8734 lines
172 KiB
JSON
8734 lines
172 KiB
JSON
{
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"make":{
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"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
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"examples":[
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"will you help me make the dough for the cookies?"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"fabricate",
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"fashion",
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"form",
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"frame",
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"manufacture",
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"produce"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"assemble",
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"build",
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"construct",
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"erect",
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"make up",
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"put up",
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"raise",
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"rear",
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"set up",
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"structure",
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"throw up",
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"craft",
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"handcraft",
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"hew",
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"forge",
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"mold",
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"shape",
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"cobble (together or up)",
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"knock out",
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"patch (together)",
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"throw up",
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"prefabricate",
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"create",
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"invent",
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"mint",
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"originate",
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"establish",
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"father",
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"institute",
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"organize",
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"concoct",
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"contrive",
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"cook (up)",
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"design",
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"devise",
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"imagine",
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"think (up)",
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"conceive",
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"envisage",
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"picture",
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"visualize",
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"refashion",
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"remake",
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"remanufacture"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"disassemble",
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"dismantle",
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"take apart",
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"break up",
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"dismember",
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"abolish",
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"annihilate",
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"demolish",
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"destroy",
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"devastate",
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"eradicate",
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"exterminate",
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"extinguish",
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"flatten",
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"pulverize",
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"raze",
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"ruin",
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"shatter",
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"smash",
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"wreck",
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"blow up",
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"explode"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
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"examples":[
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"we finally made it!"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"achieve",
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"attain",
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"bag",
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"chalk up",
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"clock (up)",
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"gain",
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"hit",
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"log",
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"notch (up)",
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"rack up",
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"ring up",
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"score",
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"win"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"acquire",
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"capture",
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"carry",
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"draw",
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"garner",
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"get",
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"land",
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"obtain",
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"procure",
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"realize",
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"secure",
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"amount (to)",
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"approach",
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"equal",
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"match",
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"measure up (to)",
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"meet",
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"rival",
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"tie",
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"touch",
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"beat",
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"excel",
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"outdo",
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"surpass",
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"top"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"fall short (of)",
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"miss",
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"fail (at)",
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"lose"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
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"examples":[
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"the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"beget",
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"breed",
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"bring",
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"bring about",
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"bring on",
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"catalyze",
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"cause",
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"create",
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"do",
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"draw on",
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"effect",
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"effectuate",
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"engender",
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"generate",
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"induce",
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"invoke",
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"occasion",
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"produce",
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"prompt",
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"result (in)",
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"spawn",
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"translate (into)",
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"work",
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"yield"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"conduce (to)",
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"contribute (to)",
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"decide",
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"determine",
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"begin",
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"establish",
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"father",
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"found",
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"inaugurate",
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"initiate",
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"innovate",
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"institute",
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"introduce",
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"launch",
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"pioneer",
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"set",
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"set up",
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"start",
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"advance",
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"cultivate",
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"develop",
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"encourage",
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"forward",
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"foster",
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"further",
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"nourish",
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"nurture",
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"promote",
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"enact",
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"render",
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"turn out"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"impede",
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"limit",
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"restrict",
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"clamp down (on)",
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"crack down (on)",
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"crush",
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"dampen",
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"put down",
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"quash",
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"quell",
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"repress",
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"smother",
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"squash",
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"squelch",
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"stifle",
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"subdue",
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"suppress",
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"arrest",
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"check",
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"control",
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"curb",
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"inhibit",
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"rein (in)",
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"restrain",
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"retard",
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"can",
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"kill",
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"snuff (out)",
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"still",
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"abolish",
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"demolish",
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"destroy",
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"extinguish",
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"liquidate",
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"quench"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
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"examples":[
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"one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"accomplish",
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"achieve",
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"bring off",
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"carry off",
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"carry out",
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"commit",
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"compass",
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"do",
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"execute",
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"follow through (with)",
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"fulfill",
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"fulfil",
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"negotiate",
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"perform",
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"perpetrate",
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"prosecute",
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"pull off",
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"put through"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"bring about",
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"effect",
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"effectuate",
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"implement",
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"ace",
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"nail",
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"engage (in)",
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"practice",
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"practise",
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"work (at)",
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"reduplicate",
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"reenact",
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"repeat",
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"actualize",
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"attain",
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"realize",
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"complete",
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"end",
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"finish",
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"wind up"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"fail",
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"skimp",
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"slight",
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"slur"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
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"examples":[
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"made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"blackjack",
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"coerce",
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"compel",
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"constrain",
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"dragoon",
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"drive",
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"force",
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"impel",
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"impress",
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"muscle",
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"obligate",
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"oblige",
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"press",
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"pressure",
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"sandbag"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"browbeat",
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"bulldoze",
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"bully",
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"cow",
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"hector",
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"intimidate",
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"blackmail",
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"high-pressure",
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"menace",
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"shame",
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"terrorize",
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"threaten",
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"drag",
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"badger",
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"harass",
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"hound"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"allow",
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"let",
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"permit",
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"argue",
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"convince",
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"induce",
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"move",
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"persuade",
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"prevail (on or upon)",
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"satisfy",
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"talk (into)",
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"win (over)"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
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"examples":[
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"I make that to be about six feet long"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"calculate",
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"call",
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"conjecture",
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"estimate",
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"figure",
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"gauge",
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"gage",
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"guess",
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"judge",
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"place",
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"put",
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"reckon",
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"suppose"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"conclude",
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"deduce",
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"extrapolate",
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"gather",
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"infer",
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"reason",
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"understand"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"calibrate",
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"measure",
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"scale",
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"compute",
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"work out"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
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"examples":[
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"make a model airplane"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"assemble",
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"build",
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"confect",
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"construct",
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"erect",
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"fabricate",
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"make up",
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"piece",
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"put up",
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"raise",
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"rear",
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"set up"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"carpenter",
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"fashion",
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"forge",
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"frame",
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"hammer",
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"handcraft",
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"manufacture",
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"mold",
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"produce",
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"shape",
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"prefabricate",
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"begin",
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"coin",
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"create",
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"generate",
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"inaugurate",
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"initiate",
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"innovate",
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"invent",
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"originate",
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"constitute",
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"establish",
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"father",
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"found",
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"institute",
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"organize",
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"conceive",
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"concoct",
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"contrive",
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"cook (up)",
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"design",
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"devise",
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"imagine",
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"think (up)",
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"reassemble",
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"rebuild",
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"reconstruct",
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"redevelop",
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"reedify",
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"retrofit",
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"jerry-build",
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"rig (up)",
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"throw up",
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"combine",
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"unite"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"demolish",
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"destroy",
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"devastate",
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"flatten",
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"level",
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"pull down",
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"pulverize",
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"raze",
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"ruin",
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"ruinate",
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"shatter",
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"smash",
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"wreck",
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"blow up",
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"explode",
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"detach",
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"disengage",
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"disconnect",
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"disjoin",
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"disunite",
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"divide",
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"separate"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"demount",
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"disassemble",
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"dismantle",
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"dismember",
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"knock down",
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"strike",
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"take down",
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"tear down"
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]
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},
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"to give the impression of being":{
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"examples":[
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"the family made merry despite their financial worries"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"act",
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"appear",
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"come across (as)",
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"come off (as)",
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"feel",
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"look",
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"seem",
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"sound"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"dissemble",
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"pretend",
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"recall",
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"resemble",
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"suggest",
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"hint",
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"imply",
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"insinuate"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to go on a specified course or in a certain direction":{
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"examples":[
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"the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bear",
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"head"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"aim",
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"bend",
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"direct",
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"point",
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"turn",
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"beeline",
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"light out",
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"put",
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"put out",
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"set off",
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"set out",
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"strike",
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"take off",
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"face",
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"orient",
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"steer",
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"about-face",
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"back",
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"come about",
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"come round",
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"cut",
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"incline",
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"put about",
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"reverse",
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"swerve",
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"tack",
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"turn back",
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"veer",
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"wheel",
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"yaw"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
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"examples":[
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"the legislature failed to make any new laws last session"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"constitute",
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"enact",
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"lay down",
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"legislate",
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"ordain",
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"pass"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"reenact",
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"repass",
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"bring about",
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"effect",
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"allow",
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"authorize",
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"permit",
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"sanction",
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"decree",
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"dictate",
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"proclaim",
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"administer",
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"execute",
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"approve",
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"confirm",
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"ratify"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"abolish",
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"abrogate",
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"annul",
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"cancel",
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"invalidate",
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"kill",
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"nullify",
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"overturn",
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"reverse",
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"void"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"repeal",
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"rescind",
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"revoke"
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]
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},
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"to receive as return for effort":{
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"examples":[
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"I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"acquire",
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"attain",
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"bag",
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"bring in",
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"capture",
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"carry",
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"come by",
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"draw",
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"earn",
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"gain",
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"garner",
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"get",
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"knock down",
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"land",
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"obtain",
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"procure",
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"pull down",
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"realize",
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"reap",
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"secure",
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"win"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"clear",
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"gross",
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"net",
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"accomplish",
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"achieve",
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"notch (up)",
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"score",
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"accumulate",
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"amass",
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"rack up",
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"catch",
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"pick up",
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"annex",
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"occupy",
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"take over",
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"reacquire",
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"reattain",
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"recapture",
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"regain",
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"remake"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"accord",
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"give",
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"grant",
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"pay",
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"give up",
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"hand over",
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"part (with)",
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"relinquish",
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"surrender",
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"yield"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"forfeit",
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"lose"
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]
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},
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"to have a clear idea of":{
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"examples":[
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"what do you make of the latest information?"
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],
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"synonyms":[
|
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"appreciate",
|
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"apprehend",
|
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"assimilate",
|
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"behold",
|
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"catch",
|
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"catch on (to)",
|
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"cognize",
|
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"compass",
|
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"comprehend",
|
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"conceive",
|
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"cotton (to or on to)",
|
|
"decipher",
|
|
"decode",
|
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"dig",
|
|
"discern",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"grasp",
|
|
"grok",
|
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"intuit",
|
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"know",
|
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"make out",
|
|
"perceive",
|
|
"recognize",
|
|
"register",
|
|
"savvy",
|
|
"see",
|
|
"seize",
|
|
"sense",
|
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"tumble (to)",
|
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"twig",
|
|
"understand"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
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"absorb",
|
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"digest",
|
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"take in",
|
|
"realize",
|
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"fathom",
|
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"penetrate",
|
|
"pierce"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
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"misapprehend",
|
|
"misconceive",
|
|
"misconstrue",
|
|
"misinterpret",
|
|
"misperceive",
|
|
"misread",
|
|
"mistake",
|
|
"misunderstand"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"miss"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
|
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"examples":[
|
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"make the gate when ye leave"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"close",
|
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"shut",
|
|
"steek"
|
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],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
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"bar",
|
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"batten (down)",
|
|
"bolt",
|
|
"chain",
|
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"fasten",
|
|
"latch",
|
|
"lock",
|
|
"plug",
|
|
"seal",
|
|
"stopper",
|
|
"secure",
|
|
"bang",
|
|
"clap",
|
|
"slam"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"unbar",
|
|
"unbolt",
|
|
"unchain",
|
|
"unfasten",
|
|
"unlatch",
|
|
"unlock",
|
|
"unseal"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"open"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make a comeback":{
|
|
"to regain a former or normal state":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"decline",
|
|
"fail",
|
|
"worsen"
|
|
],
|
|
"related":[
|
|
"reanimate",
|
|
"revitalize",
|
|
"revive"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bounce (back)",
|
|
"come back",
|
|
"rally",
|
|
"rebound",
|
|
"recover",
|
|
"snap back"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make away with":{
|
|
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They made away with the baby in the middle of the night."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abduct"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"capture",
|
|
"crimp",
|
|
"impress",
|
|
"kidnap",
|
|
"seize",
|
|
"shanghai",
|
|
"waylay",
|
|
"abscond (with)",
|
|
"snatch",
|
|
"spirit",
|
|
"hijack",
|
|
"highjack",
|
|
"catch",
|
|
"cop",
|
|
"steal",
|
|
"take"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"deliver",
|
|
"ransom",
|
|
"redeem",
|
|
"rescue",
|
|
"restore",
|
|
"return"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to deprive of life":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The gangster's henchmen made away with several of his rivals."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"carry off",
|
|
"claim",
|
|
"croak",
|
|
"destroy",
|
|
"dispatch",
|
|
"do in",
|
|
"fell",
|
|
"kill",
|
|
"slay",
|
|
"take"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bump off",
|
|
"butcher",
|
|
"cut down",
|
|
"finish",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"ice",
|
|
"knock off",
|
|
"murder",
|
|
"neutralize",
|
|
"off",
|
|
"put away",
|
|
"rub out",
|
|
"scrag",
|
|
"snuff",
|
|
"take out",
|
|
"waste",
|
|
"whack",
|
|
"annihilate",
|
|
"blot out",
|
|
"decimate",
|
|
"kill off",
|
|
"massacre",
|
|
"mow",
|
|
"slaughter",
|
|
"smite",
|
|
"assassinate",
|
|
"execute",
|
|
"martyr",
|
|
"terminate",
|
|
"euthanize",
|
|
"euthanatize",
|
|
"put down",
|
|
"suicide"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"raise",
|
|
"restore",
|
|
"resurrect",
|
|
"resuscitate",
|
|
"revive",
|
|
"nurture"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"animate"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The thief made away with merchandise worth thousands of dollars."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appropriate",
|
|
"boost",
|
|
"filch",
|
|
"heist",
|
|
"hook",
|
|
"lift",
|
|
"misappropriate",
|
|
"nick",
|
|
"nip",
|
|
"pilfer",
|
|
"pinch",
|
|
"pocket",
|
|
"purloin",
|
|
"rip off",
|
|
"snitch",
|
|
"steal",
|
|
"swipe",
|
|
"thieve"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"burglarize",
|
|
"knock over",
|
|
"rob",
|
|
"loot",
|
|
"pillage",
|
|
"plunder",
|
|
"sack",
|
|
"carjack",
|
|
"hijack",
|
|
"highjack",
|
|
"pick",
|
|
"rifle",
|
|
"poach",
|
|
"rustle",
|
|
"shoplift",
|
|
"collar",
|
|
"grab",
|
|
"grasp",
|
|
"nail",
|
|
"seize",
|
|
"snatch",
|
|
"take",
|
|
"mooch",
|
|
"sponge",
|
|
"abduct",
|
|
"kidnap",
|
|
"shanghai",
|
|
"spirit"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"buy",
|
|
"purchase",
|
|
"bestow",
|
|
"contribute",
|
|
"donate",
|
|
"give",
|
|
"hand over",
|
|
"present"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make good on":{
|
|
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"answer",
|
|
"complete",
|
|
"comply (with)",
|
|
"fill",
|
|
"fulfill",
|
|
"keep",
|
|
"meet",
|
|
"redeem",
|
|
"satisfy"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"conclude",
|
|
"consummate",
|
|
"finalize",
|
|
"finish",
|
|
"perfect",
|
|
"accomplish",
|
|
"achieve",
|
|
"bring about",
|
|
"bring off",
|
|
"carry out",
|
|
"effect",
|
|
"commit",
|
|
"compass",
|
|
"discharge",
|
|
"execute",
|
|
"follow through (with)",
|
|
"make",
|
|
"perform"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"default (on)",
|
|
"disregard",
|
|
"forget",
|
|
"ignore",
|
|
"neglect",
|
|
"overlook",
|
|
"overpass",
|
|
"pass over",
|
|
"slight"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"breach",
|
|
"break",
|
|
"transgress",
|
|
"violate"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrive",
|
|
"flourish",
|
|
"prosper",
|
|
"succeed",
|
|
"thrive"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevail",
|
|
"triumph",
|
|
"win",
|
|
"excel"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"struggle"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fail"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make one's flesh crawl":{
|
|
"to strike with fear":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"reassure"
|
|
],
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"assure",
|
|
"cheer",
|
|
"comfort",
|
|
"console",
|
|
"solace",
|
|
"soothe",
|
|
"embolden",
|
|
"encourage",
|
|
"hearten",
|
|
"inspire",
|
|
"steel"
|
|
],
|
|
"related":[
|
|
"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"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"affright",
|
|
"alarm",
|
|
"alarum",
|
|
"fright",
|
|
"frighten",
|
|
"horrify",
|
|
"panic",
|
|
"scare",
|
|
"scarify",
|
|
"shock",
|
|
"spook",
|
|
"startle",
|
|
"terrify",
|
|
"terrorize"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"make tracks":{
|
|
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The frightened cat made tracks into the other room when guests began to arrive."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bolt",
|
|
"break",
|
|
"bug out",
|
|
"flee",
|
|
"fly",
|
|
"hightail (it)",
|
|
"retreat",
|
|
"run",
|
|
"run away",
|
|
"run off",
|
|
"skedaddle"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"abscond",
|
|
"clear out",
|
|
"decamp",
|
|
"elope",
|
|
"escape",
|
|
"get (away)",
|
|
"get out",
|
|
"lam",
|
|
"light out",
|
|
"make off",
|
|
"mizzle",
|
|
"scarper",
|
|
"scat",
|
|
"scram",
|
|
"skip (out)",
|
|
"skirr"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beard",
|
|
"brave",
|
|
"confront",
|
|
"dare",
|
|
"defy",
|
|
"face",
|
|
"abide",
|
|
"dwell",
|
|
"hang around",
|
|
"linger",
|
|
"remain",
|
|
"stay",
|
|
"stick around",
|
|
"tarry"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to proceed or move quickly":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"You'd better make tracks if you want to catch that bus!"
|
|
],
|
|
"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",
|
|
"shoot",
|
|
"speed",
|
|
"step",
|
|
"tear",
|
|
"travel",
|
|
"trot",
|
|
"whirl",
|
|
"whisk",
|
|
"zip",
|
|
"zoom"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"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"
|
|
],
|
|
"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)"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"crawl",
|
|
"creep",
|
|
"poke"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make way":{
|
|
"as in open , clear":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"clear",
|
|
"open",
|
|
"unclog",
|
|
"unplug",
|
|
"unstop",
|
|
"aid",
|
|
"assist",
|
|
"facilitate",
|
|
"help",
|
|
"free",
|
|
"liberate",
|
|
"release",
|
|
"untie",
|
|
"loosen",
|
|
"smooth",
|
|
"encourage",
|
|
"further",
|
|
"promote"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"clog",
|
|
"cramp",
|
|
"embarrass",
|
|
"encumber",
|
|
"fetter",
|
|
"hamper",
|
|
"handcuff",
|
|
"handicap",
|
|
"hinder",
|
|
"hobble",
|
|
"hog-tie",
|
|
"hold back",
|
|
"hold up",
|
|
"impede",
|
|
"inhibit",
|
|
"interfere (with)",
|
|
"manacle",
|
|
"obstruct",
|
|
"shackle",
|
|
"short-circuit",
|
|
"stymie",
|
|
"tie up",
|
|
"trammel",
|
|
"balk",
|
|
"check",
|
|
"constrain",
|
|
"curb",
|
|
"rein",
|
|
"restrain",
|
|
"bind",
|
|
"chain",
|
|
"halter",
|
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"leash",
|
|
"tether",
|
|
"tie"
|
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],
|
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"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes believe":{
|
|
"to present a false appearance of":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
|
|
],
|
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"near antonyms":[],
|
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"related":[
|
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"dissimulates",
|
|
"impersonates",
|
|
"lets on",
|
|
"masquerades",
|
|
"playacts",
|
|
"plays",
|
|
"poses",
|
|
"forges",
|
|
"imitates",
|
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"camouflages",
|
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"conceals",
|
|
"disguises",
|
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"masks",
|
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"feints",
|
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"malingers"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
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"acts",
|
|
"affects",
|
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"assumes",
|
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"bluffs",
|
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"counterfeits",
|
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"dissembles",
|
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"fakes",
|
|
"feigns",
|
|
"passes (for)",
|
|
"pretends",
|
|
"professes",
|
|
"puts on",
|
|
"shams",
|
|
"simulates"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes much of":{
|
|
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"de-emphasizes",
|
|
"plays down"
|
|
],
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made much of the one study that supported his argument."
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"tones (down)",
|
|
"underemphasizes",
|
|
"understates",
|
|
"belittles",
|
|
"discounts",
|
|
"disparages",
|
|
"minimizes"
|
|
],
|
|
"related":[
|
|
"focuses",
|
|
"focusses",
|
|
"identifies",
|
|
"pinpoints",
|
|
"spotlights",
|
|
"advertises",
|
|
"boosts",
|
|
"plugs",
|
|
"promotes",
|
|
"publicizes",
|
|
"overplays"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"accents",
|
|
"accentuates",
|
|
"emphasizes",
|
|
"features",
|
|
"foregrounds",
|
|
"highlights",
|
|
"illuminates",
|
|
"plays up",
|
|
"points (up)",
|
|
"presses",
|
|
"punctuates",
|
|
"stresses"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makeshift":{
|
|
"taking the place of one that came before":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"turned a towel into a makeshift skirt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"new",
|
|
"substitute",
|
|
"substitutive"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"alternate",
|
|
"alternative",
|
|
"pinch",
|
|
"different",
|
|
"other",
|
|
"separate",
|
|
"extra",
|
|
"spare",
|
|
"improvised",
|
|
"jury",
|
|
"another",
|
|
"second",
|
|
"utility",
|
|
"successive",
|
|
"equivalent"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"first",
|
|
"former",
|
|
"equal",
|
|
"identical",
|
|
"same",
|
|
"lasting",
|
|
"permanent"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"original"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"a temporary replacement":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"expedient",
|
|
"stopgap"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"quick fix",
|
|
"recourse",
|
|
"refuge",
|
|
"resort",
|
|
"alternate",
|
|
"backup",
|
|
"standby",
|
|
"stand-in",
|
|
"substitute",
|
|
"understudy"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cope",
|
|
"do",
|
|
"fare",
|
|
"get along",
|
|
"get by",
|
|
"get on",
|
|
"make out",
|
|
"manage",
|
|
"shift"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carry on",
|
|
"contrive",
|
|
"scrape (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounge",
|
|
"last",
|
|
"survive",
|
|
"eke out",
|
|
"scrape (out)",
|
|
"squeeze",
|
|
"wrest",
|
|
"wring",
|
|
"afford",
|
|
"swing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapse",
|
|
"fail",
|
|
"fall short",
|
|
"fizzle",
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"decline",
|
|
"peter (out)",
|
|
"slump",
|
|
"wane",
|
|
"give up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makeup":{
|
|
"to be all the substance of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the book is made up of 20 chapters"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"compose",
|
|
"comprise",
|
|
"constitute",
|
|
"form"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"embody",
|
|
"epitomize",
|
|
"incarnate",
|
|
"incorporate",
|
|
"integrate",
|
|
"materialize",
|
|
"personify",
|
|
"substantiate",
|
|
"complement",
|
|
"complete",
|
|
"supplement",
|
|
"fill (out)",
|
|
"flesh (out)"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"concoct",
|
|
"construct",
|
|
"contrive",
|
|
"cook (up)",
|
|
"devise",
|
|
"drum up",
|
|
"excogitate",
|
|
"fabricate",
|
|
"invent",
|
|
"manufacture",
|
|
"think (up)",
|
|
"trump up",
|
|
"vamp (up)"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"coin",
|
|
"design",
|
|
"hatch",
|
|
"produce",
|
|
"daydream",
|
|
"dream",
|
|
"fantasize",
|
|
"conceive",
|
|
"envisage",
|
|
"envision",
|
|
"imagine",
|
|
"picture",
|
|
"vision",
|
|
"visualize",
|
|
"ad-lib",
|
|
"extemporize",
|
|
"improvise"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"clone",
|
|
"copy",
|
|
"copycat",
|
|
"duplicate",
|
|
"imitate",
|
|
"mimic",
|
|
"reduplicate",
|
|
"replicate",
|
|
"reproduce"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked \"some assembly required\""
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"assemble",
|
|
"build",
|
|
"confect",
|
|
"construct",
|
|
"erect",
|
|
"fabricate",
|
|
"make",
|
|
"piece",
|
|
"put up",
|
|
"raise",
|
|
"rear",
|
|
"set up"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carpenter",
|
|
"fashion",
|
|
"forge",
|
|
"frame",
|
|
"hammer",
|
|
"handcraft",
|
|
"manufacture",
|
|
"mold",
|
|
"produce",
|
|
"shape",
|
|
"prefabricate",
|
|
"begin",
|
|
"coin",
|
|
"create",
|
|
"generate",
|
|
"inaugurate",
|
|
"initiate",
|
|
"innovate",
|
|
"invent",
|
|
"originate",
|
|
"constitute",
|
|
"establish",
|
|
"father",
|
|
"found",
|
|
"institute",
|
|
"organize",
|
|
"conceive",
|
|
"concoct",
|
|
"contrive",
|
|
"cook (up)",
|
|
"design",
|
|
"devise",
|
|
"imagine",
|
|
"think (up)",
|
|
"reassemble",
|
|
"rebuild",
|
|
"reconstruct",
|
|
"redevelop",
|
|
"reedify",
|
|
"retrofit",
|
|
"jerry-build",
|
|
"rig (up)",
|
|
"throw up",
|
|
"combine",
|
|
"unite"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"demolish",
|
|
"destroy",
|
|
"devastate",
|
|
"flatten",
|
|
"level",
|
|
"pull down",
|
|
"pulverize",
|
|
"raze",
|
|
"ruin",
|
|
"ruinate",
|
|
"shatter",
|
|
"smash",
|
|
"wreck",
|
|
"blow up",
|
|
"explode",
|
|
"detach",
|
|
"disengage",
|
|
"disconnect",
|
|
"disjoin",
|
|
"disunite",
|
|
"divide",
|
|
"separate"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"demount",
|
|
"disassemble",
|
|
"dismantle",
|
|
"dismember",
|
|
"knock down",
|
|
"strike",
|
|
"take down",
|
|
"tear down"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"preparations intended to beautify the face":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"she never left the house without applying her makeup and arranging her jewelry"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cosmetics",
|
|
"maquillage",
|
|
"paint",
|
|
"war paint"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"greasepaint",
|
|
"camo",
|
|
"camouflage",
|
|
"cold cream",
|
|
"cream",
|
|
"eye shadow",
|
|
"kohl",
|
|
"lipstick",
|
|
"lotion",
|
|
"mascara",
|
|
"oil",
|
|
"powder",
|
|
"rouge",
|
|
"vanishing cream"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the makeup of the memorial is strikingly simple: a single massive globe signifying world unity"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrangement",
|
|
"composition",
|
|
"configuration",
|
|
"constellation",
|
|
"design",
|
|
"form",
|
|
"format",
|
|
"getup",
|
|
"layout",
|
|
"ordonnance",
|
|
"pattern"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"motif",
|
|
"theme"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making out":{
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"we're not rich, but we're making out all right"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"coping",
|
|
"doing",
|
|
"faring",
|
|
"getting along",
|
|
"getting by",
|
|
"getting on",
|
|
"managing",
|
|
"shifting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carrying on",
|
|
"contriving",
|
|
"scraping (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounging",
|
|
"lasting",
|
|
"surviving",
|
|
"eking out",
|
|
"scraping (out)",
|
|
"squeezing",
|
|
"wresting",
|
|
"wringing",
|
|
"affording",
|
|
"swinging"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapsing",
|
|
"failing",
|
|
"falling short",
|
|
"fizzling",
|
|
"floundering",
|
|
"declining",
|
|
"petering (out)",
|
|
"slumping",
|
|
"waning",
|
|
"giving up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to have a clear idea of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I can't quite make out what she is trying to say"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appreciating",
|
|
"apprehending",
|
|
"assimilating",
|
|
"beholding",
|
|
"catching",
|
|
"catching on (to)",
|
|
"cognizing",
|
|
"compassing",
|
|
"comprehending",
|
|
"conceiving",
|
|
"cottoning (to or on to)",
|
|
"deciphering",
|
|
"decoding",
|
|
"digging",
|
|
"discerning",
|
|
"getting",
|
|
"grasping",
|
|
"grokking",
|
|
"intuiting",
|
|
"knowing",
|
|
"making",
|
|
"perceiving",
|
|
"recognizing",
|
|
"registering",
|
|
"savvying",
|
|
"seeing",
|
|
"seizing",
|
|
"sensing",
|
|
"tumbling (to)",
|
|
"twigging",
|
|
"understanding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"absorbing",
|
|
"digesting",
|
|
"taking in",
|
|
"realizing",
|
|
"fathoming",
|
|
"penetrating",
|
|
"piercing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"misapprehending",
|
|
"misconceiving",
|
|
"misconstruing",
|
|
"misinterpreting",
|
|
"misperceiving",
|
|
"misreading",
|
|
"mistaking",
|
|
"misunderstanding"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"missing"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"he tried to make out that he didn't mind losing his job, but friends suspected he was desperately worried"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembling",
|
|
"dissimulating",
|
|
"letting on",
|
|
"pretending"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acting",
|
|
"impersonating",
|
|
"masquerading",
|
|
"playacting",
|
|
"playing",
|
|
"posing",
|
|
"affecting",
|
|
"assuming",
|
|
"counterfeiting",
|
|
"faking",
|
|
"feigning",
|
|
"professing",
|
|
"putting on",
|
|
"shamming",
|
|
"simulating",
|
|
"camouflaging",
|
|
"concealing",
|
|
"disguising",
|
|
"masking",
|
|
"bluffing",
|
|
"feinting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"as best as I can make out , the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"concluding",
|
|
"deciding",
|
|
"deducing",
|
|
"deriving",
|
|
"extrapolating",
|
|
"gathering",
|
|
"inferring",
|
|
"judging",
|
|
"reasoning",
|
|
"understanding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"assuming",
|
|
"supposing",
|
|
"conjecturing",
|
|
"guessing",
|
|
"speculating",
|
|
"surmising",
|
|
"construing",
|
|
"interpreting",
|
|
"reading",
|
|
"contemplating",
|
|
"philosophizing",
|
|
"rationalizing",
|
|
"thinking",
|
|
"ascertaining",
|
|
"doping (out)",
|
|
"finding out"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makeover":{
|
|
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alchemize",
|
|
"convert",
|
|
"metamorphose",
|
|
"transfigure",
|
|
"transform",
|
|
"transmute",
|
|
"transpose",
|
|
"transubstantiate"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"adjust",
|
|
"alter",
|
|
"modify",
|
|
"recast",
|
|
"redefine",
|
|
"redesign",
|
|
"redo",
|
|
"reengineer",
|
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"refashion",
|
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"regenerate",
|
|
"remake",
|
|
"remodel",
|
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"revamp",
|
|
"revise",
|
|
"rework",
|
|
"vary",
|
|
"deform",
|
|
"disfigure",
|
|
"distort",
|
|
"mutate",
|
|
"transmogrify",
|
|
"displace",
|
|
"replace",
|
|
"substitute",
|
|
"supplant"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"made the deed over to his daughter"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alien",
|
|
"alienate",
|
|
"assign",
|
|
"cede",
|
|
"convey",
|
|
"deed",
|
|
"transfer"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bequeath",
|
|
"hand down",
|
|
"leave",
|
|
"pass (down)",
|
|
"will",
|
|
"bestow",
|
|
"commend",
|
|
"commit",
|
|
"confer",
|
|
"contribute",
|
|
"deliver",
|
|
"donate",
|
|
"grant",
|
|
"hand over",
|
|
"move",
|
|
"pass",
|
|
"present",
|
|
"release",
|
|
"relinquish",
|
|
"surrender",
|
|
"transmit",
|
|
"turn in",
|
|
"turn over",
|
|
"vest",
|
|
"yield",
|
|
"consign",
|
|
"entrust",
|
|
"intrust",
|
|
"trust",
|
|
"lease",
|
|
"lend",
|
|
"let",
|
|
"loan",
|
|
"rent"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"expropriate"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to make different in some way":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alter",
|
|
"change",
|
|
"modify",
|
|
"recast",
|
|
"redo",
|
|
"refashion",
|
|
"remake",
|
|
"remodel",
|
|
"revamp",
|
|
"revise",
|
|
"rework",
|
|
"vary"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"deform",
|
|
"metamorphose",
|
|
"mutate",
|
|
"regenerate",
|
|
"revolutionize",
|
|
"transfigure",
|
|
"transform",
|
|
"transmute",
|
|
"commute",
|
|
"convert",
|
|
"exchange",
|
|
"rejigger",
|
|
"retool"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fix",
|
|
"freeze",
|
|
"set",
|
|
"stabilize"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"as in transformation , modification":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"alteration",
|
|
"conversion",
|
|
"modification",
|
|
"refit",
|
|
"revision",
|
|
"transformation",
|
|
"attunement",
|
|
"correction",
|
|
"harmonization",
|
|
"readaptation",
|
|
"readjustment",
|
|
"acclimation",
|
|
"acclimatization",
|
|
"accommodation",
|
|
"adaptation",
|
|
"adaption",
|
|
"adjustment",
|
|
"conformation"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"maladaptation"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes up":{
|
|
"to be all the substance of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the book is made up of 20 chapters"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"composes",
|
|
"comprises",
|
|
"constitutes",
|
|
"forms"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"embodies",
|
|
"epitomizes",
|
|
"incarnates",
|
|
"incorporates",
|
|
"integrates",
|
|
"materializes",
|
|
"personifies",
|
|
"substantiates",
|
|
"complements",
|
|
"completes",
|
|
"supplements",
|
|
"fills (out)",
|
|
"fleshes (out)"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"concocts",
|
|
"constructs",
|
|
"contrives",
|
|
"cooks (up)",
|
|
"devises",
|
|
"drums up",
|
|
"excogitates",
|
|
"fabricates",
|
|
"invents",
|
|
"manufactures",
|
|
"thinks (up)",
|
|
"trumps up",
|
|
"vamps (up)"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"coins",
|
|
"designs",
|
|
"hatches",
|
|
"produces",
|
|
"daydreams",
|
|
"dreams",
|
|
"fantasizes",
|
|
"conceives",
|
|
"envisages",
|
|
"envisions",
|
|
"imagines",
|
|
"pictures",
|
|
"visions",
|
|
"visualizes",
|
|
"ad-libs",
|
|
"extemporizes",
|
|
"improvises"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"clones",
|
|
"copies",
|
|
"copycats",
|
|
"duplicates",
|
|
"imitates",
|
|
"mimics",
|
|
"reduplicates",
|
|
"replicates",
|
|
"reproduces"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked \"some assembly required\""
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"assembles",
|
|
"builds",
|
|
"confects",
|
|
"constructs",
|
|
"erects",
|
|
"fabricates",
|
|
"makes",
|
|
"pieces",
|
|
"puts up",
|
|
"raises",
|
|
"rears",
|
|
"sets up"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carpenters",
|
|
"fashions",
|
|
"forges",
|
|
"frames",
|
|
"hammers",
|
|
"handcrafts",
|
|
"manufactures",
|
|
"molds",
|
|
"produces",
|
|
"shapes",
|
|
"prefabricates",
|
|
"begins",
|
|
"coins",
|
|
"creates",
|
|
"generates",
|
|
"inaugurates",
|
|
"initiates",
|
|
"innovates",
|
|
"invents",
|
|
"originates",
|
|
"constitutes",
|
|
"establishes",
|
|
"fathers",
|
|
"founds",
|
|
"institutes",
|
|
"organizes",
|
|
"conceives",
|
|
"concocts",
|
|
"contrives",
|
|
"cooks (up)",
|
|
"designs",
|
|
"devises",
|
|
"imagines",
|
|
"thinks (up)",
|
|
"reassembles",
|
|
"rebuilds",
|
|
"reconstructs",
|
|
"redevelops",
|
|
"reedifies",
|
|
"retrofits",
|
|
"jerry-builds",
|
|
"rigs (up)",
|
|
"throws up",
|
|
"combines",
|
|
"unites"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"demolishes",
|
|
"destroys",
|
|
"devastates",
|
|
"flattens",
|
|
"levels",
|
|
"pulls down",
|
|
"pulverizes",
|
|
"razes",
|
|
"ruinates",
|
|
"ruins",
|
|
"shatters",
|
|
"smashes",
|
|
"wrecks",
|
|
"blows up",
|
|
"explodes",
|
|
"detaches",
|
|
"disengages",
|
|
"disconnects",
|
|
"disjoins",
|
|
"disunites",
|
|
"divides",
|
|
"separates"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"demounts",
|
|
"disassembles",
|
|
"dismantles",
|
|
"dismembers",
|
|
"knocks down",
|
|
"strikes",
|
|
"takes down",
|
|
"tears down"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making the grade":{
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"There were many applicants for the position, but only a few made the grade for an interview."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arriving",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"prospering",
|
|
"succeeding",
|
|
"thriving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevailing",
|
|
"triumphing",
|
|
"winning",
|
|
"excelling"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"floundering",
|
|
"struggling"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"failing"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes":{
|
|
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"will you help me make the dough for the cookies?"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"fabricates",
|
|
"fashions",
|
|
"forms",
|
|
"frames",
|
|
"manufactures",
|
|
"produces"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"assembles",
|
|
"builds",
|
|
"constructs",
|
|
"erects",
|
|
"makes up",
|
|
"puts up",
|
|
"raises",
|
|
"rears",
|
|
"sets up",
|
|
"structures",
|
|
"throws up",
|
|
"crafts",
|
|
"handcrafts",
|
|
"hews",
|
|
"forges",
|
|
"molds",
|
|
"shapes",
|
|
"cobbles (together or up)",
|
|
"knocks out",
|
|
"patches (together)",
|
|
"throws up",
|
|
"prefabricates",
|
|
"creates",
|
|
"invents",
|
|
"mints",
|
|
"originates",
|
|
"establishes",
|
|
"fathers",
|
|
"institutes",
|
|
"organizes",
|
|
"concocts",
|
|
"contrives",
|
|
"cooks (up)",
|
|
"designs",
|
|
"devises",
|
|
"imagines",
|
|
"thinks (up)",
|
|
"conceives",
|
|
"envisages",
|
|
"pictures",
|
|
"visualizes",
|
|
"refashions",
|
|
"remakes",
|
|
"remanufactures"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"disassembles",
|
|
"dismantles",
|
|
"takes apart",
|
|
"breaks up",
|
|
"dismembers",
|
|
"abolishes",
|
|
"annihilates",
|
|
"demolishes",
|
|
"destroys",
|
|
"devastates",
|
|
"eradicates",
|
|
"exterminates",
|
|
"extinguishes",
|
|
"flattens",
|
|
"pulverizes",
|
|
"razes",
|
|
"ruins",
|
|
"shatters",
|
|
"smashes",
|
|
"wrecks",
|
|
"blows up",
|
|
"explodes"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"we finally made it!"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"achieves",
|
|
"attains",
|
|
"bags",
|
|
"chalks up",
|
|
"clocks (up)",
|
|
"gains",
|
|
"hits",
|
|
"logs",
|
|
"notches (up)",
|
|
"racks up",
|
|
"rings up",
|
|
"scores",
|
|
"wins"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acquires",
|
|
"captures",
|
|
"carries",
|
|
"draws",
|
|
"garners",
|
|
"gets",
|
|
"lands",
|
|
"obtains",
|
|
"procures",
|
|
"realizes",
|
|
"secures",
|
|
"amounts (to)",
|
|
"approaches",
|
|
"equals",
|
|
"matches",
|
|
"measures up (to)",
|
|
"meets",
|
|
"rivals",
|
|
"ties",
|
|
"touches",
|
|
"beats",
|
|
"excels",
|
|
"outdoes",
|
|
"surpasses",
|
|
"tops"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"falls short (of)",
|
|
"misses",
|
|
"fails (at)",
|
|
"loses"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"begets",
|
|
"breeds",
|
|
"brings",
|
|
"brings about",
|
|
"brings on",
|
|
"catalyzes",
|
|
"causes",
|
|
"creates",
|
|
"does",
|
|
"draws on",
|
|
"effects",
|
|
"effectuates",
|
|
"engenders",
|
|
"generates",
|
|
"induces",
|
|
"invokes",
|
|
"occasions",
|
|
"produces",
|
|
"prompts",
|
|
"results (in)",
|
|
"spawns",
|
|
"translates (into)",
|
|
"works",
|
|
"yields"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"conduces (to)",
|
|
"contributes (to)",
|
|
"decides",
|
|
"determines",
|
|
"begins",
|
|
"establishes",
|
|
"fathers",
|
|
"founds",
|
|
"inaugurates",
|
|
"initiates",
|
|
"innovates",
|
|
"institutes",
|
|
"introduces",
|
|
"launches",
|
|
"pioneers",
|
|
"sets",
|
|
"sets up",
|
|
"starts",
|
|
"advances",
|
|
"cultivates",
|
|
"develops",
|
|
"encourages",
|
|
"forwards",
|
|
"fosters",
|
|
"furthers",
|
|
"nourishes",
|
|
"nurtures",
|
|
"promotes",
|
|
"enacts",
|
|
"renders",
|
|
"turns out"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"impedes",
|
|
"limits",
|
|
"restricts",
|
|
"clamps down (on)",
|
|
"cracks down (on)",
|
|
"crushes",
|
|
"dampens",
|
|
"puts down",
|
|
"quashes",
|
|
"quells",
|
|
"represses",
|
|
"smothers",
|
|
"squashes",
|
|
"squelches",
|
|
"stifles",
|
|
"subdues",
|
|
"suppresses",
|
|
"arrests",
|
|
"checks",
|
|
"controls",
|
|
"curbs",
|
|
"inhibits",
|
|
"reins (in)",
|
|
"restrains",
|
|
"retards",
|
|
"cans",
|
|
"kills",
|
|
"snuffs (out)",
|
|
"stills",
|
|
"abolishes",
|
|
"demolishes",
|
|
"destroys",
|
|
"extinguishes",
|
|
"liquidates",
|
|
"quenches"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"accomplishes",
|
|
"achieves",
|
|
"brings off",
|
|
"carries off",
|
|
"carries out",
|
|
"commits",
|
|
"compasses",
|
|
"does",
|
|
"executes",
|
|
"follows through (with)",
|
|
"fulfills",
|
|
"fulfils",
|
|
"negotiates",
|
|
"performs",
|
|
"perpetrates",
|
|
"prosecutes",
|
|
"pulls off",
|
|
"puts through"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"brings about",
|
|
"effects",
|
|
"effectuates",
|
|
"implements",
|
|
"aces",
|
|
"nails",
|
|
"engages (in)",
|
|
"practices",
|
|
"practises",
|
|
"works (at)",
|
|
"reduplicates",
|
|
"reenacts",
|
|
"repeats",
|
|
"actualizes",
|
|
"attains",
|
|
"realizes",
|
|
"completes",
|
|
"ends",
|
|
"finishes",
|
|
"winds up"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"fails",
|
|
"skimps",
|
|
"slights",
|
|
"slurs"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"blackjacks",
|
|
"coerces",
|
|
"compels",
|
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"constrains",
|
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"dragoons",
|
|
"drives",
|
|
"forces",
|
|
"impels",
|
|
"impresses",
|
|
"muscles",
|
|
"obligates",
|
|
"obliges",
|
|
"presses",
|
|
"pressures",
|
|
"sandbags"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"browbeats",
|
|
"bulldozes",
|
|
"bullies",
|
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"cows",
|
|
"hectors",
|
|
"intimidates",
|
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"blackmails",
|
|
"high-pressures",
|
|
"menaces",
|
|
"shames",
|
|
"terrorizes",
|
|
"threatens",
|
|
"drags",
|
|
"badgers",
|
|
"harasses",
|
|
"hounds"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"allows",
|
|
"lets",
|
|
"permits",
|
|
"argues",
|
|
"convinces",
|
|
"induces",
|
|
"moves",
|
|
"persuades",
|
|
"prevails (on or upon)",
|
|
"satisfies",
|
|
"talks (into)",
|
|
"wins (over)"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I make that to be about six feet long"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"calculates",
|
|
"calls",
|
|
"conjectures",
|
|
"estimates",
|
|
"figures",
|
|
"gauges",
|
|
"gages",
|
|
"guesses",
|
|
"judges",
|
|
"places",
|
|
"puts",
|
|
"reckons",
|
|
"supposes"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"concludes",
|
|
"deduces",
|
|
"extrapolates",
|
|
"gathers",
|
|
"infers",
|
|
"reasons",
|
|
"understands"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"calibrates",
|
|
"measures",
|
|
"scales",
|
|
"computes",
|
|
"works out"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"make a model airplane"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"assembles",
|
|
"builds",
|
|
"confects",
|
|
"constructs",
|
|
"erects",
|
|
"fabricates",
|
|
"makes up",
|
|
"pieces",
|
|
"puts up",
|
|
"raises",
|
|
"rears",
|
|
"sets up"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carpenters",
|
|
"fashions",
|
|
"forges",
|
|
"frames",
|
|
"hammers",
|
|
"handcrafts",
|
|
"manufactures",
|
|
"molds",
|
|
"produces",
|
|
"shapes",
|
|
"prefabricates",
|
|
"begins",
|
|
"coins",
|
|
"creates",
|
|
"generates",
|
|
"inaugurates",
|
|
"initiates",
|
|
"innovates",
|
|
"invents",
|
|
"originates",
|
|
"constitutes",
|
|
"establishes",
|
|
"fathers",
|
|
"founds",
|
|
"institutes",
|
|
"organizes",
|
|
"conceives",
|
|
"concocts",
|
|
"contrives",
|
|
"cooks (up)",
|
|
"designs",
|
|
"devises",
|
|
"imagines",
|
|
"thinks (up)",
|
|
"reassembles",
|
|
"rebuilds",
|
|
"reconstructs",
|
|
"redevelops",
|
|
"reedifies",
|
|
"retrofits",
|
|
"jerry-builds",
|
|
"rigs (up)",
|
|
"throws up",
|
|
"combines",
|
|
"unites"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"demolishes",
|
|
"destroys",
|
|
"devastates",
|
|
"flattens",
|
|
"levels",
|
|
"pulls down",
|
|
"pulverizes",
|
|
"razes",
|
|
"ruinates",
|
|
"ruins",
|
|
"shatters",
|
|
"smashes",
|
|
"wrecks",
|
|
"blows up",
|
|
"explodes",
|
|
"detaches",
|
|
"disengages",
|
|
"disconnects",
|
|
"disjoins",
|
|
"disunites",
|
|
"divides",
|
|
"separates"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"demounts",
|
|
"disassembles",
|
|
"dismantles",
|
|
"dismembers",
|
|
"knocks down",
|
|
"strikes",
|
|
"takes down",
|
|
"tears down"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to give the impression of being":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the family made merry despite their financial worries"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"acts",
|
|
"appears",
|
|
"comes across (as)",
|
|
"comes off (as)",
|
|
"feels",
|
|
"looks",
|
|
"seems",
|
|
"sounds"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembles",
|
|
"pretends",
|
|
"recalls",
|
|
"resembles",
|
|
"suggests",
|
|
"hints",
|
|
"implies",
|
|
"insinuates"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to go on a specified course or in a certain direction":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bears",
|
|
"heads"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"aims",
|
|
"bends",
|
|
"directs",
|
|
"points",
|
|
"turns",
|
|
"beelines",
|
|
"lights out",
|
|
"puts",
|
|
"puts out",
|
|
"sets off",
|
|
"sets out",
|
|
"strikes",
|
|
"takes off",
|
|
"faces",
|
|
"orients",
|
|
"steers",
|
|
"about-faces",
|
|
"backs",
|
|
"comes about",
|
|
"comes round",
|
|
"cuts",
|
|
"inclines",
|
|
"puts about",
|
|
"reverses",
|
|
"swerves",
|
|
"tacks",
|
|
"turns back",
|
|
"veers",
|
|
"wheels",
|
|
"yaws"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the legislature failed to make any new laws last session"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"constitutes",
|
|
"enacts",
|
|
"lays down",
|
|
"legislates",
|
|
"ordains",
|
|
"passes"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"reenacts",
|
|
"repasses",
|
|
"brings about",
|
|
"effects",
|
|
"allows",
|
|
"authorizes",
|
|
"permits",
|
|
"sanctions",
|
|
"decrees",
|
|
"dictates",
|
|
"proclaims",
|
|
"administers",
|
|
"executes",
|
|
"approves",
|
|
"confirms",
|
|
"ratifies"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"abolishes",
|
|
"abrogates",
|
|
"annuls",
|
|
"cancels",
|
|
"invalidates",
|
|
"kills",
|
|
"nullifies",
|
|
"overturns",
|
|
"reverses",
|
|
"voids"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"repeals",
|
|
"rescinds",
|
|
"revokes"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to receive as return for effort":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"acquires",
|
|
"attains",
|
|
"bags",
|
|
"brings in",
|
|
"captures",
|
|
"carries",
|
|
"comes by",
|
|
"draws",
|
|
"earns",
|
|
"gains",
|
|
"garners",
|
|
"gets",
|
|
"knocks down",
|
|
"lands",
|
|
"obtains",
|
|
"procures",
|
|
"pulls down",
|
|
"realizes",
|
|
"reaps",
|
|
"secures",
|
|
"wins"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"clears",
|
|
"grosses",
|
|
"nets",
|
|
"accomplishes",
|
|
"achieves",
|
|
"notches (up)",
|
|
"scores",
|
|
"accumulates",
|
|
"amasses",
|
|
"racks up",
|
|
"catches",
|
|
"picks up",
|
|
"annexes",
|
|
"occupies",
|
|
"takes over",
|
|
"reacquires",
|
|
"reattains",
|
|
"recaptures",
|
|
"regains",
|
|
"remakes"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"accords",
|
|
"gives",
|
|
"grants",
|
|
"pays",
|
|
"gives up",
|
|
"hands over",
|
|
"parts (with)",
|
|
"relinquishes",
|
|
"surrenders",
|
|
"yields"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"forfeits",
|
|
"loses"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to have a clear idea of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"what do you make of the latest information?"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appreciates",
|
|
"apprehends",
|
|
"assimilates",
|
|
"beholds",
|
|
"catches",
|
|
"catches on (to)",
|
|
"cognizes",
|
|
"compasses",
|
|
"comprehends",
|
|
"conceives",
|
|
"cottons (to or on to)",
|
|
"deciphers",
|
|
"decodes",
|
|
"digs",
|
|
"discerns",
|
|
"gets",
|
|
"grasps",
|
|
"groks",
|
|
"intuits",
|
|
"knows",
|
|
"makes out",
|
|
"perceives",
|
|
"recognizes",
|
|
"registers",
|
|
"savvies",
|
|
"sees",
|
|
"seizes",
|
|
"senses",
|
|
"tumbles (to)",
|
|
"twigs",
|
|
"understands"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"absorbs",
|
|
"digests",
|
|
"takes in",
|
|
"realizes",
|
|
"fathoms",
|
|
"penetrates",
|
|
"pierces"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"misapprehends",
|
|
"misconceives",
|
|
"misconstrues",
|
|
"misinterprets",
|
|
"misperceives",
|
|
"misreads",
|
|
"mistakes",
|
|
"misunderstands"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"misses"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"make the gate when ye leave"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"closes",
|
|
"shuts",
|
|
"steeks"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bars",
|
|
"battens (down)",
|
|
"bolts",
|
|
"chains",
|
|
"fastens",
|
|
"latches",
|
|
"locks",
|
|
"plugs",
|
|
"seals",
|
|
"stoppers",
|
|
"secures",
|
|
"bangs",
|
|
"claps",
|
|
"slams"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"unbars",
|
|
"unbolts",
|
|
"unchains",
|
|
"unfastens",
|
|
"unlatches",
|
|
"unlocks",
|
|
"unseals"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"opens"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes one's flesh crawl":{
|
|
"to strike with fear":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"affrights",
|
|
"alarms",
|
|
"alarums",
|
|
"frightens",
|
|
"frights",
|
|
"horrifies",
|
|
"panics",
|
|
"scares",
|
|
"scarifies",
|
|
"shocks",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"make-believe":{
|
|
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"zoomed around the house in a make-believe car"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"chimerical",
|
|
"chimeric",
|
|
"fabulous",
|
|
"fanciful",
|
|
"fantasied",
|
|
"fantastic",
|
|
"fantastical",
|
|
"fictional",
|
|
"fictitious",
|
|
"ideal",
|
|
"imaginal",
|
|
"imaginary",
|
|
"imagined",
|
|
"invented",
|
|
"made-up",
|
|
"mythical",
|
|
"mythic",
|
|
"notional",
|
|
"phantasmal",
|
|
"phantasmic",
|
|
"phantom",
|
|
"pretend",
|
|
"unreal",
|
|
"visionary"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"fabled",
|
|
"legendary",
|
|
"romantic",
|
|
"abstract",
|
|
"hypothetical",
|
|
"theoretical",
|
|
"theoretic",
|
|
"unbelievable",
|
|
"unconvincing",
|
|
"unlikely",
|
|
"conceived",
|
|
"envisaged",
|
|
"envisioned",
|
|
"pictured",
|
|
"visualized",
|
|
"daydreamlike",
|
|
"deceptive",
|
|
"delusional",
|
|
"delusive",
|
|
"hallucinatory",
|
|
"illusory",
|
|
"phantasmagoric",
|
|
"phantasmagorical",
|
|
"concocted",
|
|
"fabricated",
|
|
"feigned",
|
|
"fictive",
|
|
"inexistent",
|
|
"nonexistent"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"authentic",
|
|
"genuine",
|
|
"true",
|
|
"factual",
|
|
"verifiable",
|
|
"verified",
|
|
"believable",
|
|
"convincing",
|
|
"realistic",
|
|
"corporeal",
|
|
"material",
|
|
"physical",
|
|
"solid",
|
|
"substantial",
|
|
"palpable",
|
|
"tangible"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"actual",
|
|
"existent",
|
|
"existing",
|
|
"real"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"as in pretense , likeness":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"affectation",
|
|
"demonstration",
|
|
"display",
|
|
"fiction",
|
|
"image",
|
|
"imitation",
|
|
"imposture",
|
|
"likeness",
|
|
"pose",
|
|
"pretense",
|
|
"pretence",
|
|
"representation",
|
|
"simulation",
|
|
"hint",
|
|
"implication",
|
|
"insinuation",
|
|
"resemblance",
|
|
"suggestion",
|
|
"cloak",
|
|
"disguise",
|
|
"exterior",
|
|
"facade",
|
|
"fa\u00e7ade",
|
|
"front",
|
|
"gloss",
|
|
"mask",
|
|
"masquerade",
|
|
"patina",
|
|
"Potemkin village",
|
|
"shape",
|
|
"shell",
|
|
"surface",
|
|
"veneer",
|
|
"air",
|
|
"effect",
|
|
"impression",
|
|
"appearance",
|
|
"face",
|
|
"guise",
|
|
"name",
|
|
"outward",
|
|
"seeming",
|
|
"semblance",
|
|
"show"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to present a false appearance of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"act",
|
|
"affect",
|
|
"assume",
|
|
"bluff",
|
|
"counterfeit",
|
|
"dissemble",
|
|
"fake",
|
|
"feign",
|
|
"pass (for)",
|
|
"pretend",
|
|
"profess",
|
|
"put on",
|
|
"sham",
|
|
"simulate"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"dissimulate",
|
|
"impersonate",
|
|
"let on",
|
|
"masquerade",
|
|
"play",
|
|
"playact",
|
|
"pose",
|
|
"forge",
|
|
"imitate",
|
|
"camouflage",
|
|
"conceal",
|
|
"disguise",
|
|
"mask",
|
|
"feint",
|
|
"malinger"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes over":{
|
|
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alchemizes",
|
|
"converts",
|
|
"metamorphoses",
|
|
"transfigures",
|
|
"transforms",
|
|
"transmutes",
|
|
"transposes",
|
|
"transubstantiates"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"adjusts",
|
|
"alters",
|
|
"modifies",
|
|
"recasts",
|
|
"redefines",
|
|
"redesigns",
|
|
"redoes",
|
|
"reengineers",
|
|
"refashions",
|
|
"regenerates",
|
|
"remakes",
|
|
"remodels",
|
|
"revamps",
|
|
"revises",
|
|
"reworks",
|
|
"varies",
|
|
"deforms",
|
|
"disfigures",
|
|
"distorts",
|
|
"mutates",
|
|
"transmogrifies",
|
|
"displaces",
|
|
"replaces",
|
|
"substitutes",
|
|
"supplants"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"made the deed over to his daughter"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alienates",
|
|
"aliens",
|
|
"assigns",
|
|
"cedes",
|
|
"conveys",
|
|
"deeds",
|
|
"transfers"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bequeaths",
|
|
"hands down",
|
|
"leaves",
|
|
"passes (down)",
|
|
"wills",
|
|
"bestows",
|
|
"commends",
|
|
"commits",
|
|
"confers",
|
|
"contributes",
|
|
"delivers",
|
|
"donates",
|
|
"grants",
|
|
"hands over",
|
|
"moves",
|
|
"passes",
|
|
"presents",
|
|
"releases",
|
|
"relinquishes",
|
|
"surrenders",
|
|
"transmits",
|
|
"turns in",
|
|
"turns over",
|
|
"vests",
|
|
"yields",
|
|
"consigns",
|
|
"entrusts",
|
|
"intrusts",
|
|
"trusts",
|
|
"leases",
|
|
"lends",
|
|
"lets",
|
|
"loans",
|
|
"rents"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"expropriates"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to make different in some way":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alters",
|
|
"changes",
|
|
"modifies",
|
|
"recasts",
|
|
"redoes",
|
|
"refashions",
|
|
"remakes",
|
|
"remodels",
|
|
"revamps",
|
|
"revises",
|
|
"reworks",
|
|
"varies"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"deforms",
|
|
"metamorphoses",
|
|
"mutates",
|
|
"regenerates",
|
|
"revolutionizes",
|
|
"transfigures",
|
|
"transforms",
|
|
"transmutes",
|
|
"commutes",
|
|
"converts",
|
|
"exchanges",
|
|
"rejiggers",
|
|
"retools"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fixes",
|
|
"freezes",
|
|
"sets",
|
|
"stabilizes"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make love":{
|
|
"as in keep company , go steady":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"go steady",
|
|
"keep company",
|
|
"court",
|
|
"date"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make ends meet":{
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The couple's income was just enough to make ends meet each month."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cope",
|
|
"do",
|
|
"fare",
|
|
"get along",
|
|
"get by",
|
|
"get on",
|
|
"make out",
|
|
"manage",
|
|
"shift"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carry on",
|
|
"contrive",
|
|
"scrape (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounge",
|
|
"last",
|
|
"survive",
|
|
"eke out",
|
|
"scrape (out)",
|
|
"squeeze",
|
|
"wrest",
|
|
"wring",
|
|
"afford",
|
|
"swing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapse",
|
|
"fail",
|
|
"fall short",
|
|
"fizzle",
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"decline",
|
|
"peter (out)",
|
|
"slump",
|
|
"wane",
|
|
"give up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makeshifts":{
|
|
"a temporary replacement":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"expedients",
|
|
"stopgaps"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"quick fixes",
|
|
"recourses",
|
|
"refuges",
|
|
"resorts",
|
|
"alternates",
|
|
"backups",
|
|
"standbys",
|
|
"stand-ins",
|
|
"substitutes",
|
|
"understudies"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making a show":{
|
|
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made a show of addressing the whole audience, rather than a few like-minded folk."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembling",
|
|
"dissimulating",
|
|
"letting on",
|
|
"making out",
|
|
"pretending"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acting",
|
|
"impersonating",
|
|
"masquerading",
|
|
"playacting",
|
|
"playing",
|
|
"posing",
|
|
"affecting",
|
|
"assuming",
|
|
"counterfeiting",
|
|
"faking",
|
|
"feigning",
|
|
"professing",
|
|
"putting on",
|
|
"shamming",
|
|
"simulating",
|
|
"camouflaging",
|
|
"concealing",
|
|
"disguising",
|
|
"masking",
|
|
"bluffing",
|
|
"feinting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making much of":{
|
|
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made much of the one study that supported his argument."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"accenting",
|
|
"accentuating",
|
|
"emphasizing",
|
|
"featuring",
|
|
"foregrounding",
|
|
"highlighting",
|
|
"illuminating",
|
|
"playing up",
|
|
"pointing (up)",
|
|
"pressing",
|
|
"punctuating",
|
|
"stressing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"focusing",
|
|
"focussing",
|
|
"identifying",
|
|
"pinpointing",
|
|
"spotlighting",
|
|
"advertising",
|
|
"boosting",
|
|
"plugging",
|
|
"promoting",
|
|
"publicizing",
|
|
"overplaying"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"toning (down)",
|
|
"underemphasizing",
|
|
"understating",
|
|
"belittling",
|
|
"discounting",
|
|
"disparaging",
|
|
"minimizing"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"de-emphasizing",
|
|
"playing down"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes good on":{
|
|
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"answers",
|
|
"completes",
|
|
"complies (with)",
|
|
"fills",
|
|
"fulfills",
|
|
"keeps",
|
|
"meets",
|
|
"redeems",
|
|
"satisfies"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"concludes",
|
|
"consummates",
|
|
"finalizes",
|
|
"finishes",
|
|
"perfects",
|
|
"accomplishes",
|
|
"achieves",
|
|
"brings about",
|
|
"brings off",
|
|
"carries out",
|
|
"effects",
|
|
"commits",
|
|
"compasses",
|
|
"discharges",
|
|
"executes",
|
|
"follows through (with)",
|
|
"makes",
|
|
"performs"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"defaults (on)",
|
|
"disregards",
|
|
"forgets",
|
|
"ignores",
|
|
"neglects",
|
|
"overlooks",
|
|
"overpasses",
|
|
"passes over",
|
|
"slights"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"breaches",
|
|
"breaks",
|
|
"transgresses",
|
|
"violates"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrives",
|
|
"flourishes",
|
|
"prospers",
|
|
"succeeds",
|
|
"thrives"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevails",
|
|
"triumphs",
|
|
"wins",
|
|
"excels"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"flounders",
|
|
"struggles"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fails"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making ducks and drakes of":{
|
|
"to use up carelessly":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"blowing",
|
|
"dissipating",
|
|
"fiddling away",
|
|
"frittering (away)",
|
|
"lavishing",
|
|
"losing",
|
|
"misspending",
|
|
"running through",
|
|
"spending",
|
|
"squandering",
|
|
"throwing away",
|
|
"trifling (away)",
|
|
"wasting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"splurging",
|
|
"consuming",
|
|
"depleting",
|
|
"exhausting",
|
|
"impoverishing",
|
|
"overspending",
|
|
"shooting",
|
|
"indulging",
|
|
"overindulging",
|
|
"disbursing",
|
|
"expending",
|
|
"laying out"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"economizing",
|
|
"scrimping",
|
|
"skimping",
|
|
"preserving",
|
|
"protecting",
|
|
"saving",
|
|
"hoarding",
|
|
"laying up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"conserving"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"making it":{
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"His parents convinced him that he could make it in anything he chose to do if he worked hard enough."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arriving",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"prospering",
|
|
"succeeding",
|
|
"thriving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevailing",
|
|
"triumphing",
|
|
"winning",
|
|
"excelling"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"floundering",
|
|
"struggling"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"failing"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make a scene":{
|
|
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I know you're upset, but please stop making a scene ."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bristle",
|
|
"fume",
|
|
"rage",
|
|
"storm"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"blow up",
|
|
"flare (up)",
|
|
"flip (out)",
|
|
"bluster",
|
|
"carry on",
|
|
"fulminate",
|
|
"rampage",
|
|
"rant",
|
|
"rave",
|
|
"take on",
|
|
"burn",
|
|
"foam",
|
|
"seethe",
|
|
"smolder",
|
|
"smoulder",
|
|
"steam",
|
|
"chafe",
|
|
"fret",
|
|
"stew"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"allay",
|
|
"appease",
|
|
"pacify",
|
|
"soothe",
|
|
"check",
|
|
"choke (back)",
|
|
"collect",
|
|
"compose",
|
|
"contain",
|
|
"curb",
|
|
"pocket",
|
|
"rein",
|
|
"repress",
|
|
"restrain",
|
|
"smother",
|
|
"stifle",
|
|
"strangle",
|
|
"subdue",
|
|
"suppress",
|
|
"swallow",
|
|
"moderate",
|
|
"temper",
|
|
"tone (down)",
|
|
"ease",
|
|
"let up",
|
|
"relax",
|
|
"calm",
|
|
"cool",
|
|
"hush",
|
|
"quell",
|
|
"quiet",
|
|
"settle",
|
|
"still"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make shift":{
|
|
"taking the place of one that came before":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"turned a towel into a makeshift skirt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"new",
|
|
"substitute",
|
|
"substitutive"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"alternate",
|
|
"alternative",
|
|
"pinch",
|
|
"different",
|
|
"other",
|
|
"separate",
|
|
"extra",
|
|
"spare",
|
|
"improvised",
|
|
"jury",
|
|
"another",
|
|
"second",
|
|
"utility",
|
|
"successive",
|
|
"equivalent"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"first",
|
|
"former",
|
|
"equal",
|
|
"identical",
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"same",
|
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"lasting",
|
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"permanent"
|
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],
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"original"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"a temporary replacement":{
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"expedient",
|
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"stopgap"
|
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],
|
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"near synonyms":[
|
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"quick fix",
|
|
"recourse",
|
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"refuge",
|
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"resort",
|
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"alternate",
|
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"backup",
|
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"standby",
|
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"stand-in",
|
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"substitute",
|
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"understudy"
|
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],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
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},
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cope",
|
|
"do",
|
|
"fare",
|
|
"get along",
|
|
"get by",
|
|
"get on",
|
|
"make out",
|
|
"manage",
|
|
"shift"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carry on",
|
|
"contrive",
|
|
"scrape (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounge",
|
|
"last",
|
|
"survive",
|
|
"eke out",
|
|
"scrape (out)",
|
|
"squeeze",
|
|
"wrest",
|
|
"wring",
|
|
"afford",
|
|
"swing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapse",
|
|
"fail",
|
|
"fall short",
|
|
"fizzle",
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"decline",
|
|
"peter (out)",
|
|
"slump",
|
|
"wane",
|
|
"give up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes off with":{
|
|
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The robbers made off with the family's jewelry and electronics, among other things."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appropriates",
|
|
"boosts",
|
|
"filches",
|
|
"heists",
|
|
"hooks",
|
|
"lifts",
|
|
"misappropriates",
|
|
"nicks",
|
|
"nips",
|
|
"pilfers",
|
|
"pinches",
|
|
"pockets",
|
|
"purloins",
|
|
"rips off",
|
|
"snitches",
|
|
"steals",
|
|
"swipes",
|
|
"thieves"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"burglarizes",
|
|
"knocks over",
|
|
"robs",
|
|
"loots",
|
|
"pillages",
|
|
"plunders",
|
|
"sacks",
|
|
"carjacks",
|
|
"hijacks",
|
|
"highjacks",
|
|
"picks",
|
|
"rifles",
|
|
"poaches",
|
|
"rustles",
|
|
"shoplifts",
|
|
"collars",
|
|
"grabs",
|
|
"grasps",
|
|
"nails",
|
|
"seizes",
|
|
"snatches",
|
|
"takes",
|
|
"mooches",
|
|
"sponges",
|
|
"abducts",
|
|
"kidnaps",
|
|
"shanghais",
|
|
"spirits"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"buys",
|
|
"purchases",
|
|
"bestows",
|
|
"contributes",
|
|
"donates",
|
|
"gives",
|
|
"hands over",
|
|
"presents"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The kidnappers made off with their victim without being seen."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abducts",
|
|
"kidnaps"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"captures",
|
|
"crimps",
|
|
"impresses",
|
|
"seizes",
|
|
"shanghais",
|
|
"waylays",
|
|
"absconds (with)",
|
|
"snatches",
|
|
"spirits",
|
|
"hijacks",
|
|
"highjacks",
|
|
"catches",
|
|
"cops",
|
|
"steals",
|
|
"takes"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"delivers",
|
|
"ransoms",
|
|
"redeems",
|
|
"rescues",
|
|
"restores",
|
|
"returns"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make the grade":{
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"There were many applicants for the position, but only a few made the grade for an interview."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrive",
|
|
"flourish",
|
|
"prosper",
|
|
"succeed",
|
|
"thrive"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevail",
|
|
"triumph",
|
|
"win",
|
|
"excel"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"struggle"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fail"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes out":{
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"we're not rich, but we're making out all right"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"copes",
|
|
"does",
|
|
"fares",
|
|
"gets along",
|
|
"gets by",
|
|
"gets on",
|
|
"manages",
|
|
"shifts"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carries on",
|
|
"contrives",
|
|
"scrapes (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounges",
|
|
"lasts",
|
|
"survives",
|
|
"ekes out",
|
|
"scrapes (out)",
|
|
"squeezes",
|
|
"wrests",
|
|
"wrings",
|
|
"affords",
|
|
"swings"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapses",
|
|
"fails",
|
|
"falls short",
|
|
"fizzles",
|
|
"flounders",
|
|
"declines",
|
|
"peters (out)",
|
|
"slumps",
|
|
"wanes",
|
|
"gives up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to have a clear idea of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I can't quite make out what she is trying to say"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appreciates",
|
|
"apprehends",
|
|
"assimilates",
|
|
"beholds",
|
|
"catches",
|
|
"catches on (to)",
|
|
"cognizes",
|
|
"compasses",
|
|
"comprehends",
|
|
"conceives",
|
|
"cottons (to or on to)",
|
|
"deciphers",
|
|
"decodes",
|
|
"digs",
|
|
"discerns",
|
|
"gets",
|
|
"grasps",
|
|
"groks",
|
|
"intuits",
|
|
"knows",
|
|
"makes",
|
|
"perceives",
|
|
"recognizes",
|
|
"registers",
|
|
"savvies",
|
|
"sees",
|
|
"seizes",
|
|
"senses",
|
|
"tumbles (to)",
|
|
"twigs",
|
|
"understands"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"absorbs",
|
|
"digests",
|
|
"takes in",
|
|
"realizes",
|
|
"fathoms",
|
|
"penetrates",
|
|
"pierces"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"misapprehends",
|
|
"misconceives",
|
|
"misconstrues",
|
|
"misinterprets",
|
|
"misperceives",
|
|
"misreads",
|
|
"mistakes",
|
|
"misunderstands"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"misses"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"he tried to make out that he didn't mind losing his job, but friends suspected he was desperately worried"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembles",
|
|
"dissimulates",
|
|
"lets on",
|
|
"pretends"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acts",
|
|
"impersonates",
|
|
"masquerades",
|
|
"playacts",
|
|
"plays",
|
|
"poses",
|
|
"affects",
|
|
"assumes",
|
|
"counterfeits",
|
|
"fakes",
|
|
"feigns",
|
|
"professes",
|
|
"puts on",
|
|
"shams",
|
|
"simulates",
|
|
"camouflages",
|
|
"conceals",
|
|
"disguises",
|
|
"masks",
|
|
"bluffs",
|
|
"feints"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"as best as I can make out , the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"concludes",
|
|
"decides",
|
|
"deduces",
|
|
"derives",
|
|
"extrapolates",
|
|
"gathers",
|
|
"infers",
|
|
"judges",
|
|
"reasons",
|
|
"understands"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"assumes",
|
|
"supposes",
|
|
"conjectures",
|
|
"guesses",
|
|
"speculates",
|
|
"surmises",
|
|
"construes",
|
|
"interprets",
|
|
"reads",
|
|
"contemplates",
|
|
"philosophizes",
|
|
"rationalizes",
|
|
"thinks",
|
|
"ascertains",
|
|
"dopes (out)",
|
|
"finds out"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make faces":{
|
|
"to distort one's face":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grimace",
|
|
"mouth",
|
|
"mug"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"pout",
|
|
"contort",
|
|
"deform",
|
|
"twist",
|
|
"warp",
|
|
"frown",
|
|
"glare",
|
|
"gloom",
|
|
"glower",
|
|
"lower",
|
|
"lour",
|
|
"scowl",
|
|
"gape",
|
|
"gaze",
|
|
"ogle",
|
|
"stare",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"snarl",
|
|
"sneer",
|
|
"simper",
|
|
"smirk"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beam",
|
|
"grin",
|
|
"smile"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making away with":{
|
|
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They made away with the baby in the middle of the night."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abducting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"capturing",
|
|
"crimping",
|
|
"impressing",
|
|
"kidnapping",
|
|
"kidnaping",
|
|
"seizing",
|
|
"shanghaiing",
|
|
"waylaying",
|
|
"absconding (with)",
|
|
"snatching",
|
|
"spiriting",
|
|
"hijacking",
|
|
"highjacking",
|
|
"catching",
|
|
"copping",
|
|
"stealing",
|
|
"taking"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"delivering",
|
|
"ransoming",
|
|
"redeeming",
|
|
"rescuing",
|
|
"restoring",
|
|
"returning"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to deprive of life":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The gangster's henchmen made away with several of his rivals."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"carrying off",
|
|
"claiming",
|
|
"croaking",
|
|
"destroying",
|
|
"dispatching",
|
|
"doing in",
|
|
"felling",
|
|
"killing",
|
|
"slaying",
|
|
"taking"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bumping off",
|
|
"butchering",
|
|
"cutting down",
|
|
"finishing",
|
|
"getting",
|
|
"icing",
|
|
"knocking off",
|
|
"murdering",
|
|
"neutralizing",
|
|
"offing",
|
|
"putting away",
|
|
"rubbing out",
|
|
"scragging",
|
|
"snuffing",
|
|
"taking out",
|
|
"wasting",
|
|
"whacking",
|
|
"annihilating",
|
|
"blotting out",
|
|
"decimating",
|
|
"killing off",
|
|
"massacring",
|
|
"mowing",
|
|
"slaughtering",
|
|
"smiting",
|
|
"assassinating",
|
|
"executing",
|
|
"martyring",
|
|
"terminating",
|
|
"euthanizing",
|
|
"euthanatizing",
|
|
"putting down",
|
|
"suiciding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"raising",
|
|
"restoring",
|
|
"resurrecting",
|
|
"resuscitating",
|
|
"reviving",
|
|
"nurturing"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"animating"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The thief made away with merchandise worth thousands of dollars."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appropriating",
|
|
"boosting",
|
|
"filching",
|
|
"heisting",
|
|
"hooking",
|
|
"lifting",
|
|
"misappropriating",
|
|
"nicking",
|
|
"nipping",
|
|
"pilfering",
|
|
"pinching",
|
|
"pocketing",
|
|
"purloining",
|
|
"ripping off",
|
|
"snitching",
|
|
"stealing",
|
|
"swiping",
|
|
"thieving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"burglarizing",
|
|
"knocking over",
|
|
"robbing",
|
|
"looting",
|
|
"pillaging",
|
|
"plundering",
|
|
"sacking",
|
|
"carjacking",
|
|
"hijacking",
|
|
"highjacking",
|
|
"picking",
|
|
"rifling",
|
|
"poaching",
|
|
"rustling",
|
|
"shoplifting",
|
|
"collaring",
|
|
"grabbing",
|
|
"grasping",
|
|
"nailing",
|
|
"seizing",
|
|
"snatching",
|
|
"taking",
|
|
"mooching",
|
|
"sponging",
|
|
"abducting",
|
|
"kidnapping",
|
|
"kidnaping",
|
|
"shanghaiing",
|
|
"spiriting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"buying",
|
|
"purchasing",
|
|
"bestowing",
|
|
"contributing",
|
|
"donating",
|
|
"giving",
|
|
"handing over",
|
|
"presenting"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make-belief":{
|
|
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"zoomed around the house in a make-believe car"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"chimerical",
|
|
"chimeric",
|
|
"fabulous",
|
|
"fanciful",
|
|
"fantasied",
|
|
"fantastic",
|
|
"fantastical",
|
|
"fictional",
|
|
"fictitious",
|
|
"ideal",
|
|
"imaginal",
|
|
"imaginary",
|
|
"imagined",
|
|
"invented",
|
|
"made-up",
|
|
"mythical",
|
|
"mythic",
|
|
"notional",
|
|
"phantasmal",
|
|
"phantasmic",
|
|
"phantom",
|
|
"pretend",
|
|
"unreal",
|
|
"visionary"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"fabled",
|
|
"legendary",
|
|
"romantic",
|
|
"abstract",
|
|
"hypothetical",
|
|
"theoretical",
|
|
"theoretic",
|
|
"unbelievable",
|
|
"unconvincing",
|
|
"unlikely",
|
|
"conceived",
|
|
"envisaged",
|
|
"envisioned",
|
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"pictured",
|
|
"visualized",
|
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"daydreamlike",
|
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"deceptive",
|
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"delusional",
|
|
"delusive",
|
|
"hallucinatory",
|
|
"illusory",
|
|
"phantasmagoric",
|
|
"phantasmagorical",
|
|
"concocted",
|
|
"fabricated",
|
|
"feigned",
|
|
"fictive",
|
|
"inexistent",
|
|
"nonexistent"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"authentic",
|
|
"genuine",
|
|
"true",
|
|
"factual",
|
|
"verifiable",
|
|
"verified",
|
|
"believable",
|
|
"convincing",
|
|
"realistic",
|
|
"corporeal",
|
|
"material",
|
|
"physical",
|
|
"solid",
|
|
"substantial",
|
|
"palpable",
|
|
"tangible"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"actual",
|
|
"existent",
|
|
"existing",
|
|
"real"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"as in pretense , likeness":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"affectation",
|
|
"demonstration",
|
|
"display",
|
|
"fiction",
|
|
"image",
|
|
"imitation",
|
|
"imposture",
|
|
"likeness",
|
|
"pose",
|
|
"pretense",
|
|
"pretence",
|
|
"representation",
|
|
"simulation",
|
|
"hint",
|
|
"implication",
|
|
"insinuation",
|
|
"resemblance",
|
|
"suggestion",
|
|
"cloak",
|
|
"disguise",
|
|
"exterior",
|
|
"facade",
|
|
"fa\u00e7ade",
|
|
"front",
|
|
"gloss",
|
|
"mask",
|
|
"masquerade",
|
|
"patina",
|
|
"Potemkin village",
|
|
"shape",
|
|
"shell",
|
|
"surface",
|
|
"veneer",
|
|
"air",
|
|
"effect",
|
|
"impression",
|
|
"appearance",
|
|
"face",
|
|
"guise",
|
|
"name",
|
|
"outward",
|
|
"seeming",
|
|
"semblance",
|
|
"show"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to present a false appearance of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"act",
|
|
"affect",
|
|
"assume",
|
|
"bluff",
|
|
"counterfeit",
|
|
"dissemble",
|
|
"fake",
|
|
"feign",
|
|
"pass (for)",
|
|
"pretend",
|
|
"profess",
|
|
"put on",
|
|
"sham",
|
|
"simulate"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"dissimulate",
|
|
"impersonate",
|
|
"let on",
|
|
"masquerade",
|
|
"play",
|
|
"playact",
|
|
"pose",
|
|
"forge",
|
|
"imitate",
|
|
"camouflage",
|
|
"conceal",
|
|
"disguise",
|
|
"mask",
|
|
"feint",
|
|
"malinger"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making sail":{
|
|
"as in taking ship":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"taking ship",
|
|
"boating",
|
|
"cruising",
|
|
"ferrying",
|
|
"navigating",
|
|
"sailing",
|
|
"shipping (out)",
|
|
"voyaging"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes a scene":{
|
|
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I know you're upset, but please stop making a scene ."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bristles",
|
|
"fumes",
|
|
"rages",
|
|
"storms"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"blows up",
|
|
"flares (up)",
|
|
"flips (out)",
|
|
"blusters",
|
|
"carries on",
|
|
"fulminates",
|
|
"rampages",
|
|
"rants",
|
|
"raves",
|
|
"takes on",
|
|
"burns",
|
|
"foams",
|
|
"seethes",
|
|
"smolders",
|
|
"smoulders",
|
|
"steams",
|
|
"chafes",
|
|
"frets",
|
|
"stews"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"allays",
|
|
"appeases",
|
|
"pacifies",
|
|
"soothes",
|
|
"checks",
|
|
"chokes (back)",
|
|
"collects",
|
|
"composes",
|
|
"contains",
|
|
"curbs",
|
|
"pockets",
|
|
"reins",
|
|
"represses",
|
|
"restrains",
|
|
"smothers",
|
|
"stifles",
|
|
"strangles",
|
|
"subdues",
|
|
"suppresses",
|
|
"swallows",
|
|
"moderates",
|
|
"tempers",
|
|
"tones (down)",
|
|
"eases",
|
|
"lets up",
|
|
"relaxes",
|
|
"calms",
|
|
"cools",
|
|
"hushes",
|
|
"quells",
|
|
"quiets",
|
|
"settles",
|
|
"stills"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes a show":{
|
|
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made a show of addressing the whole audience, rather than a few like-minded folk."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembles",
|
|
"dissimulates",
|
|
"lets on",
|
|
"makes out",
|
|
"pretends"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acts",
|
|
"impersonates",
|
|
"masquerades",
|
|
"playacts",
|
|
"plays",
|
|
"poses",
|
|
"affects",
|
|
"assumes",
|
|
"counterfeits",
|
|
"fakes",
|
|
"feigns",
|
|
"professes",
|
|
"puts on",
|
|
"shams",
|
|
"simulates",
|
|
"camouflages",
|
|
"conceals",
|
|
"disguises",
|
|
"masks",
|
|
"bluffs",
|
|
"feints"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes good for":{
|
|
"to make up for (an offense)":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"atones (for)",
|
|
"expiates",
|
|
"mends",
|
|
"redeems"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"compensates",
|
|
"recompenses",
|
|
"reimburses",
|
|
"remunerates",
|
|
"repays",
|
|
"amends",
|
|
"corrects",
|
|
"rectifies",
|
|
"redresses",
|
|
"propitiates"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making game of":{
|
|
"as in picking on":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"picking on",
|
|
"baiting",
|
|
"hassling",
|
|
"hazing",
|
|
"heckling",
|
|
"needling",
|
|
"riding",
|
|
"taunting",
|
|
"teasing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes love":{
|
|
"as in keeps company , goes steady":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"goes steady",
|
|
"keeps company",
|
|
"courts",
|
|
"dates"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making over":{
|
|
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alchemizing",
|
|
"converting",
|
|
"metamorphosing",
|
|
"transfiguring",
|
|
"transforming",
|
|
"transmuting",
|
|
"transposing",
|
|
"transubstantiating"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"adjusting",
|
|
"altering",
|
|
"modifying",
|
|
"recasting",
|
|
"redefining",
|
|
"redesigning",
|
|
"redoing",
|
|
"reengineering",
|
|
"refashioning",
|
|
"regenerating",
|
|
"remaking",
|
|
"remodeling",
|
|
"revamping",
|
|
"revising",
|
|
"reworking",
|
|
"varying",
|
|
"deforming",
|
|
"disfiguring",
|
|
"distorting",
|
|
"mutating",
|
|
"transmogrifying",
|
|
"displacing",
|
|
"replacing",
|
|
"substituting",
|
|
"supplanting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"made the deed over to his daughter"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alienating",
|
|
"aliening",
|
|
"assigning",
|
|
"ceding",
|
|
"conveying",
|
|
"deeding",
|
|
"transferring"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bequeathing",
|
|
"handing down",
|
|
"leaving",
|
|
"passing (down)",
|
|
"willing",
|
|
"bestowing",
|
|
"commending",
|
|
"committing",
|
|
"conferring",
|
|
"contributing",
|
|
"delivering",
|
|
"donating",
|
|
"granting",
|
|
"handing over",
|
|
"moving",
|
|
"passing",
|
|
"presenting",
|
|
"releasing",
|
|
"relinquishing",
|
|
"surrendering",
|
|
"transmitting",
|
|
"turning in",
|
|
"turning over",
|
|
"vesting",
|
|
"yielding",
|
|
"consigning",
|
|
"entrusting",
|
|
"intrusting",
|
|
"trusting",
|
|
"leasing",
|
|
"lending",
|
|
"letting",
|
|
"loaning",
|
|
"renting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"expropriating"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to make different in some way":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"altering",
|
|
"changing",
|
|
"modifying",
|
|
"recasting",
|
|
"redoing",
|
|
"refashioning",
|
|
"remaking",
|
|
"remodeling",
|
|
"revamping",
|
|
"revising",
|
|
"reworking",
|
|
"varying"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"deforming",
|
|
"metamorphosing",
|
|
"mutating",
|
|
"regenerating",
|
|
"revolutionizing",
|
|
"transfiguring",
|
|
"transforming",
|
|
"transmuting",
|
|
"commuting",
|
|
"converting",
|
|
"exchanging",
|
|
"rejiggering",
|
|
"retooling"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fixing",
|
|
"freezing",
|
|
"setting",
|
|
"stabilizing"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes a pretense":{
|
|
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He didn't even make a pretense of appreciating her artwork."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembles",
|
|
"dissimulates",
|
|
"lets on",
|
|
"makes out",
|
|
"pretends"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acts",
|
|
"impersonates",
|
|
"masquerades",
|
|
"playacts",
|
|
"plays",
|
|
"poses",
|
|
"affects",
|
|
"assumes",
|
|
"counterfeits",
|
|
"fakes",
|
|
"feigns",
|
|
"professes",
|
|
"puts on",
|
|
"shams",
|
|
"simulates",
|
|
"camouflages",
|
|
"conceals",
|
|
"disguises",
|
|
"masks",
|
|
"bluffs",
|
|
"feints"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes common cause":{
|
|
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The managers attempted to make common cause between their departments to get the project done quickly and efficiently."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bands (together)",
|
|
"collaborates",
|
|
"concerts",
|
|
"concurs",
|
|
"conjoins",
|
|
"conspires",
|
|
"cooperates",
|
|
"joins",
|
|
"leagues",
|
|
"teams (up)",
|
|
"unites"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"connives",
|
|
"affiliates",
|
|
"allies",
|
|
"associates",
|
|
"combines",
|
|
"confederates",
|
|
"hangs together",
|
|
"interfaces"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make a face":{
|
|
"to distort one's face":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grimace",
|
|
"mouth",
|
|
"mug"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"pout",
|
|
"contort",
|
|
"deform",
|
|
"twist",
|
|
"warp",
|
|
"frown",
|
|
"glare",
|
|
"gloom",
|
|
"glower",
|
|
"lower",
|
|
"lour",
|
|
"scowl",
|
|
"gape",
|
|
"gaze",
|
|
"ogle",
|
|
"stare",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"snarl",
|
|
"sneer",
|
|
"simper",
|
|
"smirk"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beam",
|
|
"grin",
|
|
"smile"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make a show":{
|
|
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made a show of addressing the whole audience, rather than a few like-minded folk."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dissemble",
|
|
"dissimulate",
|
|
"let on",
|
|
"make out",
|
|
"pretend"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"act",
|
|
"impersonate",
|
|
"masquerade",
|
|
"play",
|
|
"playact",
|
|
"pose",
|
|
"affect",
|
|
"assume",
|
|
"counterfeit",
|
|
"fake",
|
|
"feign",
|
|
"profess",
|
|
"put on",
|
|
"sham",
|
|
"simulate",
|
|
"camouflage",
|
|
"conceal",
|
|
"disguise",
|
|
"mask",
|
|
"bluff",
|
|
"feint"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making use of":{
|
|
"to put into action or service":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"We made use of a waterproof camera to photograph undersea life."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"applying",
|
|
"employing",
|
|
"exercising",
|
|
"exploiting",
|
|
"harnessing",
|
|
"operating",
|
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"using",
|
|
"utilizing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"handling",
|
|
"manipulating",
|
|
"wielding",
|
|
"directing",
|
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"running",
|
|
"working",
|
|
"cannibalizing",
|
|
"recycling",
|
|
"reusing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"ignoring",
|
|
"neglecting",
|
|
"misapplying",
|
|
"misusing"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes one's mark":{
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They made their mark on the scientific world with a groundbreaking discovery."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrives",
|
|
"flourishes",
|
|
"prospers",
|
|
"succeeds",
|
|
"thrives"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevails",
|
|
"triumphs",
|
|
"wins",
|
|
"excels"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"flounders",
|
|
"struggles"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fails"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making a scene":{
|
|
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I know you're upset, but please stop making a scene ."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bristling",
|
|
"fuming",
|
|
"raging",
|
|
"storming"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"blowing up",
|
|
"flaring (up)",
|
|
"flipping (out)",
|
|
"blustering",
|
|
"carrying on",
|
|
"fulminating",
|
|
"rampaging",
|
|
"ranting",
|
|
"raving",
|
|
"taking on",
|
|
"burning",
|
|
"foaming",
|
|
"seething",
|
|
"smoldering",
|
|
"smouldering",
|
|
"steaming",
|
|
"chafing",
|
|
"fretting",
|
|
"stewing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"allaying",
|
|
"appeasing",
|
|
"pacifying",
|
|
"soothing",
|
|
"checking",
|
|
"choking (back)",
|
|
"collecting",
|
|
"composing",
|
|
"containing",
|
|
"curbing",
|
|
"pocketing",
|
|
"reining",
|
|
"repressing",
|
|
"restraining",
|
|
"smothering",
|
|
"stifling",
|
|
"strangling",
|
|
"subduing",
|
|
"suppressing",
|
|
"swallowing",
|
|
"moderating",
|
|
"tempering",
|
|
"toning (down)",
|
|
"easing",
|
|
"letting up",
|
|
"relaxing",
|
|
"calming",
|
|
"cooling",
|
|
"hushing",
|
|
"quelling",
|
|
"quieting",
|
|
"settling",
|
|
"stilling"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes game of":{
|
|
"as in picks on":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"picks on",
|
|
"baits",
|
|
"hassles",
|
|
"hazes",
|
|
"heckles",
|
|
"needles",
|
|
"rides",
|
|
"taunts",
|
|
"teases"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make fun of":{
|
|
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"It's cruel to make fun of other people's imperfections."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"deride",
|
|
"gibe",
|
|
"jibe",
|
|
"jeer",
|
|
"laugh (at)",
|
|
"mock",
|
|
"ridicule",
|
|
"scout",
|
|
"shoot down",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making one's flesh crawl":{
|
|
"to strike with fear":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"affrighting",
|
|
"alarming",
|
|
"alaruming",
|
|
"frightening",
|
|
"frighting",
|
|
"horrifying",
|
|
"panicking",
|
|
"scarifying",
|
|
"scaring",
|
|
"shocking",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes off":{
|
|
"as in gets out , gets (away)":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"absconds",
|
|
"clears out",
|
|
"decamps",
|
|
"elopes",
|
|
"escapes",
|
|
"gets (away)",
|
|
"gets out",
|
|
"lams",
|
|
"lights out",
|
|
"mizzles",
|
|
"scarpers",
|
|
"scats",
|
|
"scrams",
|
|
"skips (out)",
|
|
"skirrs",
|
|
"bolts",
|
|
"breaks",
|
|
"bugs out",
|
|
"flees",
|
|
"flies",
|
|
"hightails (it)",
|
|
"retreats",
|
|
"runs",
|
|
"runs away",
|
|
"runs off",
|
|
"skedaddles"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beards",
|
|
"braves",
|
|
"confronts",
|
|
"dares",
|
|
"defies",
|
|
"faces",
|
|
"abides",
|
|
"dwells",
|
|
"hangs around",
|
|
"lingers",
|
|
"remains",
|
|
"stays",
|
|
"sticks around",
|
|
"tarries"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making shift":{
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"coping",
|
|
"doing",
|
|
"faring",
|
|
"getting along",
|
|
"getting by",
|
|
"getting on",
|
|
"making out",
|
|
"managing",
|
|
"shifting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carrying on",
|
|
"contriving",
|
|
"scraping (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounging",
|
|
"lasting",
|
|
"surviving",
|
|
"eking out",
|
|
"scraping (out)",
|
|
"squeezing",
|
|
"wresting",
|
|
"wringing",
|
|
"affording",
|
|
"swinging"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapsing",
|
|
"failing",
|
|
"falling short",
|
|
"fizzling",
|
|
"floundering",
|
|
"declining",
|
|
"petering (out)",
|
|
"slumping",
|
|
"waning",
|
|
"giving up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make amends (for)":{
|
|
"to make up for (an offense)":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"atone (for)",
|
|
"expiate",
|
|
"mend",
|
|
"redeem"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"compensate",
|
|
"recompense",
|
|
"reimburse",
|
|
"remunerate",
|
|
"repay",
|
|
"amend",
|
|
"correct",
|
|
"rectify",
|
|
"redress",
|
|
"propitiate"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make common cause":{
|
|
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The managers attempted to make common cause between their departments to get the project done quickly and efficiently."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"band (together)",
|
|
"collaborate",
|
|
"concert",
|
|
"concur",
|
|
"conjoin",
|
|
"conspire",
|
|
"cooperate",
|
|
"join",
|
|
"league",
|
|
"team (up)",
|
|
"unite"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"connive",
|
|
"affiliate",
|
|
"ally",
|
|
"associate",
|
|
"combine",
|
|
"confederate",
|
|
"hang together",
|
|
"interface"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making it (through)":{
|
|
"to come safely through":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made it through the serious illness with few lasting effects.",
|
|
"The company will be lucky to make it through another year with all the money it's losing."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"riding (out)",
|
|
"weathering"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"outlasting",
|
|
"outliving",
|
|
"wearing out",
|
|
"pulling through",
|
|
"abiding",
|
|
"continuing",
|
|
"enduring",
|
|
"hanging on",
|
|
"holding on",
|
|
"holding out",
|
|
"holding up",
|
|
"lasting",
|
|
"leading",
|
|
"persisting",
|
|
"standing",
|
|
"sticking out",
|
|
"surviving",
|
|
"withstanding",
|
|
"being",
|
|
"breathing",
|
|
"existing",
|
|
"living",
|
|
"subsisting",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"prospering",
|
|
"thriving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"croaking",
|
|
"deceasing",
|
|
"departing",
|
|
"dying",
|
|
"expiring",
|
|
"passing away",
|
|
"passing (on)",
|
|
"perishing",
|
|
"succumbing",
|
|
"disappearing",
|
|
"evaporating",
|
|
"fading",
|
|
"vanishing",
|
|
"ceasing",
|
|
"ending",
|
|
"stopping"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes do":{
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She could make do just fine and didn't need anyone's help."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"copes",
|
|
"does",
|
|
"fares",
|
|
"gets along",
|
|
"gets by",
|
|
"gets on",
|
|
"makes out",
|
|
"manages",
|
|
"shifts"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carries on",
|
|
"contrives",
|
|
"scrapes (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounges",
|
|
"lasts",
|
|
"survives",
|
|
"ekes out",
|
|
"scrapes (out)",
|
|
"squeezes",
|
|
"wrests",
|
|
"wrings",
|
|
"affords",
|
|
"swings"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapses",
|
|
"fails",
|
|
"falls short",
|
|
"fizzles",
|
|
"flounders",
|
|
"declines",
|
|
"peters (out)",
|
|
"slumps",
|
|
"wanes",
|
|
"gives up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Maker":{
|
|
"someone or something that makes something (such as a manufactured product)":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Auto makers will have to ensure that their vehicles meet the new emissions standards."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"builder",
|
|
"manufacturer",
|
|
"producer",
|
|
"factory",
|
|
"manufactory",
|
|
"mill",
|
|
"plant",
|
|
"shop",
|
|
"works",
|
|
"workshop",
|
|
"creator",
|
|
"conceiver",
|
|
"contriver",
|
|
"designer",
|
|
"deviser",
|
|
"formulator",
|
|
"innovator",
|
|
"introducer",
|
|
"inventor",
|
|
"spawner",
|
|
"distributor",
|
|
"provider",
|
|
"provisioner",
|
|
"purveyor",
|
|
"supplier",
|
|
"architect",
|
|
"engineer",
|
|
"mastermind",
|
|
"artist",
|
|
"mechanic",
|
|
"operative",
|
|
"shaper",
|
|
"smith",
|
|
"wright",
|
|
"craftswoman",
|
|
"journeyman",
|
|
"master",
|
|
"handyman",
|
|
"handyperson",
|
|
"workman",
|
|
"artificer",
|
|
"artisan",
|
|
"crafter",
|
|
"craftsman",
|
|
"craftsperson",
|
|
"handcraftsman",
|
|
"handicrafter",
|
|
"handicraftsman",
|
|
"handworker",
|
|
"tradesman",
|
|
"cocreator",
|
|
"cofounder",
|
|
"developer",
|
|
"pioneer",
|
|
"researcher",
|
|
"researchist",
|
|
"author",
|
|
"begetter",
|
|
"establisher",
|
|
"father",
|
|
"founder",
|
|
"founding father",
|
|
"generator",
|
|
"inaugurator",
|
|
"initiator",
|
|
"instituter",
|
|
"institutor",
|
|
"originator",
|
|
"sire"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"let us give thanks to our Maker for this meal"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"Allah",
|
|
"Almighty",
|
|
"Author",
|
|
"Creator",
|
|
"deity",
|
|
"Divinity",
|
|
"Eternal",
|
|
"Everlasting",
|
|
"Father",
|
|
"God",
|
|
"Godhead",
|
|
"Jehovah",
|
|
"King",
|
|
"Lord",
|
|
"Providence",
|
|
"Supreme Being",
|
|
"Yahweh",
|
|
"Jahveh",
|
|
"Yahveh"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making port":{
|
|
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They made port near a small waterfront town and had lunch."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
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"anchoring",
|
|
"docking",
|
|
"landing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"berthing",
|
|
"mooring",
|
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"tying up",
|
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"tieing up",
|
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"beaching",
|
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"grounding",
|
|
"harboring",
|
|
"arriving",
|
|
"reaching",
|
|
"showing up",
|
|
"turning up",
|
|
"debarking",
|
|
"disembarking"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"embarking",
|
|
"launching",
|
|
"sailing"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes sport of":{
|
|
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The commentator often makes sport of the fashion choices of the famous."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"derides",
|
|
"gibes",
|
|
"jibes",
|
|
"jeers",
|
|
"laughs (at)",
|
|
"mocks",
|
|
"ridicules",
|
|
"scouts",
|
|
"shoots down",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making one's flesh creep":{
|
|
"to strike with fear":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"affrighting",
|
|
"alarming",
|
|
"alaruming",
|
|
"frightening",
|
|
"frighting",
|
|
"horrifying",
|
|
"panicking",
|
|
"scarifying",
|
|
"scaring",
|
|
"shocking",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"make up (for)":{
|
|
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"annul",
|
|
"cancel (out)",
|
|
"compensate (for)",
|
|
"correct",
|
|
"counteract",
|
|
"counterbalance",
|
|
"counterpoise",
|
|
"negative",
|
|
"neutralize",
|
|
"offset"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"invalidate",
|
|
"negate",
|
|
"neuter",
|
|
"nullify",
|
|
"atone (for)",
|
|
"outbalance",
|
|
"outweigh",
|
|
"redeem",
|
|
"redress",
|
|
"relieve",
|
|
"remedy",
|
|
"override",
|
|
"overrule"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making do":{
|
|
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She could make do just fine and didn't need anyone's help."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"coping",
|
|
"doing",
|
|
"faring",
|
|
"getting along",
|
|
"getting by",
|
|
"getting on",
|
|
"making out",
|
|
"managing",
|
|
"shifting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carrying on",
|
|
"contriving",
|
|
"scraping (by or through)",
|
|
"scrounging",
|
|
"lasting",
|
|
"surviving",
|
|
"eking out",
|
|
"scraping (out)",
|
|
"squeezing",
|
|
"wresting",
|
|
"wringing",
|
|
"affording",
|
|
"swinging"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"collapsing",
|
|
"failing",
|
|
"falling short",
|
|
"fizzling",
|
|
"floundering",
|
|
"declining",
|
|
"petering (out)",
|
|
"slumping",
|
|
"waning",
|
|
"giving up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make port":{
|
|
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They made port near a small waterfront town and had lunch."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"anchor",
|
|
"dock",
|
|
"land"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"berth",
|
|
"moor",
|
|
"tie up",
|
|
"beach",
|
|
"ground",
|
|
"harbor",
|
|
"arrive",
|
|
"reach",
|
|
"show up",
|
|
"turn up",
|
|
"debark",
|
|
"disembark"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"embark",
|
|
"launch",
|
|
"sail"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make ducks and drakes of":{
|
|
"to use up carelessly":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"blow",
|
|
"dissipate",
|
|
"fiddle away",
|
|
"fritter (away)",
|
|
"lavish",
|
|
"lose",
|
|
"misspend",
|
|
"run through",
|
|
"spend",
|
|
"squander",
|
|
"throw away",
|
|
"trifle (away)",
|
|
"waste"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"splurge",
|
|
"consume",
|
|
"deplete",
|
|
"exhaust",
|
|
"impoverish",
|
|
"overspend",
|
|
"shoot",
|
|
"indulge",
|
|
"overindulge",
|
|
"disburse",
|
|
"expend",
|
|
"lay out"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"economize",
|
|
"scrimp",
|
|
"skimp",
|
|
"preserve",
|
|
"protect",
|
|
"save",
|
|
"hoard",
|
|
"lay up"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"conserve"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes amends for":{
|
|
"to make up for (an offense)":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"atones (for)",
|
|
"expiates",
|
|
"mends",
|
|
"redeems"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"compensates",
|
|
"recompenses",
|
|
"reimburses",
|
|
"remunerates",
|
|
"repays",
|
|
"amends",
|
|
"corrects",
|
|
"rectifies",
|
|
"redresses",
|
|
"propitiates"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes fun of":{
|
|
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"It's cruel to make fun of other people's imperfections."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"derides",
|
|
"gibes",
|
|
"jibes",
|
|
"jeers",
|
|
"laughs (at)",
|
|
"mocks",
|
|
"ridicules",
|
|
"scouts",
|
|
"shoots down",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make sport of":{
|
|
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The commentator often makes sport of the fashion choices of the famous."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"deride",
|
|
"gibe",
|
|
"jibe",
|
|
"jeer",
|
|
"laugh (at)",
|
|
"mock",
|
|
"ridicule",
|
|
"scout",
|
|
"shoot down",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes sail":{
|
|
"as in takes ship":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"takes ship",
|
|
"boats",
|
|
"cruises",
|
|
"ferries",
|
|
"navigates",
|
|
"sails",
|
|
"ships (out)",
|
|
"voyages"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making":{
|
|
"the basic elements from which something can be developed":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"material",
|
|
"raw material",
|
|
"stuff",
|
|
"substance",
|
|
"timber"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"possibility",
|
|
"potential",
|
|
"potentiality",
|
|
"matter",
|
|
"metal"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"will you help me make the dough for the cookies?"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"fabricating",
|
|
"fashioning",
|
|
"forming",
|
|
"framing",
|
|
"manufacturing",
|
|
"producing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"assembling",
|
|
"building",
|
|
"constructing",
|
|
"erecting",
|
|
"making up",
|
|
"putting up",
|
|
"raising",
|
|
"rearing",
|
|
"setting up",
|
|
"structuring",
|
|
"throwing up",
|
|
"crafting",
|
|
"handcrafting",
|
|
"hewing",
|
|
"forging",
|
|
"molding",
|
|
"shaping",
|
|
"cobbling (together or up)",
|
|
"knocking out",
|
|
"patching (together)",
|
|
"throwing up",
|
|
"prefabricating",
|
|
"creating",
|
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"inventing",
|
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"minting",
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"originating",
|
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"establishing",
|
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"fathering",
|
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"instituting",
|
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"organizing",
|
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"concocting",
|
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"contriving",
|
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"cooking (up)",
|
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"designing",
|
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"devising",
|
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"imagining",
|
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"thinking (up)",
|
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"conceiving",
|
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"envisaging",
|
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"picturing",
|
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"visualizing",
|
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"refashioning",
|
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"remaking",
|
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"remanufacturing"
|
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],
|
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"near antonyms":[
|
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"disassembling",
|
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"dismantling",
|
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"taking apart",
|
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"breaking up",
|
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"dismembering",
|
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"abolishing",
|
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"annihilating",
|
|
"demolishing",
|
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"destroying",
|
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"devastating",
|
|
"eradicating",
|
|
"exterminating",
|
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"extinguishing",
|
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"flattening",
|
|
"pulverizing",
|
|
"razing",
|
|
"ruining",
|
|
"shattering",
|
|
"smashing",
|
|
"wrecking",
|
|
"blowing up",
|
|
"exploding"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
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"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"we finally made it!"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"achieving",
|
|
"attaining",
|
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"bagging",
|
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"chalking up",
|
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"clocking (up)",
|
|
"gaining",
|
|
"hitting",
|
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"logging",
|
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"notching (up)",
|
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"racking up",
|
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"ringing up",
|
|
"scoring",
|
|
"winning"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"acquiring",
|
|
"capturing",
|
|
"carrying",
|
|
"drawing",
|
|
"garnering",
|
|
"getting",
|
|
"landing",
|
|
"obtaining",
|
|
"procuring",
|
|
"realizing",
|
|
"securing",
|
|
"amounting (to)",
|
|
"approaching",
|
|
"equaling",
|
|
"equalling",
|
|
"matching",
|
|
"measuring up (to)",
|
|
"meeting",
|
|
"rivaling",
|
|
"rivalling",
|
|
"touching",
|
|
"tying",
|
|
"tieing",
|
|
"beating",
|
|
"excelling",
|
|
"outdoing",
|
|
"surpassing",
|
|
"topping"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"falling short (of)",
|
|
"missing",
|
|
"failing (at)",
|
|
"losing"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"begetting",
|
|
"breeding",
|
|
"bringing",
|
|
"bringing about",
|
|
"bringing on",
|
|
"catalyzing",
|
|
"causing",
|
|
"creating",
|
|
"doing",
|
|
"drawing on",
|
|
"effecting",
|
|
"effectuating",
|
|
"engendering",
|
|
"generating",
|
|
"inducing",
|
|
"invoking",
|
|
"occasioning",
|
|
"producing",
|
|
"prompting",
|
|
"resulting (in)",
|
|
"spawning",
|
|
"translating (into)",
|
|
"working",
|
|
"yielding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"conducing (to)",
|
|
"contributing (to)",
|
|
"deciding",
|
|
"determining",
|
|
"beginning",
|
|
"establishing",
|
|
"fathering",
|
|
"founding",
|
|
"inaugurating",
|
|
"initiating",
|
|
"innovating",
|
|
"instituting",
|
|
"introducing",
|
|
"launching",
|
|
"pioneering",
|
|
"setting",
|
|
"setting up",
|
|
"starting",
|
|
"advancing",
|
|
"cultivating",
|
|
"developing",
|
|
"encouraging",
|
|
"forwarding",
|
|
"fostering",
|
|
"furthering",
|
|
"nourishing",
|
|
"nurturing",
|
|
"promoting",
|
|
"enacting",
|
|
"rendering",
|
|
"turning out"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"impeding",
|
|
"limiting",
|
|
"restricting",
|
|
"clamping down (on)",
|
|
"cracking down (on)",
|
|
"crushing",
|
|
"dampening",
|
|
"putting down",
|
|
"quashing",
|
|
"quelling",
|
|
"repressing",
|
|
"smothering",
|
|
"squashing",
|
|
"squelching",
|
|
"stifling",
|
|
"subduing",
|
|
"suppressing",
|
|
"arresting",
|
|
"checking",
|
|
"controlling",
|
|
"curbing",
|
|
"inhibiting",
|
|
"reining (in)",
|
|
"restraining",
|
|
"retarding",
|
|
"canning",
|
|
"killing",
|
|
"snuffing (out)",
|
|
"stilling",
|
|
"abolishing",
|
|
"demolishing",
|
|
"destroying",
|
|
"extinguishing",
|
|
"liquidating",
|
|
"quenching"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"accomplishing",
|
|
"achieving",
|
|
"bringing off",
|
|
"carrying off",
|
|
"carrying out",
|
|
"committing",
|
|
"compassing",
|
|
"doing",
|
|
"executing",
|
|
"following through (with)",
|
|
"fulfilling",
|
|
"negotiating",
|
|
"performing",
|
|
"perpetrating",
|
|
"prosecuting",
|
|
"pulling off",
|
|
"putting through"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"bringing about",
|
|
"effecting",
|
|
"effectuating",
|
|
"implementing",
|
|
"acing",
|
|
"nailing",
|
|
"engaging (in)",
|
|
"practicing",
|
|
"practising",
|
|
"working (at)",
|
|
"reduplicating",
|
|
"reenacting",
|
|
"repeating",
|
|
"actualizing",
|
|
"attaining",
|
|
"realizing",
|
|
"completing",
|
|
"ending",
|
|
"finishing",
|
|
"winding up"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"failing",
|
|
"skimping",
|
|
"slighting",
|
|
"slurring"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"blackjacking",
|
|
"coercing",
|
|
"compelling",
|
|
"constraining",
|
|
"dragooning",
|
|
"driving",
|
|
"forcing",
|
|
"impelling",
|
|
"impressing",
|
|
"muscling",
|
|
"obligating",
|
|
"obliging",
|
|
"pressing",
|
|
"pressuring",
|
|
"sandbagging"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"browbeating",
|
|
"bulldozing",
|
|
"bullying",
|
|
"cowing",
|
|
"hectoring",
|
|
"intimidating",
|
|
"blackmailing",
|
|
"high-pressuring",
|
|
"menacing",
|
|
"shaming",
|
|
"terrorizing",
|
|
"threatening",
|
|
"dragging",
|
|
"badgering",
|
|
"harassing",
|
|
"hounding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"allowing",
|
|
"letting",
|
|
"permitting",
|
|
"arguing",
|
|
"convincing",
|
|
"inducing",
|
|
"moving",
|
|
"persuading",
|
|
"prevailing (on or upon)",
|
|
"satisfying",
|
|
"talking (into)",
|
|
"winning (over)"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I make that to be about six feet long"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"calculating",
|
|
"calling",
|
|
"conjecturing",
|
|
"estimating",
|
|
"figuring",
|
|
"gauging",
|
|
"gaging",
|
|
"guessing",
|
|
"judging",
|
|
"placing",
|
|
"putting",
|
|
"reckoning",
|
|
"supposing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"concluding",
|
|
"deducing",
|
|
"extrapolating",
|
|
"gathering",
|
|
"inferring",
|
|
"reasoning",
|
|
"understanding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"calibrating",
|
|
"measuring",
|
|
"scaling",
|
|
"computing",
|
|
"working out"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"make a model airplane"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"assembling",
|
|
"building",
|
|
"confecting",
|
|
"constructing",
|
|
"erecting",
|
|
"fabricating",
|
|
"making up",
|
|
"piecing",
|
|
"putting up",
|
|
"raising",
|
|
"rearing",
|
|
"setting up"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"carpentering",
|
|
"fashioning",
|
|
"forging",
|
|
"framing",
|
|
"hammering",
|
|
"handcrafting",
|
|
"manufacturing",
|
|
"molding",
|
|
"producing",
|
|
"shaping",
|
|
"prefabricating",
|
|
"beginning",
|
|
"coining",
|
|
"creating",
|
|
"generating",
|
|
"inaugurating",
|
|
"initiating",
|
|
"innovating",
|
|
"inventing",
|
|
"originating",
|
|
"constituting",
|
|
"establishing",
|
|
"fathering",
|
|
"founding",
|
|
"instituting",
|
|
"organizing",
|
|
"conceiving",
|
|
"concocting",
|
|
"contriving",
|
|
"cooking (up)",
|
|
"designing",
|
|
"devising",
|
|
"imagining",
|
|
"thinking (up)",
|
|
"reassembling",
|
|
"rebuilding",
|
|
"reconstructing",
|
|
"redeveloping",
|
|
"reedifying",
|
|
"retrofitting",
|
|
"jerry-building",
|
|
"rigging (up)",
|
|
"throwing up",
|
|
"combining",
|
|
"uniting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"demolishing",
|
|
"destroying",
|
|
"devastating",
|
|
"flattening",
|
|
"leveling",
|
|
"levelling",
|
|
"pulling down",
|
|
"pulverizing",
|
|
"razing",
|
|
"ruinating",
|
|
"ruining",
|
|
"shattering",
|
|
"smashing",
|
|
"wrecking",
|
|
"blowing up",
|
|
"exploding",
|
|
"detaching",
|
|
"disengaging",
|
|
"disconnecting",
|
|
"disjoining",
|
|
"disuniting",
|
|
"dividing",
|
|
"separating"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"demounting",
|
|
"disassembling",
|
|
"dismantling",
|
|
"dismembering",
|
|
"knocking down",
|
|
"striking",
|
|
"taking down",
|
|
"tearing down"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to give the impression of being":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the family made merry despite their financial worries"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"acting",
|
|
"appearing",
|
|
"coming across (as)",
|
|
"coming off (as)",
|
|
"feeling",
|
|
"looking",
|
|
"seeming",
|
|
"sounding"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"dissembling",
|
|
"pretending",
|
|
"recalling",
|
|
"resembling",
|
|
"suggesting",
|
|
"hinting",
|
|
"implying",
|
|
"insinuating"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to go on a specified course or in a certain direction":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bearing",
|
|
"heading"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"aiming",
|
|
"bending",
|
|
"directing",
|
|
"pointing",
|
|
"turning",
|
|
"beelining",
|
|
"lighting out",
|
|
"putting",
|
|
"putting out",
|
|
"setting off",
|
|
"setting out",
|
|
"striking",
|
|
"taking off",
|
|
"facing",
|
|
"orienting",
|
|
"steering",
|
|
"about-facing",
|
|
"backing",
|
|
"coming about",
|
|
"coming round",
|
|
"cutting",
|
|
"inclining",
|
|
"putting about",
|
|
"reversing",
|
|
"swerving",
|
|
"tacking",
|
|
"turning back",
|
|
"veering",
|
|
"wheeling",
|
|
"yawing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the legislature failed to make any new laws last session"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"constituting",
|
|
"enacting",
|
|
"laying down",
|
|
"legislating",
|
|
"ordaining",
|
|
"passing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"reenacting",
|
|
"repassing",
|
|
"bringing about",
|
|
"effecting",
|
|
"allowing",
|
|
"authorizing",
|
|
"permitting",
|
|
"sanctioning",
|
|
"decreeing",
|
|
"dictating",
|
|
"proclaiming",
|
|
"administering",
|
|
"executing",
|
|
"approving",
|
|
"confirming",
|
|
"ratifying"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"abolishing",
|
|
"abrogating",
|
|
"annulling",
|
|
"canceling",
|
|
"cancelling",
|
|
"invalidating",
|
|
"killing",
|
|
"nullifying",
|
|
"overturning",
|
|
"reversing",
|
|
"voiding"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"repealing",
|
|
"rescinding",
|
|
"revoking"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to receive as return for effort":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"acquiring",
|
|
"attaining",
|
|
"bagging",
|
|
"bringing in",
|
|
"capturing",
|
|
"carrying",
|
|
"coming by",
|
|
"drawing",
|
|
"earning",
|
|
"gaining",
|
|
"garnering",
|
|
"getting",
|
|
"knocking down",
|
|
"landing",
|
|
"obtaining",
|
|
"procuring",
|
|
"pulling down",
|
|
"realizing",
|
|
"reaping",
|
|
"securing",
|
|
"winning"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"clearing",
|
|
"grossing",
|
|
"netting",
|
|
"accomplishing",
|
|
"achieving",
|
|
"notching (up)",
|
|
"scoring",
|
|
"accumulating",
|
|
"amassing",
|
|
"racking up",
|
|
"catching",
|
|
"picking up",
|
|
"annexing",
|
|
"occupying",
|
|
"taking over",
|
|
"reacquiring",
|
|
"reattaining",
|
|
"recapturing",
|
|
"regaining",
|
|
"remaking"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"according",
|
|
"giving",
|
|
"granting",
|
|
"paying",
|
|
"giving up",
|
|
"handing over",
|
|
"parting (with)",
|
|
"relinquishing",
|
|
"surrendering",
|
|
"yielding"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"forfeiting",
|
|
"losing"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to have a clear idea of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"what do you make of the latest information?"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appreciating",
|
|
"apprehending",
|
|
"assimilating",
|
|
"beholding",
|
|
"catching",
|
|
"catching on (to)",
|
|
"cognizing",
|
|
"compassing",
|
|
"comprehending",
|
|
"conceiving",
|
|
"cottoning (to or on to)",
|
|
"deciphering",
|
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"decoding",
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"digging",
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"discerning",
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"getting",
|
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"grasping",
|
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"grokking",
|
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"intuiting",
|
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"knowing",
|
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"making out",
|
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"perceiving",
|
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"recognizing",
|
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"registering",
|
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"savvying",
|
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"seeing",
|
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"seizing",
|
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"sensing",
|
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"tumbling (to)",
|
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"twigging",
|
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"understanding"
|
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],
|
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"near synonyms":[
|
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"absorbing",
|
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"digesting",
|
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"taking in",
|
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"realizing",
|
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"fathoming",
|
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"penetrating",
|
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"piercing"
|
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],
|
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"near antonyms":[
|
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"misapprehending",
|
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"misconceiving",
|
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"misconstruing",
|
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"misinterpreting",
|
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"misperceiving",
|
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"misreading",
|
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"mistaking",
|
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"misunderstanding"
|
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],
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"missing"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
|
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"examples":[
|
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"make the gate when ye leave"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"closing",
|
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"shutting",
|
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"steeking"
|
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],
|
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"near synonyms":[
|
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"barring",
|
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"battening (down)",
|
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"bolting",
|
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"chaining",
|
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"fastening",
|
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"latching",
|
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"locking",
|
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"plugging",
|
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"sealing",
|
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"stoppering",
|
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"securing",
|
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"banging",
|
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"clapping",
|
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"slamming"
|
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],
|
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"near antonyms":[
|
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"unbarring",
|
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"unbolting",
|
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"unchaining",
|
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"unfastening",
|
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"unlatching",
|
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"unlocking",
|
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"unsealing"
|
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],
|
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"antonyms":[
|
|
"opening"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"make game of":{
|
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"as in pick on":{
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"near synonyms":[
|
|
"pick on",
|
|
"bait",
|
|
"hassle",
|
|
"haze",
|
|
"heckle",
|
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"needle",
|
|
"ride",
|
|
"taunt",
|
|
"tease"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
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"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"make use of":{
|
|
"to put into action or service":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"We made use of a waterproof camera to photograph undersea life."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"apply",
|
|
"employ",
|
|
"exercise",
|
|
"exploit",
|
|
"harness",
|
|
"operate",
|
|
"use",
|
|
"utilize"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"handle",
|
|
"manipulate",
|
|
"wield",
|
|
"direct",
|
|
"run",
|
|
"work",
|
|
"cannibalize",
|
|
"recycle",
|
|
"reuse"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"ignore",
|
|
"neglect",
|
|
"misapply",
|
|
"misuse"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making love":{
|
|
"sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They decided to delay making love until they were married."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"coition",
|
|
"coitus",
|
|
"commerce",
|
|
"congress",
|
|
"copulating",
|
|
"copulation",
|
|
"coupling",
|
|
"intercourse",
|
|
"lovemaking",
|
|
"mating",
|
|
"relations",
|
|
"sex",
|
|
"sex act",
|
|
"sexual intercourse",
|
|
"sexual relations"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"fornication",
|
|
"safe sex",
|
|
"carnality",
|
|
"sexuality",
|
|
"breeding",
|
|
"insemination",
|
|
"dalliance",
|
|
"hanky-panky",
|
|
"whoopee"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes a comeback":{
|
|
"to regain a former or normal state":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bounces (back)",
|
|
"comes back",
|
|
"rallies",
|
|
"rebounds",
|
|
"recovers",
|
|
"snaps back"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"reanimates",
|
|
"revitalizes",
|
|
"revives"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"declines",
|
|
"fails",
|
|
"worsens"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making up (for)":{
|
|
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"annulling",
|
|
"canceling (out)",
|
|
"cancelling (out)",
|
|
"compensating (for)",
|
|
"correcting",
|
|
"counteracting",
|
|
"counterbalancing",
|
|
"counterpoising",
|
|
"negativing",
|
|
"neutralizing",
|
|
"offsetting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"invalidating",
|
|
"negating",
|
|
"neutering",
|
|
"nullifying",
|
|
"atoning (for)",
|
|
"outbalancing",
|
|
"outweighing",
|
|
"redeeming",
|
|
"redressing",
|
|
"relieving",
|
|
"remedying",
|
|
"overriding",
|
|
"overruling"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make sail":{
|
|
"as in take ship":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"take ship",
|
|
"boat",
|
|
"cruise",
|
|
"ferry",
|
|
"navigate",
|
|
"sail",
|
|
"ship (out)",
|
|
"voyage"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making a face":{
|
|
"to distort one's face":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grimacing",
|
|
"mouthing",
|
|
"mugging"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"pouting",
|
|
"contorting",
|
|
"deforming",
|
|
"twisting",
|
|
"warping",
|
|
"frowning",
|
|
"glaring",
|
|
"glooming",
|
|
"glowering",
|
|
"lowering",
|
|
"louring",
|
|
"scowling",
|
|
"gaping",
|
|
"gazing",
|
|
"ogling",
|
|
"staring",
|
|
"growling",
|
|
"snarling",
|
|
"sneering",
|
|
"simpering",
|
|
"smirking"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beaming",
|
|
"grinning",
|
|
"smiling"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make good":{
|
|
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"answer",
|
|
"complete",
|
|
"comply (with)",
|
|
"fill",
|
|
"fulfill",
|
|
"keep",
|
|
"meet",
|
|
"redeem",
|
|
"satisfy"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"conclude",
|
|
"consummate",
|
|
"finalize",
|
|
"finish",
|
|
"perfect",
|
|
"accomplish",
|
|
"achieve",
|
|
"bring about",
|
|
"bring off",
|
|
"carry out",
|
|
"effect",
|
|
"commit",
|
|
"compass",
|
|
"discharge",
|
|
"execute",
|
|
"follow through (with)",
|
|
"make",
|
|
"perform"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"default (on)",
|
|
"disregard",
|
|
"forget",
|
|
"ignore",
|
|
"neglect",
|
|
"overlook",
|
|
"overpass",
|
|
"pass over",
|
|
"slight"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"breach",
|
|
"break",
|
|
"transgress",
|
|
"violate"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrive",
|
|
"flourish",
|
|
"prosper",
|
|
"succeed",
|
|
"thrive"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevail",
|
|
"triumph",
|
|
"win",
|
|
"excel"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"struggle"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fail"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes one's flesh creep":{
|
|
"to strike with fear":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"affrights",
|
|
"alarms",
|
|
"alarums",
|
|
"frightens",
|
|
"frights",
|
|
"horrifies",
|
|
"panics",
|
|
"scares",
|
|
"scarifies",
|
|
"shocks",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes a face":{
|
|
"to distort one's face":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grimaces",
|
|
"mouths",
|
|
"mugs"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"pouts",
|
|
"contorts",
|
|
"deforms",
|
|
"twists",
|
|
"warps",
|
|
"frowns",
|
|
"glares",
|
|
"glooms",
|
|
"glowers",
|
|
"lowers",
|
|
"lours",
|
|
"scowls",
|
|
"gapes",
|
|
"gazes",
|
|
"ogles",
|
|
"stares",
|
|
"growls",
|
|
"snarls",
|
|
"sneers",
|
|
"simpers",
|
|
"smirks"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beams",
|
|
"grins",
|
|
"smiles"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making good on":{
|
|
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"answering",
|
|
"completing",
|
|
"complying (with)",
|
|
"filling",
|
|
"fulfilling",
|
|
"keeping",
|
|
"meeting",
|
|
"redeeming",
|
|
"satisfying"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"concluding",
|
|
"consummating",
|
|
"finalizing",
|
|
"finishing",
|
|
"perfecting",
|
|
"accomplishing",
|
|
"achieving",
|
|
"bringing about",
|
|
"bringing off",
|
|
"carrying out",
|
|
"effecting",
|
|
"committing",
|
|
"compassing",
|
|
"discharging",
|
|
"executing",
|
|
"following through (with)",
|
|
"making",
|
|
"performing"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"defaulting (on)",
|
|
"disregarding",
|
|
"forgetting",
|
|
"ignoring",
|
|
"neglecting",
|
|
"overlooking",
|
|
"overpassing",
|
|
"passing over",
|
|
"slighting"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"breaching",
|
|
"breaking",
|
|
"transgressing",
|
|
"violating"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arriving",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"prospering",
|
|
"succeeding",
|
|
"thriving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevailing",
|
|
"triumphing",
|
|
"winning",
|
|
"excelling"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"floundering",
|
|
"struggling"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"failing"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"make it":{
|
|
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"His parents convinced him that he could make it in anything he chose to do if he worked hard enough."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"arrive",
|
|
"flourish",
|
|
"prosper",
|
|
"succeed",
|
|
"thrive"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"prevail",
|
|
"triumph",
|
|
"win",
|
|
"excel"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"flounder",
|
|
"struggle"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"fail"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making a comeback":{
|
|
"to regain a former or normal state":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bouncing (back)",
|
|
"coming back",
|
|
"rallying",
|
|
"rebounding",
|
|
"recovering",
|
|
"snapping back"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"reanimating",
|
|
"revitalizing",
|
|
"reviving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"declining",
|
|
"failing",
|
|
"worsening"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes use of":{
|
|
"to put into action or service":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"We made use of a waterproof camera to photograph undersea life."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"applies",
|
|
"employs",
|
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"exercises",
|
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"exploits",
|
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"harnesses",
|
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"operates",
|
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"uses",
|
|
"utilizes"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"handles",
|
|
"manipulates",
|
|
"wields",
|
|
"directs",
|
|
"runs",
|
|
"works",
|
|
"cannibalizes",
|
|
"recycles",
|
|
"reuses"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"ignores",
|
|
"neglects",
|
|
"misapplies",
|
|
"misuses"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes tracks":{
|
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"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"The frightened cat made tracks into the other room when guests began to arrive."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
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"bolts",
|
|
"breaks",
|
|
"bugs out",
|
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"flees",
|
|
"flies",
|
|
"hightails (it)",
|
|
"retreats",
|
|
"runs",
|
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"runs away",
|
|
"runs off",
|
|
"skedaddles"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"absconds",
|
|
"clears out",
|
|
"decamps",
|
|
"elopes",
|
|
"escapes",
|
|
"gets (away)",
|
|
"gets out",
|
|
"lams",
|
|
"lights out",
|
|
"makes off",
|
|
"mizzles",
|
|
"scarpers",
|
|
"scats",
|
|
"scrams",
|
|
"skips (out)",
|
|
"skirrs"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"beards",
|
|
"braves",
|
|
"confronts",
|
|
"dares",
|
|
"defies",
|
|
"faces",
|
|
"abides",
|
|
"dwells",
|
|
"hangs around",
|
|
"lingers",
|
|
"remains",
|
|
"stays",
|
|
"sticks around",
|
|
"tarries"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to proceed or move quickly":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"You'd better make tracks if you want to catch that bus!"
|
|
],
|
|
"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"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makings":{
|
|
"the basic elements from which something can be developed":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"material",
|
|
"raw material",
|
|
"stuff",
|
|
"substance",
|
|
"timber"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"possibility",
|
|
"potential",
|
|
"potentiality",
|
|
"matter",
|
|
"metal"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes it (through)":{
|
|
"to come safely through":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He made it through the serious illness with few lasting effects.",
|
|
"The company will be lucky to make it through another year with all the money it's losing."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"rides (out)",
|
|
"weathers"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"outlasts",
|
|
"outlives",
|
|
"wears out",
|
|
"pulls through",
|
|
"abides",
|
|
"continues",
|
|
"endures",
|
|
"hangs on",
|
|
"holds on",
|
|
"holds out",
|
|
"holds up",
|
|
"lasts",
|
|
"leads",
|
|
"persists",
|
|
"stands",
|
|
"sticks out",
|
|
"survives",
|
|
"withstands",
|
|
"breathes",
|
|
"exists",
|
|
"is",
|
|
"lives",
|
|
"subsists",
|
|
"flourishes",
|
|
"prospers",
|
|
"thrives"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"croaks",
|
|
"deceases",
|
|
"departs",
|
|
"dies",
|
|
"expires",
|
|
"passes away",
|
|
"passes (on)",
|
|
"perishes",
|
|
"succumbs",
|
|
"disappears",
|
|
"evaporates",
|
|
"fades",
|
|
"vanishes",
|
|
"ceases",
|
|
"ends",
|
|
"stops"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making sport of":{
|
|
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The commentator often makes sport of the fashion choices of the famous."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"deriding",
|
|
"gibing",
|
|
"jibing",
|
|
"jeering",
|
|
"laughing (at)",
|
|
"mocking",
|
|
"ridiculing",
|
|
"scouting",
|
|
"shooting down",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making off with":{
|
|
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The robbers made off with the family's jewelry and electronics, among other things."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"appropriating",
|
|
"boosting",
|
|
"filching",
|
|
"heisting",
|
|
"hooking",
|
|
"lifting",
|
|
"misappropriating",
|
|
"nicking",
|
|
"nipping",
|
|
"pilfering",
|
|
"pinching",
|
|
"pocketing",
|
|
"purloining",
|
|
"ripping off",
|
|
"snitching",
|
|
"stealing",
|
|
"swiping",
|
|
"thieving"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"burglarizing",
|
|
"knocking over",
|
|
"robbing",
|
|
"looting",
|
|
"pillaging",
|
|
"plundering",
|
|
"sacking",
|
|
"carjacking",
|
|
"hijacking",
|
|
"highjacking",
|
|
"picking",
|
|
"rifling",
|
|
"poaching",
|
|
"rustling",
|
|
"shoplifting",
|
|
"collaring",
|
|
"grabbing",
|
|
"grasping",
|
|
"nailing",
|
|
"seizing",
|
|
"snatching",
|
|
"taking",
|
|
"mooching",
|
|
"sponging",
|
|
"abducting",
|
|
"kidnapping",
|
|
"kidnaping",
|
|
"shanghaiing",
|
|
"spiriting"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"buying",
|
|
"purchasing",
|
|
"bestowing",
|
|
"contributing",
|
|
"donating",
|
|
"giving",
|
|
"handing over",
|
|
"presenting"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The kidnappers made off with their victim without being seen."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abducting",
|
|
"kidnapping",
|
|
"kidnaping"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"capturing",
|
|
"crimping",
|
|
"impressing",
|
|
"seizing",
|
|
"shanghaiing",
|
|
"waylaying",
|
|
"absconding (with)",
|
|
"snatching",
|
|
"spiriting",
|
|
"hijacking",
|
|
"highjacking",
|
|
"catching",
|
|
"copping",
|
|
"stealing",
|
|
"taking"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"delivering",
|
|
"ransoming",
|
|
"redeeming",
|
|
"rescuing",
|
|
"restoring",
|
|
"returning"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makeovers":{
|
|
"as in transformations , modifications":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"alterations",
|
|
"conversions",
|
|
"modifications",
|
|
"refits",
|
|
"revisions",
|
|
"transformations",
|
|
"attunements",
|
|
"corrections",
|
|
"harmonizations",
|
|
"readaptations",
|
|
"readjustments",
|
|
"acclimations",
|
|
"acclimatizations",
|
|
"accommodations",
|
|
"adaptations",
|
|
"adaptions",
|
|
"adjustments",
|
|
"conformations"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"maladaptations"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making fun of":{
|
|
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"It's cruel to make fun of other people's imperfections."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"deriding",
|
|
"gibing",
|
|
"jibing",
|
|
"jeering",
|
|
"laughing (at)",
|
|
"mocking",
|
|
"ridiculing",
|
|
"scouting",
|
|
"shooting down",
|
|
"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":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"makes eyes (at)":{
|
|
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I think that girl over there is making eyes at you."
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"leers (at)"
|
|
],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"eyes",
|
|
"gapes",
|
|
"gawks",
|
|
"gazes",
|
|
"glares",
|
|
"goggles",
|
|
"ogles",
|
|
"peers",
|
|
"rubbernecks",
|
|
"stares"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"making off":{
|
|
"as in getting out , getting (away)":{
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"near synonyms":[
|
|
"absconding",
|
|
"clearing out",
|
|
"decamping",
|
|
"eloping",
|
|
"escaping",
|
|
"getting (away)",
|
|
"getting out",
|
|
"lamming",
|
|
"lighting out",
|
|
"mizzling",
|
|
"scarpering",
|
|
"scatting",
|
|
"scramming",
|
|
"skipping (out)",
|
|
"skirring",
|
|
"bolting",
|
|
"breaking",
|
|
"bugging out",
|
|
"fleeing",
|
|
"flying",
|
|
"hightailing (it)",
|
|
"retreating",
|
|
"running",
|
|
"running away",
|
|
"running off",
|
|
"skedaddling"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"bearding",
|
|
"braving",
|
|
"confronting",
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"daring",
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"defying",
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"facing",
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"abiding",
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"dwelling",
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"hanging around",
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"lingering",
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"remaining",
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"staying",
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"sticking around",
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"tarrying"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"makes ducks and drakes of":{
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"to use up carelessly":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[
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"blows",
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"dissipates",
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"fiddles away",
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"fritters (away)",
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"lavishes",
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"loses",
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"misspends",
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"runs through",
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"spends",
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"squanders",
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"throws away",
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"trifles (away)",
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"wastes"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"splurges",
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"consumes",
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"depletes",
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"exhausts",
|
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"impoverishes",
|
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"overspends",
|
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"shoots",
|
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"indulges",
|
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"overindulges",
|
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"disburses",
|
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"expends",
|
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"lays out"
|
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],
|
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"near antonyms":[
|
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"economizes",
|
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"scrimps",
|
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"skimps",
|
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"preserves",
|
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"protects",
|
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"saves",
|
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"hoards",
|
|
"lays up"
|
|
],
|
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"antonyms":[
|
|
"conserves"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"type":[]
|
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},
|
|
"makes port":{
|
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"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
|
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"examples":[
|
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"They made port near a small waterfront town and had lunch."
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"anchors",
|
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"docks",
|
|
"lands"
|
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],
|
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"near synonyms":[
|
|
"berths",
|
|
"moors",
|
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"ties up",
|
|
"beaches",
|
|
"grounds",
|
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"harbors",
|
|
"arrives",
|
|
"reaches",
|
|
"shows up",
|
|
"turns up",
|
|
"debarks",
|
|
"disembarks"
|
|
],
|
|
"near antonyms":[
|
|
"embarks",
|
|
"launches",
|
|
"sails"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrase"
|
|
]
|
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}
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} |