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research"
],
"synonyms":[
"beginning",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"planting",
"setting up",
"starting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoring",
"fathering",
"originating",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"creating",
"devising",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"producing",
"thinking (up)",
"constructing",
"putting up",
"developing",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"endowing",
"financing",
"funding",
"subsidizing",
"arranging",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"systemizing",
"refounding",
"reinitiating",
"reinstituting",
"relaunching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"annulling",
"nullifying",
"ending",
"finishing",
"halting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"rounding (off or out)",
"winding up",
"wrapping up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closing (down)",
"phasing out",
"shutting (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pipe":{
"a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)":{
"examples":[
"the plumber came and fixed the water pipe that was leaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"line",
"penstock",
"trough",
"tube"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drain",
"drainpipe",
"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"smokestack",
"spout",
"standpipe",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
"waste pipe",
"waterspout",
"pipage",
"pipeage",
"pipeline",
"piping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"examples":[
"a full pipe of wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"butt",
"cask",
"firkin",
"hogshead",
"keg",
"kilderkin",
"puncheon",
"rundlet",
"runlet",
"tun"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cistern",
"tub",
"vat",
"can",
"drum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway":{
"examples":[
"piped water into every house"
],
"synonyms":[
"canalize",
"channel",
"channelize",
"conduct",
"direct",
"funnel",
"siphon",
"syphon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry",
"convey",
"transmit",
"concentrate",
"consolidate",
"focus"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"examples":[
"the baby piped shrilly in his bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheep",
"chirp",
"chirrup",
"chitter",
"jargon",
"peep",
"pip",
"tweet",
"twitter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cackle",
"chatter",
"jabber",
"sing",
"trill",
"warble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piped":{
"to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway":{
"examples":[
"piped water into every house"
],
"synonyms":[
"canalized",
"channeled",
"channelled",
"channelized",
"conducted",
"directed",
"funneled",
"funnelled",
"siphoned",
"syphoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried",
"conveyed",
"transmitted",
"concentrated",
"consolidated",
"focused",
"focussed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"examples":[
"the baby piped shrilly in his bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheeped",
"chirped",
"chirruped",
"chittered",
"jargoned",
"peeped",
"pipped",
"tweeted",
"twittered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cackled",
"chattered",
"jabbered",
"sang",
"sung",
"trilled",
"warbled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piped up":{
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belted up",
"clammed up",
"dummied up",
"hushed",
"shut up",
"suppressed",
"quieted"
],
"related":[
"bawled",
"bayed",
"bellowed",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"roared",
"sang (out)",
"sung (out)",
"shouted",
"thundered",
"vociferated",
"yelled",
"articulated",
"enounced",
"enunciated"
],
"synonyms":[
"shot",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"spouted (off)",
"talked up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piping hot":{
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"the appeal of piping hot cocoa after an afternoon of shoveling snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"piping up (with)":{
"as in commenting , remarking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commenting",
"remarking",
"clothing",
"couching",
"formulating",
"formulizing",
"phrasing",
"putting",
"wording",
"ripping (out)",
"snarling",
"breathing",
"chirping",
"drawling",
"gasping",
"lipping",
"mouthing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"shouting",
"spluttering",
"spouting",
"whispering",
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"blabbering",
"blurting",
"bolting",
"getting off",
"shooting",
"airing",
"discussing",
"giving",
"looking",
"sharing",
"sounding",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing",
"articulating",
"bringing out",
"enunciating",
"passing",
"saying",
"speaking",
"stating",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifling",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pipping":{
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"baby birds pipping loudly in their nest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cackling",
"chattering",
"jabbering",
"singing",
"trilling",
"warbling"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheeping",
"chirping",
"chirruping",
"chittering",
"jargoning",
"peeping",
"piping",
"tweeting",
"twittering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pips":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"examples":[
"a black horse with white pips"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotches",
"dapples",
"dots",
"eyespots",
"flecks",
"mottles",
"patches",
"points",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"birthmarks",
"freckles",
"moles",
"blobs",
"blots",
"marks",
"smears",
"smudges",
"smutches",
"stains",
"spatters",
"splashes",
"polka dots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"that new sports car is a real pip"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"doozies",
"doozers",
"dreams",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"listening to all that chat show blather gives me the pip"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"griefs",
"irritations",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitations",
"discomforts",
"displeasures",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"upsets",
"irritabilities",
"peeves",
"perturbations",
"pets",
"piques",
"resentments",
"troubles",
"angers",
"chafes",
"danders",
"dudgeons",
"galls",
"huffs",
"indignations",
"ires",
"outrages",
"umbrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"examples":[
"baby birds pipping loudly in their nest"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheeps",
"chirps",
"chirrups",
"chitters",
"jargons",
"peeps",
"pipes",
"tweets",
"twitters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cackles",
"chatters",
"jabbers",
"sings",
"trills",
"warbles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piquing":{
"serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction":{
"examples":[
"piquing remarks that were said mainly to get a rise out of the other guests at the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"charged",
"edgy",
"exciting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"instigative",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"stimulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explosive",
"fiery",
"incendiary",
"inflammatory",
"triggering",
"inducing",
"inspirational",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"motivational",
"motivative",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"activating",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"quickening",
"vitalizing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"pesky",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subduing"
],
"antonyms":[
"noninflammatory"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"her seat companion piqued her by repeatedly poking her in the ribs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"their sarcastic comments piqued him to respond in kind"
],
"synonyms":[
"arousing",
"encouraging",
"exciting",
"firing (up)",
"impassioning",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"moving",
"provoking",
"revving (up)",
"sparking",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fanning",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"triggering",
"activating",
"animating",
"driving",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"inducing",
"inspiring",
"keying (up)",
"motivating",
"motiving",
"pumping up",
"quickening",
"setting off",
"vitalizing",
"abetting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"raising",
"whipping (up)",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"irritating",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"soothing",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to think highly of (oneself)":{
"examples":[
"she piques herself on her considerable musical abilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"flattering",
"pluming",
"priding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boasting",
"bragging",
"crowing",
"gasconading",
"swaggering",
"swanking",
"swashing",
"vaporing",
"vaunting",
"congratulating",
"felicitating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pirogue":{
"as in canoe , rowboat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pistol-whip":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pistol-whipped":{
"as in horsewhipped , flagellated":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pistol-whipping":{
"as in horsewhipping , flagellating":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pistols":{
"a very energetic person":{
"examples":[
"a real pistol , she dances rings around the other performers"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamos",
"fireballs",
"live wires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters",
"achievers",
"comers",
"dashers",
"doers",
"enterprisers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdlers",
"idlers",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"triflers",
"clock-watchers",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"couch potatoes",
"deadbeats",
"do-nothings",
"drones",
"layabouts",
"lazybones",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shotguns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shotguns",
"blasts (at)",
"fires (at)",
"machine-guns",
"tommy-guns",
"blazes",
"peppers",
"potshots",
"snipes (at)",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"fells",
"ices",
"kills",
"slays",
"blows away",
"brings down",
"drops",
"picks off",
"shoots down",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"butchers",
"decimates",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"wipes out",
"drills",
"guns",
"plugs",
"pops",
"shoots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pit":{
"a sunken area forming a separate space":{
"antonyms":[
"bulge",
"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance"
],
"examples":[
"removal of the tree stump left a gaping pit in the yard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hill",
"mound",
"rise",
"bump",
"bunch",
"hump",
"lump",
"pimple",
"swell",
"swelling",
"tumor"
],
"related":[
"burrow",
"cave",
"cavern",
"ditch",
"excavation",
"furrow",
"groove",
"gutter",
"trench",
"trough",
"basin",
"bowl",
"valley",
"alcove",
"cleft",
"niche",
"nook",
"opening",
"socket",
"alveolus",
"dimple",
"gouge",
"impression",
"imprint",
"notch",
"pocket",
"borehole",
"chuckhole",
"crater",
"posthole",
"pothole",
"sinkhole",
"wallow",
"water hole",
"well",
"abyss",
"chasm",
"gulf",
"vacuity",
"vacuum",
"void"
],
"synonyms":[
"cavity",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hole",
"hollow",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"recess"
]
},
"as in dent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pit-a-pats":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"her heart pit-a-patted with surprise"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuates",
"oscillates",
"vibrates",
"quivers",
"trembles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pit-a-patting":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her heart pit-a-patted with surprise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fluctuating",
"oscillating",
"vibrating",
"quivering",
"trembling"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitch-black":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"having the color of soot or coal":{
"examples":[
"a pitch-black cat with green eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"ebony",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"raven",
"sable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"inky",
"blackish",
"brunet",
"brunette"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brilliant",
"light",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"white"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitched":{
"inclined or twisted to one side":{
"examples":[
"pitched and badly weathered, the fence looked ready to fall down at any moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"askew",
"aslant",
"atilt",
"awry",
"cock-a-hoop",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"crooked",
"listing",
"lopsided",
"oblique",
"off-kilter",
"skewed",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slantwise",
"tilted",
"tipping",
"uneven"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asymmetrical",
"asymmetric",
"unbalanced",
"unsymmetrical",
"contorted",
"disordered",
"distorted",
"irregular"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ordered",
"orderly",
"regular",
"uniform",
"balanced",
"symmetrical",
"symmetric"
],
"antonyms":[
"even",
"level",
"straight"
]
},
"running in a slanting direction":{
"examples":[
"a sharply pitched rooftop"
],
"synonyms":[
"cant",
"canted",
"diagonal",
"graded",
"inclined",
"leaning",
"listing",
"oblique",
"raked",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slantwise",
"sloped",
"sloping",
"tilted",
"tilting"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"horizontal",
"level",
"plumb",
"up-and-down",
"vertical",
"parallel",
"perpendicular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fix in an upright position":{
"examples":[
"needed help pitching a tent"
],
"synonyms":[
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up",
"upended",
"upraised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braced",
"buttressed",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"supported",
"boosted",
"craned",
"elevated",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hefted",
"heightened",
"hiked",
"hoisted",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"perked (up)",
"picked up",
"upheld",
"uplifted",
"upped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolished",
"flattened",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"razed",
"tore down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cast oneself head first into deep water":{
"examples":[
"when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"dived",
"dove",
"plunged",
"sounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dipped",
"immersed",
"submerged",
"belly flopped",
"plumped",
"plunked",
"plonked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfaced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the ship pitched in the choppy sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"careened",
"lurched",
"rocked",
"rolled",
"seesawed",
"swayed",
"tossed",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bucked",
"doddered",
"faltered",
"floundered",
"halted",
"hitched",
"hobbled",
"jerked",
"jolted",
"reeled",
"shook",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"teetered",
"toddled",
"tottered",
"tumbled",
"vacillated",
"vibrated",
"waddled",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"wagged",
"waggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"pitched the baseball almost 50 feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"catapulted",
"chucked",
"dashed",
"fired",
"flung",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"hurtled",
"launched",
"lobbed",
"lofted",
"pegged",
"pelted",
"slung",
"threw",
"tossed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowled",
"darted",
"flipped",
"gunned",
"hooked",
"passed",
"rolled",
"shot",
"bucked",
"ejected",
"impelled",
"precipitated",
"projected",
"propelled",
"rifled",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiered",
"cast (off)",
"chucked",
"deep-sixed",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"eighty-sixed",
"86'd",
"exorcised",
"exorcized",
"flung (off or away)",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"laid by",
"lost",
"rejected",
"scrapped",
"shed",
"shucked (off)",
"sloughed (off)",
"sluffed (off)",
"threw away",
"threw out",
"tossed",
"unloaded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"abdicated",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"dismissed",
"kicked out",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"held",
"held back",
"kept",
"retained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"boosted",
"hyped",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"talked up",
"touted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"barked",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"sold",
"pushed",
"acclaimed",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"plumped (for)",
"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
"recommended",
"reviewed",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"published"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"leaned",
"listed",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked",
"bent",
"deviated",
"swerved",
"veered",
"declined",
"descended",
"reclined",
"retreated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"straightened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pitched battle":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitfall":{
"a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized":{
"examples":[
"buying a house can be full of pitfalls for the unwary"
],
"synonyms":[
"booby trap",
"catch",
"catch-22",
"gimmick",
"gotcha",
"hitch",
"joker",
"land mine",
"snag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snare",
"trap",
"trip wire",
"web",
"hazard",
"peril",
"risk",
"bomb",
"bombshell",
"kicker",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"bait",
"decoy",
"lure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that may cause injury or harm":{
"examples":[
"one of the pitfalls of ignorance is that people will also assume you're stupid"
],
"synonyms":[
"danger",
"hazard",
"imminence",
"menace",
"peril",
"risk",
"threat",
"trouble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snare",
"trap",
"booby trap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guard",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield",
"ward",
"asylum",
"harbor",
"haven",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piths":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"finally got to the pith of the discussion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"bull's-eyes",
"bullseyes",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"pivots",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitiless":{
"having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings":{
"examples":[
"gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boorish",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ironfisted",
"ironhanded",
"jackbooted",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
"austere",
"cold",
"frosty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"kind",
"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"affectionate",
"fond",
"loving"
],
"antonyms":[
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitter-patters":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his heart pitter-pattered with excitement as he waited for the right moment to propose"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fluctuates",
"oscillates",
"vibrates",
"quivers",
"trembles"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitying":{
"as in patient , understanding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"patient",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted",
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable",
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have sympathy for":{
"examples":[
"I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"bleeding (for)",
"commiserating (with)",
"compassionating",
"condoling (with)",
"feeling (for)",
"sympathizing (with)",
"yearning (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"grieving (for)",
"sorrowing (for)",
"loving",
"empathizing (with)",
"identifying (with)",
"tolerating",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"disliking",
"hating",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pivot":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"an issue that is the real pivot of the controversy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"course",
"direction",
"drift",
"tenor",
"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"the telescope is mounted on a tripod so you can easily pivot it for viewing in any direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"revolve",
"roll",
"rotate",
"spin",
"swing",
"swirl",
"swivel",
"turn",
"twirl",
"twist",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screw",
"unscrew",
"twiddle",
"coil",
"crank",
"reel",
"wind",
"circulate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"picketed":{
"as in walled , buffered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"walled",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"averted",
"prevented",
"bulwarked",
"covered",
"defended",
"fenced",
"fended",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"shielded",
"warded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinto":{
"having blotches of two or more colors":{
"examples":[
"somehow, the pure white mare had a pinto foal"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"piebald",
"pied",
"splotched",
"spotted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shaded",
"checkered",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"varicolored",
"variegated",
"blotted",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"calico",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"colored",
"colorful",
"pigmented",
"dotted",
"peppered",
"sprinkled",
"stippled",
"discolored",
"dyed",
"marked",
"stained",
"flecked",
"streaked",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"monochromatic",
"monochrome",
"monochromic",
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bay , chestnut":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bay",
"black",
"buckskin",
"chestnut",
"dun",
"palomino",
"roan",
"skewbald",
"sorrel",
"charger",
"courser",
"cow pony",
"cutting horse",
"galloper",
"hack",
"hackney",
"mount",
"packhorse",
"prancer",
"quarter horse",
"racehorse",
"saddle horse",
"trotter",
"warhorse",
"workhorse",
"cob",
"dobbin",
"jade",
"plug",
"skate",
"bronco",
"mustang",
"pony",
"colt",
"filly",
"foal",
"gelding",
"mare",
"stallion",
"equid",
"equine",
"horse",
"nag",
"steed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pipped":{
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"examples":[
"baby birds pipping loudly in their nest"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheeped",
"chirped",
"chirruped",
"chittered",
"jargoned",
"peeped",
"piped",
"tweeted",
"twittered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cackled",
"chattered",
"jabbered",
"sang",
"sung",
"trilled",
"warbled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pigtail":{
"as in dreadlock , cornrow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piddled":{
"as in mucked , played":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pike (out or off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"related":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilferages":{
"as in plunders , pillages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picketer":{
"as in protester , demonstrator":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"protester",
"protestor",
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"provocateur",
"rabble-rouser",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"persuader",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"prodder",
"prompter",
"provoker",
"agent provocateur"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pip-squeak":{
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"I'm not changing my job based on the advice of some pip-squeak who cornered me at a party"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"related":[
"no-name",
"noncelebrity",
"least",
"inferior",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity",
"figurehead",
"puppet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chief",
"head",
"lead",
"leader",
"celebrity",
"luminary",
"notable",
"personality",
"planet",
"star",
"superstar",
"authority",
"superior",
"great power",
"party",
"power"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piled (up)":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"snow piling up in the driveway at a rapid pace"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreted",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"built up",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"gathered",
"massed",
"stacked (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinated",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"banked",
"drifted",
"ridged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilferers":{
"as in dips , pickpockets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"shoplifters",
"sneak thiefs",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"poachers",
"rustlers",
"smugglers",
"burglars",
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"picklocks",
"safecrackers",
"bandits",
"footpads",
"highwaymen",
"pirates",
"larcenists",
"pinchers",
"purloiners",
"robbers",
"stealers",
"thieves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinwheels":{
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"the kayaker had got sucked into the whirlpool, and his kayak was pinwheeling helplessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrates",
"pirouettes",
"revolves",
"rolls",
"rotates",
"spins",
"turns",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"rounds",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twines",
"twists",
"winds",
"circles",
"circulates",
"encircles",
"orbits",
"rings",
"pivots",
"swivels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinstripes":{
"as in blazes , crossbars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"crossbars",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picks the brains of":{
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"The conference presented an opportunity to pick the brains of some of the world's greatest scientists."
],
"synonyms":[
"catechizes",
"examines",
"grills",
"interrogates",
"pumps",
"queries",
"questions",
"quizzes",
"sweats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefs",
"cross-examines",
"cross-questions",
"annoys",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"pesters",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"polls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pinches":{
"an instance of theft":{
"examples":[
"the pinch of my favorite sweater really bugged me!"
],
"synonyms":[
"grabs",
"heists",
"rip-offs",
"thefts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break-ins",
"burglaries",
"holdups",
"muggings",
"stickups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of taking into one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"an innocent person caught up in a city-wide pinch of drug dealers"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehensions",
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"raids",
"house arrests",
"captures",
"entrapments",
"seizures",
"captivities",
"confinements",
"detentions",
"enchainments",
"holds",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipations",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"this labor pinch means that there'll be long lines at the checkouts"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"droughts",
"drouths",
"failures",
"famines",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absences",
"omissions",
"necessities",
"needs",
"privations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"oversupplies",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundances",
"adequacies",
"amplitudes",
"opulences",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"sufficiencies",
"wealths"
]
},
"to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points":{
"examples":[
"the zipper on those jeans always pinches me"
],
"synonyms":[
"nips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crimps",
"tweaks",
"clasps",
"clutches",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drops",
"frees",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"pinched the earrings while the boutique owner was distracted by another customer"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"pinched the purse snatcher just two blocks from where he had robbed the old lady"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"runs in",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"to avoid unnecessary waste or expense":{
"examples":[
"if we pinch hard for the upcoming year, we can probably afford the vacation at that fancy resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"economizes",
"saves",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"spares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserves",
"husbands",
"maintains",
"manages",
"preserves",
"scrapes",
"cuts back",
"cuts down",
"retrenches",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"splurges"
],
"antonyms":[
"wastes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piracy":{
"the act or pursuit of robbing ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"many countries have harsh penalties for piracy now"
],
"synonyms":[
"pirating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"marauding",
"pillaging",
"plunder",
"plundering",
"raiding",
"robbery",
"sacking",
"privateering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piping down":{
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"if you don't pipe down , we're turning this car around and going straight home!"
],
"synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"chilling out",
"cooling",
"hushing",
"quieting",
"settling (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drying up",
"relaxing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"unwinding",
"zoning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowning (around)",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"showing off",
"skylarking"
],
"antonyms":[
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"cutting up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"\" Pipe down or I'll cancel recess!\" the teacher commanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"drying up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"cooling (down)",
"settling (down)",
"hawing",
"hemming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piping up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking",
"talking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picked up on":{
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"The students picked up on the new material quickly."
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
"caught on (to)",
"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"got",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"knew",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"saw",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to take for one's own use (something originated by another)":{
"examples":[
"She picked up on earlier styles of painting and added her own flourishes."
],
"synonyms":[
"adopted",
"borrowed",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"took on",
"took up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domesticated",
"naturalized",
"appropriated",
"arrogated",
"took over",
"usurped",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"incorporated",
"quoted",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"cultivated",
"followed",
"heeded",
"honored",
"used",
"utilized",
"brought up",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"raised",
"reared",
"affected",
"assumed",
"copied",
"imitated",
"pretended",
"put on",
"simulated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"gave up",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"abjured",
"abnegated",
"disowned",
"rejected",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"discarded",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"threw away",
"threw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pitches (upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"at a garage sale you just might pitch upon a table exactly the size you need"
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinko":{
"as in lefty , leftist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"social democrat",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist",
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinned (down)":{
"as in chose , determined":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adopted",
"assigned",
"chose",
"determined",
"established",
"opted (for)",
"picked",
"preferred",
"selected",
"settled",
"singled (out)",
"specified",
"appointed",
"designated",
"fixed",
"named",
"set",
"arranged",
"coordinated",
"orchestrated",
"advertised",
"announced",
"declared",
"published"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pivotal":{
"of the greatest possible importance":{
"examples":[
"the report was missing a pivotal piece of information"
],
"synonyms":[
"critical",
"crucial",
"key",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisive",
"life-and-death",
"life-or-death",
"weighty",
"basic",
"elementary",
"fundamental",
"essential",
"indispensable",
"instrumental",
"necessary",
"requisite",
"pressing",
"urgent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"minor",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"piazze":{
"a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building":{
"examples":[
"let's enjoy our mint juleps out on the piazza"
],
"synonyms":[
"galleries",
"lanais",
"porches",
"stoops",
"verandas",
"verandahs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"galilees",
"porticoes",
"porticos",
"sleeping porches",
"solaria",
"solariums",
"sunporches",
"sunrooms",
"sun parlors",
"porte cocheres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pilasters":{
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"the rectangular pilasters spaced along the building's facade lend an air of classical grandeur"
],
"synonyms":[
"columns",
"piers",
"pillars",
"posts",
"stanchions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatids",
"caryatides",
"pedestals",
"buttresses",
"flying buttresses",
"needles",
"obelisks",
"piles",
"pilings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitfalls":{
"a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized":{
"examples":[
"buying a house can be full of pitfalls for the unwary"
],
"synonyms":[
"booby traps",
"catch-22's",
"catch-22s",
"catches",
"gimmicks",
"gotchas",
"hitches",
"jokers",
"land mines",
"snags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snares",
"traps",
"trip wires",
"webs",
"hazards",
"perils",
"risks",
"bombs",
"bombshells",
"kickers",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"baits",
"decoys",
"lures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that may cause injury or harm":{
"examples":[
"one of the pitfalls of ignorance is that people will also assume you're stupid"
],
"synonyms":[
"dangers",
"hazards",
"imminences",
"menaces",
"perils",
"risks",
"threats",
"troubles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snares",
"traps",
"booby traps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"shields",
"wards",
"asylums",
"harbors",
"havens",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pillorying":{
"to subject (someone) to harsh public criticism":{
"examples":[
"The press pilloried the judge for her decision."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"berating",
"castigating",
"crucifying",
"excoriating",
"flaying",
"gibbeting",
"hammering",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"scolding",
"upbraiding",
"blaming",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"dispraising",
"dissing",
"faulting",
"knocking",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"slagging",
"skewering",
"tweaking",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"blasting",
"clobbering",
"slamming",
"slashing",
"nicking (at)",
"sniping (at)",
"beefing",
"bellyaching",
"bitching",
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"kicking",
"kvetching",
"moaning",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"niggling",
"quibbling",
"whining",
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"drubbing",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"deriding",
"discommending",
"disparaging",
"putting down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinged":{
"as in dinged , clanged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chinked",
"clanged",
"clanked",
"clashed",
"clinked",
"ding-donged",
"dinged",
"gonged",
"jangled",
"jingled",
"plinked",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"tanged",
"tingled",
"tinkled",
"bonged",
"chimed",
"knelled",
"pealed",
"rang",
"tolled",
"echoed",
"resonated",
"resounded",
"reverberated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pie safe":{
"as in dresser , cuddy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cuddy",
"dresser",
"bookcase",
"breakfront",
"chest",
"china closet",
"credence",
"credenza",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8re",
"etagere",
"secretary",
"showcase",
"taboret",
"tabouret",
"vitrine",
"armoire",
"clothespress",
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"buffet",
"cabinet",
"closet",
"console",
"cupboard",
"hutch",
"locker",
"press",
"sideboard",
"cabinetry",
"shelving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pierced":{
"to go or come in or into":{
"examples":[
"thoughts of revenge relentlessly pierced her mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"accessed",
"entered",
"penetrated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barged (in)",
"breezed (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"bursted (in or into)",
"waltzed (in)",
"dropped in",
"popped (in)",
"strayed (into)",
"wandered (into)",
"crashed",
"encroached",
"gate-crashed",
"infiltrated",
"infringed",
"intruded",
"invaded",
"trespassed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"departed",
"exited",
"left"
]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"pierced his ears with a needle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bored",
"drilled",
"holed",
"perforated",
"punched",
"punctured",
"riddled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broached",
"tapped",
"poked",
"pricked",
"prickled",
"penetrated",
"burrowed (into)",
"excavated",
"gouged",
"grooved",
"hollowed",
"broke",
"cut",
"gashed",
"notched",
"rent",
"rended",
"ruptured",
"slashed",
"slit",
"split"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filled",
"patched",
"plugged",
"sealed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"the saber pierced his chest, releasing a spurt of blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"gored",
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pinked",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindled",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"piked",
"poniarded",
"pronged",
"quilled",
"pinpricked",
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pix":{
"a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera":{
"examples":[
"a coworker handed around some vacation pics"
],
"synonyms":[
"photographs",
"photos",
"prints",
"shots",
"snaps",
"snapshots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowups",
"close-ups",
"enlargements",
"stills",
"telephotos",
"daguerreotypes",
"ferrotypes",
"monochromes",
"sepias",
"tintypes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pikes":{
"as in bayonets , quills":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"spindles",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices",
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piracies":{
"the act or pursuit of robbing ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"many countries have harsh penalties for piracy now"
],
"synonyms":[
"pirating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"marauding",
"pillaging",
"plunder",
"plundering",
"raiding",
"robbery",
"sacking",
"privateering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinpointing":{
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"pinpointed the culprit by tracking calls from his cell phone"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguishing",
"fingering",
"identifying",
"ID'ing",
"IDing",
"singling (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnosing",
"determining",
"finding",
"locating",
"picking out",
"placing",
"recognizing",
"spotting",
"checking",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"investigating",
"noticing",
"observing",
"scrutinizing",
"betraying",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"revealing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"hiding",
"counterfeiting",
"feigning",
"shamming",
"simulating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"publishers like to be able to pinpoint publicity efforts where they will have the most effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"bending",
"casting",
"directing",
"heading",
"holding",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"setting",
"training"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighting",
"bearing",
"facing",
"concentrating",
"focusing",
"focussing",
"inclining",
"orienting",
"steering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averting",
"curving",
"deflecting",
"detouring",
"diverting",
"rechanneling",
"shunting",
"sidetracking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pietists":{
"as in zealots , cultists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultists",
"zealots",
"fundamentalists",
"deists",
"monotheists",
"polytheists",
"theist",
"believers",
"religionists",
"churchgoers",
"communicants",
"congregants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitch into":{
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We pitched into the project immediately."
],
"synonyms":[
"attack",
"dive (into)",
"tackle",
"wade (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"address",
"approach",
"face",
"buckle (down to)",
"concentrate (on)",
"focus (on)",
"knuckle down (to)",
"zero (in on)",
"fall (to)",
"pitch in",
"plunge (in)",
"settle (down)",
"pursue",
"take up",
"undertake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"evade",
"shun",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"idle",
"lag",
"mess",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"poke",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He pitched into his opponent without hesitation."
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pivoting":{
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"the telescope is mounted on a tripod so you can easily pivot it for viewing in any direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"revolving",
"rolling",
"rotating",
"spinning",
"swinging",
"swirling",
"swiveling",
"swivelling",
"turning",
"twirling",
"twisting",
"wheeling",
"whirling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screwing",
"unscrewing",
"twiddling",
"coiling",
"cranking",
"reeling",
"winding",
"circulating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinpoints":{
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"pinpointed the culprit by tracking calls from his cell phone"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguishes",
"fingers",
"identifies",
"IDs",
"singles (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnoses",
"determines",
"finds",
"locates",
"picks out",
"places",
"recognizes",
"spots",
"checks",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"notices",
"observes",
"scrutinizes",
"betrays",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"reveals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"hides",
"counterfeits",
"feigns",
"shams",
"simulates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"publishers like to be able to pinpoint publicity efforts where they will have the most effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"bends",
"casts",
"directs",
"heads",
"holds",
"levels",
"sets",
"trains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sights",
"bears",
"faces",
"concentrates",
"focuses",
"focusses",
"inclines",
"orients",
"steers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averts",
"curves",
"deflects",
"detours",
"diverts",
"rechannels",
"shunts",
"sidetracks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in points , tips":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apexes",
"apices",
"cusps",
"ends",
"nibs",
"noses",
"pike",
"pikes",
"points",
"tips",
"barbs",
"jags",
"prickles",
"snags",
"spikes",
"stickers",
"prongs",
"tines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pictured":{
"as in conceived , envisioned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"visualized",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real",
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a picture of":{
"examples":[
"the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence"
],
"synonyms":[
"depicted",
"imaged",
"portrayed",
"represented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delineated",
"described",
"documented",
"rendered",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"sketched",
"illustrated",
"showed",
"diagrammed",
"diagramed",
"caricatured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"could easily picture the mining town from the vivid description of it in the author's memoirs"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasied",
"fantasized",
"featured",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"saw",
"visioned",
"visualized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamed",
"stargazed",
"hallucinated",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"relived",
"reminisced",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foresaw",
"prefigured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"pictured the sailing ship in vivid language"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"depicted",
"described",
"drew",
"imaged",
"limned",
"painted",
"portrayed",
"rendered",
"set out",
"sketched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterized",
"defined",
"labeled",
"labelled",
"qualified",
"represented",
"demonstrated",
"illustrated",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported",
"told",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"showed",
"hinted",
"suggested",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"traced",
"vignetted",
"summarized",
"summed up",
"touched off",
"redescribed",
"reimaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colored",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"misdescribed",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"the next assignment is to picture your own face using colored pencils"
],
"synonyms":[
"drew"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caricatured",
"cartooned",
"crayoned",
"inked",
"penciled",
"pencilled",
"outlined",
"profiled",
"scrawled",
"scribbled",
"sketched"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pitch-dark":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"with its only light burned out, the closet was pitch-dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
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"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"having the color of soot or coal":{
"examples":[
"on a whim she bleached her pitch-dark hair blond"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"ebony",
"pitch-black",
"pitchy",
"raven",
"sable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"inky",
"blackish",
"brunet",
"brunette"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brilliant",
"light",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"white"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"picking up on":{
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"The students picked up on the new material quickly."
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciating",
"apprehending",
"assimilating",
"beholding",
"catching",
"catching on (to)",
"cognizing",
"compassing",
"comprehending",
"conceiving",
"cottoning (to or on to)",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"digging",
"discerning",
"getting",
"grasping",
"grokking",
"intuiting",
"knowing",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"recognizing",
"registering",
"savvying",
"seeing",
"seizing",
"sensing",
"tumbling (to)",
"twigging",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing"
]
},
"to take for one's own use (something originated by another)":{
"examples":[
"She picked up on earlier styles of painting and added her own flourishes."
],
"synonyms":[
"adopting",
"borrowing",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"taking on",
"taking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domesticating",
"naturalizing",
"appropriating",
"arrogating",
"taking over",
"usurping",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"incorporating",
"quoting",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"cultivating",
"following",
"heeding",
"honoring",
"using",
"utilizing",
"bringing up",
"fostering",
"nurturing",
"raising",
"rearing",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"copying",
"imitating",
"pretending",
"putting on",
"simulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"forsaking",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"abjuring",
"abnegating",
"disowning",
"rejecting",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"discarding",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"throwing away",
"throwing out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pinpricked":{
"as in frustrated , harassed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badgered",
"bedeviled",
"frustrated",
"haggled",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"inconvenienced",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"provoked",
"tested",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"tried",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"irked",
"irritated",
"narked",
"peeved",
"put out",
"scunnered",
"teed off",
"vexed",
"displeased",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"troubled",
"upset",
"angered",
"angry",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steaming",
"bristly",
"cross",
"disapproving",
"huffy",
"piqued",
"resentful",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"choleric",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"snappish",
"snuffy",
"testy",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"pleased",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in poked , punched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"piked",
"poniarded",
"pronged",
"quilled",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"spindled",
"gored",
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pierced",
"pinked",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pieces (together)":{
"as in assembles , compounds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"compounds",
"builds",
"constructs",
"makes",
"redrafts",
"reformulates",
"reframes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"devises",
"authors",
"indites",
"pens",
"writes",
"couches",
"expresses",
"phrases",
"states",
"verbalizes",
"words",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forms",
"molds",
"sculptures",
"shapes",
"casts",
"composes",
"crafts",
"drafts",
"draws up",
"formulates",
"frames",
"prepares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in figures out , works out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"answers",
"breaks",
"cracks",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"puzzles (out)",
"resolves",
"riddles (out)",
"solves",
"unravels",
"unriddles",
"works",
"works out",
"readdresses",
"reanalyzes",
"reconceives",
"reconsiders",
"redefines",
"reevaluates",
"reexamines",
"reexplores",
"rethinks",
"reviews",
"revisits",
"reweighs",
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"clears (up)",
"irons out",
"straightens (out)",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"unties",
"reconceptualizes",
"reenvisions",
"reimagines",
"reduplicates",
"repeats",
"reconstructs",
"re-creates",
"recreates",
"re-enacts",
"reinvents",
"rehears"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pithy":{
"marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning":{
"examples":[
"a fairly pithy criticism about a notably lengthy novel"
],
"synonyms":[
"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"monosyllabic",
"sententious",
"succinct",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"short",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"meaty",
"substantial",
"meaningful",
"significant",
"well-turned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pleonastic",
"redundant",
"repetitious",
"tautological",
"tautologous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"inflated"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"piping up":{
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"examples":[
"don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked"
],
"synonyms":[
"shooting",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawling",
"baying",
"bellowing",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"roaring",
"shouting",
"singing (out)",
"thundering",
"vociferating",
"yelling",
"articulating",
"enouncing",
"enunciating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"shutting up",
"suppressing",
"quieting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pipes up":{
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"examples":[
"don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked"
],
"synonyms":[
"shoots",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"spouts (off)",
"talks up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawls",
"bays",
"bellows",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"roars",
"shouts",
"sings (out)",
"thunders",
"vociferates",
"yells",
"articulates",
"enounces",
"enunciates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belts up",
"clams up",
"dummies up",
"hushes",
"shuts up",
"suppresses",
"quiets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piffled":{
"as in muddled , blundered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"blew",
"bobbled",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bumbled",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"screwed up",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pink slips":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"the company pink-slipped 300 workers in an effort to avoid bankruptcy"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bounces",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"musters out",
"releases",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates",
"turns off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsizes",
"excesses",
"furloughs",
"lays off",
"trims",
"boots (out)",
"chucks (out)",
"drums (out)",
"kicks out",
"throws out",
"unseats",
"separates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keeps",
"reemploys",
"rehires",
"contracts",
"subcontracts",
"recruits"
],
"antonyms":[
"employs",
"engages",
"hires",
"retains",
"signs (up or on)",
"takes on"
]
},
"as in bum's rushes , shutdowns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"shakeouts",
"shake-ups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pick off":{
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"examples":[
"picked off more passes than any other player in the division"
],
"synonyms":[
"block",
"intercept",
"interdict"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"catch",
"collar",
"corral",
"grab",
"seize",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pied":{
"having blotches of two or more colors":{
"examples":[
"although the mother's was pure black, the foal's coat was pied"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"piebald",
"pinto",
"splotched",
"spotted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shaded",
"checkered",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"varicolored",
"variegated",
"blotted",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"calico",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"colored",
"colorful",
"pigmented",
"dotted",
"peppered",
"sprinkled",
"stippled",
"discolored",
"dyed",
"marked",
"stained",
"flecked",
"streaked",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"monochromatic",
"monochrome",
"monochromic",
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"picking the brains of":{
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"catechizing",
"examining",
"grilling",
"interrogating",
"pumping",
"querying",
"questioning",
"quizzing",
"sweating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefing",
"cross-examining",
"cross-questioning",
"annoying",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"pestering",
"canvassing",
"canvasing",
"polling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pigging out":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"overeating",
"swilling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devouring",
"glutting",
"sating",
"stuffing",
"surfeiting",
"wolfing",
"banqueting",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"bolting",
"cramming",
"gulping",
"guzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbling",
"pecking",
"picking",
"tasting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilfer":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pickles":{
"a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape":{
"examples":[
"well, this is a bit of a pickle we've gotten ourselves into"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"boxes",
"catch-22's",
"catch-22s",
"corners",
"dilemmas",
"fixes",
"holes",
"impasses",
"jackpots",
"jams",
"mires",
"predicaments",
"quagmires",
"rabbit holes",
"rattraps",
"spots",
"sticky wickets",
"swamps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"difficulties",
"nodes",
"hot waters",
"soups",
"pinches",
"plights",
"quandaries",
"scrapes",
"troubles",
"deadlocks",
"halts",
"logjams",
"stalemates",
"standstills",
"clutches",
"crises",
"crossroads",
"emergencies",
"exigencies",
"junctures",
"straits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pilaster":{
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"the rectangular pilasters spaced along the building's facade lend an air of classical grandeur"
],
"synonyms":[
"column",
"pier",
"pillar",
"post",
"stanchion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatid",
"pedestal",
"buttress",
"flying buttress",
"needle",
"obelisk",
"pile",
"piling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picayunes":{
"something of little importance":{
"examples":[
"our lives don't amount to a picayune in the great scheme of things"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelles",
"child's play",
"fripperies",
"nonproblems",
"shucks",
"small beer",
"small change",
"trifles",
"trivialities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"naught",
"nought",
"smoke",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"peanuts",
"pittances",
"songs",
"straw",
"two bits",
"bunk",
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"follies",
"fribbles",
"fudges",
"hogwashes",
"humbug",
"humbuggeries",
"nonsense",
"rot",
"trash",
"trivia",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"licks",
"mites",
"ounces",
"particles",
"pinheads",
"scintillas",
"shreds",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"specks",
"spots",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pick-and-shovel":{
"requiring considerable physical or mental effort":{
"examples":[
"she loves coming up with the \"big idea\" but hates the actual pick-and-shovel work of starting a new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"arduous",
"Augean",
"backbreaking",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"effortful",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"moiling",
"murderous",
"rigorous",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"sweaty",
"tall",
"testing",
"toilsome",
"tough",
"uphill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"elusive",
"hairy",
"insoluble",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"opaque",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite",
"serious",
"spiny",
"stubborn",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"tricky",
"bruising",
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"labored",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"tight",
"trying",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"distressing",
"irksome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"grievous",
"grim",
"strict",
"stringent",
"brutal",
"cruel",
"inhuman",
"painful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievable",
"clear",
"doable",
"elementary",
"manageable",
"uncomplicated",
"comforting",
"gentle",
"painless",
"relaxed",
"smooth",
"soothing",
"accessible",
"friendly",
"idiotproof",
"user-friendly"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"light",
"mindless",
"simple",
"soft",
"undemanding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pint-sized":{
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"a pint-size wrestler who could defeat opponents twice his size"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pilules":{
"as in boluses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boluses",
"drops",
"gelcaps",
"dosages",
"doses",
"potions",
"preparations",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"cures",
"drugs",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"caps",
"capsules",
"lozenges",
"pills",
"tablets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picked at":{
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"Stop picking at your sister."
],
"synonyms":[
"dogged",
"henpecked",
"hounded",
"nagged",
"needled",
"pecked (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carped (at)",
"fussed (about or over)",
"nitpicked",
"annoyed",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chivied",
"chivvied",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"irked",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"rode",
"rid",
"vexed",
"vext",
"yapped (at)",
"egged",
"goaded",
"incited",
"prodded",
"prompted",
"spurred",
"urged",
"exhorted",
"insisted",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"wheedled",
"begged",
"importuned",
"pleaded",
"pled",
"plead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complimented",
"commended",
"lauded",
"praised",
"recommended",
"touted",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"built up",
"eulogized",
"extolled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pick up on":{
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"The students picked up on the new material quickly."
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"recognize",
"register",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss"
]
},
"to take for one's own use (something originated by another)":{
"examples":[
"She picked up on earlier styles of painting and added her own flourishes."
],
"synonyms":[
"adopt",
"borrow",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"take on",
"take up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domesticate",
"naturalize",
"appropriate",
"arrogate",
"take over",
"usurp",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"incorporate",
"quote",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"cultivate",
"follow",
"heed",
"honor",
"use",
"utilize",
"bring up",
"foster",
"nurture",
"raise",
"rear",
"affect",
"assume",
"copy",
"imitate",
"pretend",
"put on",
"simulate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"forsake",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"abjure",
"abnegate",
"disown",
"reject",
"renounce",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"discard",
"jettison",
"junk",
"throw away",
"throw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"picketers":{
"as in protesters , demonstrators":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"protesters",
"protestors",
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"provocateurs",
"rabble-rousers",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"persuaders",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"prodders",
"prompters",
"provokers",
"agents provocateurs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinking":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"accidentally pinked my shoulder with his fencing sword"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pictorials":{
"as in slicks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slicks",
"fanzines",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"digests",
"little magazines",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies",
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"weeklies",
"yearbooks",
"books",
"bulletins",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"reviews",
"serials",
"zines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pie-eyed":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"if you go out and get pie-eyed tonight, don't bother coming back"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pinion":{
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"chain",
"enchain",
"enfetter",
"fetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bit",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"iron",
"lash",
"secure",
"tie",
"truss",
"attach",
"fasten",
"join",
"link",
"confine",
"constrain",
"curb",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"entangle",
"tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"release",
"rescue",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"untangle",
"untie",
"detach",
"disengage"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbind",
"unfetter",
"unshackle"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pickpockets":{
"a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs",
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinch-hit":{
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"examples":[
"assigned to pinch-hit as a math teacher for the remainder of the semester"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"fill in",
"stand in",
"step in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"take over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"understudy",
"relieve",
"spell",
"double (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pixilated":{
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"examples":[
"a pixilated waitress who couldn't seem to get anything straight"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitiably":{
"as in wretchedly , abominably":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abominably",
"contemptibly",
"despicably",
"detestably",
"hatefully",
"nastily",
"sorrily",
"wretchedly",
"basely",
"currishly",
"dishonorably",
"ignobly",
"degenerately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gallantly",
"grandly",
"greatheartedly",
"greatly",
"heroically",
"high-mindedly",
"honorably",
"magnanimously",
"nobly",
"loftily",
"venerably",
"magnificently",
"majestically"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pileups":{
"a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time":{
"examples":[
"a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretions",
"accumulations",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"cumulations",
"cumuli",
"gatherings",
"lodgments",
"lodgements"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"assortments",
"congeries",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jumbles",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"mishmashes",
"mixes",
"mixtures",
"motleys",
"potpourris",
"agglomerations",
"clutters",
"hashes",
"heaps",
"litters",
"masses",
"piles",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"sums",
"totalities",
"backlogs",
"caches",
"funds",
"hoards",
"inventories",
"kitties",
"nest eggs",
"reserves",
"stockpiles",
"stocks",
"stores",
"supplies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pie holes":{
"the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
"examples":[
"\"Shut your piehole or I'll shut it for you,\" the bully threatened"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gobs",
"kissers",
"mouths",
"mugs",
"traps",
"yaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countenances",
"faces",
"pusses",
"visages",
"muzzles",
"jaws",
"mandibles",
"maxillae",
"maxillas",
"gullets",
"maws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pines (for)":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"examples":[
"pining for a house in the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"aches (for)",
"covets",
"craves",
"desiderates",
"desires",
"dies (for)",
"hankers (for or after)",
"hungers (for)",
"itches (for)",
"joneses (for)",
"longs (for)",
"lusts (for or after)",
"pants (after)",
"repines (for)",
"salivates (for)",
"sighs (for)",
"thirsts (for)",
"wants",
"wishes (for)",
"yearns (for)",
"yens (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spoils (for)",
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"likes",
"loves",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"favors",
"prefers",
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"despises",
"detests",
"execrates",
"hates",
"loathes",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"spurns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piazza":{
"a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building":{
"examples":[
"let's enjoy our mint juleps out on the piazza"
],
"synonyms":[
"gallery",
"lanai",
"porch",
"stoop",
"veranda",
"verandah"
],
"near synonyms":[
"galilee",
"portico",
"sleeping porch",
"solarium",
"sunporch",
"sunroom",
"sun parlor",
"porte cochere"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pilgrimage":{
"to take a trip especially of some distance":{
"examples":[
"tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe"
],
"synonyms":[
"journey",
"peregrinate",
"tour",
"travel",
"trek",
"trip",
"voyage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"knock (about)",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander",
"migrate",
"road-trip",
"bus",
"cab",
"coach",
"cruise",
"drive",
"fly",
"gig",
"jet",
"motor",
"navigate",
"ride",
"roll",
"sail",
"trundle",
"barnstorm"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in quest , progress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"grand tour",
"odyssey",
"progress",
"quest",
"safari",
"expedition",
"journey",
"passage",
"peregrination",
"travel(s)",
"trek",
"trip",
"commutation",
"commute",
"errand",
"excursion",
"flight",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"junket",
"outing",
"sally",
"sortie",
"tour",
"cruise",
"sail",
"voyage",
"drive",
"ride",
"spin",
"hike",
"slog",
"tramp",
"walk",
"walkabout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinpricks":{
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"the nurse kindly put a decorated bandage over the pinprick from the injection"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforations",
"pinholes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"punctures",
"stabs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouges",
"grooves",
"hollows",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incisions",
"lacerations",
"notches",
"rents",
"rips",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"tears"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pokes , punches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"spindles",
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pitiful":{
"deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy)":{
"examples":[
"that piece of junk is a pitiful excuse for a car"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"pitiable",
"sad",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"misbegotten",
"notorious",
"shameful",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"beastly",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"lousy",
"odious",
"stinking",
"bad",
"inferior",
"lame",
"poor",
"disgusting",
"dishonorable",
"shameful",
"meritless",
"unworthy",
"worthless",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sordid",
"unsavory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admirable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy",
"redoubtable",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"reputable",
"worthy",
"excellent",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"honorable",
"noble",
"honest",
"straight"
],
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"presentable",
"respectable"
]
},
"arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust":{
"examples":[
"a pitiful coward"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"contemptible",
"cruddy",
"deplorable",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"grubby",
"lame",
"lousy",
"mean",
"nasty",
"paltry",
"pitiable",
"ratty",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"sneaking",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"condemnable",
"detestable",
"execrable",
"hateful",
"loathsome",
"odious",
"disgusting",
"reptilian",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"revulsive",
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"shameful",
"base",
"ignoble",
"low",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"squalid",
"vile",
"blamable",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"reproachable",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"high-minded",
"honest",
"honorable",
"noble",
"principled",
"redoubtable",
"reputable",
"right-minded",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"virtuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"admirable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy"
]
},
"deserving of one's pity":{
"examples":[
"pitiful orphans who had lost everything in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"piteous",
"pitiable",
"poor",
"rueful",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"lamentable",
"regrettable",
"emotional",
"impressive",
"inspiring",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"awful",
"horrible",
"terrible",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"grievous",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"woeful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressive",
"uninspiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pimp":{
"a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"the sting operation nabbed 15 prostitutes and two pimps"
],
"synonyms":[
"cadet",
"fancy man",
"pander",
"procurer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mack daddy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"capitalize (on)",
"cash in (on)",
"exploit",
"impose (on or upon)",
"leverage",
"milk",
"play (on or upon)",
"use",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerk around",
"manipulate",
"mistreat",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"fleece",
"overcharge",
"skin",
"soak",
"stick",
"commercialize",
"commodify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pin (on)":{
"as in charge , father (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blame",
"charge",
"father (on)",
"impute (to)",
"accredit",
"ascribe",
"attribute",
"chalk up",
"credit",
"impute",
"lay",
"put down",
"assign",
"refer",
"associate",
"attach",
"connect",
"link"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pickup":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"get",
"learn",
"master"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)",
"imbibe",
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig up",
"discern",
"discover",
"examine",
"find out",
"hear",
"hit (on or upon)",
"run down",
"scare up",
"search (for)",
"see",
"track (down)",
"tumble (to)",
"unearth",
"major (in)",
"study",
"memorize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forget",
"misunderstand",
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"round up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"could you pick up some milk at the store?"
],
"synonyms":[
"buy",
"cop",
"purchase",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquire",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure",
"win",
"finance",
"pay (for)",
"spring (for)",
"barter (for)",
"deal (for)",
"dicker (over)",
"exchange (for)",
"haggle (for)",
"negotiate (about)",
"trade (for)",
"bargain (with)",
"chaffer (with)",
"horse-trade (with)",
"palter (with)",
"bid",
"offer",
"rebuy",
"repurchase"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"retail",
"sell",
"vend"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat"
],
"synonyms":[
"build up",
"gain",
"gather",
"grow (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double (in)",
"triple (in)",
"accrue",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"excite",
"stimulate",
"enhance",
"enlarge",
"enrich",
"expand",
"extend",
"maximize",
"boost",
"elevate",
"jack (up)",
"mount",
"ramp (up)",
"step up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"decline (in)",
"diminish (in)",
"dip",
"dwindle",
"fall (in)",
"lessen",
"taper",
"taper off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decrease (in)",
"lose"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"perk (up)",
"raise",
"take up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift",
"upraise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascend",
"mount",
"rise",
"rear",
"upend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"slip",
"bear",
"depress",
"press",
"push",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"antonyms":[
"drop",
"lower"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"run in",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff":{
"examples":[
"I thought you said you had picked up , so why are these things still lying around the rec room?"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean (up)",
"tidy (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"houseclean",
"housekeep",
"clean (off)",
"neaten",
"police (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"turn out",
"unclutter",
"arrange",
"order"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clutter",
"disarrange",
"mess (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"examples":[
"after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off"
],
"synonyms":[
"continue",
"proceed (with)",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume"
],
"near synonyms":[
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"recrudesce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"consummate",
"end",
"finalize",
"finish",
"belay",
"break",
"can",
"cease",
"check",
"cut",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"halt",
"knock off",
"leave off",
"quit",
"scuttle",
"shut off",
"stay",
"stop",
"terminate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"neaten",
"redd (up or out)",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up or out)",
"tidy (up)",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"rumple",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"tousle",
"tumble",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in increase , boost":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boost",
"increase",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"burst",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flicker",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"spurt",
"epidemic",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"paroxysm",
"recrudescence",
"recurrence",
"renewal",
"deluge",
"flood",
"rush",
"spate",
"surge",
"volley",
"commotion",
"furor",
"uproar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"doldrums",
"slump"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piercingly":{
"as in sharply , keenly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acutely",
"harshly",
"keenly",
"poignantly",
"severely",
"sharply",
"blackly",
"darkly",
"dismally",
"distressfully",
"distressingly",
"dourly",
"drearily",
"forlornly",
"gloomily",
"glumly",
"joylessly",
"mirthlessly",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"pessimistically",
"somberly",
"sullenly",
"cruelly",
"hurtfully",
"ill",
"rancorously",
"abjectly",
"cheerlessly",
"crestfallenly",
"dejectedly",
"despairingly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"downheartedly",
"low-spiritedly",
"agonizingly",
"bitterly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"grievously",
"hard",
"hardly",
"inconsolably",
"lugubriously",
"mournfully",
"painfully",
"plaintively",
"regretfully",
"resentfully",
"ruefully",
"sadly",
"sorely",
"sorrowfully",
"unhappily",
"wailfully",
"woefully",
"wretchedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blissfully",
"gladly",
"happily",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"delightedly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"gleefully",
"good-naturedly",
"lightheartedly",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"rejoicingly",
"sunnily",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"calmly",
"casually",
"dispassionately",
"easily",
"impassively",
"indifferently",
"lightly",
"nonchalantly",
"stoically",
"unconcernedly",
"favorably",
"well"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"piddles":{
"as in mucks , plays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"messes",
"monkeys",
"mucks",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drones",
"footles",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"hangs about",
"idles",
"kicks around",
"kicks back",
"lazes",
"lazies",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"dozes",
"estivates",
"aestivates",
"hibernates",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"moseys",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"swans",
"furloughs",
"goldbricks",
"malingers",
"truants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grinds",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"applies",
"buckles (down)",
"exerts",
"puts out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picks off":{
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"examples":[
"picked off more passes than any other player in the division"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocks",
"intercepts",
"interdicts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"catches",
"collars",
"corrals",
"grabs",
"seizes",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piling":{
"as in pile":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pile",
"needle",
"obelisk",
"buttress",
"flying buttress",
"caryatid",
"pedestal",
"column",
"pier",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"post",
"stanchion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaping",
"mounding",
"stacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking",
"layering",
"pyramiding",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"massing",
"bunching",
"clumping",
"lumping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gather into a closely packed group":{
"examples":[
"the kids piled into the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunching",
"clustering",
"crowding",
"huddling",
"pressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentering",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"congregating",
"convening",
"converging",
"flocking",
"forgathering",
"foregathering",
"herding",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"encircling",
"mobbing",
"surrounding",
"embracing",
"hugging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pier glass":{
"as in cheval glass , hand glass":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cheval glass",
"dressing glass",
"hand glass",
"pier mirror",
"glass",
"looking glass",
"mirror",
"reflector"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picks":{
"a person or thing that is chosen":{
"examples":[
"that team is my pick to win the Super Bowl"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"choices",
"chosen",
"selections"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorites",
"likes",
"likings",
"preferences",
"electives",
"options",
"appointments",
"designations",
"nominations",
"appointees",
"candidates",
"nominees",
"selectees",
"preselections"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class":{
"examples":[
"the pick of the contestants will go on to the next competition"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-lists",
"aristocracies",
"best",
"choices",
"corps d'elite",
"creams",
"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
"elect",
"elites",
"fat",
"flowers",
"illuminati",
"pinks",
"prides",
"priesthoods",
"primes",
"royalties",
"upper crusts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"establishments",
"gentries",
"nobilities",
"qualities",
"societies",
"top drawers",
"tops",
"upper classes",
"caviars",
"caviares",
"who's whos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commoners",
"herds",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"rank and files",
"unwasheds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the power, right, or opportunity to choose":{
"examples":[
"you have first pick of your office mates for the softball team"
],
"synonyms":[
"alternatives",
"choices",
"discretions",
"druthers",
"elections",
"liberties",
"options",
"preferences",
"selections",
"volitions",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determinations",
"free wills",
"wills",
"says",
"voices",
"votes",
"inclinations",
"likings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"discernments",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"perspicacities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coercions",
"duresses",
"forces",
"duties",
"obligations",
"Hobson's choices"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"in the days when corporal punishment was permissible, it was not uncommon for an inattentive student to get a sharp pick in the head with a blackboard pointer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use":{
"examples":[
"pick peas and beans from the garden for dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"gathers",
"harvests",
"reaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clams",
"fishes",
"seals",
"shrimps",
"whales",
"accumulates",
"forages",
"garners",
"gleans",
"cuts",
"hays",
"mows",
"bags",
"captures",
"hunts",
"nets",
"snares",
"traps",
"crops",
"grows",
"raises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"plants",
"seeds",
"sows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities":{
"examples":[
"I pick you as my partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picks",
"chooses",
"culls",
"elects",
"handpicks",
"names",
"opts (for)",
"prefers",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"tags",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselects",
"appoints",
"designates",
"fixes",
"marks",
"nominates",
"sets",
"tabs",
"taps",
"accepts",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"settles (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproves",
"negatives",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"discards",
"jettisons",
"throws away",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"turns down"
]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"he seems to be trying to pick a fight"
],
"synonyms":[
"abets",
"brews",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"raises",
"stirs (up)",
"whips (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"sows",
"stimulates",
"detonates",
"sets",
"sets off",
"triggers",
"excites",
"galvanizes",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"inspires",
"motivates",
"rouses",
"activates",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"fires",
"invigorates",
"jazzes (up)",
"livens (up)",
"peps (up)",
"quickens",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"discourages",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"tames",
"allays",
"calms",
"quiets",
"settles",
"soothes",
"stills",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eat reluctantly and in small bites":{
"examples":[
"still suffering from the shock of his wife's death, he could do no more than pick halfheartedly at his food"
],
"synonyms":[
"nibbles",
"pecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grazes",
"noshes",
"snacks",
"tastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gorges",
"gormandizes",
"overeats",
"pigs out",
"swills"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"continued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp"
],
"synonyms":[
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pitched into":{
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We pitched into the project immediately."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacked",
"dived (into)",
"dove (into)",
"tackled",
"waded (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressed",
"approached",
"faced",
"buckled (down to)",
"concentrated (on)",
"focused (on)",
"focussed (on)",
"knuckled down (to)",
"zeroed (in on)",
"fell (to)",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"settled (down)",
"pursued",
"took up",
"undertook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"evaded",
"shunned",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled",
"idled",
"lagged",
"messed",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"poked",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He pitched into his opponent without hesitation."
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pimped":{
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"capitalized (on)",
"cashed in (on)",
"exploited",
"imposed (on or upon)",
"leveraged",
"milked",
"played (on or upon)",
"used",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked around",
"manipulated",
"mistreated",
"bled",
"cheated",
"fleeced",
"overcharged",
"skinned",
"soaked",
"stuck",
"commercialized",
"commodified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilferage":{
"as in shoplifting , pilfering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"filching",
"pilfering",
"purloining",
"shoplifting",
"petit larceny",
"petty larceny",
"abduction",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"embezzlement",
"embezzling",
"graft",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"peculation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"pillage",
"plundering",
"rapine",
"spoliation",
"burglary",
"housebreaking",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"larceny",
"robbery",
"stealing",
"theft",
"thievery",
"black marketeering",
"smuggling",
"banditry",
"piracy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pipe down":{
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"if you don't pipe down , we're turning this car around and going straight home!"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"chill out",
"cool",
"hush",
"quiet",
"settle (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dry up",
"relax",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"unwind",
"zone out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clown (around)",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"monkey (around)",
"show off",
"skylark"
],
"antonyms":[
"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"\" Pipe down or I'll cancel recess!\" the teacher commanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dry up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"cool (down)",
"settle (down)",
"haw",
"hem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipe up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak",
"talk"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitchpoling":{
"as in toppling , upending":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inverting",
"oversetting",
"overthrowing",
"toppling",
"tumping (over)",
"upending",
"capsizing",
"overturning",
"turning over",
"upsetting",
"careening",
"heeling",
"keeling",
"leaning",
"listing",
"tilting",
"tipping",
"collapsing",
"falling",
"foundering",
"giving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"righting",
"standing up",
"straightening (up)",
"erecting",
"raising"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pierces":{
"to go or come in or into":{
"examples":[
"thoughts of revenge relentlessly pierced her mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"accesses",
"enters",
"penetrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barges (in)",
"breezes (in)",
"bursts (in or into)",
"waltzes (in)",
"drops in",
"pops (in)",
"strays (into)",
"wanders (into)",
"crashes",
"encroaches",
"gate-crashes",
"infiltrates",
"infringes",
"intrudes",
"invades",
"trespasses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"departs",
"exits",
"leaves"
]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"pierced his ears with a needle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"drills",
"holes",
"perforates",
"punches",
"punctures",
"riddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaches",
"taps",
"pokes",
"prickles",
"pricks",
"penetrates",
"burrows (into)",
"excavates",
"gouges",
"grooves",
"hollows",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"notches",
"rends",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"splits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fills",
"patches",
"plugs",
"seals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"the saber pierced his chest, releasing a spurt of blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pigmy":{
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"a pygmy elephant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"a living thing much smaller than others of its kind":{
"examples":[
"hummingbirds may be the pygmies of the avian world, but what they lack in size they make up for in beauty"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"runt",
"scrub",
"shrimp",
"Tom Thumb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nubbin",
"mini",
"miniature",
"bantam",
"homunculus",
"hop-o'-my-thumb",
"manikin",
"mannikin",
"half-pint"
],
"near antonyms":[
"whale",
"whopper"
],
"antonyms":[
"behemoth",
"colossus",
"giant",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monster",
"titan"
]
},
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"regrettably, most of the candidates for the party's nomination that year were political pygmies"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pip-squeak",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-name",
"noncelebrity",
"least",
"inferior",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity",
"figurehead",
"puppet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chief",
"head",
"lead",
"leader",
"celebrity",
"luminary",
"notable",
"personality",
"planet",
"star",
"superstar",
"authority",
"superior",
"great power",
"party",
"power"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pirouette":{
"a rapid turning about on an axis or central point":{
"examples":[
"the ballerina's perfectly executed pirouette"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyration",
"reel",
"revolution",
"roll",
"rotation",
"spin",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuit",
"circulation",
"ring",
"round",
"coil",
"curl",
"curve",
"spiral",
"twist",
"whorl",
"circle",
"orbit",
"eddy",
"swirl"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"the ballerina pirouetted across the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrate",
"pinwheel",
"revolve",
"roll",
"rotate",
"spin",
"turn",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coil",
"curl",
"curve",
"round",
"spiral",
"swirl",
"twine",
"twist",
"wind",
"circle",
"circulate",
"encircle",
"orbit",
"ring",
"pivot",
"swivel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pining (away)":{
"as in longing (for) , sighing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aching",
"longing (for)",
"sighing",
"smarting",
"agonizing",
"anguishing",
"bleeding",
"grieving",
"hurting",
"mourning",
"sorrowing",
"suffering",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting",
"ruing",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"taking on",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"yammering",
"yowling",
"languishing",
"regretting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"cheering",
"crowing",
"delighting",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"joying",
"laughing",
"ravishing",
"rejoicing",
"triumphing",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"commiserating",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"sympathizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pikes (out or off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pic":{
"a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera":{
"examples":[
"a coworker handed around some vacation pics"
],
"synonyms":[
"photo",
"photograph",
"print",
"shot",
"snap",
"snapshot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowup",
"close-up",
"enlargement",
"still",
"telephoto",
"daguerreotype",
"ferrotype",
"monochrome",
"sepia",
"tintype"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pizzerias":{
"as in restaurants , eateries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beaneries",
"caf\u00e9s",
"cafes",
"caffs",
"diners",
"eateries",
"grills",
"restaurants",
"barrooms",
"bars",
"inns",
"taverns",
"coffeehouses",
"coffee shops",
"estaminets",
"teahouses",
"tearooms",
"tea shops",
"cafeterias",
"lunch counters",
"luncheonettes",
"lunchrooms",
"snack bars",
"chophouses",
"steak houses",
"greasy spoons",
"hash houses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pimping":{
"so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention":{
"examples":[
"got paid only a pimping amount of money as a reporter for a small newspaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken",
"de minimis",
"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddling",
"piddly",
"piffling",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inferior",
"mean",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"little",
"puny",
"tiny",
"hairsplitting",
"nitpicking",
"pettifogging",
"quibbling",
"one-horse",
"small-fry",
"two-bit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"serious",
"substantial",
"weighty",
"eventful",
"momentous",
"pivotal",
"conspicuous",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"striking",
"appreciable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"measurable"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"considerable",
"important",
"material",
"significant"
]
},
"to take unfair advantage of":{
"examples":[
"a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"capitalizing (on)",
"cashing in (on)",
"exploiting",
"imposing (on or upon)",
"leveraging",
"milking",
"playing (on or upon)",
"using",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerking around",
"manipulating",
"mistreating",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"fleecing",
"overcharging",
"skinning",
"soaking",
"sticking",
"commercializing",
"commodifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pigeons":{
"one who is easily deceived or cheated":{
"examples":[
"a confidence man in search of another pigeon"
],
"synonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"gulls",
"mugs",
"patsies",
"pushovers",
"saps",
"soft touches",
"suckers",
"tools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cat's-paws",
"marks",
"targets",
"victims",
"schlemiels",
"shlemiels",
"butts",
"derisions",
"laughingstocks",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"boobies",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fools",
"geese",
"half-wits",
"jackasses",
"lunatics",
"monkeys",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nitwits",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"turkeys",
"yo-yos",
"losers",
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schlumps",
"schnooks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"hoaxers",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"slickers",
"swindlers",
"tricksters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pip":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"examples":[
"a black horse with white pips"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotch",
"dapple",
"dot",
"eyespot",
"fleck",
"mottle",
"patch",
"point",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"birthmark",
"freckle",
"mole",
"blob",
"blot",
"mark",
"smear",
"smudge",
"smutch",
"stain",
"spatter",
"splash",
"polka dot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"that new sports car is a real pip"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
"doozer",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"listening to all that chat show blather gives me the pip"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"botheration",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"grief",
"irritation",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"discomfort",
"displeasure",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peeve",
"perturbation",
"pet",
"pique",
"resentment",
"snappishness",
"trouble",
"anger",
"angriness",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"gall",
"huff",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"outrage",
"umbrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a short sharp sound like a small bird":{
"examples":[
"baby birds pipping loudly in their nest"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheep",
"chirp",
"chirrup",
"chitter",
"jargon",
"peep",
"pipe",
"tweet",
"twitter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cackle",
"chatter",
"jabber",
"sing",
"trill",
"warble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pick (at)":{
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"Stop picking at your sister."
],
"synonyms":[
"dog",
"henpeck",
"hound",
"nag",
"needle",
"peck (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carp (at)",
"fuss (about or over)",
"nitpick",
"annoy",
"badger",
"bait",
"bother",
"bug",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"irk",
"pester",
"plague",
"ride",
"vex",
"yap (at)",
"egg",
"goad",
"incite",
"prod",
"prompt",
"spur",
"urge",
"exhort",
"insist",
"press",
"pressure",
"push",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"wheedle",
"beg",
"importune",
"plead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compliment",
"commend",
"laud",
"praise",
"recommend",
"tout",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"build up",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance":{
"as in classic , masterpiece":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"classic",
"magnum opus",
"masterpiece",
"showpiece",
"composition",
"number",
"opus",
"piece",
"work",
"model",
"outline",
"sketch",
"\u00e9tude",
"canon",
"corpus",
"oeuvre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pitches into":{
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We pitched into the project immediately."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacks",
"dives (into)",
"tackles",
"wades (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addresses",
"approaches",
"faces",
"buckles (down to)",
"concentrates (on)",
"focuses (on)",
"focusses (on)",
"knuckles down (to)",
"zeroes (in on)",
"falls (to)",
"pitches in",
"plunges (in)",
"settles (down)",
"pursues",
"takes up",
"undertakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"evades",
"shuns",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"idles",
"lags",
"messes",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"pokes",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He pitched into his opponent without hesitation."
],
"synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pickled":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"I must have been rather pickled when I agreed to your stupid scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitching":{
"to fix in an upright position":{
"examples":[
"needed help pitching a tent"
],
"synonyms":[
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"upending",
"upraising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"propping (up)",
"shoring (up)",
"supporting",
"boosting",
"craning",
"elevating",
"heaving",
"hefting",
"heightening",
"hiking",
"hoisting",
"jacking (up)",
"lifting",
"perking (up)",
"picking up",
"upholding",
"uplifting",
"upping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"flattening",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"razing",
"tearing down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cast oneself head first into deep water":{
"examples":[
"when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"diving",
"plunging",
"sounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dipping",
"immersing",
"submerging",
"belly flopping",
"plumping",
"plunking",
"plonking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfacing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the ship pitched in the choppy sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"careening",
"lurching",
"rocking",
"rolling",
"seesawing",
"swaying",
"tossing",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"bucking",
"doddering",
"faltering",
"floundering",
"halting",
"hitching",
"hobbling",
"jerking",
"jolting",
"reeling",
"shaking",
"staggering",
"stumbling",
"teetering",
"toddling",
"tottering",
"tumbling",
"vacillating",
"vibrating",
"waddling",
"wavering",
"weaving",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"wagging",
"waggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"pitched the baseball almost 50 feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"catapulting",
"chucking",
"dashing",
"firing",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"hurtling",
"launching",
"lobbing",
"lofting",
"pegging",
"pelting",
"slinging",
"throwing",
"tossing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowling",
"darting",
"flipping",
"gunning",
"hooking",
"passing",
"rolling",
"shooting",
"bucking",
"ejecting",
"impelling",
"precipitating",
"projecting",
"propelling",
"rifling",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiering",
"casting (off)",
"chucking",
"deep-sixing",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"eighty-sixing",
"86ing",
"exorcising",
"exorcizing",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"laying by",
"losing",
"rejecting",
"scrapping",
"shedding",
"shucking (off)",
"sloughing (off)",
"sluffing (off)",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"tossing",
"unloading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"abdicating",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"dismissing",
"kicking out",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"taking on",
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"holding",
"holding back",
"keeping",
"retaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooing",
"boosting",
"hyping",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"talking up",
"touting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"barking",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"selling",
"pushing",
"acclaiming",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"recommending",
"reviewing",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"publishing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking",
"bending",
"deviating",
"swerving",
"veering",
"declining",
"descending",
"reclining",
"retreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"straightening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pined (away)":{
"as in longed (for) , sighed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ached",
"longed (for)",
"sighed",
"smarted",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bled",
"grieved",
"hurt",
"mourned",
"sorrowed",
"suffered",
"racked",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"lamented",
"rued",
"bawled",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"groaned",
"howled",
"keened",
"moaned",
"sobbed",
"took on",
"wailed",
"wept",
"yammered",
"yowled",
"languished",
"regretted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beamed",
"cheered",
"crowed",
"delighted",
"exulted",
"gloried",
"joyed",
"laughed",
"ravished",
"rejoiced",
"triumphed",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"commiserated",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"sympathized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pipeline":{
"a direct way of passing along information or supplies":{
"examples":[
"an equipment hauler serves as the columnist's pipeline for gossip about the rock band",
"the battle was ultimately lost because the enemy had destroyed our pipeline for resupply"
],
"synonyms":[
"channel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avenue",
"conduit",
"route",
"grapevine",
"outlet",
"fountainhead",
"origin",
"source",
"wellspring",
"supplier",
"connection",
"contact"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piffle":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"the belief that soda is made out of acid is just piffle"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in muddle , blunder":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bugger (up)",
"bumble",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"dub",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piques":{
"the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity":{
"examples":[
"in a fit of pique she posted embarrassing photos of her ex-boyfriend on the Internet"
],
"synonyms":[
"dudgeons",
"huffs",
"miffs",
"offenses",
"offences",
"peeves",
"resentments",
"umbrages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"angers",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"discomforts",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"griefs",
"irritations",
"vexations",
"agitations",
"displeasures",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"indignations",
"ires",
"outrages",
"perturbations",
"upsets",
"danders",
"tempers",
"fits",
"pets",
"pouts",
"sulks",
"tantrums",
"tizzies",
"affronts",
"barbs",
"brickbats",
"digs",
"indignities",
"insults",
"put-downs",
"slaps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"satisfactions",
"appeasements",
"mollifications",
"pacifications",
"contentments",
"delights",
"gratifications",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"her seat companion piqued her by repeatedly poking her in the ribs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"their sarcastic comments piqued him to respond in kind"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouses",
"encourages",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"impassions",
"incites",
"instigates",
"moves",
"provokes",
"revs (up)",
"sparks",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fans",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"triggers",
"activates",
"animates",
"drives",
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"induces",
"inspires",
"keys (up)",
"motivates",
"motives",
"pumps up",
"quickens",
"sets off",
"vitalizes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"raises",
"whips (up)",
"angers",
"enrages",
"maddens",
"upsets",
"jeers",
"taunts",
"teases",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irritates",
"vexes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"soothes",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to think highly of (oneself)":{
"examples":[
"she piques herself on her considerable musical abilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"flatters",
"plumes",
"prides"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boasts",
"brags",
"crows",
"gasconades",
"swaggers",
"swanks",
"swashes",
"vapors",
"vaunts",
"congratulates",
"felicitates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piloting":{
"as in steering , shepherding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherding",
"steering",
"administration",
"control",
"direction",
"generalship",
"governance",
"lead",
"leadership",
"management",
"running",
"monitoring",
"observance",
"observation",
"observing",
"policing",
"care",
"charge",
"guidance",
"headship",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision",
"surveillance",
"government",
"reign",
"rule",
"aegis",
"egis",
"auspices",
"guardianship",
"protection",
"trusteeship",
"tutelage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"piloted the figure skater through the national championships"
],
"synonyms":[
"coaching",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"leading",
"mentoring",
"shepherding",
"showing",
"tutoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfathering",
"directing",
"engineering",
"steering",
"swaying",
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"squiring",
"overseeing",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"drilling",
"training",
"briefing",
"enlightening",
"informing",
"instructing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"inculcating",
"indoctrinating",
"cultivating",
"fostering",
"nurturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"the lead rider piloted the rest of the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducting",
"directing",
"guiding",
"leading",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"routing",
"showing",
"steering",
"ushering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceding",
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"controlling",
"managing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogging",
"hounding",
"shadowing",
"tailgating",
"tailing"
],
"antonyms":[
"following",
"trailing"
]
},
"to operate or control the course of":{
"examples":[
"managed to pilot the plane to safety despite the failure of the left engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"conning",
"helming",
"navigating",
"steering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commandeering",
"hijacking",
"highjacking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pirouettes":{
"a rapid turning about on an axis or central point":{
"examples":[
"the ballerina's perfectly executed pirouette"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrations",
"reels",
"revolutions",
"rolls",
"rotations",
"spins",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuits",
"circulations",
"rings",
"rounds",
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"spirals",
"twists",
"whorls",
"circles",
"orbits",
"eddies",
"swirls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"the ballerina pirouetted across the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrates",
"pinwheels",
"revolves",
"rolls",
"rotates",
"spins",
"turns",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"rounds",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twines",
"twists",
"winds",
"circles",
"circulates",
"encircles",
"orbits",
"rings",
"pivots",
"swivels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinions":{
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"chains",
"enchains",
"enfetters",
"fetters",
"gyves",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bits",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"irons",
"lashes",
"secures",
"ties",
"trusses",
"attaches",
"fastens",
"joins",
"links",
"confines",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"entangles",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"looses",
"releases",
"rescues",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"untangles",
"unties",
"detaches",
"disengages"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unfetters",
"unshackles"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piercing":{
"causing intense discomfort to one's skin":{
"examples":[
"that light sweater will be no match for the piercing wind outside"
],
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"raw",
"sharp",
"shrewd",
"smarting",
"stinging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"invigorating",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"needlelike",
"prickly",
"tingling",
"caustic",
"corrosive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by a high volume of sound":{
"examples":[
"the frightened child emitted a piercing shriek that could be heard all over the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"roaring",
"slam-bang",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brazen",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"grating",
"harsh",
"overloud",
"sharp",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"quiet",
"silent",
"still",
"stilly",
"ultraquiet",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"tranquil",
"hushed",
"muffled",
"muted",
"softened",
"toned (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
]
},
"to go or come in or into":{
"examples":[
"thoughts of revenge relentlessly pierced her mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"accessing",
"entering",
"penetrating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barging (in)",
"breezing (in)",
"bursting (in or into)",
"waltzing (in)",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"straying (into)",
"wandering (into)",
"crashing",
"encroaching",
"gate-crashing",
"infiltrating",
"infringing",
"intruding",
"invading",
"trespassing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"departing",
"exiting",
"leaving"
]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"pierced his ears with a needle"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"drilling",
"holing",
"perforating",
"punching",
"puncturing",
"riddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaching",
"tapping",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"penetrating",
"burrowing (into)",
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"the saber pierced his chest, releasing a spurt of blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"piece of cake":{
"something that is easy to do":{
"examples":[
"The final exam for the class was a piece of cake ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breeze",
"cake",
"cakewalk",
"child's play",
"cinch",
"cream puff",
"duck soup",
"kid stuff",
"picnic",
"pushover",
"roses",
"snap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-brainer",
"nothing",
"sitting duck",
"gimme",
"laugher",
"walkaway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainteaser",
"poser",
"stumper",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"bother",
"nuisance",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[
"bear",
"beast",
"chore",
"headache",
"horror show",
"killer",
"labor",
"murder",
"pain",
"sticky wicket",
"stinker"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pics":{
"a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera":{
"examples":[
"a coworker handed around some vacation pics"
],
"synonyms":[
"photographs",
"photos",
"prints",
"shots",
"snaps",
"snapshots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowups",
"close-ups",
"enlargements",
"stills",
"telephotos",
"daguerreotypes",
"ferrotypes",
"monochromes",
"sepias",
"tintypes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pining (for)":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"examples":[
"pining for a house in the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiderating",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"hankering (for or after)",
"hungering (for)",
"itching (for)",
"jonesing (for)",
"longing (for)",
"lusting (for or after)",
"panting (after)",
"repining (for)",
"salivating (for)",
"sighing (for)",
"thirsting (for)",
"wanting",
"wishing (for)",
"yearning (for)",
"yenning (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spoiling (for)",
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"execrating",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitchman":{
"as in pitchwoman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pitchwoman",
"salesgirl",
"saleslady",
"saleswoman",
"shopgirl",
"floorwalker",
"salespeople",
"clerk",
"salesclerk",
"salesman",
"salesperson"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in huckster":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"huckster",
"disc jockey",
"disk jockey",
"DJ",
"shock jock",
"veejay",
"VJ",
"anchor",
"anchorman",
"anchorperson",
"anchorwoman",
"newscaster",
"mistress of ceremonies",
"CBer",
"ham",
"radioman",
"announcer",
"emcee",
"host",
"MC"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pine":{
"as in long , yearn":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"long",
"yearn",
"agonize",
"chafe",
"bother",
"fear",
"fret",
"fuss",
"stew",
"stress",
"sweat",
"trouble",
"worry",
"despair"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"abide",
"bear",
"endure",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"sustain",
"take",
"tolerate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilfered":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriated",
"boosted",
"filched",
"heisted",
"hooked",
"lifted",
"misappropriated",
"nicked",
"nipped",
"pinched",
"pocketed",
"purloined",
"ripped off",
"snitched",
"stole",
"swiped",
"thieved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarized",
"knocked over",
"robbed",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"sacked",
"carjacked",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"picked",
"rifled",
"poached",
"rustled",
"shoplifted",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"nailed",
"seized",
"snatched",
"took",
"mooched",
"sponged",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"shanghaied",
"spirited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bought",
"purchased",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"handed over",
"presented"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinioning":{
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic"
],
"synonyms":[
"binding",
"chaining",
"enchaining",
"enfettering",
"fettering",
"gyving",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"ironing",
"lashing",
"securing",
"trussing",
"tying",
"tieing",
"attaching",
"fastening",
"joining",
"linking",
"confining",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"entangling",
"tangling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"detaching",
"disengaging"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinding",
"unfettering",
"unshackling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piraguas":{
"as in square-riggers , yachts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantines",
"bugeyes",
"ca\u00efques",
"caravels",
"catamarans",
"catboats",
"cat rigs",
"clippers",
"corvettes",
"cutters",
"frigates",
"galleons",
"galleys",
"junk",
"keelboats",
"ketches",
"knockabouts",
"luggers",
"outriggers",
"pinnaces",
"sailers",
"schooners",
"shallops",
"sharpies",
"sloops",
"square-riggers",
"xebecs",
"yachts",
"yawls",
"barks",
"dinghies",
"sailboats",
"windjammers",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitch-perfect":{
"having exactly the right tone or style":{
"examples":[
"a pitch-perfect performance"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"condign",
"deserved",
"just",
"justified",
"applicable",
"appropriate",
"apt",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitted",
"fitting",
"good",
"happy",
"meet",
"pretty",
"proper",
"right",
"suitable",
"needed",
"required",
"requisite",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"cut out",
"qualified",
"trained",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"decent",
"kosher",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable",
"correct",
"decorous",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious",
"rightful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"untrained",
"inadequate",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"graceless",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"incompatible",
"uncongenial",
"improper",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"indecent",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"misbecoming",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unbeseeming",
"unfit",
"unfitting",
"unhappy",
"unmeet",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pilgrim":{
"a person who travels to foreign lands":{
"examples":[
"A wandering pilgrim , he made his way across Europe before eventually settling in Madrid."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"journeyer",
"wayfarer",
"holidayer",
"holidaymaker",
"vacationer",
"vacationist",
"guest",
"hosteler",
"hosteller",
"visitor",
"transient",
"snowbird",
"sunseeker",
"excursionist",
"rubberneck",
"rubbernecker",
"sightseer",
"tourist",
"traveler",
"traveller",
"tripper",
"migrator",
"pioneer",
"trekker",
"defector",
"deportee",
"evacuee",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"refugee",
"relocatee",
"repatriate",
"alien",
"foreigner",
"noncitizen",
"nonnative",
"colonist",
"newcomer",
"squatter",
"\u00e9migr\u00e9",
"emigr\u00e9",
"immigrant",
"incomer",
"in-migrant",
"migrant",
"out-migrant",
"settler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitches":{
"an act or instance of diving":{
"examples":[
"the daring pitch of the escaped prisoner into the swirling ocean waters at the base of the cliff"
],
"synonyms":[
"dives",
"plunges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dips",
"immersions",
"submersions",
"falls",
"plumps",
"slips",
"spills",
"stumbles",
"tumbles",
"descents",
"drops",
"belly flops",
"headers",
"jackknives",
"swan dives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"jumps",
"leaps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon":{
"examples":[
"the steep pitch of the roof makes it too dangerous to walk on"
],
"synonyms":[
"cants",
"diagonals",
"grades",
"gradients",
"inclinations",
"inclines",
"leans",
"rakes",
"slants",
"slopes",
"upgrades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascents",
"banks",
"climbs",
"rises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"declivities",
"descents",
"dips",
"downgrades",
"falls",
"hangings",
"hangs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fix in an upright position":{
"examples":[
"needed help pitching a tent"
],
"synonyms":[
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up",
"upends",
"upraises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braces",
"buttresses",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"supports",
"boosts",
"cranes",
"elevates",
"heaves",
"hefts",
"heightens",
"hikes",
"hoists",
"jacks (up)",
"lifts",
"perks (up)",
"picks up",
"upholds",
"uplifts",
"ups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishes",
"flattens",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"razes",
"tears down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cast oneself head first into deep water":{
"examples":[
"when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"dives",
"plunges",
"sounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dips",
"immerses",
"submerges",
"belly flops",
"plumps",
"plunks",
"plonks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfaces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the ship pitched in the choppy sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"careens",
"lurches",
"rocks",
"rolls",
"seesaws",
"sways",
"tosses",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bucks",
"dodders",
"falters",
"flounders",
"halts",
"hitches",
"hobbles",
"jerks",
"jolts",
"reels",
"shakes",
"staggers",
"stumbles",
"teeters",
"toddles",
"totters",
"tumbles",
"vacillates",
"vibrates",
"waddles",
"wavers",
"weaves",
"oscillates",
"undulates",
"waggles",
"wags"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"pitched the baseball almost 50 feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"catapults",
"chucks",
"dashes",
"fires",
"flings",
"heaves",
"hurls",
"hurtles",
"launches",
"lobs",
"lofts",
"pegs",
"pelts",
"slings",
"throws",
"tosses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowls",
"darts",
"flips",
"guns",
"hooks",
"passes",
"rolls",
"shoots",
"bucks",
"ejects",
"impels",
"precipitates",
"projects",
"propels",
"rifles",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiers",
"casts (off)",
"chucks",
"deep-sixes",
"discards",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"eighty-sixes",
"86es",
"exorcises",
"exorcizes",
"flings (off or away)",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"lays by",
"loses",
"rejects",
"scraps",
"sheds",
"shucks (off)",
"sloughs (off)",
"sluffs (off)",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"tosses",
"unloads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandons",
"abdicates",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"dismisses",
"kicks out",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes on",
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"holds",
"holds back",
"keeps",
"retains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"hypes",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"talks up",
"touts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"barks",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"sells",
"pushes",
"acclaims",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"recommends",
"reviews",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"publishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"cants",
"cocks",
"heels",
"inclines",
"leans",
"lists",
"slants",
"slopes",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bends",
"deviates",
"swerves",
"veers",
"declines",
"descends",
"reclines",
"retreats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"levels",
"straightens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinging":{
"as in dinging , clanging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chinking",
"clanging",
"clanking",
"clashing",
"clinking",
"ding-donging",
"dinging",
"gonging",
"jangling",
"jingling",
"plinking",
"plunking",
"plonking",
"tanging",
"tingling",
"tinkling",
"bonging",
"chiming",
"knelling",
"pealing",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"echoing",
"resonating",
"resounding",
"reverberating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pikeman":{
"as in lancer , spearman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lancer",
"spearman",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"commando",
"raider",
"lifer",
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picayune":{
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"examples":[
"the picayune ponderings of a commentator who steadfastly believes other cultures are inferior to our own"
],
"synonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
]
},
"so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention":{
"examples":[
"irritatingly picayune complaints"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken",
"de minimis",
"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"piddling",
"piddly",
"piffling",
"pimping",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inferior",
"mean",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"little",
"puny",
"tiny",
"hairsplitting",
"nitpicking",
"pettifogging",
"quibbling",
"one-horse",
"small-fry",
"two-bit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"serious",
"substantial",
"weighty",
"eventful",
"momentous",
"pivotal",
"conspicuous",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"striking",
"appreciable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"measurable"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"considerable",
"important",
"material",
"significant"
]
},
"something of little importance":{
"examples":[
"our lives don't amount to a picayune in the great scheme of things"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelle",
"child's play",
"frippery",
"nonproblem",
"nothing",
"shuck(s)",
"small beer",
"small change",
"trifle",
"triviality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"naught",
"nought",
"nothingness",
"smoke",
"zero",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"song",
"straw",
"two bits",
"bunk",
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"folly",
"fribble",
"fudge",
"hogwash",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"nonsense",
"piffle",
"rot",
"trash",
"trivia",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"lick",
"mite",
"ounce",
"particle",
"pinhead",
"scintilla",
"shred",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"soup\u00e7on",
"speck",
"spot",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pietistic":{
"as in religiose":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"religiose",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"prayerful",
"reverent",
"reverential",
"spiritual",
"worshipful",
"beatified",
"blessed",
"blest",
"canonized",
"venerable",
"devout",
"godly",
"holy",
"pious",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"cherubic",
"chaste",
"moral",
"pure",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antireligious",
"faithless",
"godless",
"impious",
"irreligious",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"blasphemous",
"desecrating",
"irreverent",
"profanatory",
"profane",
"sacrilegious",
"nonreligious",
"secular",
"unspiritual",
"worldly",
"backsliding",
"unfaithful",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"miscreant",
"sinful",
"sinning",
"unrighteous",
"wicked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"picking at":{
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"Stop picking at your sister."
],
"synonyms":[
"dogging",
"henpecking",
"hounding",
"nagging",
"needling",
"pecking (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carping (at)",
"fussing (about or over)",
"nitpicking",
"annoying",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"hassling",
"irking",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"riding",
"vexing",
"yapping (at)",
"egging",
"goading",
"inciting",
"prodding",
"prompting",
"spurring",
"urging",
"exhorting",
"insisting",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"wheedling",
"begging",
"importuning",
"pleading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complimenting",
"commending",
"lauding",
"praising",
"recommending",
"touting",
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"building up",
"eulogizing",
"extolling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pipers":{
"as in pianists , violinists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionists",
"bassoonists",
"clarinetists",
"clarinettists",
"cornetists",
"cornettists",
"drummers",
"fiddlers",
"flautists",
"flutists",
"guitarists",
"harpists",
"hornists",
"keyboardists",
"oboists",
"organ-grinders",
"organists",
"percussionists",
"pianists",
"pickers",
"reedmen",
"saxophonists",
"trombonists",
"trumpeters",
"violinists",
"violists",
"accompanists",
"recitalists",
"soloists",
"symphonists",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"artists",
"performers",
"minstrels",
"instrumentalists",
"musicians",
"players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitched in":{
"to make a donation as part of a group effort":{
"examples":[
"everyone at the office pitched in to buy a gift for the soon-to-be-wed couple"
],
"synonyms":[
"chipped in",
"contributed",
"kicked in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bestowed",
"donated",
"gave",
"presented",
"awarded",
"conferred",
"doled (out)",
"endowed",
"afforded",
"furnished",
"provided"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pieces of the action":{
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"allotments",
"allowances",
"cuts",
"ends",
"parts",
"pieces",
"portions",
"proportions",
"quotas",
"shares",
"slices",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lots",
"rations",
"commissions",
"percentages",
"members",
"partitions",
"sections",
"segments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregates",
"composites",
"compounds",
"pools",
"sums",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"picked out":{
"as in picked up , made out":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"identified",
"made out",
"picked up",
"beheld",
"caught",
"descried",
"discerned",
"distinguished",
"espied",
"eyed",
"looked (at)",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"perceived",
"regarded",
"remarked",
"saw",
"sighted",
"spied",
"spotted",
"viewed",
"witnessed",
"attended (to)",
"considered",
"heeded",
"marked",
"minded",
"studied",
"watched",
"examined",
"inspected",
"scanned",
"scrutinized",
"surveyed",
"glanced (at)",
"glimpsed",
"peered (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"missed",
"overlooked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pigpens":{
"a dirty or messy place":{
"examples":[
"your room is a pigpen \u2014so clean it up!"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumps",
"hellholes",
"holes",
"pigsties",
"shambles",
"sties",
"styes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"disorganizations",
"messes",
"muddles",
"musses",
"havoc",
"hells",
"mare's nests",
"mares' nests",
"snake pits",
"clutters",
"jumbles",
"litters",
"mishmashes",
"welters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pick the brains of":{
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"The conference presented an opportunity to pick the brains of some of the world's greatest scientists."
],
"synonyms":[
"catechize",
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"sweat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debrief",
"cross-examine",
"cross-question",
"annoy",
"harass",
"hound",
"pester",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"poll"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pictographs":{
"as in icons , attributes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attributes",
"icons",
"ikons",
"emblems",
"ensigns",
"hallmarks",
"impresas",
"logos",
"symbols",
"totems",
"trademarks",
"logograms",
"logographs",
"badges",
"coats of arms",
"cognizances",
"crests",
"insignia",
"insignias",
"monograms",
"colophons",
"stamps",
"tokens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in images , pictures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drawings",
"illuminations",
"images",
"pictograms",
"pictures",
"arts",
"artworks",
"captions",
"keys",
"legends",
"diagrams",
"figures",
"graphics",
"illustrations",
"plates",
"visuals",
"insets",
"depictions",
"pictorializations",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"representations",
"clarifications",
"elucidations",
"explanations",
"explications",
"expositions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pimple":{
"a small, inflamed swelling of the skin":{
"examples":[
"a painful pimple on his back"
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"fester",
"hickey",
"papule",
"pock",
"pustule",
"whelk",
"zit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackhead",
"blister",
"milium",
"whitehead",
"bump",
"lump",
"protuberance",
"sore",
"wart",
"weal",
"welt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picking on":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"Picking on others is not tolerated at this school."
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults":{
"examples":[
"\"Stop picking on your siblings!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"baiting",
"hassling",
"hazing",
"heckling",
"needling",
"riding",
"taunting",
"teasing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"mocking",
"ridiculing",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"fretting",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"gnawing (at)",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"hagriding",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"nagging",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"troubling",
"vexing",
"aggravating",
"exasperating",
"goading",
"testing",
"trying",
"aggrieving",
"agitating",
"bedeviling",
"beleaguering",
"discomforting",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"badgering",
"dogging",
"hounding",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"hectoring",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"persecuting",
"plaguing",
"terrorizing",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pick on":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"Picking on others is not tolerated at this school."
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"bullyrag",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults":{
"examples":[
"\"Stop picking on your siblings!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"bait",
"hassle",
"haze",
"heckle",
"needle",
"ride",
"taunt",
"tease"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deride",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"mock",
"ridicule",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"fret",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"gnaw (at)",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"hagride",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nag",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pester",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"trouble",
"vex",
"aggravate",
"exasperate",
"goad",
"test",
"try",
"aggrieve",
"agitate",
"bedevil",
"beleaguer",
"discomfort",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"badger",
"dog",
"hound",
"browbeat",
"bully",
"hector",
"harass",
"harry",
"persecute",
"plague",
"terrorize",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"picked on":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"Picking on others is not tolerated at this school."
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults":{
"examples":[
"\"Stop picking on your siblings!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"baited",
"hassled",
"hazed",
"heckled",
"needled",
"rode",
"rid",
"taunted",
"teased"
],
"near synonyms":[
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"mocked",
"ridiculed",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"fretted",
"frosted",
"galled",
"gnawed (at)",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"hagrode",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"nagged",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"troubled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"aggravated",
"exasperated",
"goaded",
"tested",
"tried",
"aggrieved",
"agitated",
"bedeviled",
"beleaguered",
"discomforted",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"badgered",
"dogged",
"hounded",
"browbeat",
"bullied",
"hectored",
"harassed",
"harried",
"persecuted",
"plagued",
"terrorized",
"tormented",
"tortured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pining":{
"a strong wish for something":{
"examples":[
"a sudden pining to have steak for dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetency",
"appetite",
"craving",
"desire",
"drive",
"hankering",
"hunger",
"itch",
"jones",
"letch",
"longing",
"lust",
"passion",
"thirst",
"thirstiness",
"urge",
"yearning",
"yen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compulsion",
"impulse",
"impulsion",
"will",
"zeal",
"liking",
"love",
"taste",
"weakness",
"eagerness",
"impatience",
"want",
"wish",
"necessity",
"need",
"requirement",
"obsession",
"acquisitiveness",
"avarice",
"avariciousness",
"avidity",
"covetousness",
"cupidity",
"greed",
"greediness",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"caco\u00ebthes",
"mania"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in longing , hankering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambitious",
"appetent",
"covetous",
"craving",
"hankering",
"longing",
"happy",
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"breathless",
"restive",
"restless",
"engaged",
"interested",
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"ready",
"unreluctant",
"willing",
"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic",
"casual",
"incurious",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"impassive",
"stolid",
"halfhearted",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"lukewarm",
"spiritless",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"hesitant",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in longing , yearning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"longing",
"yearning",
"agonizing",
"chafing",
"bothering",
"fearing",
"fretting",
"fussing",
"stewing",
"stressing",
"sweating",
"troubling",
"worrying",
"despairing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"abiding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"sustaining",
"taking",
"tolerating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"picture-book":{
"being entirely without fault or flaw":{
"examples":[
"the players gave a picture-book performance that will go down in the annals of football as one of the all-time great games"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"ideal",
"immaculate",
"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"picture-perfect",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummate",
"expert",
"masterly",
"classic",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prime",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"terrific",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"completed",
"finished",
"perfected",
"polished",
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"mint",
"unbruised",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unspoiled",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"airtight",
"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"fallible",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"broken",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"impaired",
"injured",
"malformed",
"marred",
"misshapen",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"wretched",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"censurable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"reproachable"
]
},
"as in album , anthology":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"album",
"almanac",
"anthology",
"casebook",
"chapbook",
"omnibus",
"novel",
"novelette",
"pulp",
"monograph",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"tract",
"treatise",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"cyclopedia",
"cyclopaedia",
"dictionary",
"encyclopedia",
"guidebook",
"handbook",
"how-to",
"manual",
"folio",
"quarto",
"hardback",
"hardcover",
"paper",
"paperback",
"paperbound",
"pocket book",
"pocket edition",
"softback",
"softcover",
"trade book",
"trade edition",
"book",
"tome",
"volume"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pivots":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"an issue that is the real pivot of the controversy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"bull's-eyes",
"bullseyes",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"the telescope is mounted on a tripod so you can easily pivot it for viewing in any direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"revolves",
"rolls",
"rotates",
"spins",
"swings",
"swirls",
"swivels",
"turns",
"twirls",
"twists",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screws",
"unscrews",
"twiddles",
"coils",
"cranks",
"reels",
"winds",
"circulates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinheaded":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"pinheaded leadership that got us into this mess"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"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",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thick-witted",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
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"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"
],
"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"
],
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"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pileup":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"snow piling up in the driveway at a rapid pace"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrete",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"build up",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"conglomerate",
"gather",
"mass",
"stack (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinate",
"clump",
"lump",
"bank",
"drift",
"ridge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time":{
"examples":[
"a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with"
],
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"accretion",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"cumulation",
"cumulus",
"gathering",
"lodgment",
"lodgement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"assortment",
"congeries",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"mix",
"mixture",
"motley",
"potpourri",
"agglomeration",
"clutter",
"hash",
"heap",
"litter",
"mass",
"pile",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"sum",
"totality",
"backlog",
"cache",
"fund",
"hoard",
"inventory",
"kitty",
"nest egg",
"reserve",
"stock",
"stockpile",
"store",
"supply"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinup girls":{
"as in cover girls , bathing beauties":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bathing beauties",
"cover girls",
"belles",
"charmers",
"peaches",
"houris",
"babes",
"beauties",
"beauty queens",
"cookies",
"cuties",
"cuteys",
"dolly birds",
"enchantresses",
"eyefuls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"goddesses",
"honeys",
"knockouts",
"queens",
"stunners",
"cutie-pies",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"dreamboats",
"hotties",
"lookers",
"pretties",
"coquettes",
"femmes fatales",
"sirens",
"temptresses",
"vamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bags",
"frumps",
"crones",
"hags",
"witches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pigment":{
"a substance used to color other materials":{
"examples":[
"I'm running out of the black pigment"
],
"synonyms":[
"color",
"colorant",
"coloring",
"dye",
"dyestuff",
"stain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tint",
"toner",
"cast",
"hue",
"shade",
"tinge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"examples":[
"pigmented varnishes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepaint",
"color",
"dye",
"paint",
"stain",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brighten",
"lighten",
"darken",
"embrown",
"tone (down)",
"checker",
"dapple",
"daub",
"fleck",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pattern",
"polychrome",
"speck",
"speckle",
"streak",
"striate",
"stripe",
"variegate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanch",
"bleach",
"whiten"
],
"antonyms":[
"decolorize"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piece of the action":{
"something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group":{
"examples":[
"An early investor who demanded a piece of the action in the founding of the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"allotment",
"allowance",
"cut",
"end",
"part",
"piece",
"portion",
"proportion",
"quota",
"share",
"slice",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lot",
"ration",
"commission",
"percentage",
"member",
"partition",
"section",
"segment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregate",
"composite",
"compound",
"pool",
"sum",
"total",
"totality",
"whole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pizzazz":{
"the power of irresistible attraction":{
"examples":[
"he doesn't have the pizzazz to be a leading man in the movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"animal magnetism",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"force field",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"magic",
"magnetism",
"oomph",
"seductiveness",
"witchery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allurement",
"attraction",
"call",
"lure",
"seduction",
"agreeableness",
"darlingness",
"delightfulness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasingness",
"sweetness",
"sex appeal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"offensiveness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"antonyms":[
"repulsion",
"repulsiveness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piecing":{
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"fabricating",
"making",
"making up",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentering",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"framing",
"hammering",
"handcrafting",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"prefabricating",
"beginning",
"coining",
"creating",
"generating",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"inventing",
"originating",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"reassembling",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"redeveloping",
"reedifying",
"retrofitting",
"jerry-building",
"rigging (up)",
"throwing up",
"combining",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruinating",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picks up on":{
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"The students picked up on the new material quickly."
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciates",
"apprehends",
"assimilates",
"beholds",
"catches",
"catches on (to)",
"cognizes",
"compasses",
"comprehends",
"conceives",
"cottons (to or on to)",
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"digs",
"discerns",
"gets",
"grasps",
"groks",
"intuits",
"knows",
"makes",
"makes out",
"perceives",
"recognizes",
"registers",
"savvies",
"sees",
"seizes",
"senses",
"tumbles (to)",
"twigs",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"digests",
"takes in",
"realizes",
"fathoms",
"penetrates",
"pierces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehends",
"misconceives",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misperceives",
"misreads",
"mistakes",
"misunderstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses"
]
},
"to take for one's own use (something originated by another)":{
"examples":[
"She picked up on earlier styles of painting and added her own flourishes."
],
"synonyms":[
"adopts",
"borrows",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"takes on",
"takes up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domesticates",
"naturalizes",
"appropriates",
"arrogates",
"takes over",
"usurps",
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"incorporates",
"quotes",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"cultivates",
"follows",
"heeds",
"honors",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"brings up",
"fosters",
"nurtures",
"raises",
"rears",
"affects",
"assumes",
"copies",
"imitates",
"pretends",
"puts on",
"simulates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"forsakes",
"gives up",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"abjures",
"abnegates",
"disowns",
"rejects",
"renounces",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"discards",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"throws away",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pitched battles":{
"as in attacks , fires":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attacks",
"firefights",
"fires",
"actions",
"battles",
"combats",
"fields",
"hostilities",
"operations",
"warfares",
"duties",
"services"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picklocks":{
"as in cat burglars , housebreakers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burglars",
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"safecrackers",
"larcenists",
"pinchers",
"purloiners",
"robbers",
"stealers",
"thieves",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"sneak thiefs",
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"pilferers",
"shoplifters",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"poachers",
"rustlers",
"smugglers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picturing":{
"to present a picture of":{
"examples":[
"the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence"
],
"synonyms":[
"depicting",
"imaging",
"portraying",
"representing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delineating",
"describing",
"documenting",
"rendering",
"outlining",
"silhouetting",
"sketching",
"illustrating",
"showing",
"diagramming",
"diagraming",
"caricaturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"could easily picture the mining town from the vivid description of it in the author's memoirs"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasizing",
"fantasying",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"pictured the sailing ship in vivid language"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineating",
"depicting",
"describing",
"drawing",
"imaging",
"limning",
"painting",
"portraying",
"rendering",
"setting out",
"sketching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterizing",
"defining",
"labeling",
"labelling",
"qualifying",
"representing",
"demonstrating",
"illustrating",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting",
"telling",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"showing",
"hinting",
"suggesting",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"silhouetting",
"tracing",
"vignetting",
"summarizing",
"summing up",
"touching off",
"redescribing",
"reimaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coloring",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"misdescribing",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"twisting",
"warping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"the next assignment is to picture your own face using colored pencils"
],
"synonyms":[
"drawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caricaturing",
"cartooning",
"crayoning",
"inking",
"penciling",
"pencilling",
"outlining",
"profiling",
"scrawling",
"scribbling",
"sketching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pipe up":{
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"examples":[
"don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked"
],
"synonyms":[
"shoot",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawl",
"bay",
"bellow",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"roar",
"shout",
"sing (out)",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell",
"articulate",
"enounce",
"enunciate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"shut up",
"suppress",
"quiet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pieced (together)":{
"as in assembled , compounded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assembled",
"compounded",
"built",
"constructed",
"made",
"redrafted",
"reformulated",
"reframed",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"devised",
"authored",
"indited",
"penned",
"wrote",
"couched",
"expressed",
"phrased",
"stated",
"verbalized",
"worded",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"molded",
"sculptured",
"shaped",
"cast",
"composed",
"crafted",
"drafted",
"drew up",
"formulated",
"framed",
"prepared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in figured out , worked out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"answered",
"broke",
"cracked",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"puzzled (out)",
"resolved",
"riddled (out)",
"solved",
"unraveled",
"unriddled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"worked out",
"readdressed",
"reanalyzed",
"reconceived",
"reconsidered",
"redefined",
"reevaluated",
"re-evaluated",
"reexamined",
"re-examined",
"reexplored",
"re-explored",
"rethought",
"reviewed",
"revisited",
"reweighed",
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"reasoned",
"cleared (up)",
"ironed out",
"straightened (out)",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"untied",
"reconceptualized",
"reenvisioned",
"re-envisioned",
"reimagined",
"reduplicated",
"repeated",
"reconstructed",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"re-enacted",
"reinvented",
"reheard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinnaces":{
"as in sloops , schooners":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantines",
"bugeyes",
"ca\u00efques",
"caravels",
"catamarans",
"catboats",
"cat rigs",
"clippers",
"corvettes",
"cutters",
"frigates",
"galleons",
"galleys",
"junk",
"keelboats",
"ketches",
"knockabouts",
"luggers",
"outriggers",
"piraguas",
"sailers",
"schooners",
"shallops",
"sharpies",
"sloops",
"square-riggers",
"xebecs",
"yachts",
"yawls",
"barks",
"dinghies",
"sailboats",
"windjammers",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pig out":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorge",
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"swill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devour",
"glut",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit",
"wolf",
"banquet",
"feast",
"regale",
"bolt",
"cram",
"gulp",
"guzzle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibble",
"peck",
"pick",
"taste"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pictorialization":{
"as in portrait , depiction":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depiction",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"representation",
"inset",
"clarification",
"elucidation",
"explanation",
"explication",
"exposition",
"caption",
"key",
"legend",
"drawing",
"illumination",
"image",
"pictogram",
"pictograph",
"picture",
"art",
"artwork",
"diagram",
"figure",
"graphic",
"illustration",
"plate",
"visual"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piggy":{
"as in greedy , insatiable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gluttonous",
"gormandizing",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"insatiable",
"piggish",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"voracious",
"wolfish",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"full",
"sated",
"satiate",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"engorged",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"overfed",
"overfull",
"overstuffed",
"replete",
"stuffed",
"surfeited"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pinioned":{
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"chained",
"enchained",
"enfettered",
"fettered",
"gyved",
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"shackled",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"ironed",
"lashed",
"secured",
"tied",
"trussed",
"attached",
"fastened",
"joined",
"linked",
"confined",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"entangled",
"tangled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"released",
"rescued",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"untangled",
"untied",
"detached",
"disengaged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbound",
"unfettered",
"unshackled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picnicked":{
"as in ate , lunched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ate",
"dined",
"fared",
"fed",
"partook",
"refreshed",
"victualed",
"victualled",
"grazed",
"nibbled",
"noshed",
"picked",
"snacked",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"gormandized",
"overate",
"overfed",
"pigged out",
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"repasted",
"breakfasted",
"lunched",
"supped",
"boarded",
"dined out",
"messed",
"chowed (down)",
"dug in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieted",
"fasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pish":{
"as in ah , pshaw":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ah",
"bah",
"boo",
"humph",
"pooh",
"pshaw",
"sheesh",
"tush",
"tut",
"tut-tut",
"faugh",
"fie",
"phew",
"phooey",
"rats",
"ugh",
"yech",
"yecch",
"yuck",
"yuk",
"alack",
"alas",
"woe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"pipages":{
"as in pipelines , pipings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pipelines",
"pipings",
"drainpipes",
"drains",
"funnels",
"hydrants",
"mains",
"smokestacks",
"spouts",
"standpipes",
"stovepipes",
"tiles",
"waste pipes",
"waterspouts",
"channels",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"leaders",
"lines",
"penstocks",
"pipes",
"troughs",
"tubes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pique":{
"the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity":{
"examples":[
"in a fit of pique she posted embarrassing photos of her ex-boyfriend on the Internet"
],
"synonyms":[
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"miff",
"offense",
"offence",
"peeve",
"resentment",
"umbrage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"anger",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"botheration",
"discomfort",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"grief",
"irritation",
"vexation",
"agitation",
"angriness",
"displeasure",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"outrage",
"perturbation",
"upset",
"dander",
"temper",
"fit",
"pet",
"pouts",
"sulk(s)",
"tantrum",
"tizzy",
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"dig",
"indignity",
"insult",
"put-down",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"near antonyms":[
"satisfaction",
"appeasement",
"mollification",
"pacification",
"contentment",
"delight",
"gratification",
"happiness",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"her seat companion piqued her by repeatedly poking her in the ribs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"their sarcastic comments piqued him to respond in kind"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouse",
"encourage",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"impassion",
"incite",
"instigate",
"move",
"provoke",
"rev (up)",
"spark",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fan",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"trigger",
"activate",
"animate",
"drive",
"energize",
"galvanize",
"induce",
"inspire",
"key (up)",
"motivate",
"motive",
"pump up",
"quicken",
"set off",
"vitalize",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"raise",
"whip (up)",
"anger",
"enrage",
"madden",
"upset",
"jeer",
"taunt",
"tease",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irritate",
"vex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"soothe",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to think highly of (oneself)":{
"examples":[
"she piques herself on her considerable musical abilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"flatter",
"plume",
"pride"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boast",
"brag",
"crow",
"gasconade",
"swagger",
"swank",
"swash",
"vapor",
"vaunt",
"congratulate",
"felicitate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"picture hats":{
"as in cowboy hats , baseball caps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pictographic":{
"as in hieroglyphic , iconographic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"iconographic",
"iconographical",
"ideogramic",
"ideogrammic",
"ideogrammatic",
"ideographic",
"illustrational",
"illustrative",
"drawn",
"painted",
"represented",
"photographic",
"video",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"imaginal",
"pictorial",
"visual"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitting":{
"as in denting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"denting",
"bending",
"kinking",
"coarsening",
"rumpling",
"wrinkling",
"roughening",
"roughing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"planing",
"smoothening",
"smoothing",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"paring",
"pruning",
"shaving",
"trimming",
"laying",
"pressing",
"spreading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piehole":{
"the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
"examples":[
"\"Shut your piehole or I'll shut it for you,\" the bully threatened"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gob",
"kisser",
"mouth",
"mug",
"trap",
"yap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countenance",
"face",
"puss",
"visage",
"muzzle",
"jaws",
"mandible",
"maxilla",
"gullet",
"maw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitch":{
"an act or instance of diving":{
"examples":[
"the daring pitch of the escaped prisoner into the swirling ocean waters at the base of the cliff"
],
"synonyms":[
"dive",
"plunge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dip",
"immersion",
"submersion",
"fall",
"plump",
"slip",
"spill",
"stumble",
"tumble",
"descent",
"drop",
"belly flop",
"header",
"jackknife",
"swan dive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"jump",
"leap"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon":{
"examples":[
"the steep pitch of the roof makes it too dangerous to walk on"
],
"synonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"rake",
"slant",
"slope",
"upgrade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascent",
"bank",
"climb",
"rise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"declivity",
"descent",
"dip",
"downgrade",
"fall",
"hang",
"hanging",
"receding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fix in an upright position":{
"examples":[
"needed help pitching a tent"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"upend",
"upraise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brace",
"buttress",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"support",
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"perk (up)",
"pick up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"flatten",
"knock down",
"level",
"raze",
"tear down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cast oneself head first into deep water":{
"examples":[
"when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"dive",
"plunge",
"sound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dip",
"immerse",
"submerge",
"belly flop",
"plump",
"plunk",
"plonk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surface"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the ship pitched in the choppy sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"careen",
"lurch",
"rock",
"roll",
"seesaw",
"sway",
"toss",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"buck",
"dodder",
"falter",
"flounder",
"halt",
"hitch",
"hobble",
"jerk",
"jolt",
"reel",
"shake",
"stagger",
"stumble",
"teeter",
"toddle",
"totter",
"tumble",
"vacillate",
"vibrate",
"waddle",
"waver",
"weave",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wag",
"waggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"pitched the baseball almost 50 feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"catapult",
"chuck",
"dash",
"fire",
"fling",
"heave",
"hurl",
"hurtle",
"launch",
"lob",
"loft",
"peg",
"pelt",
"sling",
"throw",
"toss"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowl",
"dart",
"flip",
"gun",
"hook",
"pass",
"roll",
"shoot",
"buck",
"eject",
"impel",
"precipitate",
"project",
"propel",
"rifle",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashier",
"cast (off)",
"chuck",
"deep-six",
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"eighty-six",
"86",
"exorcise",
"exorcize",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"lay by",
"lose",
"reject",
"scrap",
"shed",
"shuck (off)",
"slough (off)",
"sluff (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"toss",
"unload"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandon",
"abdicate",
"desert",
"forsake",
"dismiss",
"kick out",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adopt",
"embrace",
"take on",
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"hold",
"hold back",
"keep",
"retain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"hype",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"talk up",
"tout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"bark",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"sell",
"push",
"acclaim",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"recommend",
"review",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"publish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"bend",
"deviate",
"swerve",
"veer",
"decline",
"descend",
"recline",
"retreat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"level",
"straighten"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"picnic":{
"a situation or state of carefree comfort":{
"examples":[
"babysitting her sister's three brats for the weekend was no picnic"
],
"synonyms":[
"beer and skittles",
"easy street",
"fun and games",
"hog heaven"
],
"near synonyms":[
"primrose path",
"heaven",
"paradise",
"utopia",
"American dream",
"good life",
"ease",
"relaxation",
"rest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"hell",
"horror",
"misery",
"murder",
"nightmare",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is easy to do":{
"examples":[
"this class is no picnic , but I've really been learning a lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeze",
"cake",
"cakewalk",
"child's play",
"cinch",
"cream puff",
"duck soup",
"kid stuff",
"pushover",
"roses",
"snap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-brainer",
"nothing",
"sitting duck",
"gimme",
"laugher",
"walkaway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainteaser",
"poser",
"stumper",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"bother",
"nuisance",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[
"bear",
"beast",
"chore",
"headache",
"horror show",
"killer",
"labor",
"murder",
"pain",
"sticky wicket",
"stinker"
]
},
"as in eat , lunch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dine",
"eat",
"fare",
"feed",
"partake",
"refresh",
"victual",
"graze",
"nibble",
"nosh",
"pick",
"snack",
"glut",
"gorge",
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"overfeed",
"pig out",
"banquet",
"feast",
"repast",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"board",
"dine out",
"mess",
"chow (down)",
"dig in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diet",
"fast"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinchers":{
"one who steals":{
"examples":[
"the pincher of the stolen electronics was caught by the police trying to sell them"
],
"synonyms":[
"larcenists",
"purloiners",
"robbers",
"stealers",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglars",
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"picklocks",
"safecrackers",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"sneak thiefs",
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"pilferers",
"shoplifters",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"poachers",
"rustlers",
"smugglers",
"bandits",
"footpads",
"highwaymen",
"pirates",
"muggers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picks at":{
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"Stop picking at your sister."
],
"synonyms":[
"dogs",
"henpecks",
"hounds",
"nags",
"needles",
"pecks (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carps (at)",
"fusses (about or over)",
"nitpicks",
"annoys",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"harasses",
"harries",
"hassles",
"irks",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"rides",
"vexes",
"yaps (at)",
"eggs",
"goads",
"incites",
"prods",
"prompts",
"spurs",
"urges",
"exhorts",
"insists",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"wheedles",
"begs",
"importunes",
"pleads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compliments",
"commends",
"lauds",
"praises",
"recommends",
"touts",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"builds up",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pier glasses":{
"as in cheval glasses , hand glasses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cheval glasses",
"dressing glasses",
"hand glasses",
"pier mirrors",
"glasses",
"looking glasses",
"mirrors",
"reflectors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pirates":{
"someone who engages in robbery of ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"Sir Francis Drake was a British pirate who preyed on Spanish ships with the connivance of Elizabeth I"
],
"synonyms":[
"buccaneers",
"corsairs",
"freebooters",
"rovers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoilers",
"looters",
"marauders",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"raiders",
"robbers",
"privateers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"using pirated software that was subject to copyright"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"arrogates",
"commandeers",
"converts",
"expropriates",
"preempts",
"presses",
"seizes",
"takes over",
"usurps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annexes",
"attaches",
"claims",
"confiscates",
"impounds",
"repossesses",
"sequesters",
"assumes",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"snatches",
"steals",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"despoils",
"loots",
"pillages",
"encroaches",
"infringes",
"invades",
"occupies",
"preoccupies",
"trespasses",
"embezzles",
"misapplies",
"misappropriates",
"misuses",
"peculates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pitchy":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"we stood staring into the pitchy dark forest, trying to determine what had made the strange cry"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"having the color of soot or coal":{
"examples":[
"the trigger-happy soldiers couldn't see a thing in the pitchy darkness"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"ebony",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"raven",
"sable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"inky",
"blackish",
"brunet",
"brunette"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brilliant",
"light",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"white"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitcher":{
"a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout":{
"examples":[
"please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"ewer",
"flagon",
"jug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carafe",
"decanter",
"bucket",
"pail",
"pot",
"bottle",
"canteen",
"cup",
"fiasco",
"flask",
"jorum",
"mug",
"stein",
"stoup",
"tankard",
"kettle",
"teakettle",
"watering can",
"watering pot",
"beaker",
"cruse",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pillagers":{
"as in robbers , plunderers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"despoilers",
"looters",
"marauders",
"plunderers",
"raiders",
"robbers",
"buccaneers",
"corsairs",
"freebooters",
"pirates",
"rovers",
"privateers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pine (for)":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"examples":[
"pining for a house in the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache (for)",
"covet",
"crave",
"desiderate",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"hanker (for or after)",
"hunger (for)",
"itch (for)",
"jones (for)",
"long (for)",
"lust (for or after)",
"pant (after)",
"repine (for)",
"salivate (for)",
"sigh (for)",
"thirst (for)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"yearn (for)",
"yen (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spoil (for)",
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"favor",
"prefer",
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pink-slip":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"the company pink-slipped 300 workers in an effort to avoid bankruptcy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ax",
"axe",
"bounce",
"can",
"cashier",
"discharge",
"dismiss",
"fire",
"muster out",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate",
"turn off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsize",
"excess",
"furlough",
"lay off",
"trim",
"boot (out)",
"chuck (out)",
"drum (out)",
"kick out",
"throw out",
"unseat",
"separate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keep",
"reemploy",
"rehire",
"contract",
"subcontract",
"recruit"
],
"antonyms":[
"employ",
"engage",
"hire",
"retain",
"sign (up or on)",
"take on"
]
},
"as in bum's rush , shutdown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"shakeout",
"shake-up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piragua":{
"as in square-rigger , yacht":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantine",
"bugeye",
"ca\u00efque",
"caravel",
"catamaran",
"catboat",
"cat rig",
"clipper",
"corvette",
"cutter",
"frigate",
"galleon",
"galley",
"junk",
"keelboat",
"ketch",
"knockabout",
"lugger",
"outrigger",
"pinnace",
"sailer",
"schooner",
"shallop",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"sloop",
"square-rigger",
"xebec",
"yacht",
"yawl",
"bark",
"dinghy",
"sailboat",
"windjammer",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pickers":{
"someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection":{
"examples":[
"a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction"
],
"synonyms":[
"choosers",
"namers",
"selectors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"electors",
"voters",
"nominators",
"deciders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitchpole":{
"as in topple , upend":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"invert",
"overset",
"overthrow",
"topple",
"tump (over)",
"upend",
"capsize",
"overturn",
"turn over",
"upset",
"careen",
"heel",
"keel",
"lean",
"list",
"tilt",
"tip",
"collapse",
"fall",
"founder",
"give"
],
"near antonyms":[
"right",
"stand up",
"straighten (up)",
"erect",
"raise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picker":{
"someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection":{
"examples":[
"a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction"
],
"synonyms":[
"chooser",
"namer",
"selector"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elector",
"voter",
"nominator",
"decider"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pines":{
"as in longs , yearns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"longs",
"yearns",
"agonizes",
"chafes",
"bothers",
"fears",
"frets",
"fusses",
"stews",
"stresses",
"sweats",
"troubles",
"worries",
"despairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"abides",
"bears",
"endures",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"sustains",
"takes",
"tolerates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pictorializes":{
"to supplement with pictorial matter for the purpose of explanation or decoration":{
"examples":[
"N.C. Wyeth is remembered for vividly pictorializing a number of classic works of literature"
],
"synonyms":[
"illuminates",
"illustrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"images",
"pictures",
"visualizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinnace":{
"as in sloop , schooner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantine",
"bugeye",
"ca\u00efque",
"caravel",
"catamaran",
"catboat",
"cat rig",
"clipper",
"corvette",
"cutter",
"frigate",
"galleon",
"galley",
"junk",
"keelboat",
"ketch",
"knockabout",
"lugger",
"outrigger",
"piragua",
"sailer",
"schooner",
"shallop",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"sloop",
"square-rigger",
"xebec",
"yacht",
"yawl",
"bark",
"dinghy",
"sailboat",
"windjammer",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pigskin":{
"as in cowhide , calfskin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piddle":{
"as in muck , play":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"hang about",
"idle",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out",
"doze",
"estivate",
"aestivate",
"hibernate",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"tarry",
"amble",
"mosey",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"swan",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grind",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
"exert",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pikers":{
"a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money":{
"examples":[
"don't be such a piker \u2014live it up a little while you're on vacation!"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheapskates",
"churls",
"hunks",
"misers",
"niggards",
"penny-pinchers",
"scrooges",
"skinflints",
"tightwads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoarders",
"pack rats",
"savers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prodigals",
"profligates",
"spenders",
"spendthrifts",
"squanderers",
"wasters",
"wastrels"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pier":{
"a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers":{
"examples":[
"tied the boat up at the pier"
],
"synonyms":[
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berth",
"mooring",
"slip",
"embarcadero",
"dockyard",
"marina",
"quayage",
"shipyard",
"wharfage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"a bridge pier"
],
"synonyms":[
"column",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"post",
"stanchion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatid",
"pedestal",
"buttress",
"flying buttress",
"needle",
"obelisk",
"pile",
"piling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pickpocket":{
"a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hoodlum",
"hood",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo",
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pigheaded":{
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"the kind of pigheaded person who seems to believe that facts only confuse an issue"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pipes down":{
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"if you don't pipe down , we're turning this car around and going straight home!"
],
"synonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"chills out",
"cools",
"hushes",
"quiets",
"settles (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dries up",
"relaxes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"unwinds",
"zones out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowns (around)",
"fools around",
"horses around",
"monkeys (around)",
"shows off",
"skylarks"
],
"antonyms":[
"acts up",
"carries on",
"cuts up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"\" Pipe down or I'll cancel recess!\" the teacher commanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts up",
"clams up",
"dries up",
"dummies up",
"hushes",
"quiets (down)",
"shuts up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"cools (down)",
"settles (down)",
"haws",
"hems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipes up",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"spouts (off)",
"talks up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaks",
"talks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piloted":{
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"piloted the figure skater through the national championships"
],
"synonyms":[
"coached",
"counseled",
"counselled",
"guided",
"led",
"mentored",
"shepherded",
"showed",
"tutored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfathered",
"directed",
"engineered",
"steered",
"swayed",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"squired",
"oversaw",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"drilled",
"trained",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"taught",
"inculcated",
"indoctrinated",
"cultivated",
"fostered",
"nurtured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"the lead rider piloted the rest of the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducted",
"directed",
"guided",
"led",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"routed",
"showed",
"steered",
"ushered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceded",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"controlled",
"managed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogged",
"hounded",
"shadowed",
"tailed",
"tailgated"
],
"antonyms":[
"followed",
"trailed"
]
},
"to operate or control the course of":{
"examples":[
"managed to pilot the plane to safety despite the failure of the left engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"conned",
"helmed",
"navigated",
"steered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commandeered",
"hijacked",
"highjacked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pick at":{
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"Stop picking at your sister."
],
"synonyms":[
"dog",
"henpeck",
"hound",
"nag",
"needle",
"peck (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carp (at)",
"fuss (about or over)",
"nitpick",
"annoy",
"badger",
"bait",
"bother",
"bug",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"irk",
"pester",
"plague",
"ride",
"vex",
"yap (at)",
"egg",
"goad",
"incite",
"prod",
"prompt",
"spur",
"urge",
"exhort",
"insist",
"press",
"pressure",
"push",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"wheedle",
"beg",
"importune",
"plead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compliment",
"commend",
"laud",
"praise",
"recommend",
"tout",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"build up",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pit-a-pat":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"her heart pit-a-patted with surprise"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuate",
"oscillate",
"vibrate",
"quiver",
"tremble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitter-pattered":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"his heart pitter-pattered with excitement as he waited for the right moment to propose"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuated",
"oscillated",
"vibrated",
"quivered",
"trembled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pickets":{
"a person or group that watches over someone or something":{
"examples":[
"set out a picket to watch the camp"
],
"synonyms":[
"custodians",
"guardians",
"guards",
"keepers",
"lookouts",
"minders",
"sentinels",
"sentries",
"wardens",
"warders",
"watchers",
"watches",
"watchmen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"observers",
"patrols",
"spotters",
"surveillants",
"watchdogs",
"bodyguards",
"convoys",
"defenders",
"escorts",
"honor guards",
"gatekeepers",
"hacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in walls , buffers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buffers",
"palisades",
"walls",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"averts",
"prevents",
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fences",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pipelines":{
"a direct way of passing along information or supplies":{
"examples":[
"an equipment hauler serves as the columnist's pipeline for gossip about the rock band",
"the battle was ultimately lost because the enemy had destroyed our pipeline for resupply"
],
"synonyms":[
"channels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avenues",
"conduits",
"routes",
"grapevines",
"outlets",
"fountainheads",
"origins",
"sources",
"wellsprings",
"suppliers",
"connections",
"contacts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pit bull":{
"an aggressive and fiercely determined person":{
"examples":[
"a pit bull who won't let anyone stand in her way to the top of the corporate ladder"
],
"synonyms":[
"barracuda",
"fire-breather",
"fire-eater",
"tiger"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attack dog",
"hatchet man",
"aggressor",
"bully",
"shark",
"go-getter",
"hustler",
"live wire",
"self-starter",
"battler",
"fighter",
"scrapper",
"diehard",
"militant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pushover",
"pussycat",
"reed",
"softy",
"softie",
"weakling",
"wimp"
],
"antonyms":[
"milquetoast"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pilgrims":{
"a person who travels to foreign lands":{
"examples":[
"A wandering pilgrim , he made his way across Europe before eventually settling in Madrid."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"journeyers",
"wayfarers",
"holidayers",
"holidaymakers",
"vacationers",
"vacationists",
"guests",
"hostelers",
"hostellers",
"visitors",
"transients",
"snowbirds",
"sunseekers",
"excursionists",
"rubberneckers",
"rubbernecks",
"sightseers",
"tourists",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"trippers",
"migrators",
"pioneers",
"trekkers",
"defectors",
"deportees",
"evacuees",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"refugees",
"relocatees",
"repatriates",
"aliens",
"foreigners",
"noncitizens",
"nonnatives",
"colonists",
"newcomers",
"squatters",
"\u00e9migr\u00e9s",
"emigr\u00e9s",
"immigrants",
"incomers",
"in-migrants",
"migrants",
"out-migrants",
"settlers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pictures":{
"the art or business of making a movie":{
"examples":[
"hoping for a career in pictures"
],
"synonyms":[
"big screen",
"cinema",
"film",
"filmdom",
"filmland",
"filmmaking",
"movie",
"moviemaking",
"screen",
"silver screen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Bollywood",
"Hollywood",
"showbiz",
"show business"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a picture of":{
"examples":[
"the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence"
],
"synonyms":[
"depicts",
"images",
"portrays",
"represents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delineates",
"describes",
"documents",
"renders",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"sketches",
"illustrates",
"shows",
"diagrams",
"caricatures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"could easily picture the mining town from the vivid description of it in the author's memoirs"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"dreams",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"pictured the sailing ship in vivid language"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineates",
"depicts",
"describes",
"draws",
"images",
"limns",
"paints",
"portrays",
"renders",
"sets out",
"sketches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterizes",
"defines",
"labels",
"qualifies",
"represents",
"demonstrates",
"illustrates",
"narrates",
"recites",
"recounts",
"rehearses",
"relates",
"reports",
"tells",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"shows",
"hints",
"suggests",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"traces",
"vignettes",
"summarizes",
"sums up",
"touches off",
"redescribes",
"reimages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colors",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"garbles",
"misdescribes",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"twists",
"warps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"the next assignment is to picture your own face using colored pencils"
],
"synonyms":[
"draws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caricatures",
"cartoons",
"crayons",
"inks",
"pencils",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"scrawls",
"scribbles",
"sketches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinch-hits":{
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"examples":[
"assigned to pinch-hit as a math teacher for the remainder of the semester"
],
"synonyms":[
"covers",
"fills in",
"stands in",
"steps in",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"takes over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"understudies",
"relieves",
"spells",
"doubles (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pickle":{
"a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape":{
"examples":[
"well, this is a bit of a pickle we've gotten ourselves into"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"box",
"catch-22",
"corner",
"dilemma",
"fix",
"hole",
"impasse",
"jackpot",
"jam",
"mire",
"predicament",
"quagmire",
"rabbit hole",
"rattrap",
"spot",
"sticky wicket",
"swamp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"difficulty",
"node",
"hot water",
"soup",
"pinch",
"plight",
"quandary",
"scrape",
"trouble",
"deadlock",
"halt",
"logjam",
"stalemate",
"standstill",
"clutch",
"crisis",
"crossroad",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"juncture",
"strait"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pit-a-patted":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"her heart pit-a-patted with surprise"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuated",
"oscillated",
"vibrated",
"quivered",
"trembled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picks on":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"Picking on others is not tolerated at this school."
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults":{
"examples":[
"\"Stop picking on your siblings!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"baits",
"hassles",
"hazes",
"heckles",
"needles",
"rides",
"taunts",
"teases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"mocks",
"ridicules",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"frets",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"gnaws (at)",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"hagrides",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"nags",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"pesters",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"troubles",
"vexes",
"aggravates",
"exasperates",
"goads",
"tests",
"tries",
"aggrieves",
"agitates",
"bedevils",
"beleaguers",
"discomforts",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"badgers",
"dogs",
"hounds",
"browbeats",
"bullies",
"hectors",
"harasses",
"harries",
"persecutes",
"plagues",
"terrorizes",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pirouetting":{
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"the ballerina pirouetted across the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrating",
"pinwheeling",
"revolving",
"rolling",
"rotating",
"spinning",
"turning",
"twirling",
"wheeling",
"whirling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coiling",
"curling",
"curving",
"rounding",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"swirling",
"twining",
"twisting",
"winding",
"circling",
"circulating",
"encircling",
"orbiting",
"ringing",
"pivoting",
"swiveling",
"swivelling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitchwoman":{
"as in pitchman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pitchman",
"salesgirl",
"saleslady",
"saleswoman",
"shopgirl",
"floorwalker",
"salespeople",
"clerk",
"salesclerk",
"salesman",
"salesperson"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piking (out or off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitch (upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"at a garage sale you just might pitch upon a table exactly the size you need"
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pillaged":{
"to search through with the intent of committing robbery":{
"examples":[
"soldiers pillaging the countryside for anything of value"
],
"synonyms":[
"despoiled",
"looted",
"marauded",
"plundered",
"ransacked",
"sacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke in",
"burglarized",
"ripped off",
"stole (from)",
"combed",
"hunted",
"raked",
"rifled",
"rummaged",
"harried",
"raided",
"ravished"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pie safes":{
"as in dressers , cuddies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cuddies",
"dressers",
"bookcases",
"breakfronts",
"chests",
"china closets",
"credences",
"credenzas",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8res",
"etageres",
"secretaries",
"showcases",
"taborets",
"tabourets",
"vitrines",
"armoires",
"clothespresses",
"garderobes",
"wardrobes",
"buffets",
"cabinets",
"closets",
"consoles",
"cupboards",
"hutches",
"lockers",
"presses",
"sideboards",
"cabinetries",
"shelvings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pistoling":{
"as in shotgunning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shotgunning",
"blasting (at)",
"firing (at)",
"machine-gunning",
"tommy-gunning",
"blazing",
"peppering",
"potshotting",
"sniping (at)",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"felling",
"icing",
"killing",
"slaying",
"blowing away",
"bringing down",
"dropping",
"picking off",
"shooting down",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"butchering",
"decimating",
"massacring",
"slaughtering",
"wiping out",
"drilling",
"gunning",
"plugging",
"popping",
"shooting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picked over":{
"as in weeded (out) , winnowed (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"culled",
"screened",
"weeded (out)",
"winnowed (out)",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"cherry-picked",
"choice",
"chosen",
"elect",
"favored",
"favorite",
"first-line",
"handpicked",
"picked",
"preferred",
"select",
"selected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in checked (out) , pored (over)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"audited",
"checked (out)",
"conned",
"examined",
"inspected",
"overlooked",
"oversaw",
"reviewed",
"scanned",
"scrutinized",
"surveyed",
"viewed",
"delved (into)",
"explored",
"investigated",
"plumbed",
"probed",
"researched",
"studied",
"noticed",
"observed",
"watched",
"reinspected",
"rereviewed",
"re-reviewed",
"resurveyed",
"combed",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"analyzed",
"dissected",
"parsed",
"categorized",
"classified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"skimmed",
"missed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pilgrimaged":{
"to take a trip especially of some distance":{
"examples":[
"tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe"
],
"synonyms":[
"journeyed",
"peregrinated",
"toured",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trekked",
"tripped",
"voyaged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"hopped",
"jaunted",
"knocked (about)",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"roamed",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered",
"migrated",
"road-tripped",
"bused",
"bussed",
"cabbed",
"coached",
"cruised",
"drove",
"flew",
"gigged",
"jetted",
"motored",
"navigated",
"rode",
"rid",
"rolled",
"sailed",
"trundled",
"barnstormed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitching in":{
"to make a donation as part of a group effort":{
"examples":[
"everyone at the office pitched in to buy a gift for the soon-to-be-wed couple"
],
"synonyms":[
"chipping in",
"contributing",
"kicking in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bestowing",
"donating",
"giving",
"presenting",
"awarding",
"conferring",
"doling (out)",
"endowing",
"affording",
"furnishing",
"providing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pine (away)":{
"as in long (for) , sigh":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ache",
"long (for)",
"sigh",
"smart",
"agonize",
"anguish",
"bleed",
"grieve",
"hurt",
"mourn",
"sorrow",
"suffer",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture",
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"lament",
"rue",
"bawl",
"blubber",
"cry",
"groan",
"howl",
"keen",
"moan",
"sob",
"take on",
"wail",
"weep",
"yammer",
"yowl",
"languish",
"regret"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"cheer",
"crow",
"delight",
"exult",
"glory",
"joy",
"laugh",
"ravish",
"rejoice",
"triumph",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"commiserate",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"sympathize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinches pennies":{
"to avoid unnecessary waste or expense":{
"examples":[
"They pinched pennies in order to afford a nice vacation."
],
"synonyms":[
"economizes",
"pinches",
"saves",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"spares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserves",
"husbands",
"maintains",
"manages",
"preserves",
"scrapes",
"cuts back",
"cuts down",
"retrenches",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"splurges"
],
"antonyms":[
"wastes"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pigsty":{
"a dirty or messy place":{
"examples":[
"the frat house was a pigsty the morning after the bacchanal"
],
"synonyms":[
"dump",
"hellhole",
"hole",
"pigpen",
"shambles",
"sty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorganization",
"mess",
"muddle",
"muss",
"havoc",
"hell",
"mare's nest",
"snake pit",
"clutter",
"jumble",
"litter",
"mishmash",
"welter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitter-pattering":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"his heart pitter-pattered with excitement as he waited for the right moment to propose"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuating",
"oscillating",
"vibrating",
"quivering",
"trembling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pixillated":{
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"examples":[
"a pixilated waitress who couldn't seem to get anything straight"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pi\u00e8ces de r\u00e9sistance":{
"as in classics , masterpieces":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"classics",
"magnum opuses",
"masterpieces",
"showpieces",
"compositions",
"numbers",
"opera",
"opuses",
"pieces",
"works",
"models",
"outlines",
"sketches",
"\u00e9tudes",
"canons",
"corpora",
"oeuvres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pictorial":{
"consisting of or relating to pictures":{
"examples":[
"that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa"
],
"synonyms":[
"graphic",
"graphical",
"imaginal",
"visual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"photographic",
"video",
"drawn",
"painted",
"represented",
"illustrational",
"illustrative",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"iconographic",
"iconographical",
"ideogramic",
"ideogrammic",
"ideogrammatic",
"ideographic",
"pictographic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description":{
"examples":[
"she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"picturesque",
"visual",
"vivid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depicted",
"descriptive",
"expressive",
"concrete",
"explicit",
"specific",
"faithful",
"lifelike",
"natural",
"photographic",
"realistic",
"fresh",
"incisive",
"sharp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indeterminate",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"sketchy",
"unclear",
"vague",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dark",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"muddy",
"murky",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"ambiguous",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in slick":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slick",
"fanzine",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly",
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pinstripe":{
"as in blaze , crossbar":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"crossbar",
"band",
"bar",
"streak",
"stripe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pillory":{
"to subject (someone) to harsh public criticism":{
"examples":[
"The press pilloried the judge for her decision."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"berate",
"castigate",
"crucify",
"excoriate",
"flay",
"gibbet",
"hammer",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"scold",
"upbraid",
"blame",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"dispraise",
"fault",
"knock",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"slag",
"skewer",
"tweak",
"assail",
"attack",
"blast",
"clobber",
"slam",
"slash",
"nick (at)",
"snipe (at)",
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"carp",
"cavil",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"niggle",
"quibble",
"whine",
"admonish",
"chide",
"drub",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"deride",
"discommend",
"disparage",
"put down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"recommend",
"sanction",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pincher":{
"one who steals":{
"examples":[
"the pincher of the stolen electronics was caught by the police trying to sell them"
],
"synonyms":[
"larcenist",
"purloiner",
"robber",
"stealer",
"thief"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglar",
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"picklock",
"safecracker",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"sneak thief",
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"shoplifter",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"poacher",
"rustler",
"smuggler",
"bandit",
"footpad",
"highwayman",
"pirate",
"mugger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinhead":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"what pinhead put this together backwards?"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pieced together":{
"as in assembled , compounded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assembled",
"compounded",
"built",
"constructed",
"made",
"redrafted",
"reformulated",
"reframed",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"devised",
"authored",
"indited",
"penned",
"wrote",
"couched",
"expressed",
"phrased",
"stated",
"verbalized",
"worded",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"molded",
"sculptured",
"shaped",
"cast",
"composed",
"crafted",
"drafted",
"drew up",
"formulated",
"framed",
"prepared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in figured out , worked out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"answered",
"broke",
"cracked",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"puzzled (out)",
"resolved",
"riddled (out)",
"solved",
"unraveled",
"unriddled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"worked out",
"readdressed",
"reanalyzed",
"reconceived",
"reconsidered",
"redefined",
"reevaluated",
"re-evaluated",
"reexamined",
"re-examined",
"reexplored",
"re-explored",
"rethought",
"reviewed",
"revisited",
"reweighed",
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"reasoned",
"cleared (up)",
"ironed out",
"straightened (out)",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"untied",
"reconceptualized",
"reenvisioned",
"re-envisioned",
"reimagined",
"reduplicated",
"repeated",
"reconstructed",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"re-enacted",
"reinvented",
"reheard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinkoes":{
"as in lefties , leftists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists",
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pithiness":{
"the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaning":{
"examples":[
"the memorable pithiness of Calvin Coolidge's campaign announcement: \"I do not choose to run for President in 1928\""
],
"synonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"sententiousness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abruptness",
"bluntness",
"brusqueness",
"curtness",
"shortness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"periphrasis",
"pleonasm",
"redundancy",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"tautology"
],
"antonyms":[
"diffuseness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"verbosity",
"wordiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitchmen":{
"as in pitchwomen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pitchwomen",
"salesgirls",
"salesladies",
"saleswomen",
"shopgirls",
"floorwalkers",
"salespeople",
"clerks",
"salesclerks",
"salesmen",
"salespeople"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hucksters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hucksters",
"disc jockeys",
"disk jockeys",
"DJs",
"shock jocks",
"veejays",
"VJs",
"anchormen",
"anchorpeople",
"anchors",
"anchorwomen",
"newscasters",
"mistresses of ceremonies",
"CBers",
"hams",
"radiomen",
"announcers",
"emcees",
"hosts",
"MCs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinned":{
"as in mounted , hooked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hooked",
"mounted",
"tacked",
"dangled",
"hung",
"hanged",
"slung",
"suspended",
"swung",
"draped",
"festooned",
"garlanded",
"strung",
"extended (out)",
"jutted",
"projected",
"stuck out",
"overhung",
"protruded",
"cascaded",
"depended",
"fell",
"balanced",
"poised"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitchwomen":{
"as in pitchmen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pitchmen",
"salesgirls",
"salesladies",
"saleswomen",
"shopgirls",
"floorwalkers",
"salespeople",
"clerks",
"salesclerks",
"salesmen",
"salespeople"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pigeon":{
"one who is easily deceived or cheated":{
"examples":[
"a confidence man in search of another pigeon"
],
"synonyms":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"gull",
"mug",
"patsy",
"pushover",
"sap",
"soft touch",
"sucker",
"tool"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cat's-paw",
"mark",
"target",
"victim",
"schlemiel",
"shlemiel",
"butt",
"derision",
"laughingstock",
"mock",
"mockery",
"booby",
"dodo",
"fool",
"goose",
"half-wit",
"jackass",
"lunatic",
"monkey",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nitwit",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"turkey",
"yo-yo",
"loser",
"blockhead",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dumbbell",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schlump",
"schnook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheat",
"cheater",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"hoaxer",
"shark",
"sharper",
"slicker",
"swindler",
"trickster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pidgin":{
"as in colloquial , vernacular":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacular",
"vernacularism",
"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"lingo",
"patois",
"patter",
"shop",
"shoptalk",
"slang",
"terminology",
"vocabulary",
"slanguage",
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"cyberspeak",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"journalese",
"technobabble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"picking":{
"the act or process of selecting":{
"examples":[
"the picking of new recruits went on for three days"
],
"synonyms":[
"choice",
"choosing",
"election",
"selecting",
"selection"
],
"near synonyms":[
"option",
"appointment",
"assignment",
"designation",
"naming",
"nomination",
"decision"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use":{
"examples":[
"pick peas and beans from the garden for dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"gathering",
"harvesting",
"reaping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clamming",
"fishing",
"sealing",
"shrimping",
"whaling",
"accumulating",
"foraging",
"garnering",
"gleaning",
"cutting",
"haying",
"mowing",
"bagging",
"capturing",
"hunting",
"netting",
"snaring",
"trapping",
"cropping",
"growing",
"raising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"planting",
"seeding",
"sowing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities":{
"examples":[
"I pick you as my partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picking",
"choosing",
"culling",
"electing",
"handpicking",
"naming",
"opting (for)",
"preferring",
"selecting",
"singling (out)",
"tagging",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselecting",
"appointing",
"designating",
"fixing",
"marking",
"nominating",
"setting",
"tabbing",
"tapping",
"accepting",
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"settling (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"discarding",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out"
],
"antonyms":[
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"turning down"
]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"he seems to be trying to pick a fight"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetting",
"brewing",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"provoking",
"raising",
"stirring (up)",
"whipping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"sowing",
"stimulating",
"detonating",
"setting",
"setting off",
"triggering",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"rousing",
"activating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"firing",
"invigorating",
"jazzing (up)",
"livening (up)",
"pepping (up)",
"quickening",
"stimulating",
"vitalizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"discouraging",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"taming",
"allaying",
"calming",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eat reluctantly and in small bites":{
"examples":[
"still suffering from the shock of his wife's death, he could do no more than pick halfheartedly at his food"
],
"synonyms":[
"nibbling",
"pecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grazing",
"noshing",
"snacking",
"tasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"overeating",
"pigging out",
"swilling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"continued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piker":{
"a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money":{
"examples":[
"don't be such a piker \u2014live it up a little while you're on vacation!"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheapskate",
"churl",
"hunks",
"miser",
"niggard",
"penny-pincher",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoarder",
"pack rat",
"saver"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prodigal",
"profligate",
"spender",
"spendthrift",
"squanderer",
"waster",
"wastrel"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pigs out":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorges",
"gormandizes",
"overeats",
"swills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devours",
"gluts",
"sates",
"stuffs",
"surfeits",
"wolfs",
"banquets",
"feasts",
"regales",
"bolts",
"crams",
"gulps",
"guzzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbles",
"pecks",
"picks",
"tastes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pick-me-up":{
"something (such as a drink) that makes you feel better and more lively":{
"examples":[
"Coffee is my usual morning pick-me-up .",
"I could really use a pick-me-up after the day I just had."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hand",
"lift",
"advantage",
"aid",
"asset",
"benefit",
"boon",
"help",
"plus",
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast",
"inducement",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"energizer",
"fuel",
"refresher",
"spark",
"support",
"sustenance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraint",
"inhibitor",
"liability",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"restraint",
"stranglehold",
"counterincentive",
"disincentive",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"encumbrance",
"hindrance",
"impediment",
"minus"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pick-me-ups":{
"something (such as a drink) that makes you feel better and more lively":{
"examples":[
"Coffee is my usual morning pick-me-up .",
"I could really use a pick-me-up after the day I just had."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hands",
"lifts",
"advantages",
"aids",
"assets",
"benefits",
"boons",
"help",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"boosts",
"encouragements",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"momenta",
"momentums",
"motivations",
"provocations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"yeasts",
"inducements",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"energizers",
"fuels",
"refreshers",
"sparks",
"supports",
"sustenances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraints",
"inhibitors",
"liabilities",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"restraints",
"strangleholds",
"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives",
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"encumbrances",
"hindrances",
"impediments",
"minuses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinching":{
"giving or sharing as little as possible":{
"examples":[
"neighborhood kids who were trick-or-treating knew better than to bother to knock on that pinching couple's door"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"chintzy",
"close",
"closefisted",
"mean",
"mingy",
"miserly",
"niggard",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penny-pinching",
"penurious",
"pinchpenny",
"spare",
"sparing",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"uncharitable",
"ungenerous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"careful",
"chary",
"conserving",
"economical",
"economizing",
"frugal",
"saving",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrifty",
"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"coveting",
"covetous",
"desirous",
"grasping",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"itchy",
"mercenary",
"rapacious",
"selfish",
"shabby",
"small",
"sordid",
"begrudging",
"envious",
"grudging",
"resentful",
"inhospitable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"altruistic",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"extravagant",
"free",
"handsome",
"lavish",
"overgenerous",
"profuse",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"hospitable",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"greathearted",
"kindly",
"magnanimous",
"openhearted",
"thriftless",
"unthrifty",
"dissipating",
"frittering",
"prodigal",
"profligate",
"spendthrift",
"splurging",
"squandering",
"wasteful",
"wasting"
],
"antonyms":[
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"unsparing",
"unstinting"
]
},
"the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money":{
"examples":[
"this constant pinching is getting ridiculous\u2014we can afford to turn on one or two lights!"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheapness",
"cheeseparing",
"closeness",
"miserliness",
"niggardliness",
"parsimony",
"penny-pinching",
"penuriousness",
"stinginess",
"tightfistedness",
"tightness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserving",
"economizing",
"economy",
"frugality",
"husbandry",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift",
"conservation",
"saving",
"husbanding",
"managing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"bounty",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"liberality",
"openhandedness",
"openheartedness",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness",
"extravagance",
"lavishness",
"dissipation",
"improvidence",
"prodigality",
"squandering",
"wastefulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points":{
"examples":[
"the zipper on those jeans always pinches me"
],
"synonyms":[
"nipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crimping",
"tweaking",
"clasping",
"clutching",
"grasping",
"gripping",
"holding",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dropping",
"freeing",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"pinched the earrings while the boutique owner was distracted by another customer"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"pinched the purse snatcher just two blocks from where he had robbed the old lady"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"busting",
"collaring",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"nicking",
"picking up",
"pulling in",
"restraining",
"running in",
"seizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping",
"committing",
"confining",
"detaining",
"holding",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"rearresting",
"remanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"unchaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharging"
]
},
"to avoid unnecessary waste or expense":{
"examples":[
"if we pinch hard for the upcoming year, we can probably afford the vacation at that fancy resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"economizing",
"saving",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"sparing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserving",
"husbanding",
"maintaining",
"managing",
"preserving",
"scraping",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"retrenching",
"hoarding",
"laying up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"splurging"
],
"antonyms":[
"wasting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pip-squeaks":{
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"I'm not changing my job based on the advice of some pip-squeak who cornered me at a party"
],
"synonyms":[
"ciphers",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"insects",
"insignificancies",
"lightweights",
"morsels",
"nobodies",
"nonentities",
"nullities",
"numbers",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"snippersnappers",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-names",
"noncelebrities",
"leasts",
"inferiors",
"mediocrities",
"obscurities",
"figureheads",
"puppets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chiefs",
"heads",
"leaders",
"leads",
"celebrities",
"luminaries",
"notables",
"personalities",
"planets",
"stars",
"superstars",
"authorities",
"superiors",
"great powers",
"parties",
"powers"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"eminences",
"figures",
"kahunas",
"kingpins",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"personages",
"somebodies",
"VIPs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pipes up (with)":{
"as in comments , remarks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comments",
"remarks",
"clothes",
"couches",
"formulates",
"formulizes",
"phrases",
"puts",
"words",
"rips (out)",
"snarls",
"breathes",
"chirps",
"drawls",
"gasps",
"lips",
"mouths",
"murmurs",
"purrs",
"shouts",
"splutters",
"spouts",
"whispers",
"affirms",
"alleges",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"blabbers",
"blurts",
"bolts",
"gets off",
"shoots",
"airs",
"discusses",
"gives",
"looks",
"shares",
"sounds",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices",
"articulates",
"brings out",
"enunciates",
"passes",
"says",
"speaks",
"states",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifles",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pieces together":{
"as in assembles , compounds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"compounds",
"builds",
"constructs",
"makes",
"redrafts",
"reformulates",
"reframes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"devises",
"authors",
"indites",
"pens",
"writes",
"couches",
"expresses",
"phrases",
"states",
"verbalizes",
"words",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forms",
"molds",
"sculptures",
"shapes",
"casts",
"composes",
"crafts",
"drafts",
"draws up",
"formulates",
"frames",
"prepares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in figures out , works out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"answers",
"breaks",
"cracks",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"puzzles (out)",
"resolves",
"riddles (out)",
"solves",
"unravels",
"unriddles",
"works",
"works out",
"readdresses",
"reanalyzes",
"reconceives",
"reconsiders",
"redefines",
"reevaluates",
"reexamines",
"reexplores",
"rethinks",
"reviews",
"revisits",
"reweighs",
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"clears (up)",
"irons out",
"straightens (out)",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"unties",
"reconceptualizes",
"reenvisions",
"reimagines",
"reduplicates",
"repeats",
"reconstructs",
"re-creates",
"recreates",
"re-enacts",
"reinvents",
"rehears"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picketing":{
"as in walling , buffering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buffering",
"palisading",
"walling",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"averting",
"preventing",
"bulwarking",
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"shielding",
"warding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinning":{
"as in mounting , hooking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hooking",
"mounting",
"tacking",
"dangling",
"hanging",
"slinging",
"suspending",
"swinging",
"draping",
"festooning",
"garlanding",
"stringing",
"extending (out)",
"jutting",
"projecting",
"sticking out",
"overhanging",
"protruding",
"cascading",
"depending",
"falling",
"balancing",
"poising"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitchers":{
"a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout":{
"examples":[
"please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"ewers",
"flagons",
"jugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carafes",
"decanters",
"buckets",
"pails",
"pots",
"bottles",
"canteens",
"cups",
"fiascoes",
"flasks",
"jorums",
"mugs",
"steins",
"stoups",
"tankards",
"kettles",
"teakettles",
"watering cans",
"watering pots",
"beakers",
"cruses",
"vessels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piqued":{
"as in resentful , disapproving":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bristly",
"cross",
"disapproving",
"huffy",
"resentful",
"angered",
"angry",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steaming",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"choleric",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"snappish",
"snuffy",
"testy",
"touchy",
"displeased",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"troubled",
"upset",
"badgered",
"bedeviled",
"frustrated",
"haggled",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"inconvenienced",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"pinpricked",
"plagued",
"provoked",
"tested",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"tried",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"irked",
"irritated",
"narked",
"peeved",
"put out",
"scunnered",
"teed off",
"vexed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"pleased",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"her seat companion piqued her by repeatedly poking her in the ribs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"their sarcastic comments piqued him to respond in kind"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroused",
"encouraged",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"impassioned",
"incited",
"instigated",
"moved",
"provoked",
"revved (up)",
"sparked",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fanned",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"triggered",
"activated",
"animated",
"drove",
"energized",
"galvanized",
"induced",
"inspired",
"keyed (up)",
"motivated",
"motived",
"pumped up",
"quickened",
"set off",
"vitalized",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"raised",
"whipped (up)",
"angered",
"enraged",
"maddened",
"upset",
"jeered",
"taunted",
"teased",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"irritated",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"soothed",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to think highly of (oneself)":{
"examples":[
"she piques herself on her considerable musical abilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"flattered",
"plumed",
"prided"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boasted",
"bragged",
"crowed",
"gasconaded",
"swaggered",
"swanked",
"swashed",
"vapored",
"vaunted",
"congratulated",
"felicitated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pines (away)":{
"as in longs (for) , sighs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aches",
"longs (for)",
"sighs",
"smarts",
"agonizes",
"anguishes",
"bleeds",
"grieves",
"hurts",
"mourns",
"sorrows",
"suffers",
"racks",
"torments",
"tortures",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments",
"rues",
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"groans",
"howls",
"keens",
"moans",
"sobs",
"takes on",
"wails",
"weeps",
"yammers",
"yowls",
"languishes",
"regrets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"cheers",
"crows",
"delights",
"exults",
"glories",
"joys",
"laughs",
"ravishes",
"rejoices",
"triumphs",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"commiserates",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"sympathizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pianists":{
"as in violinists , guitarists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionists",
"bassoonists",
"clarinetists",
"clarinettists",
"cornetists",
"cornettists",
"drummers",
"fiddlers",
"flautists",
"flutists",
"guitarists",
"harpists",
"hornists",
"keyboardists",
"oboists",
"organ-grinders",
"organists",
"percussionists",
"pickers",
"pipers",
"reedmen",
"saxophonists",
"trombonists",
"trumpeters",
"violinists",
"violists",
"accompanists",
"recitalists",
"soloists",
"symphonists",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"artists",
"performers",
"minstrels",
"instrumentalists",
"musicians",
"players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piffles":{
"as in muddles , blunders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinhole":{
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"pinholes in a bedsheet will look like stars if you shine a light from behind it"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pipage":{
"as in pipeline , piping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pipeline",
"piping",
"drain",
"drainpipe",
"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"smokestack",
"spout",
"standpipe",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
"waste pipe",
"waterspout",
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"line",
"penstock",
"pipe",
"trough",
"tube"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pioneers":{
"a person who settles in a new region":{
"examples":[
"the hardships that the pioneers endured while taming the wilderness"
],
"synonyms":[
"colonials",
"colonists",
"colonizers",
"frontiersmen",
"homesteaders",
"settlers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explorers",
"pathfinders",
"trailblazers",
"bushrangers",
"mountain men",
"woodsmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research"
],
"synonyms":[
"begins",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"plants",
"sets up",
"starts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authors",
"fathers",
"originates",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"creates",
"devises",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"produces",
"thinks (up)",
"constructs",
"puts up",
"develops",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"subsidizes",
"arranges",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"systemizes",
"refounds",
"reinitiates",
"reinstitutes",
"relaunches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"annuls",
"nullifies",
"ends",
"finishes",
"halts",
"stops",
"terminates",
"rounds (off or out)",
"winds up",
"wraps up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes (down)",
"phases out",
"shuts (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pinned (on)":{
"as in charged , fathered (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blamed",
"charged",
"fathered (on)",
"imputed (to)",
"accredited",
"ascribed",
"attributed",
"chalked up",
"credited",
"imputed",
"laid",
"put down",
"assigned",
"referred",
"associated",
"attached",
"connected",
"linked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitchpoled":{
"as in toppled , upended":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inverted",
"overset",
"overthrew",
"toppled",
"tumped (over)",
"upended",
"capsized",
"overturned",
"turned over",
"upset",
"careened",
"heeled",
"keeled",
"leaned",
"listed",
"tilted",
"tipped",
"collapsed",
"fell",
"foundered",
"gave"
],
"near antonyms":[
"righted",
"stood up",
"straightened (up)",
"erected",
"raised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pieced":{
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"built",
"confected",
"constructed",
"erected",
"fabricated",
"made",
"made up",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentered",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"framed",
"hammered",
"handcrafted",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"prefabricated",
"began",
"coined",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"designed",
"devised",
"imagined",
"thought (up)",
"reassembled",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"redeveloped",
"reedified",
"retrofitted",
"retrofit",
"jerry-built",
"rigged (up)",
"threw up",
"combined",
"united"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruinated",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"separated"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"took down",
"tore down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pitiable":{
"arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust":{
"examples":[
"the sales presentation was a pitiable display of ineptitude and disorganization"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"contemptible",
"cruddy",
"deplorable",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"grubby",
"lame",
"lousy",
"mean",
"nasty",
"paltry",
"pitiful",
"ratty",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"sneaking",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"condemnable",
"detestable",
"execrable",
"hateful",
"loathsome",
"odious",
"disgusting",
"reptilian",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"revulsive",
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"shameful",
"base",
"ignoble",
"low",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"squalid",
"vile",
"blamable",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"reproachable",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"high-minded",
"honest",
"honorable",
"noble",
"principled",
"redoubtable",
"reputable",
"right-minded",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"virtuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"admirable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy"
]
},
"deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy)":{
"examples":[
"a pitiable attempt at singing that generated snickers"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"pitiful",
"sad",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"misbegotten",
"notorious",
"shameful",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"beastly",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"lousy",
"odious",
"stinking",
"bad",
"inferior",
"lame",
"poor",
"disgusting",
"dishonorable",
"shameful",
"meritless",
"unworthy",
"worthless",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sordid",
"unsavory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admirable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy",
"redoubtable",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"reputable",
"worthy",
"excellent",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"honorable",
"noble",
"honest",
"straight"
],
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"presentable",
"respectable"
]
},
"deserving of one's pity":{
"examples":[
"a pitiable , starving old dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"piteous",
"pitiful",
"poor",
"rueful",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"lamentable",
"regrettable",
"emotional",
"impressive",
"inspiring",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"awful",
"horrible",
"terrible",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"grievous",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"woeful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressive",
"uninspiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pitched (upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"at a garage sale you just might pitch upon a table exactly the size you need"
],
"synonyms":[
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"found",
"happened (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"lit (on or upon)",
"lighted (on or upon)",
"met",
"stumbled (on or onto)",
"tumbled (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucked (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronted",
"faced",
"discovered",
"struck",
"turned up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinwheeling":{
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"the kayaker had got sucked into the whirlpool, and his kayak was pinwheeling helplessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrating",
"pirouetting",
"revolving",
"rolling",
"rotating",
"spinning",
"turning",
"twirling",
"wheeling",
"whirling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coiling",
"curling",
"curving",
"rounding",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"swirling",
"twining",
"twisting",
"winding",
"circling",
"circulating",
"encircling",
"orbiting",
"ringing",
"pivoting",
"swiveling",
"swivelling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pilgrimaging":{
"to take a trip especially of some distance":{
"examples":[
"tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe"
],
"synonyms":[
"journeying",
"peregrinating",
"touring",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trekking",
"tripping",
"voyaging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"hopping",
"jaunting",
"knocking (about)",
"perambulating",
"rambling",
"roaming",
"roving",
"traipsing",
"wandering",
"migrating",
"road-tripping",
"busing",
"bussing",
"cabbing",
"coaching",
"cruising",
"driving",
"flying",
"gigging",
"jetting",
"motoring",
"navigating",
"riding",
"rolling",
"sailing",
"trundling",
"barnstorming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piked":{
"as in bayoneted , quilled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"poniarded",
"pronged",
"quilled",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"pinpricked",
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"spindled",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced",
"gored",
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pierced",
"pinked",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"piece by piece":{
"by small steps or amounts":{
"examples":[
"worked out the solution piece by piece"
],
"synonyms":[
"gradationally",
"gradually",
"inchmeal",
"little by little",
"piecemeal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hierarchically",
"crescively",
"increasingly",
"progressively",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"slowly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acutely",
"sharply",
"steeply",
"hastily",
"precipitously"
],
"antonyms":[
"abruptly",
"suddenly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pieholes":{
"the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
"examples":[
"\"Shut your piehole or I'll shut it for you,\" the bully threatened"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gobs",
"kissers",
"mouths",
"mugs",
"traps",
"yaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countenances",
"faces",
"pusses",
"visages",
"muzzles",
"jaws",
"mandibles",
"maxillae",
"maxillas",
"gullets",
"maws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pits":{
"a sunken area forming a separate space":{
"examples":[
"removal of the tree stump left a gaping pit in the yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"cavities",
"concavities",
"dents",
"depressions",
"dints",
"holes",
"hollows",
"indentations",
"indentures",
"recesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burrows",
"caverns",
"caves",
"ditches",
"excavations",
"furrows",
"grooves",
"gutters",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"basins",
"bowls",
"valleys",
"alcoves",
"clefts",
"niches",
"nooks",
"openings",
"sockets",
"alveoli",
"dimples",
"gouges",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"notches",
"pockets",
"boreholes",
"chuckholes",
"craters",
"postholes",
"potholes",
"sinkholes",
"wallows",
"water holes",
"wells",
"abysses",
"chasms",
"gulfs",
"vacuities",
"vacuums",
"vacua",
"voids"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hills",
"mounds",
"rises",
"bumps",
"bunches",
"humps",
"lumps",
"pimples",
"swellings",
"swells",
"tumors"
],
"antonyms":[
"bulges",
"cambers",
"convexities",
"juts",
"projections",
"protrusions",
"protuberances"
]
},
"as in dents":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dents",
"bends",
"kinks",
"coarsens",
"rumples",
"wrinkles",
"roughens",
"roughs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"levels",
"planes",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"clips",
"crops",
"pares",
"prunes",
"shaves",
"trims",
"lays",
"presses",
"spreads"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pidgins":{
"as in colloquials , vernaculars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shops",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies",
"slanguages",
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pictorializations":{
"as in portraits , depictions":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depictions",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"representations",
"insets",
"clarifications",
"elucidations",
"explanations",
"explications",
"expositions",
"captions",
"keys",
"legends",
"drawings",
"illuminations",
"images",
"pictograms",
"pictographs",
"pictures",
"arts",
"artworks",
"diagrams",
"figures",
"graphics",
"illustrations",
"plates",
"visuals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinked":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"accidentally pinked my shoulder with his fencing sword"
],
"synonyms":[
"gored",
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pierced",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindled",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"piked",
"poniarded",
"pronged",
"quilled",
"pinpricked",
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pills":{
"a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu"
],
"synonyms":[
"caps",
"capsules",
"lozenges",
"tablets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cures",
"drugs",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"potions",
"preparations",
"dosages",
"doses",
"drops",
"gelcaps",
"boluses",
"pilules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"she can be such a pill when things don't go her way"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"beasts",
"bleeders",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buggers",
"buzzards",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pin (down)":{
"as in choose , determine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"assign",
"choose",
"determine",
"establish",
"opt (for)",
"pick",
"prefer",
"select",
"settle",
"single (out)",
"specify",
"appoint",
"designate",
"fix",
"name",
"set",
"arrange",
"coordinate",
"orchestrate",
"advertise",
"announce",
"declare",
"publish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pipe up (with)":{
"as in comment , remark":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comment",
"remark",
"clothe",
"couch",
"formulate",
"formulize",
"phrase",
"put",
"word",
"rip (out)",
"snarl",
"breathe",
"chirp",
"drawl",
"gasp",
"lip",
"mouth",
"murmur",
"purr",
"shout",
"splutter",
"spout",
"whisper",
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"blabber",
"blurt",
"bolt",
"get off",
"shoot",
"air",
"discuss",
"give",
"look",
"share",
"sound",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice",
"articulate",
"bring out",
"enunciate",
"pass",
"say",
"speak",
"state",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pippins":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"gave a pippin of a commencement speech that earned a standing ovation"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"doozies",
"doozers",
"dreams",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pips",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pilferer":{
"as in dip , pickpocket":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"shoplifter",
"sneak thief",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"poacher",
"rustler",
"smuggler",
"burglar",
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"picklock",
"safecracker",
"bandit",
"footpad",
"highwayman",
"pirate",
"larcenist",
"pincher",
"purloiner",
"robber",
"stealer",
"thief"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pitches in":{
"to make a donation as part of a group effort":{
"examples":[
"everyone at the office pitched in to buy a gift for the soon-to-be-wed couple"
],
"synonyms":[
"chips in",
"contributes",
"kicks in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bestows",
"donates",
"gives",
"presents",
"awards",
"confers",
"doles (out)",
"endows",
"affords",
"furnishes",
"provides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pixies":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"leave a dish of milk and some bread out for the pixies"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownies",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"elves",
"faeries",
"fairies",
"fays",
"gnomes",
"goblins",
"gremlins",
"hobgoblins",
"kobolds",
"leprechauns",
"pucks",
"sprites",
"trolls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpies",
"nixies",
"changelings",
"imps",
"banshees",
"ghouls",
"hags",
"ogres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pink slip":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"the company pink-slipped 300 workers in an effort to avoid bankruptcy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ax",
"axe",
"bounce",
"can",
"cashier",
"discharge",
"dismiss",
"fire",
"muster out",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate",
"turn off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsize",
"excess",
"furlough",
"lay off",
"trim",
"boot (out)",
"chuck (out)",
"drum (out)",
"kick out",
"throw out",
"unseat",
"separate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keep",
"reemploy",
"rehire",
"contract",
"subcontract",
"recruit"
],
"antonyms":[
"employ",
"engage",
"hire",
"retain",
"sign (up or on)",
"take on"
]
},
"as in bum's rush , shutdown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"shakeout",
"shake-up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pitted":{
"as in pocked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pocked",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"nonuniform",
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dented":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dented",
"bent",
"kinked",
"coarsened",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"roughed",
"roughened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"planed",
"smoothed",
"smoothened",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"pared",
"pruned",
"shaved",
"trimmed",
"laid",
"pressed",
"spread"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"piquant":{
"sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"a piquant tidbit of information about the new neighbors",
"the piquant cuisine of India boasts some highly spiced dishes"
],
"synonyms":[
"pert",
"poignant",
"pungent",
"salty",
"savory",
"savoury",
"zesty",
"zingy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"racy",
"spicy",
"fiery",
"gingery",
"hot",
"peppery",
"vinegary",
"acute",
"keen",
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"trenchant",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlightening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"piquing",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"ambrosial",
"appetizing",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"luscious",
"palatable",
"scrumptious",
"toothsome",
"flavorful",
"savorous",
"tasty",
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"riveting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flat",
"flavorless",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"arid",
"banal",
"barren",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dry",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"predictable",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"tedious",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"wearying",
"bland",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"insipid",
"zestless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pittances":{
"a very small sum of money":{
"examples":[
"the internship offers only a pittance for a salary, but it is a great opportunity to gain experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken feed",
"chump change",
"dime",
"hay",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pin money",
"shoestring",
"song",
"two cents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"petty cash",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankroll",
"capital",
"funds",
"means",
"wherewithal",
"opulence",
"pelf",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"heap",
"pile",
"pot",
"bonanza",
"mine",
"treasure trove",
"treasury"
],
"antonyms":[
"big buck(s)",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabuck(s)",
"mint",
"wad"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pity":{
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"examples":[
"it's a pity the woodchuck ate all the flowers after you put so much effort into the garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"crime",
"disgrace",
"shame",
"sin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outrage",
"scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"a woman of boundless pity who tried to care for every abandoned animal she found"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"charity",
"commiseration",
"compassion",
"feeling",
"good-heartedness",
"heart",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"largeheartedness",
"mercy",
"ruth",
"softheartedness",
"sympathy",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feelings",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitivity",
"affection",
"love",
"regard",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"altruism",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"generosity",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callousness",
"coldness",
"disinterest",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"cruelty",
"harshness",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"dislike",
"hatred",
"hostility"
],
"antonyms":[
"coldheartedness",
"hard-heartedness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness"
]
},
"to have sympathy for":{
"examples":[
"I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache (for)",
"bleed (for)",
"commiserate (with)",
"compassionate",
"condole (with)",
"feel (for)",
"sympathize (with)",
"yearn (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"care (for)",
"grieve (for)",
"sorrow (for)",
"love",
"empathize (with)",
"identify (with)",
"tolerate",
"understand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"dislike",
"hate",
"scorn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piece together":{
"as in assemble , compound":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assemble",
"compound",
"build",
"construct",
"make",
"redraft",
"reformulate",
"reframe",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"devise",
"author",
"indite",
"pen",
"write",
"couch",
"express",
"phrase",
"state",
"verbalize",
"word",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"form",
"mold",
"sculpture",
"shape",
"cast",
"compose",
"craft",
"draft",
"draw up",
"formulate",
"frame",
"prepare"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in figure out , work out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"answer",
"break",
"crack",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"puzzle (out)",
"resolve",
"riddle (out)",
"solve",
"unravel",
"unriddle",
"work",
"work out",
"readdress",
"reanalyze",
"reconceive",
"reconsider",
"redefine",
"reevaluate",
"reexamine",
"reexplore",
"rethink",
"review",
"revisit",
"reweigh",
"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"reason",
"clear (up)",
"iron out",
"straighten (out)",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"untie",
"reconceptualize",
"reenvision",
"reimagine",
"reduplicate",
"repeat",
"reconstruct",
"re-create",
"recreate",
"re-enact",
"reinvent",
"rehear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"picture hat":{
"as in cowboy hat , baseball cap":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball cap",
"beret",
"billycock",
"biretta",
"boater",
"bonnet",
"bowler",
"calotte",
"capuche",
"casque",
"castor",
"cloche",
"cocked hat",
"cowboy hat",
"cowl",
"derby",
"fedora",
"fez",
"garrison cap",
"hard hat",
"helm",
"helmet",
"high hat",
"homburg",
"hood",
"kepi",
"k\u00e9pi",
"kufi",
"leghorn",
"miter",
"mitre",
"nightcap",
"opera hat",
"overseas cap",
"panama",
"pillbox",
"plug hat",
"porkpie hat",
"service cap",
"shako",
"silk hat",
"skimmer",
"skullcap",
"sombrero",
"sou'wester",
"Stetson",
"stocking cap",
"stovepipe",
"sunbonnet",
"tam",
"tam-o'-shanter",
"ten-gallon hat",
"top hat",
"topper",
"toque",
"tricorne",
"tricorn",
"turban",
"zucchetto",
"cap",
"chapeau",
"hat",
"headdress",
"headgear",
"headpiece",
"lid",
"warbonnet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pirating":{
"the act or pursuit of robbing ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"officially sanctioned pirating used to be common among warring nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"piracy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"marauding",
"pillaging",
"plunder",
"plundering",
"raiding",
"robbery",
"sacking",
"privateering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"using pirated software that was subject to copyright"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"arrogating",
"commandeering",
"converting",
"expropriating",
"preempting",
"pressing",
"seizing",
"taking over",
"usurping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annexing",
"attaching",
"claiming",
"confiscating",
"impounding",
"repossessing",
"sequestering",
"assuming",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"snatching",
"stealing",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"despoiling",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"encroaching",
"infringing",
"invading",
"occupying",
"preoccupying",
"trespassing",
"embezzling",
"misapplying",
"misappropriating",
"misusing",
"peculating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pit bulls":{
"an aggressive and fiercely determined person":{
"examples":[
"a pit bull who won't let anyone stand in her way to the top of the corporate ladder"
],
"synonyms":[
"barracuda",
"barracudas",
"fire-breathers",
"fire-eaters",
"tigers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attack dogs",
"hatchet men",
"aggressors",
"bullies",
"sharks",
"go-getters",
"hustlers",
"live wires",
"self-starters",
"battlers",
"fighters",
"scrappers",
"diehards",
"militants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pushovers",
"pussycats",
"reeds",
"softies",
"weaklings",
"wimps"
],
"antonyms":[
"milquetoasts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pipe dream":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimera",
"conceit",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"dream",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"nonentity",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"unreality",
"vision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignis fatuus",
"mirage",
"will-o'-the-wisp",
"brainchild",
"idea",
"concoction",
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fiction",
"invention",
"envisaging",
"imaging",
"visualization",
"cloud-cuckoo-land",
"cloudland",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"daymare",
"nightmare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"fact",
"reality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pistolled":{
"as in shotgunned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shotgunned",
"blasted (at)",
"fired (at)",
"machine-gunned",
"tommy-gunned",
"blazed",
"peppered",
"potshot",
"sniped (at)",
"croaked",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"felled",
"iced",
"killed",
"slew",
"blew away",
"brought down",
"dropped",
"picked off",
"shot down",
"annihilated",
"blotted out",
"butchered",
"decimated",
"massacred",
"slaughtered",
"wiped out",
"drilled",
"gunned",
"plugged",
"popped",
"shot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pins (on)":{
"as in charges , fathers (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blames",
"charges",
"fathers (on)",
"imputes (to)",
"accredits",
"ascribes",
"attributes",
"chalks up",
"credits",
"imputes",
"lays",
"puts down",
"assigns",
"refers",
"associates",
"attaches",
"connects",
"links"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pink-slips":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"the company pink-slipped 300 workers in an effort to avoid bankruptcy"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bounces",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"musters out",
"releases",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates",
"turns off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsizes",
"excesses",
"furloughs",
"lays off",
"trims",
"boots (out)",
"chucks (out)",
"drums (out)",
"kicks out",
"throws out",
"unseats",
"separates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keeps",
"reemploys",
"rehires",
"contracts",
"subcontracts",
"recruits"
],
"antonyms":[
"employs",
"engages",
"hires",
"retains",
"signs (up or on)",
"takes on"
]
},
"as in bum's rushes , shutdowns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"shakeouts",
"shake-ups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pigged out":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorged",
"gormandized",
"overate",
"swilled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devoured",
"glutted",
"sated",
"stuffed",
"surfeited",
"wolfed",
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"bolted",
"crammed",
"gulped",
"guzzled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbled",
"pecked",
"picked",
"tasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pinched pennies":{
"to avoid unnecessary waste or expense":{
"examples":[
"They pinched pennies in order to afford a nice vacation."
],
"synonyms":[
"economized",
"pinched",
"saved",
"scrimped",
"skimped",
"spared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserved",
"husbanded",
"maintained",
"managed",
"preserved",
"scraped",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"retrenched",
"hoarded",
"laid up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"spent",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"splurged"
],
"antonyms":[
"wasted"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pivoted":{
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"the telescope is mounted on a tripod so you can easily pivot it for viewing in any direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"revolved",
"rolled",
"rotated",
"spun",
"swirled",
"swiveled",
"swivelled",
"swung",
"turned",
"twirled",
"twisted",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screwed",
"unscrewed",
"twiddled",
"coiled",
"cranked",
"reeled",
"wound",
"winded",
"circulated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pintos":{
"as in blacks , chestnuts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bays",
"blacks",
"buckskins",
"chestnuts",
"duns",
"palominos",
"roans",
"skewbalds",
"sorrels",
"chargers",
"coursers",
"cow ponies",
"cutting horses",
"gallopers",
"hackneys",
"hacks",
"mounts",
"packhorses",
"prancers",
"quarter horses",
"racehorses",
"saddle horses",
"trotters",
"warhorses",
"workhorses",
"cobs",
"dobbins",
"jades",
"plugs",
"skates",
"broncos",
"bronchos",
"mustangs",
"ponies",
"colts",
"fillies",
"foals",
"geldings",
"mares",
"stallions",
"equids",
"equines",
"horses",
"horse",
"nags",
"steeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pith":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"finally got to the pith of the discussion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pivot",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"course",
"direction",
"drift",
"tenor",
"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pickings":{
"as in stump , refuse":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"odds and ends",
"refuse",
"scraping(s)",
"stump",
"balance",
"butt",
"corpse",
"hangover",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"scrap",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"piece",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"afterimage",
"aftertaste",
"ribbon(s)",
"shred",
"tatter",
"artifact",
"end",
"fag end",
"stub",
"memento",
"remembrance",
"reminder",
"echo",
"ghost",
"relic",
"shadow",
"trace",
"vestige",
"leftovers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"body",
"bulk",
"main",
"mass",
"most",
"weight",
"whole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"pipe dreams":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimeras",
"conceits",
"daydreams",
"delusions",
"dreams",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"figments",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"nonentities",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"unrealities",
"visions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignes fatui",
"mirages",
"will-o'-the-wisps",
"brainchildren",
"ideas",
"concoctions",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"facts",
"realities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pizazzes":{
"the power of irresistible attraction":{
"examples":[
"he doesn't have the pizzazz to be a leading man in the movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"animal magnetism",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"force field",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"magic",
"magnetism",
"oomph",
"seductiveness",
"witchery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allurement",
"attraction",
"call",
"lure",
"seduction",
"agreeableness",
"darlingness",
"delightfulness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasingness",
"sweetness",
"sex appeal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"offensiveness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"antonyms":[
"repulsion",
"repulsiveness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piper":{
"as in pianist , violinist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionist",
"bassoonist",
"clarinetist",
"clarinettist",
"cornetist",
"cornettist",
"drummer",
"fiddler",
"flautist",
"flutist",
"guitarist",
"harpist",
"hornist",
"keyboardist",
"oboist",
"organ-grinder",
"organist",
"percussionist",
"pianist",
"picker",
"reedman",
"saxophonist",
"trombonist",
"trumpeter",
"violinist",
"violist",
"accompanist",
"recitalist",
"soloist",
"symphonist",
"maestro",
"virtuoso",
"artist",
"performer",
"minstrel",
"instrumentalist",
"musician",
"player"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pinpricking":{
"as in poking , punching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"spindling",
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}
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