dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/sh_mwt.json
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{
"shabby":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"examples":[
"shabby wallpaper that was peeling from the walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"worn or torn into or as if into rags":{
"examples":[
"shabby , stained clothes that are barely better than rags"
],
"synonyms":[
"frayed",
"ragged",
"raggedy",
"ratty",
"seedy",
"tattered",
"threadbare",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dowdy",
"scruffy",
"tatterdemalion",
"dingy",
"faded",
"lacerate",
"lacerated",
"shredded",
"holey",
"patchy",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"moth-eaten",
"run-down",
"scuzzy",
"tacky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"unused"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shackling":{
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"binding",
"chaining",
"enchaining",
"enfettering",
"fettering",
"gyving",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"pinioning",
"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"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogging",
"cramping",
"embarrassing",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"handicapping",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"short-circuiting",
"stymieing",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"reining",
"restraining",
"binding",
"chaining",
"haltering",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"tying",
"tieing",
"arresting",
"braking",
"delaying",
"retaining",
"retarding",
"barricading",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"roadblocking",
"bogging (down)",
"miring",
"choking",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suffocating",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"stumping",
"thwarting",
"derailing",
"disrupting",
"sabotaging",
"muzzling",
"repressing",
"suppressing",
"confining",
"hedging (in)",
"hemming (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"making way",
"opening",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"loosening",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"furthering",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[
"aiding",
"assisting",
"facilitating",
"helping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shade":{
"partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays":{
"examples":[
"it was hard to see in the shade after being in the brilliant sunlight",
"the trees cast shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"dusk",
"penumbra",
"shadiness",
"shadow",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackness",
"dimness",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"murkiness",
"obscurity",
"semidarkness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"lightness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"enjoying the cool shade of the evening"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shadows",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished":{
"examples":[
"a lovely shade of blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"color",
"hue",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint",
"tone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overtone",
"undertone",
"primary color",
"secondary color",
"tertiary color",
"brightness",
"chroma",
"chromaticity",
"contrast",
"lightness",
"saturation",
"value",
"coloration",
"coloring",
"colorway",
"pigmentation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"just a shade taller than his dance partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"spirits and shades haunting the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"canopy",
"cover",
"protect",
"screen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminate",
"light",
"lighten",
"expose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaded":{
"protected from the sun's rays":{
"examples":[
"walking along the park's shaded pathway"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadowed",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"umbrageous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"inky",
"moonless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"penumbral",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"exposed",
"shadeless",
"sunny"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouded",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"canopied",
"covered",
"protected",
"screened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminated",
"lightened",
"lit",
"lighted",
"exposed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shading":{
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"canopying",
"covering",
"protecting",
"screening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"exposing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadowiness":{
"as in darkness , vagueness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"darkness",
"murkiness",
"vagueness",
"deepness",
"profundity",
"ambiguity",
"equivocality",
"equivocalness",
"impenetrability",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"mysteriousness",
"numinousness",
"obscurity",
"uncanniness",
"incomprehensibility",
"unintelligibility",
"unintelligibleness",
"inexplicability",
"inexplicableness",
"unanswerability",
"unknowability",
"abstruseness",
"abstrusity",
"esotericism",
"hermetism",
"reconditeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intelligibility",
"understandability",
"clarity",
"obviousness",
"plainness",
"self-evidence",
"straightforwardness",
"transparency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shags":{
"as in Mohawk , trims":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shingles",
"trims",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skips , leaps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounds",
"canters",
"leaps",
"lopes",
"skips",
"springs",
"dashes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"scampers",
"sprints",
"trips",
"trots",
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"courses",
"foots (it)",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"hoofs (it)",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"legs (it)",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms",
"nips",
"patters",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"steps (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambles",
"saunters",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"trudges",
"hobbles",
"limps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shake (off)":{
"as in recover (from) , rally":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shake down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in couch , bunk bed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dry run":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry run",
"trial and error",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"tryout",
"workout",
"essay",
"experiment",
"experimentation",
"test",
"trial",
"crucible",
"ordeal",
"attempt",
"effort",
"try"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pursuit , reconnaissance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recon",
"reconnaissance",
"scout",
"hunt",
"quest",
"search",
"chase",
"pursuit",
"exploration",
"probe",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"survey",
"sweep",
"forage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaken":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bucketed",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shuddered",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"waved",
"beaten",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"gotten around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken up":{
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalled",
"floored",
"jolted",
"shocked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonished",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"freaked (out)",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"dismayed",
"frighted",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"scared",
"scarified",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"revolted",
"sickened",
"turned off",
"displeased",
"offended",
"outraged",
"scandalized",
"amazed",
"astounded",
"awed",
"chilled",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"dispirited",
"emasculated",
"undone",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"shaken",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"crushed",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffered",
"cushioned",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"rejoiced",
"tickled",
"charmed",
"enticed",
"tempted",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"reassured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakily":{
"as in delicately , faintly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously",
"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"robustly",
"roughshod",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"eagerly",
"gamely",
"heartily",
"lustily",
"snappily",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"vivaciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shakiness":{
"the quality or state of not being firmly fixed in position":{
"examples":[
"we added a couple more ropes to help reduce the shakiness of the footbridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"insecurity",
"instability",
"precariousness",
"unstableness",
"unsteadiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"insubstantiality",
"unsoundness",
"changeability",
"inconstancy",
"mutability",
"laxness",
"looseness",
"slackness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firmness",
"soundness",
"substantiality"
],
"antonyms":[
"fastness",
"fixedness",
"security",
"stability",
"steadiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaking out":{
"to come to be":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"developing",
"emerging",
"evolving",
"germinating",
"playing out",
"unfolding",
"working out"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming out",
"falling out",
"panning out",
"proving",
"turning out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaky":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"the old man's hands were so shaky that I was afraid he'd drop the glass"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"results that were arrived at using some shaky experimental procedures"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shamble":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shambled":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
],
"examples":[
"disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"related":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shambling":{
"as in wobbly , lumbering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
],
"examples":[
"disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"related":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shame":{
"a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing":{
"antonyms":[
"impenitence",
"remorselessness"
],
"examples":[
"racked with shame over her actions of the previous week"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"compunction",
"misgiving",
"prick",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"blame",
"culpability",
"fault",
"liability",
"rap",
"responsibility",
"chagrin",
"embarrassment",
"anguish",
"distress",
"grief",
"ruth",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"bloodguilt",
"bloodguiltiness",
"apology",
"excuses",
"hand-wringing",
"mea culpa"
],
"synonyms":[
"contriteness",
"contrition",
"guilt",
"penitence",
"regret",
"remorse",
"remorsefulness",
"repentance",
"rue",
"self-reproach"
]
},
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it's a shame you won't be able to come to the party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"outrage",
"scandal"
],
"synonyms":[
"crime",
"disgrace",
"pity",
"sin"
]
},
"the state of having lost the esteem of others":{
"antonyms":[
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect"
],
"examples":[
"left the room in shame after his angry outburst"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"estimation",
"regard",
"awe",
"fear",
"reverence",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"related":[
"scandal",
"contempt",
"despite",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"deprecation",
"disapprobation",
"disapproval",
"disfavor",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"debasing",
"degradation",
"dust",
"humbling",
"humiliation",
"blot",
"brand",
"shadow",
"slur",
"smirch",
"spot",
"stain",
"stigma",
"taint"
],
"synonyms":[
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt"
],
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
"related":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate"
],
"synonyms":[
"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower",
"sink",
"smirch",
"take down"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shanghaied":{
"as in seized , captured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"captured",
"crimped",
"impressed",
"seized",
"waylaid",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"absconded (with)",
"snatched",
"spirited",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"caught",
"copped",
"stole",
"took"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivered",
"ransomed",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"restored",
"returned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in took in , fooled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"kidded",
"snowed",
"took in",
"tricked",
"engineered",
"finagled",
"jockeyed",
"maneuvered",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"exploited",
"manipulated",
"played (upon)",
"arranged",
"contrived",
"devised",
"finessed",
"masterminded",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"conned",
"defrauded",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shank":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"slashed at the prison guard with a shank he had secretly made from a scrap of metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"blade",
"cutter",
"knife",
"shiv"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaver",
"hack",
"bayonet",
"bodkin",
"bolo",
"bowie knife",
"cutlass",
"dagger",
"dirk",
"jackknife",
"machete",
"pocketknife",
"poniard",
"sheath knife",
"stiletto",
"stylet",
"switchblade",
"switch knife",
"yataghan",
"rapier",
"saber",
"sabre",
"steel",
"sword",
"scalpel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanty":{
"a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling":{
"examples":[
"lived just off the beach in a crude shanty"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lean-to",
"shed",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaped (up)":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallized",
"crystalized",
"formed",
"jelled",
"solidified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"fused",
"combined",
"conjoined",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"joined",
"linked (up)",
"unified",
"united"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke down",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amended",
"mended",
"reformed",
"straightened (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaved",
"regenerated",
"bettered",
"improved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslid",
"regressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shapes":{
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"examples":[
"that part of the state is known as the panhandle because of its shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"configurations",
"conformations",
"fashions",
"figures",
"forms",
"geometries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contours",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"silhouettes",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"arrangements",
"designs",
"formats",
"layouts",
"makeups",
"organizations",
"patterns",
"plans",
"setups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compositions",
"materials",
"matters",
"raw materials",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the type of body that a person has":{
"examples":[
"some specialty clothing stores sell clothing that suits people that have a particular shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"builds",
"constitutions",
"figures",
"forms",
"frames",
"habits",
"physiques"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anatomies",
"structures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"suits",
"tailors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranges",
"blueprints",
"budgets",
"calculates",
"charts",
"choreographs",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps (out)",
"organizes",
"plans",
"prepares",
"projects",
"schemes (out)",
"strategizes (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspires",
"contrives",
"devises",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"concerts",
"gets up",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"sketches",
"aims",
"figures",
"has on",
"intends",
"means",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"premeditates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shard":{
"a small sharp piece of something (such as glass or pottery)":{
"examples":[
"Watch out for the shards of glass on the floor."
],
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"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"shred",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"share (out)":{
"as in hand out , dole out":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shares":{
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"partakes",
"participates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endures",
"experiences",
"feels",
"knows",
"sees",
"tastes",
"undergoes",
"encounters",
"meets",
"accepts",
"receives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group":{
"examples":[
"my share of the lottery winnings is over a million dollars",
"her share of the bill comes to $13.44"
],
"synonyms":[
"allotments",
"allowances",
"cuts",
"ends",
"parts",
"pieces",
"portions",
"proportions",
"quotas",
"slices",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lots",
"rations",
"commissions",
"percentages",
"members",
"partitions",
"sections",
"segments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregates",
"composites",
"compounds",
"pools",
"sums",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something":{
"examples":[
"she sold her share in the business to her partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"claims",
"interests",
"stakes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-ownerships",
"ownerships",
"partnerships",
"parts",
"possessions",
"titles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharp-eyed":{
"having unusually keen vision":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a very sharp-eyed child found the last Easter egg, which was hidden in the flower arrangement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blind",
"eyeless",
"sightless",
"stone-blind",
"visionless",
"astigmatic",
"myopic",
"nearsighted",
"shortsighted",
"purblind"
],
"related":[
"sighted",
"alert",
"attentive",
"aware",
"observant",
"observing",
"vigilant",
"watchful"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear-sighted",
"eagle-eyed",
"hawkeyed",
"lynx-eyed",
"sharp-sighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sharpen":{
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"you need to sharpen your penknife's blade frequently in order to be able to whittle properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"edge",
"grind",
"hone",
"stone",
"strop",
"whet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"file"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"round",
"smooth"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharpened":{
"having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
"examples":[
"the sharpened blade of a lawn mower"
],
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"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharp",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
]
},
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"you need to sharpen your penknife's blade frequently in order to be able to whittle properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"edged",
"ground",
"honed",
"stoned",
"stropped",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glossed",
"polished",
"rounded",
"smoothed"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunted",
"dulled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sharper":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"carnival sharpers eager to relieve the yokels of their money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharpies":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"those poolroom sharpies cleaned them out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"bluffers",
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams",
"adventurers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"gamesmen",
"knaves",
"pranksters",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"fast-talkers",
"slickers",
"slicks",
"slicksters",
"slyboots",
"smoothies",
"wheeler-dealers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"blacklegs",
"cardsharps",
"cardsharpers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilkers",
"bilks",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fakirs",
"finaglers",
"fraudsters",
"hoaxers",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"skinners",
"swindlers",
"trickers",
"tricksters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shattered":{
"forcibly separated into many pieces":{
"examples":[
"the glass mirror lay shattered on the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"busted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blasted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"cracked",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"collapsed",
"imploded",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"pulverized",
"ruinate",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disintegrated",
"dynamited",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"obliterated",
"wiped out",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"frangible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"repaired",
"infrangible",
"unbreakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbroken"
]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blew",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"demolished",
"exploded",
"popped",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamited",
"annihilated",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"detonated",
"discharged",
"fragmented",
"splintered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"imploded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"crashed",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busted",
"bust",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"annihilated",
"bashed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"nuked",
"pulverized",
"ruined",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked",
"shivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crunched",
"crushed",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shaved":{
"as in shaven , beardless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beardless",
"shaven",
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bristly",
"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"hirsute",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly",
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"stubbled",
"stubbly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"he always shaves most of his hair off when the weather starts getting warmer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"cut",
"cut back",
"docked",
"lopped (off)",
"nipped",
"pared",
"polled",
"pruned",
"sheared",
"snipped",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skived",
"whittled",
"manicured",
"mowed",
"pinched",
"stumped",
"curtailed",
"shortened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing":{
"examples":[
"just shaved the concrete post as the car turned the corner"
],
"synonyms":[
"brushed",
"grazed",
"kissed",
"nudged",
"skimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumped",
"contacted",
"scraped",
"sideswiped",
"struck",
"swept",
"swiped",
"touched",
"bounced",
"caromed",
"glanced",
"rebounded",
"ricocheted",
"ricochetted",
"skipped",
"caressed",
"cuddled",
"fondled",
"loved",
"patted",
"petted",
"stroked",
"missed",
"skirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"bumped",
"clashed",
"collided",
"crashed",
"hit",
"impacted",
"impinged",
"knocked",
"punched",
"rammed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"swiped",
"thudded",
"thwacked",
"whacked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sheath":{
"something that encloses another thing especially to protect it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he removed his knife from its sheath and started to whittle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cartridge",
"cassette",
"casette",
"bark",
"crust",
"carapace",
"house",
"mail",
"panoply",
"plate",
"plating",
"shield",
"cuticle",
"hide",
"skin",
"envelope",
"package",
"wrapper",
"backing",
"coating",
"coverture",
"facing"
],
"synonyms":[
"armor",
"capsule",
"case",
"casing",
"cocoon",
"cover",
"covering",
"encasement",
"housing",
"hull",
"husk",
"jacket",
"pod",
"shell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheaves":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"contends that casino gambling would generate a sheaf of social problems for the state"
],
"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",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shed":{
"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a snake's skin doesn't grow as the snake does, so every so often the snake will shed its old skin"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliate",
"molt",
"slip",
"slough",
"sluff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flake",
"peel",
"scale",
"chuck",
"discard",
"ditch",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"scrap",
"shuck (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"unload"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"you need to shed your old notions of propriety and have some fun for a change"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashier",
"cast (off)",
"chuck",
"deep-six",
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"eighty-six",
"86",
"exorcise",
"exorcize",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"lay by",
"lose",
"pitch",
"reject",
"scrap",
"shuck (off)",
"slough (off)",
"sluff (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"toss",
"unload"
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"abdicate",
"desert",
"forsake",
"dismiss",
"kick out",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out"
],
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"embrace",
"take on",
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"hold",
"hold back",
"keep",
"retain"
],
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},
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"lean-to",
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shack",
"shanty",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a snake's skin doesn't grow as the snake does, so every so often the snake will shed its old skin"
],
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"exfoliates",
"molts",
"slips",
"sloughs",
"sluffs"
],
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"peels",
"scales",
"chucks",
"discards",
"ditches",
"flings (off or away)",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"scraps",
"shucks (off)",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"unloads"
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},
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"examples":[
"you need to shed your old notions of propriety and have some fun for a change"
],
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"cashiers",
"casts (off)",
"chucks",
"deep-sixes",
"discards",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"eighty-sixes",
"86es",
"exorcises",
"exorcizes",
"flings (off or away)",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"lays by",
"loses",
"pitches",
"rejects",
"scraps",
"shucks (off)",
"sloughs (off)",
"sluffs (off)",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"tosses",
"unloads"
],
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"abandons",
"abdicates",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"dismisses",
"kicks out",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out"
],
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"embraces",
"takes on",
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"holds",
"holds back",
"keeps",
"retains"
],
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"as in lean-tos":{
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"lean-tos",
"cabins",
"camps",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"hutments",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties",
"cots",
"cottages",
"lodges",
"cabanas",
"bungalows",
"chalets",
"hogans",
"wickiups",
"wigwams",
"tents"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheepfold":{
"as in fold":{
"examples":[],
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"fold",
"cote",
"dovecote",
"dovecot",
"henhouse",
"pigpen",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"kennel",
"run",
"live-box",
"cage",
"coop",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen",
"pound",
"fence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheepishness":{
"as in diffidence , timidness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"mousiness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"timorousness",
"carefulness",
"cautiousness",
"wariness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"gutlessness",
"poltroonery",
"pusillanimity",
"spinelessness",
"demureness",
"down-to-earthness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"modesty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness",
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheepskin":{
"as in lambskin , cowhide":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheik":{
"as in womanizer , lady-killer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lady-killer",
"womanizer",
"babe",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"eye candy",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"knockout",
"stunner",
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"pretty boy",
"stud",
"superstud"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dog",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"monster",
"nerd"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shell game":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
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"examples":[
"it's amazing how intelligent people fall for that investment-fund shell game"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cross",
"fix",
"Ponzi scheme",
"pyramid scheme",
"racket",
"rip-off",
"thimblerig",
"three-card monte",
"device",
"dodge",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"ploy",
"scheme",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile",
"gouging",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunco",
"bunko",
"con",
"fiddle",
"flimflam",
"fraud",
"hustle",
"scam",
"sting",
"swindle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shelter":{
"something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger":{
"examples":[
"the sudden fierce storm forced us to run to the nearest shelter"
],
"synonyms":[
"asylum",
"bolt-hole",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haven",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"sanctuary",
"sanctum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oasis",
"anchorage",
"mooring",
"port",
"cover",
"screen",
"abode",
"diggings",
"domicile",
"dwelling",
"habitation",
"house",
"housing",
"lodging",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"rest",
"roof",
"cloister",
"closet",
"covert",
"den",
"hermitage",
"hideaway",
"hideout",
"lair",
"castle",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"redoubt",
"stronghold",
"lean-to",
"lee",
"shed",
"windbreak"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be or provide a shelter for":{
"examples":[
"the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"harbor",
"refuge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward",
"domicile",
"house",
"place",
"quarter",
"shade",
"shadow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"domicile",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"roof",
"room",
"take in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"evict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shelve":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"let's shelve the project for now"
],
"near antonyms":[
"act",
"deal (with)",
"decide (upon)",
"do",
"work (on)"
],
"related":[
"suspend",
"hesitate",
"pause",
"stay",
"detain",
"retard",
"slow",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch (out)",
"wait"
],
"synonyms":[
"defer",
"delay",
"hold off (on)",
"hold over",
"hold up",
"lay over",
"postpone",
"put off",
"put over",
"remit"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shepherd":{
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"shepherding her through the procedure of taking out a loan"
],
"synonyms":[
"coach",
"counsel",
"guide",
"lead",
"mentor",
"pilot",
"show",
"tutor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfather",
"direct",
"engineer",
"steer",
"sway",
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"squire",
"oversee",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"drill",
"train",
"brief",
"enlighten",
"inform",
"instruct",
"school",
"teach",
"inculcate",
"indoctrinate",
"cultivate",
"foster",
"nurture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pastor , vicar":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abb\u00e9",
"curate",
"cur\u00e9",
"parson",
"pastor",
"rector",
"vicar",
"churchman",
"clergyman",
"father",
"Holy Joe",
"padre",
"clergywoman",
"deaconess",
"priestess",
"abbot",
"archbishop",
"archpriest",
"bishop",
"dean",
"diocesan",
"monsignor",
"pope",
"prelate",
"presbyter",
"chaplain",
"confessor",
"sky pilot",
"evangelist",
"missionary",
"missioner",
"missionizer",
"revivalist",
"friar",
"mendicant",
"monastic",
"monk",
"oblate",
"religious",
"high priest",
"high priestess",
"clergyperson",
"cleric",
"clerical",
"clerk",
"deacon",
"divine",
"dominie",
"ecclesiastic",
"minister",
"preacher",
"priest",
"reverend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay reader",
"lector",
"layman",
"layperson",
"secular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sheepherder , shepherdess":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sheepherder",
"shepherdess",
"buckaroo",
"buckeroo",
"cowboy",
"cowgirl",
"cowhand",
"cowherd",
"cowman",
"cowpoke",
"cowpuncher",
"gaucho",
"ranchero",
"vaquero",
"goatherd",
"herder",
"herdsman",
"swineherd",
"wrangler",
"drover"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shepherding":{
"as in steering , piloting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"piloting",
"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":[
"shepherding her through the procedure of taking out a loan"
],
"synonyms":[
"coaching",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"leading",
"mentoring",
"piloting",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shied (from or away from)":{
"as in objected (to) , disapproved (of)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cringed (at)",
"disapproved (of)",
"frowned (on or upon)",
"minded",
"objected (to)",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"resented",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"disrelished",
"misliked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adored",
"cottoned (to)",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"esteemed",
"regarded",
"respected",
"adored",
"deified",
"idolized",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"drank (in)",
"savored",
"savoured",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"favored",
"preferred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"shielding":{
"as in protecting , safeguarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"sheltering",
"safe",
"secure",
"snug",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"impregnable",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unconquerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dangerous",
"hazardous",
"insecure",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"threatening",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"vulnerable",
"precarious",
"treacherous",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in protection , safeguarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"protection",
"safeguarding",
"sheltering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposure",
"liability",
"openness",
"vulnerability",
"predisposition",
"susceptibility",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarking",
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"warding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"preventing",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"buffering",
"palisading",
"picketing",
"walling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"covering",
"screening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaking",
"clothing",
"veiling",
"draping",
"palling",
"canopying",
"capping",
"crowning",
"disguising",
"masking",
"obscuring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"exposing",
"uncovering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shifting":{
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"antonyms":[
"motionlessness"
],
"examples":[
"the shifting of the toys to the front of the display was a direct result of their sudden popularity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"related":[
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motivity",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"synonyms":[
"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shift",
"stir",
"stirring"
]
},
"to change one's position":{
"antonyms":[
"freezing",
"stilling"
],
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hanging around",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"stabilizing"
],
"related":[
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"jiggling",
"squiggling",
"squirming",
"tossing",
"twitching",
"wiggling",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"rousing"
],
"synonyms":[
"budging",
"locomoting",
"moving",
"stirring"
]
},
"to change the place or position of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchoring",
"fixing",
"freezing",
"mooring",
"securing",
"setting",
"stabilizing",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"rooting"
],
"related":[
"bearing",
"carrying",
"carting",
"conveying",
"driving",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"toting",
"transmitting",
"transplanting",
"transporting",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"supplanting",
"altering",
"making over",
"modifying",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
],
"synonyms":[
"budging",
"dislocating",
"displacing",
"disturbing",
"moving",
"relocating",
"removing",
"repositioning",
"transferring",
"transposing"
]
},
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"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
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"related":[
"interchanging",
"displacing",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"ceding",
"handing over",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"reciprocating"
],
"synonyms":[
"changing",
"commuting",
"exchanging",
"substituting",
"swapping",
"switching",
"trading"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
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"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"related":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"doing",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"making out",
"managing"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"antonyms":[
"plateauing",
"stabilizing"
],
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"metamorphosing",
"morphing",
"transmuting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"deteriorating",
"worsening",
"turning around",
"seesawing",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"synonyms":[
"changing",
"fluctuating",
"mutating",
"snapping",
"varying"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shiftlessness":{
"an inclination not to do work or engage in activities":{
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"industriousness",
"industry"
],
"examples":[
"with the start of the warm weather, combating the students' shiftlessness was a constant ordeal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambition",
"enterprise",
"go",
"hustle",
"initiative",
"assiduity",
"assiduousness",
"diligence",
"perseverance",
"animation",
"briskness",
"energy",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"pep",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrancy",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"vivacity"
],
"related":[
"apathy",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"supineness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"synonyms":[
"idleness",
"indolence",
"inertia",
"laziness",
"sloth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shimmery":{
"as in shimmering , sparkling":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant",
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shine":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beam",
"radiate",
"ray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"glow",
"luminesce",
"sheen",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"coruscate",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle",
"beat (down)",
"glare",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"light",
"lighten",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"lower",
"lour"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"dress",
"furbish",
"gloss",
"grind",
"polish",
"rub",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleek",
"slick",
"coat",
"glaze",
"japan",
"lacquer",
"varnish",
"face",
"finish",
"veneer",
"brighten",
"file",
"rasp",
"sand",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scrub",
"bob",
"bone",
"lap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"ruffle",
"scuff (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"brightness created by light reflected from a surface":{
"examples":[
"the troop inspector insisted on nothing less than a dazzling shine from every pair of shoes in the line of review"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnish",
"gloss",
"luminance",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"sheen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glow",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"flicker",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"illumination",
"irradiation",
"iridescence",
"luminescence",
"brilliance",
"luminosity",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"refulgence",
"finish",
"glaze"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"flatness",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"cloudiness",
"gloom",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"by the shine of the full moon we could see the rabbit helping himself to our garden vegetables"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flash",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"daylight",
"moonlight",
"sunlight",
"sunshine",
"afterglow",
"aureole",
"aureola",
"aurora",
"beam",
"halo",
"ray",
"shaft",
"streak",
"stream",
"sunbeam",
"glisten",
"gloss",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"reflection",
"sheen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dimness",
"dusk",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"night",
"shadow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"took quite a shine to the new neighbors"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"fancy",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"love",
"love affair",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"taste",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"longing",
"thirst",
"yen",
"enthusiasm",
"gusto",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"tooth",
"palate",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinclination",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"mislike"
]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"the shines they pulled at summer camp have become embellished with each retelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shingling":{
"as in overlap , overlaying":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in overlapping , overlaying":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shininess":{
"as in polish , sheen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"sheen",
"shine",
"fluorescence",
"incandescence",
"luminescence",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"blaze",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"light",
"flash",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"brilliancy",
"candor",
"dazzle",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"lambency",
"lightness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"luster",
"lustre",
"lustrousness",
"radiance",
"refulgence",
"splendor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"duskiness",
"dimness",
"gloominess",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"haziness",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"colorlessness",
"grayness",
"lackluster",
"paleness",
"shadiness",
"shadowiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipload":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"it must have taken a shipload of money to build that mansion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipping":{
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we shipped those books out yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigning",
"dispatching",
"packing (off)",
"sending",
"shooting",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"transporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveying",
"delivering",
"handing over",
"passing",
"rendering",
"advancing",
"dropping",
"launching",
"addressing",
"forwarding",
"exporting",
"importing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"presenting",
"resending",
"returning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiring",
"drawing",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepting",
"receiving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipyard":{
"as in marina , dockyard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dockyard",
"marina",
"quayage",
"wharfage",
"embarcadero",
"berth",
"mooring",
"slip",
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"pier",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirkers":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"even before we weighed anchor, the captain forcefully served notice that there would be no shirkers on his ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"slackers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerers",
"dropouts",
"quitters",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wires",
"pistols",
"powerhouses",
"doers",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirks":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"finesses",
"gets around",
"scapes",
"shakes",
"shuffles (out of)",
"shuns",
"weasels (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)",
"bans",
"bars",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"precludes",
"rules out",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"skirts",
"foils",
"foxes",
"frustrates",
"outfoxes",
"outsmarts",
"outwits",
"overreaches",
"thwarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgets",
"neglects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slacks (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries out",
"does",
"executes",
"performs",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"keeps up",
"maintains"
],
"antonyms":[
"attends (to)",
"remembers"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurks",
"mooches",
"mouses",
"pussyfoots",
"skulks",
"slides",
"slinks",
"slips",
"snakes",
"sneaks",
"steals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"edges",
"inches",
"worms",
"ghosts",
"pads",
"tiptoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirty":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"the visiting businessman was beginning to feel as though he had encountered every shirty bloke in London"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shivering":{
"a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
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"examples":[
"the shivering of the crystal chandeliers while there was construction work next door"
],
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"related":[
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"quaking",
"rocking",
"jiggle",
"palpitation",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"tremor",
"twitch"
],
"synonyms":[
"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"vibration"
]
},
"as in shaking , shuddering":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in shivery":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in splitting , splintering":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shlub":{
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
],
"examples":[
"you're a complete schlub \u2014you should do great around here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"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",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shlubs":{
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
"examples":[
"you're a complete schlub \u2014you should do great around here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"related":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shmoozing":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry's power players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossiping",
"tattling",
"descanting",
"discussing",
"expatiating",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"yammering",
"yapping"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"blabbing",
"cackling",
"chaffering",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"chinning",
"conversing",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gassing",
"jabbering",
"jawing",
"kibitzing",
"kibbitzing",
"nattering",
"palavering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"rapping",
"rattling",
"running on",
"talking",
"twittering",
"visiting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoot":{
"a branch of a main stem especially of a plant":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"collected the most tender shoots for the vegetable dish he was making"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"excrescence",
"growth",
"bough",
"branchlet",
"limb",
"twig",
"bud",
"floret",
"spray",
"sprig",
"spur"
],
"synonyms":[
"offshoot",
"outgrowth",
"sprout"
]
},
"a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"ease",
"easiness"
],
"related":[
"discomfort",
"distress",
"soreness",
"tenderness",
"affliction",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"sufferance",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"inflammation",
"sore",
"swelling",
"damage",
"detriment",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injury",
"backache",
"bellyache",
"charley horse",
"colic",
"complaint",
"earache",
"gripe",
"headache",
"stomachache",
"toothache"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
]
},
"to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"BB guns shoot small round metal pellets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"launch",
"project",
"blaze (at)",
"snipe (at)",
"cast",
"catapult",
"fling",
"heave",
"hurl",
"hurtle",
"lob",
"pelt",
"pitch",
"sling",
"throw",
"toss"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"discharge",
"fire",
"loose",
"squeeze off"
]
},
"to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blaze",
"pepper",
"plink",
"potshot",
"snipe"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"discharge",
"fire"
]
},
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive"
],
"examples":[
"shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquire",
"draw",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure"
],
"related":[
"convey",
"deliver",
"hand over",
"pass",
"render",
"advance",
"drop",
"launch",
"address",
"forward",
"export",
"import",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"present",
"resend",
"return"
],
"synonyms":[
"consign",
"dispatch",
"pack (off)",
"send",
"ship",
"transfer",
"transmit",
"transport"
]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"hazel eyes that were brown shot with green"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blot",
"dye",
"stain",
"band",
"bar",
"streak",
"stripe",
"intersperse",
"set",
"stud",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotch",
"dapple",
"dot",
"fleck",
"freckle",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pepper",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"stipple"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
],
"examples":[
"some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
]
},
"to strike with a missile from a gun":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blow away",
"bring down",
"drop",
"pick off",
"shoot down",
"blaze",
"pepper",
"potshot",
"snipe (at)",
"blast (at)",
"fire (at)",
"pistol",
"shotgun",
"machine-gun",
"tommy-gun",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"ice",
"kill",
"slay",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"butcher",
"decimate",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"wipe out"
],
"synonyms":[
"drill",
"gun",
"plug",
"pop"
]
},
"to take a photograph of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"image",
"picture",
"rephotograph",
"retake",
"film",
"videotape"
],
"synonyms":[
"mug",
"photo",
"photograph",
"snap"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorb",
"inhale",
"soak (up)",
"sponge",
"suck (up)",
"take up"
],
"related":[
"eliminate",
"evacuate",
"excrete",
"exude",
"ooze",
"secrete",
"eject",
"erupt",
"gush",
"jet",
"outpour",
"pour",
"spew",
"spout",
"spray",
"spurt",
"squirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharge",
"emanate",
"emit",
"evolve",
"exhale",
"expel",
"expire",
"give out",
"irradiate",
"issue",
"radiate",
"release",
"send (out)",
"throw out",
"vent"
]
},
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"shut up",
"suppress",
"quiet"
],
"related":[
"bawl",
"bay",
"bellow",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"roar",
"shout",
"sing (out)",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell",
"articulate",
"enounce",
"enunciate"
],
"synonyms":[
"pipe up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shooting the breeze":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"The kids were shooting the breeze before the assembly."
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"blabbing",
"cackling",
"chaffering",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"chinning",
"conversing",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gassing",
"jabbering",
"jawing",
"kibitzing",
"kibbitzing",
"nattering",
"palavering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"rapping",
"rattling",
"running on",
"schmoozing",
"shmoozing",
"talking",
"twittering",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossiping",
"tattling",
"descanting",
"discussing",
"expatiating",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"yammering",
"yapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shore":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the carpenter placed a shore underneath the sagging roof of the porch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
],
"synonyms":[
"brace",
"buttress",
"mount",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"spur",
"stay",
"support",
"underpinning"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shore (up)":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"a highway tunnel shored up by massive columns of concrete"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"used an avalanche of statistics to shore up his claim that the state's economy is in fine shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"back",
"bolster",
"buttress",
"corroborate",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"substantiate",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"verify",
"affirm",
"avouch",
"validate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermine",
"weaken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shored (up)":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a highway tunnel shored up by massive columns of concrete"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"underlay"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolstered",
"bore",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"used an avalanche of statistics to shore up his claim that the state's economy is in fine shape"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"related":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"verified",
"affirmed",
"avouched",
"validated"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed",
"bolstered",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"substantiated",
"supported"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shores":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the carpenter placed a shore underneath the sagging roof of the porch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"shorings",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"arches",
"bolsters",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"bearings",
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"trusses",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames"
],
"synonyms":[
"braces",
"buttresses",
"mountings",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"spurs",
"stays",
"supports",
"underpinnings"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoring":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"short-circuit":{
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"for decades the maverick filmmaker was short-circuited by a chronic lack of funds"
],
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie",
"arrest",
"brake",
"delay",
"retain",
"retard",
"barricade",
"block",
"blockade",
"roadblock",
"bog (down)",
"mire",
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suffocate",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"stump",
"thwart",
"derail",
"disrupt",
"sabotage",
"muzzle",
"repress",
"suppress",
"confine",
"hedge (in)",
"hem (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"make way",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"short-lived":{
"lasting only for a short time":{
"examples":[
"the skier's triumph turned out to be short-lived , as the next competitor bested her time"
],
"synonyms":[
"brief",
"deciduous",
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"flash",
"fleeting",
"fugacious",
"fugitive",
"impermanent",
"momentary",
"passing",
"temporary",
"transient",
"transitory"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little",
"short",
"shortish",
"acting",
"interim",
"provisional",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lifelong",
"continuing",
"durable",
"persistent",
"imperishable",
"indefectible",
"indestructible"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"enduring",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"permanent",
"perpetual",
"timeless",
"undying",
"unending"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shortage":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"there was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunch",
"dearth",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"drought",
"drouth",
"failure",
"famine",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"pinch",
"poverty",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"undersupply",
"want"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absence",
"omission",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"skimpiness",
"necessity",
"need",
"privation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"oversupply",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundance",
"adequacy",
"amplitude",
"opulence",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"sufficiency",
"wealth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shortchanged":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"was shortchanged out of a promotion"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortchanges":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"was shortchanged out of a promotion"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortfall":{
"a failure to get what is expected or needed":{
"examples":[
"a shortfall in milk production",
"profit shortfalls"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"imperfection",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"incompleteness",
"insufficience",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"need",
"shortcoming",
"want",
"gap",
"hiatus",
"hole",
"lacuna",
"space",
"void",
"defectiveness",
"detriment",
"disability",
"failing",
"fault",
"impairment",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completeness",
"fullness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shorts":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shot":{
"a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece":{
"examples":[
"cannon operators often had to use several shots to figure out the range of their targets"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"discharge",
"firing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potshot",
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"broadside",
"burst",
"cannonade",
"drumfire",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an effort to do or accomplish something":{
"examples":[
"let's take another shot at the puzzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"assay",
"attempt",
"bash",
"bid",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"offer",
"pass",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"whack",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"striving",
"struggle",
"throes",
"undertaking",
"trial and error"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera":{
"examples":[
"took a shot of his family for the scrapbook"
],
"synonyms":[
"photo",
"photograph",
"pic",
"print",
"snap",
"snapshot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowup",
"close-up",
"enlargement",
"still",
"telephoto",
"daguerreotype",
"ferrotype",
"monochrome",
"sepia",
"tintype"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"a soldier who's an excellent shot with a rifle"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksman",
"sharpshooter",
"shooter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sniper",
"rifleman",
"trapshooter",
"gun",
"gunman",
"gunner",
"markswoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"examples":[
"drank a shot of whisky"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt",
"draft",
"drag",
"drink",
"gulp",
"nip",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slug",
"snort",
"sup",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dram",
"drop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence":{
"examples":[
"I have no idea what's different about you, but I'll take a shot : you cut your hair?"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjecture",
"guess",
"supposition",
"surmise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hypothesis",
"hypothetical",
"theory",
"thesis",
"dead reckoning",
"guessing",
"guesswork",
"speculation",
"hunch",
"intuition",
"belief",
"faith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place":{
"examples":[
"we have a real shot at getting into the championship if we win this next match"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"chance",
"occasion",
"opening",
"opportunity",
"room"
],
"near synonyms":[
"play",
"way",
"juncture",
"pass"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force":{
"examples":[
"BB guns shoot small round metal pellets"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"discharged",
"fired",
"loosed",
"squeezed off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"launched",
"projected",
"blazed (at)",
"sniped (at)",
"cast",
"catapulted",
"flung",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"hurtled",
"lobbed",
"pelted",
"pitched",
"slung",
"threw",
"tossed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force":{
"examples":[
"soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"discharged",
"fired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazed",
"peppered",
"plinked",
"potshot",
"sniped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with a missile from a gun":{
"examples":[
"hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilled",
"gunned",
"plugged",
"popped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew away",
"brought down",
"dropped",
"picked off",
"shot down",
"blazed",
"peppered",
"potshot",
"sniped (at)",
"blasted (at)",
"fired (at)",
"pistoled",
"pistolled",
"shotgunned",
"machine-gunned",
"tommy-gunned",
"croaked",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"felled",
"iced",
"killed",
"slew",
"annihilated",
"blotted out",
"butchered",
"decimated",
"massacred",
"slaughtered",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"to take a photograph of":{
"examples":[
"shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted"
],
"synonyms":[
"mugged",
"photoed",
"photographed",
"snapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imaged",
"pictured",
"rephotographed",
"retook",
"filmed",
"videotaped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharged",
"emanated",
"emitted",
"evolved",
"exhaled",
"expelled",
"expired",
"gave out",
"irradiated",
"issued",
"radiated",
"released",
"sent (out)",
"threw out",
"vented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminated",
"evacuated",
"excreted",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"secreted",
"ejected",
"erupted",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"outpoured",
"poured",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"sprayed",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbed",
"inhaled",
"soaked (up)",
"sponged",
"sucked (up)",
"took up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"examples":[
"you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot"
],
"synonyms":[
"piped up",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"spouted (off)",
"talked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawled",
"bayed",
"bellowed",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"roared",
"sang (out)",
"sung (out)",
"shouted",
"thundered",
"vociferated",
"yelled",
"articulated",
"enounced",
"enunciated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belted up",
"clammed up",
"dummied up",
"hushed",
"shut up",
"suppressed",
"quieted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"examples":[
"hazel eyes that were brown shot with green"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotched",
"dappled",
"dotted",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"peppered",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotched",
"spotted",
"sprinkled",
"stippled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blotted",
"dyed",
"stained",
"banded",
"barred",
"streaked",
"striped",
"interspersed",
"set",
"studded",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigned",
"dispatched",
"packed (off)",
"sent",
"shipped",
"transferred",
"transmitted",
"transported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveyed",
"delivered",
"handed over",
"passed",
"rendered",
"advanced",
"dropped",
"launched",
"addressed",
"forwarded",
"exported",
"imported",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"presented",
"resent",
"returned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquired",
"drew",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepted",
"received"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shot in the arm":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"Getting laid off was the shot in the arm he needed to go back to school."
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducement",
"invitation",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"grounds",
"motive",
"occasion",
"reason",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"fuel",
"spark"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shot up":{
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"antonyms":[
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"plunged",
"slumped",
"tumbled"
],
"examples":[
"gas prices shot up seemingly overnight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"fell",
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dropped",
"lessened",
"waned"
],
"related":[
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed",
"crested",
"peaked",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"soared",
"zoomed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shotgun":{
"as in scattershot":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"scattershot",
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"chancy",
"contingent",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"lucky",
"unconsidered",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"irregular",
"odd",
"sporadic",
"spot",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"catch-as-catch-can",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"helter-skelter",
"hit-or-miss",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"directionless",
"objectless",
"purposeless",
"indiscriminate",
"unsystematic",
"undirected",
"disorderly",
"disorganized",
"undiscriminating",
"unselective"
],
"near antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"nonrandom",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"established",
"fixed",
"regular",
"set",
"stable",
"steady",
"constant",
"continuous",
"even",
"arranged",
"managed",
"orchestrated",
"ordered",
"planned",
"aware",
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"thoughtful",
"willful",
"wilful"
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"blunderbuss",
"breechloader",
"culverin",
"fieldpiece",
"firelock",
"flintlock",
"harquebus",
"arquebus",
"matchlock",
"musket",
"smoothbore",
"twenty-two",
".22",
"arm",
"firearm",
"heat",
"piece",
"small arm",
"derringer",
"forty-five",
".45",
"gat",
"handgun",
"pistol",
"revolver",
"rod",
"roscoe",
"sidearm",
"six-gun",
"six-shooter",
"zip gun",
"self-loader",
"semiautomatic",
"AK-47",
"assault rifle",
"assault weapon",
"automatic",
"carbine",
"machine gun",
"machine pistol",
"repeater",
"submachine gun",
"tommy gun",
"speargun"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pistol":{
"examples":[],
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"pistol",
"blast (at)",
"fire (at)",
"machine-gun",
"tommy-gun",
"blaze",
"pepper",
"potshot",
"snipe (at)",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"ice",
"kill",
"slay",
"blow away",
"bring down",
"drop",
"pick off",
"shoot down",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"butcher",
"decimate",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"wipe out",
"drill",
"gun",
"plug",
"pop",
"shoot"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock"
],
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"bawl",
"bay",
"bellow",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"hollo",
"halloo",
"hallo",
"roar",
"sound off",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell"
],
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"crow",
"whoop",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"shrill",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"caterwaul",
"howl",
"ululate",
"wail",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"hail",
"speak out",
"speak up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathe",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a loud vocal expression of strong emotion":{
"examples":[
"I gave a sudden shout of surprise when the shower abruptly turned ice-cold"
],
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"cry",
"holler",
"hoot",
"howl",
"whoop",
"yell",
"yowl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ejaculation",
"interjection",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"shrill",
"squall",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"yelp",
"bawl",
"bellow",
"clamor",
"outcry",
"roar",
"caterwaul",
"plaint",
"wail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"gasp",
"whimper",
"whisper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"show bills":{
"as in flyers , handouts":{
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"near synonyms":[
"broadsides",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"playbills",
"billboards",
"signboards",
"signs",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"dispatches",
"releases",
"bills",
"placards",
"posters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"show up":{
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"normally, one doesn't see them, but the actress's wrinkles show up in the close-ups"
],
"synonyms":[
"appear",
"come out",
"materialize",
"show",
"turn up",
"unfold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reappear",
"resurface",
"bulk",
"loom",
"arrive",
"come",
"dawn",
"debut",
"arise",
"blossom",
"bob (up)",
"break",
"break out",
"crop (up)",
"emerge",
"erupt",
"issue",
"outcrop",
"rise",
"shoot (up)",
"spring (up)",
"surface",
"happen",
"occur",
"reappear",
"rematerialize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depart",
"leave",
"retire",
"withdraw"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"go (away)",
"melt (away)",
"vanish"
]
},
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"the band showed up an hour late"
],
"synonyms":[
"appear",
"arrive",
"come",
"get in",
"get through",
"land",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetch",
"hit",
"make",
"reach",
"pull in",
"touch down",
"debark",
"disembark",
"barge (in)",
"blow in",
"breeze (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"waltz (in)",
"check in",
"clock (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"check out",
"clock (out)",
"flee",
"vamoose"
],
"antonyms":[
"go",
"leave"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"were shown up for what they really are"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"nail",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"undress",
"unmask"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolish",
"discredit",
"disprove",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hide",
"secrete",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"mask"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showcase":{
"to present in a favorable or attractive manner":{
"examples":[
"Applicants are asked to submit writing samples that showcase their creativity.",
"The restaurant's varied menu showcases the chef's eclectic culinary background."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"display",
"disport",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"flash",
"flaunt",
"lay out",
"parade",
"produce",
"show",
"show off",
"sport",
"strut",
"unveil",
"brandish",
"flourish",
"wave",
"advertise",
"air",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"sound",
"trumpet",
"divulge",
"talk (about)",
"tell (of)",
"bare",
"discover",
"reveal",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"communicate",
"demonstrate",
"illustrate",
"manifest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"mask",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"obscure",
"occlude",
"occult",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an occasion for presenting someone or something in an attractive or favorable way":{
"examples":[
"The concert proved to be an excellent showcase for local musicians looking to attract a national audience.",
"Actors are invited to participate in a theatrical showcase this Friday."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"expo",
"exposition",
"fair",
"show",
"demonstration",
"performance",
"presentation",
"production",
"extravaganza",
"pageant",
"spectacle",
"forum",
"medium",
"outlet",
"platform",
"soapbox",
"venue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a storage case that is used for displaying objects":{
"examples":[
"In the years since he began collecting fossils, his showcase has become quite a sight to behold."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bookcase",
"breakfront",
"chest",
"china closet",
"credence",
"credenza",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8re",
"etagere",
"secretary",
"taboret",
"tabouret",
"vitrine",
"cuddy",
"dresser",
"pie safe",
"armoire",
"clothespress",
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"cabinetry",
"shelving",
"buffet",
"cabinet",
"closet",
"console",
"cupboard",
"hutch",
"locker",
"press",
"sideboard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"showdown":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showed":{
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"fishing for compliments, the neighbors showed their new SUV to everyone on the block"
],
"synonyms":[
"displayed",
"disported",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flashed",
"flaunted",
"laid out",
"paraded",
"produced",
"showed off",
"sported",
"strutted",
"unveiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandished",
"flourished",
"waved",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"divulged",
"talked (about)",
"told (of)",
"bared",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"masked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"occulted",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known (something abstract) through outward signs":{
"examples":[
"the actor's expressive face shows his every thought and emotion clearly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespoke",
"betrayed",
"communicated",
"declared",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"evinced",
"exposed",
"gave away",
"manifested",
"revealed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"unbosomed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"placarded",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"projected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belied",
"misrepresented",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"twisted",
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"concealed",
"counterfeited",
"covered",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gain full recognition or acceptance of":{
"examples":[
"that shows we're right"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proved",
"substantiated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attested",
"authenticated",
"bore out",
"documented",
"evidenced",
"supported",
"sustained",
"upheld",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"justified",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuted",
"discredited",
"invalidated",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproved"
]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"showed me how to play the guitar"
],
"synonyms":[
"coached",
"counseled",
"counselled",
"guided",
"led",
"mentored",
"piloted",
"shepherded",
"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":[
"showed them the way to get home"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducted",
"directed",
"guided",
"led",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"piloted",
"routed",
"steered",
"ushered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceded",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"controlled",
"managed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogged",
"hounded",
"shadowed",
"tailed",
"tailgated"
],
"antonyms":[
"followed",
"trailed"
]
},
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"another car showed just as we were thinking we'd have the whole place to ourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeared",
"came out",
"materialized",
"showed up",
"turned up",
"unfolded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reappeared",
"resurfaced",
"bulked",
"loomed",
"arrived",
"came",
"dawned",
"debuted",
"arose",
"blossomed",
"bobbed (up)",
"broke",
"broke out",
"cropped (up)",
"emerged",
"erupted",
"issued",
"outcropped",
"rose",
"shot (up)",
"sprang (up)",
"sprung (up)",
"surfaced",
"happened",
"occurred",
"reappeared",
"rematerialized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departed",
"left",
"retired",
"withdrew"
],
"antonyms":[
"cleared",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"melted (away)",
"vanished",
"went (away)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showed off":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the athletes warmed up, happily showing off for the crowd before the match officially started"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"carried on",
"misbehaved",
"roughhoused",
"capered",
"cavorted",
"disported",
"frisked",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"larked",
"rollicked",
"romped",
"caroused",
"mafficked",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"roared",
"wassailed"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted up",
"clowned (around)",
"cut up",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"hotdogged",
"monkeyed (around)",
"showboated",
"skylarked"
]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she just wants to show off her new jewelry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"masked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"occulted",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"related":[
"brandished",
"flourished",
"waved",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"divulged",
"talked (about)",
"told (of)",
"bared",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked"
],
"synonyms":[
"displayed",
"disported",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flashed",
"flaunted",
"laid out",
"paraded",
"produced",
"showed",
"sported",
"strutted",
"unveiled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shower":{
"a heavy fall of objects":{
"examples":[
"a shower of books fell from the collapsing shelves"
],
"synonyms":[
"hail",
"rain",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barrage",
"bombardment",
"broadside",
"cannonade",
"fusillade",
"salvo",
"volley",
"flood",
"gush",
"rush",
"spate",
"torrent",
"eruption",
"outbreak",
"outburst"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"examples":[
"a shower of insults and curses rained down on the criminal as he was led through the crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"cannonade",
"drumbeat",
"drumfire",
"flurry",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"earful",
"avalanche",
"burst",
"cataclysm",
"cataract",
"deluge",
"discharge",
"engulfment",
"flood",
"flood tide",
"flush",
"gush",
"inundation",
"outburst",
"outflow",
"outpouring",
"overflow",
"rash",
"spate",
"surge",
"torrent",
"current",
"river",
"stream",
"tide",
"excess",
"glut",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"showered gifts on the guests of honor"
],
"synonyms":[
"heap",
"lavish",
"pour",
"rain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gush",
"stream",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"swamp",
"bombard",
"hail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hold back",
"keep",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"showering":{
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"showered gifts on the guests of honor"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaping",
"lavishing",
"pouring",
"raining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"streaming",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overwhelming",
"swamping",
"bombarding",
"hailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holding back",
"keeping",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"withholding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showery":{
"as in rainy , misty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"misty",
"rainy",
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"windy",
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dismal",
"foggy",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"harsh",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe",
"bitter",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"soft",
"temperate",
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"showing up":{
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"normally, one doesn't see them, but the actress's wrinkles show up in the close-ups"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearing",
"coming out",
"materializing",
"showing",
"turning up",
"unfolding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reappearing",
"resurfacing",
"bulking",
"looming",
"arriving",
"coming",
"dawning",
"debuting",
"arising",
"blossoming",
"bobbing (up)",
"breaking",
"breaking out",
"cropping (up)",
"emerging",
"erupting",
"issuing",
"outcropping",
"rising",
"shooting (up)",
"springing (up)",
"surfacing",
"happening",
"occurring",
"reappearing",
"rematerializing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departing",
"leaving",
"retiring",
"withdrawing"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearing",
"disappearing",
"dissolving",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"going (away)",
"melting (away)",
"vanishing"
]
},
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"the band showed up an hour late"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearing",
"arriving",
"coming",
"getting in",
"getting through",
"landing",
"turning up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetching",
"hitting",
"making",
"reaching",
"pulling in",
"touching down",
"debarking",
"disembarking",
"barging (in)",
"blowing in",
"breezing (in)",
"bursting (in or into)",
"waltzing (in)",
"checking in",
"clocking (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checking out",
"clocking (out)",
"fleeing",
"vamoosing"
],
"antonyms":[
"going",
"leaving"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"were shown up for what they really are"
],
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"debunking",
"exposing",
"nailing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"undressing",
"unmasking"
],
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"demolishing",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hiding",
"secreting",
"veiling"
],
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"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"disguising",
"masking"
]
},
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"verb"
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"as in screams , shrieks":{
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"examples":[],
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},
"to cry out loudly and emotionally":{
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"examples":[
"the mud-splattered bystanders were shrilling with outrage at the inconsiderate motorist"
],
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"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers"
],
"related":[
"bays",
"caterwauls",
"keens",
"squawks",
"wails",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"bawls",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"shouts",
"thunders",
"vociferates"
],
"synonyms":[
"howls",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"squeals",
"yells",
"yelps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrimper":{
"as in trawler , lugger":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"of a size that is less than average":{
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"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"
],
"examples":[
"a couple of shrimpy bushes in the front are the house's only landscaping"
],
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"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"antonyms":[
"boosts",
"enlargements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"rises",
"step-ups",
"upticks"
],
"examples":[
"she knew that her diet was working by the striking shrinkage of her waist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"accumulations",
"additions",
"supplements",
"continuations",
"extensions",
"upswings",
"uptrends",
"upturns"
],
"related":[
"deductions",
"subtractions",
"downturns",
"slips",
"slumps",
"curtailments",
"cutbacks",
"cuts",
"retrenchments",
"shortenings"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatements",
"declines",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"dents",
"depletions",
"depressions",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"falls",
"losses",
"reductions",
"step-downs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrivel":{
"to become small and wrinkly usually as a result of dehydration":{
"examples":[
"Without irrigation, these plants would shrivel (up) and die."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"wilt",
"wither",
"dry up",
"mummify",
"wizen",
"dehumidify",
"drain",
"evaporate",
"air-dry",
"bake",
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear",
"collapse",
"deflate",
"flatten",
"abate",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"decline",
"fade",
"wane",
"recede",
"retreat",
"withdraw",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshen",
"revive",
"bloom",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"accumulate",
"grow",
"increase",
"balloon",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"expand",
"snowball",
"swell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shriveled":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to become small and wrinkly usually as a result of dehydration":{
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"examples":[
"Without irrigation, these plants would shrivel (up) and die."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shrivels":{
"to become small and wrinkly usually as a result of dehydration":{
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"examples":[
"Without irrigation, these plants would shrivel (up) and die."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shriven":{
"as in remitted":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shroud":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the truth of the affair will always be hidden under a shroud of secrecy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"fig leaf",
"Potemkin village",
"Trojan horse",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover",
"cover-up",
"covering",
"coverture",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"veil",
"wraps"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"display",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
],
"examples":[
"shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bring out",
"present",
"clarify",
"illuminate",
"advertise",
"air",
"broadcast",
"get out",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"bury",
"camouflage",
"cover (up)",
"smother",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"block",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"belie",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occult",
"paper over",
"screen",
"suppress",
"veil"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"light (up)",
"lighten"
],
"examples":[
"the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expose",
"reveal",
"uncover",
"unveil"
],
"related":[
"adumbrate",
"blot out",
"conceal",
"eclipse",
"hide",
"obliterate",
"screen",
"shade",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"mask",
"veil"
],
"synonyms":[
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"blacken",
"blear",
"blur",
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dislimn",
"fog",
"fuzz (up)",
"haze",
"mist",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overcloud",
"overshadow",
"shadow"
]
},
"to surround or cover closely":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"denude",
"expose",
"strip"
],
"related":[
"curtain",
"drape",
"embed",
"imbed",
"encase",
"swaddle",
"blanket",
"overlay",
"overspread",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"mask",
"circle",
"encircle",
"enlace",
"enwind"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosom",
"bower",
"circumfuse",
"cocoon",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enfold",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"involve",
"lap",
"mantle",
"muffle",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrouds":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"examples":[
"the truth of the affair will always be hidden under a shroud of secrecy"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"cloaks",
"copes",
"coverings",
"covers",
"covertures",
"cover-ups",
"curtains",
"hoods",
"mantles",
"masks",
"palls",
"penumbrae",
"penumbras",
"robes",
"veils",
"wraps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blinds",
"concealers",
"screens",
"shields",
"fig leafs",
"fig leaves",
"Potemkin villages",
"Trojan horses",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"facades",
"fa\u00e7ades",
"faces",
"veneers",
"glosses",
"varnishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"blankets",
"blots out",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"obscures",
"occults",
"papers over",
"screens",
"suppresses",
"veils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buries",
"camouflages",
"covers (up)",
"smothers",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blocks",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obstructs",
"occludes",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brings out",
"presents",
"clarifies",
"illuminates",
"advertises",
"airs",
"broadcasts",
"gets out",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"spreads"
],
"antonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"displays",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blackens",
"blears",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dislimns",
"fogs",
"fuzzes (up)",
"hazes",
"mists",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overclouds",
"overshadows",
"shadows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrates",
"blots out",
"conceals",
"eclipses",
"hides",
"obliterates",
"screens",
"shades",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"masks",
"veils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes",
"reveals",
"uncovers",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"lightens",
"lights (up)"
]
},
"to surround or cover closely":{
"examples":[
"during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosoms",
"bowers",
"circumfuses",
"cocoons",
"embosoms",
"embowers",
"embraces",
"encloses",
"incloses",
"encompasses",
"enfolds",
"enshrouds",
"enswathes",
"envelops",
"enwraps",
"invests",
"involves",
"laps",
"mantles",
"muffles",
"swathes",
"veils",
"wraps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curtains",
"drapes",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"encases",
"swaddles",
"blankets",
"overlays",
"overspreads",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"disguises",
"masks",
"circles",
"encircles",
"enlaces",
"enwinds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bares",
"denudes",
"exposes",
"strips"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrunk":{
"to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter":{
"examples":[
"the sweater will shrink a little when washed"
],
"synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"flattened",
"dried up",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"wilted",
"withered",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"retreated",
"withdrawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"grown",
"increased",
"ballooned",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"ballooned",
"expanded",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"swollen"
]
},
"to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust":{
"examples":[
"shrinking back from the approaching flames"
],
"synonyms":[
"blenched",
"cringed",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"squinched",
"winced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanched",
"paled",
"whitened",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shaken",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"crouched",
"jerked",
"started",
"twitched",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrawn",
"faltered",
"hesitated",
"reeled",
"wavered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"approached",
"neared",
"bearded",
"challenged",
"confronted",
"defied",
"faced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"his crush on her is likely to shrink after they start their new lives on different college campuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fallen",
"fallen away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"given out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"blown up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grown",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"risen",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"swollen",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shucked":{
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"shucking peas"
],
"synonyms":[
"barked",
"flayed",
"hulled",
"husked",
"peeled",
"shelled",
"skinned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"scaled",
"stripped",
"stript",
"pared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shudder":{
"an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold":{
"examples":[
"a shudder ran through him as he stepped outside into the snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"quiver",
"shiver",
"tremble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"convulsing",
"jolt",
"quake",
"shake",
"tremor",
"vibration",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"fluctuation",
"flutter",
"oscillation",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitation",
"pulsation",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"huddled in the basement, we shuddered with fear as we heard the approaching tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shake",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"chatter",
"quaver",
"shiver",
"thrill",
"tremble",
"twitch",
"dodder",
"waver",
"flicker",
"fluctuate",
"flutter",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shuddery":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"with a few shuddery strokes of a pen, she signed her last will and testament"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shuffle (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how the CEO managed to shuffle out of being held responsible for his company's weak performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuffled (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how the CEO managed to shuffle out of being held responsible for his company's weak performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuffling":{
"as in wobbly , unsteady":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"galumphing",
"larruping",
"lubberly",
"lumbering",
"lumpish",
"shambling",
"unsteady",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawkish",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"uncoordinated",
"ungainly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coordinated",
"graceful",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"nimble",
"sure-footed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plodding , inching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambling",
"heavy-footed",
"inching",
"plodding",
"slow-footed",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"tarrying",
"strolling",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"decelerating",
"slowing",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"snaillike",
"snail-paced",
"tardy",
"unhurried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"hurried",
"rushed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"the old man shuffled across the floor in his slippers"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
]
},
"to undo the proper order or arrangement of":{
"examples":[
"shuffle the cards and deal five to each player"
],
"synonyms":[
"confusing",
"deranging",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"discomposing",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disjointing",
"dislocating",
"disordering",
"disorganizing",
"disrupting",
"disturbing",
"hashing",
"jumbling",
"messing (up)",
"mixing (up)",
"muddling",
"mussing",
"rumpling",
"scrambling",
"tousling",
"tumbling",
"upsetting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embroiling",
"entangling",
"snarling",
"tangling",
"agitating",
"perturbing",
"stirring (up)",
"unsettling",
"cluttering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aligning",
"alining",
"lining",
"lining up",
"queuing",
"queueing",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"methodizing",
"systematizing",
"systemizing",
"adjusting",
"fixing",
"grooming",
"making up",
"sprucing (up)",
"unscrambling"
],
"antonyms":[
"arranging",
"arraying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"regulating",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shun":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"just a ruse to shun the debt collectors"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shunned":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"just a ruse to shun the debt collectors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"related":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"weaseled (out of)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shunpikes":{
"as in side streets , secondary roads":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways",
"corridors",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shushed":{
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"shushed the crying baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbed",
"extinguished",
"hushed",
"muted",
"quelled",
"quieted",
"quietened",
"settled",
"shut up",
"silenced",
"squelched",
"stilled"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitated",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shut (in or up)":{
"as in contain , bottle (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"contain",
"restrain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belch",
"disgorge",
"eject",
"eruct",
"erupt",
"expel",
"jet",
"spew",
"spout",
"spurt",
"gush",
"pour",
"squirt",
"stream",
"surge",
"emanate",
"exhale",
"issue",
"release",
"shoot",
"spit",
"spring",
"vent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shutdown":{
"the stopping of a process or activity":{
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"the factory resumed operation after a brief shutdown for repairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extension",
"persistence",
"prolongation"
],
"related":[
"mop-up",
"phaseout",
"abeyance",
"break",
"interruption",
"layoff",
"letup",
"moratorium",
"pause",
"standstill",
"suspension"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"arrestment",
"cease",
"cessation",
"check",
"close",
"closedown",
"closure",
"conclusion",
"cutoff",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuation",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"offset",
"shutoff",
"stay",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shutting out":{
"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"examples":[
"local residents feel that they have been shut out of the debate for expanding the airport"
],
"synonyms":[
"banning",
"barring",
"closing out",
"counting (out)",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"freezing out",
"ruling out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackballing",
"blacklisting",
"excommunicating",
"ostracizing",
"banishing",
"deporting",
"exiling",
"expelling",
"ousting",
"throwing out",
"obviating",
"precluding",
"preventing",
"prohibiting",
"blocking",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"ceasing",
"discontinuing",
"halting",
"suspending",
"deterring",
"staving off",
"warding (off)",
"checking off",
"disregarding",
"combing (out)",
"weeding (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"embracing",
"entertaining",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"welcoming",
"unbanning"
],
"antonyms":[
"admitting",
"including"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuck":{
"something of little importance":{
"examples":[
"it doesn't matter shucks to her what anyone else earns"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelle",
"child's play",
"frippery",
"nonproblem",
"nothing",
"picayune",
"small beer",
"small change",
"trifle",
"triviality"
],
"related":[
"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":[]
},
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"shucking peas"
],
"synonyms":[
"bark",
"flay",
"hull",
"husk",
"peel",
"shell",
"skin"
],
"related":[
"bare",
"denude",
"expose",
"scale",
"strip",
"pare"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shut out":{
"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"examples":[
"local residents feel that they have been shut out of the debate for expanding the airport"
],
"synonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"close out",
"count (out)",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"freeze out",
"rule out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackball",
"blacklist",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"banish",
"deport",
"exile",
"expel",
"oust",
"throw out",
"obviate",
"preclude",
"prevent",
"prohibit",
"block",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"cease",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"suspend",
"deter",
"stave off",
"ward (off)",
"check off",
"disregard",
"comb (out)",
"weed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"embrace",
"entertain",
"receive",
"take in",
"welcome",
"unban"
],
"antonyms":[
"admit",
"include"
]
},
"as in ruled out , excluded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"excluded",
"ruled out",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"stopped",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"revoked",
"unsanctioned",
"vetoed",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"discouraged",
"objectionable",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"ineffable",
"unmentionable",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"unauthorized",
"unlawful",
"unlicensed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowable",
"permissible",
"permissive",
"sufferable",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"accepted",
"accredited",
"allowed",
"appropriate",
"approved",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
"permitted",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"granted",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed",
"brooked",
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"commanded",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"proper",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"tolerated",
"unobjectionable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sweep , blowout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowout",
"landslide",
"laugher",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover",
"capture",
"conquest",
"mastery",
"subjugation",
"vanquishing",
"squeaker",
"palm",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win",
"success",
"takeover"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"overthrow",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"whipping",
"upset",
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"failure",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"washout",
"decline",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in whitewash , washout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lurch",
"washout",
"whitewash",
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"setback",
"upset",
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"lump",
"overthrow",
"plastering",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"success",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"blowout",
"cakewalk",
"landslide",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shutdowns":{
"the stopping of a process or activity":{
"examples":[
"the factory resumed operation after a brief shutdown for repairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"ceases",
"cessations",
"checks",
"closedowns",
"closes",
"closures",
"conclusions",
"cutoffs",
"discontinuances",
"discontinuations",
"endings",
"ends",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"offsets",
"shutoffs",
"stays",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"related":[
"mop-ups",
"phaseouts",
"abeyances",
"breaks",
"interruptions",
"layoffs",
"letups",
"moratoriums",
"moratoria",
"pauses",
"standstills",
"suspensions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extensions",
"persistences",
"prolongations"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuances",
"continuations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shorn":{
"as in bald , hairless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"smooth",
"beardless",
"shaved",
"shaven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bristly",
"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"hirsute",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly",
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"stubbled",
"stubbly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shake":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"chatter",
"quaver",
"shiver",
"thrill",
"tremble",
"twitch",
"dodder",
"waver",
"flicker",
"fluctuate",
"flutter",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small space of time":{
"examples":[
"I'll be there in two shakes"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"eyeblink",
"flash",
"heartbeat",
"instant",
"jiff",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"nanosecond",
"New York minute",
"second",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"microsecond",
"snatch",
"spurt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"eternity",
"forever",
"infinity",
"lifetime"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"I get the shakes every time I hear her voice"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shivers",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a shaking of the earth":{
"examples":[
"the shake was a modest 3.1 on the Richter scale"
],
"synonyms":[
"earthquake",
"quake",
"temblor",
"tremor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aftershock",
"foreshock",
"shock",
"cataclysm",
"convulsion",
"upheaval",
"microearthquake",
"microseism",
"seaquake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shucked (off)":{
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"bad habits are hard to shuck off"
],
"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",
"pitched",
"rejected",
"scrapped",
"shed",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharing":{
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"partaking",
"participating"
],
"related":[
"enduring",
"experiencing",
"feeling",
"knowing",
"seeing",
"tasting",
"undergoing",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shack":{
"a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling":{
"examples":[
"a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shanty"
],
"related":[
"lean-to",
"shed",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoved (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"time to shove off for home"
],
"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",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"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"
]
},
"shred":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"the vandals showed not a shred of decency"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it":{
"examples":[
"shredded some cooked chicken for the soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"rend",
"ribbon",
"rip",
"rive",
"tatter",
"tear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"cleave",
"rupture",
"split",
"cut",
"gash",
"incise",
"lacerate",
"slash",
"butcher",
"dismember",
"dissect",
"hack",
"mangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaitan":{
"an evil spirit":{
"examples":[
"her fate was sealed once she let the shaitan out of the bottle"
],
"synonyms":[
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghost",
"ghoul",
"ghoulie",
"imp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hag",
"lamia",
"vampire",
"incubus",
"nightmare",
"succubus",
"afreet",
"afrit",
"genie",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"apparition",
"banshee",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugbear",
"familiar",
"familiar spirit",
"genius",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"vision",
"wraith",
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll",
"monster",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shin":{
"as in thigh , calf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calf",
"drumstick",
"ham",
"shank",
"thigh",
"pin",
"member",
"foreleg",
"forelimb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skin , shimmy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmy",
"shinny",
"skin",
"clamber",
"climb",
"scrabble",
"scramble",
"swarm",
"ascend",
"breast",
"free-climb",
"get up",
"mount",
"scale",
"summit",
"surmount",
"claw",
"sprawl",
"struggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"show bill":{
"as in flyer , handout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"flyer",
"flier",
"handbill",
"handout",
"playbill",
"billboard",
"sign",
"signboard",
"ad",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"dispatch",
"release",
"bill",
"placard",
"poster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipmate":{
"as in crewman , deckhand":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"shipman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"lime-juicer",
"limey"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shop":{
"an establishment where goods are sold to consumers":{
"examples":[
"the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state"
],
"synonyms":[
"bazaar",
"emporium",
"store"
],
"near synonyms":[
"market",
"marketplace",
"outlet",
"showroom",
"boutique",
"chain store",
"department store",
"dime store",
"exchange",
"five-and-ten",
"five-and-dime",
"mart",
"mini-mart",
"thrift shop",
"variety store",
"big box",
"supercenter",
"superstore"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods":{
"examples":[
"a machine shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"factory",
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"works",
"workshop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweatshop",
"atelier",
"studio",
"workplace",
"workroom",
"yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"lingo",
"patois",
"patter",
"shoptalk",
"slang",
"terminology",
"vocabulary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"pidgin",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacular",
"vernacularism",
"slanguage",
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"cyberspeak",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"journalese",
"technobabble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in turn in , rat (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in",
"give away",
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stand by",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shapely":{
"having a well-proportioned feminine figure":{
"examples":[
"a shapely blonde who had a lead role in numerous Hollywood movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"curvaceous",
"curvacious",
"curvy",
"pneumatic"
],
"related":[
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"plump",
"round",
"Rubenesque",
"voluptuous",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"bosomy",
"built",
"busty",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"stacked",
"well-endowed",
"callipygian",
"callipygous",
"well-turned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapeless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shares (out)":{
"as in hands out , doles out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortfalls":{
"a failure to get what is expected or needed":{
"examples":[
"a shortfall in milk production",
"profit shortfalls"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"imperfections",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiences",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"needs",
"shortcomings",
"wants",
"gaps",
"hiatuses",
"holes",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"spaces",
"voids",
"detriments",
"disabilities",
"failings",
"faults",
"impairments",
"weaknesses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shibboleth":{
"an attention-getting word or phrase used to publicize something (as a campaign or product)":{
"examples":[
"we knew that their claim of giving \"the best deal in town\" was just a shibboleth"
],
"synonyms":[
"banner",
"catchphrase",
"cry",
"slogan",
"tagline",
"watchword"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expression",
"idiom",
"catchword",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"maxim",
"motto",
"battle cry",
"war cry"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idea or expression that has been used by many people":{
"examples":[
"there's a lot of truth in the shibboleth that if you give some people an inch, they'll take a mile"
],
"synonyms":[
"banality",
"bromide",
"chestnut",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"commonplace",
"groaner",
"homily",
"platitude",
"trope",
"truism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conventional wisdom",
"party line",
"routine",
"inanity",
"generality",
"generalization",
"simplification",
"adage",
"proverb",
"saw",
"saying",
"old wives' tale",
"stereotype"
],
"near antonyms":[
"profundity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shriving":{
"as in forgiving , pardoning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forgiving",
"pardoning",
"remitting",
"reclaiming",
"reforming",
"blessing",
"hallowing",
"delivering",
"redeeming",
"saving",
"consecrating",
"purifying",
"sanctifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shows up (for)":{
"as in attends":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows off",
"cuts",
"misses",
"skips",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"passes over",
"absents oneself",
"plays hooky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shops (for)":{
"to go in search of":{
"examples":[
"engineers are still shopping around for solutions to several critical flaws in the aircraft's design"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts about (for)",
"casts around (for)",
"chases (down)",
"forages (for)",
"hunts",
"looks up",
"pursues",
"quests",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ferrets (out)",
"roots (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hides",
"loses",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharer":{
"one who takes part in something":{
"examples":[
"all pilots are sharers of the same air space"
],
"synonyms":[
"actor",
"partaker",
"participant",
"participator",
"party",
"player"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessory",
"accessary",
"aide",
"assistant",
"helper",
"colleague",
"partner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bystander",
"looker-on",
"observer",
"onlooker",
"spectator",
"watcher",
"wallflower"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonparticipant"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoddies":{
"as in bastards , duffers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bastards",
"brummagems",
"duffers",
"simulations",
"synthetics",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"impostures",
"spoofs",
"swindles",
"dummies",
"mock-ups",
"copies",
"facsimiles",
"replicas",
"reproductions",
"copycats",
"knockoffs",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"near antonyms":[
"originals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shadeless":{
"as in sunny , exposed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"exposed",
"sunny",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shaded",
"shadowed",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"umbrageous",
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"showstopping":{
"as in striking , eye-catching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arresting",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"glossy",
"showy",
"slick",
"snazzy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"zingy",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"radiant",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"charming",
"cunning",
"delightful",
"engaging",
"fascinating",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"prepossessing",
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"shining",
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored",
"elegant",
"exquisite",
"glorious",
"Junoesque",
"magnificent",
"resplendent",
"splendid",
"statuesque",
"sublime",
"superb"
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"unappealing",
"unappetizing",
"unimposing",
"unpleasant",
"unprepossessing",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely",
"drab",
"dull",
"homely",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sheepskins":{
"as in lambskins , cowhides":{
"examples":[],
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"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"buckskins",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"moroccos",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sharkskins",
"snakeskins",
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes",
"hides",
"leathers",
"skins"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shameful":{
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors"
],
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"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shady",
"shoddy",
"shy",
"unrespectable"
],
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"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shortenings":{
"as in condensations , abbreviations":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviations",
"abridgments",
"abridgements",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compends",
"condensations",
"curtailments",
"abstracts",
"breviaries",
"briefs",
"capsules",
"conspectuses",
"digests",
"encapsulations",
"epitomes",
"inventories",
"outlines",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9s",
"resumes",
"resum\u00e9s",
"roundups",
"rundowns",
"run-throughs",
"summae",
"summaries",
"summarizations",
"summings-up",
"sums",
"sum-ups",
"synopses",
"wrap-ups",
"simplifications",
"rehashes",
"reprises",
"conclusions",
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifications",
"enlargements",
"expansions",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ships":{
"a large craft for travel by water":{
"examples":[
"a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"boats",
"keels",
"vessels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carriers",
"argosies",
"barges",
"coasters",
"colliers",
"containerships",
"corvettes",
"cruisers",
"cutters",
"destroyers",
"ferryboats",
"flagships",
"freighters",
"icebreakers",
"ironclads",
"lightships",
"liners",
"men-of-war",
"men-o'-war",
"merchantmen",
"merchant ships",
"motor ships",
"packets",
"steamers",
"steamships",
"superliners",
"supertankers",
"tankers",
"traders",
"tramps",
"transports",
"warships",
"watercrafts",
"barks",
"barques",
"brigantines",
"brigs",
"caravels",
"clippers",
"junk",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"square-riggers",
"tall ships",
"windjammers",
"xebecs",
"yachts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we shipped those books out yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigns",
"dispatches",
"packs (off)",
"sends",
"shoots",
"transfers",
"transmits",
"transports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveys",
"delivers",
"hands over",
"passes",
"renders",
"advances",
"drops",
"launches",
"addresses",
"forwards",
"exports",
"imports",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"presents",
"resends",
"returns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquires",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepts",
"receives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shopped":{
"as in turned in , ratted (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"informed (on)",
"peached",
"ratted (on)",
"snitched (on)",
"split (on)",
"told (on)",
"turned in",
"gave away",
"backstabbed",
"betrayed",
"crossed",
"double-crossed",
"sold (out)",
"two-timed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stood by",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"saved",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuts out":{
"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"examples":[
"local residents feel that they have been shut out of the debate for expanding the airport"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"bars",
"closes out",
"counts (out)",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"freezes out",
"rules out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackballs",
"blacklists",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"banishes",
"deports",
"exiles",
"expels",
"ousts",
"throws out",
"obviates",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"prohibits",
"blocks",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"ceases",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"suspends",
"deters",
"staves off",
"wards (off)",
"checks off",
"disregards",
"combs (out)",
"weeds (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"embraces",
"entertains",
"receives",
"takes in",
"welcomes",
"unbans"
],
"antonyms":[
"admits",
"includes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"show (someone) the door":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"ax",
"axe",
"bounce",
"can",
"cashier",
"discharge",
"dismiss",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"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"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"sheared":{
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"it took almost a week to shear all the wool off the flock of sheep"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"cut",
"cut back",
"docked",
"lopped (off)",
"nipped",
"pared",
"polled",
"pruned",
"shaved",
"snipped",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skived",
"whittled",
"manicured",
"mowed",
"pinched",
"stumped",
"curtailed",
"shortened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)":{
"examples":[
"the shark's razor-sharp teeth sheared the swimmer's flesh right down to the bone"
],
"synonyms":[
"cut",
"gashed",
"incised",
"ripped",
"slashed",
"sliced",
"slit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosscut",
"hacksawed",
"scissored",
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"rived",
"split",
"pierced",
"stabbed",
"bruised",
"butchered",
"hacked",
"haggled",
"lacerated",
"mangled",
"rent",
"rended",
"tore",
"carved",
"chipped",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"notched",
"anatomized",
"dissected",
"sectioned",
"chopped",
"diced",
"minced",
"amputated",
"cut off",
"severed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortish":{
"as in short , little":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"little",
"short",
"brief",
"deciduous",
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"flash",
"fleeting",
"fugacious",
"fugitive",
"impermanent",
"momentary",
"passing",
"short-lived",
"temporary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"acting",
"interim",
"provisional",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"enduring",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"permanent",
"perpetual",
"timeless",
"undying",
"unending",
"lifelong",
"continuing",
"durable",
"persistent",
"imperishable",
"indefectible",
"indestructible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shoots at":{
"to make an effort to do":{
"examples":[
"Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival."
],
"synonyms":[
"assays",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"seeks",
"strives",
"tries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fights",
"strains",
"struggles",
"toils",
"troubles",
"works",
"aims",
"aspires",
"hopes",
"assumes",
"takes up",
"undertakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drops",
"gives up",
"quits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shoot at":{
"to make an effort to do":{
"examples":[
"Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival."
],
"synonyms":[
"assay",
"attempt",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"seek",
"strive",
"try"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fight",
"strain",
"struggle",
"toil",
"trouble",
"work",
"aim",
"aspire",
"hope",
"assume",
"take up",
"undertake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drop",
"give up",
"quit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"sharkskins":{
"as in snakeskins , deerskins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"buckskins",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"moroccos",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes",
"hides",
"leathers",
"skins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shepherdesses":{
"as in shepherds , sheepherders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sheepherders",
"shepherds",
"buckaroos",
"buckeroos",
"cowboys",
"cowgirls",
"cowhands",
"cowherds",
"cowmen",
"cowpokes",
"cowpunchers",
"gauchos",
"rancheros",
"vaqueros",
"goatherds",
"herders",
"herdsmen",
"swineherds",
"wranglers",
"drovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrieking":{
"having a high musical pitch or range":{
"examples":[
"shrieking horns of impatient drivers stuck in a traffic jam"
],
"synonyms":[
"high-pitched",
"piping",
"screeching",
"shrill",
"squeaking",
"squeaky",
"treble",
"whistling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"peeping",
"thin",
"tinny",
"earsplitting",
"nasal",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"strident",
"squealing",
"whining",
"whiny",
"whiney",
"yapping",
"yelping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gruff",
"hoarse",
"husky",
"rough",
"smoky",
"smokey"
],
"antonyms":[
"bass",
"deep",
"grave",
"low",
"throaty"
]
},
"to cry out loudly and emotionally":{
"examples":[
"the children shrieked with excitement"
],
"synonyms":[
"howling",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrilling",
"squalling",
"squealing",
"yelling",
"yelping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baying",
"caterwauling",
"keening",
"squawking",
"wailing",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"bawling",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"shouting",
"thundering",
"vociferating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shepherdess":{
"as in shepherd , sheepherder":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sheepherder",
"shepherd",
"buckaroo",
"buckeroo",
"cowboy",
"cowgirl",
"cowhand",
"cowherd",
"cowman",
"cowpoke",
"cowpuncher",
"gaucho",
"ranchero",
"vaquero",
"goatherd",
"herder",
"herdsman",
"swineherd",
"wrangler",
"drover"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shot the breeze":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"The kids were shooting the breeze before the assembly."
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"blabbed",
"cackled",
"chaffered",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"chinned",
"conversed",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gassed",
"jabbered",
"jawed",
"kibitzed",
"kibbitzed",
"nattered",
"palavered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"ran on",
"rapped",
"rattled",
"schmoozed",
"shmoozed",
"talked",
"twittered",
"visited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossiped",
"tattled",
"descanted",
"discussed",
"expatiated",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"yammered",
"yapped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"sharing (out)":{
"as in handing out , doling out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasuring",
"administering",
"dealing",
"dispensing",
"dividing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"measuring",
"metering",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"parting",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"splitting",
"allocating",
"allotting",
"allowing",
"apportioning",
"assigning",
"distributing",
"lotting",
"rationing",
"according",
"awarding",
"giving",
"granting",
"earmarking",
"reserving",
"chipping in",
"contributing",
"donating",
"reallocating",
"reapportioning",
"reassigning",
"redistributing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudging",
"denying",
"depriving (of)",
"keeping",
"retaining",
"stinting",
"withholding",
"appropriating",
"arrogating",
"confiscating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shopkeepers":{
"someone who owns or manages a shop or store":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"retailers",
"sellers",
"storekeepers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"traffickers",
"businessmen",
"enterprisers",
"entrepreneurs",
"buyers",
"marketers",
"purchasers",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"hustlers",
"peddlers",
"pedlars",
"engrossers",
"monopolists",
"jobbers",
"middlemen",
"wholesalers",
"distributors",
"providers",
"provisioners",
"purveyors",
"suppliers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheltering":{
"as in protecting , safeguarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"shielding",
"safe",
"secure",
"snug",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"impregnable",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unconquerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dangerous",
"hazardous",
"insecure",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"threatening",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"vulnerable",
"precarious",
"treacherous",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in protection , safeguarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"protection",
"safeguarding",
"shielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposure",
"liability",
"openness",
"vulnerability",
"predisposition",
"susceptibility",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be or provide a shelter for":{
"examples":[
"the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"harboring",
"refuging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"shielding",
"warding",
"domiciling",
"housing",
"placing",
"quartering",
"shading",
"shadowing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"rooming",
"taking in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shops (around)":{
"as in comparison shops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comparison shops",
"argues",
"bickers",
"clashes",
"fights",
"hassles",
"quarrels",
"quibbles",
"squabbles",
"wrangles",
"barters",
"exchanges",
"trades",
"bargains",
"chaffers",
"deals",
"dickers",
"haggles",
"horse-trades",
"negotiates",
"palters",
"hawks",
"peddles",
"buys",
"purchases"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaped":{
"as in formed , structured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"formed",
"shapen",
"structured",
"coherent",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"clear",
"decided",
"definite",
"distinct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amorphous",
"formless",
"shapeless",
"unformed",
"unshaped",
"unstructured",
"characterless",
"featureless",
"nondescript",
"chaotic",
"disorganized",
"incoherent",
"systemless",
"unordered",
"unorganized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"suited",
"tailored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"patterned",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed",
"accustomed",
"habilitated",
"habituated",
"naturalized",
"readied",
"trained",
"bent",
"fiddled (with)",
"fine-tuned",
"phased",
"registered",
"regulated",
"rigged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranged",
"blueprinted",
"budgeted",
"calculated",
"charted",
"choreographed",
"designed",
"framed",
"laid out",
"mapped (out)",
"organized",
"planned",
"prepared",
"projected",
"schemed (out)",
"strategized (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspired",
"contrived",
"devised",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"plotted",
"put up",
"concerted",
"got up",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"sketched",
"aimed",
"figured",
"had on",
"intended",
"meant",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"premeditated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shorten":{
"to make less in extent or duration":{
"examples":[
"we decided to shorten the distance we had to walk home by cutting across the neighbor's lawn",
"if Grandma has to go shopping today, you'll need to shorten your visit"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut back",
"dock",
"elide",
"syncopate",
"truncate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"digest",
"encapsulate",
"epitomize",
"recapitulate",
"summarize",
"sum up",
"abate",
"compress",
"constrict",
"contract",
"cut",
"cut down",
"pare",
"prune",
"trim",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"moderate",
"modify",
"reduce",
"retrench",
"shrink",
"slash",
"subtract (from)",
"taper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlarge",
"expand",
"supplement",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"dilate",
"escalate",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"pump up",
"raise",
"blow up",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell"
],
"antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shorthands":{
"as in stenographies , stenos":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"phonographies",
"stenographies",
"stenos",
"letterings",
"calligraphies",
"handwritings",
"longhands",
"manuscripts",
"penmanships",
"scripts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prints",
"types",
"typewritings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheens":{
"as in glows , shimmers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"glows",
"luminesces",
"shimmers",
"beams",
"radiates",
"rays",
"shines",
"blinks",
"coruscates",
"flares",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks",
"beats (down)",
"glares",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ship (out)":{
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"after college he decide to ship out on a tramp steamer and see the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"boat",
"cruise",
"ferry",
"navigate",
"sail",
"voyage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoe",
"kayak",
"yacht",
"coast"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"short subject":{
"as in documentary , animated cartoon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoon",
"cartoon",
"docudrama",
"documentary",
"feature",
"featurette",
"short",
"film",
"flick",
"flicker",
"motion picture",
"movie",
"moving picture",
"picture",
"silent",
"talkie",
"B movie",
"B picture",
"cofeature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrewdness":{
"exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters":{
"examples":[
"a woman with the thick-skinned shrewdness to survive in a tough business"
],
"synonyms":[
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"canniness",
"clear-sightedness",
"foxiness",
"hardheadedness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"knowingness",
"sharpness",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"artfulness",
"artifice",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"guile",
"slickness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"subtleness",
"subtlety",
"wiliness",
"brain(s)",
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"reason",
"sense"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"greenness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"innocence",
"naiveness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"unworldliness",
"brainlessness",
"density",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"witlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shiploads":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"it must have taken a shipload of money to build that mansion"
],
"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",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoots":{
"to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force":{
"examples":[
"BB guns shoot small round metal pellets"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"discharges",
"fires",
"looses",
"squeezes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"launches",
"projects",
"blazes (at)",
"snipes (at)",
"casts",
"catapults",
"flings",
"heaves",
"hurls",
"hurtles",
"lobs",
"pelts",
"pitches",
"slings",
"throws",
"tosses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force":{
"examples":[
"soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"discharges",
"fires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"peppers",
"plinks",
"potshots",
"snipes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with a missile from a gun":{
"examples":[
"hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"guns",
"plugs",
"pops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows away",
"brings down",
"drops",
"picks off",
"shoots down",
"blazes",
"peppers",
"potshots",
"snipes (at)",
"blasts (at)",
"fires (at)",
"pistols",
"shotguns",
"machine-guns",
"tommy-guns",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"fells",
"ices",
"kills",
"slays",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"butchers",
"decimates",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"to take a photograph of":{
"examples":[
"shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted"
],
"synonyms":[
"mugs",
"photographs",
"photos",
"snaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"images",
"pictures",
"rephotographs",
"retakes",
"films",
"videotapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"discharges",
"emanates",
"emits",
"evolves",
"exhales",
"expels",
"expires",
"gives out",
"irradiates",
"issues",
"radiates",
"releases",
"sends (out)",
"throws out",
"vents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminates",
"evacuates",
"excretes",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"secretes",
"ejects",
"erupts",
"gushes",
"jets",
"outpours",
"pours",
"spews",
"spouts",
"sprays",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbs",
"inhales",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"sucks (up)",
"takes up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to voice one's opinions freely with force":{
"examples":[
"you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot"
],
"synonyms":[
"pipes up",
"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":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"examples":[
"hazel eyes that were brown shot with green"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotches",
"dapples",
"dots",
"flecks",
"freckles",
"marbles",
"mottles",
"peppers",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"stipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blots",
"dyes",
"stains",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes",
"intersperses",
"sets",
"studs",
"bespatters",
"spatters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigns",
"dispatches",
"packs (off)",
"sends",
"ships",
"transfers",
"transmits",
"transports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveys",
"delivers",
"hands over",
"passes",
"renders",
"advances",
"drops",
"launches",
"addresses",
"forwards",
"exports",
"imports",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"presents",
"resends",
"returns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquires",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepts",
"receives"
]
},
"a branch of a main stem especially of a plant":{
"examples":[
"collected the most tender shoots for the vegetable dish he was making"
],
"synonyms":[
"offshoots",
"outgrowths",
"sprouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"excrescences",
"growths",
"boughs",
"branchlets",
"limbs",
"twigs",
"buds",
"florets",
"sprays",
"sprigs",
"spurs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body":{
"examples":[
"there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down"
],
"synonyms":[
"aches",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"smarts",
"stings",
"stitches",
"throes",
"tingles",
"twinges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomforts",
"distresses",
"afflictions",
"agonies",
"anguishes",
"miseries",
"sufferances",
"sufferings",
"torments",
"tortures",
"inflammations",
"sores",
"swellings",
"damages",
"detriments",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injuries",
"backaches",
"bellyaches",
"charley horses",
"colics",
"complaints",
"earaches",
"gripes",
"headaches",
"stomachaches",
"toothaches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comforts",
"eases"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sherlocks":{
"a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons":{
"examples":[
"one of literature's most eccentric sherlocks , Nero Wolfe manages to solve mysteries without so much as leaving the confines of his own home"
],
"synonyms":[
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"investigators",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators",
"shamuses",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shadows",
"tails",
"tracers",
"trackers",
"Federals",
"feds",
"G-men",
"narcs",
"narks",
"plainclothesmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrillness":{
"as in severity , vitriol":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"acerbity",
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"poignancy",
"pungency",
"roughness",
"sharpness",
"tartness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mildness",
"softness",
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"short-circuited":{
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"for decades the maverick filmmaker was short-circuited by a chronic lack of funds"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogged",
"cramped",
"embarrassed",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"held up",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"shackled",
"stymied",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"reined",
"restrained",
"bound",
"chained",
"haltered",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"tied",
"arrested",
"braked",
"delayed",
"retained",
"retarded",
"barricaded",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"roadblocked",
"bogged (down)",
"mired",
"choked",
"smothered",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suffocated",
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"stumped",
"thwarted",
"derailed",
"disrupted",
"sabotaged",
"muzzled",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"confined",
"hedged (in)",
"hemmed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared",
"made way",
"opened",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"untied",
"loosened",
"smoothed",
"encouraged",
"furthered",
"promoted"
],
"antonyms":[
"aided",
"assisted",
"facilitated",
"helped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shapes up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallizes",
"crystalizes",
"forms",
"jells",
"solidifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"fuses",
"combines",
"conjoins",
"conjugates",
"connects",
"couples",
"joins",
"links (up)",
"unifies",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks down",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amends",
"mends",
"reforms",
"straightens (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaves",
"regenerates",
"betters",
"improves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslides",
"regresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheila":{
"a female person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"examples":[
"two blonde sheilas were splashing in the water at Bondi Beach while their mother looked on"
],
"synonyms":[
"filly",
"girl",
"lass",
"lassie",
"miss",
"missy",
"nymph"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bobby-soxer",
"junior miss",
"schoolgirl",
"subdebutante",
"teenybopper",
"gamine",
"hoyden",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"romp",
"snip",
"tomboy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheen":{
"brightness created by light reflected from a surface":{
"examples":[
"polished the metal until it had an even sheen"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnish",
"gloss",
"luminance",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"shine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glow",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"flicker",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"illumination",
"irradiation",
"iridescence",
"luminescence",
"brilliance",
"luminosity",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"refulgence",
"finish",
"glaze"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"flatness",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"cloudiness",
"gloom",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in glow , shimmer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"glow",
"luminesce",
"shimmer",
"beam",
"radiate",
"ray",
"shine",
"blink",
"coruscate",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle",
"beat (down)",
"glare",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"light",
"lighten",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"lower",
"lour"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shingles":{
"as in sediments , silts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluviums",
"alluvia",
"colluvia",
"colluviums",
"detritus",
"loesses",
"marls",
"sediments",
"silts",
"clods",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"molds",
"blacklands",
"clays",
"gaults",
"gleys",
"gucks",
"gooks",
"gumbos",
"kaolins",
"muck",
"muds",
"dust",
"gravels",
"sands",
"humuses",
"loams",
"topsoils",
"duffs",
"mulls",
"subsoils",
"substrata"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in trims , crops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"trims",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overlaps , overlays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"laps",
"overlaps",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"overspreads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shooter":{
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"there were eight shooters taking turns at the same target in the final competition"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksman",
"sharpshooter",
"shot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sniper",
"rifleman",
"trapshooter",
"gun",
"gunman",
"gunner",
"markswoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who takes photographs":{
"examples":[
"he's one of the best shooters of wildlife in all of professional photography"
],
"synonyms":[
"lensman",
"photog",
"photographer",
"shutterbug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinematographer",
"paparazzo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoots (up)":{
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"gas prices shot up seemingly overnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"soars",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes",
"crests",
"peaks",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"falls",
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"drops",
"lessens",
"wanes"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"slumps",
"tumbles"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheiks":{
"as in womanizers , lady-killers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lady-killers",
"womanizers",
"babes",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"dreamboats",
"eye candies",
"eyefuls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"knockouts",
"stunners",
"beefcakes",
"hunks",
"pretty boys",
"studs",
"superstuds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogs",
"grotesqueries",
"monsters",
"nerds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheer":{
"very thin and easy to see through":{
"examples":[
"we had to get window shades because passersby could see right through our sheer curtains"
],
"synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"diaphanous",
"filmy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"gossamer",
"gossamery",
"see-through",
"transparent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"peekaboo",
"clear",
"crystal",
"crystalline",
"limpid",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"lucid",
"translucent",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"frail",
"insubstantial",
"unsubstantial",
"colorless",
"uncolored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opaque",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"drab",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"lusterless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"examples":[
"survivors of the earthquake told of experiencing sheer terror"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having an incline approaching the perpendicular":{
"examples":[
"the sheer slopes of the ravine"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"bold",
"precipitous",
"steep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"craggy",
"hillocky",
"hilly",
"mountainous",
"scarped",
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"listed",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentle",
"gradual",
"moderate",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"unruffled",
"unwrinkled"
],
"antonyms":[
"easy"
]
},
"to change one's course or direction":{
"examples":[
"the cruise ship sheered to the northwest, putting it safely out of the path of the hurricane"
],
"synonyms":[
"detour",
"deviate",
"diverge",
"swerve",
"swing",
"turn",
"turn off",
"veer",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tack",
"zigzag",
"double (back)",
"turn back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to depart abruptly from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the car sheered to avoid hitting the dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"cut",
"swerve",
"veer",
"yaw",
"zag",
"zig"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skew",
"slew",
"slue",
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"round",
"sweep",
"wheel",
"about-face",
"pivot",
"circle",
"coil",
"curl",
"loop",
"spiral",
"turn",
"twist",
"wind",
"weave",
"zigzag",
"deviate",
"stray",
"wander",
"waver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straighten"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shopgirl":{
"as in saleswoman , salesgirl":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"salesgirl",
"saleslady",
"saleswoman",
"salespeople",
"pitchman",
"pitchwoman",
"clerk",
"salesclerk",
"salesman",
"salesperson",
"floorwalker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shook a leg":{
"to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music":{
"examples":[
"The DJ played music that was sure to make every party guest get up and shake a leg ."
],
"synonyms":[
"danced",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"stepped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pranced",
"strutted",
"tripped",
"boogied",
"boogeyed",
"bopped",
"fox-trotted",
"gavotted",
"jigged",
"jitterbugged",
"jived",
"mamboed",
"polkaed",
"shagged",
"shimmied",
"shuffled",
"tangoed",
"tap-danced",
"twisted",
"waltzed",
"trod",
"treaded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"We'd better shake a leg if we want to make the movie!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shredded":{
"as in lacerate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lacerate",
"lacerated",
"dingy",
"faded",
"holey",
"patchy",
"dowdy",
"scruffy",
"tatterdemalion",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"moth-eaten",
"run-down",
"scuzzy",
"tacky",
"frayed",
"ragged",
"raggedy",
"ratty",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tattered",
"threadbare",
"worn-out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"unused"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it":{
"examples":[
"shredded some cooked chicken for the soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"rent",
"rended",
"ribboned",
"ripped",
"rived",
"tattered",
"tore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke",
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"ruptured",
"split",
"cut",
"gashed",
"incised",
"lacerated",
"slashed",
"butchered",
"dismembered",
"dissected",
"hacked",
"mangled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shrines":{
"a place that is considered sacred (as within a religion)":{
"examples":[
"for centuries pilgrims have traveled to the shrine of Saint Thomas \u00e0 Becket in Canterbury, England"
],
"synonyms":[
"sanctuaries",
"sanctums",
"sancta"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reliquaries",
"martyries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shakes a leg":{
"to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music":{
"examples":[
"The DJ played music that was sure to make every party guest get up and shake a leg ."
],
"synonyms":[
"dances",
"foots (it)",
"hoofs (it)",
"steps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prances",
"struts",
"trips",
"boogies",
"boogeys",
"bops",
"fox-trots",
"gavottes",
"jigs",
"jitterbugs",
"jives",
"mambos",
"polkas",
"shags",
"shimmies",
"shuffles",
"tangos",
"tap-dances",
"twists",
"waltzes",
"treads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"We'd better shake a leg if we want to make the movie!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shawls":{
"a piece of cloth that is used especially by women as a covering for the head or shoulders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"serapes",
"sarapes",
"stoles",
"wraps",
"capes",
"capotes",
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"manteaus",
"mantles",
"burnooses",
"burnouses",
"capelets",
"capuchins",
"cowls",
"dominoes",
"dominos",
"josephs",
"mantas",
"mantelets",
"mantillas",
"palatines",
"pelerines",
"pelisses",
"ponchos",
"roquelaures",
"tippets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in wraps , shrouds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"encloses",
"incloses",
"enrobes",
"enshrouds",
"enswathes",
"envelops",
"enwraps",
"mantles",
"shrouds",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"blankets",
"carpets",
"coats",
"covers",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"overspreads",
"sheets",
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"curtains",
"veils",
"circles",
"encircles",
"encompasses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrugs":{
"as in waves , flourishes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beckons",
"becks",
"flourishes",
"waves",
"gesticulations",
"gestures",
"mimes",
"pantomimes",
"signals",
"signs",
"body languages",
"postures",
"indications",
"motions",
"sign languages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in flourishes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flourishes",
"acquaints",
"advises",
"informs",
"relates",
"tells",
"signalizes",
"gesticulates",
"mimes",
"pantomimes",
"signs",
"nods",
"beckons",
"flags",
"gestures",
"motions",
"signals",
"waves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Shangri-la":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"a dreamer who spent much of his life roaming the world in search of his personal Shangri-la"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadia",
"dreamland",
"dreamworld",
"fairyland",
"wonderland",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"euphoria",
"gladness",
"joy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradise"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shearing":{
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"it took almost a week to shear all the wool off the flock of sheep"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbing",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"docking",
"lopping (off)",
"nipping",
"paring",
"polling",
"pruning",
"shaving",
"snipping",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skiving",
"whittling",
"manicuring",
"mowing",
"pinching",
"stumping",
"curtailing",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)":{
"examples":[
"the shark's razor-sharp teeth sheared the swimmer's flesh right down to the bone"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"gashing",
"incising",
"ripping",
"slashing",
"slicing",
"slitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosscutting",
"hacksawing",
"scissoring",
"cleaving",
"riving",
"splitting",
"piercing",
"stabbing",
"bruising",
"butchering",
"hacking",
"haggling",
"lacerating",
"mangling",
"rending",
"tearing",
"carving",
"chipping",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"notching",
"anatomizing",
"dissecting",
"sectioning",
"chopping",
"dicing",
"mincing",
"amputating",
"cutting off",
"severing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakes down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shores (up)":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"a highway tunnel shored up by massive columns of concrete"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"bolsters",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"props (up)",
"stays",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"underpins",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadies",
"trusses",
"underlies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"used an avalanche of statistics to shore up his claim that the state's economy is in fine shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"backs",
"bolsters",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"substantiates",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"verifies",
"affirms",
"avouches",
"validates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercuts",
"undermines",
"weakens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shilly-shallied":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"dithered",
"faltered",
"halted",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"scrupled",
"staggered",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawed",
"hemmed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"lingered",
"paused",
"procrastinated",
"waited",
"backed down",
"chickened (out)",
"considered",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decided",
"budged",
"stirred",
"advanced",
"continued"
],
"antonyms":[
"dived (in)",
"dove (in)",
"plunged (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheet":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"from the bow of our ship all we could see was an impenetrable sheet of fog"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadth",
"distance",
"expanse",
"expansion",
"extent",
"field",
"length",
"plain",
"reach",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a layer over":{
"examples":[
"dust sheeted the floors of the old, abandoned house"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"carpet",
"coat",
"cover",
"overlay",
"overlie",
"overspread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enclose",
"inclose",
"enrobe",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"mantle",
"shawl",
"shroud",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"cloak",
"clothe",
"curtain",
"veil",
"circle",
"encircle",
"encompass"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shysters":{
"a person who is dishonest especially in politics or in the practice of law \u2014 often used before another noun":{
"examples":[
"a shyster lawyer"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambulance chasers",
"pettifoggers",
"Philadelphia lawyers",
"advocates",
"attorneys",
"attorneys-at-law",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"counselors-at-law",
"counsels",
"lawyers",
"legal eagles",
"cocounsels",
"co-counsels",
"district attorneys",
"prosecuting attorneys",
"prosecutors",
"solicitors",
"criminal lawyers",
"mouthpieces",
"public defenders",
"trial lawyers",
"solicitors",
"jurists",
"lawgivers",
"lawmakers",
"legislators",
"solons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrugged":{
"as in flourished":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flourished",
"acquainted",
"advised",
"informed",
"related",
"told",
"signalized",
"gesticulated",
"mimed",
"pantomimed",
"signed",
"nodded",
"beckoned",
"flagged",
"gestured",
"motioned",
"signaled",
"signalled",
"waved"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheep":{
"an innocent or gentle person":{
"examples":[
"he came to see that the members of the cult were sheep who naively went along with whatever their leader dictated"
],
"synonyms":[
"angel",
"dove",
"innocent",
"lamb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babe",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"greenhorn",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"na\u00eff",
"naif",
"newbie",
"tenderfoot",
"virgin",
"cherub",
"saint",
"softy",
"softie",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"dupe",
"pigeon",
"sap",
"sucker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bully",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"tough",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"slob",
"shark",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"devil",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain"
],
"antonyms":[
"wolf"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaper":{
"as in operator , mechanic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mechanic",
"operator",
"smith",
"wright",
"consultant",
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"pro",
"professional",
"specialist",
"technician",
"adviser",
"advisor",
"consigliere",
"counsel",
"counselor",
"counsellor",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"craftsperson",
"craftswoman",
"journeyman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert",
"layman",
"nonprofessional",
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoppers":{
"as in catalogs , advertisements":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertisements",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"dodgers",
"flysheets",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"throwaways",
"tracts",
"booklets",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"folders",
"leaflets",
"pamphlets",
"paperbacks",
"paperbounds",
"pocket books",
"guidebooks",
"handbooks",
"how-tos",
"instructions",
"manuals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in prospects , browsers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browsers",
"prospects",
"window-shoppers",
"buyers",
"correspondents",
"purchasers",
"vendees",
"bargainers",
"hagglers",
"consumers",
"end users",
"users",
"regulars",
"accounts",
"clients",
"customers",
"guests",
"patrons",
"punters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brokers",
"merchants",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"shopkeepers",
"tradesmen",
"black marketers",
"black marketeers",
"fences"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shocked":{
"affected with sudden and great wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"the escaping bridegroom bid farewell to the shocked wedding guests as he ran out the door"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"awestruck",
"awestricken",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"dumbstruck",
"flabbergasted",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"thunderstruck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blindsided",
"startled",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"aghast",
"appalled",
"dismayed",
"horrified",
"bewildered",
"confused",
"dazed",
"overwhelmed",
"agape",
"awed",
"awesome",
"openmouthed",
"wide-eyed",
"widemouthed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"casual",
"nonchalant",
"unruffled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"filled with disgust":{
"examples":[
"we were shocked at the appalling conditions in the prison"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"revolted",
"sick",
"sickened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fed up",
"weary",
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"cheesed off",
"displeased",
"enraged",
"fuming",
"furious",
"horn-mad",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"upset",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"thrilled",
"tickled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"fascinated",
"mesmerized",
"spellbound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"filled with fear or dread":{
"examples":[
"the hikers were so shocked at the sight of a bear that they didn't dare move"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrighted",
"afraid",
"aghast",
"alarmed",
"fearful",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"horror-struck",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"scared",
"scary",
"spooked",
"terrified",
"terrorized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken",
"fainthearted",
"fearsome",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"tremulant",
"tremulous",
"agitated",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"funky",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"panicked",
"panicky",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"skittish",
"uneasy",
"upset",
"worried",
"phobic",
"appalled",
"dismayed",
"startled",
"cowed",
"daunted",
"intimidated",
"unnerved",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"pusillanimous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"wary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daredevil",
"daring",
"dashing",
"gutsy",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"brave",
"courageous",
"gallant",
"hardy",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"assured",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"sanguine",
"sure",
"unperturbed",
"dauntless",
"resolute",
"undaunted"
],
"antonyms":[
"fearless",
"unafraid"
]
},
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"Mom was shocked by the terrible news that her cousin had died in an accident",
"I was shocked to find out that I was the victim of identity theft"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalled",
"floored",
"jolted",
"shook up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonished",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"freaked (out)",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"dismayed",
"frighted",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"scared",
"scarified",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"revolted",
"sickened",
"turned off",
"displeased",
"offended",
"outraged",
"scandalized",
"amazed",
"astounded",
"awed",
"chilled",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"dispirited",
"emasculated",
"undid",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"shook",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"crushed",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffered",
"cushioned",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"rejoiced",
"tickled",
"charmed",
"enticed",
"tempted",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"reassured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"were shocked by the way the law against public intoxication was constantly being broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"floored",
"rocked",
"startled",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"thunderstruck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddled",
"bewildered",
"blew away",
"blindsided",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"dismayed",
"jarred",
"muddled",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perplexed",
"shook up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"the sudden appearance of the ghost shocked us to the core"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frighted",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"scared",
"scarified",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalled",
"bowled over",
"dismayed",
"floored",
"jolted",
"shook",
"shook up",
"amazed",
"astounded",
"awed",
"chilled",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"dispirited",
"emasculated",
"psyched (out)",
"undid",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distracted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"inspired",
"steeled"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassured"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sharpshooter":{
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"the police stationed sharpshooters on rooftops all along the route of the presidential motorcade"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksman",
"shooter",
"shot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sniper",
"rifleman",
"trapshooter",
"gun",
"gunman",
"gunner",
"markswoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shigellosis":{
"as in dysentery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dysentery",
"Delhi belly",
"diarrhea",
"flux",
"Montezuma's revenge",
"runs",
"trots",
"turista",
"scour(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shovelled":{
"to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth":{
"examples":[
"the troops quickly shoveled a trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"dug",
"excavated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dredged",
"burrowed",
"clawed",
"grubbed",
"dug in",
"scooped",
"spaded",
"delved",
"mined",
"quarried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filled (in)",
"smoothed (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortened":{
"as in abbreviated , curtailed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut-back",
"syncopated",
"shortish",
"compact",
"condensed",
"brief",
"fast",
"little",
"short",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"short-lived",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"summary",
"terse",
"short-range",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extended",
"far",
"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived",
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"unending",
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"permanent",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"long-range",
"long-term"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make less in extent or duration":{
"examples":[
"we decided to shorten the distance we had to walk home by cutting across the neighbor's lawn",
"if Grandma has to go shopping today, you'll need to shorten your visit"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut back",
"docked",
"elided",
"syncopated",
"truncated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstracted",
"digested",
"encapsulated",
"epitomized",
"recapitulated",
"summarized",
"summed up",
"abated",
"compressed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut",
"cut down",
"pared",
"pruned",
"trimmed",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"deflated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"modified",
"reduced",
"retrenched",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"slashed",
"subtracted (from)",
"tapered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"added",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"ballooned",
"boosted",
"dilated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"increased",
"maximized",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"blew up",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled"
],
"antonyms":[
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"showy":{
"likely to attract attention":{
"examples":[
"orchid plants are known for their huge showy flowers"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bodacious",
"bold",
"brilliant",
"catchy",
"commanding",
"conspicuous",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"grabby",
"kenspeckle",
"marked",
"noisy",
"noticeable",
"prominent",
"pronounced",
"remarkable",
"splashy",
"striking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"visible",
"outstanding",
"salient",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"impressive",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"howling",
"screaming",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"jazzy",
"loud",
"meretricious",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"extravagant",
"fancy",
"florid",
"glittery",
"spectacular",
"opulent",
"ornate",
"overdone",
"overwrought",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting",
"riveting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subtle",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"shrouded",
"dim",
"faint",
"obscure",
"insignificant",
"undistinguished",
"unimportant",
"modest",
"unaffected",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"conservative",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple",
"understated",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"subtle",
"toned-down",
"unflashy"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconspicuous",
"unemphatic",
"unflamboyant",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"unremarkable",
"unshowy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shallop":{
"as in yacht , square-rigger":{
"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",
"piragua",
"sailer",
"schooner",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"sloop",
"square-rigger",
"xebec",
"yacht",
"yawl",
"bark",
"dinghy",
"sailboat",
"windjammer",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrivelled":{
"as in withered , wizened":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"withered",
"wizened",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"bony",
"boney",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"skinny",
"spare",
"thin",
"starved",
"underfed",
"undernourished",
"famished",
"hungry",
"starving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"brawny",
"burly",
"fit",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"husky",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"heavyset",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"stocky",
"thickset",
"tubby",
"flabby",
"soft"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become small and wrinkly usually as a result of dehydration":{
"examples":[
"Without irrigation, these plants would shrivel (up) and die."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wilted",
"withered",
"dried up",
"mummified",
"wizened",
"dehumidified",
"drained",
"evaporated",
"air-dried",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared",
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"flattened",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"declined",
"faded",
"waned",
"receded",
"retreated",
"withdrew",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshened",
"revived",
"bloomed",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"accumulated",
"grew",
"increased",
"ballooned",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"expanded",
"snowballed",
"swelled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shampooing":{
"as in washing , rinsing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing",
"combing",
"dry-cleaning",
"dusting",
"laundering",
"mopping",
"mucking (out)",
"rinsing",
"scouring",
"scrubbing",
"sponging",
"swabbing",
"sweeping",
"vacuuming",
"washing",
"wiping",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"deterging",
"GI'ing",
"turning out",
"decontaminating",
"purging",
"purifying",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"brightening",
"deodorizing",
"freshening",
"sprucing (up)",
"sweetening",
"picking up",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying",
"uncluttering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begriming",
"muddying",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"blackening",
"discoloring",
"besmirching",
"dirtying",
"fouling",
"soiling",
"spotting",
"staining",
"sullying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakes (off)":{
"as in recovers (from) , rallies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers (from)",
"comes back",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catches",
"comes down (with)",
"contracts",
"gets",
"goes down (with)",
"sickens (with)",
"takes",
"breaks out (with)",
"dies (from)",
"succumbs (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shamming":{
"as in fakery , duplicity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"fraudulentness",
"affectation",
"affectedness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"sanctimoniousness",
"self-righteousness",
"self-satisfaction",
"artificiality",
"glibness",
"oiliness",
"smoothness",
"unctuousness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"double-dealing",
"falsity",
"perfidy",
"two-facedness",
"cant",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"piousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"genuineness",
"sincereness",
"sincerity",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"honesty",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"probity",
"straightforwardness",
"truthfulness",
"artlessness",
"guilelessness",
"naturalness",
"unaffectedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"bluffing",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"professing",
"putting on",
"simulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shipwrecks":{
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"finally admitted that their marriage was a shipwreck and that the time had come to bail out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"frosts",
"lemons",
"losers",
"misses",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"strands",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaches",
"founders",
"scuttles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovers",
"salvages"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shirk":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forget",
"neglect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slack (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry out",
"do",
"execute",
"perform",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"keep up",
"maintain"
],
"antonyms":[
"attend (to)",
"remember"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mooch",
"mouse",
"pussyfoot",
"skulk",
"slide",
"slink",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"edge",
"inch",
"worm",
"ghost",
"pad",
"tiptoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shouting":{
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"well-wishers shouted to departing passengers from the dock"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawling",
"baying",
"bellowing",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"holloing",
"hallooing",
"roaring",
"sounding off",
"thundering",
"vociferating",
"yelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crowing",
"whooping",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"shrilling",
"squeaking",
"squealing",
"caterwauling",
"howling",
"ululating",
"wailing",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"hailing",
"speaking out",
"speaking up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shafts":{
"a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object":{
"examples":[
"shafts of late-afternoon sunlight pierced the blinds and streaked the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"beams",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moonbeams",
"sunbeams",
"sunbursts",
"lasers",
"spotlights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade":{
"examples":[
"the footmen set their shafts so as to form a bank of steel against the enemy's charging cavalry"
],
"synonyms":[
"javelins",
"lances",
"pike",
"pikes",
"pikestaffs",
"spears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"darts",
"spikes",
"gaffs",
"halberds",
"halberts",
"harpoons",
"leisters",
"tridents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"disservices",
"inequities",
"injuries",
"injustices",
"raw deals",
"wrongs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronts",
"indignities",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"outrages",
"put-downs",
"slights",
"slurs",
"beefs",
"complaints",
"grievances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crickets"
],
"antonyms":[
"equities",
"justices"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrugging off":{
"to dismiss as of little importance":{
"examples":[
"an administration that was willing to shrug off the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinking (at)",
"brushing (aside or off)",
"condoning",
"discounting",
"disregarding",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"papering over",
"pardoning",
"passing over",
"remitting",
"whitewashing",
"winking (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explaining",
"justifying",
"rationalizing",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating",
"waiving",
"waving (aside or off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeding",
"marking",
"minding",
"noting",
"objecting (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"she shrugged off her coat and hung it up neatly"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffing",
"dousing",
"peeling (off)",
"putting off",
"removing",
"taking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husking",
"shedding",
"kicking (off)",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"undressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wearing",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"clothing",
"dressing",
"garbing",
"rigging",
"robing",
"suiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"donning",
"putting on",
"slipping (into)",
"throwing (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipman":{
"one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel":{
"examples":[
"in the middle of the vasty deep the shipman enjoys a splendid isolation that the landsman will never know"
],
"synonyms":[
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"shipmate",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"lime-juicer",
"limey"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"share":{
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"partake",
"participate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"know",
"see",
"taste",
"undergo",
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group":{
"examples":[
"my share of the lottery winnings is over a million dollars",
"her share of the bill comes to $13.44"
],
"synonyms":[
"allotment",
"allowance",
"cut",
"end",
"part",
"piece",
"portion",
"proportion",
"quota",
"slice",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lot",
"ration",
"commission",
"percentage",
"member",
"partition",
"section",
"segment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregate",
"composite",
"compound",
"pool",
"sum",
"total",
"totality",
"whole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something":{
"examples":[
"she sold her share in the business to her partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"claim",
"interest",
"stake"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-ownership",
"ownership",
"part",
"partnership",
"possession",
"title"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shilly-shallying":{
"a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"fortunately, during the crisis there was no shilly-shallying on the part of the president"
],
"synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delay",
"hawing",
"procrastination",
"waiting",
"arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e",
"misgiving",
"second thought",
"consideration",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indecisiveness",
"indetermination",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty",
"avoidance",
"equivocation",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness",
"faintheartedness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"readiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in vacillating , wavering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambivalent",
"hesitating",
"shaky",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"irregular",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"dicey",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"flickery",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"skittish",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile",
"adaptable",
"mobile",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certain",
"changeless",
"constant",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"predictable",
"settled",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchangeable",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"equable",
"even",
"uniform",
"abiding",
"durable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"persistent",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balancing",
"dithering",
"faltering",
"halting",
"hanging back",
"hesitating",
"scrupling",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawing",
"hemming",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"lingering",
"pausing",
"procrastinating",
"waiting",
"backing down",
"chickening (out)",
"considering",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deciding",
"budging",
"stirring",
"advancing",
"continuing"
],
"antonyms":[
"diving (in)",
"plunging (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shears":{
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"it took almost a week to shear all the wool off the flock of sheep"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobs",
"clips",
"crops",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"docks",
"lops (off)",
"nips",
"pares",
"polls",
"prunes",
"shaves",
"snips",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skives",
"whittles",
"manicures",
"mows",
"pinches",
"stumps",
"curtails",
"shortens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)":{
"examples":[
"the shark's razor-sharp teeth sheared the swimmer's flesh right down to the bone"
],
"synonyms":[
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incises",
"rips",
"slashes",
"slices",
"slits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosscuts",
"hacksaws",
"saws",
"scissors",
"cleaves",
"rives",
"splits",
"pierces",
"stabs",
"bruises",
"butchers",
"hacks",
"haggles",
"lacerates",
"mangles",
"rends",
"tears",
"carves",
"chips",
"chisels",
"notches",
"anatomizes",
"dissects",
"sections",
"chops",
"dices",
"minces",
"amputates",
"cuts off",
"severs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuffles (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how the CEO managed to shuffle out of being held responsible for his company's weak performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"finesses",
"gets around",
"scapes",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuns",
"weasels (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)",
"bans",
"bars",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"precludes",
"rules out",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"skirts",
"foils",
"foxes",
"frustrates",
"outfoxes",
"outsmarts",
"outwits",
"overreaches",
"thwarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shyness":{
"as in embarrassment , restraint":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"constraint",
"embarrassment",
"inhibition",
"restraint",
"skittishness",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"timorousness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresoluteness",
"irresolution",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"apprehension",
"concern",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"fear",
"panic",
"upset",
"worry",
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"spinelessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"cojones",
"guts",
"nerve",
"assurance",
"confidence",
"self-assertiveness",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"composure",
"coolness",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern",
"backbone",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"fiber",
"firmness",
"fortitude",
"gameness",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"spunk",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gutsiness",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"valor",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in humility , modesty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"humility",
"meekness",
"modesty",
"felicitousness",
"gracefulness",
"affability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"hospitality",
"sociability",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"gentilesse",
"polish",
"politesse",
"propriety",
"respectability",
"seemliness",
"deference",
"respect",
"elegance",
"refinement",
"suaveness",
"unctuousness",
"urbanity",
"breeding",
"manners",
"chivalrousness",
"chivalry",
"courtliness",
"gallantry",
"gentlemanliness",
"knighthood",
"knightliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discourteousness",
"discourtesy",
"impoliteness",
"incivility",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"ungraciousness",
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"disrespect",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"sauciness",
"shamelessness",
"boorishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"vulgarity",
"casualness",
"informality",
"delinquency",
"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappropriateness",
"incorrectness",
"indecency",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"thoughtlessness",
"arrogance",
"conceit",
"presumption",
"pretentiousness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoulder bag":{
"as in bag , wallet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"handbag",
"pocketbook",
"purse",
"clutch",
"clutch bag",
"minaudi\u00e8re",
"poke",
"pouch",
"sack",
"billfold",
"wallet",
"compact",
"vanity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shape":{
"a state of being or fitness":{
"examples":[
"she was in good shape after having worked outdoors all summer long"
],
"synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"fettle",
"form",
"health",
"keeping",
"kilter",
"nick",
"order",
"repair",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"practice",
"practise",
"pass",
"phase",
"stage",
"footing",
"picture",
"posture",
"scene",
"situation",
"status",
"rank",
"standing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disorder",
"disrepair"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"examples":[
"that part of the state is known as the panhandle because of its shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"configuration",
"conformation",
"fashion",
"figure",
"form",
"geometry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contour",
"outline",
"profile",
"silhouette",
"frame",
"framework",
"shell",
"skeleton",
"arrangement",
"design",
"format",
"layout",
"makeup",
"organization",
"pattern",
"plan",
"setup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"composition",
"material",
"matter",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the type of body that a person has":{
"examples":[
"some specialty clothing stores sell clothing that suits people that have a particular shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"build",
"constitution",
"figure",
"form",
"frame",
"habit",
"physique"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anatomy",
"structure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"suit",
"tailor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"train",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrange",
"blueprint",
"budget",
"calculate",
"chart",
"choreograph",
"design",
"frame",
"lay out",
"map (out)",
"organize",
"plan",
"prepare",
"project",
"scheme (out)",
"strategize (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspire",
"contrive",
"devise",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"put up",
"concert",
"get up",
"draft",
"outline",
"sketch",
"aim",
"figure",
"have on",
"intend",
"mean",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"premeditate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shape (up)":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallize",
"crystalize",
"form",
"jell",
"solidify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associate",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"fuse",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"join",
"link (up)",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break down",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amend",
"mend",
"reform",
"straighten (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behave",
"regenerate",
"better",
"improve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslide",
"regress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipments":{
"as in packages , parcels":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"bales",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"burdens",
"cargoes",
"cargos",
"drafts",
"freights",
"hauls",
"ladings",
"loadings",
"loads",
"payloads",
"weights",
"consignments",
"boatloads",
"carloads",
"shiploads",
"trainloads",
"truckloads",
"wagonloads",
"ballasts",
"deadweights",
"overloads",
"surcharges",
"manifests",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"masses"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shunted":{
"as in moved , switched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"averted",
"deviated",
"moved",
"rechanneled",
"rechannelled",
"shifted",
"sidetracked",
"swerved",
"switched",
"transferred",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"redirected",
"swung",
"turned",
"veered",
"wheeled",
"whipped",
"swiveled",
"swivelled",
"twisted",
"whirled",
"zigzagged",
"bent",
"curved",
"swayed",
"reversed",
"turned back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shopgirls":{
"as in saleswomen , salesgirls":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"salesgirls",
"salesladies",
"saleswomen",
"salespeople",
"pitchmen",
"pitchwomen",
"clerks",
"salesclerks",
"salesmen",
"salespeople",
"floorwalkers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shutouts":{
"as in sweeps , blowouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowouts",
"landslides",
"laughers",
"romps",
"runaways",
"sweeps",
"walkaways",
"walkovers",
"captures",
"conquests",
"masteries",
"subjugations",
"squeakers",
"palms",
"triumphs",
"victories",
"wins",
"successes",
"takeovers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beatings",
"defeats",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"losses",
"overthrows",
"routs",
"shellackings",
"trimmings",
"whippings",
"upsets",
"collapses",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"failures",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"nonsuccesses",
"washouts",
"declines",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"lurches",
"setbacks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in whitewashes , washouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lurches",
"washouts",
"whitewashes",
"collapses",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"nonsuccesses",
"setbacks",
"upsets",
"beatings",
"defeats",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"losses",
"lumps",
"overthrows",
"plasterings",
"routs",
"shellackings",
"trimmings",
"whippings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"successes",
"triumphs",
"victories",
"wins",
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"blowouts",
"cakewalks",
"landslides",
"romps",
"runaways",
"sweeps",
"walkaways",
"walkovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoes":{
"a way of looking at or thinking about something":{
"examples":[
"what would you do if you were in your friend's shoes ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"eye view",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"vantage point",
"viewpoint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interpretation",
"spin",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"mind-set",
"notion",
"opinion",
"perception",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view",
"impression",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"sharped":{
"as in hummed , crooned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belted",
"crooned",
"harmonized",
"hummed",
"lilted",
"quavered",
"scatted",
"slurred",
"trilled",
"trolled",
"warbled",
"yodeled",
"yodelled",
"caroled",
"carolled",
"chanted",
"descanted",
"sang",
"sung",
"vocalized",
"serenaded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadowing":{
"the act of going after or in the tracks of another":{
"examples":[
"the submarine's relentless shadowing of the destroyer"
],
"synonyms":[
"chase",
"chasing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"pursuit",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hot pursuit",
"tagging along",
"path",
"track",
"trail",
"search",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogging",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"running",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"chaperoning",
"escorting",
"hunting",
"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heading"
],
"antonyms":[
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"thickening clouds shadowed the countryside"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blackening",
"blearing",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dislimning",
"fogging",
"fuzzing (up)",
"hazing",
"misting",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overclouding",
"overshadowing",
"shrouding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrating",
"blotting out",
"concealing",
"eclipsing",
"hiding",
"obliterating",
"screening",
"shading",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"masking",
"veiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposing",
"revealing",
"uncovering",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"lightening",
"lighting (up)"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches"
],
"synonyms":[
"shading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"canopying",
"covering",
"protecting",
"screening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"exposing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shirtdresses":{
"as in sundresses , minidresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemises",
"coatdresses",
"granny dresses",
"housedresses",
"jumpers",
"kimonos",
"kirtles",
"minidresses",
"Mother Hubbards",
"muumuus",
"overdresses",
"sacks",
"sheaths",
"shifts",
"shirtwaists",
"sundresses",
"sweaterdresses",
"tea gowns",
"dresses",
"frocks",
"gowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shedded":{
"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a snake's skin doesn't grow as the snake does, so every so often the snake will shed its old skin"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliate",
"molt",
"slip",
"slough",
"sluff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flake",
"peel",
"scale",
"chuck",
"discard",
"ditch",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"scrap",
"shuck (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"unload"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"you need to shed your old notions of propriety and have some fun for a change"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashier",
"cast (off)",
"chuck",
"deep-six",
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"eighty-six",
"86",
"exorcise",
"exorcize",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"lay by",
"lose",
"pitch",
"reject",
"scrap",
"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":[]
},
"as in lean-to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lean-to",
"cabin",
"camp",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"hutment",
"shack",
"shanty",
"cot",
"cottage",
"lodge",
"cabana",
"bungalow",
"chalet",
"hogan",
"wickiup",
"wigwam",
"tent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shillelagh":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"rung",
"sap",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharkskin":{
"as in snakeskin , deerskin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shadowlike":{
"as in dim , faint":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"muddy",
"obfuscatory",
"obnubilated",
"obscurant",
"obscurantic",
"shaded",
"shadowy",
"sphinxlike",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"indefinite",
"inexact",
"inexplicit",
"noncommittal",
"questionable",
"uncertain",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague",
"abstruse",
"esoteric",
"recondite",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"inexplicable",
"ambiguous",
"arcane",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"deep",
"Delphic",
"double-edged",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"fuliginous",
"inscrutable",
"murky",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"occult",
"opaque",
"eerie",
"eery",
"uncanny",
"weird",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"unanswerable",
"unknowable",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"unfathomable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessible",
"clear",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"plain",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"comprehensible",
"fathomable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"legible",
"pellucid",
"understandable",
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure",
"defined",
"determined",
"direct",
"straightforward",
"definite",
"exact",
"explicit",
"appreciable",
"palpable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"blatant",
"patent",
"unmistakable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shacks":{
"a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling":{
"examples":[
"a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabins",
"camps",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"hutments",
"huts",
"shanties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lean-tos",
"sheds",
"cots",
"cottages",
"lodges",
"cabanas",
"bungalows",
"chalets",
"hogans",
"wickiups",
"wigwams",
"tents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheepdog":{
"as in wolfhound , hunter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bandog",
"bird dog",
"coonhound",
"courser",
"gundog",
"hunter",
"sled dog",
"watchdog",
"wolf dog",
"wolfhound",
"lapdog",
"pup",
"puppy",
"puppy dog",
"whelp",
"guide dog",
"police dog",
"working dog",
"bitch",
"cur",
"mongrel",
"mutt",
"canine",
"dog",
"doggy",
"doggie",
"hound",
"pooch",
"tyke",
"tike"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shah":{
"as in king , sultan":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Caesar",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"czarina",
"tsarina",
"tzarina",
"emir",
"amir",
"ameer",
"emperor",
"empress",
"kaiser",
"khan",
"khedive",
"king",
"lady",
"lord",
"mikado",
"mogul",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"satrap",
"sultan",
"sultana",
"suzerain",
"autocrat",
"monarch",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"coruler",
"authoritarian",
"Big Brother",
"despot",
"dictator",
"f\u00fchrer",
"fuehrer",
"monocrat",
"overlord",
"paramount",
"tyrant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shlemiel":{
"as in loser , chump":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chump",
"loser",
"turkey",
"clod",
"clodhopper",
"gawk",
"hulk",
"lout",
"lubber",
"lug",
"lump",
"Neanderthal",
"oaf",
"palooka",
"slouch",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"blunderer",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dum-dum",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"galoot",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo",
"anthropoid",
"ape",
"beast",
"boor",
"brute",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"louse",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"tyke",
"tike",
"villain",
"booby",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"scamp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brain",
"brainiac",
"genius",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoehorns":{
"to fit (people or things) into a tight space":{
"examples":[
"the organizers of the county fair shoehorned the craft booths between the midway and the farm exhibits"
],
"synonyms":[
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"jams",
"rams",
"sandwiches",
"squeezes",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fills",
"heaps",
"jam-packs",
"loads",
"packs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shouting distance":{
"a very small distance or degree":{
"examples":[
"he's within shouting distance of being the winningest coach in college basketball history"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"hair",
"hairbreadth",
"hairsbreadth",
"hairline",
"hop, skip, and jump",
"inch",
"neck",
"step",
"stone's throw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"mite",
"particle",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"trace",
"trifle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infinity",
"light-year"
],
"antonyms":[
"country mile",
"long haul",
"mile"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showroom":{
"a large room where things that are for sale are displayed":{
"examples":[
"a car showroom",
"The stereo was a showroom model."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"market",
"marketplace",
"outlet",
"bazaar",
"emporium",
"shop",
"store",
"boutique",
"chain store",
"department store",
"dime store",
"exchange",
"five-and-ten",
"five-and-dime",
"mart",
"mini-mart",
"thrift shop",
"variety store",
"big box",
"supercenter",
"superstore"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shorefront":{
"as in waterfront , oceanfront":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"oceanfront",
"waterfront",
"beach",
"beachfront",
"sand(s)",
"strand",
"seaboard",
"seacoast",
"seashore",
"seaside",
"coast",
"coastland",
"coastline",
"shore",
"shoreline",
"bank",
"riverbank",
"riverfront",
"riverside",
"esplanade",
"littoral",
"lido",
"plage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Shangri-las":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"a dreamer who spent much of his life roaming the world in search of his personal Shangri-la"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Edens",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"promised lands",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadias",
"dreamlands",
"dreamworlds",
"fairylands",
"wonderlands",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shreds":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"the vandals showed not a shred of decency"
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it":{
"examples":[
"shredded some cooked chicken for the soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"rends",
"ribbons",
"rips",
"rives",
"tatters",
"tears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"cleaves",
"ruptures",
"splits",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incises",
"lacerates",
"slashes",
"butchers",
"dismembers",
"dissects",
"hacks",
"mangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shields":{
"means or method of defending":{
"examples":[
"the slightly built boy used his sharp wit as a shield against the school's bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegises",
"egises",
"ammunitions",
"armors",
"bucklers",
"covers",
"defenses",
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"securities",
"walls",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armaments",
"arms",
"munitions",
"weaponries",
"weapons",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"strongholds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressions",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"offenses",
"offences",
"offensives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fences",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"covers",
"screens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"veils",
"drapes",
"palls",
"canopies",
"caps",
"crowns",
"disguises",
"masks",
"obscures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bares",
"exposes",
"uncovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shots":{
"a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece":{
"examples":[
"cannon operators often had to use several shots to figure out the range of their targets"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharges",
"firings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potshots",
"barrages",
"blitzes",
"blitzkriegs",
"bombardments",
"broadsides",
"bursts",
"cannonades",
"drumfires",
"fusillades",
"hails",
"salvos",
"salvoes",
"showers",
"storms",
"volleys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an effort to do or accomplish something":{
"examples":[
"let's take another shot at the puzzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"assays",
"attempts",
"bashes",
"bids",
"cracks",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"flings",
"goes",
"offers",
"passes",
"stabs",
"trials",
"tries",
"whacks",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strivings",
"struggles",
"throes",
"undertakings",
"trial and errors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera":{
"examples":[
"took a shot of his family for the scrapbook"
],
"synonyms":[
"photographs",
"photos",
"pics",
"pix",
"prints",
"snaps",
"snapshots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowups",
"close-ups",
"enlargements",
"stills",
"telephotos",
"daguerreotypes",
"ferrotypes",
"monochromes",
"sepias",
"tintypes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"a soldier who's an excellent shot with a rifle"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksmen",
"sharpshooters",
"shooters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snipers",
"riflemen",
"trapshooters",
"gunmen",
"gunners",
"guns",
"markswomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"examples":[
"drank a shot of whisky"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts",
"drafts",
"drags",
"drinks",
"gulps",
"nips",
"quaffs",
"sips",
"slugs",
"snorts",
"sups",
"swallows",
"swigs",
"swills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drams",
"drops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence":{
"examples":[
"I have no idea what's different about you, but I'll take a shot : you cut your hair?"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"suppositions",
"surmises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hypotheses",
"hypotheticals",
"theories",
"theses",
"dead reckonings",
"guesswork",
"speculations",
"hunches",
"intuitions",
"beliefs",
"faiths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place":{
"examples":[
"we have a real shot at getting into the championship if we win this next match"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"chances",
"occasions",
"openings",
"opportunities",
"room"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plays",
"ways",
"junctures",
"passes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shock jock":{
"as in DJ , disc jockey":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disc jockey",
"disk jockey",
"DJ",
"veejay",
"VJ",
"mistress of ceremonies",
"huckster",
"pitchman",
"announcer",
"emcee",
"host",
"MC",
"anchor",
"anchorman",
"anchorperson",
"anchorwoman",
"newscaster",
"CBer",
"ham",
"radioman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoulders":{
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"agreed to shoulder the burden of caring for their elderly father"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"assumes",
"bears",
"takes over",
"undertakes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes up",
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"espouses",
"stands by",
"supports",
"upholds",
"accedes",
"acquiesces",
"agrees",
"assents",
"consents",
"reaccepts",
"reassumes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjures",
"recants",
"renounces",
"retracts",
"takes back",
"unsays",
"withdraws",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"detours",
"abandons",
"abnegates",
"forsakes",
"gives up",
"relinquishes",
"spurns",
"surrenders",
"backs down",
"backs off",
"backtracks"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"repudiates"
]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"shouldered through the crowd at the bar and ordered a drink"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"bulldozes",
"bulls",
"crashes",
"elbows",
"jams",
"jostles",
"muscles",
"presses",
"pushes",
"squeezes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rams",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaking (off)":{
"as in recovering (from) , rallying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering (from)",
"coming back",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting",
"getting",
"going down (with)",
"sickening (with)",
"taking",
"breaking out (with)",
"dying (from)",
"succumbing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheepdogs":{
"as in wolfhounds , hunters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bandogs",
"bird dogs",
"coonhounds",
"coursers",
"gundogs",
"hunters",
"sled dogs",
"watchdogs",
"wolf dogs",
"wolfhounds",
"lapdogs",
"puppies",
"puppy dogs",
"pups",
"whelps",
"guide dogs",
"police dogs",
"working dogs",
"bitches",
"curs",
"mongrels",
"mutts",
"canines",
"doggies",
"dogs",
"hounds",
"pooches",
"tykes",
"tikes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanghais":{
"as in seizes , captures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"crimps",
"impresses",
"seizes",
"waylays",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"absconds (with)",
"snatches",
"spirits",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"catches",
"cops",
"steals",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivers",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"restores",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in takes in , fools":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"kids",
"snows",
"takes in",
"tricks",
"engineers",
"finagles",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"schemes",
"exploits",
"manipulates",
"plays (upon)",
"arranges",
"contrives",
"devises",
"finesses",
"masterminds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"cons",
"defrauds",
"fleeces",
"hustles",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shunts":{
"as in moves , switches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"deviates",
"moves",
"rechannels",
"shifts",
"sidetracks",
"swerves",
"switches",
"transfers",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"redirects",
"swings",
"turns",
"veers",
"wheels",
"whips",
"swivels",
"twists",
"whirls",
"zigzags",
"bends",
"curves",
"sways",
"reverses",
"turns back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shantytowns":{
"a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"favelas",
"Hoovervilles",
"jungles",
"bivouacs",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"campsites",
"encampments",
"hutments",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"tentages",
"colonies",
"plantations",
"settlements",
"barracks",
"cantonments",
"installations",
"laagers",
"leaguers",
"posts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shopping (around)":{
"as in comparison shopping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comparison shopping",
"arguing",
"bickering",
"clashing",
"fighting",
"hassling",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"quibbling",
"squabbling",
"wrangling",
"bartering",
"exchanging",
"trading",
"bargaining",
"chaffering",
"dealing",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse-trading",
"negotiating",
"paltering",
"hawking",
"peddling",
"buying",
"purchasing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shrill":{
"to cry out loudly and emotionally":{
"examples":[
"the mud-splattered bystanders were shrilling with outrage at the inconsiderate motorist"
],
"synonyms":[
"howl",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeal",
"yell",
"yelp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bay",
"caterwaul",
"keen",
"squawk",
"wail",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"bawl",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"shout",
"thunder",
"vociferate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a high musical pitch or range":{
"examples":[
"the shrill sound of a policeman's whistle"
],
"synonyms":[
"high-pitched",
"piping",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"squeaking",
"squeaky",
"treble",
"whistling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"peeping",
"thin",
"tinny",
"earsplitting",
"nasal",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"strident",
"squealing",
"whining",
"whiny",
"whiney",
"yapping",
"yelping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gruff",
"hoarse",
"husky",
"rough",
"smoky",
"smokey"
],
"antonyms":[
"bass",
"deep",
"grave",
"low",
"throaty"
]
},
"as in scream , shriek":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"yelp",
"ejaculation",
"interjection",
"bawl",
"bellow",
"clamor",
"outcry",
"roar",
"cry",
"holler",
"hoot",
"howl",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yell",
"yowl",
"caterwaul",
"plaint",
"wail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"gasp",
"whimper",
"whisper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheened":{
"as in glowed , shimmered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"fired",
"flamed",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"glowed",
"luminesced",
"shimmered",
"beamed",
"radiated",
"rayed",
"shone",
"shined",
"blinked",
"coruscated",
"flared",
"flashed",
"flickered",
"lustered",
"lustred",
"scintillated",
"spangled",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"winked",
"winkled",
"beat (down)",
"glared",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"lit",
"lighted",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"darkened",
"lowered",
"loured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheening":{
"as in glowing , shimmering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"firing",
"flaming",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"glowing",
"luminescing",
"shimmering",
"beaming",
"radiating",
"raying",
"shining",
"blinking",
"coruscating",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"lustering",
"lustring",
"scintillating",
"spangling",
"sparkling",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"winkling",
"beating (down)",
"glaring",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackening",
"darkening",
"lowering",
"louring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shrouding":{
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted"
],
"synonyms":[
"belying",
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"occulting",
"papering over",
"screening",
"suppressing",
"veiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burying",
"camouflaging",
"covering (up)",
"smothering",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blocking",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"eclipsing",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"shading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bringing out",
"presenting",
"clarifying",
"illuminating",
"advertising",
"airing",
"broadcasting",
"getting out",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"spreading"
],
"antonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"displaying",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blackening",
"blearing",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dislimning",
"fogging",
"fuzzing (up)",
"hazing",
"misting",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overclouding",
"overshadowing",
"shadowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrating",
"blotting out",
"concealing",
"eclipsing",
"hiding",
"obliterating",
"screening",
"shading",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"masking",
"veiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposing",
"revealing",
"uncovering",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"lightening",
"lighting (up)"
]
},
"to surround or cover closely":{
"examples":[
"during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosoming",
"bowering",
"circumfusing",
"cocooning",
"embosoming",
"embowering",
"embracing",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"encompassing",
"enfolding",
"enshrouding",
"enswathing",
"enveloping",
"enwrapping",
"investing",
"involving",
"lapping",
"mantling",
"muffling",
"swathing",
"veiling",
"wrapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curtaining",
"draping",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"encasing",
"swaddling",
"blanketing",
"overlaying",
"overspreading",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"disguising",
"masking",
"circling",
"encircling",
"enlacing",
"enwinding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"exposing",
"stripping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shanghai":{
"as in seize , capture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"crimp",
"impress",
"seize",
"waylay",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"abscond (with)",
"snatch",
"spirit",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"catch",
"cop",
"steal",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliver",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"restore",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in take in , fool":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguile",
"bluff",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick",
"engineer",
"finagle",
"jockey",
"maneuver",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"scheme",
"exploit",
"manipulate",
"play (upon)",
"arrange",
"contrive",
"devise",
"finesse",
"mastermind",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"con",
"defraud",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken a leg":{
"to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music":{
"examples":[
"The DJ played music that was sure to make every party guest get up and shake a leg ."
],
"synonyms":[
"danced",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"stepped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pranced",
"strutted",
"tripped",
"boogied",
"boogeyed",
"bopped",
"fox-trotted",
"gavotted",
"jigged",
"jitterbugged",
"jived",
"mamboed",
"polkaed",
"shagged",
"shimmied",
"shuffled",
"tangoed",
"tap-danced",
"twisted",
"waltzed",
"trodden",
"trod"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"We'd better shake a leg if we want to make the movie!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blown",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"driven",
"flown",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"run",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"torn",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outrun",
"outstripped",
"overtaken",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shindig":{
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"we're hosting a little shindig this weekend for some friends"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"do",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefit",
"fund-raiser",
"ball",
"dance",
"formal",
"prom",
"celebration",
"gala",
"occasion",
"bacchanal",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"saturnalia",
"bake",
"clambake",
"cocktail party",
"hen party",
"house party",
"housewarming",
"icebreaker",
"kaffeeklatsch",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"masquerade",
"meet and greet",
"mixer",
"salon",
"shower",
"social",
"soiree",
"soir\u00e9e",
"stag",
"supper",
"symposium",
"tea",
"tea party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shuddering":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"with a shuddering extension of his hand, the poor beggar asked for a little charity"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"tried to control the shuddering of his hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shivering",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"vibration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"juddering",
"quaking",
"rocking",
"jiggle",
"palpitation",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"tremor",
"twitch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"huddled in the basement, we shuddered with fear as we heard the approaching tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bucketing",
"convulsing",
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"joggling",
"jolting",
"jouncing",
"juddering",
"quaking",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"vibrating",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"chattering",
"quavering",
"shivering",
"thrilling",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"doddering",
"wavering",
"flickering",
"fluctuating",
"fluttering",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"waving",
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shapes (up)":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallizes",
"crystalizes",
"forms",
"jells",
"solidifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"fuses",
"combines",
"conjoins",
"conjugates",
"connects",
"couples",
"joins",
"links (up)",
"unifies",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks down",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amends",
"mends",
"reforms",
"straightens (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaves",
"regenerates",
"betters",
"improves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslides",
"regresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaped up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallized",
"crystalized",
"formed",
"jelled",
"solidified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"fused",
"combined",
"conjoined",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"joined",
"linked (up)",
"unified",
"united"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke down",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amended",
"mended",
"reformed",
"straightened (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaved",
"regenerated",
"bettered",
"improved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslid",
"regressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showed up (for)":{
"as in attended":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew off",
"cut",
"missed",
"skipped",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"passed over",
"absented oneself",
"played hooky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shopping":{
"as in turning in , ratting (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"informing (on)",
"peaching",
"ratting (on)",
"snitching (on)",
"splitting (on)",
"telling (on)",
"turning in",
"giving away",
"backstabbing",
"betraying",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"standing by",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"saving",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shepherds":{
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"shepherding her through the procedure of taking out a loan"
],
"synonyms":[
"coaches",
"counsels",
"guides",
"leads",
"mentors",
"pilots",
"shows",
"tutors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfathers",
"directs",
"engineers",
"steers",
"sways",
"accompanies",
"attends",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"convoys",
"escorts",
"sees",
"squires",
"oversees",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"drills",
"trains",
"briefs",
"enlightens",
"informs",
"instructs",
"schools",
"teaches",
"inculcates",
"indoctrinates",
"cultivates",
"fosters",
"nurtures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pastors , vicars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abb\u00e9s",
"curates",
"cur\u00e9s",
"parsons",
"pastors",
"rectors",
"vicars",
"churchmen",
"clergymen",
"fathers",
"Holy Joes",
"padres",
"clergywomen",
"deaconesses",
"priestesses",
"abbots",
"archbishops",
"archpriests",
"bishops",
"deans",
"diocesans",
"monsignors",
"monsignori",
"popes",
"prelates",
"presbyters",
"chaplains",
"confessors",
"sky pilots",
"evangelists",
"missionaries",
"missioners",
"missionizers",
"revivalists",
"friars",
"mendicants",
"monastics",
"monks",
"oblates",
"religious",
"high priestesses",
"high priests",
"clergypersons",
"clericals",
"clerics",
"clerks",
"deacons",
"divines",
"dominies",
"ecclesiastics",
"ministers",
"preachers",
"priests",
"reverends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay readers",
"lectors",
"laymen",
"laypeople",
"seculars",
"secular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sheepherders , shepherdesses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sheepherders",
"shepherdesses",
"buckaroos",
"buckeroos",
"cowboys",
"cowgirls",
"cowhands",
"cowherds",
"cowmen",
"cowpokes",
"cowpunchers",
"gauchos",
"rancheros",
"vaqueros",
"goatherds",
"herders",
"herdsmen",
"swineherds",
"wranglers",
"drovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheilas":{
"a female person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"examples":[
"two blonde sheilas were splashing in the water at Bondi Beach while their mother looked on"
],
"synonyms":[
"fillies",
"girls",
"lasses",
"lassies",
"misses",
"missies",
"nymphs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bobby-soxers",
"junior misses",
"schoolgirls",
"subdebutantes",
"teenyboppers",
"gamines",
"hoydens",
"pixies",
"romps",
"snips",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shows up":{
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"normally, one doesn't see them, but the actress's wrinkles show up in the close-ups"
],
"synonyms":[
"appears",
"comes out",
"materializes",
"shows",
"turns up",
"unfolds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reappears",
"resurfaces",
"bulks",
"looms",
"arrives",
"comes",
"dawns",
"debuts",
"arises",
"blossoms",
"bobs (up)",
"breaks",
"breaks out",
"crops (up)",
"emerges",
"erupts",
"issues",
"outcrops",
"rises",
"shoots (up)",
"springs (up)",
"surfaces",
"happens",
"occurs",
"reappears",
"rematerializes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departs",
"leaves",
"retires",
"withdraws"
],
"antonyms":[
"clears",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evanesces",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"goes (away)",
"melts (away)",
"vanishes"
]
},
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"the band showed up an hour late"
],
"synonyms":[
"appears",
"arrives",
"comes",
"gets in",
"gets through",
"lands",
"turns up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetches",
"hits",
"makes",
"reaches",
"pulls in",
"touches down",
"debarks",
"disembarks",
"barges (in)",
"blows in",
"breezes (in)",
"bursts (in or into)",
"waltzes (in)",
"checks in",
"clocks (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checks out",
"clocks (out)",
"flees",
"vamooses"
],
"antonyms":[
"goes",
"leaves"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"were shown up for what they really are"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"nails",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"undresses",
"unmasks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolishes",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hides",
"secretes",
"veils"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"disguises",
"masks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shopworn":{
"used or heard so often as to be dull":{
"examples":[
"the shopworn suggestion to job applicants to \"just be yourself\""
],
"synonyms":[
"banal",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"clich\u00e9d",
"cobwebby",
"commonplace",
"hack",
"hackney",
"hackneyed",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"obligatory",
"stale",
"stereotyped",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tired",
"trite",
"well-worn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"twice-told",
"bromidic",
"platitudinal",
"platitudinous",
"canned",
"cardboard",
"conventional",
"cookie-cutter",
"derivative",
"imitative",
"ready-made",
"tried-and-true",
"unimaginative",
"uninspired",
"unoriginal",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"rote",
"routine",
"standard",
"stock",
"typical",
"usual",
"arid",
"barren",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedantic",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"prosaic",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"undramatic",
"uninteresting",
"vapid",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying",
"old-fashioned",
"old hat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"atypical",
"extraordinary",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unheard-of",
"unknown",
"unprecedented",
"unusual",
"pathbreaking",
"pioneering",
"trailblazing"
],
"antonyms":[
"fresh",
"new",
"novel",
"original",
"unclich\u00e9d",
"unhackneyed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shorelines":{
"as in coasts , shores":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coastlands",
"coastlines",
"coasts",
"shores",
"beaches",
"beachfronts",
"sands",
"strands",
"seaboards",
"seacoasts",
"seashores",
"seasides",
"oceanfronts",
"shorefronts",
"waterfronts",
"banks",
"riverbanks",
"riverfronts",
"riversides",
"esplanades",
"littorals",
"lidos",
"plages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shades":{
"a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished":{
"examples":[
"a lovely shade of blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"colors",
"hues",
"tinctures",
"tinges",
"tints",
"tones"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overtones",
"undertones",
"primary colors",
"secondary colors",
"tertiary colors",
"chromas",
"chromaticities",
"contrasts",
"saturations",
"values",
"colorations",
"colorings",
"colorways",
"pigmentations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatisms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"just a shade taller than his dance partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"spirits and shades haunting the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"familiar spirits",
"ghosts",
"hants",
"haunts",
"materializations",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shadows",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"sprites",
"visions",
"visitants",
"wraiths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"daimones",
"daimons",
"familiars",
"genies",
"genii",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"jinn",
"jinns",
"djinn",
"djinns",
"shaitans",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"fetches",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"lamiae",
"lamias",
"succubi",
"vampires",
"zombies",
"cacodemons",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"shadows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"canopies",
"covers",
"protects",
"screens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"exposes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shagged":{
"as in skipped , leaped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounded",
"cantered",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"loped",
"skipped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"dashed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"scampered",
"sprinted",
"tripped",
"trotted",
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"coursed",
"footed (it)",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"hoofed (it)",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"legged (it)",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed",
"nipped",
"pattered",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"stepped (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambled",
"sauntered",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"trudged",
"hobbled",
"limped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shepherded":{
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"shepherding her through the procedure of taking out a loan"
],
"synonyms":[
"coached",
"counseled",
"counselled",
"guided",
"led",
"mentored",
"piloted",
"showed",
"tutored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"godfathered",
"directed",
"engineered",
"steered",
"swayed",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"squired",
"oversaw",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"drilled",
"trained",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"taught",
"inculcated",
"indoctrinated",
"cultivated",
"fostered",
"nurtured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shenanigan":{
"playful, reckless behavior that is not intended to cause serious harm":{
"examples":[
"students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"hob",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"waggery",
"waggishness",
"wickedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diabolicalness",
"misbehavior",
"misconduct",
"naughtiness",
"troublemaking",
"buffoonery",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"chicanery",
"trickery",
"goings-on",
"hanky-panky",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"skylarking",
"tomfoolery",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"antic",
"caper",
"dido",
"practical joke",
"trick",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gravitas",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"an act of vandalism that went way beyond the usual shenanigans at summer camp"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"the street-corner huckster of pirated DVDs had all sorts of shenanigans to keep the cops off of his tail"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"device",
"dodge",
"fetch",
"flimflam",
"gambit",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"juggle",
"knack",
"play",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"scheme",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluff",
"end run",
"feint",
"cheating",
"chicanery",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deception",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"hoax",
"sham",
"swindle",
"blind",
"front",
"smoke screen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shielded":{
"as in secure , protected":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"secure",
"secured",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"tenable",
"bulletproof",
"impregnable",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"untouchable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indefensible",
"untenable",
"vincible",
"vulnerable",
"assailable",
"exposed",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"insecure",
"liable",
"open",
"susceptible",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unsecured",
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"powerless",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarked",
"covered",
"defended",
"fenced",
"fended",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"warded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averted",
"prevented",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"picketed",
"walled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"covered",
"screened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"veiled",
"draped",
"palled",
"canopied",
"capped",
"crowned",
"disguised",
"masked",
"obscured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"uncovered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shoplifts":{
"as in poaches , rustles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poaches",
"rustles",
"picks",
"rifles",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits",
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken (off)":{
"as in recovered (from) , rallied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"come back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caught",
"come down (with)",
"contracted",
"gone down (with)",
"got",
"gotten",
"sickened (with)",
"taken",
"broken out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiv":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"watch yourself in Cell Block 8, or you'll end up with a shiv in your back"
],
"synonyms":[
"blade",
"cutter",
"knife",
"shank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaver",
"hack",
"bayonet",
"bodkin",
"bolo",
"bowie knife",
"cutlass",
"dagger",
"dirk",
"jackknife",
"machete",
"pocketknife",
"poniard",
"sheath knife",
"stiletto",
"stylet",
"switchblade",
"switch knife",
"yataghan",
"rapier",
"saber",
"sabre",
"steel",
"sword",
"scalpel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shamus":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"a hard-bitten L.A. shamus who, when he's not battling crooks, is locking horns with his superiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobby",
"bull",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"police officer",
"policeman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolman",
"policewoman",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"sheriff",
"trooper",
"peace officer",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons":{
"examples":[
"he's a shamus who mostly finds evidence to use in divorce cases"
],
"synonyms":[
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"investigator",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shadow",
"tail",
"tracer",
"tracker",
"fed",
"Federal",
"G-man",
"narc",
"nark",
"plainclothesman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrew":{
"a bad-tempered scolding woman":{
"examples":[
"Rip Van Winkle went off into the mountains to escape his wife, a shrew who made his life miserable"
],
"synonyms":[
"battle-ax",
"battle-axe",
"dragon lady",
"fury",
"harpy",
"harridan",
"termagant",
"virago",
"vixen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fishwife",
"gorgon",
"carper",
"castigator",
"caviler",
"caviller",
"censurer",
"critic",
"faultfinder",
"nitpicker",
"railer",
"scold",
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"pettifogger",
"quibbler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirking":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shaking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"shunning",
"weaseling (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgetting",
"neglecting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slacking (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying out",
"doing",
"executing",
"performing",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"keeping up",
"maintaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"attending (to)",
"remembering"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurking",
"mooching",
"mousing",
"pussyfooting",
"skulking",
"sliding",
"slinking",
"slipping",
"snaking",
"sneaking",
"stealing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"edging",
"inching",
"worming",
"ghosting",
"padding",
"tiptoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shut-ins":{
"as in homebodies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"homebodies",
"anchorites",
"eremites",
"hermits",
"isolates",
"recluses",
"solitaries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"socialites",
"socializers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in valleys , vales":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combes",
"coombes",
"coombs",
"dales",
"dells",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"canyons",
"cols",
"couloirs",
"defiles",
"flumes",
"gaps",
"gills",
"gorges",
"gulches",
"gulfs",
"kloofs",
"linns",
"notches",
"passes",
"ravines",
"saddles",
"abysses",
"chasms",
"cirques",
"clefts",
"crevasses",
"crevices",
"cwms",
"fissures",
"basins",
"floodplains",
"kettles",
"potholes",
"arroyos",
"barrancas",
"barrancos",
"coulees",
"draws",
"gullies",
"gulleys",
"gutters",
"nullahs",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"wadis",
"washes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrine":{
"a place that is considered sacred (as within a religion)":{
"examples":[
"for centuries pilgrims have traveled to the shrine of Saint Thomas \u00e0 Becket in Canterbury, England"
],
"synonyms":[
"sanctuary",
"sanctum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reliquary",
"martyry"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shock":{
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"examples":[
"the whole railway platform shook from the shock of the two trains colliding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bump",
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of being strongly impressed by something unexpected or unusual":{
"examples":[
"were in shock after they heard the news of the death of the president"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazement",
"astonishment",
"startlement",
"stupefaction",
"surprise",
"surprize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment",
"startle",
"bewilderment",
"confusion",
"consternation",
"discomfiture",
"dismay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"Mom was shocked by the terrible news that her cousin had died in an accident",
"I was shocked to find out that I was the victim of identity theft"
],
"synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shake up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonish",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"freak (out)",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"dismay",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize",
"disgust",
"nauseate",
"repel",
"revolt",
"sicken",
"turn off",
"displease",
"offend",
"outrage",
"scandalize",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"shake",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out",
"crush",
"overpower",
"overwhelm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffer",
"cushion",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"rejoice",
"tickle",
"charm",
"entice",
"tempt",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"reassure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"were shocked by the way the law against public intoxication was constantly being broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"startle",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"thunderstrike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddle",
"bewilder",
"blindside",
"blow away",
"confound",
"confuse",
"daze",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"dismay",
"jar",
"muddle",
"nonplus",
"perplex",
"shake up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"the sudden appearance of the ghost shocked us to the core"
],
"synonyms":[
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"bowl over",
"dismay",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shake",
"shake up",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"psych (out)",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"steel"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassure"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shunning":{
"the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable":{
"examples":[
"this shunning of your financial responsibilities cannot continue indefinitely"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoidance",
"cop-out",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"elusion",
"escape",
"eschewal",
"eschewing",
"evasion",
"out",
"shaking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypassing",
"circumvention",
"runaround",
"sidestepping",
"skirting",
"averting",
"deflection",
"obviation",
"precluding",
"prevention"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abidance",
"endurance",
"submission",
"toleration"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"just a ruse to shun the debt collectors"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"weaseling (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shillelaghs":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shadowy":{
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"examples":[
"the shadowy area between tough interrogation and torture"
],
"synonyms":[
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
]
},
"protected from the sun's rays":{
"examples":[
"a shadowy lane that is a mosaic of colors during the autumn foliage season"
],
"synonyms":[
"shaded",
"shadowed",
"shady",
"umbrageous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"inky",
"moonless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"penumbral",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"exposed",
"shadeless",
"sunny"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shoving (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"time to shove off for home"
],
"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",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"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"
]
},
"shock jocks":{
"as in DJs , disc jockeys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disc jockeys",
"disk jockeys",
"DJs",
"veejays",
"VJs",
"mistresses of ceremonies",
"hucksters",
"pitchmen",
"announcers",
"emcees",
"hosts",
"MCs",
"anchormen",
"anchorpeople",
"anchors",
"anchorwomen",
"newscasters",
"CBers",
"hams",
"radiomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shut-eye":{
"a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself":{
"examples":[
"I can usually get some extra shut-eye on the weekends"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"resting",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"drowse",
"forty winks",
"nap",
"siesta",
"snooze",
"wink",
"oversleeping",
"dreaming",
"rapid eye movement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insomnia",
"sleeplessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"consciousness",
"wake",
"wakefulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shindies":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the prime minister created a brief shindy with his unexpected appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrivelling":{
"as in waning , withering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ebbing",
"fading",
"waning",
"wilting",
"withering",
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"decline",
"declining",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dying",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"expiring",
"expiry",
"perishing",
"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"development",
"growth",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"mellowing",
"softening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become small and wrinkly usually as a result of dehydration":{
"examples":[
"Without irrigation, these plants would shrivel (up) and die."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wilting",
"withering",
"drying up",
"mummifying",
"wizening",
"dehumidifying",
"draining",
"evaporating",
"air-drying",
"baking",
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing",
"collapsing",
"deflating",
"flattening",
"abating",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"declining",
"fading",
"waning",
"receding",
"retreating",
"withdrawing",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshening",
"reviving",
"blooming",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"accumulating",
"growing",
"increasing",
"ballooning",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"expanding",
"snowballing",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shipyards":{
"as in marinas , dockyards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dockyards",
"marinas",
"quayages",
"wharfages",
"embarcaderos",
"berths",
"moorings",
"slips",
"docks",
"floats",
"jetties",
"landings",
"levees",
"piers",
"quais",
"quays",
"wharves",
"wharfs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shies":{
"as in starts , flinches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blenches",
"flinches",
"quails",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"starts",
"winces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddles",
"nestles",
"nuzzles",
"snoozles",
"snuggles",
"curls up",
"crouches",
"huddles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirker":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"even before we weighed anchor, the captain forcefully served notice that there would be no shirkers on his ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"slacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerer",
"dropout",
"quitter",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrugs off":{
"to dismiss as of little importance":{
"examples":[
"an administration that was willing to shrug off the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks (at)",
"brushes (aside or off)",
"condones",
"discounts",
"disregards",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"glosses (over)",
"glozes (over)",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"papers over",
"pardons",
"passes over",
"remits",
"whitewashes",
"winks (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explains",
"justifies",
"rationalizes",
"absolves",
"acquits",
"clears",
"exculpates",
"exonerates",
"vindicates",
"waives",
"waves (aside or off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeds",
"marks",
"minds",
"notes",
"objects (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"she shrugged off her coat and hung it up neatly"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffs",
"douses",
"peels (off)",
"puts off",
"removes",
"takes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husks",
"sheds",
"kicks (off)",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"undresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wears",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"clothes",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"rigs",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dons",
"puts on",
"slips (into)",
"throws (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoves (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"time to shove off for home"
],
"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",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"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"
]
},
"shakeouts":{
"as in shake-ups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shake-ups",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"pink slips",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoveling":{
"to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth":{
"examples":[
"the troops quickly shoveled a trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"digging",
"excavating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dredging",
"burrowing",
"clawing",
"grubbing",
"digging in",
"scooping",
"spading",
"delving",
"mining",
"quarrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling (in)",
"smoothing (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shooting at":{
"to make an effort to do":{
"examples":[
"Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival."
],
"synonyms":[
"assaying",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"essaying",
"seeking",
"striving",
"trying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fighting",
"straining",
"struggling",
"toiling",
"troubling",
"working",
"aiming",
"aspiring",
"hoping",
"assuming",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dropping",
"giving up",
"quitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shelters":{
"something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger":{
"examples":[
"the sudden fierce storm forced us to run to the nearest shelter"
],
"synonyms":[
"asylums",
"bolt-holes",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"havens",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"sanctuaries",
"sanctums",
"sancta"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oases",
"anchorages",
"moorings",
"ports",
"covers",
"screens",
"abodes",
"diggings",
"domiciles",
"dwellings",
"habitations",
"houses",
"housings",
"lodgings",
"lodgments",
"lodgements",
"pads",
"places",
"quarters",
"residences",
"rests",
"roofs",
"cloisters",
"closets",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"lairs",
"castles",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"redoubts",
"strongholds",
"lean-tos",
"lees",
"sheds",
"windbreaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be or provide a shelter for":{
"examples":[
"the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"harbors",
"refuges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards",
"domiciles",
"houses",
"places",
"quarters",
"shades",
"shadows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"rooms",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shake out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"fall out",
"pan out",
"prove",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"emerge",
"evolve",
"germinate",
"play out",
"unfold",
"work out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shake-up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shake-up",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"short-circuiting":{
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"for decades the maverick filmmaker was short-circuited by a chronic lack of funds"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogging",
"cramping",
"embarrassing",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"handicapping",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"shackling",
"stymieing",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"reining",
"restraining",
"binding",
"chaining",
"haltering",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"tying",
"tieing",
"arresting",
"braking",
"delaying",
"retaining",
"retarding",
"barricading",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"roadblocking",
"bogging (down)",
"miring",
"choking",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suffocating",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"stumping",
"thwarting",
"derailing",
"disrupting",
"sabotaging",
"muzzling",
"repressing",
"suppressing",
"confining",
"hedging (in)",
"hemming (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"making way",
"opening",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"loosening",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"furthering",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[
"aiding",
"assisting",
"facilitating",
"helping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaking":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"suffered a shaking chill during his bout with the flu"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"gave the bottle of salad dressing a good shaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"quivering",
"shivering",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"vibration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"juddering",
"quaking",
"rocking",
"jiggle",
"palpitation",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"tremor",
"twitch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable":{
"examples":[
"condemned the government's shaking of its overseas responsibilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoidance",
"cop-out",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"elusion",
"escape",
"eschewal",
"eschewing",
"evasion",
"out",
"shunning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypassing",
"circumvention",
"runaround",
"sidestepping",
"skirting",
"averting",
"deflection",
"obviation",
"precluding",
"prevention"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abidance",
"endurance",
"submission",
"toleration"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bucketing",
"convulsing",
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"joggling",
"jolting",
"jouncing",
"juddering",
"quaking",
"quivering",
"shuddering",
"vibrating",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"chattering",
"quavering",
"shivering",
"thrilling",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"doddering",
"wavering",
"flickering",
"fluctuating",
"fluttering",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"waving",
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shirking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"shunning",
"weaseling (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shared":{
"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
"examples":[
"shared resources"
],
"synonyms":[
"collaborative",
"collective",
"combined",
"common",
"communal",
"concerted",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bilateral",
"consensual",
"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"personal",
"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
],
"antonyms":[
"exclusive",
"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
]
},
"to take a share or part":{
"examples":[
"everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits"
],
"synonyms":[
"participated",
"partook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endured",
"experienced",
"felt",
"knew",
"saw",
"tasted",
"underwent",
"encountered",
"met",
"accepted",
"received"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shoving":{
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"I had to keep shoving my heavy suitcase as I slowly made my way to the head of the line"
],
"synonyms":[
"driving",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"thrusting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impelling",
"moving",
"bearing (down)",
"compressing",
"depressing",
"jamming",
"pressuring",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"weighing (upon)",
"bulldozing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"leaning (on or against)",
"muscling",
"ramming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[
"quit shoving your hand in my face"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing (down on)",
"depressing",
"pressing",
"weighing (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"mashing",
"punching",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"squishing",
"squooshing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"pressuring",
"leaning (on or against)",
"muscling",
"driving",
"propelling",
"thrusting",
"compacting",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"crushing",
"scrunching",
"wringing",
"cramming",
"jamming",
"jam-packing",
"packing",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shucking":{
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"shucking peas"
],
"synonyms":[
"barking",
"flaying",
"hulling",
"husking",
"peeling",
"shelling",
"skinning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"exposing",
"scaling",
"stripping",
"paring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showiness":{
"excessive or unnecessary display":{
"examples":[
"we were somewhat put off by the saber-rattling showiness of the military parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"flamboyance",
"flash",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"swank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pretense",
"pretence",
"\u00e9clat",
"extravaganza",
"mummery",
"pageant",
"parade",
"show",
"dazzle",
"fanfare",
"foofaraw",
"pageantry",
"pomp",
"razzle-dazzle",
"razzmatazz",
"spectacle",
"adornment",
"decoration",
"dressing",
"embellishment",
"garnishment",
"ornamentation",
"trimming",
"extravagance",
"fanciness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"magnificence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"sumptuousness",
"luridness",
"meretriciousness",
"tawdriness",
"vulgarity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservativeness",
"moderation",
"modesty",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"understatement",
"elegance",
"gracefulness",
"tastefulness",
"minimalism"
],
"antonyms":[
"austerity",
"plainness",
"severity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shortly":{
"in a few words":{
"examples":[
"the sudden closing of the restaurant was announced only with a shortly worded sign: \"Out of Business\""
],
"synonyms":[
"briefly",
"compactly",
"concisely",
"crisply",
"curtly",
"elliptically",
"laconically",
"pithily",
"succinctly",
"summarily",
"tersely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aphoristically",
"sententiously",
"exactly",
"precisely",
"abruptly",
"bluffly",
"bluntly",
"brusquely",
"monosyllabically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"redundantly",
"repetitiously"
],
"antonyms":[
"diffusely",
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily"
]
},
"at or within a short time":{
"examples":[
"the meeting will begin shortly , so don't go too far away to find a bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"anon",
"before long",
"by and by",
"directly",
"momentarily",
"presently",
"soon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forthwith",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instantly",
"now",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"right away",
"right now",
"right off",
"straightaway",
"straightway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shaken down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaten",
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"done",
"done in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shift":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"budge",
"dislocate",
"displace",
"disturb",
"move",
"relocate",
"remove",
"reposition",
"transfer",
"transpose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bear",
"carry",
"cart",
"convey",
"drive",
"haul",
"lug",
"tote",
"transmit",
"transplant",
"transport",
"replace",
"supersede",
"supplant",
"alter",
"make over",
"modify",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchor",
"fix",
"freeze",
"moor",
"secure",
"set",
"stabilize",
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"budge",
"locomote",
"move",
"stir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle",
"fidget",
"jiggle",
"squiggle",
"squirm",
"toss",
"twitch",
"wiggle",
"wriggle",
"writhe",
"rouse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hang around",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"stabilize"
],
"antonyms":[
"freeze",
"still"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"fluctuate",
"mutate",
"snap",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphose",
"morph",
"transmute",
"better",
"improve",
"deteriorate",
"worsen",
"turn around",
"seesaw",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateau",
"stabilize"
]
},
"to give up (something) and take something else in return":{
"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"commute",
"exchange",
"substitute",
"swap",
"switch",
"trade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interchange",
"displace",
"replace",
"supersede",
"cede",
"hand over",
"surrender",
"yield",
"reciprocate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
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"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
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},
"an action planned or taken to achieve a desired result":{
"examples":[
"desperate shifts to stave off financial disaster"
],
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"expedient",
"means",
"measure",
"move",
"step"
],
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"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"thing",
"course",
"procedure",
"proceeding",
"process",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"coup",
"exploit",
"success",
"triumph",
"activity",
"affair",
"business",
"dealing",
"enterprise",
"event",
"attempt",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"initiative",
"operation",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"undertaking",
"whack",
"effort",
"exertion",
"labor",
"pains",
"trouble",
"while",
"work",
"project",
"proposal",
"proposition",
"makeshift",
"resort",
"resource",
"stopgap",
"countermeasure",
"countermove",
"counterstep"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"made a small shift to the left to make more room on the bench"
],
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"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motivity",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"motionlessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheepherder":{
"as in shepherd , shepherdess":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherd",
"shepherdess",
"buckaroo",
"buckeroo",
"cowboy",
"cowgirl",
"cowhand",
"cowherd",
"cowman",
"cowpoke",
"cowpuncher",
"gaucho",
"ranchero",
"vaquero",
"goatherd",
"herder",
"herdsman",
"swineherd",
"wrangler",
"drover"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shark":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"a card shark"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"a shark at calculus"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"mistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
]
},
"a person who habitually preys upon others":{
"examples":[
"being a new arrival in Hollywood, she was easy prey for the sharks in the movie business"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsucker",
"buzzard",
"harpy",
"kite",
"predator",
"vampire",
"vulture",
"wolf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exploiter",
"user",
"leech",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"destroyer",
"devourer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"prey"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shackled":{
"as in tied , anchored":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchored",
"bolted",
"fastened",
"fettered",
"manacled",
"tied",
"caged",
"chained",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"immured",
"imprisoned",
"leashed",
"penned",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"caught",
"bound",
"confined",
"restrained",
"unfree"
],
"near antonyms":[
"footloose",
"free",
"loose",
"unbound",
"unconfined",
"unrestrained",
"escaped",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered",
"unleashed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"chained",
"enchained",
"enfettered",
"fettered",
"gyved",
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"pinioned",
"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"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogged",
"cramped",
"embarrassed",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"held up",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"short-circuited",
"stymied",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"reined",
"restrained",
"bound",
"chained",
"haltered",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"tied",
"arrested",
"braked",
"delayed",
"retained",
"retarded",
"barricaded",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"roadblocked",
"bogged (down)",
"mired",
"choked",
"smothered",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suffocated",
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"stumped",
"thwarted",
"derailed",
"disrupted",
"sabotaged",
"muzzled",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"confined",
"hedged (in)",
"hemmed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared",
"made way",
"opened",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"untied",
"loosened",
"smoothed",
"encouraged",
"furthered",
"promoted"
],
"antonyms":[
"aided",
"assisted",
"facilitated",
"helped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sharpening":{
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"you need to sharpen your penknife's blade frequently in order to be able to whittle properly"
],
"synonyms":[
"edging",
"grinding",
"honing",
"stoning",
"stropping",
"whetting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffing",
"burnishing",
"glossing",
"polishing",
"rounding",
"smoothing"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunting",
"dulling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shop (around)":{
"as in comparison shop":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comparison shop",
"argue",
"bicker",
"clash",
"fight",
"hassle",
"quarrel",
"quibble",
"squabble",
"wrangle",
"barter",
"exchange",
"trade",
"bargain",
"chaffer",
"deal",
"dicker",
"haggle",
"horse-trade",
"negotiate",
"palter",
"hawk",
"peddle",
"buy",
"purchase"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakes out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"comes out",
"falls out",
"pans out",
"proves",
"turns out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develops",
"emerges",
"evolves",
"germinates",
"plays out",
"unfolds",
"works out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shushes":{
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"shushed the crying baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbs",
"extinguishes",
"hushes",
"mutes",
"quells",
"quietens",
"quiets",
"settles",
"shuts up",
"silences",
"squelches",
"stills"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shellacking":{
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"lump",
"overthrow",
"plastering",
"rout",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"setback",
"upset",
"lurch",
"shutout",
"washout",
"whitewash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"blowout",
"cakewalk",
"landslide",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover"
],
"antonyms":[
"success",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"the local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shuck (off)":{
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"bad habits are hard to shuck off"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashier",
"cast (off)",
"chuck",
"deep-six",
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"eighty-six",
"86",
"exorcise",
"exorcize",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"lay by",
"lose",
"pitch",
"reject",
"scrap",
"shed",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shut":{
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
"examples":[
"please shut the door when you leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"make",
"steek"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bar",
"batten (down)",
"bolt",
"chain",
"fasten",
"latch",
"lock",
"plug",
"seal",
"stopper",
"secure",
"bang",
"clap",
"slam"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbar",
"unbolt",
"unchain",
"unfasten",
"unlatch",
"unlock",
"unseal"
],
"antonyms":[
"open"
]
},
"to stop the operations of":{
"examples":[
"shut both stores for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close (down)",
"close out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"phase out",
"turn off",
"extinguish",
"quell",
"suppress",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence",
"fail",
"fold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"build",
"expand"
],
"antonyms":[
"open",
"start"
]
},
"as in closed , blocked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blocked",
"clogged",
"closed",
"jammed",
"obstructed",
"plugged",
"stopped",
"stuffed",
"uncleared",
"impassable",
"impassible",
"constricted",
"cramped",
"encumbered",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"interfered (with)",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"barricaded",
"blockaded",
"dammed",
"gated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"cleared",
"free",
"open",
"unclogged",
"unclosed",
"unobstructed",
"unstopped",
"enterable",
"navigable",
"passable",
"emptied",
"empty",
"unoccupied",
"vacant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shut up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dry up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"pipe down",
"quiet (down)"
],
"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"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"nothing I said would shut them up"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumb",
"extinguish",
"hush",
"mute",
"quell",
"quiet",
"quieten",
"settle",
"shush",
"silence",
"squelch",
"still"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitate",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shorefronts":{
"as in waterfronts , oceanfronts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"oceanfronts",
"waterfronts",
"beaches",
"beachfronts",
"sands",
"strands",
"seaboards",
"seacoasts",
"seashores",
"seasides",
"coastlands",
"coastlines",
"coasts",
"shorelines",
"shores",
"banks",
"riverbanks",
"riverfronts",
"riversides",
"esplanades",
"littorals",
"lidos",
"plages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shook out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"came out",
"fell out",
"panned out",
"proved",
"turned out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"emerged",
"evolved",
"germinated",
"played out",
"unfolded",
"worked out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shattering":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"demolishing",
"exploding",
"popping",
"smashing"
],
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"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"crashing",
"smashing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busting",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"annihilating",
"bashing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"nuking",
"pulverizing",
"ruining",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking",
"shivering",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crunching",
"crushing",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shorthand":{
"as in stenography , steno":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"phonography",
"steno",
"stenography",
"lettering",
"calligraphy",
"handwriting",
"longhand",
"manuscript",
"penmanship",
"script"
],
"near antonyms":[
"print",
"type",
"typewriting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shakoes":{
"as in kepis , berets":{
"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",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"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"
]
},
"shuck(s)":{
"something of little importance":{
"examples":[
"it doesn't matter shucks to her what anyone else earns"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelle",
"child's play",
"frippery",
"nonproblem",
"nothing",
"picayune",
"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":[]
},
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"shucking peas"
],
"synonyms":[
"barks",
"flays",
"hulls",
"husks",
"peels",
"shells",
"skins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bares",
"denudes",
"exposes",
"scales",
"strips",
"pares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shako":{
"as in kepi , beret":{
"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",
"picture hat",
"pillbox",
"plug hat",
"porkpie hat",
"service cap",
"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"
]
},
"shoppes":{
"an establishment where goods are sold to consumers":{
"examples":[
"the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state"
],
"synonyms":[
"bazaars",
"emporiums",
"emporia",
"stores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marketplaces",
"markets",
"outlets",
"showrooms",
"boutiques",
"chain stores",
"department stores",
"dime stores",
"exchanges",
"five-and-tens",
"five-and-dimes",
"marts",
"mini-marts",
"thrift shops",
"variety stores",
"big boxes",
"supercenters",
"superstores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods":{
"examples":[
"a machine shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"factories",
"manufactories",
"mills",
"plants",
"works",
"workshops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweatshops",
"ateliers",
"studios",
"workplaces",
"workrooms",
"yards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"slanguages",
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in turns in , rats (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"informs (on)",
"peaches",
"rats (on)",
"snitches (on)",
"splits (on)",
"tells (on)",
"turns in",
"gives away",
"backstabs",
"betrays",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stands by",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"saves",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shoo-ins":{
"one that is certain to succeed":{
"examples":[
"a shoo-in for the position of secretary of state"
],
"synonyms":[
"cinches",
"locks",
"slam dunks",
"sure things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"certainties",
"inevitabilities",
"eventualities",
"foregone conclusions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark horses",
"long shots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoo-in":{
"one that is certain to succeed":{
"examples":[
"a shoo-in for the position of secretary of state"
],
"synonyms":[
"cinch",
"lock",
"slam dunk",
"sure thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"certainty",
"inevitability",
"eventuality",
"foregone conclusion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark horse",
"long shot"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shake-ups":{
"as in shakeouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shakeouts",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"pink slips",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shanghaiing":{
"as in seizure , impressment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impressment",
"seizure",
"abduction",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"rape",
"snatch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in seizing , capturing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"crimping",
"impressing",
"seizing",
"waylaying",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"absconding (with)",
"snatching",
"spiriting",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"catching",
"copping",
"stealing",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivering",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"restoring",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in taking in , fooling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"kidding",
"snowing",
"taking in",
"tricking",
"engineering",
"finagling",
"jockeying",
"maneuvering",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"exploiting",
"manipulating",
"playing (upon)",
"arranging",
"contriving",
"devising",
"finessing",
"masterminding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"conning",
"defrauding",
"fleecing",
"hustling",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shindigs":{
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"we're hosting a little shindig this weekend for some friends"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"bashes",
"binges",
"blasts",
"blowouts",
"dos",
"do's",
"events",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"functions",
"get-togethers",
"parties",
"receptions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefits",
"fund-raisers",
"balls",
"dances",
"formals",
"proms",
"celebrations",
"galas",
"occasions",
"bacchanalia",
"bacchanals",
"orgies",
"saturnalias",
"bakes",
"clambakes",
"cocktail parties",
"hen parties",
"house parties",
"housewarmings",
"icebreakers",
"kaffeeklatsches",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"masquerades",
"meet and greets",
"mixers",
"salons",
"showers",
"socials",
"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"stags",
"suppers",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"tea parties",
"teas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shot (up)":{
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"gas prices shot up seemingly overnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"soared",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed",
"crested",
"peaked",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"fell",
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dropped",
"lessened",
"waned"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"plunged",
"slumped",
"tumbled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shushing":{
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"shushed the crying baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbing",
"extinguishing",
"hushing",
"muting",
"quelling",
"quietening",
"quieting",
"settling",
"shutting up",
"silencing",
"squelching",
"stilling"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharp":{
"having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
"examples":[
"be careful, as that knife is sharp enough to slice off a finger"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
]
},
"having a powerfully stimulating odor or flavor":{
"examples":[
"that cheese is so sharp that its rank aroma can practically clear a room"
],
"synonyms":[
"nippy",
"pungent",
"strong",
"tangy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acid",
"acidic",
"acrid",
"bitter",
"harsh",
"gingery",
"hot",
"peppery",
"piquant",
"spicy",
"tart",
"zesty",
"zingy",
"putrid",
"rancid",
"rank",
"skunky",
"acute",
"keen",
"animating",
"energizing",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"provocative",
"appetizing",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"palatable",
"toothsome",
"flavorful",
"savory",
"savoury",
"tasty",
"aromatic",
"redolent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"mellow",
"ripe",
"gentle",
"soft",
"flat",
"flavorless",
"insipid",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"zestless",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"bland",
"mild",
"smooth"
]
},
"tapering to a thin tip":{
"examples":[
"tipped with a sharp arrowhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"peaked",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spired",
"tipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"needlelike",
"spiny",
"barbed",
"jagged",
"pronged",
"spiked",
"spikelike",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"bladelike",
"knifelike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dull",
"rounded"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt"
]
},
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"examples":[
"wore a sharp suit to his first big job interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
]
},
"being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance":{
"examples":[
"a television personality who's known as a sharp dresser"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapper",
"natty",
"smart",
"snappy",
"spruce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dolled up",
"dressy",
"elegant",
"formal",
"spiffed-up",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"stylish",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean"
],
"near antonyms":[
"messy",
"mussed",
"rumpled",
"uncombed",
"untidy",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grubby",
"nasty",
"scroungy",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"scuzzy",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"dowdy",
"inelegant",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt"
]
},
"causing intense discomfort to one's skin":{
"examples":[
"I got chapped lips from sailing all day in that sharp wind"
],
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"raw",
"shrewd",
"smarting",
"stinging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"invigorating",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"needlelike",
"prickly",
"tingling",
"caustic",
"corrosive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soothing"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"sharp business practices that are being investigated by the state's consumer protection agency"
],
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"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment":{
"examples":[
"a sharp customer who wasn't about to be taken in by that smooth-tongued salesman"
],
"synonyms":[
"astute",
"canny",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"hard-boiled",
"hardheaded",
"heady",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sharp-witted",
"shrewd",
"smart"
],
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"artful",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"pawky",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise",
"experienced",
"veteran",
"discriminating",
"discriminative",
"agile",
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp-eyed",
"sharp-sighted",
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"calculating",
"scheming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"unperceptive",
"unwise",
"dense",
"dull",
"obtuse",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"dim-witted",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dumb",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unintelligent",
"weak-minded",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"ignorant",
"uninformed"
],
"antonyms":[
"unknowing"
]
},
"having or showing quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"any sharp student would have noticed the error immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"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",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"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",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"an unnecessarily sharp retort to a perfectly civil question"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"you have sharp eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"delicate",
"fine",
"keen",
"perceptive",
"quick",
"sensitive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accurate",
"clear",
"discerning",
"good",
"piercing",
"precise",
"receptive",
"sensible",
"subtle",
"hair-trigger",
"hyperacute",
"hypersensitive",
"oversensitive",
"supersensitive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"deadened",
"dimmed",
"dull",
"dulled",
"fading",
"dead",
"imperceptive",
"insensible",
"insensitive",
"numb",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"uncomfortably cool":{
"examples":[
"a spell of unusually sharp weather for this time of year"
],
"synonyms":[
"bitter",
"bleak",
"chill",
"chilling",
"chilly",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"raw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bracing",
"brisk",
"crisp",
"invigorating",
"rigorous",
"snappy",
"arctic",
"cold",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"numbing",
"polar",
"shivery",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"frore",
"frosted",
"frozen",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"unheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"warm",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"heated",
"warmed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as stated or indicated without the slightest difference":{
"examples":[
"be there at four o'clock sharp"
],
"synonyms":[
"due",
"exactly",
"full",
"just",
"precisely",
"right",
"smack-dab",
"squarely"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"the computer sharp that the rest of the staff turns to whenever their PCs act up"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"mistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
]
},
"as in hum , croon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belt",
"croon",
"harmonize",
"hum",
"lilt",
"quaver",
"scat",
"slur",
"trill",
"troll",
"warble",
"yodel",
"carol",
"chant",
"descant",
"sing",
"vocalize",
"serenade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"show business":{
"as in nightlife":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nightlife",
"amusement",
"distraction",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"joy",
"mirth",
"gratification",
"relaxation",
"relief",
"satisfaction",
"exhibition",
"performance",
"presentation",
"presentment",
"production",
"show",
"spectacle",
"escapism"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in showbiz":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"showbiz",
"Bollywood",
"Hollywood",
"big screen",
"cinema",
"film",
"filmdom",
"filmland",
"filmmaking",
"movie",
"moviemaking",
"pictures",
"screen",
"silver screen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrieked":{
"to cry out loudly and emotionally":{
"examples":[
"the children shrieked with excitement"
],
"synonyms":[
"howled",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrilled",
"squalled",
"squealed",
"yelled",
"yelped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bayed",
"caterwauled",
"keened",
"squawked",
"wailed",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled",
"bawled",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"shouted",
"thundered",
"vociferated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shul":{
"as in synagogue , mosque":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mosque",
"pagoda",
"synagogue",
"synagog",
"church",
"kirk",
"tabernacle",
"temple",
"abbey",
"bethel",
"cathedral",
"chapel",
"minster",
"mission",
"oratory",
"sanctuary",
"shrine",
"meetinghouse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shocking":{
"causing a strong emotional reaction because of unexpectedness":{
"examples":[
"we all clustered around to hear the shocking news of our colleague's sudden death"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"blindsiding",
"dumbfounding",
"dumfounding",
"eye-opening",
"flabbergasting",
"jarring",
"jaw-dropping",
"jolting",
"startling",
"stunning",
"stupefying",
"surprising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unannounced",
"unanticipated",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"awesome",
"awful",
"breathtaking",
"fabulous",
"heart-stopping",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"extraordinary",
"phenomenal",
"rare",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"befuddling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"dismaying",
"flustering",
"muddling",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"perplexing",
"upsetting",
"incomprehensible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unlikely",
"unthinkable",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"remarkable",
"impressive",
"striking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"common",
"customary",
"mundane",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual"
],
"antonyms":[
"unsurprising"
]
},
"causing fear":{
"examples":[
"the shocking appearance of a shark just a few yards off shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarming",
"dire",
"direful",
"dread",
"dreadful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"spine-chilling",
"terrible",
"terrifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"disconcerting",
"discouraging",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"startling",
"threatening",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unnerving",
"bone-chilling",
"creepy",
"eerie",
"eery",
"weird",
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"inviting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"relaxing",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"nonintimidating",
"nonthreatening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment":{
"examples":[
"the shocking behavior of some rowdies at the dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"dreadful",
"evil",
"foul",
"fulsome",
"gross",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"noxious",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"odious",
"offensive",
"rancid",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"scandalous",
"sickening",
"ugly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"brackish",
"disagreeable",
"dislikable",
"dislikeable",
"unpleasant",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"hard",
"hateful",
"unhealthy",
"unsavory",
"unwholesome",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"atrocious",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grim",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"heinous",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish",
"sick",
"sickish",
"sickly",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"off-putting",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"barbarous",
"unchristian",
"uncivilized",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"agreeable",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"desirable",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"inviting",
"likable",
"likeable",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"welcome",
"unexceptionable",
"unobjectionable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
]
},
"extremely disturbing or repellent":{
"examples":[
"a soldier who had witnessed the shocking sight of his best friend being killed"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"dreadful",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmare",
"nightmarish",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarming",
"bloodcurdling",
"dire",
"direful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"gut-wrenching",
"hair-raising",
"heart-stopping",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"terrifying",
"abhorrent",
"deplorable",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"abominable",
"evil",
"foul",
"heinous",
"noxious",
"odious",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"grotesque",
"ugly",
"unsightly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"enticing",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"Mom was shocked by the terrible news that her cousin had died in an accident",
"I was shocked to find out that I was the victim of identity theft"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalling",
"flooring",
"jolting",
"shaking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonishing",
"bowling over",
"dumbfounding",
"dumfounding",
"flabbergasting",
"freaking (out)",
"stunning",
"stupefying",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"dismaying",
"frightening",
"frighting",
"horrifying",
"panicking",
"scarifying",
"scaring",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"terrorizing",
"disgusting",
"nauseating",
"repelling",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"turning off",
"displeasing",
"offending",
"outraging",
"scandalizing",
"amazing",
"astounding",
"awing",
"chilling",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"dispiriting",
"emasculating",
"undoing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"unstringing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"shaking",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out",
"crushing",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffering",
"cushioning",
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"rejoicing",
"tickling",
"charming",
"enticing",
"tempting",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"reassuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"were shocked by the way the law against public intoxication was constantly being broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"bowling over",
"dumbfounding",
"dumfounding",
"flabbergasting",
"flooring",
"rocking",
"startling",
"stunning",
"stupefying",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"thunderstriking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddling",
"bewildering",
"blindsiding",
"blowing away",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"dazing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"dismaying",
"jarring",
"muddling",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"perplexing",
"shaking up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"the sudden appearance of the ghost shocked us to the core"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"frighting",
"horrifying",
"panicking",
"scarifying",
"scaring",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"terrorizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalling",
"bowling over",
"dismaying",
"flooring",
"jolting",
"shaking",
"shaking up",
"amazing",
"astounding",
"awing",
"chilling",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"dispiriting",
"emasculating",
"psyching (out)",
"undoing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"unstringing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
"steeling"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassuring"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shackle(s)":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"chains",
"enchains",
"enfetters",
"fetters",
"gyves",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"pinions",
"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"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shopped (for)":{
"to go in search of":{
"examples":[
"engineers are still shopping around for solutions to several critical flaws in the aircraft's design"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast about (for)",
"cast around (for)",
"chased (down)",
"foraged (for)",
"hunted",
"looked up",
"pursued",
"quested",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ferreted (out)",
"rooted (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hid",
"lost",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaping up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallizing",
"crystalizing",
"forming",
"jelling",
"solidifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associating",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"fusing",
"combining",
"conjoining",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"joining",
"linking (up)",
"unifying",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking down",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amending",
"mending",
"reforming",
"straightening (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaving",
"regenerating",
"bettering",
"improving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backsliding",
"regressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoot the breeze":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"The kids were shooting the breeze before the assembly."
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shoplifted":{
"as in poached , rustled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poached",
"rustled",
"picked",
"rifled",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"nailed",
"seized",
"snatched",
"took",
"carjacked",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"mooched",
"sponged",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"sacked",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"shanghaied",
"spirited",
"burglarized",
"knocked over",
"robbed",
"appropriated",
"boosted",
"filched",
"heisted",
"hooked",
"lifted",
"misappropriated",
"nicked",
"nipped",
"pilfered",
"pinched",
"pocketed",
"purloined",
"ripped off",
"snitched",
"stole",
"swiped",
"thieved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bought",
"purchased",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"handed over",
"presented"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortages":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"there was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"droughts",
"drouths",
"failures",
"famines",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"pinches",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaveling":{
"a male person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"examples":[
"ever since he was a shaveling , he's wanted to be an airline pilot, just like his dad"
],
"synonyms":[
"boy",
"boychick",
"boychik",
"boyo",
"callant",
"lad",
"laddie",
"nipper",
"shaver",
"sonny",
"stripling",
"tad",
"youth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"minor",
"moppet",
"teenager",
"tween",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"gamin",
"guttersnipe",
"hobbledehoy",
"imp",
"squirt",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"schoolboy",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"mama's boy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shopping bags":{
"as in work bags , garment bags":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ditty bags",
"flight bags",
"garment bags",
"kit bags",
"work bags",
"handbags",
"pocketbooks",
"purses",
"tote bags",
"backpacks",
"barracks bags",
"duffel bags",
"haversacks",
"knapsacks",
"rucksacks",
"satchels",
"totes",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"carryalls",
"portmanteaus",
"portmanteaux",
"traveling bags",
"wallets",
"bags",
"pokes",
"pouches",
"sacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shown up":{
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"normally, one doesn't see them, but the actress's wrinkles show up in the close-ups"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeared",
"come out",
"materialized",
"shown",
"showed",
"turned up",
"unfolded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reappeared",
"resurfaced",
"bulked",
"loomed",
"arrived",
"come",
"dawned",
"debuted",
"arisen",
"blossomed",
"bobbed (up)",
"broken",
"broken out",
"cropped (up)",
"emerged",
"erupted",
"issued",
"outcropped",
"risen",
"shot (up)",
"sprung (up)",
"surfaced",
"happened",
"occurred",
"reappeared",
"rematerialized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departed",
"left",
"retired",
"withdrawn"
],
"antonyms":[
"cleared",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"gone (away)",
"melted (away)",
"vanished"
]
},
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"the band showed up an hour late"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeared",
"arrived",
"come",
"got in",
"gotten in",
"got through",
"gotten through",
"landed",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetched",
"hit",
"made",
"reached",
"pulled in",
"touched down",
"debarked",
"disembarked",
"barged (in)",
"blown in",
"breezed (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"bursted (in or into)",
"waltzed (in)",
"checked in",
"clocked (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checked out",
"clocked (out)",
"fled",
"vamoosed"
],
"antonyms":[
"gone",
"left"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"were shown up for what they really are"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"nailed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"undressed",
"unmasked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolished",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hidden",
"hid",
"secreted",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"disguised",
"masked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shakos":{
"as in kepis , berets":{
"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",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"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"
]
},
"shallowness":{
"as in superficiality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"superficiality",
"brainlessness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness",
"profundity",
"discernment",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"sense",
"sensibility",
"wisdom",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in height , elevation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altitude",
"elevation",
"height",
"stature"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth",
"drop",
"lowness",
"draft",
"sounding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shows (someone) the door":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bounces",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"musters out",
"pink-slips",
"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"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"shakeout":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"fall out",
"pan out",
"prove",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"emerge",
"evolve",
"germinate",
"play out",
"unfold",
"work out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shake-up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shake-up",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shinnies":{
"as in skins , shimmies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmies",
"shins",
"skins",
"clambers",
"climbs",
"scrabbles",
"scrambles",
"swarms",
"ascends",
"breasts",
"free-climbs",
"gets up",
"mounts",
"scales",
"summits",
"surmounts",
"claws",
"sprawls",
"struggles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaken out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"fallen out",
"panned out",
"proved",
"proven",
"turned out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"emerged",
"evolved",
"germinated",
"played out",
"unfolded",
"worked out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shutting":{
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
"examples":[
"please shut the door when you leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"closing",
"making",
"steeking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barring",
"battening (down)",
"bolting",
"chaining",
"fastening",
"latching",
"locking",
"plugging",
"sealing",
"stoppering",
"securing",
"banging",
"clapping",
"slamming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbarring",
"unbolting",
"unchaining",
"unfastening",
"unlatching",
"unlocking",
"unsealing"
],
"antonyms":[
"opening"
]
},
"to stop the operations of":{
"examples":[
"shut both stores for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"closing",
"closing (down)",
"closing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"phasing out",
"turning off",
"extinguishing",
"quelling",
"suppressing",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing",
"failing",
"folding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"building",
"expanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"opening",
"starting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shekels":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"if I had the shekels , I'd be first in line to buy one of the new vehicles"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"shockers":{
"as in revelations , eye-openers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"eye-openers",
"revelations",
"bombshells",
"jars",
"jaw-droppers",
"jolts",
"stunners",
"surprises",
"shocks",
"thunderclaps",
"amazements",
"marvels",
"wonders",
"fillips",
"kickers",
"kicks",
"twists",
"wrinkles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"short stories":{
"a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel":{
"examples":[
"her very first short story was accepted for publication in a local journal"
],
"synonyms":[
"narratives",
"novelettes",
"novellas",
"novelle",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedtime stories",
"exempla",
"fables",
"parables",
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"jokes",
"fairy tales",
"folktales",
"legends",
"myths",
"romances",
"accounts",
"annals",
"chronicles",
"histories",
"records",
"reports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrink":{
"to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter":{
"examples":[
"the sweater will shrink a little when washed"
],
"synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"deflate",
"flatten",
"dry up",
"shrivel",
"wilt",
"wither",
"abate",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"grow",
"increase",
"balloon",
"inflate",
"puff (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"balloon",
"expand",
"snowball",
"swell"
]
},
"to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust":{
"examples":[
"shrinking back from the approaching flames"
],
"synonyms":[
"blench",
"cringe",
"flinch",
"quail",
"recoil",
"squinch",
"wince"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanch",
"pale",
"whiten",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"crouch",
"jerk",
"start",
"twitch",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw",
"falter",
"hesitate",
"reel",
"waver"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"approach",
"near",
"beard",
"challenge",
"confront",
"defy",
"face"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"his crush on her is likely to shrink after they start their new lives on different college campuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharpers":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"carnival sharpers eager to relieve the yokels of their money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilkers",
"bilks",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fakirs",
"finaglers",
"fraudsters",
"hoaxers",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharks",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers",
"trickers",
"tricksters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"bluffers",
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams",
"adventurers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"gamesmen",
"knaves",
"pranksters",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"fast-talkers",
"slickers",
"slicks",
"slicksters",
"slyboots",
"smoothies",
"wheeler-dealers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"blacklegs",
"cardsharps",
"cardsharpers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shawled":{
"as in wrapped , shrouded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"enrobed",
"enshrouded",
"enswathed",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"mantled",
"shrouded",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"blanketed",
"carpeted",
"coated",
"covered",
"overlaid",
"overlay",
"overspread",
"sheeted",
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"curtained",
"veiled",
"circled",
"encircled",
"encompassed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharecrops":{
"as in plants , harvests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivates",
"farms",
"tends",
"tills",
"crops",
"plants",
"harvests",
"reaps",
"harrows",
"hoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shingle":{
"as in sediment , silt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluvium",
"colluvium",
"detritus",
"loess",
"marl",
"sediment",
"silt",
"clod",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"mold",
"blackland",
"clay",
"gault",
"gley",
"guck",
"gook",
"gumbo",
"kaolin",
"muck",
"mud",
"dust",
"gravel",
"sand",
"humus",
"loam",
"topsoil",
"duff",
"mull",
"subsoil",
"substratum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in trim , crop":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"trim",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overlap , overlay":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lap",
"overlap",
"overlay",
"overlie",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharping":{
"as in humming , crooning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belting",
"crooning",
"harmonizing",
"humming",
"lilting",
"quavering",
"scatting",
"slurring",
"trilling",
"trolling",
"warbling",
"yodeling",
"yodelling",
"caroling",
"carolling",
"chanting",
"descanting",
"singing",
"vocalizing",
"serenading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadow":{
"partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays":{
"examples":[
"the valley was in shadow"
],
"synonyms":[
"dusk",
"penumbra",
"shade",
"shadiness",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackness",
"dimness",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"murkiness",
"obscurity",
"semidarkness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"lightness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"lurking in the shadows"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished":{
"examples":[
"a run-down mansion that is only a shadow of its former glory"
],
"synonyms":[
"echo",
"ghost",
"relic",
"trace",
"vestige"
],
"near synonyms":[
"memento",
"remembrance",
"reminder",
"artifact",
"afterimage",
"aftertaste",
"balance",
"corpse",
"hangover",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"scrap",
"dreg(s)",
"leavings",
"remain(s)",
"residual",
"residue",
"rest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"not even a shadow of a doubt about the defendant's guilt"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"rumors of a shadow haunting the castle"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom":{
"examples":[
"the husband's adulterous affair had cast over their marriage a shadow from which there was no escape"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloud",
"darkness",
"pall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fog",
"haze",
"mist",
"murk",
"penumbra",
"umbra",
"midnight",
"night",
"mantle",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dog",
"chase",
"course",
"dog",
"follow",
"hound",
"pursue",
"run",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"escort",
"hunt",
"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"head"
],
"antonyms":[
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"thickening clouds shadowed the countryside"
],
"synonyms":[
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"blacken",
"blear",
"blur",
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dislimn",
"fog",
"fuzz (up)",
"haze",
"mist",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overcloud",
"overshadow",
"shroud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrate",
"blot out",
"conceal",
"eclipse",
"hide",
"obliterate",
"screen",
"shade",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"mask",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expose",
"reveal",
"uncover",
"unveil"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"light (up)",
"lighten"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches"
],
"synonyms":[
"shade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"canopy",
"cover",
"protect",
"screen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminate",
"light",
"lighten",
"expose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaver":{
"a male person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"examples":[
"back in the old days when my dad was just a little shaver"
],
"synonyms":[
"boy",
"boychick",
"boychik",
"boyo",
"callant",
"lad",
"laddie",
"nipper",
"shaveling",
"sonny",
"stripling",
"tad",
"youth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"minor",
"moppet",
"teenager",
"tween",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"gamin",
"guttersnipe",
"hobbledehoy",
"imp",
"squirt",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"schoolboy",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"mama's boy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sharecropper":{
"a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops":{
"examples":[
"grew up the child of a poor sharecropper"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crofter",
"cropper",
"gentleman farmer",
"subsistence farmer",
"tenant farmer",
"yeoman",
"agriculturist",
"agriculturalist",
"agronomist",
"cultivator",
"grower",
"planter",
"tiller",
"farmhand",
"field hand",
"gleaner",
"harvester",
"plowman",
"reaper",
"workfolk",
"workfolks",
"homesteader",
"nester",
"granger",
"rancher",
"ranchero",
"ranchman",
"campesino"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shackle":{
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"examples":[
"placed shackles on the legs of the prisoners"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"bind",
"bond",
"bracelet",
"chain",
"cuff(s)",
"fetter",
"handcuff(s)",
"irons",
"ligature",
"manacle(s)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"constraint",
"curb",
"enchainment",
"enslavement",
"hindrance",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"restriction",
"entanglement",
"net",
"trammel",
"trap",
"collar",
"straitjacket",
"straightjacket",
"fastener",
"hobble",
"hold",
"hold-down",
"holding",
"tie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"chain",
"enchain",
"enfetter",
"fetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"pinion",
"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"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie",
"arrest",
"brake",
"delay",
"retain",
"retard",
"barricade",
"block",
"blockade",
"roadblock",
"bog (down)",
"mire",
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suffocate",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"stump",
"thwart",
"derail",
"disrupt",
"sabotage",
"muzzle",
"repress",
"suppress",
"confine",
"hedge (in)",
"hem (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"make way",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"short":{
"having relatively little height":{
"examples":[
"a lot of boys are shorter than the girls in middle school, but they quickly catch up by high school"
],
"synonyms":[
"little",
"low",
"low-lying",
"low-slung",
"sawed-off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"compact",
"petite",
"slight",
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"bantam",
"bitty",
"dinky",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minimized",
"minute",
"puny",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"dumpy",
"flat",
"scrubby",
"squat",
"squatty",
"stubby",
"stumpy",
"stunted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upswept",
"high-rise",
"statuesque",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"altitudinous",
"high",
"lofty",
"tall",
"towering"
]
},
"not lasting for a considerable time":{
"examples":[
"fortunately for those of us in the hot sun, the graduation speech was short and to the point"
],
"synonyms":[
"brief",
"fast",
"little"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shortish",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut-back",
"shortened",
"syncopated",
"compact",
"condensed",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"short-lived",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"summary",
"terse",
"short-range",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"unending",
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"permanent",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"long-range",
"long-term"
],
"antonyms":[
"extended",
"far",
"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived"
]
},
"not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need":{
"examples":[
"regrettably, the art supplies are short this year, so you'll have to share"
],
"synonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"low",
"scarce",
"shy",
"wanting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"hand-to-mouth",
"lean",
"light",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimum",
"slight",
"small"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"abounding",
"overflowing",
"teeming",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"rich",
"big",
"considerable",
"hefty",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super"
],
"antonyms":[
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
]
},
"having a texture that readily breaks into little pieces under pressure":{
"examples":[
"short pastry"
],
"synonyms":[
"brickle",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"crispy",
"crumbly",
"embrittled",
"flaky",
"flakey",
"friable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crackly",
"crisped",
"crispened",
"crunchy",
"crusty",
"breakable",
"delicate",
"fragile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elastic",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"resilient",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tough"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner":{
"examples":[
"I didn't mean to be so short with you by responding to your request with a snippy \"I'm busy!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"crusty",
"curt",
"downright",
"short-spoken",
"snippy",
"unceremonious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gruff",
"rough",
"snappish",
"candid",
"direct",
"forthright",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"outspoken",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"point-blank",
"straightforward",
"straight-out",
"artless",
"discourteous",
"disrespectful",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"rude",
"tactless",
"undiplomatic",
"brief",
"closemouthed",
"laconic",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"terse",
"tight-lipped",
"earnest",
"honest",
"sincere",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"low",
"uncouth",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"diplomatic",
"gracious",
"polite",
"politic",
"smooth",
"suave",
"tactful",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"voluble",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"verbose",
"courtly",
"cultivated",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"mealymouthed"
]
},
"with great suddenness":{
"examples":[
"the bicyclist ahead of me unexpectedly pulled up short and I unavoidably plowed into him"
],
"synonyms":[
"abruptly",
"suddenly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surprisingly",
"unexpectedly",
"directly",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instantly",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"right",
"right away",
"right off",
"straightaway",
"fast",
"full tilt",
"posthaste",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"readily",
"snappily",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly",
"hastily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gradually",
"slowly",
"hesitantly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in feature , documentary":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoon",
"cartoon",
"docudrama",
"documentary",
"feature",
"featurette",
"short subject",
"film",
"flick",
"flicker",
"motion picture",
"movie",
"moving picture",
"picture",
"silent",
"talkie",
"B movie",
"B picture",
"cofeature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shirtwaists":{
"as in shirtdresses , sundresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemises",
"coatdresses",
"granny dresses",
"housedresses",
"jumpers",
"kimonos",
"kirtles",
"minidresses",
"Mother Hubbards",
"muumuus",
"overdresses",
"sacks",
"sheaths",
"shifts",
"shirtdresses",
"sundresses",
"sweaterdresses",
"tea gowns",
"dresses",
"frocks",
"gowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoal":{
"lacking significant physical depth":{
"examples":[
"shoal waters of the bay meant that our ship had to be moored a considerable distance from shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"depthless",
"shallow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skin-deep",
"superficial",
"surface",
"fathomable",
"measurable",
"finite",
"limited",
"measured",
"restricted",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"two-dimensional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abysmal",
"abyssal",
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"endless",
"immeasurable",
"inestimable",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"profound",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited",
"vast",
"navigable"
],
"antonyms":[
"deep"
]
},
"a place where a body of water (as a sea or river) is shallow":{
"examples":[
"the shoals off Nantucket Island are famous as the final resting places of many ill-fated ships"
],
"synonyms":[
"ford",
"shallow(s)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"bar",
"sandbank",
"sandbar",
"towhead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"trench",
"abyss",
"deep",
"depth",
"gulf"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"sharpy":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"those poolroom sharpies cleaned them out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharper",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"short story":{
"a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel":{
"examples":[
"her very first short story was accepted for publication in a local journal"
],
"synonyms":[
"narrative",
"novelette",
"novella",
"story",
"tale",
"yarn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedtime story",
"exemplum",
"fable",
"parable",
"anecdote",
"joke",
"fairy tale",
"folktale",
"legend",
"myth",
"romance",
"account",
"annals",
"chronicle",
"history",
"record",
"report"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shards":{
"a small sharp piece of something (such as glass or pottery)":{
"examples":[
"Watch out for the shards of glass on the floor."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"shreds",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoring (up)":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"a highway tunnel shored up by massive columns of concrete"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"bolstering",
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"carrying",
"propping (up)",
"staying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"underpinning",
"upholding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadying",
"trussing",
"underlying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"used an avalanche of statistics to shore up his claim that the state's economy is in fine shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"backing",
"bolstering",
"buttressing",
"corroborating",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"substantiating",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"verifying",
"affirming",
"avouching",
"validating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercutting",
"undermining",
"weakening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoot up":{
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"gas prices shot up seemingly overnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"soar",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"crest",
"peak",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fall",
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"drop",
"lessen",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"slump",
"tumble"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sherlock":{
"a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons":{
"examples":[
"one of literature's most eccentric sherlocks , Nero Wolfe manages to solve mysteries without so much as leaving the confines of his own home"
],
"synonyms":[
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"investigator",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator",
"shamus",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shadow",
"tail",
"tracer",
"tracker",
"fed",
"Federal",
"G-man",
"narc",
"nark",
"plainclothesman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shooting down":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank"
],
"synonyms":[
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"laughing (at)",
"mocking",
"ridiculing",
"scouting",
"skewering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"sneering (at)",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"disparaging",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"putting down",
"chaffing",
"jiving",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"quizzing",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"riding",
"teasing",
"tweaking",
"twitting",
"baiting",
"barracking",
"bugging",
"catcalling",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"hassling",
"heckling",
"needling",
"pestering",
"ragging",
"targeting",
"taunting",
"tormenting",
"aping",
"burlesquing",
"caricaturing",
"imitating",
"lampooning",
"mimicking",
"parodying",
"parroting",
"pillorying",
"satirizing",
"taking off (on)",
"travestying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauding",
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackballing",
"downing",
"killing",
"negativing",
"nixing",
"vetoing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"declining",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"blacklisting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admitting",
"allowing",
"approving",
"assenting (to)",
"passing",
"sanctioning",
"electing",
"supporting"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"ratifying"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"belying",
"confounding",
"confuting",
"debunking",
"disconfirming",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"falsifying",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrowing",
"overturning",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"querying",
"questioning",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"talking over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"showing",
"supporting",
"witnessing",
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"illustrating",
"manifesting"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"validating",
"verifying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shucking (off)":{
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"bad habits are hard to shuck off"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiering",
"casting (off)",
"chucking",
"deep-sixing",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"eighty-sixing",
"86ing",
"exorcising",
"exorcizing",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"laying by",
"losing",
"pitching",
"rejecting",
"scrapping",
"shedding",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shutterbug":{
"one who takes photographs":{
"examples":[
"an avid shutterbug who takes her camera with her everywhere"
],
"synonyms":[
"lensman",
"photog",
"photographer",
"shooter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinematographer",
"paparazzo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shenanigans":{
"playful, reckless behavior that is not intended to cause serious harm":{
"examples":[
"students engaging in youthful shenanigans on the last day of school"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"hob",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"waggery",
"waggishness",
"wickedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diabolicalness",
"misbehavior",
"misconduct",
"naughtiness",
"troublemaking",
"buffoonery",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"chicanery",
"trickery",
"goings-on",
"hanky-panky",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"skylarking",
"tomfoolery",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"antic",
"caper",
"dido",
"practical joke",
"trick",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gravitas",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"an act of vandalism that went way beyond the usual shenanigans at summer camp"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shmoozes":{
"friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"had to master the art of the schmooze if she wanted to get ahead in the business"
],
"synonyms":[
"backchat",
"cackle",
"causeries",
"chats",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchats",
"confabs",
"confabulations",
"gab",
"gabfests",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaws",
"natters",
"palavers",
"patter",
"raps",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talks",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquies",
"conferences",
"discourses",
"parleys",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"debates",
"dialogues",
"dialogs",
"exchanges",
"give-and-takes",
"crosstalk",
"happy talk",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"yammers",
"yaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry's power players"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbles",
"blabs",
"cackles",
"chaffers",
"chats",
"chatters",
"chins",
"converses",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gases",
"gasses",
"jabbers",
"jaws",
"kibitzes",
"kibbitzes",
"natters",
"palavers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"raps",
"rattles",
"runs on",
"talks",
"twitters",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossips",
"tattles",
"descants",
"discusses",
"expatiates",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"yammers",
"yaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shinnying":{
"as in skinning , shimmying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmying",
"shinning",
"skinning",
"clambering",
"climbing",
"scrabbling",
"scrambling",
"swarming",
"ascending",
"breasting",
"free-climbing",
"getting up",
"mounting",
"scaling",
"summiting",
"surmounting",
"clawing",
"sprawling",
"struggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shady":{
"protected from the sun's rays":{
"examples":[
"a lovely shady spot in the park that was pleasantly cool"
],
"synonyms":[
"shaded",
"shadowed",
"shadowy",
"umbrageous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canopied",
"covered",
"sheltered",
"cloudy",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"inky",
"moonless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"penumbral",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"incandescent",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminary",
"luminous",
"beaming",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"shining",
"lustrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"exposed",
"shadeless",
"sunny"
]
},
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"a shady business deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"cited some shady statistics to back up his argument"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions":{
"examples":[
"shady characters hanging out in the park after nightfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"furtive",
"shifty",
"slippery",
"sly",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealthy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"slick",
"wily",
"close",
"closemouthed",
"reticent",
"secretive",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"dark",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"duplicitous",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"cheating",
"crooked",
"defrauding",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"double-dealing",
"knavish",
"two-faced",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untrustworthy",
"untruthful",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"serpentine",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"forthright",
"plainspoken",
"straightforward",
"candid",
"direct",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"open",
"plain",
"honest",
"trustworthy",
"truthful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"a courtesan who lived on the shady fringe of society"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shameful",
"shoddy",
"shy",
"unrespectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shuts (in or up)":{
"as in contains , bottles (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"contains",
"restrains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belches",
"disgorges",
"ejects",
"eructs",
"erupts",
"expels",
"jets",
"spews",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"gushes",
"pours",
"squirts",
"streams",
"surges",
"emanates",
"exhales",
"issues",
"releases",
"shoots",
"spits",
"springs",
"vents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shortcomings":{
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"a wife who never tires of listing her husband's perceived shortcomings"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerits",
"derelictions",
"failings",
"faults",
"foibles",
"frailties",
"sins",
"vices",
"wants",
"weaknesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blots",
"spots",
"stains",
"blemishes",
"deficiencies",
"flaws",
"imperfections",
"minuses",
"nits",
"Achilles' heels",
"soft spots",
"corruptions",
"depravities",
"evils",
"immoralities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellences",
"perfections",
"integrities",
"moralities",
"probities",
"rectitudes"
],
"antonyms":[
"merits",
"virtues"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrimpers":{
"as in trawlers , luggers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bankers",
"cobles",
"draggers",
"gillnetters",
"hookers",
"luggers",
"scallopers",
"seiners",
"trawlers",
"whaleboats",
"whalers",
"workboats",
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"gondolas",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis",
"cockleshells",
"tubs",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"airboats",
"air-cushion vehicles",
"hovercrafts",
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"lighters",
"narrow boats",
"hydrofoils",
"hydroplanes",
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"lifeboats",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"assault boats",
"PT boats",
"torpedo boats",
"houseboats",
"riverboats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shortsightedness":{
"as in inattention , obliviousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forgetfulness",
"inadvertence",
"inadvertency",
"inattention",
"inattentiveness",
"obliviousness",
"unwariness",
"carelessness",
"dereliction",
"heedlessness",
"incaution",
"incautiousness",
"laxness",
"neglectfulness",
"negligence",
"remissness",
"slackness",
"foolhardiness",
"rashness",
"recklessness",
"wildness",
"neglect",
"omission",
"delinquency",
"irresponsibility",
"irresponsibleness",
"malfeasance",
"malpractice",
"misconduct",
"misdirection",
"mishandling",
"mismanagement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alertness",
"attention",
"attentiveness",
"awareness",
"circumspection",
"observance",
"vigilance",
"watchfulness",
"responsibility",
"responsibleness",
"care",
"carefulness",
"caution",
"cautiousness",
"heedfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shiftlessly":{
"as in casually , lazily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shakedowns":{
"as in couches , bunk beds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk beds",
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"feather beds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"Murphy beds",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bunks",
"dosses",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks",
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dry runs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry runs",
"trial and errors",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"rehearsals",
"tryouts",
"workouts",
"essays",
"experimentations",
"experiments",
"tests",
"trials",
"crucibles",
"ordeals",
"attempts",
"efforts",
"tries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pursuits , reconnaissances":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnaissances",
"recons",
"scouts",
"hunts",
"quests",
"searches",
"chases",
"pursuits",
"explorations",
"probes",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"surveys",
"sweeps",
"forages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shiftily":{
"as in furtively , slyly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"archly",
"calculatingly",
"craftily",
"cunningly",
"furtively",
"insidiously",
"sharply",
"slickly",
"slyly",
"slily",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"artfully",
"cannily",
"deceitfully",
"deceptively",
"deviously",
"dishonestly",
"falsely",
"flatteringly",
"sycophantically",
"unctuously",
"affectedly",
"artificially",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"pretentiously",
"unnaturally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessly",
"guilelessly",
"ingenuously",
"innocently",
"naively",
"na\u00efvely",
"naturally",
"sincerely",
"unaffectedly",
"unfeignedly",
"unpretentiously",
"genuinely",
"honestly",
"simply",
"truly",
"freely",
"openheartedly",
"openly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shine(s)":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beams",
"radiates",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"glows",
"luminesces",
"sheens",
"shimmers",
"blinks",
"coruscates",
"flares",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks",
"beats (down)",
"glares",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"burnishes",
"dresses",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"rubs",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"the shines they pulled at summer camp have become embellished with each retelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrive":{
"as in forgive , pardon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forgive",
"pardon",
"remit",
"reclaim",
"reform",
"bless",
"hallow",
"deliver",
"redeem",
"save",
"consecrate",
"purify",
"sanctify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shammed":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"shammed a most unconvincing limp just to get sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"affected",
"assumed",
"bluffed",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"feigned",
"passed (for)",
"pretended",
"professed",
"put on",
"simulated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulated",
"impersonated",
"let on",
"masqueraded",
"playacted",
"played",
"posed",
"forged",
"imitated",
"camouflaged",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"feinted",
"malingered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shillalah":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"rung",
"sap",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoplifters":{
"as in pickpockets , cutpurses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"pilferers",
"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"
]
},
"shatter":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"blow up",
"burst",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"smash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamite",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"crash",
"smash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bust",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"annihilate",
"bash",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"pulverize",
"ruin",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck",
"shiver",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crunch",
"crush",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chip , shard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chip",
"flake",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"portion",
"section",
"segment",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving",
"end",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"stub",
"atom",
"crumb",
"dribble",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"nugget",
"particle",
"patch",
"scruple",
"snip",
"snippet",
"speck",
"tittle",
"cantle",
"shred",
"tatter",
"bit",
"fraction",
"fragment",
"piece",
"scrap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shoves":{
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"I had to keep shoving my heavy suitcase as I slowly made my way to the head of the line"
],
"synonyms":[
"drives",
"propels",
"pushes",
"thrusts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impels",
"moves",
"bears (down)",
"compresses",
"depresses",
"jams",
"pressures",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"weighs (upon)",
"bulldozes",
"compels",
"forces",
"leans (on or against)",
"muscles",
"rams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[
"quit shoving your hand in my face"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears (down on)",
"depresses",
"presses",
"weighs (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"mashes",
"punches",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"squishes",
"squooshes",
"compels",
"forces",
"pressures",
"leans (on or against)",
"muscles",
"drives",
"propels",
"thrusts",
"compacts",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"crushes",
"scrunches",
"wrings",
"crams",
"jam-packs",
"jams",
"packs",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pushes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pushes",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"jams",
"jerks",
"jogs",
"nudges",
"punches",
"dabs",
"digs",
"jabs",
"lunges",
"pokes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharecropping":{
"as in farming , agriculture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivation",
"culture",
"farmwork",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"tillage",
"agriculture",
"farming",
"husbandry",
"agribusiness",
"agroecology",
"agronomy",
"animal husbandry",
"mixed farming",
"monoculture",
"pastoralism",
"agroforestry",
"arboriculture",
"pomology",
"aquaculture",
"aquiculture",
"hydroponics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in planting , harvesting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivating",
"farming",
"tending",
"tilling",
"cropping",
"planting",
"harvesting",
"reaping",
"harrowing",
"hoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shaking down":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shivers":{
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"looking down from the window ledge sent shivers up my spine"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shakes , shudders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quakes",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"shudders",
"trembles",
"flits",
"flutters",
"twitters",
"paces",
"fiddles",
"fidgets",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"jigs",
"squiggles",
"squirms",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"tosses",
"twists",
"twitches",
"wiggles",
"wriggles",
"writhes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"calms (down)",
"stills"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in splits , splinters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"splinters",
"splits",
"annihilates",
"bashes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"nukes",
"pulverizes",
"ruins",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks",
"cracks",
"crunches",
"crushes",
"snaps",
"busts",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"breaks down",
"crashes",
"shatters",
"smashes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheepherders":{
"as in shepherds , shepherdesses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherdesses",
"shepherds",
"buckaroos",
"buckeroos",
"cowboys",
"cowgirls",
"cowhands",
"cowherds",
"cowmen",
"cowpokes",
"cowpunchers",
"gauchos",
"rancheros",
"vaqueros",
"goatherds",
"herders",
"herdsmen",
"swineherds",
"wranglers",
"drovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shake-up":{
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up"
],
"synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shock"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonish",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"freak (out)",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"dismay",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize",
"disgust",
"nauseate",
"repel",
"revolt",
"sicken",
"turn off",
"displease",
"offend",
"outrage",
"scandalize",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"shake",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out",
"crush",
"overpower",
"overwhelm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffer",
"cushion",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"rejoice",
"tickle",
"charm",
"entice",
"tempt",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"reassure"
],
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},
"as in shakeout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shakeout",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shelled":{
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"shelling peanuts"
],
"synonyms":[
"barked",
"flayed",
"hulled",
"husked",
"peeled",
"shucked",
"skinned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"scaled",
"stripped",
"stript",
"pared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use bombs or artillery against":{
"examples":[
"the enemy shelled the city for days without letup"
],
"synonyms":[
"battered",
"blitzed",
"blitzkrieged",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"cannonaded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enfiladed",
"raked",
"strafed",
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"devastated",
"hit",
"pounded",
"ravaged",
"struck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"short-tempered":{
"easily irritated or annoyed":{
"examples":[
"shop customers learned not to bother the short-tempered dog on their way out"
],
"synonyms":[
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"fiery",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"stuffy",
"testy",
"waspish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"cross-grained",
"curmudgeonly",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"ornery",
"querulous",
"snarly",
"surly",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"disputatious",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"huffy",
"pouty",
"sensitive",
"short",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy",
"hot-blooded",
"passionate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affable",
"companionable",
"cordial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"sociable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"sweet",
"well-disposed",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed",
"forbearing",
"long-suffering",
"obliging",
"patient",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"tolerant",
"uncomplaining",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"show-offs":{
"a person who tries to impress other people with his or her abilities or possessions":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hotshots",
"smart alecks",
"smarties",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacres",
"wiseasses",
"wise guys",
"wisenheimers",
"weisenheimers",
"know-alls",
"know-it-alls",
"wisecrackers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shocks":{
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"examples":[
"the whole railway platform shook from the shock of the two trains colliding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumps",
"collisions",
"concussions",
"crashes",
"impacts",
"impingements",
"jars",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"kicks",
"slams",
"smashes",
"strikes",
"wallops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows",
"buffets",
"hits",
"knocks",
"punches",
"raps",
"slaps",
"thumps",
"bashings",
"batterings",
"lickings",
"thrashings",
"contacts",
"encounters",
"meetings",
"touches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of being strongly impressed by something unexpected or unusual":{
"examples":[
"were in shock after they heard the news of the death of the president"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazements",
"astonishments",
"startlements",
"stupefactions",
"surprises",
"surprizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awes",
"wonderments",
"wonders",
"startles",
"bewilderments",
"confusions",
"consternations",
"discomfitures",
"dismays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"Mom was shocked by the terrible news that her cousin had died in an accident",
"I was shocked to find out that I was the victim of identity theft"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalls",
"appals",
"floors",
"jolts",
"shakes up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonishes",
"bowls over",
"dumbfounds",
"dumfounds",
"flabbergasts",
"freaks (out)",
"stuns",
"stupefies",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"dismays",
"frightens",
"frights",
"horrifies",
"panics",
"scares",
"scarifies",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"terrorizes",
"disgusts",
"nauseates",
"repels",
"revolts",
"sickens",
"turns off",
"displeases",
"offends",
"outrages",
"scandalizes",
"amazes",
"astounds",
"awes",
"chills",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"dispirits",
"emasculates",
"undoes",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"unstrings",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"shakes",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"weirds out",
"crushes",
"overpowers",
"overwhelms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffers",
"cushions",
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"rejoices",
"tickles",
"charms",
"entices",
"tempts",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"reassures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"were shocked by the way the law against public intoxication was constantly being broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazes",
"astonishes",
"astounds",
"bowls over",
"dumbfounds",
"dumfounds",
"flabbergasts",
"floors",
"rocks",
"startles",
"stuns",
"stupefies",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"thunderstrikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddles",
"bewilders",
"blindsides",
"blows away",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"dazes",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"dismays",
"jars",
"muddles",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"perplexes",
"shakes up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"the sudden appearance of the ghost shocked us to the core"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"frights",
"horrifies",
"panics",
"scares",
"scarifies",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"terrorizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalls",
"appals",
"bowls over",
"dismays",
"floors",
"jolts",
"shakes",
"shakes up",
"amazes",
"astounds",
"awes",
"chills",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"dispirits",
"emasculates",
"psychs (out)",
"undoes",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"unstrings",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"steels"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassures"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shifted":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"budged",
"dislocated",
"displaced",
"disturbed",
"moved",
"relocated",
"removed",
"repositioned",
"transferred",
"transposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bore",
"carried",
"carted",
"conveyed",
"drove",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"toted",
"transmitted",
"transplanted",
"transported",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"supplanted",
"altered",
"made over",
"modified",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchored",
"fixed",
"froze",
"moored",
"secured",
"set",
"stabilized",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"budged",
"locomoted",
"moved",
"stirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled",
"fidgeted",
"jiggled",
"squiggled",
"squirmed",
"tossed",
"twitched",
"wiggled",
"wriggled",
"writhed",
"roused"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hung around",
"remained",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"stabilized"
],
"antonyms":[
"froze",
"stilled"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"changed",
"fluctuated",
"mutated",
"snapped",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosed",
"morphed",
"transmuted",
"bettered",
"improved",
"deteriorated",
"worsened",
"turned around",
"seesawed",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateaued",
"stabilized"
]
},
"to give up (something) and take something else in return":{
"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"changed",
"commuted",
"exchanged",
"substituted",
"swapped",
"switched",
"traded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interchanged",
"displaced",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"ceded",
"handed over",
"surrendered",
"yielded",
"reciprocated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"coped",
"did",
"fared",
"got along",
"got by",
"got on",
"made out",
"managed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried on",
"contrived",
"scraped (by or through)",
"scrounged",
"lasted",
"survived",
"eked out",
"scraped (out)",
"squeezed",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"failed",
"fell short",
"fizzled",
"floundered",
"declined",
"petered (out)",
"slumped",
"waned",
"gave up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheeting":{
"to form a layer over":{
"examples":[
"dust sheeted the floors of the old, abandoned house"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"carpeting",
"coating",
"covering",
"overlaying",
"overlying",
"overspreading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"enrobing",
"enshrouding",
"enswathing",
"enveloping",
"enwrapping",
"mantling",
"shawling",
"shrouding",
"swathing",
"wrapping",
"cloaking",
"clothing",
"curtaining",
"veiling",
"circling",
"encircling",
"encompassing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharecropped":{
"as in planted , harvested":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivated",
"farmed",
"tended",
"tilled",
"cropped",
"planted",
"harvested",
"reaped",
"harrowed",
"hoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shindy":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the prime minister created a brief shindy with his unexpected appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheering":{
"to change one's course or direction":{
"examples":[
"the cruise ship sheered to the northwest, putting it safely out of the path of the hurricane"
],
"synonyms":[
"detouring",
"deviating",
"diverging",
"swerving",
"swinging",
"turning",
"turning off",
"veering",
"wheeling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tacking",
"zigzagging",
"doubling (back)",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to depart abruptly from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the car sheered to avoid hitting the dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"cutting",
"swerving",
"veering",
"yawing",
"zagging",
"zigging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skewing",
"arching",
"arcing",
"bending",
"bowing",
"crooking",
"curving",
"hooking",
"rounding",
"sweeping",
"wheeling",
"about-facing",
"pivoting",
"circling",
"coiling",
"curling",
"looping",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"turning",
"twisting",
"winding",
"weaving",
"zigzagging",
"deviating",
"straying",
"wandering",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightening"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shooting scripts":{
"as in stories , scripts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"scenarios",
"screenplays",
"scripts",
"stories",
"texts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrugging":{
"as in flourishing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flourishing",
"acquainting",
"advising",
"informing",
"relating",
"telling",
"signalizing",
"gesticulating",
"miming",
"pantomiming",
"signing",
"nodding",
"beckoning",
"flagging",
"gesturing",
"motioning",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shilly-shally":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"dither",
"falter",
"halt",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"scruple",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haw",
"hem",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"linger",
"pause",
"procrastinate",
"wait",
"back down",
"chicken (out)",
"consider",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"oscillate",
"sway",
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decide",
"budge",
"stir",
"advance",
"continue"
],
"antonyms":[
"dive (in)",
"plunge (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"the construction project was once again delayed by the bureaucratic shilly-shally of regulatory agencies"
],
"synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delay",
"hawing",
"procrastination",
"waiting",
"arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e",
"misgiving",
"second thought",
"consideration",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indecisiveness",
"indetermination",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty",
"avoidance",
"equivocation",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness",
"faintheartedness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"readiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shilly-shallying , wavering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambivalent",
"hesitating",
"shaky",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"irregular",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"dicey",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"flickery",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"skittish",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile",
"adaptable",
"mobile",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certain",
"changeless",
"constant",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"predictable",
"settled",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchangeable",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"equable",
"even",
"uniform",
"abiding",
"durable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"persistent",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shadily":{
"as in shadowily , cloudily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cloudily",
"shadowily",
"darkly",
"duskily",
"gloomily",
"murkily",
"obscurely",
"somberly",
"dimly",
"dully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"dazzlingly",
"fulgently",
"glowingly",
"incandescently",
"lambently",
"luminously",
"lustrously",
"radiantly",
"splendidly",
"blazingly",
"burningly",
"flamingly",
"blindingly",
"flaringly",
"flickeringly",
"glaringly",
"glitteringly",
"opalescently"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shapeliness":{
"as in sexiness , desirability":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"foxiness",
"lusciousness",
"nubility",
"pulchritude",
"seductiveness",
"sex appeal",
"sexiness",
"aesthetics",
"esthetics",
"attractiveness",
"beauteousness",
"beautifulness",
"beauty",
"comeliness",
"cuteness",
"fairness",
"gorgeousness",
"handsomeness",
"looks",
"loveliness",
"prettiness",
"sightliness",
"allure",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"fascination",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"charm",
"delightfulness",
"elegance",
"exquisiteness",
"gloriousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"splendidness",
"splendiferousness",
"sublimeness",
"sublimity",
"superbness",
"flawlessness",
"perfection",
"daintiness",
"delicacy",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"glossiness",
"showiness",
"slickness",
"splashiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"dreadfulness",
"foulness",
"ghastliness",
"horribleness",
"loathsomeness",
"nastiness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repulsiveness",
"terribleness",
"vileness",
"blemish",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"grotesqueness",
"hideousness",
"homeliness",
"plainness",
"ugliness",
"unattractiveness",
"unbecomingness",
"unloveliness",
"unsightliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shortness":{
"the condition of being short":{
"examples":[
"the shortness of the commencement speech was much appreciated by the impatient graduates"
],
"synonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"conciseness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compression",
"condensation",
"contraction",
"curtailment",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"shortening",
"shrinking",
"abruptness",
"brusqueness",
"curtness",
"compendiousness",
"crispness",
"laconism",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"tautness",
"terseness",
"littleness",
"minuteness",
"smallness",
"tininess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extensiveness",
"elongating",
"elongation",
"extending",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"protraction",
"stretching",
"expansion",
"growth",
"spread",
"diffuseness",
"garrulousness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"talkativeness",
"talkiness",
"verboseness",
"volubility",
"wordiness",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness"
],
"antonyms":[
"lengthiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shortcoming":{
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"a wife who never tires of listing her husband's perceived shortcomings"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerit",
"dereliction",
"failing",
"fault",
"foible",
"frailty",
"sin",
"vice",
"want",
"weakness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot",
"spot",
"stain",
"blemish",
"deficiency",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"minus",
"nit",
"Achilles' heel",
"soft spot",
"corruption",
"depravity",
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"wickedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellence",
"perfection",
"goodness",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"merit",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shooting (up)":{
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"gas prices shot up seemingly overnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"soaring",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"cresting",
"peaking",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"falling",
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dropping",
"lessening",
"waning"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"slumping",
"tumbling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shove (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"time to shove off for home"
],
"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",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"shortcuts":{
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"examples":[
"are you sure there's no way to shortcut the entrance requirements?"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"dodges",
"gets around",
"sidesteps",
"skirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoids",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"end-runs",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"outflanks",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuns",
"disobeys",
"disregards",
"flouts",
"ignores",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accedes (to)",
"acquiesces (to)",
"assents (to)",
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[
"complies (with)",
"follows",
"keeps",
"obeys",
"observes"
]
},
"as in cutoffs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cutoffs",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"bypaths",
"byroads",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"passageways",
"walkways",
"lanes",
"passages",
"passes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"runs",
"runways",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"towpaths",
"bridle paths",
"footpaths",
"paths",
"pathways",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrieks":{
"to cry out loudly and emotionally":{
"examples":[
"the children shrieked with excitement"
],
"synonyms":[
"howls",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrills",
"squalls",
"squeals",
"yells",
"yelps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bays",
"caterwauls",
"keens",
"squawks",
"wails",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"bawls",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"shouts",
"thunders",
"vociferates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in screams , squeals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrills",
"squalls",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"yelps",
"ejaculations",
"interjections",
"bawls",
"bellows",
"clamors",
"outcries",
"roars",
"cries",
"hollers",
"hoots",
"howls",
"shouts",
"whoops",
"yells",
"yowls",
"caterwauls",
"plaints",
"wails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"gasps",
"whimpers",
"whispers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shillalahs":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheered":{
"to change one's course or direction":{
"examples":[
"the cruise ship sheered to the northwest, putting it safely out of the path of the hurricane"
],
"synonyms":[
"detoured",
"deviated",
"diverged",
"swerved",
"swung",
"turned",
"turned off",
"veered",
"wheeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tacked",
"zigzagged",
"doubled (back)",
"turned back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to depart abruptly from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the car sheered to avoid hitting the dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"cut",
"swerved",
"veered",
"yawed",
"zagged",
"zigged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skewed",
"arced",
"arched",
"bent",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"rounded",
"swept",
"wheeled",
"about-faced",
"pivoted",
"circled",
"coiled",
"curled",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"turned",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"weaved",
"zigzagged",
"deviated",
"strayed",
"wandered",
"wavered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shrewd":{
"having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment":{
"examples":[
"a shrewd used car dealer who knew how to make the best possible deal",
"shrewd investments that paid off big"
],
"synonyms":[
"astute",
"canny",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"hard-boiled",
"hardheaded",
"heady",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"pawky",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise",
"experienced",
"veteran",
"discriminating",
"discriminative",
"agile",
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp-eyed",
"sharp-sighted",
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"calculating",
"scheming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"unperceptive",
"unwise",
"dense",
"dull",
"obtuse",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"dim-witted",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dumb",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unintelligent",
"weak-minded",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"ignorant",
"uninformed"
],
"antonyms":[
"unknowing"
]
},
"causing intense discomfort to one's skin":{
"examples":[
"she pulled her coat tighter against the shrewd breeze whipping down the alley"
],
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"raw",
"sharp",
"smarting",
"stinging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"invigorating",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"needlelike",
"prickly",
"tingling",
"caustic",
"corrosive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means":{
"examples":[
"a shrewd operator in the real estate game, she made every buyer think they were getting the deal of the century"
],
"synonyms":[
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"cute",
"designing",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"scheming",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astute",
"facile",
"glib",
"sharp",
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"fraudulent",
"insinuating",
"knavish",
"Machiavellian",
"oblique",
"serpentine",
"shady",
"shifty",
"slippery",
"sneaky",
"treacherous",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"unscrupulous",
"backhanded",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"smooth-tongued",
"two-faced",
"circuitous",
"circular",
"roundabout",
"clandestine",
"concealed",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hugger-mugger",
"secret",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"calculating",
"plotting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obvious",
"open",
"patent",
"plain",
"public",
"unconcealed",
"aboveboard",
"candid",
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"honest",
"natural",
"outspoken",
"plainspoken",
"real",
"simple",
"sincere",
"straightforward",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"unvarnished",
"childlike",
"impressionable",
"simpleminded",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"unforced",
"unstudied",
"trustful",
"trusting"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Shaktis":{
"as in lives , lifebloods":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lifebloods",
"lives",
"world souls",
"inner lights",
"lights",
"natures",
"orgones",
"souls",
"spirits",
"karmas",
"manas",
"auras",
"chis",
"ch'is",
"qis",
"energies",
"kis",
"vibes",
"vibrations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shimmies":{
"as in skins , shins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shinnies",
"shins",
"skins",
"clambers",
"climbs",
"scrabbles",
"scrambles",
"swarms",
"ascends",
"breasts",
"free-climbs",
"gets up",
"mounts",
"scales",
"summits",
"surmounts",
"claws",
"sprawls",
"struggles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shuffles , twists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogies",
"boogeys",
"bops",
"fox-trots",
"gavottes",
"jigs",
"jitterbugs",
"jives",
"mambos",
"polkas",
"shags",
"shuffles",
"tangos",
"tap-dances",
"twists",
"waltzes",
"prances",
"struts",
"trips",
"treads",
"dances",
"foots (it)",
"hoofs (it)",
"steps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharpshooters":{
"a person skilled in shooting at a target":{
"examples":[
"the police stationed sharpshooters on rooftops all along the route of the presidential motorcade"
],
"synonyms":[
"marksmen",
"shooters",
"shots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snipers",
"riflemen",
"trapshooters",
"gunmen",
"gunners",
"guns",
"markswomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shelved":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"examples":[
"let's shelve the project for now"
],
"synonyms":[
"deferred",
"delayed",
"held off (on)",
"held over",
"held up",
"laid over",
"postponed",
"put off",
"put over",
"remitted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"suspended",
"hesitated",
"paused",
"stayed",
"detained",
"retarded",
"slowed",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched (out)",
"waited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acted",
"dealt (with)",
"decided (upon)",
"did",
"worked (on)",
"wrought (on)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shavings":{
"as in slivers , clippings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clippings",
"parings",
"slivers",
"snippets",
"splinters",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"lengths",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"segments",
"chops",
"cutlets",
"cuts",
"cuttings",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shines":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beams",
"radiates",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"glows",
"luminesces",
"sheens",
"shimmers",
"blinks",
"coruscates",
"flares",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks",
"beats (down)",
"glares",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"burnishes",
"dresses",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"rubs",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"the shines they pulled at summer camp have become embellished with each retelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shoulder":{
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"agreed to shoulder the burden of caring for their elderly father"
],
"synonyms":[
"accept",
"assume",
"bear",
"take over",
"undertake"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"embrace",
"take up",
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"espouse",
"stand by",
"support",
"uphold",
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"consent",
"reaccept",
"reassume"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjure",
"recant",
"renounce",
"retract",
"take back",
"unsay",
"withdraw",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"detour",
"abandon",
"abnegate",
"forsake",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"spurn",
"surrender",
"back down",
"back off",
"backtrack"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"repudiate"
]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"shouldered through the crowd at the bar and ordered a drink"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"bull",
"bulldoze",
"crash",
"elbow",
"jam",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ram",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shook-up":{
"as in concerned , bothered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrieved",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"disquieted",
"distraught",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"freaked",
"freaked-out",
"aflutter",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"atwitter",
"dithery",
"edgy",
"goosey",
"het up",
"hinky",
"hung up",
"ill at ease",
"insecure",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"perturbed",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"worried",
"apprehensive",
"foreboding",
"hesitant",
"misgiving",
"fretful",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"vexed",
"qualmish",
"qualmy",
"flustered",
"twittered",
"undone",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"obsessed",
"preoccupied",
"restless",
"fidgety",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hypertense",
"skittish",
"spooky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"easy",
"happy-go-lucky",
"nerveless",
"relaxed",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"controlled",
"self-controlled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause an unpleasant surprise for":{
"examples":[
"the news that we had failed the auto inspection shook us up"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalled",
"floored",
"jolted",
"shocked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astonished",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"freaked (out)",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"dismayed",
"frighted",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"scared",
"scarified",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"revolted",
"sickened",
"turned off",
"displeased",
"offended",
"outraged",
"scandalized",
"amazed",
"astounded",
"awed",
"chilled",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"dispirited",
"emasculated",
"undid",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"shook",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"crushed",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffered",
"cushioned",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"rejoiced",
"tickled",
"charmed",
"enticed",
"tempted",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"reassured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shredding":{
"to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it":{
"examples":[
"shredded some cooked chicken for the soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"rending",
"ribboning",
"ripping",
"riving",
"tattering",
"tearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"cleaving",
"rupturing",
"splitting",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"incising",
"lacerating",
"slashing",
"butchering",
"dismembering",
"dissecting",
"hacking",
"mangling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shlock":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"a tourist trap selling schlock souvenirs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shop (for)":{
"to go in search of":{
"examples":[
"engineers are still shopping around for solutions to several critical flaws in the aircraft's design"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast about (for)",
"cast around (for)",
"chase (down)",
"forage (for)",
"hunt",
"look up",
"pursue",
"quest",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ferret (out)",
"root (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hide",
"lose",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shingled":{
"as in overlapped , overlaid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lapped",
"overlaid",
"overlapped",
"overlay",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoestring":{
"a very small sum of money":{
"examples":[
"trying to start a business on a shoestring"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken feed",
"chump change",
"dime",
"hay",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pin money",
"pittance",
"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"
]
},
"as in lanky , wispy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindly",
"stalky",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"willowy",
"wispy",
"bottleneck",
"close",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"squeezed",
"tight",
"tightened",
"lank",
"spare",
"attenuate",
"attenuated",
"elongate",
"elongated",
"linear",
"fine",
"hairline",
"narrow",
"needlelike",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"slim-jim",
"thin",
"ultrathin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad",
"fat",
"wide",
"chunky",
"squat",
"stocky",
"stumpy",
"thick",
"thickset",
"bulky",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"thickish",
"widish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"sheepfolds":{
"as in folds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"folds",
"cotes",
"dovecotes",
"dovecots",
"henhouses",
"pigpens",
"kraals",
"stockades",
"aquariums",
"aquaria",
"terraria",
"terrariums",
"kennels",
"runs",
"live-boxes",
"cages",
"coops",
"corrals",
"hutches",
"pens",
"pounds",
"fences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shut-in":{
"as in homebody":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"homebody",
"anchorite",
"eremite",
"hermit",
"isolate",
"recluse",
"solitary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"socialite",
"socializer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in valley , vale":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combe",
"coombe",
"coomb",
"dale",
"dell",
"glen",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley",
"canyon",
"col",
"couloir",
"defile",
"flume",
"gap",
"gill",
"gorge",
"gulch",
"gulf",
"kloof",
"linn",
"notch",
"pass",
"ravine",
"saddle",
"abyss",
"chasm",
"cirque",
"cleft",
"crevasse",
"crevice",
"cwm",
"fissure",
"basin",
"floodplain",
"kettle",
"pothole",
"arroyo",
"barranca",
"barranco",
"coulee",
"draw",
"gully",
"gulley",
"gutter",
"nullah",
"trench",
"trough",
"wadi",
"wash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shamed":{
"suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing":{
"examples":[
"the shamed look of someone who knows that he is being given credit he doesn't deserve"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashamed",
"guilty",
"shamefaced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apologetic",
"contrite",
"penitent",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"sorry",
"compunctious",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"penitential",
"blushing",
"chagrined",
"embarrassed",
"hangdog",
"sheepish",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"culpable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unapologetic",
"unrepentant",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"impudent",
"blameless",
"guiltless",
"innocent"
],
"antonyms":[
"shameless",
"unashamed"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"chastened",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"smirched",
"took down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"belittled",
"castigated",
"cried down",
"criticized",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"detracted",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"wrote off",
"bad-mouthed",
"defamed",
"defiled",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"boasted",
"celebrated",
"cheered",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"decorated",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"feted",
"f\u00eated",
"hailed",
"honored",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"highlighted",
"played up",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"dignified",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"enskied",
"enthroned",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"advanced",
"boosted",
"lifted",
"promoted",
"raised",
"upgraded",
"uplifted",
"idealized",
"romanticized"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"canonized",
"deified",
"elevated",
"exalted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shirt":{
"as in cash flow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cash flow",
"bankroll",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"fund",
"pocket",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum",
"assets",
"capital",
"deep pockets",
"fortune",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"roll",
"substance",
"wealth",
"purse",
"treasury",
"financing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debts",
"liabilities",
"indebtedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showboating":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"examples":[
"the gymnast was showboating for the cameras when she lost her balance and fell"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting up",
"clowning (around)",
"cutting up",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"hotdogging",
"monkeying (around)",
"showing off",
"skylarking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"misbehaving",
"roughhousing",
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"larking",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"carousing",
"mafficking",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roaring",
"wassailing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharecroppers":{
"a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops":{
"examples":[
"grew up the child of a poor sharecropper"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crofters",
"croppers",
"gentlemen farmers",
"subsistence farmers",
"tenant farmers",
"yeomen",
"agriculturists",
"agriculturalists",
"agronomists",
"cultivators",
"growers",
"planters",
"tillers",
"farmhands",
"field hands",
"gleaners",
"harvesters",
"plowmen",
"reapers",
"workfolks",
"homesteaders",
"nesters",
"grangers",
"rancheros",
"ranchers",
"ranchmen",
"campesinos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheathes":{
"to cover with something that protects":{
"examples":[
"sometimes shipbuilders sheathe a ship's bottom with copper for extra protection from barnacles and other threats"
],
"synonyms":[
"clads",
"faces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"clothes",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"robes",
"sides",
"skins",
"embosoms",
"embowers",
"embraces",
"encases",
"encloses",
"incloses",
"encompasses",
"enshrouds",
"envelops",
"enwraps",
"invests",
"laps",
"mantles",
"shrouds",
"surrounds",
"swathes",
"veils",
"wraps",
"blankets",
"overlays",
"overspreads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bares",
"denudes",
"exposes",
"strips",
"unswathes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoreside":{
"of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore":{
"examples":[
"shoreside recreation contributes mightily to the region's economy"
],
"synonyms":[
"alongshore",
"coastal",
"inshore",
"littoral",
"nearshore",
"offshore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beachside",
"seaside",
"waterside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blue-water",
"deepwater",
"oceanic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shaft":{
"a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object":{
"examples":[
"shafts of late-afternoon sunlight pierced the blinds and streaked the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"beam",
"ray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moonbeam",
"sunbeam",
"sunburst",
"laser",
"spotlight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade":{
"examples":[
"the footmen set their shafts so as to form a bank of steel against the enemy's charging cavalry"
],
"synonyms":[
"javelin",
"lance",
"pike",
"pikestaff",
"spear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dart",
"spike",
"gaff",
"halberd",
"halbert",
"harpoon",
"leister",
"trident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"disservice",
"inequity",
"injury",
"injustice",
"raw deal",
"unfairness",
"unjustness",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affront",
"indignity",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"put-down",
"slight",
"slur",
"beef",
"complaint",
"grievance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cricket"
],
"antonyms":[
"equitableness",
"equity",
"fairness",
"justice"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shorting":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheesh":{
"as in ah , bah":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ah",
"bah",
"boo",
"humph",
"pish",
"pooh",
"pshaw",
"tush",
"tut",
"tut-tut",
"faugh",
"fie",
"phew",
"phooey",
"rats",
"ugh",
"yech",
"yecch",
"yuck",
"yuk",
"alack",
"alas",
"woe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"shipwrecked":{
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"stranded",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beached",
"foundered",
"scuttled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovered",
"salvaged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shagging":{
"as in skipping , leaping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"cantering",
"leaping",
"loping",
"skipping",
"springing",
"dashing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"scampering",
"sprinting",
"tripping",
"trotting",
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"coursing",
"footing (it)",
"haring",
"hastening",
"hoofing (it)",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"legging (it)",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming",
"nipping",
"pattering",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"stepping (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"trudging",
"hobbling",
"limping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shedding":{
"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a snake's skin doesn't grow as the snake does, so every so often the snake will shed its old skin"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliating",
"molting",
"slipping",
"sloughing",
"sluffing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flaking",
"peeling",
"scaling",
"chucking",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"scrapping",
"shucking (off)",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"unloading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"you need to shed your old notions of propriety and have some fun for a change"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiering",
"casting (off)",
"chucking",
"deep-sixing",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"eighty-sixing",
"86ing",
"exorcising",
"exorcizing",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"laying by",
"losing",
"pitching",
"rejecting",
"scrapping",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoplifter":{
"as in pickpocket , cutpurse":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"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"
]
},
"shekelim":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"if I had the shekels , I'd be first in line to buy one of the new vehicles"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"shindys":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the prime minister created a brief shindy with his unexpected appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinned":{
"as in skinned , shimmied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmied",
"shinnied",
"skinned",
"clambered",
"climbed",
"scrabbled",
"scrambled",
"swarmed",
"ascended",
"breasted",
"free-climbed",
"got up",
"mounted",
"scaled",
"summited",
"surmounted",
"clawed",
"sprawled",
"struggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shell games":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"it's amazing how intelligent people fall for that investment-fund shell game"
],
"synonyms":[
"buncos",
"bunkos",
"cons",
"fiddles",
"flimflams",
"frauds",
"hustles",
"scams",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"fixes",
"Ponzi schemes",
"pyramid schemes",
"rackets",
"rip-offs",
"thimblerigs",
"three-card montes",
"devices",
"dodges",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"ploys",
"schemes",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shellacked":{
"as in glazed , lacquered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"glassy",
"glazed",
"lacquered",
"varnished",
"silken",
"silky",
"slick",
"slippery",
"gleaming",
"glittering",
"reflective",
"shining",
"brushed",
"eggshell",
"semigloss",
"semilustrous",
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glistening",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"satin",
"satiny",
"sleek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt",
"lackluster",
"unvarnished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"the local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"bombed",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"drubbed",
"dusted",
"flattened",
"pasted",
"routed",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"smoked",
"smothered",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"tromped",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"whomped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"upset",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"dispatched",
"hurdled",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"threw",
"took",
"triumphed (over)",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"crushed",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed",
"subjugated",
"upended",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"broke",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"finished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slaughtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shoots down":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank"
],
"synonyms":[
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"laughs (at)",
"mocks",
"ridicules",
"scouts",
"skewers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffs (at)",
"scorns",
"sneers (at)",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"disparages",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"puts down",
"chaffs",
"jives",
"joshes",
"kids",
"quizzes",
"rallies",
"razzes",
"ribs",
"rides",
"teases",
"tweaks",
"twits",
"baits",
"barracks",
"bugs",
"catcalls",
"harasses",
"harries",
"hassles",
"heckles",
"needles",
"pesters",
"rags",
"targets",
"taunts",
"torments",
"apes",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"imitates",
"lampoons",
"mimics",
"parodies",
"parrots",
"pillories",
"satirizes",
"takes off (on)",
"travesties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauds",
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackballs",
"downs",
"kills",
"negatives",
"nixes",
"vetoes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"declines",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"blacklists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admits",
"allows",
"approves",
"assents (to)",
"passes",
"sanctions",
"elects",
"supports"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"ratifies"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"confounds",
"confutes",
"debunks",
"disconfirms",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"falsifies",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrows",
"overturns",
"challenges",
"contests",
"queries",
"questions",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"debates",
"discusses",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"talks over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documents",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"shows",
"supports",
"witnesses",
"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"substantiates",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
"certifies",
"identifies",
"demonstrates",
"displays",
"illustrates",
"manifests"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"validates",
"verifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shmoozed":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry's power players"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"blabbed",
"cackled",
"chaffered",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"chinned",
"conversed",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gassed",
"jabbered",
"jawed",
"kibitzed",
"kibbitzed",
"nattered",
"palavered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"ran on",
"rapped",
"rattled",
"talked",
"twittered",
"visited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossiped",
"tattled",
"descanted",
"discussed",
"expatiated",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"yammered",
"yapped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shamuses":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"a hard-bitten L.A. shamus who, when he's not battling crooks, is locking horns with his superiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbies",
"bulls",
"constables",
"coppers",
"cops",
"flatfeet",
"fuzzes",
"gendarmes",
"lawmen",
"officers",
"policemen",
"police officers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolmen",
"policewomen",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"inspectors",
"investigators",
"plainclothesmen",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"sheriffs",
"troopers",
"peace officers",
"captains",
"lieutenants",
"sergeants",
"constabularies",
"heat",
"men",
"police",
"police forces",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons":{
"examples":[
"he's a shamus who mostly finds evidence to use in divorce cases"
],
"synonyms":[
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"investigators",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shadows",
"tails",
"tracers",
"trackers",
"Federals",
"feds",
"G-men",
"narcs",
"narks",
"plainclothesmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shook":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"the bus rattled and shook as it barreled down a rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bucketed",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shuddered",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"waved",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shops":{
"an establishment where goods are sold to consumers":{
"examples":[
"the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state"
],
"synonyms":[
"bazaars",
"emporiums",
"emporia",
"stores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marketplaces",
"markets",
"outlets",
"showrooms",
"boutiques",
"chain stores",
"department stores",
"dime stores",
"exchanges",
"five-and-tens",
"five-and-dimes",
"marts",
"mini-marts",
"thrift shops",
"variety stores",
"big boxes",
"supercenters",
"superstores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods":{
"examples":[
"a machine shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"factories",
"manufactories",
"mills",
"plants",
"works",
"workshops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweatshops",
"ateliers",
"studios",
"workplaces",
"workrooms",
"yards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"slanguages",
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in turns in , rats (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"informs (on)",
"peaches",
"rats (on)",
"snitches (on)",
"splits (on)",
"tells (on)",
"turns in",
"gives away",
"backstabs",
"betrays",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stands by",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"saves",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shellac":{
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"the local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"bomb",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheeny":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"examples":[
"wore a dress of some sheeny material that looked spectacular under the stage lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shaming":{
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"chastening",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering",
"sinking",
"smirching",
"taking down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"belittling",
"castigating",
"criticizing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"detracting",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"writing off",
"bad-mouthing",
"defaming",
"defiling",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"execrating",
"reprehending",
"reprobating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"boasting",
"celebrating",
"cheering",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"acknowledging",
"recognizing",
"highlighting",
"playing up",
"spotlighting",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enskying",
"enthroning",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"advancing",
"boosting",
"lifting",
"promoting",
"raising",
"upgrading",
"uplifting",
"idealizing",
"romanticizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"elevating",
"exalting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiny":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"examples":[
"we could see our reflections in the shiny surface of the marble walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"splendid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"showing off":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"examples":[
"the athletes warmed up, happily showing off for the crowd before the match officially started"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting up",
"clowning (around)",
"cutting up",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"hotdogging",
"monkeying (around)",
"showboating",
"skylarking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"misbehaving",
"roughhousing",
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"larking",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"carousing",
"mafficking",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roaring",
"wassailing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"she just wants to show off her new jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"displaying",
"disporting",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flashing",
"flaunting",
"laying out",
"parading",
"producing",
"showing",
"sporting",
"strutting",
"unveiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandishing",
"flourishing",
"waving",
"advertising",
"airing",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"divulging",
"talking (about)",
"telling (of)",
"baring",
"discovering",
"revealing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"masking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"obscuring",
"occluding",
"occulting",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shekalim":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"if I had the shekels , I'd be first in line to buy one of the new vehicles"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"shopped (around)":{
"as in comparison shopped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comparison shopped",
"argued",
"bickered",
"clashed",
"fought",
"hassled",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"quibbled",
"squabbled",
"wrangled",
"bartered",
"exchanged",
"traded",
"bargained",
"chaffered",
"dealt",
"dickered",
"haggled",
"horse-traded",
"negotiated",
"paltered",
"hawked",
"peddled",
"bought",
"purchased"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shovelling":{
"to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth":{
"examples":[
"the troops quickly shoveled a trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"digging",
"excavating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dredging",
"burrowing",
"clawing",
"grubbing",
"digging in",
"scooping",
"spading",
"delving",
"mining",
"quarrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling (in)",
"smoothing (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showstopper":{
"a physically attractive person":{
"examples":[
"at the modeling agency everyone was a showstopper"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"fox",
"glamour-puss",
"hottie",
"knockout",
"looker",
"ten"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beauty",
"eyeful",
"goddess",
"lovely",
"stunner",
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"stud",
"superstud"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dog"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shined":{
"as in polished , brushed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed",
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glossed",
"ground",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"greased",
"greasy",
"lubricated",
"oiled",
"slick",
"slicked",
"slippery",
"slippy",
"slithery",
"coated",
"glazed",
"waxed",
"soapy",
"waxy",
"rasped",
"sandblasted",
"sanded",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scrubbed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsened",
"rough",
"roughened",
"scuffed",
"uneven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shoals":{
"a place where a body of water (as a sea or river) is shallow":{
"examples":[
"the shoals off Nantucket Island are famous as the final resting places of many ill-fated ships"
],
"synonyms":[
"fords",
"shallows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bars",
"sandbanks",
"sandbars",
"towheads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"trenches",
"abysses",
"deeps",
"depths",
"gulfs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shapers":{
"as in operators , mechanics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mechanics",
"operators",
"smiths",
"wrights",
"consultants",
"aces",
"adepts",
"artists",
"authorities",
"cognoscenti",
"connoisseurs",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dab hands",
"dabs",
"experts",
"fiends",
"geeks",
"gurus",
"hands",
"hotshots",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"meisters",
"past masters",
"proficients",
"scholars",
"sharks",
"sharps",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"professionals",
"pros",
"specialists",
"technicians",
"advisers",
"advisors",
"consiglieri",
"consiglieres",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"counsels",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"craftsmen",
"craftspeople",
"craftswomen",
"journeymen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentices",
"beginners",
"neophytes",
"novices",
"amateurs",
"inexperts",
"nonexperts",
"laymen",
"nonprofessionals",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"show up (for)":{
"as in attend":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow off",
"cut",
"miss",
"skip",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"pass over",
"absent oneself",
"play hooky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shaman":{
"someone who is believed in some cultures to be able to use magic to cure people who are sick, to control future events, etc.":{
"examples":[
"went to the shaman for a remedy"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"medicine man",
"shamanist",
"witch doctor",
"charmer",
"conjurer",
"conjuror",
"enchanter",
"mage",
"Magian",
"magus",
"necromancer",
"magician",
"sorcerer",
"voodoo",
"voodooist",
"witch",
"wizard",
"enchantress",
"hag",
"hex",
"sorceress",
"warlock",
"occultist",
"thaumaturge",
"thaumaturgist",
"theurgist",
"wonder-worker",
"crystal gazer",
"diviner",
"foreseer",
"fortune-teller",
"prognosticator",
"prophesier",
"prophet",
"seer",
"soothsayer",
"medium",
"exorciser",
"exorcist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoddy":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"shoddy merchandise that soon fell to pieces"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"a waterfront area filled with shoddy saloons, tattoo parlors, and houses of prostitution"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shady",
"shameful",
"shy",
"unrespectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"as in bastard , duffer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bastard",
"brummagem",
"duffer",
"simulation",
"synthetic",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"imposture",
"spoof",
"swindle",
"dummy",
"mock-up",
"copy",
"facsimile",
"replica",
"reproduction",
"copycat",
"knockoff",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near antonyms":[
"original"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"shot for":{
"to make an effort to do":{
"examples":[
"Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival."
],
"synonyms":[
"assayed",
"attempted",
"endeavored",
"essayed",
"sought",
"strove",
"strived",
"tried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fought",
"strained",
"struggled",
"toiled",
"troubled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"aimed",
"aspired",
"hoped",
"assumed",
"took up",
"undertook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dropped",
"gave up",
"quit",
"quitted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"showing":{
"as in display , exhibition":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibition",
"exposure",
"parading",
"disinterment",
"unearthing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caching",
"concealment",
"hiding",
"secretion",
"stashing",
"burial",
"burying",
"entombment",
"interment",
"interring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"fishing for compliments, the neighbors showed their new SUV to everyone on the block"
],
"synonyms":[
"displaying",
"disporting",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flashing",
"flaunting",
"laying out",
"parading",
"producing",
"showing off",
"sporting",
"strutting",
"unveiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandishing",
"flourishing",
"waving",
"advertising",
"airing",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"divulging",
"talking (about)",
"telling (of)",
"baring",
"discovering",
"revealing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"masking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"obscuring",
"occluding",
"occulting",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known (something abstract) through outward signs":{
"examples":[
"the actor's expressive face shows his every thought and emotion clearly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespeaking",
"betraying",
"communicating",
"declaring",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"evincing",
"exposing",
"giving away",
"manifesting",
"revealing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"unbosoming",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"advertising",
"airing",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"placarding",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"projecting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belying",
"misrepresenting",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"twisting",
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"concealing",
"counterfeiting",
"covering",
"hiding",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"occluding",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gain full recognition or acceptance of":{
"examples":[
"that shows we're right"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrating",
"establishing",
"proving",
"substantiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"bearing out",
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"confirming",
"corroborating",
"justifying",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuting",
"discrediting",
"invalidating",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproving"
]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"examples":[
"showed me how to play the guitar"
],
"synonyms":[
"coaching",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"leading",
"mentoring",
"piloting",
"shepherding",
"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":[
"showed them the way to get home"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducting",
"directing",
"guiding",
"leading",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"piloting",
"routing",
"steering",
"ushering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceding",
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"controlling",
"managing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogging",
"hounding",
"shadowing",
"tailgating",
"tailing"
],
"antonyms":[
"following",
"trailing"
]
},
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"another car showed just as we were thinking we'd have the whole place to ourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearing",
"coming out",
"materializing",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"unfolding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reappearing",
"resurfacing",
"bulking",
"looming",
"arriving",
"coming",
"dawning",
"debuting",
"arising",
"blossoming",
"bobbing (up)",
"breaking",
"breaking out",
"cropping (up)",
"emerging",
"erupting",
"issuing",
"outcropping",
"rising",
"shooting (up)",
"springing (up)",
"surfacing",
"happening",
"occurring",
"reappearing",
"rematerializing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departing",
"leaving",
"retiring",
"withdrawing"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearing",
"disappearing",
"dissolving",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"going (away)",
"melting (away)",
"vanishing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shavies":{
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"some shavie he is alleged to have been involved in while a student at Saint Andrews"
],
"synonyms":[
"antics",
"capers",
"capriccios",
"didoes",
"didos",
"escapades",
"frolics",
"gags",
"jests",
"knaveries",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"rags",
"rogueries",
"shines",
"tricks",
"waggeries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adventures",
"experiences",
"games",
"larks",
"times",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplays",
"plays",
"rowdyisms",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"gambits",
"hoaxes",
"maneuvers",
"ploys",
"deeds",
"feats",
"missions",
"performances",
"stunts",
"caprices",
"conceits",
"fancies",
"vagaries",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"delusions",
"frauds",
"hanky-pankies",
"ruses",
"shams",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"wiles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoot (up)":{
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"gas prices shot up seemingly overnight"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"soar",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"crest",
"peak",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fall",
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"drop",
"lessen",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"slump",
"tumble"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shrimps":{
"as in fishes , seals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clams",
"fishes",
"seals",
"whales",
"gathers",
"harvests",
"picks",
"reaps",
"accumulates",
"forages",
"garners",
"gleans",
"cuts",
"hays",
"mows",
"bags",
"captures",
"hunts",
"nets",
"snares",
"traps",
"crops",
"grows",
"raises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"plants",
"seeds",
"sows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shrimp":{
"a living thing much smaller than others of its kind":{
"examples":[
"the boy was just a shrimp until his teens, when he had a growth spurt"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"scrub",
"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":[
"you have no business telling me what to do, you little shrimp !"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pip-squeak",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"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"
]
},
"as in fish , seal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clam",
"fish",
"seal",
"whale",
"gather",
"harvest",
"pick",
"reap",
"accumulate",
"forage",
"garner",
"glean",
"cut",
"hay",
"mow",
"bag",
"capture",
"hunt",
"net",
"snare",
"trap",
"crop",
"grow",
"raise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"plant",
"seed",
"sow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheikhs":{
"as in nawabs , dons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dons",
"hidalgos",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"seigneurs",
"seigniors",
"cavaliers",
"chevaliers",
"knights",
"baronets",
"barons",
"counts",
"dukes",
"earls",
"esquires",
"marchesi",
"margraves",
"marquesses",
"marquises",
"marquis",
"masters",
"princelets",
"princelings",
"princes",
"rajas",
"viscounts",
"country gentlemen",
"squires",
"lordships",
"sires",
"gentlemen",
"grandees",
"lords",
"milords",
"noblemen",
"peers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boors",
"churls",
"cottars",
"cotters",
"fellahin",
"fellaheen",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones",
"commoners",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"proletarians",
"toilers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shills":{
"as in fronts , promoters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fronts",
"promoters",
"spokesmodels",
"spokeswomen",
"communicators",
"sayers",
"talkers",
"mouthpieces",
"mouths",
"point men",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shone":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beamed",
"radiated",
"rayed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"fired",
"flamed",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"glowed",
"luminesced",
"sheened",
"shimmered",
"blinked",
"coruscated",
"flared",
"flashed",
"flickered",
"lustered",
"lustred",
"scintillated",
"spangled",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"winked",
"winkled",
"beat (down)",
"glared",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"lit",
"lighted",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"darkened",
"lowered",
"loured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"dressed",
"furbished",
"glossed",
"ground",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"smoothed",
"smoothened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeked",
"slicked",
"coated",
"glazed",
"japanned",
"lacquered",
"varnished",
"faced",
"finished",
"veneered",
"brightened",
"filed",
"rasped",
"sandblasted",
"sanded",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scrubbed",
"bobbed",
"boned",
"lapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughed (up)",
"roughened",
"ruffled",
"scuffed (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shlemiels":{
"as in losers , chumps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chumps",
"losers",
"turkeys",
"clodhoppers",
"clods",
"gawks",
"hulks",
"louts",
"lubbers",
"lugs",
"lumps",
"Neanderthals",
"oafs",
"palookas",
"slouches",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"blunderers",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"galoots",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos",
"anthropoids",
"apes",
"beasts",
"boors",
"brutes",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"curs",
"heels",
"louses",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"villains",
"boobies",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"scamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainiacs",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheepish":{
"not comfortable around people":{
"examples":[
"a sheepish scholar who is most comfortable when surrounded by books"
],
"synonyms":[
"backward",
"bashful",
"coy",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"modest",
"recessive",
"retiring",
"self-effacing",
"shy",
"withdrawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antisocial",
"lone",
"lone-wolf",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"awkward",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"unadventurous",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising",
"inhibited",
"reserved",
"uneasy",
"uptight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social",
"bold",
"dashing",
"forceful",
"brash",
"forward",
"overbold",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shell out":{
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"examples":[
"we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets"
],
"synonyms":[
"disburse",
"drop",
"expend",
"fork (over, out, or up)",
"give",
"lay out",
"outlay",
"pay",
"spend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavish",
"rain",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cache",
"hoard",
"lay up",
"save",
"acquire",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"make",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"win"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shook (off)":{
"as in recovered (from) , rallied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came down (with)",
"caught",
"contracted",
"got",
"sickened (with)",
"took",
"went down (with)",
"broke out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shush":{
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"shushed the crying baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumb",
"extinguish",
"hush",
"mute",
"quell",
"quiet",
"quieten",
"settle",
"shut up",
"silence",
"squelch",
"still"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitate",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shape up":{
"to take on a definite form":{
"examples":[
"this group of summer interns is shaping up to be one of the best we've ever hired"
],
"synonyms":[
"crystallize",
"crystalize",
"form",
"jell",
"solidify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associate",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"fuse",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"join",
"link (up)",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break down",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's behavior or character for the better":{
"examples":[
"told his son that if he didn't shape up , he'd be grounded for a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"amend",
"mend",
"reform",
"straighten (up or out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behave",
"regenerate",
"better",
"improve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslide",
"regress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showered":{
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"examples":[
"showered gifts on the guests of honor"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaped",
"lavished",
"poured",
"rained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushed",
"streamed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"swamped",
"bombarded",
"hailed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"held back",
"kept",
"reserved",
"retained",
"withheld"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shutting (up)":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"drying up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"piping down",
"quieting (down)"
],
"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"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"nothing I said would shut them up"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbing",
"extinguishing",
"hushing",
"muting",
"quelling",
"quietening",
"quieting",
"settling",
"shushing",
"silencing",
"squelching",
"stilling"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shelled out":{
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"examples":[
"we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbursed",
"dropped",
"expended",
"forked (over, out, or up)",
"gave",
"laid out",
"outlaid",
"paid",
"spent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavished",
"rained",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cached",
"hoarded",
"laid up",
"saved",
"acquired",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"made",
"procured",
"realized",
"secured",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharers":{
"one who takes part in something":{
"examples":[
"all pilots are sharers of the same air space"
],
"synonyms":[
"actors",
"partakers",
"participants",
"participators",
"parties",
"players"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessories",
"accessaries",
"aides",
"assistants",
"helpers",
"colleagues",
"partners"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bystanders",
"lookers-on",
"observers",
"onlookers",
"spectators",
"watchers",
"wallflowers"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonparticipants"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shooting script":{
"as in story , script":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"scenario",
"screenplay",
"script",
"story",
"text"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shatters":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"tried to restore their shattered hopes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"shattered the sealed clay pot to find out what was inside"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"demolishes",
"explodes",
"pops",
"smashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamites",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks",
"detonates",
"discharges",
"fragments",
"splinters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"implodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"shattered the priceless vase in one clumsy fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"crashes",
"smashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busts",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"annihilates",
"bashes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"nukes",
"pulverizes",
"ruins",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks",
"shivers",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crunches",
"crushes",
"snaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chips , shards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chips",
"flakes",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"portions",
"sections",
"segments",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings",
"ends",
"leftovers",
"oddments",
"remainders",
"remnants",
"stubs",
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dribbles",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"nuggets",
"particles",
"patches",
"scruples",
"snippets",
"snips",
"specks",
"tittles",
"cantles",
"shreds",
"tatters",
"bits",
"fractions",
"fragments",
"pieces",
"scraps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheathed":{
"to cover with something that protects":{
"examples":[
"sometimes shipbuilders sheathe a ship's bottom with copper for extra protection from barnacles and other threats"
],
"synonyms":[
"clad",
"cladded",
"faced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"robed",
"sided",
"skinned",
"embosomed",
"embowered",
"embraced",
"encased",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"encompassed",
"enshrouded",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"invested",
"lapped",
"mantled",
"shrouded",
"surrounded",
"swathed",
"veiled",
"wrapped",
"blanketed",
"overlaid",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unswathed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shunting":{
"as in moving , switching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"deviating",
"moving",
"rechanneling",
"shifting",
"sidetracking",
"swerving",
"switching",
"transferring",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"redirecting",
"swinging",
"turning",
"veering",
"wheeling",
"whipping",
"swiveling",
"swivelling",
"twisting",
"whirling",
"zigzagging",
"bending",
"curving",
"swaying",
"reversing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"showpiece":{
"something of excellent value, merit, or quality that is being shown or presented":{
"examples":[
"The showpiece of her collection was displayed prominently in the center of the room."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"classic",
"magnum opus",
"masterpiece",
"pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance",
"blockbuster",
"megahit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner",
"gem",
"jewel",
"prize",
"treasure",
"chef d'oeuvre",
"classic",
"masterwork",
"attraction",
"feature",
"highlight",
"model",
"outline",
"sketch",
"\u00e9tude",
"canon",
"corpus",
"oeuvre",
"composition",
"number",
"opus",
"piece",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bomb",
"catastrophe",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"loser",
"turkey",
"washout",
"blemish",
"blot",
"defect",
"shame",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"stain",
"stigma",
"eyesore",
"fright",
"horror",
"mess"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipwreck":{
"the destruction or loss of a ship":{
"examples":[
"the shipwreck of much of the Spanish Armada ended Spain's plans for invading England"
],
"synonyms":[
"shipwrecking",
"wreck",
"wreckage",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaching",
"grounding",
"stranding",
"foundering",
"sinking",
"scuttling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovery",
"salvage",
"salvaging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"finally admitted that their marriage was a shipwreck and that the time had come to bail out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"lemon",
"loser",
"miss",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
]
},
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"strand",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beach",
"founder",
"scuttle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recover",
"salvage"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shovels":{
"to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth":{
"examples":[
"the troops quickly shoveled a trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"digs",
"excavates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dredges",
"burrows",
"claws",
"grubs",
"digs in",
"scoops",
"spades",
"delves",
"mines",
"quarries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fills (in)",
"smooths (out or over)",
"smoothes (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shimmered":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"a sequined dress shimmering under the studio lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscated",
"flamed",
"flashed",
"glanced",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"lustered",
"lustred",
"scintillated",
"spangled",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"winked",
"winkled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beamed",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled",
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"flared",
"glared",
"glowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuddered":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"huddled in the basement, we shuddered with fear as we heard the approaching tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bucketed",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shook",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"waved",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoveled":{
"to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth":{
"examples":[
"the troops quickly shoveled a trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"dug",
"excavated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dredged",
"burrowed",
"clawed",
"grubbed",
"dug in",
"scooped",
"spaded",
"delved",
"mined",
"quarried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filled (in)",
"smoothed (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shudders":{
"an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold":{
"examples":[
"a shudder ran through him as he stepped outside into the snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"quivers",
"shivers",
"trembles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitations",
"jolts",
"quakes",
"shakes",
"tremors",
"vibrations",
"wobbles",
"wabbles",
"fluctuations",
"flutters",
"oscillations",
"waves",
"beats",
"palpitations",
"pulsations",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"huddled in the basement, we shuddered with fear as we heard the approaching tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"buckets",
"convulses",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"joggles",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"judders",
"quakes",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"vibrates",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocks",
"sways",
"swings",
"chatters",
"quavers",
"shivers",
"thrills",
"trembles",
"twitches",
"dodders",
"wavers",
"flickers",
"fluctuates",
"flutters",
"oscillates",
"undulates",
"waves",
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharecrop":{
"as in plant , harvest":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivate",
"farm",
"tend",
"till",
"crop",
"plant",
"harvest",
"reap",
"harrow",
"hoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoptalk":{
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"eventually, he got bored with the shoptalk of the nuclear engineers, which he barely understood"
],
"synonyms":[
"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"lingo",
"patois",
"patter",
"shop",
"slang",
"terminology",
"vocabulary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"pidgin",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacular",
"vernacularism",
"slanguage",
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"cyberspeak",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"journalese",
"technobabble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shrived":{
"as in forgave , pardoned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forgave",
"pardoned",
"remitted",
"reclaimed",
"reformed",
"blessed",
"blest",
"hallowed",
"delivered",
"redeemed",
"saved",
"consecrated",
"purified",
"sanctified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuts off":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"threatened to shut off peace talks if the other side kept making unreasonable demands"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"cans",
"ceases",
"cuts off",
"cuts out",
"desists (from)",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"ends",
"gives over",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"leaves off",
"packs (up or in)",
"quits",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completes",
"concludes",
"finishes",
"closes (down)",
"deactivates",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"dams",
"delays",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"kiboshes",
"obstructs",
"stems",
"calls",
"suspends",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"clamps down",
"reins (in)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stamps",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abolishes",
"aborts",
"annuls",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"dissolves",
"kills",
"ruins",
"scuttles",
"snuffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps up",
"runs on",
"advances",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to stop functioning":{
"examples":[
"shut off the computer to save electricity"
],
"synonyms":[
"deactivates",
"kills",
"turns off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flicks (off)",
"dismantles",
"mothballs",
"phases out",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"chocks",
"cuts off",
"draws up",
"halts",
"jams",
"stalls",
"sticks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charges",
"electrifies",
"energizes",
"fires",
"fuels",
"generates",
"powers",
"pushes",
"discharges",
"launches",
"releases",
"switches",
"trips",
"reactivates",
"recharges"
],
"antonyms":[
"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"drives",
"moves",
"propels",
"runs",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"starts",
"touches off",
"triggers",
"turns on"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shackles":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"chains",
"enchains",
"enfetters",
"fetters",
"gyves",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"pinions",
"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"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"shackled by poverty and ignorance"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sheltered":{
"screened or sequestered from view":{
"examples":[
"moored the sailboat in a sheltered cove"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloistered",
"covert",
"hidden",
"isolated",
"quiet",
"remote",
"retired",
"secluded",
"secret"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lone",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"reclusive",
"solitary",
"private"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obvious",
"visible",
"exposed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be or provide a shelter for":{
"examples":[
"the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"harbored",
"refuged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"shielded",
"warded",
"domiciled",
"housed",
"placed",
"quartered",
"shaded",
"shadowed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"bestowed",
"billeted",
"bivouacked",
"boarded",
"bunked",
"camped",
"chambered",
"domiciled",
"encamped",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"put up",
"quartered",
"roofed",
"roomed",
"took in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shown off":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"examples":[
"the athletes warmed up, happily showing off for the crowd before the match officially started"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted up",
"clowned (around)",
"cut up",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"hotdogged",
"monkeyed (around)",
"showboated",
"skylarked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried on",
"misbehaved",
"roughhoused",
"capered",
"cavorted",
"disported",
"frisked",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"larked",
"rollicked",
"romped",
"caroused",
"mafficked",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"roared",
"wassailed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"she just wants to show off her new jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"displayed",
"disported",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flashed",
"flaunted",
"laid out",
"paraded",
"produced",
"shown",
"showed",
"sported",
"strutted",
"unveiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandished",
"flourished",
"waved",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"divulged",
"talked (about)",
"told (of)",
"bared",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"masked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hidden",
"hid",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"occulted",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuts up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts up",
"clams up",
"dries up",
"dummies up",
"hushes",
"pipes down",
"quiets (down)"
],
"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"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"nothing I said would shut them up"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbs",
"extinguishes",
"hushes",
"mutes",
"quells",
"quietens",
"quiets",
"settles",
"shushes",
"silences",
"squelches",
"stills"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"short-circuits":{
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"for decades the maverick filmmaker was short-circuited by a chronic lack of funds"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shimmy":{
"as in skin , shin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shin",
"shinny",
"skin",
"clamber",
"climb",
"scrabble",
"scramble",
"swarm",
"ascend",
"breast",
"free-climb",
"get up",
"mount",
"scale",
"summit",
"surmount",
"claw",
"sprawl",
"struggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shuffle , twist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogie",
"boogy",
"boogey",
"bop",
"fox-trot",
"gavotte",
"jig",
"jitterbug",
"jive",
"mambo",
"polka",
"shag",
"shuffle",
"tango",
"tap-dance",
"twist",
"waltz",
"prance",
"strut",
"trip",
"tread",
"dance",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"step"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirked":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgot",
"neglected"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slacked (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried out",
"did",
"executed",
"performed",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"kept up",
"maintained"
],
"antonyms":[
"attended (to)",
"remembered"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurked",
"mooched",
"moused",
"pussyfooted",
"skulked",
"slid",
"slipped",
"slunk",
"slinked",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"edged",
"inched",
"wormed",
"ghosted",
"padded",
"tiptoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shadows":{
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"lurking in the shadows"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogs",
"chases",
"courses",
"dogs",
"follows",
"hounds",
"pursues",
"runs",
"tags",
"tails",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"escorts",
"hunts",
"searches (for)",
"seeks",
"eyes",
"observes",
"watches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heads"
],
"antonyms":[
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"thickening clouds shadowed the countryside"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blackens",
"blears",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dislimns",
"fogs",
"fuzzes (up)",
"hazes",
"mists",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overclouds",
"overshadows",
"shrouds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrates",
"blots out",
"conceals",
"eclipses",
"hides",
"obliterates",
"screens",
"shades",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"masks",
"veils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes",
"reveals",
"uncovers",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"lightens",
"lights (up)"
]
},
"to shelter (something) from light and heat":{
"examples":[
"a pathway shadowed by a canopy of arching branches"
],
"synonyms":[
"shades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"canopies",
"covers",
"protects",
"screens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illuminates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"exposes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shrives":{
"as in forgives , pardons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forgives",
"pardons",
"remits",
"reclaims",
"reforms",
"blesses",
"hallows",
"delivers",
"redeems",
"saves",
"consecrates",
"purifies",
"sanctifies"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shippable":{
"capable of being taken from one place to another by public carrier":{
"examples":[
"only boxes of five pounds and under are shippable by the postal service"
],
"synonyms":[
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transmittable",
"transportable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressable",
"mailable"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nontransferable",
"receivable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shove":{
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"I had to keep shoving my heavy suitcase as I slowly made my way to the head of the line"
],
"synonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"push",
"thrust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impel",
"move",
"bear (down)",
"compress",
"depress",
"jam",
"pressure",
"squash",
"squeeze",
"weigh (upon)",
"bulldoze",
"compel",
"force",
"lean (on or against)",
"muscle",
"ram"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[
"quit shoving your hand in my face"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear (down on)",
"depress",
"press",
"weigh (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"mash",
"punch",
"squash",
"squeeze",
"squish",
"squoosh",
"compel",
"force",
"pressure",
"lean (on or against)",
"muscle",
"drive",
"propel",
"thrust",
"compact",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"crush",
"scrunch",
"wring",
"cram",
"jam",
"jam-pack",
"pack",
"stuff",
"wedge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in push":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"push",
"stab",
"stick",
"jam",
"jerk",
"jog",
"nudge",
"punch",
"dab",
"dig",
"jab",
"lunge",
"poke"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sharpness":{
"a harsh or sharp quality":{
"examples":[
"he found that the bland crackers helped cut the sharpness of the cheese"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerbity",
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"poignancy",
"pungency",
"roughness",
"tartness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"shrillness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"mildness",
"softness"
]
},
"an uncomfortable degree of coolness":{
"examples":[
"dress warmly; there's a bit of sharpness in the air today"
],
"synonyms":[
"bite",
"bitterness",
"bleakness",
"chill",
"chilliness",
"nip",
"nippiness",
"rawness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"briskness",
"crispness",
"coldness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness",
"frostiness",
"gelidity",
"iciness",
"wintriness",
"cold",
"freeze",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balminess",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"heat",
"hotness",
"sultriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters":{
"examples":[
"possesses a political sharpness that most campaign managers would envy"
],
"synonyms":[
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"canniness",
"clear-sightedness",
"foxiness",
"hardheadedness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"knowingness",
"shrewdness",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"artfulness",
"artifice",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"guile",
"slickness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"subtleness",
"subtlety",
"wiliness",
"brain(s)",
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"reason",
"sense"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"greenness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"innocence",
"naiveness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"unworldliness",
"brainlessness",
"density",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"witlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or quality of being able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"possesses the proverbial sharpness of an eagle's eye"
],
"synonyms":[
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"delicacy",
"keenness",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hyperacuity",
"hypersensitiveness",
"hypersensitivity",
"oversensitiveness",
"oversensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"accuracy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shoehorned":{
"to fit (people or things) into a tight space":{
"examples":[
"the organizers of the county fair shoehorned the craft booths between the midway and the farm exhibits"
],
"synonyms":[
"crammed",
"crowded",
"crushed",
"jammed",
"rammed",
"sandwiched",
"squeezed",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filled",
"heaped",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoppe":{
"an establishment where goods are sold to consumers":{
"examples":[
"the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state"
],
"synonyms":[
"bazaar",
"emporium",
"store"
],
"near synonyms":[
"market",
"marketplace",
"outlet",
"showroom",
"boutique",
"chain store",
"department store",
"dime store",
"exchange",
"five-and-ten",
"five-and-dime",
"mart",
"mini-mart",
"thrift shop",
"variety store",
"big box",
"supercenter",
"superstore"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods":{
"examples":[
"a machine shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"factory",
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"works",
"workshop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweatshop",
"atelier",
"studio",
"workplace",
"workroom",
"yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"lingo",
"patois",
"patter",
"shoptalk",
"slang",
"terminology",
"vocabulary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"pidgin",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacular",
"vernacularism",
"slanguage",
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"cyberspeak",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"journalese",
"technobabble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in turn in , rat (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in",
"give away",
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stand by",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shied":{
"as in started , flinched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blenched",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"started",
"winced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddled",
"nestled",
"nuzzled",
"snoozled",
"snuggled",
"curled up",
"crouched",
"huddled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shamanist":{
"as in shaman , medicine man":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"medicine man",
"shaman",
"witch doctor",
"charmer",
"conjurer",
"conjuror",
"enchanter",
"mage",
"Magian",
"magician",
"magus",
"necromancer",
"sorcerer",
"voodoo",
"voodooist",
"witch",
"wizard",
"enchantress",
"hag",
"hex",
"sorceress",
"warlock",
"occultist",
"thaumaturge",
"thaumaturgist",
"theurgist",
"wonder-worker",
"crystal gazer",
"diviner",
"foreseer",
"fortune-teller",
"prognosticator",
"prophesier",
"prophet",
"seer",
"soothsayer",
"medium",
"exorciser",
"exorcist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shivery":{
"having a low or subnormal temperature":{
"examples":[
"those shivery days of January"
],
"synonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"chill",
"chilly",
"cold",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"numbing",
"polar",
"snappy",
"wintry",
"wintery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cryogenic",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"ultracold",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"bracing",
"brisk",
"crisp",
"invigorating",
"rigorous",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"frosted",
"frozen",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"unheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"equatorial",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"antonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"glowing",
"hot",
"igneous",
"molten",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"warming",
"white-hot"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shooting for":{
"to make an effort to do":{
"examples":[
"Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival."
],
"synonyms":[
"assaying",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"essaying",
"seeking",
"striving",
"trying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fighting",
"straining",
"struggling",
"toiling",
"troubling",
"working",
"aiming",
"aspiring",
"hoping",
"assuming",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dropping",
"giving up",
"quitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shipped (out)":{
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"after college he decide to ship out on a tramp steamer and see the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"boated",
"cruised",
"ferried",
"navigated",
"sailed",
"voyaged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoed",
"kayaked",
"yachted",
"coasted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shown (someone) the door":{
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"axed",
"bounced",
"canned",
"cashiered",
"discharged",
"dismissed",
"fired",
"mustered out",
"pink-slipped",
"released",
"removed",
"retired",
"sacked",
"terminated",
"turned off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsized",
"excessed",
"furloughed",
"laid off",
"trimmed",
"booted (out)",
"chucked (out)",
"drummed (out)",
"kicked out",
"thrown out",
"unseated",
"separated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kept",
"reemployed",
"re-employed",
"rehired",
"contracted",
"subcontracted",
"recruited"
],
"antonyms":[
"employed",
"engaged",
"hired",
"retained",
"signed (up or on)",
"taken on"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"shanks":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"slashed at the prison guard with a shank he had secretly made from a scrap of metal"
],
"synonyms":[
"blades",
"cutters",
"knives",
"shivs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleavers",
"hacks",
"bayonets",
"bodkins",
"bolos",
"bowie knifes",
"bowie knives",
"cutlasses",
"daggers",
"dirks",
"jackknives",
"machetes",
"pocketknives",
"poniards",
"sheath knives",
"stilettos",
"stilettoes",
"stylets",
"switchblades",
"switch knives",
"yataghans",
"rapiers",
"sabers",
"sabres",
"steels",
"swords",
"scalpels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"show-me":{
"inclined to doubt or question claims":{
"examples":[
"the financial scandals may lead investors to take a more show-me attitude toward reported corporate earnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbelieving",
"distrustful",
"doubting",
"incredulous",
"mistrustful",
"negativistic",
"questioning",
"skeptical",
"suspecting",
"suspicious",
"unbelieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"critical",
"puzzled",
"quizzical",
"careful",
"cautious",
"guarded",
"gun-shy",
"leery",
"leary",
"wary",
"watchful",
"cynical",
"experienced",
"knowing",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"curious",
"inquiring",
"inquisitive",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"snoopy",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"hesitant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"green",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"simpleminded",
"unknowing",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"certain",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"callow",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"childlike",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"beguiled",
"deceived",
"duped",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"careless",
"heedless",
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspicious",
"unwary"
],
"antonyms":[
"credulous",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"uncritical",
"unquestioning"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shoots for":{
"to make an effort to do":{
"examples":[
"Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival."
],
"synonyms":[
"assays",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"seeks",
"strives",
"tries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fights",
"strains",
"struggles",
"toils",
"troubles",
"works",
"aims",
"aspires",
"hopes",
"assumes",
"takes up",
"undertakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drops",
"gives up",
"quits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"shoreline":{
"as in coast , shore":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coast",
"coastland",
"coastline",
"shore",
"beach",
"beachfront",
"sand(s)",
"strand",
"seaboard",
"seacoast",
"seashore",
"seaside",
"oceanfront",
"shorefront",
"waterfront",
"bank",
"riverbank",
"riverfront",
"riverside",
"esplanade",
"littoral",
"lido",
"plage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shaping":{
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"a dress shaped to the customer's particular figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"suiting",
"tailoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming",
"accustoming",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"readying",
"training",
"bending",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"regulating",
"rigging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranging",
"blueprinting",
"budgeting",
"calculating",
"charting",
"choreographing",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping (out)",
"organizing",
"planning",
"preparing",
"projecting",
"scheming (out)",
"strategizing (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspiring",
"contriving",
"devising",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"putting up",
"concerting",
"getting up",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"sketching",
"aiming",
"figuring",
"having on",
"intending",
"meaning",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"premeditating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shlocky":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"a tourist trap selling schlock souvenirs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shouldering":{
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"agreed to shoulder the burden of caring for their elderly father"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"assuming",
"bearing",
"taking over",
"undertaking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"taking up",
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"espousing",
"standing by",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"acceding",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"consenting",
"reaccepting",
"reassuming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjuring",
"recanting",
"renouncing",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"detouring",
"abandoning",
"abnegating",
"forsaking",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"spurning",
"surrendering",
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backtracking"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"repudiating"
]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"shouldered through the crowd at the bar and ordered a drink"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"bulldozing",
"bulling",
"crashing",
"elbowing",
"jamming",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"squeezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramming",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shuls":{
"as in synagogues , mosques":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mosques",
"pagodas",
"synagogues",
"synagogs",
"churches",
"kirks",
"tabernacles",
"temples",
"abbeys",
"bethels",
"cathedrals",
"chapels",
"minsters",
"missions",
"oratories",
"sanctuaries",
"shrines",
"meetinghouses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheriff":{
"as in trooper , marshal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"marshal",
"marshall",
"trooper",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"peace officer",
"patrolman",
"policewoman",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"bobby",
"bull",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"policeman",
"police officer",
"shamus",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shins":{
"as in thighs , calves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calves",
"calfs",
"drumsticks",
"hams",
"shanks",
"thighs",
"pins",
"members",
"forelegs",
"forelimbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skins , shimmies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmies",
"shinnies",
"skins",
"clambers",
"climbs",
"scrabbles",
"scrambles",
"swarms",
"ascends",
"breasts",
"free-climbs",
"gets up",
"mounts",
"scales",
"summits",
"surmounts",
"claws",
"sprawls",
"struggles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shakedown":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in couch , bunk bed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dry run":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry run",
"trial and error",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"tryout",
"workout",
"essay",
"experiment",
"experimentation",
"test",
"trial",
"crucible",
"ordeal",
"attempt",
"effort",
"try"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pursuit , reconnaissance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recon",
"reconnaissance",
"scout",
"hunt",
"quest",
"search",
"chase",
"pursuit",
"exploration",
"probe",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"survey",
"sweep",
"forage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shuffle":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"the paper got lost in the shuffle on his desk"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"litter",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"catchall",
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"blend",
"combination",
"commixture",
"composite",
"compound",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"mix-up",
"bollix",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"dog's breakfast",
"mess",
"morass",
"shambles",
"imbroglio",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"deliberate evasion in speech":{
"examples":[
"no matter how directly we asked the question, all we got was shuffle in return"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"equivocation",
"tergiversation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quibbling",
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"murkiness",
"nebulousness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"opacity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plumpness",
"straightforwardness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"the old man shuffled across the floor in his slippers"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
]
},
"to undo the proper order or arrangement of":{
"examples":[
"shuffle the cards and deal five to each player"
],
"synonyms":[
"confuse",
"derange",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disjoint",
"dislocate",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"hash",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"rumple",
"scramble",
"tousle",
"tumble",
"upset"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embroil",
"entangle",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"agitate",
"perturb",
"stir (up)",
"unsettle",
"clutter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"align",
"aline",
"line",
"line up",
"queue",
"classify",
"codify",
"methodize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"adjust",
"fix",
"groom",
"make up",
"spruce (up)",
"unscramble"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"regulate",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shave":{
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"he always shaves most of his hair off when the weather starts getting warmer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bob",
"clip",
"crop",
"cut",
"cut back",
"dock",
"lop (off)",
"nip",
"pare",
"poll",
"prune",
"shear",
"snip",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skive",
"whittle",
"manicure",
"mow",
"pinch",
"stump",
"curtail",
"shorten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing":{
"examples":[
"just shaved the concrete post as the car turned the corner"
],
"synonyms":[
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"skim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bump",
"contact",
"scrape",
"sideswipe",
"strike",
"sweep",
"swipe",
"touch",
"bounce",
"carom",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skip",
"caress",
"cuddle",
"fondle",
"love",
"pat",
"pet",
"stroke",
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bump",
"clash",
"collide",
"crash",
"hit",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"punch",
"ram",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"swipe",
"thud",
"thwack",
"whack"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shaving , clipping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving",
"snippet",
"shred",
"tatter",
"leaf",
"sheet",
"slice",
"flinders",
"shiver",
"smithereens",
"bit",
"disk",
"disc",
"fragment",
"part",
"particle",
"portion",
"scrap",
"section",
"shard",
"chip",
"flake",
"sliver",
"spall",
"splint",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shiftless":{
"not easily aroused to action or work":{
"examples":[
"shiftless spongers who never thought to do anything for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"idle",
"indolent",
"lazy",
"slothful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"drowsy",
"dull",
"inert",
"languorous",
"lazyish",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"supine",
"torpid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambitious",
"diligent",
"enterprising",
"zealous",
"active",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"exuberant",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"snappy",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vigorous",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"antonyms":[
"industrious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shotgunning":{
"as in pistoling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pistoling",
"pistolling",
"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"
]
},
"sheathe":{
"to cover with something that protects":{
"examples":[
"sometimes shipbuilders sheathe a ship's bottom with copper for extra protection from barnacles and other threats"
],
"synonyms":[
"clad",
"face"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"robe",
"side",
"skin",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"encase",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enshroud",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"lap",
"mantle",
"shroud",
"surround",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap",
"blanket",
"overlay",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"denude",
"expose",
"strip",
"unswathe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shoddily":{
"as in miserably , unspeakably":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"miserably",
"sleazily",
"trashily",
"unspeakably",
"egregiously",
"flagrantly",
"grossly",
"abominably",
"odiously",
"vilely",
"naughtily",
"inferiorly",
"insufficiently",
"meagerly",
"meanly",
"niggardly",
"scantily",
"scantly",
"shabbily",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"stingily",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"reprehensibly",
"unsuitably",
"vulgarly",
"intolerably",
"unbearably",
"abysmally",
"atrociously",
"awfully",
"damnably",
"deplorably",
"detestably",
"disastrously",
"dreadfully",
"execrably",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horrifically",
"rottenly",
"terribly",
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"lousily",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"wretchedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"fine",
"good",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"palatably",
"passably",
"satisfactorily",
"so-so",
"tolerably",
"well",
"appropriately",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decently",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"seemly",
"suitably",
"exactly",
"faithfully",
"ideally",
"precisely",
"respectably",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shying":{
"as in starting , flinching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blenching",
"flinching",
"quailing",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"starting",
"wincing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddling",
"nestling",
"nuzzling",
"snoozling",
"snuggling",
"curling up",
"crouching",
"huddling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sharp-sighted":{
"having unusually keen vision":{
"examples":[
"the sharp-sighted hunter spotted the deer and motioned to his companions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear-sighted",
"eagle-eyed",
"hawkeyed",
"lynx-eyed",
"sharp-eyed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighted",
"alert",
"attentive",
"aware",
"observant",
"observing",
"vigilant",
"watchful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blind",
"eyeless",
"sightless",
"stone-blind",
"visionless",
"astigmatic",
"myopic",
"nearsighted",
"shortsighted",
"purblind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"short subjects":{
"as in documentaries , animated cartoons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoons",
"cartoons",
"docudramas",
"documentaries",
"features",
"featurettes",
"shorts",
"films",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"motion pictures",
"movies",
"moving pictures",
"pictures",
"silents",
"talkies",
"B movies",
"B pictures",
"cofeatures",
"co-features"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shameless":{
"not embarrassed or ashamed":{
"examples":[
"she's truly shameless in the seemingly endless self-promotion of herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"unabashed",
"unashamed",
"unblushing",
"unembarrassed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prideful",
"proud",
"bold",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"saucy",
"unapologetic",
"undaunted",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unblinking",
"unflinching",
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unrepentant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"apologetic",
"contrite",
"penitent",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"sorry"
],
"antonyms":[
"abashed",
"ashamed",
"embarrassed",
"hangdog",
"shamed",
"shamefaced",
"sheepish"
]
},
"not sorry for having done wrong":{
"examples":[
"a shameless exploiter of impoverished workers in overseas sweatshops"
],
"synonyms":[
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unashamed",
"unrepentant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compassionless",
"cruel",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"unmerciful",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"reprobate",
"unregenerate",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"obdurate",
"soulless",
"unfeeling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hangdog",
"shamefaced",
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
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"ashamed",
"compunctious",
"contrite",
"guilty",
"penitent",
"regretful",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"rueful",
"shamed",
"sorry"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sharp-tongued":{
"as in sour , spiky":{
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"brisk",
"cross",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
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"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shining":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"examples":[
"the shining moon formed a nice backdrop for our outdoor concert"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shiny",
"splendid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
]
},
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"radiating",
"raying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"firing",
"flaming",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"glowing",
"luminescing",
"sheening",
"shimmering",
"blinking",
"coruscating",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"lustering",
"lustring",
"scintillating",
"spangling",
"sparkling",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"winkling",
"beating (down)",
"glaring",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackening",
"darkening",
"lowering",
"louring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffing",
"burnishing",
"dressing",
"furbishing",
"glossing",
"grinding",
"polishing",
"rubbing",
"smoothening",
"smoothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeking",
"slicking",
"coating",
"glazing",
"japanning",
"lacquering",
"varnishing",
"facing",
"finishing",
"veneering",
"brightening",
"filing",
"rasping",
"sandblasting",
"sanding",
"sandpapering",
"scouring",
"scraping",
"scrubbing",
"bobbing",
"boning",
"lapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughening",
"roughing (up)",
"ruffling",
"scuffing (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sheaf":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"contends that casino gambling would generate a sheaf of social problems for the state"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showrooms":{
"a large room where things that are for sale are displayed":{
"examples":[
"a car showroom",
"The stereo was a showroom model."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"marketplaces",
"markets",
"outlets",
"bazaars",
"emporiums",
"emporia",
"shops",
"stores",
"boutiques",
"chain stores",
"department stores",
"dime stores",
"exchanges",
"five-and-tens",
"five-and-dimes",
"marts",
"mini-marts",
"thrift shops",
"variety stores",
"big boxes",
"supercenters",
"superstores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showplace":{
"as in mansion , manor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hacienda",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"villa",
"construction",
"erection",
"structure",
"mausoleum",
"memorial",
"monument",
"cathedral",
"edifice",
"hall",
"palace",
"tower"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sheugh":{
"a long narrow channel dug in the earth":{
"examples":[
"fell into a sheugh while rambling over the Scottish moors"
],
"synonyms":[
"dike",
"ditch",
"fosse",
"foss",
"gutter",
"trench",
"trough"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acequia",
"culvert",
"drain",
"draw",
"gully",
"gulley",
"ravine",
"drill",
"furrow",
"ha-ha",
"moat",
"stank",
"sunk fence",
"kennel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showcased":{
"to present in a favorable or attractive manner":{
"examples":[
"Applicants are asked to submit writing samples that showcase their creativity.",
"The restaurant's varied menu showcases the chef's eclectic culinary background."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"displayed",
"disported",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flashed",
"flaunted",
"laid out",
"paraded",
"produced",
"showed",
"showed off",
"sported",
"strutted",
"unveiled",
"brandished",
"flourished",
"waved",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"divulged",
"talked (about)",
"told (of)",
"bared",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"communicated",
"demonstrated",
"illustrated",
"manifested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"masked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"occulted",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shambolic":{
"as in chaotic , disorderly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chaotic",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"unordered",
"disorganized",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"immethodical",
"irregular",
"nonsystematic",
"patternless",
"planless",
"systemless",
"unsystematic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"neat",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"ordered",
"regularized",
"standardized",
"structured",
"accurate",
"clocklike",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shoot down":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank"
],
"synonyms":[
"deride",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"laugh (at)",
"mock",
"ridicule",
"scout",
"skewer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoff (at)",
"scorn",
"sneer (at)",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"disparage",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"put down",
"chaff",
"jive",
"josh",
"kid",
"quiz",
"rally",
"razz",
"rib",
"ride",
"tease",
"tweak",
"twit",
"bait",
"barrack",
"bug",
"catcall",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"heckle",
"needle",
"pester",
"rag",
"target",
"taunt",
"torment",
"ape",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"imitate",
"lampoon",
"mimic",
"parody",
"parrot",
"pillory",
"satirize",
"take off (on)",
"travesty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applaud",
"approve",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackball",
"down",
"kill",
"negative",
"nix",
"veto"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decline",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"blacklist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admit",
"allow",
"approve",
"assent (to)",
"pass",
"sanction",
"elect",
"support"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirm",
"ratify"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"belie",
"confound",
"confute",
"debunk",
"disconfirm",
"discredit",
"disprove",
"falsify",
"rebut",
"refute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrow",
"overturn",
"challenge",
"contest",
"query",
"question",
"doubt",
"mistrust",
"debate",
"discuss",
"hash (over)",
"moot",
"talk over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"document",
"evidence",
"evince",
"record",
"show",
"support",
"witness",
"back (up)",
"buttress",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"adduce",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"certify",
"identify",
"demonstrate",
"display",
"illustrate",
"manifest"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"validate",
"verify"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sheikh":{
"as in nawab , don":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"don",
"hidalgo",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"seigneur",
"seignior",
"cavalier",
"chevalier",
"knight",
"baron",
"baronet",
"count",
"duke",
"earl",
"esquire",
"marchese",
"margrave",
"marquess",
"marquis",
"master",
"prince",
"princelet",
"princeling",
"raja",
"viscount",
"country gentleman",
"squire",
"lordship",
"sire",
"gentleman",
"grandee",
"lord",
"milord",
"nobleman",
"peer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boor",
"churl",
"cottar",
"cotter",
"fellah",
"peasant",
"peon",
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"proletarian",
"toiler"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"showbiz":{
"as in show business":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"show business",
"Bollywood",
"Hollywood",
"big screen",
"cinema",
"film",
"filmdom",
"filmland",
"filmmaking",
"movie",
"moviemaking",
"pictures",
"screen",
"silver screen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shellackings":{
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatings",
"defeats",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"losses",
"lumps",
"overthrows",
"plasterings",
"routs",
"trimmings",
"whippings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapses",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"nonsuccesses",
"setbacks",
"upsets",
"lurches",
"shutouts",
"washouts",
"whitewashes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"blowouts",
"cakewalks",
"landslides",
"romps",
"runaways",
"sweeps",
"walkaways",
"walkovers"
],
"antonyms":[
"successes",
"triumphs",
"victories",
"wins"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shames":{
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"examples":[
"it's a shame you won't be able to come to the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"crimes",
"disgraces",
"pities",
"sins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outrages",
"scandals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of having lost the esteem of others":{
"examples":[
"left the room in shame after his angry outburst"
],
"synonyms":[
"discredit",
"disesteems",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"ignominies",
"infamies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scandals",
"contempts",
"despites",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"deprecations",
"disapprobations",
"disapprovals",
"disfavors",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"degradations",
"dust",
"humiliations",
"blots",
"brands",
"shadows",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"spots",
"stains",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"taints"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admirations",
"appreciations",
"estimations",
"regards",
"awes",
"fears",
"reverences",
"fames",
"glories",
"renowns",
"reputes"
],
"antonyms":[
"esteems",
"honors",
"respects"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"shamed the family name with his conviction for embezzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"chastens",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers",
"sinks",
"smirches",
"takes down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"belittles",
"castigates",
"cries down",
"criticizes",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"detracts",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"writes off",
"bad-mouths",
"defames",
"defiles",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"affronts",
"insults",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"execrates",
"reprehends",
"reprobates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"boasts",
"celebrates",
"cheers",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"decorates",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"hails",
"honors",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts",
"acknowledges",
"recognizes",
"highlights",
"plays up",
"spotlights",
"dignifies",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"enskies",
"enthrones",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"advances",
"boosts",
"lifts",
"promotes",
"raises",
"upgrades",
"uplifts",
"idealizes",
"romanticizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"elevates",
"exalts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}