dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/bel_MWT.json
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{
"belatedly":{
"after the due, usual, or proper time":{
"examples":[
"she belatedly realized that it had been her friend's birthday the day before"
],
"synonyms":[
"delinquently",
"late",
"tardily"
],
"near synonyms":[
"afterward",
"afterwards",
"anon",
"eventually",
"later",
"latterly",
"subsequently",
"thereafter",
"dilatorily",
"laggardly",
"pokily",
"slow",
"slowly",
"sluggishly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immediately",
"promptly",
"punctually",
"pronto",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"speedily",
"swiftly"
],
"antonyms":[
"beforehand",
"early",
"inopportunely",
"precociously",
"prematurely",
"unseasonably"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"belaying":{
"to attach (a rope) to something so that it is secure":{
"examples":[
"The climber belayed the rope."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battening",
"buttoning",
"doing up",
"affixing",
"bending",
"fastening",
"fixing",
"adhering",
"bolting",
"cinching",
"clamping",
"clasping",
"clenching",
"clinching",
"clipping",
"gluing",
"glueing",
"hanging",
"harnessing",
"hasping",
"lacing",
"lashing",
"latching",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pinning",
"plastering",
"riveting",
"screwing",
"shackling",
"stapling",
"sticking",
"strapping",
"tacking",
"tackling",
"toggling",
"tying",
"tieing",
"yoking",
"coapting",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"uniting",
"reaffixing",
"reattaching",
"refastening",
"refixing",
"resecuring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"uncoupling",
"unlinking",
"unyoking",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unbinding",
"unfixing",
"unlashing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"detaching",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"unhooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beleaguers":{
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"beleaguered the castle for months"
],
"synonyms":[
"besieges",
"blockades",
"invests",
"leaguers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricades",
"blocks",
"cuts off",
"dams",
"encircles",
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"confines",
"insulates",
"isolates",
"quarantines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"rescues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"believability":{
"as in credibility , plausibility":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"credibility",
"plausibility",
"plausibleness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"verity",
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibility",
"incredibility",
"incredibleness",
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"believing":{
"as in sure , convinced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accepting",
"certain",
"confident",
"convinced",
"overconfident",
"secure",
"sure",
"unquestioning",
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspicious",
"unwary",
"confiding",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"artless",
"childlike",
"credulous",
"guileless",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"unsophisticated",
"dependent",
"hopeful",
"reliant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"questioning",
"skeptical",
"uncertain",
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"doubting",
"mistrustful",
"trustless",
"untrusting",
"disbelieving",
"incredulous",
"unbelieving",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unpersuaded",
"dubious",
"hesitant",
"leery",
"leary",
"oversuspicious",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"wary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"buying",
"crediting",
"swallowing",
"taking",
"trusting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accounting",
"accrediting",
"understanding",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"supposing",
"concluding",
"deducing",
"inferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusting",
"doubting",
"misdoubting",
"mistrusting",
"questioning",
"suspecting",
"challenging",
"disputing"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbelieving",
"discrediting",
"rejecting"
]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"examples":[
"despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that \"people are really good at heart\""
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"conceiving",
"considering",
"deeming",
"esteeming",
"feeling",
"figuring",
"guessing",
"holding",
"imagining",
"judging",
"reckoning",
"supposing",
"thinking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regarding",
"viewing",
"accepting",
"perceiving",
"depending",
"relying",
"trusting",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"surmising",
"concluding",
"deducing",
"inferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusting",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"questioning",
"suspecting",
"disbelieving",
"discrediting",
"rejecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"belittlers":{
"as in denigrators , jeerers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decriers",
"denigrators",
"deriders",
"detractors",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"insulters",
"jeerers",
"scoffers",
"scorners",
"baiters",
"harassers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"persecutors",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"tormentors",
"carpers",
"castigators",
"cavilers",
"cavillers",
"censurers",
"criticizers",
"critics",
"disparagers",
"faultfinders",
"hypercritics",
"knockers",
"nigglers",
"nitpickers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commenders",
"praisers",
"comforters",
"solaces",
"soothers",
"succorers",
"bodyguards",
"champions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belittles":{
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"belittled the action star's acting ability"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouths",
"cries down",
"decries",
"denigrates",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"derogates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"dismisses",
"disparages",
"disses",
"kisses off",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"poor-mouths",
"puts down",
"runs down",
"talks down",
"trashes",
"trash-talks",
"vilipends",
"writes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommends",
"abuses",
"scolds",
"disapproves (of)",
"dislikes",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"denounces",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"asperses",
"defames",
"maligns",
"rips",
"slanders",
"slurs",
"traduces",
"vilifies",
"discredits",
"disgraces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"countenances",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"favors",
"recommends",
"sanctions",
"commends",
"compliments",
"eulogizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"exalts",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"lauds",
"magnifies",
"praises"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belle epoques":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"that 19th-century belle epoque when Paris seemed to be the artistic center of the universe"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden ages",
"renaissances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver ages",
"millennia",
"millenniums",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flowers",
"flushes",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"salad days",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark ages"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belled":{
"as in howled , wailed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caterwauled",
"howled",
"wailed",
"yowled",
"bawled",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"hooted",
"shouted",
"whooped",
"yelled",
"banged",
"blared",
"blasted",
"pealed",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrieked",
"squalled",
"grumbled",
"rolled",
"rumbled",
"bellowed",
"boomed",
"growled",
"roared",
"thundered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunted",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered",
"mewled",
"puled",
"squeaked",
"whimpered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellicose":{
"feeling or displaying eagerness to fight":{
"examples":[
"bellicose hockey players who seem to spend more time fighting than playing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"belligerent",
"brawly",
"chippy",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"warlike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonistic",
"fierce",
"hostile",
"hot-tempered",
"acidic",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bristly",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"huffy",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"ornery",
"peevish",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"querulous",
"rude",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"stroppy",
"surly",
"testy",
"touchy",
"ugly",
"waspish",
"savage",
"vicious",
"battling",
"fighting",
"warring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anti-imperialist",
"antimilitarist",
"unwarlike",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"complaisant",
"conciliatory",
"cordial",
"easygoing",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"ingratiating",
"kindhearted",
"obliging",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"calm",
"quiet",
"relaxed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"mild"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggressive",
"nonbelligerent",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"unbelligerent",
"uncombative",
"uncontentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"belligerently":{
"as in angrily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"angrily",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well",
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bellow":{
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the cow bellowed for her calf"
],
"synonyms":[
"boom",
"growl",
"roar",
"thunder"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumble",
"roll",
"rumble",
"bang",
"blare",
"blast",
"peal",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"bawl",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"hoot",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yell",
"bell",
"caterwaul",
"howl",
"wail",
"yowl"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunt",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper",
"mewl",
"pule",
"squeak",
"whimper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"a drill instructor bellowing orders at new recruits during basic training"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawl",
"bay",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"hollo",
"halloo",
"hallo",
"roar",
"shout",
"sound off",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crow",
"whoop",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"shrill",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"caterwaul",
"howl",
"ululate",
"wail",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"hail",
"speak out",
"speak up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathe",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in howl , roar":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"bay",
"blat",
"bleat",
"bray",
"cackle",
"calling",
"caterwaul",
"caw",
"cheep",
"chirp",
"cluck",
"coo",
"crake",
"croak",
"crow",
"grunt",
"honk",
"hoot",
"howl",
"low",
"meow",
"miaow",
"mew",
"moo",
"neigh",
"oink",
"peep",
"quack",
"roar",
"screech",
"squall",
"squawk",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"trumpet",
"tu-whit tu-whoo",
"twitter",
"whinny",
"yap",
"yelp",
"yip",
"yowl",
"call",
"cry",
"note"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bellowing":{
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the cow bellowed for her calf"
],
"synonyms":[
"booming",
"growling",
"roaring",
"thundering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumbling",
"rolling",
"rumbling",
"banging",
"blaring",
"blasting",
"pealing",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"squalling",
"bawling",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"hooting",
"shouting",
"whooping",
"yelling",
"belling",
"caterwauling",
"howling",
"wailing",
"yowling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunting",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering",
"mewling",
"puling",
"squeaking",
"whimpering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"a drill instructor bellowing orders at new recruits during basic training"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawling",
"baying",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"holloing",
"hallooing",
"roaring",
"shouting",
"sounding off",
"thundering",
"vociferating",
"yelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crowing",
"whooping",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"shrilling",
"squeaking",
"squealing",
"caterwauling",
"howling",
"ululating",
"wailing",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"hailing",
"speaking out",
"speaking up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bells and whistles":{
"as in blazonry , emblazonry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"blazonry",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichi",
"emblazonry",
"filigree",
"finery",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"frosting",
"froufrou",
"adornment",
"beautifier",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"doodad",
"embellisher",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"garnishment",
"garniture",
"ornament",
"ornamentation",
"setoff",
"trim",
"fal-lal",
"flounce",
"flourish",
"furbelow",
"ruffle",
"enhancement",
"enrichment",
"improvement",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"embossment",
"embroidery",
"fancywork",
"bedizenment",
"gilt",
"glitter",
"design",
"figure",
"pattern",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"defacement",
"disfigurement",
"scar",
"blot",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"belly":{
"a need or desire for food":{
"examples":[
"as dinnertime approached he could think only of his belly"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"emptiness",
"famishment",
"hunger",
"munchies",
"stomach"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"ravenousness",
"voraciousness",
"voracity",
"malnutrition",
"starvation",
"undernourishment",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"famine",
"fast",
"hunger strike",
"gluttony",
"gourmandism",
"greed",
"hoggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"fullness",
"glut",
"repleteness",
"repletion",
"satiation",
"satiety",
"satisfaction",
"surfeit"
],
"antonyms":[
"inappetence"
]
},
"an enlarged or bulging abdomen":{
"examples":[
"worked hard to get rid of his belly in time to attend his class reunion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bay window",
"beer belly",
"corporation",
"gut",
"paunch",
"pot",
"potbelly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breadbasket",
"stomach",
"tummy",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fleshiness",
"obesity",
"overweight",
"paunchiness",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"chunkiness",
"heaviness",
"stoutness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis":{
"examples":[
"a baby with a round little belly"
],
"synonyms":[
"abdomen",
"breadbasket",
"gut",
"solar plexus",
"stomach",
"tummy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"middle",
"midriff",
"waist",
"paunch",
"potbelly",
"thorax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
"examples":[
"in my belly I knew that he wasn't telling the truth, as the details of his story just didn't add up"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"bone(s)",
"bosom",
"breast",
"core",
"gut",
"heart",
"heartstrings",
"inner space",
"inside",
"quick",
"soul"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conscience",
"mind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sails slowly bellied as the wind picked up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly with the body close to the ground":{
"examples":[
"recruits were forced to belly over the obstacle course under simulated enemy fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"grovel",
"slide",
"slither",
"snake",
"worm",
"wriggle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crouch",
"squat",
"edge",
"inch",
"nose",
"skulk",
"sneak",
"steal",
"tiptoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belly laughs":{
"an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement":{
"examples":[
"humorous anecdotes that are likely to evoke lots of smiles but few belly laughs"
],
"synonyms":[
"boffolas",
"boffs",
"boffos",
"cachinnations",
"cackles",
"chortles",
"chuckles",
"giggles",
"guffaws",
"hee-haws",
"horselaughs",
"laughs",
"laughters",
"snickers",
"sniggers",
"titters",
"twitters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crows",
"whoops",
"grins",
"simpers",
"smiles",
"smirks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cries",
"groans",
"moans",
"sobs",
"wails",
"faces",
"frowns",
"grimaces",
"lowers",
"lours",
"mouths",
"pouts",
"scowls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellyache":{
"abdominal pain especially when focused in the digestive organs":{
"examples":[
"eating too many apples will give you a bellyache"
],
"synonyms":[
"collywobbles",
"stomachache"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colic",
"cramps",
"gripes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"tired of the kids bellyaching every time they're asked to mow the lawn or take out the trash"
],
"synonyms":[
"beef",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"inveigh",
"keen",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"maunder",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"object (to)",
"protest",
"quarrel (with)",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"fret",
"stew",
"worry",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"lament"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"bear",
"countenance",
"endure",
"take",
"tolerate",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend"
],
"antonyms":[
"crow",
"delight",
"rejoice"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bellyached":{
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"tired of the kids bellyaching every time they're asked to mow the lawn or take out the trash"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefed",
"bitched",
"bleated",
"carped",
"caterwauled",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"fussed",
"griped",
"grizzled",
"grouched",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"grumped",
"hollered",
"inveighed",
"keened",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"maundered",
"moaned",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"nagged",
"repined",
"screamed",
"squawked",
"squealed",
"wailed",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"whinged",
"yammered",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objected (to)",
"protested",
"quarreled (with)",
"quarrelled (with)",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"quibbled",
"fretted",
"stewed",
"worried",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"lamented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"bore",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"tolerated",
"took",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"commended"
],
"antonyms":[
"crowed",
"delighted",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellyful":{
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"a bellyful of complaints about the new security procedures"
],
"synonyms":[
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"overplus",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"plus",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"surplusage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abundance",
"bounty",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"sufficiency",
"overproduction",
"overstock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dearth",
"lack",
"scarcity",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellyfuls":{
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"a bellyful of complaints about the new security procedures"
],
"synonyms":[
"excesses",
"fat",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"overpluses",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surplusages",
"surpluses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abundances",
"bounties",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"profusions",
"sufficiencies",
"overproductions",
"overstocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dearths",
"lacks",
"scarcities",
"wants"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"insufficiencies",
"undersupplies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belt (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"I belted down a can of soda and rushed back out to the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"drink",
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"hoist",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"pound (down)",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slug (down)",
"slurp",
"sup",
"swig",
"swill",
"toss (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lap",
"lick",
"suck",
"consume",
"down",
"ingurgitate",
"kill",
"mouth (down)",
"put away",
"nip",
"tipple",
"pledge",
"toast",
"wine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belted":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"belted the baseball out of the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"biffed",
"bludgeoned",
"bobbed",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clipped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"hammered",
"hit",
"knocked",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"tagged",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"zapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"scuffed",
"bunted",
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"bumped",
"butted",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"rabbit-punched",
"sucker punched",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"lashed",
"sapped",
"slashed",
"sledged",
"sledgehammered",
"speared",
"stabbed",
"switched",
"thrashed",
"whipped",
"beaned",
"brained",
"conked",
"skulled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt":{
"examples":[
"belted the little boy's pants tightly so they would stay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded",
"begirt",
"begirded",
"engirded",
"engirdled",
"enwound",
"girded",
"girt",
"girdled",
"girted",
"girthed",
"wrapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tied up",
"trussed",
"circled",
"enwreathed",
"looped",
"wound",
"winded",
"wreathed",
"bandaged",
"enswathed",
"swathed",
"chained",
"corded",
"enchained",
"lashed",
"roped",
"shackled",
"taped",
"wired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbound",
"unlashed",
"unshackled",
"untied",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[
"ungirded",
"unwrapped"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"belted the punching bag relentlessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the boy went belting along on his skateboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belted up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the schoolboy ordered his mates to belt up about the prank"
],
"synonyms":[
"clammed up",
"dried up",
"dummied up",
"hushed",
"piped down",
"quieted (down)",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"cooled (down)",
"settled (down)",
"hawed",
"hemmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piped up",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"spouted (off)",
"talked up"
],
"antonyms":[
"spoke",
"talked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beltway":{
"as in parkway , bypass":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"causeway",
"through street",
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belvedere":{
"a freestanding airy structure in a scenic setting (as a park) typically offering commanding views":{
"examples":[
"a Greek revival belvedere stands majestically on a grassy knoll overlooking the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcove",
"casino",
"gazebo",
"kiosk",
"pavilion",
"summerhouse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trellis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belted (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"I belted down a can of soda and rushed back out to the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"drank",
"gulped",
"guzzled",
"hoisted",
"imbibed",
"knocked back",
"pounded (down)",
"quaffed",
"sipped",
"slugged (down)",
"slurped",
"supped",
"swigged",
"swilled",
"tossed (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lapped",
"licked",
"sucked",
"consumed",
"downed",
"ingurgitated",
"killed",
"mouthed (down)",
"put away",
"nipped",
"tippled",
"pledged",
"toasted",
"wined"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellwethers":{
"one that takes the lead or sets an example":{
"examples":[
"the state has a long history of being an early and reliable bellwether in presidential elections"
],
"synonyms":[
"leaders",
"pacemakers",
"pacers",
"pacesetters",
"trendsetters",
"trend-setters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foregoers",
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"precursors",
"groundbreakers",
"innovators",
"pioneers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Johnny-come-latelies",
"Johnnies-come-lately",
"me-tooers"
],
"antonyms":[
"followers",
"imitators"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belles \u00e9poques":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"that 19th-century belle epoque when Paris seemed to be the artistic center of the universe"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden ages",
"renaissances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver ages",
"millennia",
"millenniums",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flowers",
"flushes",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"salad days",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark ages"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belaud":{
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"critically belauded in his heyday, that early 20th-century novelist is now largely forgotten"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulate",
"blarney",
"butter up",
"flatter",
"hero-worship",
"honey",
"massage",
"overpraise",
"puff",
"soft-soap",
"stroke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle",
"fawn",
"kowtow",
"suck (up to)",
"toady",
"idolize",
"worship",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise",
"applaud",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"felicitate",
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"romance",
"woo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"believers":{
"one who professes a religious faith":{
"examples":[
"for believers , it was sufficient proof that a miracle had occurred"
],
"synonyms":[
"religionists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fundamentalists",
"cultists",
"pietists",
"zealots",
"deists",
"monotheists",
"polytheists",
"theist",
"churchgoers",
"communicants",
"congregants"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belle-lettristic":{
"as in highbrowed , donnish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"pompous",
"stilted",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"high-flown",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"stately",
"towering",
"academic",
"academical",
"donnish",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"scholastic",
"bookish",
"erudite",
"learned",
"literary",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"educated",
"schooled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colloquial",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish",
"chatty",
"conversational",
"familiar",
"informal",
"slangy",
"illiterate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"believable":{
"worthy of being accepted as true or reasonable":{
"examples":[
"she had a believable excuse for missing the deadline"
],
"synonyms":[
"credible",
"creditable",
"likely",
"plausible",
"presumptive",
"probable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cogent",
"compelling",
"conclusive",
"convincing",
"decisive",
"effective",
"forceful",
"persuasive",
"satisfying",
"strong",
"telling",
"acceptable",
"cogitable",
"conceivable",
"imaginable",
"possible",
"practical",
"reasonable",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"trustworthy",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absurd",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"flimsy",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"questionable",
"ridiculous",
"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"skeptical",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"hopeless",
"unworkable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[
"far-fetched",
"implausible",
"improbable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unlikely",
"unplausible"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"belfries":{
"a person's mental ability":{
"examples":[
"The old codger has cobwebs in the belfry ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"loaf",
"noodle",
"reason",
"skull",
"brain",
"cerebrum",
"head",
"mind",
"psyche",
"thinker",
"acumen",
"alertness",
"astuteness",
"brilliance",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mentality",
"perception",
"perspicacity",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"awareness",
"cognizance",
"consciousness",
"self-awareness",
"self-consciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belletrist":{
"as in stylist , auteur":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"stylist",
"wordsmith",
"author",
"litterateur",
"litt\u00e9rateur",
"pen",
"penman",
"scribe",
"scrivener",
"writer",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"prosaist",
"prosateur",
"proser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belle epoque":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"that 19th-century belle epoque when Paris seemed to be the artistic center of the universe"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden age",
"renaissance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver age",
"millennium",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flower",
"flush",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"salad days",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark age"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belligerent":{
"feeling or displaying eagerness to fight":{
"examples":[
"the player became quite belligerent and was thrown out of the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"bellicose",
"brawly",
"chippy",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"warlike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonistic",
"fierce",
"hostile",
"hot-tempered",
"acidic",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bristly",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"huffy",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"ornery",
"peevish",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"querulous",
"rude",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"stroppy",
"surly",
"testy",
"touchy",
"ugly",
"waspish",
"savage",
"vicious",
"battling",
"fighting",
"warring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anti-imperialist",
"antimilitarist",
"unwarlike",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"complaisant",
"conciliatory",
"cordial",
"easygoing",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"ingratiating",
"kindhearted",
"obliging",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"calm",
"quiet",
"relaxed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"mild"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggressive",
"nonbelligerent",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"unbelligerent",
"uncombative",
"uncontentious"
]
},
"as in combatant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combatant",
"dogface",
"fighter",
"legionary",
"legionnaire",
"man-at-arms",
"regular",
"serviceman",
"soldier",
"trooper",
"warrior",
"servicewoman",
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"dragoon",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman",
"commando",
"raider",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"archer",
"crossbowman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian",
"noncombatant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"belying":{
"to give a misleading impression of":{
"examples":[
"his bright smile belied his actual mood, which was really one of great sadness"
],
"synonyms":[
"misrepresenting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradicting",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"counterfeiting",
"disguising",
"hiding",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"coloring",
"deceiving",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"misleading",
"misrendering",
"misreporting",
"twisting",
"dissembling",
"feigning",
"pretending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"demonstrating",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"evincing",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"flaunting",
"parading",
"showing off"
],
"antonyms":[
"betraying",
"representing"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the latest information belies the old theory"
],
"synonyms":[
"confounding",
"confuting",
"debunking",
"disconfirming",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"falsifying",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"shooting down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrowing",
"overturning",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"querying",
"questioning",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"talking over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"showing",
"supporting",
"witnessing",
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"illustrating",
"manifesting"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"validating",
"verifying"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"the security council issued false assurances that belied the true gravity of the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"occulting",
"papering over",
"screening",
"shrouding",
"suppressing",
"veiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burying",
"camouflaging",
"covering (up)",
"smothering",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blocking",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"eclipsing",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"shading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bringing out",
"presenting",
"clarifying",
"illuminating",
"advertising",
"airing",
"broadcasting",
"getting out",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"spreading"
],
"antonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"displaying",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belligerency":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"examples":[
"an inveterate belligerency that needs to be addressed by classes in anger management"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belches":{
"an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"with a loud belch he concluded his pig-out and rose at last from the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"burps",
"eructations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiccups",
"hiccoughs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"the volcano belched lava and ash for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgorges",
"ejects",
"eructs",
"erupts",
"expels",
"jets",
"spews",
"spouts",
"spurts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushes",
"pours",
"squirts",
"streams",
"surges",
"emanates",
"exhales",
"issues",
"releases",
"shoots",
"spits",
"springs",
"vents",
"discharges",
"emits",
"fires",
"casts",
"flings",
"heaves",
"hurls",
"launches",
"pitches",
"tosses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"contains",
"restrains",
"shuts (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belabored":{
"to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"dwelled (on or upon)",
"dwelt (on or upon)",
"harped (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accented",
"accentuated",
"emphasized",
"paid (up)",
"pointed (up)",
"stressed",
"underlined",
"underscored"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted",
"slurred (over)"
]
},
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bashed",
"blasted",
"castigated",
"excoriated",
"jumped (on)",
"lambasted",
"potshot",
"savaged",
"scathed",
"slammed",
"trashed",
"vituperated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berated",
"harangued",
"harassed",
"harried",
"reviled",
"scolded",
"whipped",
"blasphemed",
"cursed",
"execrated",
"imprecated",
"profaned",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"slurred",
"aspersed",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"blackguarded",
"disparaged",
"put down",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"slandered",
"traduced",
"vilified",
"chastised",
"chid",
"chided",
"criticized",
"laced (into)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"fulminated",
"lashed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"commended",
"complimented",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beldam":{
"a mean or ugly old woman":{
"examples":[
"knocking on the beldam's door on Halloween was once an annual ritual for the kids in the neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"carline",
"carlin",
"crone",
"hag",
"hellcat",
"trot",
"witch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harpy",
"shrew",
"virago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellyachers":{
"a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things":{
"examples":[
"one of the biggest bellyachers about the lousy coffee at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"complainers",
"crybabies",
"fussbudgets",
"fussers",
"fusspots",
"gripers",
"grumblers",
"kvetchers",
"kvetches",
"snivelers",
"whiners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawlers",
"bleaters",
"moaners",
"screamers",
"squawkers",
"wailers",
"weepers",
"crabs",
"grumps",
"malcontents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"happy campers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an irritable and complaining person":{
"examples":[
"there's always at least one bellyacher who doesn't like the food on the cruise ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"complainers",
"crabs",
"cranks",
"croakers",
"crosspatches",
"curmudgeons",
"fussers",
"gripers",
"grouches",
"grousers",
"growlers",
"grumblers",
"grumps",
"murmurers",
"mutterers",
"sourpusses",
"whiners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hunks",
"malcontents",
"soreheads",
"grinches",
"killjoys",
"party poopers",
"spoilsports",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"faultfinders",
"kickers",
"naggers",
"nitpickers",
"objectors",
"quibblers",
"repiners",
"crocks",
"hypochondriacs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"happy campers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belittling":{
"intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value":{
"examples":[
"there's no need for belittling comments about your brother's trumpet playing"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemptuous",
"decrying",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"denigrative",
"denigratory",
"deprecatory",
"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derisory",
"derogative",
"derogatory",
"detractive",
"disdainful",
"disparaging",
"pejorative",
"scornful",
"slighting",
"uncomplimentary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"calumnious",
"defamatory",
"insulting",
"libelous",
"libellous",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"slanderous",
"vilifying",
"abusive",
"opprobrious",
"scurrilous",
"catty",
"cruel",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"unkind",
"virulent",
"critical",
"denunciative",
"denunciatory",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"envious",
"jaundiced",
"jealous",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"acrid",
"caustic",
"scathing",
"venomous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admiring",
"adulatory",
"applauding",
"approving",
"friendly",
"positive",
"appreciative",
"respectful",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"sympathetic",
"unmalicious",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"commendatory",
"complimentary",
"laudative",
"laudatory"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"belittled the action star's acting ability"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking",
"vilipending",
"writing off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommending",
"abusing",
"scolding",
"disapproving (of)",
"disliking",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"aspersing",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"ripping",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"discrediting",
"disgracing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"countenancing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"praising"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"belated":{
"not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time":{
"examples":[
"a belated birthday card"
],
"synonyms":[
"behind",
"behindhand",
"delinquent",
"late",
"latish",
"overdue",
"tardy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delayed",
"detained",
"postponed",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"unhurried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"prompt",
"punctual"
],
"antonyms":[
"early",
"inopportune",
"precocious",
"premature",
"unseasonable",
"untimely"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"beleaguer":{
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"beleaguered the castle for months"
],
"synonyms":[
"besiege",
"blockade",
"invest",
"leaguer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricade",
"block",
"cut off",
"dam",
"encircle",
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"confine",
"insulate",
"isolate",
"quarantine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"rescue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellied up":{
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"belly up to the buffet table and help yourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"approached",
"came up",
"closed",
"closed in",
"drew on",
"neared",
"nighed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrived",
"attained",
"came",
"gained",
"hit",
"landed",
"made",
"reached",
"showed up",
"turned up",
"waltzed (up)",
"crept up",
"sneaked up",
"snuck up",
"adjoined",
"bordered",
"touched",
"verged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared out",
"departed",
"exited",
"left",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"pulled out",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran away",
"removed",
"shoved (off)",
"took off",
"walked out",
"went"
],
"antonyms":[
"backed (up or away)",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belonging":{
"the state of being in a very personal or private relationship":{
"examples":[
"the warm welcome they received from the community gave them a sense of belonging"
],
"synonyms":[
"chumminess",
"closeness",
"familiarity",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immediacy",
"affinity",
"kinship",
"commitment",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"affection",
"attachment",
"fondness",
"love",
"passion",
"constancy",
"faithfulness",
"fidelity",
"amity",
"fellowship",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"affability",
"conviviality",
"cordiality",
"geniality",
"mutuality",
"cliquishness",
"clubbiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"remoteness",
"reserve"
],
"antonyms":[
"distance"
]
},
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"packed up all their belongings and moved across the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"your shoes belong in the closet, not in the middle of the living room where people will trip on them"
],
"synonyms":[
"going"
],
"near synonyms":[
"placing",
"staying",
"fitting (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"examples":[
"those textbooks belong to the school system and not to the students"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertaining",
"pertaining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"having",
"holding",
"owning",
"possessing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belittlements":{
"the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant":{
"examples":[
"an unconscionable belittlement of his assistant in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"denigrations",
"deprecations",
"depreciations",
"derogations",
"detractions",
"diminishments",
"disparagements",
"put-downs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersions",
"calumnies",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"vilifications",
"derisions",
"mockeries",
"ridicules",
"abuses",
"invectives",
"vituperations",
"censures",
"condemnations",
"criticisms",
"denouncements",
"denunciations",
"de-emphases",
"minimizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"praises",
"approbations",
"approvals",
"blessings",
"commendations",
"hypes",
"pufferies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizements",
"ennoblements",
"exaltations",
"glorifications",
"magnifications"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"beloved":{
"granted special treatment or attention":{
"examples":[
"her beloved cat sleeps in its own little bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherished",
"darling",
"dear",
"fair-haired",
"favored",
"favorite",
"fond",
"loved",
"pet",
"precious",
"special",
"sweet",
"white-headed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"adored",
"appreciated",
"esteemed",
"relished",
"revered",
"prized",
"treasured",
"preferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"disdained",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"unfavorite",
"abandoned",
"forgotten",
"ignored",
"alienated",
"estranged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbeloved"
]
},
"a person with whom one is in love":{
"examples":[
"searching for some incredibly romantic spot in which to ask his beloved to marry him"
],
"synonyms":[
"darling",
"dear",
"flame",
"hon",
"honey",
"love",
"squeeze",
"sweet",
"sweetheart",
"sweetie",
"sweetie pie",
"truelove"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beau",
"boy",
"boyfriend",
"fellow",
"man",
"swain",
"gal",
"girl",
"girlfriend",
"inamorata",
"ladylove",
"lass",
"mistress",
"tootsie",
"amour",
"lover",
"paramour",
"doll",
"duck(s)",
"pet",
"date",
"escort",
"steady",
"admirer",
"gallant",
"suitor",
"wooer",
"groom",
"husband",
"bride",
"wife",
"significant other",
"fianc\u00e9",
"intended",
"crush",
"heartthrob"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"below par":{
"falling short of a standard":{
"examples":[
"They hired their child a tutor after learning that his performance in language arts was below par ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"subpar",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysmal",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bitchin'",
"brutal",
"damnable",
"deplorable",
"detestable",
"disastrous",
"dreadful",
"execrable",
"gnarly",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"pathetic",
"stinky",
"sucky",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"egregious",
"flagrant",
"gross",
"bum",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"junky",
"lesser",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"reprehensible",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"trashy",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"meager",
"meagre",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"scanty",
"shabby",
"short",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"stingy",
"miscreant",
"scurrilous",
"villainous",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"classical",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"boss",
"capital",
"choice",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"divine",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-test",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"par excellence",
"perfect",
"premium",
"prime",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wonderful",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"sufficient",
"average",
"borderline",
"fair",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"minimal",
"so-so",
"unexceptional",
"suitable",
"useful",
"worthy",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
],
"antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"standard",
"tolerable"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"beleaguerments":{
"the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies":{
"examples":[
"the devastating beleaguerment of Leningrad that lasted from September 1941 to January 1944"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockades",
"investments",
"leaguers",
"sieges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblockades",
"counter-blockades",
"containments",
"encirclements",
"encompassments",
"confinements",
"insulations",
"isolations",
"quarantines",
"seclusions",
"segregations",
"sequestrations",
"incarcerations",
"internments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellwether":{
"one that takes the lead or sets an example":{
"examples":[
"the state has a long history of being an early and reliable bellwether in presidential elections"
],
"synonyms":[
"leader",
"pacemaker",
"pacer",
"pacesetter",
"trendsetter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"precursor",
"groundbreaker",
"innovator",
"pioneer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Johnny-come-lately",
"me-tooer"
],
"antonyms":[
"follower",
"imitator"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belied":{
"to give a misleading impression of":{
"examples":[
"his bright smile belied his actual mood, which was really one of great sadness"
],
"synonyms":[
"misrepresented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradicted",
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"counterfeited",
"disguised",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"colored",
"deceived",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"misled",
"misrendered",
"misreported",
"twisted",
"dissembled",
"feigned",
"pretended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"demonstrated",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"evinced",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"flaunted",
"paraded",
"showed off"
],
"antonyms":[
"betrayed",
"represented"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the latest information belies the old theory"
],
"synonyms":[
"confounded",
"confuted",
"debunked",
"disconfirmed",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"falsified",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"shot down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrew",
"overturned",
"challenged",
"contested",
"queried",
"questioned",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"debated",
"discussed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"talked over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documented",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"showed",
"supported",
"witnessed",
"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"illustrated",
"manifested"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"validated",
"verified"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"the security council issued false assurances that belied the true gravity of the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occulted",
"papered over",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"suppressed",
"veiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buried",
"camouflaged",
"covered (up)",
"smothered",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blocked",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brought out",
"presented",
"clarified",
"illuminated",
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"got out",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spread"
],
"antonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"displayed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belched":{
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"the volcano belched lava and ash for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgorged",
"ejected",
"eructed",
"erupted",
"expelled",
"jetted",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushed",
"poured",
"squirted",
"streamed",
"surged",
"emanated",
"exhaled",
"issued",
"released",
"shot",
"spit",
"spat",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"vented",
"discharged",
"emitted",
"fired",
"cast",
"flung",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"launched",
"pitched",
"tossed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottled (up)",
"contained",
"restrained",
"shut (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"below the belt":{
"not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport":{
"examples":[
"That mean joke really hit below the belt ."
],
"synonyms":[
"dirty",
"foul",
"illegal",
"nasty",
"unfair",
"unsportsmanlike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dishonorable",
"shabby",
"shameful",
"ignoble",
"low",
"mean",
"ungentlemanly",
"immoral",
"rotten",
"unchivalrous",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unscrupulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"just",
"law-abiding",
"ethical",
"moral",
"principled",
"righteous",
"scrupulous",
"honorable",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable"
],
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"fair",
"legal",
"sportsmanlike",
"sportsmanly"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"belles":{
"as in peaches , charmers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charmers",
"peaches",
"babes",
"beauties",
"beauty queens",
"cookies",
"cuties",
"cuteys",
"dolly birds",
"enchantresses",
"eyefuls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"goddesses",
"honeys",
"knockouts",
"queens",
"stunners",
"bathing beauties",
"cover girls",
"pinup girls",
"houris",
"cutie-pies",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"dreamboats",
"hotties",
"lookers",
"pretties",
"coquettes",
"femmes fatales",
"sirens",
"temptresses",
"vamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bags",
"frumps",
"crones",
"hags",
"witches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belly-landing":{
"as in crash-landing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crash-landing",
"alighting",
"landing",
"lighting",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling",
"touching down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasting off",
"taking off",
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"rising",
"floating",
"flying",
"gliding",
"planing",
"soaring",
"winging",
"hanging",
"hovering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belle \u00e9poque":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"that 19th-century belle epoque when Paris seemed to be the artistic center of the universe"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden age",
"renaissance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver age",
"millennium",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flower",
"flush",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"salad days",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark age"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belittled":{
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"belittled the action star's acting ability"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthed",
"cried down",
"decried",
"denigrated",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"derogated",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"dismissed",
"disparaged",
"dissed",
"kissed off",
"minimized",
"played down",
"poor-mouthed",
"put down",
"ran down",
"talked down",
"trashed",
"trash-talked",
"vilipended",
"wrote off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommended",
"abused",
"scolded",
"disapproved (of)",
"disliked",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"denounced",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"aspersed",
"defamed",
"maligned",
"ripped",
"slandered",
"slurred",
"traduced",
"vilified",
"discredited",
"disgraced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"countenanced",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"favored",
"recommended",
"sanctioned",
"commended",
"complimented",
"eulogized"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"exalted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"lauded",
"magnified",
"praised"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belting":{
"as in thumping , thrashing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assault",
"attack",
"bashing",
"battering",
"battery",
"batting",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"lacing",
"licking",
"mauling",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"smashing",
"socking",
"thrashing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"damage",
"detriment",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury",
"frenzy",
"fury",
"onslaught",
"outbreak",
"outrage",
"paroxysm",
"rage",
"rampage",
"revolt",
"riot",
"rupture",
"shock",
"storm",
"terror",
"threat",
"tumult",
"turbulence",
"upheaval",
"uproar",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"savagery",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"hectoring",
"strong-arming",
"force",
"foul play",
"violence",
"crippling",
"maiming",
"mayhem",
"mutilation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pacificism",
"pacifism",
"nonviolence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"belted the baseball out of the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt":{
"examples":[
"belted the little boy's pants tightly so they would stay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"banding",
"begirding",
"engirding",
"engirdling",
"enwinding",
"girding",
"girdling",
"girthing",
"girting",
"wrapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trussing",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"circling",
"enwreathing",
"looping",
"winding",
"wreathing",
"bandaging",
"enswathing",
"swathing",
"chaining",
"cording",
"enchaining",
"lashing",
"roping",
"shackling",
"taping",
"wiring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbinding",
"unlashing",
"unshackling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[
"ungirding",
"unwrapping"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"belted the punching bag relentlessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the boy went belting along on his skateboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belting up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the schoolboy ordered his mates to belt up about the prank"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamming up",
"drying up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"piping down",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"cooling (down)",
"settling (down)",
"hawing",
"hemming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piping up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking",
"talking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belt-tightenings":{
"as in economies , frugalities":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conservations",
"economies",
"frugalities",
"parsimonies",
"penny-pinchings",
"savings",
"thrifts",
"necessities",
"austerities",
"moderations",
"restraints",
"temperances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extravagances",
"prodigalities",
"wastes",
"indulgences",
"luxuries",
"splurges",
"losses",
"wastages"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belly flop":{
"as in header , swan dive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"header",
"jackknife",
"swan dive",
"descent",
"drop",
"fall",
"plump",
"slip",
"spill",
"stumble",
"tumble",
"dip",
"immersion",
"submersion",
"dive",
"pitch",
"plunge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"jump",
"leap"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plunk , plump":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plump",
"plunk",
"plonk",
"dip",
"immerse",
"submerge",
"dive",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"sound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surface"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belly-land":{
"as in crash-land":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crash-land",
"alight",
"land",
"light",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"touch down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blast off",
"take off",
"arise",
"ascend",
"climb",
"rise",
"float",
"fly",
"glide",
"plane",
"soar",
"wing",
"hang",
"hover"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belly laugh":{
"an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement":{
"examples":[
"humorous anecdotes that are likely to evoke lots of smiles but few belly laughs"
],
"synonyms":[
"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"cachinnation",
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"giggle",
"guffaw",
"hee-haw",
"horselaugh",
"laugh",
"laughter",
"snicker",
"snigger",
"titter",
"twitter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crow",
"whoop",
"grin",
"simper",
"smile",
"smirk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cry",
"groan",
"moan",
"sob",
"wail",
"face",
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"mouth",
"pout",
"scowl"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belly flops":{
"as in headers , swan dives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"headers",
"jackknives",
"swan dives",
"descents",
"drops",
"falls",
"plumps",
"slips",
"spills",
"stumbles",
"tumbles",
"dips",
"immersions",
"submersions",
"dives",
"pitches",
"plunges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"jumps",
"leaps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plunks , plumps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plumps",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"dips",
"immerses",
"submerges",
"dives",
"pitches",
"plunges",
"sounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfaces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belittler":{
"as in denigrator , jeerer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decrier",
"denigrator",
"derider",
"detractor",
"giber",
"jiber",
"insulter",
"jeerer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"carper",
"castigator",
"caviler",
"caviller",
"censurer",
"critic",
"criticizer",
"disparager",
"faultfinder",
"hypercritic",
"knocker",
"niggler",
"nitpicker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commender",
"praiser",
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"succorer",
"bodyguard",
"champion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"believed":{
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"bought",
"credited",
"swallowed",
"took",
"trusted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accounted",
"accredited",
"understood",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"supposed",
"concluded",
"deduced",
"inferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusted",
"doubted",
"misdoubted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected",
"challenged",
"disputed"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbelieved",
"discredited",
"rejected"
]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"examples":[
"despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that \"people are really good at heart\""
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"conceived",
"considered",
"deemed",
"esteemed",
"felt",
"figured",
"guessed",
"held",
"imagined",
"judged",
"reckoned",
"supposed",
"thought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regarded",
"viewed",
"accepted",
"perceived",
"depended",
"relied",
"trusted",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"surmised",
"concluded",
"deduced",
"inferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusted",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected",
"disbelieved",
"discredited",
"rejected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beldames":{
"a mean or ugly old woman":{
"examples":[
"knocking on the beldam's door on Halloween was once an annual ritual for the kids in the neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"carlines",
"carlins",
"crones",
"hags",
"hellcats",
"trots",
"witches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harpies",
"shrews",
"viragoes",
"viragos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belauds":{
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"critically belauded in his heyday, that early 20th-century novelist is now largely forgotten"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulates",
"blarneys",
"butters up",
"flatters",
"hero-worships",
"honeys",
"massages",
"overpraises",
"puffs",
"soft-soaps",
"strokes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"sweet-talks",
"wheedles",
"fawns",
"kowtows",
"sucks (up to)",
"toadies",
"idolizes",
"worships",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"praises",
"applauds",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"felicitates",
"drools",
"gushes",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"endears",
"ingratiates",
"courts",
"romances",
"woos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"disparages",
"puts down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belonged":{
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"your shoes belong in the closet, not in the middle of the living room where people will trip on them"
],
"synonyms":[
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"placed",
"stayed",
"fitted (in)",
"fit (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"examples":[
"those textbooks belong to the school system and not to the students"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertained",
"pertained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"had",
"held",
"owned",
"possessed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beleaguerment":{
"the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies":{
"examples":[
"the devastating beleaguerment of Leningrad that lasted from September 1941 to January 1944"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockade",
"investment",
"leaguer",
"siege"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblockade",
"containment",
"encirclement",
"encompassment",
"confinement",
"insulation",
"isolation",
"quarantine",
"seclusion",
"segregation",
"sequestration",
"incarceration",
"internment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belling":{
"as in howling , wailing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caterwauling",
"howling",
"wailing",
"yowling",
"bawling",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"hooting",
"shouting",
"whooping",
"yelling",
"banging",
"blaring",
"blasting",
"pealing",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"squalling",
"grumbling",
"rolling",
"rumbling",
"bellowing",
"booming",
"growling",
"roaring",
"thundering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunting",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering",
"mewling",
"puling",
"squeaking",
"whimpering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellyacher":{
"a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things":{
"examples":[
"one of the biggest bellyachers about the lousy coffee at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"complainer",
"crybaby",
"fussbudget",
"fusser",
"fusspot",
"griper",
"grumbler",
"kvetch",
"kvetcher",
"sniveler",
"whiner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawler",
"bleater",
"moaner",
"screamer",
"squawker",
"wailer",
"weeper",
"crab",
"grump",
"malcontent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"happy camper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an irritable and complaining person":{
"examples":[
"there's always at least one bellyacher who doesn't like the food on the cruise ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"complainer",
"crab",
"crank",
"croaker",
"crosspatch",
"curmudgeon",
"fusser",
"griper",
"grouch",
"grouser",
"growler",
"grumbler",
"grump",
"murmurer",
"mutterer",
"sourpuss",
"whiner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hunks",
"malcontent",
"sorehead",
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"faultfinder",
"kicker",
"nagger",
"nitpicker",
"objector",
"quibbler",
"repiner",
"crock",
"hypochondriac"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"happy camper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belters":{
"as in singers , songstresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"carolers",
"carollers",
"singers",
"songsters",
"vocalists",
"vocalizers",
"voices",
"crooners",
"harmonizers",
"hummers",
"warblers",
"yodelers",
"chanteuses",
"songstresses",
"cantors",
"chanters",
"choristers",
"bards",
"troubadours",
"chansonniers",
"serenaders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belaboring":{
"to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"dwelling (on or upon)",
"harping (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"paying (up)",
"pointing (up)",
"stressing",
"underlining",
"underscoring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting",
"slurring (over)"
]
},
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bashing",
"blasting",
"castigating",
"excoriating",
"jumping (on)",
"lambasting",
"potshotting",
"savaging",
"scathing",
"slamming",
"trashing",
"vituperating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berating",
"haranguing",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"reviling",
"scolding",
"whipping",
"blaspheming",
"cursing",
"execrating",
"imprecating",
"profaning",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"slurring",
"aspersing",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"blackguarding",
"disparaging",
"putting down",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"slandering",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"chastising",
"chiding",
"criticizing",
"lacing (into)",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"fulminating",
"lashing (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belch":{
"an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"with a loud belch he concluded his pig-out and rose at last from the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"burp",
"eructation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiccup",
"hiccough"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"the volcano belched lava and ash for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgorge",
"eject",
"eruct",
"erupt",
"expel",
"jet",
"spew",
"spout",
"spurt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gush",
"pour",
"squirt",
"stream",
"surge",
"emanate",
"exhale",
"issue",
"release",
"shoot",
"spit",
"spring",
"vent",
"discharge",
"emit",
"fire",
"cast",
"fling",
"heave",
"hurl",
"launch",
"pitch",
"toss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"contain",
"restrain",
"shut (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belly flopping":{
"as in plunking , plumping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plumping",
"plunking",
"plonking",
"dipping",
"immersing",
"submerging",
"diving",
"pitching",
"plunging",
"sounding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfacing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellying":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sails slowly bellied as the wind picked up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"pouting",
"projecting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly with the body close to the ground":{
"examples":[
"recruits were forced to belly over the obstacle course under simulated enemy fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"sliding",
"slithering",
"snaking",
"worming",
"wriggling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crouching",
"squatting",
"edging",
"inching",
"nosing",
"skulking",
"sneaking",
"stealing",
"tiptoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belt-tightening":{
"as in pinching , straitening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pinching",
"straitening",
"austerity",
"deprivation",
"privation",
"gutter",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"exigency",
"emergency",
"rainy day",
"bankruptcy",
"insolvency",
"beggary",
"destituteness",
"destitution",
"impecuniosity",
"impecuniousness",
"impoverishment",
"indigence",
"necessity",
"need",
"neediness",
"pauperism",
"penuriousness",
"penury",
"poorness",
"poverty",
"want"
],
"near antonyms":[
"luxury",
"prosperity",
"affluence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"wealth",
"wealthiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellyaching":{
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"tired of the kids bellyaching every time they're asked to mow the lawn or take out the trash"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefing",
"bitching",
"bleating",
"carping",
"caterwauling",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grizzling",
"grouching",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"grumping",
"hollering",
"inveighing",
"keening",
"kicking",
"kvetching",
"maundering",
"moaning",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"nagging",
"repining",
"screaming",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whinging",
"whingeing",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objecting (to)",
"protesting",
"quarreling (with)",
"quarrelling (with)",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"worrying",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"bearing",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending"
],
"antonyms":[
"crowing",
"delighting",
"rejoicing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bell":{
"as in howl , wail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caterwaul",
"howl",
"wail",
"yowl",
"bawl",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"hoot",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yell",
"bang",
"blare",
"blast",
"peal",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"grumble",
"roll",
"rumble",
"bellow",
"boom",
"growl",
"roar",
"thunder"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunt",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper",
"mewl",
"pule",
"squeak",
"whimper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belong":{
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"your shoes belong in the closet, not in the middle of the living room where people will trip on them"
],
"synonyms":[
"go"
],
"near synonyms":[
"place",
"stay",
"fit (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"examples":[
"those textbooks belong to the school system and not to the students"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertain",
"pertain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"have",
"hold",
"own",
"possess"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belowground":{
"being, situated, or operating beneath the surface of the earth":{
"examples":[
"a vast belowground network of tunnels"
],
"synonyms":[
"subsurface",
"subterranean",
"underground"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"aboveground",
"surface"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"beliefs":{
"mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon":{
"examples":[
"a belief in UFO's led him to relentlessly scan the nighttime skies"
],
"synonyms":[
"credences",
"credits",
"faiths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"axioms",
"laws",
"precepts",
"principles",
"tenets",
"assurances",
"certainties",
"certitudes",
"convictions",
"confidences",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"reliances",
"trusts",
"hopes",
"doctrines",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"philosophies",
"dogmatisms",
"fanaticisms",
"insistences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"skepticism",
"suspicions",
"uncertainties"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbeliefs",
"discredit",
"doubts",
"nonbeliefs"
]
},
"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"examples":[
"it's my belief that the sky is blue because our eyes perceive the color blue easily"
],
"synonyms":[
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"notions",
"opinions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"verdicts",
"views"
],
"near synonyms":[
"says",
"impressions",
"perceptions",
"takes",
"attitudes",
"assumptions",
"presumptions",
"presuppositions",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"determinations",
"deliverances",
"esteems",
"estimates",
"estimations",
"credences",
"credits",
"faiths",
"conceptions",
"concepts",
"ideas",
"thoughts",
"positions",
"stances",
"stands",
"comments",
"obiter dicta",
"observations",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"hunches",
"hypotheses",
"surmises",
"theories",
"advice",
"inputs",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"angles",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"shoes",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"counterviews"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truths"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellows":{
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the cow bellowed for her calf"
],
"synonyms":[
"booms",
"growls",
"roars",
"thunders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumbles",
"rolls",
"rumbles",
"bangs",
"blares",
"blasts",
"peals",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"bawls",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"hoots",
"shouts",
"whoops",
"yells",
"bells",
"caterwauls",
"howls",
"wails",
"yowls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunts",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers",
"mewls",
"pules",
"squeaks",
"whimpers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"a drill instructor bellowing orders at new recruits during basic training"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawls",
"bays",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"hollos",
"halloos",
"roars",
"shouts",
"sounds off",
"thunders",
"vociferates",
"yells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crows",
"whoops",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"shrills",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"caterwauls",
"howls",
"ululates",
"wails",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"hails",
"speaks out",
"speaks up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathes",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in howls , roars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barks",
"bays",
"blats",
"bleats",
"brays",
"cackles",
"callings",
"caterwauls",
"caws",
"cheeps",
"chirps",
"clucks",
"coos",
"crakes",
"croaks",
"crows",
"grunts",
"honks",
"hoots",
"howls",
"lows",
"meows",
"miaows",
"mews",
"moos",
"neighs",
"oinks",
"peeps",
"quacks",
"roars",
"screeches",
"squalls",
"squawks",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"trumpets",
"tu-whit tu-whoos",
"twitters",
"whinnies",
"yaps",
"yelps",
"yips",
"yowls",
"calls",
"cries",
"notes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belching":{
"to violently throw out or off (something from within)":{
"examples":[
"the volcano belched lava and ash for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgorging",
"ejecting",
"eructing",
"erupting",
"expelling",
"jetting",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"pouring",
"squirting",
"streaming",
"surging",
"emanating",
"exhaling",
"issuing",
"releasing",
"shooting",
"spitting",
"springing",
"venting",
"discharging",
"emitting",
"firing",
"casting",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"launching",
"pitching",
"tossing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottling (up)",
"containing",
"restraining",
"shutting (in or up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belter":{
"as in singer , songstress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caroler",
"caroller",
"singer",
"songster",
"vocalist",
"vocalizer",
"voice",
"crooner",
"harmonizer",
"hummer",
"warbler",
"yodeler",
"chanteuse",
"songstress",
"cantor",
"chanter",
"chorister",
"bard",
"troubadour",
"chansonnier",
"serenader"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bellying up":{
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"belly up to the buffet table and help yourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaching",
"closing",
"closing in",
"coming up",
"drawing on",
"nearing",
"nighing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arriving",
"attaining",
"coming",
"gaining",
"hitting",
"landing",
"making",
"reaching",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"waltzing (up)",
"creeping up",
"sneaking up",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"touching",
"verging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing out",
"departing",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"lighting out",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"removing",
"running away",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out"
],
"antonyms":[
"backing (up or away)",
"receding",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belvederes":{
"a freestanding airy structure in a scenic setting (as a park) typically offering commanding views":{
"examples":[
"a Greek revival belvedere stands majestically on a grassy knoll overlooking the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcoves",
"casinos",
"gazebos",
"kiosks",
"pavilions",
"summerhouses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trellises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belletrists":{
"as in stylists , auteurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auteurs",
"stylists",
"wordsmiths",
"authors",
"litterateurs",
"litt\u00e9rateurs",
"penmen",
"pens",
"scribes",
"scriveners",
"writers",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"prosers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belongs":{
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"your shoes belong in the closet, not in the middle of the living room where people will trip on them"
],
"synonyms":[
"goes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"places",
"stays",
"fits (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"examples":[
"those textbooks belong to the school system and not to the students"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertains",
"pertains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"has",
"holds",
"owns",
"possesses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belle-lettrist":{
"as in stylist , auteur":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"stylist",
"wordsmith",
"author",
"litterateur",
"litt\u00e9rateur",
"pen",
"penman",
"scribe",
"scrivener",
"writer",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"prosaist",
"prosateur",
"proser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belly flopped":{
"as in plunked , plumped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plumped",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"submerged",
"dived",
"dove",
"pitched",
"plunged",
"sounded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surfaced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellies":{
"an enlarged or bulging abdomen":{
"examples":[
"worked hard to get rid of his belly in time to attend his class reunion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bay windows",
"beer bellies",
"corporations",
"guts",
"paunches",
"potbellies",
"pots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breadbaskets",
"stomachs",
"tummies",
"corpulences",
"fat",
"obesities",
"overweights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis":{
"examples":[
"a baby with a round little belly"
],
"synonyms":[
"abdomens",
"breadbaskets",
"guts",
"solar plexuses",
"stomachs",
"tummies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"middles",
"midriffs",
"waists",
"paunches",
"potbellies",
"thoraxes",
"thoraces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
"examples":[
"in my belly I knew that he wasn't telling the truth, as the details of his story just didn't add up"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"bones",
"bosoms",
"breasts",
"cores",
"guts",
"hearts",
"heartstrings",
"inner spaces",
"insides",
"quicks",
"souls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consciences",
"minds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sails slowly bellied as the wind picked up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly with the body close to the ground":{
"examples":[
"recruits were forced to belly over the obstacle course under simulated enemy fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"grovels",
"slides",
"slithers",
"snakes",
"worms",
"wriggles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crouches",
"squats",
"edges",
"inches",
"noses",
"skulks",
"sneaks",
"steals",
"tiptoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belabor":{
"to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"dwell (on or upon)",
"harp (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accent",
"accentuate",
"emphasize",
"pay (up)",
"point (up)",
"stress",
"underline",
"underscore"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"slur (over)"
]
},
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bash",
"blast",
"castigate",
"excoriate",
"jump (on)",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"potshot",
"savage",
"scathe",
"slam",
"trash",
"vituperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berate",
"harangue",
"harass",
"harry",
"revile",
"scold",
"whip",
"blaspheme",
"curse",
"execrate",
"imprecate",
"profane",
"affront",
"insult",
"slur",
"asperse",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"blackguard",
"disparage",
"put down",
"libel",
"slander",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"chastise",
"chide",
"criticize",
"lace (into)",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"fulminate",
"lash (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"commend",
"compliment",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellies up":{
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"belly up to the buffet table and help yourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaches",
"closes",
"closes in",
"comes up",
"draws on",
"nears",
"nighs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrives",
"attains",
"comes",
"gains",
"hits",
"lands",
"makes",
"reaches",
"shows up",
"turns up",
"waltzes (up)",
"creeps up",
"sneaks up",
"adjoins",
"borders",
"touches",
"verges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears out",
"departs",
"exits",
"goes",
"leaves",
"lights out",
"pulls out",
"quits",
"removes",
"runs away",
"shoves (off)",
"takes off",
"walks out"
],
"antonyms":[
"backs (up or away)",
"recedes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belongings":{
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"packed up all their belongings and moved across the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belief":{
"mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon":{
"examples":[
"a belief in UFO's led him to relentlessly scan the nighttime skies"
],
"synonyms":[
"credence",
"credit",
"faith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"axiom",
"law",
"precept",
"principle",
"tenet",
"assurance",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"conviction",
"positiveness",
"sureness",
"confidence",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"reliance",
"trust",
"hope",
"doctrine",
"dogma",
"philosophy",
"dogmatism",
"fanaticism",
"insistence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainty"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbelief",
"discredit",
"doubt",
"nonbelief",
"unbelief"
]
},
"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"examples":[
"it's my belief that the sky is blue because our eyes perceive the color blue easily"
],
"synonyms":[
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"opinion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"say",
"impression",
"perception",
"take",
"attitude",
"assumption",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"determination",
"deliverance",
"esteem",
"estimate",
"estimation",
"credence",
"credit",
"faith",
"concept",
"conception",
"idea",
"thought",
"position",
"stance",
"stand",
"comment",
"obiter dictum",
"observation",
"reflection",
"remark",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"hunch",
"hypothesis",
"surmise",
"theory",
"advice",
"input",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"angle",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"counterview"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belt up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the schoolboy ordered his mates to belt up about the prank"
],
"synonyms":[
"clam up",
"dry up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"pipe down",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"cool (down)",
"settle (down)",
"haw",
"hem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipe up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak",
"talk"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belting (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"I belted down a can of soda and rushed back out to the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"drinking",
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"hoisting",
"imbibing",
"knocking back",
"pounding (down)",
"quaffing",
"sipping",
"slugging (down)",
"slurping",
"supping",
"swigging",
"swilling",
"tossing (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lapping",
"licking",
"sucking",
"consuming",
"downing",
"ingurgitating",
"killing",
"mouthing (down)",
"putting away",
"nipping",
"tippling",
"pledging",
"toasting",
"wining"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bells":{
"as in howls , wails":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caterwauls",
"howls",
"wails",
"yowls",
"bawls",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"hoots",
"shouts",
"whoops",
"yells",
"bangs",
"blares",
"blasts",
"peals",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"grumbles",
"rolls",
"rumbles",
"bellows",
"booms",
"growls",
"roars",
"thunders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunts",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers",
"mewls",
"pules",
"squeaks",
"whimpers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beleaguered":{
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"beleaguered the castle for months"
],
"synonyms":[
"besieged",
"blockaded",
"invested",
"leaguered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricaded",
"blocked",
"cut off",
"dammed",
"encircled",
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"confined",
"insulated",
"isolated",
"quarantined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"rescued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beldams":{
"a mean or ugly old woman":{
"examples":[
"knocking on the beldam's door on Halloween was once an annual ritual for the kids in the neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"carlines",
"carlins",
"crones",
"hags",
"hellcats",
"trots",
"witches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harpies",
"shrews",
"viragoes",
"viragos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belfry":{
"a person's mental ability":{
"examples":[
"The old codger has cobwebs in the belfry ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"loaf",
"noodle",
"reason",
"skull",
"brain",
"cerebrum",
"head",
"mind",
"psyche",
"thinker",
"acumen",
"alertness",
"astuteness",
"brilliance",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mentality",
"perception",
"perspicacity",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"awareness",
"cognizance",
"consciousness",
"self-awareness",
"self-consciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belle-lettrists":{
"as in stylists , auteurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auteurs",
"stylists",
"wordsmiths",
"authors",
"litterateurs",
"litt\u00e9rateurs",
"penmen",
"pens",
"scribes",
"scriveners",
"writers",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"prosers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belittle":{
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"belittled the action star's acting ability"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"diminish",
"dis",
"diss",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"poor-mouth",
"put down",
"run down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk",
"vilipend",
"write off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommend",
"abuse",
"scold",
"disapprove (of)",
"dislike",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"asperse",
"defame",
"malign",
"rip",
"slander",
"slur",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"discredit",
"disgrace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"countenance",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"sanction",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"magnify",
"praise"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belays":{
"to attach (a rope) to something so that it is secure":{
"examples":[
"The climber belayed the rope."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battens",
"buttons",
"does up",
"affixes",
"bends",
"fastens",
"fixes",
"adheres",
"bolts",
"cinches",
"clamps",
"clasps",
"clenches",
"clinches",
"clips",
"glues",
"hangs",
"harnesses",
"hasps",
"laces",
"lashes",
"latches",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pins",
"plasters",
"rivets",
"screws",
"shackles",
"staples",
"sticks",
"straps",
"tackles",
"tacks",
"ties",
"toggles",
"yokes",
"coapts",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"unites",
"reaffixes",
"reattaches",
"refastens",
"refixes",
"resecures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disjoints",
"dissevers",
"dissociates",
"disunites",
"divides",
"divorces",
"parts",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders",
"uncouples",
"unlinks",
"unyokes",
"loosens",
"looses",
"unbinds",
"unfixes",
"unlashes",
"unties",
"detaches",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unhooks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"believably":{
"as in credibly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"credibly",
"externally",
"outwardly",
"visibly",
"assumably",
"likely",
"presumedly",
"probably",
"apparently",
"evidently",
"ostensibly",
"ostensively",
"presumably",
"putatively",
"seemingly",
"supposedly",
"conceivably",
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"professedly",
"supposably",
"allegedly",
"purportedly",
"reportedly",
"reputedly",
"clearly",
"distinctly",
"manifestly",
"obviously",
"plainly",
"self-evidently",
"assuredly",
"positively",
"surely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibly",
"impossibly",
"improbably",
"incredibly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bell-bottoms":{
"as in jeans , corduroys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baggies",
"blue jeans",
"cargo pants",
"cords",
"corduroys",
"denims",
"jeans",
"breech",
"britches",
"pantaloons",
"pants",
"slacks",
"trousers",
"hose",
"legging",
"leggin",
"sweatpants",
"pants suit",
"pantsuit",
"bloomers",
"knee breeches",
"knickerbockers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"bellied":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sails slowly bellied as the wind picked up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly with the body close to the ground":{
"examples":[
"recruits were forced to belly over the obstacle course under simulated enemy fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"groveled",
"grovelled",
"slid",
"slithered",
"snaked",
"wormed",
"wriggled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crouched",
"squatted",
"edged",
"inched",
"nosed",
"skulked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole",
"tiptoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belt":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"delivered a shattering belt to the rock with a hammer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"examples":[
"he knocked back a belt of whiskey before leaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"draft",
"drag",
"drink",
"gulp",
"nip",
"quaff",
"shot",
"sip",
"slug",
"snort",
"sup",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dram",
"drop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a strip of flexible material (as leather) worn around the waist":{
"examples":[
"a drugstore cowboy who loves his fancily decorated belt"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceinture",
"cincture",
"cummerbund",
"cumberbund",
"girdle",
"sash",
"self-belt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"band",
"waistband",
"circle",
"loop",
"ribbon",
"ring",
"baldric",
"bandolier",
"bandoleer",
"Sam Browne belt",
"cestus",
"obi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a broad geographical area":{
"examples":[
"that part of the country is sometimes called \"the farm belt \" because of the number of farms there"
],
"synonyms":[
"corridor",
"land",
"neck",
"part(s)",
"region",
"tract",
"zone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"district",
"domain",
"latitude(s)",
"range",
"realm",
"terrain",
"territory",
"neighborhood",
"vicinity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"belted the baseball out of the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt":{
"examples":[
"belted the little boy's pants tightly so they would stay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"begird",
"engird",
"engirdle",
"enwind",
"gird",
"girdle",
"girt",
"girth",
"wrap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tie up",
"truss",
"circle",
"enwreathe",
"loop",
"wind",
"wreathe",
"bandage",
"enswathe",
"swathe",
"chain",
"cord",
"enchain",
"lash",
"rope",
"shackle",
"tape",
"wire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbind",
"unlash",
"unshackle",
"untie",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[
"ungird",
"unwrap"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"belted the punching bag relentlessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the boy went belting along on his skateboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"belligerents":{
"as in combatants":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combatants",
"dogfaces",
"fighters",
"legionaries",
"legionnaires",
"men-at-arms",
"regulars",
"servicemen",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"warriors",
"servicewomen",
"carabineers",
"carabiniers",
"cavaliers",
"cavalrymen",
"cuirassiers",
"dragoons",
"doughboys",
"footmen",
"foot soldiers",
"grunts",
"infantrymen",
"commandos",
"commandoes",
"raiders",
"jarheads",
"marines",
"rangers",
"artillerymen",
"cannoneers",
"gunners",
"mortarmen",
"musketeers",
"riflemen",
"archers",
"crossbowmen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians",
"noncombatants"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belly up":{
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"belly up to the buffet table and help yourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"close",
"close in",
"come up",
"draw on",
"near",
"nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrive",
"attain",
"come",
"gain",
"hit",
"land",
"make",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"waltz (up)",
"creep up",
"sneak up",
"adjoin",
"border",
"touch",
"verge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear out",
"depart",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"light out",
"pull out",
"quit",
"remove",
"run away",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out"
],
"antonyms":[
"back (up or away)",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellowed":{
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the cow bellowed for her calf"
],
"synonyms":[
"boomed",
"growled",
"roared",
"thundered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumbled",
"rolled",
"rumbled",
"banged",
"blared",
"blasted",
"pealed",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrieked",
"squalled",
"bawled",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"hooted",
"shouted",
"whooped",
"yelled",
"belled",
"caterwauled",
"howled",
"wailed",
"yowled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunted",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered",
"mewled",
"puled",
"squeaked",
"whimpered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"a drill instructor bellowing orders at new recruits during basic training"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawled",
"bayed",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"holloed",
"hallooed",
"roared",
"shouted",
"sounded off",
"thundered",
"vociferated",
"yelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crowed",
"whooped",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrieked",
"shrilled",
"squeaked",
"squealed",
"caterwauled",
"howled",
"ululated",
"wailed",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled",
"hailed",
"spoke out",
"spoke up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"believes":{
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"buys",
"credits",
"swallows",
"takes",
"trusts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accounts",
"accredits",
"understands",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"supposes",
"concludes",
"deduces",
"infers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"doubts",
"misdoubts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects",
"challenges",
"disputes"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbelieves",
"discredits",
"rejects"
]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"examples":[
"despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that \"people are really good at heart\""
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"conceives",
"considers",
"deems",
"esteems",
"feels",
"figures",
"guesses",
"holds",
"imagines",
"judges",
"reckons",
"supposes",
"thinks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regards",
"views",
"accepts",
"perceives",
"depends",
"relies",
"trusts",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"surmises",
"concludes",
"deduces",
"infers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects",
"disbelieves",
"discredits",
"rejects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beleaguering":{
"to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication":{
"examples":[
"beleaguered the castle for months"
],
"synonyms":[
"besieging",
"blockading",
"investing",
"leaguering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barricading",
"blocking",
"cutting off",
"damming",
"encircling",
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"confining",
"insulating",
"isolating",
"quarantining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"rescuing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"below":{
"in a lower position than":{
"examples":[
"for the photo she sat below everyone else, on the floor actually"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneath",
"neath",
"under"
],
"near synonyms":[
"underneath"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"above",
"over"
]
},
"subsequent to in time or order":{
"examples":[
"that ranks a little below a root canal on my list of things I'd want to experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"after",
"apr\u00e8s",
"behind",
"following",
"next to",
"past"
],
"near synonyms":[
"since"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toward",
"towards"
],
"antonyms":[
"afore",
"ahead of",
"before",
"ere",
"of",
"previous to",
"prior to",
"to"
]
},
"in or to a lower place":{
"examples":[
"the skipper climbed below to fix the engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneath",
"under",
"underneath"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beside",
"near",
"nearby"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft",
"overhead"
],
"antonyms":[
"up"
]
},
"toward or in a lower position":{
"examples":[
"when rock climbing I just know that if I look below , I'll become paralyzed with fear"
],
"synonyms":[
"down",
"downward",
"downwards",
"over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facedown",
"low",
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"downstairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft"
],
"antonyms":[
"up",
"upward",
"upwards",
"upwardly"
]
},
"as in lower , under":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lower",
"low-grade",
"lowly",
"nether",
"under",
"bottom",
"bottommost",
"low",
"lowermost",
"nethermost",
"rock-bottom",
"undermost",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest",
"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost",
"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"preposition"
]
},
"believe":{
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal"
],
"synonyms":[
"accept",
"buy",
"credit",
"swallow",
"take",
"trust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"account",
"accredit",
"understand",
"assume",
"presume",
"suppose",
"conclude",
"deduce",
"infer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"doubt",
"misdoubt",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect",
"challenge",
"dispute"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbelieve",
"discredit",
"reject"
]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"examples":[
"despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that \"people are really good at heart\""
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"conceive",
"consider",
"deem",
"esteem",
"feel",
"figure",
"guess",
"hold",
"imagine",
"judge",
"reckon",
"suppose",
"think"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regard",
"view",
"accept",
"perceive",
"depend",
"rely",
"trust",
"assume",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"surmise",
"conclude",
"deduce",
"infer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"doubt",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect",
"disbelieve",
"discredit",
"reject"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belay":{
"to attach (a rope) to something so that it is secure":{
"examples":[
"The climber belayed the rope."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"batten",
"button",
"do up",
"affix",
"bend",
"fasten",
"fix",
"adhere",
"bolt",
"cinch",
"clamp",
"clasp",
"clench",
"clinch",
"clip",
"glue",
"hang",
"harness",
"hasp",
"lace",
"lash",
"latch",
"nail",
"paste",
"pin",
"plaster",
"rivet",
"screw",
"shackle",
"staple",
"stick",
"strap",
"tack",
"tackle",
"tie",
"toggle",
"yoke",
"coapt",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"unite",
"reaffix",
"reattach",
"refasten",
"refix",
"resecure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unbind",
"unfix",
"unlash",
"untie",
"detach",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"unhook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belabors":{
"to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"dwells (on or upon)",
"harps (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accents",
"accentuates",
"emphasizes",
"pays (up)",
"points (up)",
"stresses",
"underlines",
"underscores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights",
"slurs (over)"
]
},
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"assails",
"attacks",
"bashes",
"blasts",
"castigates",
"excoriates",
"jumps (on)",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"potshots",
"savages",
"scathes",
"slams",
"trashes",
"vituperates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berates",
"harangues",
"harasses",
"harries",
"reviles",
"scolds",
"whips",
"blasphemes",
"curses",
"execrates",
"imprecates",
"profanes",
"affronts",
"insults",
"slurs",
"asperses",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"blackguards",
"disparages",
"puts down",
"libels",
"slanders",
"traduces",
"vilifies",
"chastises",
"chides",
"criticizes",
"laces (into)",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"fulminates",
"lashes (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"commends",
"compliments",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beltways":{
"as in parkways , bypasses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"causeways",
"through streets",
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"believer":{
"one who professes a religious faith":{
"examples":[
"for believers , it was sufficient proof that a miracle had occurred"
],
"synonyms":[
"religionist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fundamentalist",
"cultist",
"pietist",
"zealot",
"deist",
"monotheist",
"polytheist",
"theist",
"churchgoer",
"communicant",
"congregant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belauded":{
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"critically belauded in his heyday, that early 20th-century novelist is now largely forgotten"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulated",
"blarneyed",
"buttered up",
"flattered",
"hero-worshipped",
"hero-worshiped",
"honeyed",
"honied",
"massaged",
"overpraised",
"puffed",
"soft-soaped",
"stroked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"sweet-talked",
"wheedled",
"fawned",
"kowtowed",
"sucked (up to)",
"toadied",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised",
"applauded",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"felicitated",
"drooled",
"gushed",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"courted",
"romanced",
"wooed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belie":{
"to give a misleading impression of":{
"examples":[
"his bright smile belied his actual mood, which was really one of great sadness"
],
"synonyms":[
"misrepresent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradict",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"counterfeit",
"disguise",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"color",
"deceive",
"distort",
"falsify",
"garble",
"mislead",
"misrender",
"misreport",
"twist",
"dissemble",
"feign",
"pretend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"demonstrate",
"disclose",
"discover",
"evince",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"reveal",
"flaunt",
"parade",
"show off"
],
"antonyms":[
"betray",
"represent"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the latest information belies the old theory"
],
"synonyms":[
"confound",
"confute",
"debunk",
"disconfirm",
"discredit",
"disprove",
"falsify",
"rebut",
"refute",
"shoot down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrow",
"overturn",
"challenge",
"contest",
"query",
"question",
"doubt",
"mistrust",
"debate",
"discuss",
"hash (over)",
"moot",
"talk over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"document",
"evidence",
"evince",
"record",
"show",
"support",
"witness",
"back (up)",
"buttress",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"adduce",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"certify",
"identify",
"demonstrate",
"display",
"illustrate",
"manifest"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"validate",
"verify"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"the security council issued false assurances that belied the true gravity of the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occult",
"paper over",
"screen",
"shroud",
"suppress",
"veil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bury",
"camouflage",
"cover (up)",
"smother",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"block",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bring out",
"present",
"clarify",
"illuminate",
"advertise",
"air",
"broadcast",
"get out",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"spread"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"display",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belauding":{
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"critically belauded in his heyday, that early 20th-century novelist is now largely forgotten"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulating",
"blarneying",
"buttering up",
"flattering",
"hero-worshipping",
"hero-worshiping",
"honeying",
"massaging",
"overpraising",
"puffing",
"soft-soaping",
"stroking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"sweet-talking",
"wheedling",
"fawning",
"kowtowing",
"sucking (up to)",
"toadying",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising",
"applauding",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"felicitating",
"drooling",
"gushing",
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"courting",
"romancing",
"wooing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"disparaging",
"putting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belly-lands":{
"as in crash-lands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crash-lands",
"alights",
"lands",
"lights",
"perches",
"roosts",
"settles",
"touches down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasts off",
"takes off",
"arises",
"ascends",
"climbs",
"rises",
"flies",
"floats",
"glides",
"planes",
"soars",
"wings",
"hangs",
"hovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beldame":{
"a mean or ugly old woman":{
"examples":[
"knocking on the beldam's door on Halloween was once an annual ritual for the kids in the neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"carline",
"carlin",
"crone",
"hag",
"hellcat",
"trot",
"witch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harpy",
"shrew",
"virago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belts up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the schoolboy ordered his mates to belt up about the prank"
],
"synonyms":[
"clams up",
"dries up",
"dummies up",
"hushes",
"pipes down",
"quiets (down)",
"shuts up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"cools (down)",
"settles (down)",
"haws",
"hems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipes up",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"spouts (off)",
"talks up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaks",
"talks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belittlement":{
"the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant":{
"examples":[
"an unconscionable belittlement of his assistant in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"denigration",
"deprecation",
"depreciation",
"derogation",
"detraction",
"diminishment",
"disparagement",
"put-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersion",
"backbiting",
"calumny",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"vilification",
"derision",
"mockery",
"ridicule",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"censure",
"condemnation",
"criticism",
"denouncement",
"denunciation",
"de-emphasis",
"minimization",
"soft-pedaling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"praise",
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"commendation",
"hype",
"puffery"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ennoblement",
"exaltation",
"glorification",
"magnification"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belligerence":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"examples":[
"the dominant male wolf was able to withstand the belligerence of younger challengers"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belts (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"I belted down a can of soda and rushed back out to the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"drinks",
"gulps",
"guzzles",
"hoists",
"imbibes",
"knocks back",
"pounds (down)",
"quaffs",
"sips",
"slugs (down)",
"slurps",
"sups",
"swigs",
"swills",
"tosses (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laps",
"licks",
"sucks",
"consumes",
"downs",
"ingurgitates",
"kills",
"mouths (down)",
"puts away",
"nips",
"tipples",
"pledges",
"toasts",
"wines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belly-landed":{
"as in crash-landed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crash-landed",
"alighted",
"alit",
"landed",
"lit",
"lighted",
"perched",
"roosted",
"settled",
"touched down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasted off",
"took off",
"arose",
"ascended",
"climbed",
"rose",
"flew",
"floated",
"glided",
"planed",
"soared",
"winged",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"belts":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"delivered a shattering belt to the rock with a hammer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"examples":[
"he knocked back a belt of whiskey before leaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"drafts",
"drags",
"drinks",
"gulps",
"nips",
"quaffs",
"shots",
"sips",
"slugs",
"snorts",
"sups",
"swallows",
"swigs",
"swills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drams",
"drops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a strip of flexible material (as leather) worn around the waist":{
"examples":[
"a drugstore cowboy who loves his fancily decorated belt"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceintures",
"cinctures",
"cummerbunds",
"cumberbunds",
"girdles",
"sashes",
"self-belts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bands",
"waistbands",
"circles",
"loops",
"ribbons",
"rings",
"baldrics",
"bandoliers",
"bandoleers",
"Sam Browne belts",
"cesti",
"obis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a broad geographical area":{
"examples":[
"that part of the country is sometimes called \"the farm belt \" because of the number of farms there"
],
"synonyms":[
"corridors",
"lands",
"necks",
"parts",
"regions",
"tracts",
"zones"
],
"near synonyms":[
"districts",
"domains",
"latitudes",
"ranges",
"realms",
"terrains",
"territories",
"neighborhoods",
"vicinities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"belted the baseball out of the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"scuffs",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt":{
"examples":[
"belted the little boy's pants tightly so they would stay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bands",
"begirds",
"engirdles",
"engirds",
"enwinds",
"girdles",
"girds",
"girths",
"girts",
"wraps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ties up",
"trusses",
"circles",
"enwreathes",
"loops",
"winds",
"wreathes",
"bandages",
"enswathes",
"swathes",
"chains",
"cords",
"enchains",
"lashes",
"ropes",
"shackles",
"tapes",
"wires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unlashes",
"unshackles",
"unties",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[
"ungirds",
"unwraps"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"belted the punching bag relentlessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the boy went belting along on his skateboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"beloveds":{
"a person with whom one is in love":{
"examples":[
"searching for some incredibly romantic spot in which to ask his beloved to marry him"
],
"synonyms":[
"darlings",
"dears",
"flames",
"honeys",
"hons",
"loves",
"squeezes",
"sweethearts",
"sweetie pies",
"sweeties",
"sweets",
"trueloves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaux",
"beaus",
"boyfriends",
"boys",
"fellows",
"men",
"swains",
"gals",
"girlfriends",
"girls",
"inamoratas",
"ladyloves",
"lasses",
"mistresses",
"tootsies",
"amours",
"lovers",
"paramours",
"dolls",
"ducks",
"pets",
"dates",
"escorts",
"steadies",
"admirers",
"gallants",
"suitors",
"wooers",
"grooms",
"husbands",
"brides",
"wives",
"significant others",
"fianc\u00e9s",
"intendeds",
"crushes",
"heartthrobs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belies":{
"to give a misleading impression of":{
"examples":[
"his bright smile belied his actual mood, which was really one of great sadness"
],
"synonyms":[
"misrepresents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradicts",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"counterfeits",
"disguises",
"hides",
"masks",
"obscures",
"colors",
"deceives",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"garbles",
"misleads",
"misrenders",
"misreports",
"twists",
"dissembles",
"feigns",
"pretends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bares",
"demonstrates",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"evinces",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"flaunts",
"parades",
"shows off"
],
"antonyms":[
"betrays",
"represents"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"the latest information belies the old theory"
],
"synonyms":[
"confounds",
"confutes",
"debunks",
"disconfirms",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"falsifies",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"shoots down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrows",
"overturns",
"challenges",
"contests",
"queries",
"questions",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"debates",
"discusses",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"talks over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documents",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"shows",
"supports",
"witnesses",
"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"substantiates",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
"certifies",
"identifies",
"demonstrates",
"displays",
"illustrates",
"manifests"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"validates",
"verifies"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"the security council issued false assurances that belied the true gravity of the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"blots out",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"obscures",
"occults",
"papers over",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"suppresses",
"veils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buries",
"camouflages",
"covers (up)",
"smothers",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blocks",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obstructs",
"occludes",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brings out",
"presents",
"clarifies",
"illuminates",
"advertises",
"airs",
"broadcasts",
"gets out",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"spreads"
],
"antonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"displays",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellyaches":{
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"tired of the kids bellyaching every time they're asked to mow the lawn or take out the trash"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"caterwauls",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grizzles",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"grumps",
"hollers",
"inveighs",
"keens",
"kicks",
"kvetches",
"maunders",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"nags",
"repines",
"screams",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objects (to)",
"protests",
"quarrels (with)",
"cavils",
"quibbles",
"frets",
"stews",
"worries",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"sobs",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"bears",
"countenances",
"endures",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends"
],
"antonyms":[
"crows",
"delights",
"rejoices"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bellicosity":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"examples":[
"the candidate criticized her opponent's bellicosity as divisive"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belatedness":{
"the quality or state of being late":{
"examples":[
"the belatedness of the payment resulted in us being charged overdue fees"
],
"synonyms":[
"delinquency",
"lateness",
"tardiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dilatoriness",
"sluggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"punctuality"
],
"antonyms":[
"earliness",
"prematureness",
"prematurity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belletristic":{
"as in highbrowed , donnish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"pompous",
"stilted",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"high-flown",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"stately",
"towering",
"academic",
"academical",
"donnish",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"scholastic",
"bookish",
"erudite",
"learned",
"literary",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"educated",
"schooled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colloquial",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish",
"chatty",
"conversational",
"familiar",
"informal",
"slangy",
"illiterate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"belle":{
"as in peach , charmer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charmer",
"peach",
"babe",
"beauty",
"beauty queen",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dolly bird",
"enchantress",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"goddess",
"honey",
"knockout",
"queen",
"stunner",
"bathing beauty",
"cover girl",
"pinup girl",
"houri",
"cutie-pie",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"hottie",
"looker",
"pretty",
"coquette",
"femme fatale",
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bag",
"frump",
"crone",
"hag",
"witch"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"belayed":{
"to attach (a rope) to something so that it is secure":{
"examples":[
"The climber belayed the rope."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battened",
"buttoned",
"did up",
"affixed",
"bent",
"fastened",
"fixed",
"adhered",
"bolted",
"cinched",
"clamped",
"clasped",
"clenched",
"clinched",
"clipped",
"glued",
"harnessed",
"hasped",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"lashed",
"latched",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pinned",
"plastered",
"riveted",
"screwed",
"shackled",
"stapled",
"strapped",
"stuck",
"tacked",
"tackled",
"tied",
"toggled",
"yoked",
"coapted",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"reaffixed",
"reattached",
"refastened",
"refixed",
"resecured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unlinked",
"unyoked",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unbound",
"unfixed",
"unlashed",
"untied",
"detached",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unhooked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}